Friday Faculty Focus
News and Notes about #BeBCMS-SY 19- Issue 6
Welcome September!
WOW! We rocked this week! Thank you to everyone who made our first Parent University event a HUGE success! Keep the main thing, the main thing and we will continue to be ELITE! I am looking foward to an awesome month of September and watching our scholars continue to GROW!
A few reminders and reviews for the week:
- SMILE! Be Happy! #BeELITEInYour20SquareFeet
- The Innovation Center Kick Off: Tuesday morning: In the Data Room: 7:40!
- TEAM Meetings are Tuesday: No LWL this week. ELA and MATH plan on Wednesday
- Monday September 10th: Grading Meeting: Options: 7:35-8:05 OR 3:35-4:05 All certfied staff must attend one.
- TKES observations are starting!
- FULL faculty meeting with Dr. Brooksher: Wednesday 9/12 7:30 AM Media Center-- Please be prompt!
- Please complete your its LEARNING Compliance Training-- that is the mandatory compliance training-- Due by Sept. 5th-- See Cliff for assistance
- Lesson plans are due, in hard copy form, to the binder by Friday at 4:00. The binder will be in the data room on Fridays.
- WIN team is 30 minutes drop and read and it is an EVERYONE expectation. Have a book and be ready to READ! There are lots of variations to this-- so be creative!
- Please make sure your weekly communication to your parents is ready. This needs to be up to date weekly. Email Mr. Kicklighter to put it on the website.
- NEW staff: please enter the address of either your parents or someone who is close to you (family/friend) on this google doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1r30ooiXknkSspVQN48Pe8MrkxBH8yOS6AlFx6U809Sc/edit?usp=sharing
Staff Shout Outs!
- To Ms. Sunny Beasley, our ELITE, 2018 TEACHER of the YEAR at Bryan County Middle School!
Important Events! (The •1)
#CelebrateMonday - No Classes!
#TurnUPTuesday- Start Door Decorating Contest for Homecoming! Homecoming Week: Country vs. Country Club, Scholars of the Month announced (AM), Kindest Redskin announced (for Homecoming Week), Softball HOME
#WinWednesday- Homecoming Week: Hero vs Villian
#ThankfulThursday- Homecoming Week: Out of this World, Athletics practices after school, Football HOME 4:00!!!, Softball HOME!!!!!!
#FocusFriday- Homecoming Week: Redskin Spirit Day, DOOR DECORATING WINNER announced!! PEP assembly at BCHS 2;15: details coming, GO Redskins!
Coming UP:
9/10 Grading Meeting- AM and PM Options
9/12 Meeting with Dr. Brooksher: 7:30 am SHARP: Media Center
Sign Up for Athletics Here:
3 events min. per semester! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16Tzr1q9QiufUUWn_veX6FIjE6poQEaIofGAZhDXd0ow/edit?usp=sharing
ELITE work on data digging this week!
Might to be too small, coach! :)
What I'm Reading.... (The •5)
It's alllll about college football this weekend!
SSU kicked off last night and hung in the first Q pretty solid. We play the University of Miami this week.....and I FEEL like Coach Richt is going to be feeling extra graceful!
I love college football-- so I am reading up on all the great stories that make it what it is! The rivalries, the bands, the colors, the signs! I am so lucky to live it in my "other life" and I can't wait to watch Notre Dame and Michigan. My former student is #22 for the Irish, Asmar Bilah, Linebacker, and my other former student is #12 for the Wolverines, Chris Evans, Running Back, otherwise known as Kid n Play! Anytime you want to talk about college football, I'm your girl! :)
#StoriesForDays
Enjoy the kick-off to the best sport in the universe!
#ReadersAreLeaders
See the arrow? That's the HBC trying to talk to the refs. It didn't help!
#LoveTheProcess
% of scholars within the grade band Lexile - % of scholars P/D in each content: 2016-2017-2018
Focus on......... Literacy (The •15)
Our #BeBCMS Moral Imperatives to an ELITE school are not changing. Do you remember them?
a. Come to School- BE AMAZING- Go Home! Repeat
b. Bell to Bell instruction
c. ALL instruction/teaching will be on grade level and standards based
d. Take a STAND for teaching and learning. Get up!
Focus On:
Literacy
Get ready to set our laser like focus goal at the opening of our Innovation Center
Tuesday morning
7:40
In the data room!
- Reading
- Writing
- Speaking
- Critical Thinking (Reasoning)
NEW information:
The new Lexile bands for BMCS :
997-1070- 6th grade
1045-1120- 7th grade
1097-1185- 8th grade
This will help us really know where our scholar are in regards to proficiency!
GREAT work on the MAP data room cards! Now, let's use this to plan elite instruction!
Here is our lesson design template: (make a copy first) Get a jump on your planning for next school year! Our instructional framework is not changing!
Re: Lesson designs: Are your Openings/Bellringers connecting to your Learning Targets? If not, how can you make that connection. Feedback on lesson designs coming this week!
Our Lesson Design rubric is here.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16FNMIEHor32d3TIV_Ra0tqqA9zGwz4MLe81qUcEPaDk/edit?usp=sharing
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