SMS Weekly Update 02/11-02/15
“Everyone Does Better When Everyone Does Better"
Mission, Vision, Core Values & Smart Goals
SMS Vision Statement:
“Sedgefield will be a premier middle school that produces globally competitive leaders.”
SMS Mission Statement:
“Our Sedgefield faculty is committed to providing rigorous and relevant instruction in a safe and personalized learning environment.”
SMS Core Values:
INTEGRITYSAFETY
EDUCATION
ACCOUNTABILITY
LEADERSHIP
GRIT
RESPONSIBILITY
2018-2019 EOG GOALS
- Reading: 40% GLP
- Math: 35% GLP
- Math 1: 100% GLP
- Science: 70% GLP
2018-2019 Attendance Goals
- Scholar Attendance Rate: 97%
- Faculty Attendance Rate: 95%
Weekly PLC Schedule
Monday: Grade Level Data Meetings
Tuesday: Grade Level Planning Meetings
Wednesday: Staff Meeting 7:45-8:45 (State of the School Address)
Grade Level Meetings in PD Room
Thursday: 1 on 1 Check-ins with Grade Level Administrator
Friday: 1 on 1 Check-ins with Grade Level Administrator
Master Calendar & Upcoming Important Dates
Below are key dates for the next few weeks as well as the link for the
18-19 Master Calendar
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-JhEtxMehiMt8BGpiA61oMyEckHgCts6L0C7L4E542Q/edit?usp=sharing
- February 12 - SLT Meeting 5:00-6:00pm
- February 13 - Community Partnership Meeting 11:00-12:00
- February 15 - NAEP Testing (8th Grade Only)
- February 15 - Spring Clubs Launch
- February 18- Make-up Snow Day (Normal Schedule)
- February 23 -19-20 Transition Team Building Event (Rising 7th & 8th Graders)
ACCESS Testing Feb. 4- Feb. 16
Our ACCESS Testing window continues this week and we will be testing everyday until the 16th.
This is state testing done for our EL scholars in which they take four individual tests: speaking, reading, listening, and writing. We will be running two test sessions at once, one in the media center and one in the EL Lab. All EL elective courses will be dispersed (with planned work for each of them) from 2/4 -2/16 (Currently this is only about 32 scholars in total).
The schedule can be found by using this link https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRvdbHDuis3fVm_NMOok6cPSq0wJhrX4sc3LWCYYejydspkwEsthwciF5EtrCPVZcSJ-o8J2wnTdvuK/pub
Thank you for your support during ACCESS testing.
Random Acts of Kindness Week 2/11-2/15
Monday: Nothing Beats Kindness or Team Kindness: Wear your favorite sports team (you can wear jeans)
Tuesday- Kindness Jar: Write down kind acts on slips of paper (example: sit by someone who is alone at lunch, pick up trash in the hallway) and have students or staff take one! -- Means and Sherer will have this jar with them during their morning duty post so that students and staff members can take something from the jar if they would like to participate.
Wednesday- Donuts for Staff members during faculty meeting?
- Wear your shirts backwards – Words that hurt can’t be taken back
Thursday- Be Kind. Spread Love. Wear Red (Jean Day)
Building Equity Book Study at SMS
The PD course has been approved!!!!!!!!!
The course number and class name are below. They should be able to just put the course number into MYTALENT – under Professional Learning and register.
Course Number: 420619
Course Name: PDV 520 Building Equity Book Study Sedgefield Middle School
If you did not receive your Building Equity Book, please come by my office to sign one out. All staff should have received an email invitation from Canvas to join the course. If you have not received the email, I can trouble shoot with you.
Here is the outline of the course:
Week 1: February 13 Introduction—Grade Level Meeting
2nd Semester Clubs Begin on Friday Feb. 15
Governor's Educator Discovery Award
Educators across the state of North Carolina are encouraged to apply for cycle 2 of the Governor’s Educator Discovery Award. The Governor’s Educator Discovery Awards recognize the value of quality professional development for teachers at all phases of their career.
The program will provide a stipend of up to $1,000 for preK-12 traditional public and public charter school educators to pursue a professional development experience of their choosing.
To be eligible for the Governor’s Educator Discovery Awards, North Carolina educators must submit an application using the link here. The application asks for details that include teaching experience, a description of the professional development opportunity and a 3-minute video discussing how the opportunity will be shared with colleges, enhance their classroom ability, and allow work-based learning to be integrated moving forward.
View the link here to read the Governor’s Press Release on the grant award.
Grant Opportunity For CMS Educators!!
SMS Weekly Sports Update 02/11-02/15
This week our girls and boys basketball teams are back in action with home games on Monday versus Randolph Middle and away games against James Martin Middle on Thursday. During the 2nd half of the season our girls play first at 5:00pm and the boys game begins approximately 20 minutes afterwards. Come out and support our scholar athletes and they demonstrate sportsmanship and athletic excellence on the court this week.
SMS Professional Development Corner
Marshall Memo 772
This week's quotes and articles come from AMLE Magazine, Ed. Magazine, The New York Times, The Cult of Pedagogy, Trust Edge, All Things PLC, Language Arts, and Educational Leadership (more next week). Here are the headlines:
- The challenges faced by young adolescent girls
- David Brooks on talking through disagreements
- Jennifer Gonzalez on choosing words wisely in classrooms
- Trust 101
- The characteristics of an effective professional learning community
- Making paraprofessionals an integral part of PLCs
- Helping students read biographies with a critical eye
- Recommended biographies and memoirs
- Pointed questions about classroom technology
- Consumer information on classroom software
If you want an HTML version of this week's Memo, please click here:
http://www.marshallmemo.com/issue.php?I=8879ec48662bbbcb3288dc4e32902fb6
To listen to last week's Podcast (#771), please click here:
https://youtu.be/xvOuYLA9Iak
For a podcast of this week's issue, just log in at www.marshallmemo.com later this week and click Podcasts.
The author of article #9 in last week's Memo (about dyslexia and the brain) sent me a link to the article, and it's included in the updated Memo at www.marshallmemo.com.
My best,