Moorhead Faculty Weekly News
September 23, 2019
Expect the Unexpected!
Moorhead Junior High believes in its students, supports their achievements, and builds a positive learning community. Moorhead is a student-centered school where learning comes first.
• Outstanding Instruction
• Firm, Fair, and Consistent Discipline
• Motive Students
• Believe in your Students
Core Beliefs
• We will build Relationships.
• We will meet our students Needs.
• We model Dignity.
• We believe everyone is Valuable.
What's up this week?
Monday
Admin/Counselor Meeting - Garcia's office 7:30am
Alpha secretaries meet with Garcia - 2pm
ILT at 4:15 in the PLC room
8th Grade Open House 6pm
Tuesday
Mentoring Moments with Bray
7th Grade Open House 6pm
Canes for Super Staff and Students of the Month!
Wednesday
Admin and Counselors meet with Tri County 7:30am
GRADES DUE! 4pm (Wed)
Thursday
Lock Down Drill
Battle of the Classes (7th Grade Wear Yellow/Gold and 8th Grade wear Red)
Friday
Fire Drill
Spirit Night at Rainbow Roller Rink 7pm - 11pm
Moorhead Spirit Night at Rainbow Roller Rink! (Rescheduled)
A Word From Mr. Garcia
Stay Dry and stay safe! See you Monday.
Robert
Super Staff!
Kayla Ellisor
Rachael Pawlik
Enjoy a Free Canes Box Lunch on 9/24!
REMINDERS
October 18th - 25th, Follett Book Fair
October 23rd, 5:30-7:00 - Project LIT & Follett Book Fair
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Cheryl Bracken 9/21
Dawn Smith 9/21
OPEN HOUSE!
Please make plans for Open House in late September. Dates are Sept. 23rd for 8th Grade and Sept. 24th for 7th grade from 6:00pm - 7:15pm each night. You only need to attend the night for the grade level that you teach.
Food for Thought
Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.—Japanese proverb
"If a student is in one of the most effective classrooms, he/she will learn in 6 months what those in an average classroom will take a year to learn. And if a student is in one of the least effective classrooms in that school, the same amount of learning takes 2 years."
Deborah Loewenberg Ball, Dean of Education, University of Michigan
Who needs me today?
Would I want to be taught by me?
Am I better today that I was yesterday?
Print Shop
Please plan ahead and use the CISD Print Shop for large print jobs!
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The 4 PLC Questions
What do we want our students to learn?
How will we know if our students are learning?
How will we respond when students do not learn?
How will we enrich and extend the learning for students who are proficient?
ISS assignments
Team Lead / Instructional Leadership Team Meeting Notes
NOTES 8/19
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Distinctions, comparison schools, and quadrants were discussed.
Dr. Tamika Taylor praised MJH teachers for the excellent job they are doing. She also gave her recommendations on the PLC process. Our homework is to:
- Set student goals and track them all year - "I can" statements are a great way to use kid friendly language - my challenge is for this to be a campus wide expectation!
- Teacher led PD as on ongoing cycle - based on instructional needs, admin walkthroughs, and data. This is going to be such an amazing asset to the 5 day PLC structure!
Discussed quadrants. Our lowest performers are ELL and SPED.
When planning think about what we want students to learn and how to reteach if needed.
Discussed what instruction should look like when moving students from meets to masters. Approaches to meets, etc.
Notes 8/26
- Discussed the importance of Bell to Bell instruction.
- Discussed Open House - Sept. 23rd (8th Grade) Sept. 24th (7th Grade)
- Discussed Federal Accountability (Reading/Math) Achieving "meets" levels
- Discussed "I can" trackers by team. Discussed Student tracking vs. Teacher tracking
- Discussed - Teacher Led PD - Look at data before hand - Have teacher who was most successful demonstrate the lesson prior to teaching the lesson.
Notes 9/6
Mrs. Fuller and Dr. Taylor talked STAAR structure. We will focus on student growth. We looked at data from May 2019 and we looked at individual student data. We now know where our students are now and we can start interventions early instead of waiting. We know that we need to focus on and target specific students (sub groups) to move up to the meets level. We looked at examples of "I Can" charts and student tracking. Math teams shared what their student trackers. The district math coaches were very impressed by what they developed.
No Meeting 9/9
Notes 9/16
- PSAT 8 and ELA 7 Benchmark are on Oct. 17 in the morning.
- Discussed the bond. Prop A (new schools) Prop B (Turf).
- Employees can provide factual information by phone, email, newsletter, or Professional social media account.
- As a private citizen, on your own off duty time, you can give your opinion or advocate for or against the bond on Personal social media, Personal email, your yard, etc.
- We will have sack lunches that day and a guest speaker in the afternoon. (Pep Rally Schedule)
- Professional Dress for Open House - Pick a jeans day later in the week.
- ROAR team needs a science and history representative
- Oct. 26 (Sat.) Please talk to your team lead if you would like to volunteer to hand out factual information on the bond to the CCHS community.
- Discussed courses eligible for UIL waiver. (All Pre AP courses and Alg. 1)
- Pantherpalooza (Formerly known as Community Night) is coming up on Nov. 9th. - Teams will each sponsor different games. Mohr will create a sign up for team leads.
- Nov. 20 - 50 of our students have been selected to take the NAEP test, a 90 minute reading and math exam.
Agenda 9/23
Be ready to report on the questions I gave to you to discuss with your teams.
Discussion Questions for Team Meeting during staff development week.
- Cover Lesson plans – Core content submit to your administrator by Monday at 8am. (Create a Google Folder?) Electives submit lesson plans to appraiser.
- Review/discuss your Unit Plan and its role with SLOs.
- Discuss your grading policy for your PLC/Team.
- What is your re-test policy?
- Curriculum alignment – What is the differentiation between level and Pre AP?
- Talk about key instructional practices for your department. (Kagan, Reader’s Workshop, Writer’s workshop, Sheltered Instruction, ESL Strategies, etc)
- Discuss importance of students knowing their individual STAAR Scores/setting goals. Individual folders?
- What are your going to do different in the curriculum to improve overall scores? To improve sub-groups’ performance?
Looking Long Term
September 17 - Free food and massage day in the breakroom
September 17- Kagan Team Building PD (optional) 7:40am -8:10am in PLC room.
September 18 - Faculty meeting in the library 7:30am or 4:15pm
September 19 - Fire drill
September 19 - Wear Gold Day
September 20 - Moorhead Spirit Night at Rainbow Roller Rink! 7 - 11 pm
September 23 - Open House 8th Grade 6 - 7:15pm
September 24 - Open House 7th Grade 6 - 7:15pm
September 26 - Battle of the Classes - 7th Wear Yellow/Gold 8th Wear Red
October 4 - Tie Dye Day
October 11 - Pink Out Day
October 11 - Staff Vs. Student Volleyball Game and Early Release (hosted by Cheer)
October 11 - End of 1st 9 Weeks
October 14 - No School (Columbus Day)
October 16 - Panther Short (Staff development - During Conference period) - Led by Pawlik
October 16 - Homecoming Parade (CCHS Football Field)
October 17 - PSAT Testing 8th grade
October 17 - 7th Benchmark testing
October 18 - Red Out Day
October19 - Homecoming Dance 6-9pm
October 22 - Fall Orchestra Concert
October 23 - Fall Picture Day
October 25 - Pajama Day
October 28 - Nov. 1 - Red Ribbon Week
November 5 - Election Day
November 6 - Choir Trip to Renfest
November 8 - 90's dress up day
November 9 - Moorhead Pantherpalooza (AKA Community Night) 5pm - 9pm
November 18 - 22 - Generation Texas Week
November 20 - Faculty Meeting in the library 7:30am or 4:15pm
November 25 - 29 - Thanksgiving (No School)
December - Plan your Team and/or Department Holiday Party
December 4 - Fall Picture Retakes
December 13 - Winter Dance (During school day) (Hosted by PTO)
December 17 - 1st, 2nd, 3rd Final Exams
December 18 - 5th, 6th, 7th Final Exams
December 19 - 4th Period Exam / Early Release / Ben Franklin Visit
December 20 - January 5 Winter Break
January 6 - Staff Development - Kagan Cooperative Learning Day 4
January 7 - Work Day
January 7 - Positive Coaching Alliance (9:30am - 11:30am) All Coaches
January 15 - Staff Development - Panther Short (During Conf. Period) led by Pawlik
February 7 - Valentine's Day 6pm - 9pm (hosted by STUCO)
February 19- Faculty Meeting 7:30am or 4:15pm
March 6 - Student vs. Staff Basketball game / Early release (hosted by The Dazzlers)
March 6 - End of 3rd 9 Weeks
March 18 - Faculty Meeting - 7:30am or 4:15pm
April 7 - STAAR 7 Writing / STAAR 8 Math
April 8 - STAAR 8 Reading
April 9 - Student vs. Staff Soccer game (hosted by PTO)
April 10 - Good Friday Holiday (No School)
May 7 - STAAR 8 Science / 7 Science Benchmark
May 8 - STAAR 8 History/ 7 History Benchmark
May 12 - STAAR 7 Math / STAAR 8 Math (retest)
May 13 - STAAR 7 Reading / STAAR 8 Reading (retest)
May 15 - Choir End of Year Field Trip
May 15 - End of Year Dance 6pm - 9pm (hosted by school)
May 21 - 7th Grade Awards Ceremony 9:15am - 10:00am
May 21 - Incoming 6th Grade Parent Night
May 22 - 8th Grade Awards ceremony 9:15am - 10:15am and 8th Grade Field Day 11 -3pm
May 25 - No School - Memorial Day
May 26 - 1st, 2nd, 3rd period Finals
May 27 - 5th, 6th, 7th period Finals
May 28 - 4th Period Final / Early release
May 28 - THE CROSSING - 7pm @ CCHS
May 29 - Work Day
Moorhead Jr. High Decision Making
Decisions Made With Teacher Discretion
1. Classroom set up
2. Classroom rules and Procedures
3. Lesson Planning and Activities
4. Dates and Times to Meet with Teams
5. Classroom Management
6. Techniques including Rewards and Consequences
Decisions made with Teacher and Administration Collaboration
1. Campus and District Calendar
2. Curriculum Purchases
3. Classroom Maintenance
4. Scheduling
5. Student Placements
6. Personnel (Hiring Panels)
7. Materials and Major Purchases
8. Discipline
9. PLC Agenda Items
Decisions made with Administrator Discretion
1. Budget
2. Effect Campus as a whole
3. School Policies
4. Personnel Management