LVHS Weekly!
Excellence In All We Do.
October 29, 2019
CALENDAR THIS WEEK:
Monday, October 28 -
A Day
ELA PLC - Tier 3 documentation and Common Planning
RRW - Wear Red
Tuesday, October 29 -
B Day
Math PLC - A Day
ELA PLC - Tier 3 documentation and Common Planning
Volleyball vs Jarrell HS
RRW - Western Day
Wednesday, October 30 -
A Day
Science PLC - Tier 3 documentation and Common Planning
RRW - College Day
Thursday, October 31 -
B Day
SS and Spanish PLC - Tier 3 documentation and Common Planning
JV Football at home vs Troy
RRW - Neon Day
Halloween - Students must be in dress code!
Friday, November 1 -
A Day
Varsity football at Troy
RRW - Blue and Gold
Faculty Meeting next Wednesday at 7:20 am in Room A106. We will have our first CIP meeting of the year after some announcements and teamwork.
Feedback forms due back to you by this Friday!
No faculty meeting this week. I repeat, no faculty meeting this week. Faculty Meeting next Wednesday at 7:20 am in Room A106. We will have our first CIP meeting of the year after some announcements and teamwork.
Whole Student Tidbit of the Week
Look at all those great skills - social awareness, self-awareness, self-management, responsible decision-making, and relationship skills! No doubt that we all want our students to have these abilities when they graduate from high school...not just because they make teaching easier but because it makes society better by producing better employees and people.
A focus on SEL in schools has immediate effects and longterm effects as well. (I've got the research to support it if you'd like to see my sources.) And as we shared on Friday, you guys are already doing so much to help grow our students emotionally and socially! That is good news because SEL in schools is only going to become more ingrained in what we are asked to do.
So, the focus of the next few weeks will be to give you some ideas on things you can do to promote growth in the different competencies listed above. We'll start with the area that most teachers expressed as the greatest area of need - Self-Management.
Self-Management:
- Impulse control
- Stress management
- Self-discipline
- Self-motivation
- Goal-setting
- Organizational skills
Some ideas on what you can do:
- Create a classroom environment that is welcoming, organized, and calming. When one walks into your classroom, do they feel calm, welcomed, and safe? Or is your classroom chaotic, unorganized, and unwelcoming? Strive to model organization and self-management in the way your classroom is structured.
- Greet each student at the door with a smile and an acknowledgment that you see them. Being warm and welcoming helps regulate kids.
- Have a place for students with self-regulation problems to go or have posters up to help prompt them to take a few deep breaths when they are stressed or anxious. We are working on a mindfulness classroom for students to be able to go when they need a safe space to get back to center.
- Set up skits in your classroom where students have to problem-solve how to appropriately deal with conflict, stress, anxiety, etc. In ELA, use the literature as a way to bring up examples of conflict and have students brainstorm how to solve the problems effectively.
- Give students hard work to do! Challenge them and help them deal with things not being easy. Model persistence in your teaching by working through things that are difficult for YOU to do.
- Create norms in your class (or a social contract) that help outline appropriate behaviors.
- Do not assume that students know how to behave. Some of our students are dealing with trauma and conditions at home that you can not imagine. Some of our students have parents who aren't good role models or who are absent from their lives. In every class, you have some who know how to act and some who don't. Level the playing field by being clear with your expectations and modeling for them how to handle stress and conflict!
These are just ideas, but hopefully, you get the drift of how to structure your classroom to help students learn to self-regulate their emotions. It takes a lot of practice, but it's worth it!
We have been so good with no cell phones, but don't let up!
No cell phones visible in class.
No earbuds in the ears when teachers are talking.
If cell phone is out - 1. warning first 2. take up for the rest of class 3. Give to office.
Club or UIL Academic Sponsor?
Please add your meeting time to this schedule so we know who has what and when -
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zgVbittNBpzB1B96FC6iGsTBKkfMI9ro0ZT6RFNxn5Y/edit?usp=sharing
Students will need to have passes to leave advisory to go to a club. If we can't get this organized and we end up having a lot of students wandering the hallways, we will have to go back to clubs only on Fridays. :(
Senior Pictures
Fall College Mini Fair
Save the date!
Fall 2019 College & Military Fair
Thursday, November 6
2:30-3:30
LVHS Auxiliary Gym
We will be welcoming the following institutions to our campus on November 6: TAMU, Hardin-Simmons, Abilene Christian University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Houston - Victoria, ACC, Air Force, and Army National Guard. More are expect to join us!
Students in grades 11 and 12 will be able to attend during advisory.
Veteran's Ceremony Info
Oldies but goodies...
Read this- put in zeroes for missing work
Please be sure to enter zeroes as they happen. You will also notice that students are often quicker to turn in their late assignments when there is a zero as a placeholder instead of an X.
Of course, when they turn in the assignment late, you can change it (Stu wanted me to put that part in there in case you were confused).
Thank you!!!!
Does the re-do policy apply to nine weeks tests?
However, remember, they need to submit the re-do form within 2 days of receiving their posted grade.
That might mean you have to turn in an incomplete for them and then they have until the following Friday at 4:00 pm to update the grade.
FIRST 15, LAST 15 MINUTES OF CLASS ARE A NO FLY ZONE. DON'T ALLOW STUDENTS TO LEAVE YOUR CLASS DURING THESE TIMES. FIRST 5, LAST 5 DURING ADVISORY.
Pep Rally Schedule and Theme Days
Advisory Changes Protocol
If you would like to make a change to a student in your advisory, you need to send an email requesting the change to Mrs. Huerta and include the teacher who is the current advisory teacher of the student.
That way everyone is in the loop.
If you don't do it this way, Mrs. Huerta will send the email back to you!
check this out! Students must complete this form to retest/redo!
hall passes
Access it here: https://drive.google.com/a/lagovista.txed.net/file/d/0B9GUQCF2uqLcN1luZTFtZUtVYkU/view?usp=sharing
UPDATED - Minimum Number of Assignments (LVISD policy):
• Daily = 20% - minimum of 9 required per 9 weeks
• Formative Assessment = 35% - minimum of 6 required per 9 weeks
• Major Grades = 45% - minimum of 4 required per 9 weeks
Remember, grades must be updated WEEKLY.
At least 3 of the formative and/or daily assignments must be a writing assignment each 9 weeks.
Every Wednesday in LVISD is college day! Be sure to sport your favorite college's gear.
positive behavior reinforcers.
Make sure you sign it (legibly) and then the students write their name on it and come to the reception desk to put their tickets in the bucket. Please do not send them during instructional time (I know...you wouldn't think of it)! Thanks!