South Middle School
Staff Weekly Newsletter: December 9th - December 13th
Week at a Glance
- Annual IEP for BW (Room 4, 7:45 a.m.)
- Holiday Concert for Choir, Orchestra, and Band (GPHS PAC starting at 6:00 p.m.)
Tuesday, December 10
- Meeting for A C-A (Room 1, 7:40 a.m.)
- Principal's Meeting (District Office, 8:15 - 10:30 a.m.)
- Board Meeting (5:00 - 8:00 p.m.)
Wednesday, December 11
- Staff Meeting (SMS Library, 7:37 - 8:40 a.m.)
Thursday, December 12
Friday, December 13
- Initial Eligibility for IL (Room 1, 7:40 a.m.)
- Progress Monitoring Meeting of RW (Room 4, 7:45 a.m.)
Supervision Schedule
Supervision Schedule (8:10 - 8:25 a.m.) - 15 minutes a day as assigned.
Team 3:
6th Grade Hall: Sheppard
T @ 7th/8th Grade Hall: Davis
8th Grade Hall: McGarry & Rastellini
Large Gym: Bigelow/Baertschiger
Parking Lot AM: Thompson
Parking Lot PM & Buses PM: Wolford & Moore
Daily Supervision Schedule:
Parking Lot/Exit AM: Aguilera, Huerta & Admin
Parking Lot/Exit PM: Aguilera, Kindrick & Admin
Cafeteria AM: Miller/McCarty & Hopkins/Karbowski
Bus PM (3:09 - 3:25): Hopkins/Karbowski, Admin & Team Teacher
Staff Shout-Out
Dawn, Brittany & Casey
Thanks to these three that filled in this past week in a time of need for one of our staff! I am grateful to work with people who continually have each other's backs. Thanks for working so hard and stepping in when there are needs around the building!
Weekly Article
Staff,
I've spent more-than-a-little time on these interactive tools to check out how South, North, D7 Schools, and schools in Southern Oregon compare to one another based on research coming out of Stanford University. Feel free to click on the link below and get ready to lose yourself in all the data!
https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/19/12/tracking-achievement-and-inequality-us-schools
Tracking Achievement and Inequality in U.S. Schools
How educators can use a rich new data tool to broaden their lens on academic performance
What does educational opportunity in America look like? A research team, including Andrew Ho of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Sean Reardon of Stanford University, has pieced together testing data from almost every public school in every state to find an answer. Their collaborative efforts, known as the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University, have resulted in what's being called the first national database of academic performance.
Using an interactive explorer, people can navigate charts and maps that let users visualize test scores, learning rates, and trends in test scores measured against categories like socio-economic status, race, and gender. Ho compares the data, which appear on screen in a cascade of blues and greens, to a patchwork quilt. The data lets users see the kinds of disparities that are typically hidden when looking at smaller data sets β and lets them put it in a national perspective. βIt gives you a sense of the scope of inequality in this country, which is just, at a glance, astounding. And within any given state or district, you have a very limited sense of that, like you have blinders on,β Ho says.
The first data set was released in 2017 without visualizations, intended primarily for researchers. While successful in that regard (more than 30 papers that utilize this data set have been published), Ho hopes that these new interactive tools will allow a wider audience of education leaders and practitioners to explore implications as well.
Are you an educator who wants to dig into this data? Here are a few ways to navigate it, with thanks to Ho for walking us through it.
December Birthdays!
- Ronda Sheldon - December 1st
- Eva Pieper - December 6th
- Mikala Wytcherley - December 7th
- Pam Schwerdt - December 8th
- Tommi Moore - December 10th
- Todd Willaman - December 11th
- Kevin Snyder - December 17th
- Annie Beaver - December 19th