HMS SITE COUNCIL
March 11, 2013
Agenda Items
- General Updates (Climate Survey, State Assessments, KAMSA, Etc.)
- 2013-14 Schedule Update
- After School Program Proposal
PTO Report
- Grade 5 Bowling, March 2
Old Business
- District Website Update (SharpSchools)
2013-14 HMS Schedule Proposal
GRADE 5 & 6
8:00-8:20 RS
8:20-9:15 Core I
9:15-10:10 Core II
10:10-11:05 Core III
11:05-11:35 Lunch
11:35-12:08 Encore I
12:08-12:41 Encore II
12:41-1:15 Encore III
1:15-2:40 ELA
2:40-3:10 MTSS
GRADE 7 & 8
8:00-8:20 RS
8:20-9:40 Core I
9:40-11:00 Core II
11:00-12:20 Core III
12:20-12:50 Lunch
12:50-1:20 MTSS
1:20-1:57 Encore I
1:57-2:33 Encore II
2:33-3:10 Encore III
HMS After School Program Proposal
At Hesston Middle School, we believe strongly in instilling the value of responsibility into the way we approach educating students. Working to teach responsibility to our students has become one of our “Pillars” or core values that we feel will benefit students long after they leave HMS. One of the most common ways students struggle to demonstrate responsibility is by failing to complete assignments. Our staff feels that in order to teach a student that being responsible in this area is critical to his or her success through middle school, high school and beyond, we have developed a system of responding to students failing to turn in assignments.
The details of this system of response are as follows:
Our goal with this program is twofold. First, we expect our students to be responsible with their classwork and to give their best effort in all areas related to their academics. Second, the HMS staff feels that it is vital for students to complete the assigned work in order to accomplish the learning objective in the most thorough way possible. Our staff focus will be to gear assignments and classwork in a way that completion will result in increased learning of essential objectives. Hesston Middle School has a tradition of promoting the highest of academic and character expectations and this approach supports these important ideas.