North High School
Staff Bulletin - December 9, 2019
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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 auxillary leadership team to focus on math data assessments
- Working on quality task creation and examining student work from those tasks
Math teachers will be administering the mid year assessments this week for our Math Goal. Please take a moment in each class to encourage the students to do well!
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Last Week's Average Daily Attendance: 90.27% (-.47%)
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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 - Stretch It
The idea behind this strategy is that we the reward for a right answer is a harder question. One article on this strategy likens this to Carol Dweck's work on Growth Mindset. The goal is to savor challenges. There is more to being right, education is about deepening understanding.
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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:
Open Response (Art, Science, and Social Studies) and Math (Middle of the Year) Graphing of Data
Wednesday:
SENIORS - College and Career Readiness Survey
Thursday:
Open Response (Art, Science, and Social Studies) and Math (Middle of the Year) Graphing of Data
Friday:
Open Response (Art, Science, and Social Studies) and Math (Middle of the Year) Graphing of Data
Current CPR Training:
K. Langel (S209) starting on 11/26
A. Jelken (335) starting on 11/26
Upcoming CPR Training - 12/10 to 12/20:
Lamoreux (S209) and Powers (335)
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Upcoming Dates
Below are currently scheduled events that will take place during the school day. These will interrupt academic work.
Tuesday, December 3 - Siouxland Cares Survey - All juniors will take this survey in homeroom. It will take around 15 minutes. Please have all present students complete the survey (it will be sent to them in email). If they aren't attending on Tuesday, they can complete it any day of the week: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SiouxCitySchools19
Wednesday, December 11 - Senior College and Career Readiness Survey (homeroom only, should not be an interruption).
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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.