Friday Focus: August 23, 2019
OES Vision: Building Foundations for Every Students' Success
Leader in Me
Don't forget tonight is Red/White night for our OHS athletes and band members!
Shout-outs:
Good morning. I would like to give a HUGE shout out to James Heather and Sara Hite for helping me unload donated school supplies. Thank you for saving me extra trips and for saving my back! Appreciate your help!!! Terri
Need-to-Knows:
- Reminder to check the T-drive under the OES folder and the 411 folder for our Master Schedule as well as the lunch/recess schedule for the building.
- All support staff - please have your schedules turned into the office by the end of the day Tuesday. Even if it is the first draft of many, it still needed.
- Aimsweb benchmark testing should begin the week of August 26th.
- A reminder that there are CPI trainings being offered at OCEC in October. Please sign up on their website.
Refresher – Monday, October 17, 2019 8:30 – 3:30 (lunch on your own)
Initial – Tuesday, October 18, 2019 8:30-11:30
Both trainings will take place at OCEC in Byron.
Weekly Calendar:
27: Orange Day
28: All teachers meet in Etnyre Learning Center at 2:30 to practice with PLC template
29: Ryan out of building 10:00-11:00
30:
August/September Calendar:
If your team/grade has activities or trips planned, please email the dates to Jill to be added to the calendar.
AUGUST
August 28th 2:00 Dismissal
SEPTEMBER
September 2nd Labor Day - No Attendance
September 4th Picture Day
September 4th 2:00 Dismissal
September 6th 5th Grade to Ogle County Fairgrounds - Ag Awareness Day
September 11th All Pro Dad's Breakfast 7:00
September 11th 2:00 Dismissal
September 11th McTeacher Night at McDonald's 4:00-8:00
September 12th 5th Grade - Ag in the Classroom
September 13th 1st Qtr. Midterm/Progress Reports
September 18th 2:00 Dismissal
September 19th Rep. Demmer visit - "Principal for the Day"
September 25th 2:00 Dismissal
September 23rd-26th Book Fair
September 26th Open House 5:00-7:00
September 27th 2nd Grade - Howard Colman Hall Creek
Professional Development:
The Core Beliefs of Highly Effective Teachers
In their book 10 Mindframes for Visible Learning, John Hattie and Klaus Zierer argue that what teachers believe about instruction drives what happens in their classrooms. Here are the “mindframes” Hattie and Zierer found in highly effective teachers:
- I am an evaluator of my impact on student learning.
- I see assessment as informing my impact and next steps.
- I collaborate with my peers about my conceptions of progress and my impact.
- I am a change agent and believe all students can improve.
- I strive to provide my students with challenge and not merely have them “do their best.”
- I give feedback and help students understand it, and I interpret and act on feedback given to me.
- I engage as much in dialogue as monologue.
- I explicitly inform students from the outset what success looks like.
- I build relationships and trust so that learning can occur, where it is safe to make mistakes and learn from others.
- I identify and build on my students’ prior experiences and initial learning levels.
10 Mindframes for Visible Learning by John Hattie and Klaus Zierer (Routledge, 2018); see Jenn David-Lang’s detailed summary of this book at www.themainidea.net.