Middle School Principals
January 2020
Time for a Fresh Start
What are some pesky problems or areas that need to be addressed with your staff?
What are some pesky problems or areas that need to be addressed with your students?
What would your expectations be for your staff? Do they know it? How could you communicate?
What would your expectations be for your students? Do they know it? How could you communicate?
Best Practices in Career Planning for Middle School
- Adding a Career Goal to the curriculum
- 7th Grade Match Maker
- Required class: Everyday Leadership
- Online electronic portfolio (color coded by grade) 7-12 Plan
- Marking period elective: indepth with SMART goal, short/long term goal, match maker, what is their interest
- Working with Career Counselor from the HS
- Plan is there are ready to go when they enter 8th grade
- Helping to identify students who may be interested in GCI
- Kids don't know what a credit is and how many credits they need to graduate
- Bringing in different adults to talk about careers
- Interviewing with 8th graders
- Marking period course in 7th and 8th grade
- Utilize HS students
- MS Tour of GCI
- Community College visits
- Base Camp with Tour
- Talent Portfolios-bring in the paper and scan it
- Introduction to Careers
- Career Awareness Expo this year and next year
Armstrong Middle School, Kearsley
Armstrong Middle School requires a semester course called Everyday Leadership that integrates the career development lessons and initiate the EDP. Here is the book that they use for some of the leadership activities.
Jane Fonger
Principal
Armstrong Middle School
Kearsley Community Schools
810-591-2454
Davison Middle School
New Legislative Requirements for Career Exploration
Social Studies Revised Standards Update
If you have staff that needs access to my resources stored in Google Drive, have them send me an email (rsovis@geneseisd.org) with the request.
MEMSPA Middle Level Conference
Ligon New Programming for MS and HS
Spotlight-MDE
Each week, Spotlight on Student Assessment and Accountability provides you with time sensitive, important information on student assessments and accountability. Don’t miss critical information -- Please click the following link for the January 9, 2019 edition of Spotlight on Student Assessment and Accountability.
Dr. Tammy Pawloski Update and Debrief
Monday is Day 4 for the District Team of Poverty Matters
Strategy #1: Building Relationships
Strategy #2: Reducing Stress
Strategy #3: Increasing Status
Strategy #4: Motivation
- Your district team should be sharing the information with their staff
- Using the information, teachers to decide what THEY are going to do in their classroom
- Teachers should be then writing a plan and collecting data
What initiatives are happening? To what extent are teachers creating plans? Impact?
What is being done? Impact!
Connect BEFORE Content
Carman-Ainsworth Middle School:
- Dot activity with all students. Each got a roster for all students and put a dot for
- Know by name and face
- Know something about the student
- Know something about academic status
- Compiled and discussed the results
- What stands out about it. Dove into the relationships
- Did poverty simulator
- Each teacher did an action plan for themselves
- Revisited them 4 weeks later
- Using PLC
- Redid the dot activity and compiling the data
LakeVille:
- Focusing on the relationships
- Reporting out on the relationships and the successes they are seeing
- Looking at the decrease in referrals/down to 3
- Coordinating with the PBIS System
- Check in/Check out with the frequent fliers (3 students per student) Last hour teacher (seminar teacher)
- Chose those students who they had relationships with them
- 2 and 10 using that as well
Atherton:
- What does a true connection look like
- Pictures of all of the kids-who do you have a connection with?
- Then asked the kids if they had a strong connection with teacher
- "You are my favorite teacher"
Poverty Matters-A Listing of All Strategies
Spelling Bee
Dear Principals, Curriculum directors and Spelling Bee Coordinators,
Below you will find links to the 2020 Genesee County Regional County Bee documents.
Schedule:
Thanks,
Melissa and Linda
Professional Development Opportunities
All Learning is Social & Emotional
March 10, 2020
9:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Cost:
$165 per person
Teams of 3+ are $145 per person
Visit michiganascd.org to find the location closest to you!
To be invoiced, or if you have any questions, please contact Sara Bishop via email at sbishop@michiganascd.org.
Middle School Science Leaders Meeting
Education and Learning
Email: mfleury@geneseeisd.org
Website: www.geneseeisd.org
Location: 2413 W Maple Ave, Flint, MI, United States
Phone: (810) 591-4408