The Challenger Dispatch
Feb. 1-5, 2016 YELLOW WEEK
February Dates
2/3 Staff Meeting
2/5 EAGLE AWARD Recess
2/5 Progress reports due to Michele
2/8 Progress reports go home
2/8 ACCESS testing begins
2/12 & 2/15 Possible snow days
2/17 Writing team meetings
2/19 1/2 Day
2/19 3rd Grade Presentation
2/24 Equity Training
2/29 SchoolNet Testing Begins!
2/10 BLT meeting
Eagle Card Reward
Happy Birthday!
February
Michelle Eccleston 2/6
Jacqueline Wortendyke 2/15
Deontay Jefferson 2/18
Valentine's Day Parties
-In all things that are purely social, we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress-- Booker T. Washington
ELA Committee
Tuesday, Feb 2, 2016, 02:45 PM
Media Center
It is National School Counseling Week
Staff Meeting
Tuesday, Feb 2, 2016, 02:45 PM
Media Center
EOM
Friday, Feb 5, 2016, 07:30 AM
Media Center
Writing Lessons
DST Corner (Discipline, Safety, and Technology) by Yeldell
Disclaimer: any article or website posted in this section is merely to help us be reflective educators about our pedagogical practices. I’m not in any way suggesting you immediately stop your current practices and implement anything. However, if you do try something please provide feedback so it can be shared with everyone.
Discipline
Under the new HCS guidelines, it is imperative that we are striving to be fair and consistent with discipline matters. In order to be sure this happens, teachers should provide a clear and detailed description of any discipline issue(s) brought to the attention of administration. Additionally, in accordance with federal guidelines SPED students with continuous behavior problems should have behavior plans in place or working towards one.
Very important: During club days contact the front office and ask for an administrator to come to your club location to assist with discipline issues.
Safety
Be sure to complete your SafeSchoolsTraining on policy change 5.6 that is due by April.
Technology
Two weeks ago, I promised to post something on flipped classrooms. Below is an elementary teacher’s experience on what she called an “in class flip”.
http://creativeeducator.tech4learning.com/2015/articles/In-Class-Flip