Husky Times
Leading the pack in education
HHE Mission
CALENDAR
DATES
October 16 Special House Meeting (Awards for 1st six weeks)
October 17 Fall Digital Learning Conference BCTAL 10/17 from 8-1
October 19 BARSP Book Giveaway: Cafeteria 8:50-10:40
October 22 Fire Drill
October 22 Science Night
October 26-30 Red Ribbon Week
October 28-29 Vision & Hearing Screening
October 29 Art/PLC Day
October 30 School Carnival
November 1 Daylight Savings
November 5 Dr. Brown visit to HHE
November 10&11 Play it Safe
November 11 Veteran's Day
November 12&13 Data Meetings
November 13 Student half-day & End of 2nd Six Weeks
November 18 Instructional Rounds
November 19 Fire Drill
November 20 Special House Celebration
November 21-29 Thanksgiving Break
November 30 PLC Art Day
Reminders and Focus
- Continue to build strong, positive relationships with all the students. Smile often. Choose to see the good and positive. Focus on growth and celebrate often. Nothing is more helpful in the learning process than the effects of trust and joy.
- Safe Schools Training Online PAST Due. If you have not completed all the modules, please do so immediately.
- Teacher websites should be up to date and current. If you have not done this or need help, please make sure this happens ASAP.
- Our goal is to be level 3 (or moving close to it) in most areas on the district rubric for TEKS centered teaching. I have seen many great examples of students interacting with the TEKS in class. Be sure to not only post them, but have discussions so that students understand the goal of their learning.
- Reading Workshop at 100% implementation is our highest priority in curriculum. We will have some PD on our priorities in order of importance at the faculty meeting this Monday.
- Guided Reading groups should be in full swing. Meet with low groups 4 times per week, low/medium 3 times, medium and high 2 times. Special Education students should be part of both your Guided Reading Group rotation & TEAM Time interventions
- Rigor, relevance, and engagement strategies should be focus on when planning for learning
- Houses are picking up momentum. This is the time where there can be a little lull in the energy. Keep up the passion and excitement. Having students start taking the lead and be a cheer leader is a great way to do this.
Innovation Requires Disruption
We all know people who chose smooth sailing and slipped into predictable boredom at the same time. Sail into the storm if you want to grow. Ron Clark once told me "as soon as you begin to dwell on your success your journey begins to end."
The path to exponential growth always includes – disruption – a letting go and a taking hold of the new and unknown.
Here are 7 ways to disrupt your way to exponential growth:
- Take the right risks at the right times.
- Play to your distinctive strengths. Building on your strengths is 800% more effective than trying to improve your weaknesses.
- Embrace constraints. Shift your mindset to thinking of constraints as a tool of creation.
- Battle entitlement- never get comfortable with "this is the way it has always been" and practice gratitude often, even for the little things.
- Step back to grow- stay humble.
- Give failure it's due- fail early to succeed faster.
- Be discovery driven. Always ask what is next?
Front Line Hero's
Who was the best teacher you ever had? What made them so great? Focus this week on all the qualities you want your students to remember about you. You are Hero's!
Formative Assessment
Short, but GREAT source of fun formative assessments. Formative assessment are anything you do to understand how well the students are learning and then adjusting your instruction based on this information. Ideally we check for understanding every 3 minutes of whole group instruction.
http://www.edutopia.org/discussion/10-fun-filled-formative-assessment-ideas
Moving Out Together
Even though there might be rough seas, we will make this amazing journey together.
Husky Pride
Location: 5221 Susan Lee Ln, North Richland Hills, TX, United States
Phone: 817-547-2600
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