North High School
Staff Bulletin - January 13, 2020
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Literacy Goal: North High School will raise the percent of students proficient on the Open Response from fall to spring by 10% in 2019-2020.
Actions Being Taken to Improve Literacy
- Daily Writing - Writing activities every day to boost our student writing
- Departments with different responsibilities in teaching areas of the OR Rubric
- Advisory students tracking their progress on OR
- Working on quality task creation and examining student work from those tasks
Math Goal: North High School will raise the percent of students proficient on the High School Math Assessment from fall to spring by 10% in 2019-2020.
- Understanding and applying the Common Core's 8 Mathematical Practices in all classrooms
- Advisory students tracking their progress on the BME Assessment
- Develop an auxiliary leadership team to focus on math data assessments
- Working on quality task creation and examining student work from those tasks
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Last Week's Average Daily Attendance: 90.01%
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Tuesday, January 28 from 10:30-12:30 - Niccole Wokken (and an intern) from our Communications department will be in house taking action shots of teaching and learning. The images will be used on our redesigned website as well as hallway imagery.
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TV and Marquee Information
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Daily Announcements
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Weekly Strategy Challenge - Practice This Strategy In Class!
Strategy - Test Review
This week, we are keeping it simple!
Here is a quick video on some review games - ones we know, some new to me.
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Nearpod Certified Educator Wall of Fame
The following staff have been named as "Certified Nearpod Educators!
Maggie Elgert
Tracy Gilbert
Michael Lamoreux
Crista Limoges
Shawn Meth
Travis Monk
Allison Wagner
If you receive the designation, please let me know!
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Department and Safety Meeting Notes
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Advisory Calendar of Events
Tuesday:
Track BME "M" Data
Track any missing OR Data
Wednesday:
Show Video - Discuss Movements
Thursday:
Celebrate your current Homeroom
Friday:
No School
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Upcoming Dates
Below are currently scheduled events that will take place during the school day. These will interrupt academic work.
Monday, January 20 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - Video and Discussion at start of 1st block (around 8:15 am)
Tuesday, January 28 - Niccole Wokken from our Communications department will be in house taking action shots of teaching and learning. The images will be used on our redesigned website as well as hallway imagery.
Tuesday, February 18 - Parent Open House and Walkthroughs (1st and 2nd Blocks)
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Monday Morning Music
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Reminders and Checklists
All Staff:
- Safe School Training is released. Here is the link: https://siouxcityschools-ia.safeschools.com/ There are five training's on this year's module. Total time indicated is 129 minutes. Due dates are varied.
Certified Staff:
- Sign up for duties with Chris. If you sign up now, you will have a choice. If you wait, you will be assigned to an open duty.