BAMS Staff Newsletter
September 20, 2015 - Volume 3, Issue 3
Be Awesome Today!!
Bessie Allen Middle School - SLO & Goals
Building SLO:
*To Be Finalized in October*
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
- Congratulations to the Huseman Family!! Way to go, Heather! Keep sending her and Jameson good thoughts and well wishes. Heather will be missed while she is out, but it is great that she can be at home with her new son. Kristy Zagar will be here on Monday to fill in for Heather while she is out.
- Thank you for thinking about the learning targets/goals that you post in your classroom. I have noticed this best practice strategy being used more purposefully to start this year. Keep it up! We'll have some professional discussions with each other about this building goal in the near future.
- It's still early in the school year, but if you are noticing academic or behavioral concerns please refer to our Student Support Action Plan. This process is located here and is also posted in the Team Room. Please take special note of the first steps that should be taken to support our students. We have a process for helping students, it's important we have patience to carrying out the plan.
- Just a reminder that Damaris will be stopping into Team Time meetings on Monday to discuss her caseload.
- Thank you for administering the first round of our writing benchmark. The date to complete the scoring for these samples is October 9th.
- Taking Attendance - Thank you for keeping your classroom attendance as accurate as possible. One thing we have noticed in the office is when a student is late to a class, sometimes they are left marked absent instead of tardy. Please be sure to go back into Skyward and make this change from absent to tardy if a student is late to your class.
- The Food4Thought Cafe will be open after school for our middle school students on Tuesdays and Thursday. This will be for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders.
Out of the Office
The following times I will not be in the building or will be out of the office:
- September 22nd - 10-11:30am - Admin Team Meeting - DMR
- September 23rd - 7:45-8:45am - District Wide ELL Meeting - Cafe
- September 29th - 10-11:30am - Admin Team Meeting - DMR
- September 30th - BCT Team Meeting 8:30-9:30, Team Room
Oriole Way - Be Ready, Be Respectful, Be Safe
Minor Behavior form link - here
Major Behavior form link - here
- Behavior is Communication
- I have a stash of Oriole Way coupons valued at "20 BAMS Bucks". These are legit. I will sign them before I give them to a student. These would be for a really big act of being ready, respectful, and/or safe.
- NEXT Meeting - September 23rd, 7am
OASYS and Teacher Effectiveness
To Do List
- Think About PPG and SLO for this Year - Month of September
- First Round of Student Surveys - Due by October 15th
- Complete Survey Growth Plan - Due October 15th
- Finalize PPG and SLO - Due by October 30st
- 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
- September 22 - STAR Math - during math classes
- September 23 - STAR Reading - during SSR/SSW
- September 23 - Staff Meeting 2:50-3:30pm
- September 28 - School Board Meeting 7pm
*See Google Doc titled "2015-2016 BAMS Yearly Calendar" for a look at events for the entire year.