Wm. Adams Middle School
Faculty and Staff Newsletter • December 2, 2019
Duty this week:
Harriett Diaz - Station 1: Flagpole
Oralia Eberhard - Station 2: Outside near the gym doors that face east
Olivia Escochea - Station 3: Outside near the covered walk
Ashley Ezell - Station 4: Outside near the covered walk
Ana Liza Garcia - Station 5: Outside the cafeteria
Christina Garcia- Station 6: Outside the cafeteria
Denise Garcia - Station 7: Outside the gym on the south side
Krista Garcia - Station 8: Outside the gym on the south side
Sandra Garcia - Station 9: Tree at the entrance of the campus drive way where students gather
Jackie Heard- Station 10: Bus Stop
Peggy Heiss- Station 11: Bus Stop
Roel Hinojosa - Station 12: East Exit
Kipling Layton- Station 13: West side, band hall exit (Presnall St.)
Gennie Lopez - Station 14: West side, band hall exit (Presnall St.)
Morning Bus Duty:
*Becky Lutzke Station 15: 7:15-7:45 (bus stop)
*Seferino Mendietta- Station 16: 7:15 - 7:45 (bus stop)
If you need to trade with someone, please let one of the administrators know who is taking your place. Also, please remember that duty ends at 4:15. Thank you!
CKH
As you recall, Capturing Kids' Hearts uses the EXCEL model, which is a relationship, leadership, and teaching model. Each letter represents a verb--and action we must take:
E - Engage: This is where we cultivate the culture we want to establish. We either intentionally, or unintentionally, create a culture. We must be INTENTIONAL.
X - X-plore: Discover the individual's needs
C - Communicate: make your message relevant; convince the students that what you are teaching is worthy of their learning.
E - Empower: When my teaching becomes their doing, they are empowered
L - Launch: How you end things. Never let the bell be your launch. The ending is equally as important as the start. Send them off is a positive and meaningful way.
Remember to start with celebrations. This serves to build relationships among students, but it also helps give them an opportunity to talk which can eliminate some of their tendency to talk during instruction.
SOCIAL CONTRACTS:
Coming off of our Thanksgiving break is also a good time to revisit your social contracts. There may be portions that are already so established that having them written down is not necessary. Remember that it's about how students want to be treated by the teacher, how the teacher wants to be treated by the students, how students want to treat each other, and what to do when a conflict occurs.
Ask "How is that (whatever has been named) going to look in this class? Ask "What if" questions to get to the behaviors you want to be able to address in the classroom. "What if a student____? How should that be handled?"
Remember to start with celebrations. This serves to build relationships among students, but it also helps give them an opportunity to talk which can eliminate some of their tendency to talk during instruction.
Make the Questions Work
The 4 questions alone is not what turns around student behavior. The discipline model involves giving students genuine affirmation about them, not the behavior.
Ask only the 4 questions and do not move on to the next question until you get an appropriate answer to the question you are asking.
Watch your body language
Initially ask the question only 2 times; create silence
If you do not get an appropriate answer, you say "You may either answer the question or you are choosing the consequence."
Ask the question again.
If you get an answer, affirm the and move to the next question. If not, give a consequence.
As with most things, consistency is key!
PBIS
It is important that we also remind students before every dismissal to walk in the halls and to walk on the right side of the hallway to accommodate two-way traffic.
Please follow the format below to know your common area responsibility: