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September 30, 2019 - Happy Fall!!
General Announcements.....
- An AFLAC representative will be in the building on October 11th from 11-1pm. They are offering supplemental insurance and will be setup in the teacher's lounge behind the office. There is a packet of information under the board where absences are written (in the office), if you need to browse the information.
- As you all know, we have tried to have flexible learning in lieu of a faculty meeting every other week. Occasionally, we have “need to know” information that is important for all faculty to get and we just need to meet...therefore, here’s a heads-up, we will have two faculty meetings in October. October 8th (3:30-4:15) & 15th (3:30-4:30). We will not have a Huddle on Oct. 1st or 29th.
- Core teachers: If you need to do some flexible grouping on Mondays to get kids to make-up work....you have the flexibility to do that. We discussed this at our PLC Leadership meeting - so ask your PLC person for more info about what we discussed.
- Our ELPA data is a considerable part of our school's ESSA score (to be discussed in upcoming faculty meeting). One thing we have to continually remind ourselves is how important structured student talk is for our students. Here is a blog about this that Dr. Loftin shared with our principal group.
- Welcome Tresa Jones to our building! Tresa is our new migrant tutor. She will be serving our school, KMS & LJHS. I don't have her exact schedule yet, but we do know right now she serves six students at Hellstern.
Hero Hour this week.......
- check grades
- goal setting
- sign-up for Primetime
Tuesday - PrimeTime (Math priority)
Wednesday - PrimeTime
Thursday - Study Hall (Read, IXL/BuzzMath, Encore pulls)
Friday - Future Focused Friday
- 6th - Character Lesson
- 7th - Guest Speaker
After-School Professional Learning Opportunities
- Oct. 1 - Constructing Meaning Refresher w/Jaime Miller - Jaime will share and review quick, easy, high leverage strategies to use with your language learners (but let's be honest, it's good for all kids:)
- Oct. 8 - Faculty Meeting: ESSA Part 1 (3:30-4:15)
- Oct. 15 - Faculty Meeting: ESSA Part 2 (3:30-4:30)
- Oct. 29 - Using the iOS App "Clips" to create videos w/Allison Byford
Upcoming Dates
October
1st - Fall pictures
1st - Huddle & Constructing Meaning refresher w/Jamie Miller
1st & 2nd - Byford & Harrison out to training
2nd - Recognize our amazing custodians
2nd - 5 mile camp: Dickard & Ott (Patriots)
3rd - Football dismisses @ 2pm for game
3rd - 5 mile camp: Wilson & Winn (Explorers)
4th - 5 mile camp: Bowen & Cobb (Explorers)
7th - 5 mile camp: Rhoades & Sneed (Champions)
8th - 5 mile camp: Dyer & Smith (Champions)
8th - Faculty meeting (3:30-4:30)
9th - 5 mile camp: Shreve & White (Titans)
10th - 5 mile camp: Brunton & Lancelot (Titans)
11th - 5 mile camp: X-country (Bullington's advisory), G. Bball (Waters' advisory), & Hritz's class
11th - End of 1st qtr.
11th - Band Day @ HBHS (students out of building from 9:30-10:30)
11th - AFLAC (Supplemental insurance) rep in the lounge (11-1pm)
Hellstern Middle School
Website: http://hellstern.sdale.org/
Location: 7771 Har-Ber Avenue, Springdale, AR, USA
Phone: 479-750-8725
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Hellstern-Middle-School