Miner Minutes
November 6, 2015
Positive Principal Phone calls
If you have a student that needs special encouragement or affirmation, and you feel a phone call from the principal would make a difference (in a good way), please click on the form link below and fill in some very simple info. I'll do the rest. This is just a way to get the good words out to parents!
Various Reminders
Practicing in Math
First Miner Basketball game of the season
Perfect attendance slushies!
PRISM awards - deadline December 7
This award provides up to $3,000 for one year to cover the cost of equipment, materials, and supplies. An additional $1,500 may be requested for professional development related to the implementation of new equipment or use of materials in the classroom. Awards are made to teaching professionals that hold a professional educator's license to teach in a North Carolina K-12 public school.
http://www.bwfund.org/grant-programs/science-education/promoting-innovation-science-and-mathematics
Calendar Reminders
November 9: Benchmark testing begins; Pizza with police
November 10: faculty meeting at 7:30am
November 11: Holiday
November 12: PLC meetings (if you were to normally meet on Wednesday, please check with your facilitator on those rescheduled times).
November 17: SIT meeting at 7:30
November 25-27: Thanksgiving holiday
December 1: school leadership team meeting 7:30am
December 2: progress reports
December 3: student expo
December 8: faculty meeting at 7:30am
December 9: Cabarrus Arts Council Poetry Performance 7th grade 12:45pm
December 10: Band/chamber groups concert at 7pm
December 15: grade level meetings
December 15: chorus concert
December 17: Band concert 7pm
Big Three Goals
- Student learning
- PLC alignment
- powerful instructional strategies we haven’t tried before
- Capture the hearts of students and staff
- Structures for student success (MTSS, Behavior, Discipline procedures, Facilities, Communication internally and externally, CULTURE)