North High School
Staff Bulletin - March 2, 2020
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Literacy Goal: North High School will raise the percent of students proficient on the Open Response from fall to spring by 10% in 2019-2020.
Actions Being Taken to Improve Literacy
- Daily Writing - Writing activities every day to boost our student writing
- Departments with different responsibilities in teaching areas of the OR Rubric
- Advisory students tracking their progress on OR
- Working on quality task creation and examining student work from those tasks
Math Goal: North High School will raise the percent of students proficient on the High School Math Assessment from fall to spring by 10% in 2019-2020.
- Understanding and applying the Common Core's 8 Mathematical Practices in all classrooms
- Advisory students tracking their progress on the BME Assessment
- Develop an auxiliary leadership team to focus on math data assessments
- Working on quality task creation and examining student work from those tasks
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Ryan Will be Gone More...
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Last Week's Average Daily Attendance: 91.65% (+2.39 from last week)
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CPR in Advisory
Week of -
2-Mar Olorundami-JPL (S209); T. Clark-AW (Rm 335)
16-Mar Monk-AW (Rm 335); Malone-Mason/Banks/Bush-Hanson (A-L)-JPL (S209)
30-Mar Malone-Mason/Banks/Bush-Hanson (M-Z)-JPL (S209); Malone-Mason/Banks/Bush-Hanson (A-L)-AW (Rm 335)
13-Apr Malone-Mason/Banks/Bush-Hanson (M-Z)-JPL (S209); Seniors-AW (Rm 335)
27-Apr Seniors/ELL-JPL (S209); Seniors/ELL-AW (Rm 335)
11-May Seniors/ELL-JPL (S209); Seniors/ELL-AW (Rm 335)
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Best Practice Spotlight
Strategy - Change the Pace
- Knowledge Assimilation (KA): When students are presented with new information, while they listen, read, take notes, and ask or answer basic questions.
- Guided Practice/Guided Questioning (GPGQ): When students engage in activities that involve back-and-forth with the teacher, practicing the use or application of knowledge.
- Independent Practice (IP): When students complete work without significant support from the teacher that they know how to do on their own. It’s often silent, but doesn’t always need to be.
- Reflection and Idea Generation (RIG): Usually solo work and often involves writing. Whereas in IP, students execute work they know how to do on their own, students engaged in RIG are given time to try to make sense of things they are in the midst of learning, or do not yet understand.
- Discussion (Disc): Activities in which students develop ideas and answers by talking directly to one another, in small groups, or as a class.
Changing, quickly, between the above five areas, help engage students. Think of how you can pick there (3) of these to go between in a lesson.
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Department and Safety Meeting Notes
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Advisory Calendar of Events
Tuesday:
Grade Checks
Wednesday:
Grade Checks
Thursday:
Intervention Time - If you have a student who need to make up a little bit, take care of it this week. Next week is Academic Intervention Day
Friday:
Intervention Time - If you have a student who need to make up a little bit, take care of it this week. Next week is Academic Intervention Day
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Upcoming Dates
Below are currently scheduled events that will take place during the school day. These will interrupt academic work.
- Denison High School Mariachi Band - Advisory, March 27 during Advisory
- Tuesday, April 21 - ACT for Juniors - No other students in attendance
- Tuesday, April 28 - ISASP Testing - Writing and Language Tests - The ISASP testing dates will have alternative schedules. It will be similar to last years with a testing block in the morning and shortened blocks in the afternoon.
- Wednesday, April 29 - ISASP Testing - Math, Reading, and Science
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Monday Morning Music
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Reminders and Checklists
All Staff:
- Safe School Training is released. Here is the link: https://siouxcityschools-ia.safeschools.com/ There are five training's on this year's module. Total time indicated is 129 minutes. Due dates are varied.
- All New Course - ACES
Certified Staff:
- Sign up for duties with Chris. If you sign up now, you will have a choice. If you wait, you will be assigned to an open duty.