Howard Happenings
October 29, 2018
Chronic Attendance Update-15.7%
Goal-19%
GREAT JOB Everyone, let's keep the momentum going.
Let's continue our work of reaching out to students who are absent and letting them know all the great things they have missed. Encourage families to bring student before and after appointments.
Shout out to Carranza (80%) and Plummer (73.9%) for having the highest satisfactory attendance.
Shout out to Friedman (6.8%) and Crawford (11.1%) for having the lowest chronic attendance.
Shout out to Carranza, Crawford, Hodnett, Novak, and Plummer for having no red students.
Shout Out To:
Amanat for using both verbal and nonverbal redirection in her classroom.
Important Information-ALL
Please ensure you sign in and out daily
All confidential or personal information should be printed in the library and picked up promptly.
Important Information-Teachers
Just a reminder that the teacher workday begins at 8:00 am. Please contact me if you will be late.
Best Practice of the Week - Graphic Organizers
- can be a scaffold for students
- can be used across the content areas
help students organize their thoughts and ideas for answering questions,
function as a pre-writing tool
provide a visual display of information.
are an easy way to differentiate instruction for a variety of learning styles.
Resources below.
Yard Duty
Upper Yard-Mathis
Focus-Scholar Skills
- Cost Meeting 11 to 12
- Faculty Council 3 to 4
Tuesday 10/30
- SSC Meeting 5:30 to 6:30
Wednesday 10/31
- Minimum Day
- Halloween
Thursday 11/1
- Williams Off-Site-Principal Professional Learning
Friday 11/2
Halloween at Howard Schedule
11:40 to 12:00 - Students Change into Costumes
12:00 to 12:30 - Parade
12:30 to 1:30 - Classroom Celebrations
Cycle 2 Overview
Upcoming November Events
11/5--Grocery Giveaway
11/7--Hoot and Holler
11/9--Minimum Day End of the 1st Trimester11/9--Lockdown Drill
11/12--No School Veterans Day
11/13--Fire/Earthquake Drill
11/14--Report Cards Due by 4 pm
11/15--Grocery Giveaway
11/16--Vision Screening
11/19 to 11/23--Thanksgiving Break
11/26 to 11/27--Minimum Days Howard Professional Learning
11/28 to 11/30--Minimum Days Parent Teacher Conferences