BAMS Staff Newsletter
October 18, 2015 - Volume 3, Issue 7
Be Awesome Today!!
Bessie Allen Middle School - SLO & Goals
Building SLO:
By June of 2016, 80% of students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade will show growth in their opinion writing rubric score from the September 2015 opinion writing rubric score.
Building Goals:
- Have Patience and Courage
- Purposefully Use Learning Targets/Lesson Goals for Every Lesson
- Have Solution Based Discussions
- Be an Award Winning School - DPI School of Recognition/PBIS School of Merit
Driving Question for 2015-2016:
What have we changed with our instruction to prepare all our students for higher level thinking opportunities?
Still HELP WANTED - Please consider helping with these opportunities.
- Veteran's Day Leadership - Theresa Galligan is willing to help you with this.
- BAMS Historical Timeline - Continue the timeline through the present like we have in our main hallway.
- Honor's Reception Leadership - Connie Gross is willing to help you with this.
- BAMS Got Talent Leadership - Adam Micke is willing to help you with this.
- Data Warehouse Leadership - Design a collection tool for all of our behavioral/academic data to be housed in one Google Doc.
News and Notes
- Parent Teacher conferences - It will be really great to have families in the building for conferences in about a week. Start with the positive for these meetings. This always helps everyone feel at ease. Hopefully, there will be no surprises for families at these meetings. Any major concerns should have been communicated already.
- PLTW at BAMS - Do you know what PLTW stands for? Project Lead the Way. Todd has done a great job implementing our first PLTW course with our 8th grade students. If you haven't asked him about this class, go for it! The building PLTW Team will be meeting on Friday to review our vision and plan for the next 3-5 years and beyond. Patience and Courage!
- Aaron will be sending out a message about the plan for Inservice on Friday. There will be 2 hours that will be focused on Eric Jensen and FIRST Institute (some staff attended this conference last summer and we have a team going this summer). The rest of the time will be for you to meet with staff and/or work to support student learning.
- Please remember to take careful attendance for each and every hour. Sometimes a student is marked absent for some hours, but not others. This could lead to an unsafe situation.
Out of the Office
The following times I will not be in the building or will be out of the office:
- October 20th - 9-11:30am - Admin Team Meeting - DMR
- October 22nd - 9-10:30 - Broten Children P/T Conferences
- October 28th - All-Day - Business, Industry, and Education Day - Marian
- November 4th - 7:45-8:45am - District Wide ELL Meeting - Cafe
- November 11th - BCT Team Meeting 8:30-10:00, Team Room
Oriole Way - Be Ready, Be Respectful, Be Safe
Minor Behavior form link - here
Major Behavior form link - here
- Our first PBIS celebration is scheduled for October 30th. The Oriole Way TEam will be discussing a schedule for this day at our next meeting. We'll get plans out to staff ASAP.
- Connectedness - Are your most at-risk students connected to your classroom? Do they feel that they have purpose and a role in your classroom? Research shows that connected students act out less and are on-task more.
- NEXT Meeting - October 21st, 7am
OASYS and Teacher Effectiveness
To Do List
- First Round of Student Surveys - Due by October 15th
- Complete Survey Growth Plan - Due October 15th
- Finalize PPG and SLO - Due by October 15th
- Make 2 Professional Visits to Another Classroom - Due by End of Year
Click Here for a link to Teacher Effectiveness Info from CESA 6
Click Here for a Teacher Effectiveness Calendar for EDUCATORS/SPECIALISTS
Dates to Remember
- October 19 - BAMS Medal of Excellence Names to Jennifer
- October 19 - PT Conferences 3pm-7pm
- October 20 - Student Flu Clinic - AM
- October 21 - PT Conferences 3pm-6:30pm
- October 23 - No Students - Inservice
- October 26 - School Board Meeting 7pm
- October 29 - Staff Flu Clinic
- October 30 - PBIS Celebration - Costume Party/Scary Movie
- October 30 - First Quarter Pep Assembly 1:45pm
- October 30 - School Dance #1 - 6-8pm, BAMS Gymnasium
- October 30 - End of First Quarter
*See Google Doc titled "2015-2016 BAMS Yearly Calendar" for a look at events for the entire year.