North High School
Staff Bulletin - January 27, 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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CIP (Classroom Implementation Protocol) Waklthroughs This Week
We will once again be completing CIP Walkthroughs starting this week. Reminder, we are looking for the following:
- Higher Order Thinking Questions, Responses, and Statements (from adults and students)
- Depth of Knowledge (concept v. topic based)
- Student Understanding (can they answer the question, “What are you learning?” and refer to the target)
- Substantive Conversations (No Dialogue, Dialogue, or Substantive Conversation – How deep is the conversation going?)
- Value Beyond School (Student must explicitly state it without being prompted. Happens less than 10% of the time)
Individual feedback will not be provided. The goal is for us to visit each teacher twice (preferably the same block). The purpose of collecting this information is to provide us with a snapshot of our building and not individual teachers. If you have not been trained in AIW yet, don’t worry. We use this data to direct station rotations and focused professional development.
The following people are trained in CIP and you may see them in your classroom:
· Brant Bemus
· Ryan Dumkrieger
· Maggie Elgert
· Chris Koch
· Crista Limoges
· Pam Malone-Mason
· Laura Stevenson
· Joni Swenson
· Tracy Vander Wilt
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Registration Information
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Last Week's Average Daily Attendance: 90.75 (0.35% from last week)
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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 - Participation Cards
This strategy uses index cards to get students engaging. This provides students with appropriate academic prompts. However, if you don't have cards, a quick accommodation is to give a thumbs up for agreement, thumbs down for disagreement, and a fist for those unsure. Regardless of the tool, here are the key points:
- Every student must participate
- We must not accept one word answers or non-academic answers
Practice this during any classroom conversation.
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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:
Advisories will continue the "Know Your Learner Interview"
Students can also update their Raise.Me scholarship information
Wednesday:
Sophomore Advisories meet for registration
Advisories will continue the "Know Your Learner Interview"
Thursday:
Sophomore Advisories meet for registration
Advisories will continue the "Know Your Learner Interview"
Friday:
MVP Lesson - Freshman Advisories
Final Sophomore Advisories meet for registration information (Missing students or homerooms)
Advisories will continue the "Know Your Learner Interview"
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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.
- Friday, January 31 - IA Tech students will be going to a presentation for Electrical Trades. Students from the other high schools will be in attendance. This will happen at North High School.
- February 5 and 6 - I-ELPA Testing in the Library. 300 students will be tested in those two days.
- Tuesday, February 18 - Parent Open House and Walkthroughs (1st and 2nd Blocks)
- Tuesday, April 21 - ACT for Juniors - No other students in attendance
- Tuesday, April 28 - ISASP Testing - Writing and Language Tests - The ISASP testing dates will have alternative schedules. It will be similar to last years with a testing block in the morning and shortened blocks in the afternoon.
- Wednesday, April 29 - ISASP Testing - Math, Reading, and Science
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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.
- All New Course - ACES
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.