Friday Faculty Focus
News and Notes about #BeBCMS-SY 19- Issue 14
#TheChallenge
The Challenge:
Make the next five days in your classroom so ExExExCiting and Engaging that scholars will be counting down the days when we come back on Monday, November 26th!
Up and Coming:
- SMILE! Be Happy! #BeELITEInYour20SquareFeet: Your body language talks! LOVE what you GET to do every day!
- CLUBS are coming! Clubs will begin in January. We will run a Friday CLUB Schedule. Scholars will begin to preference club choices at lunch.
- Interested in teaching the ELITE Summer Experience? We need you! Dates are the first four weeks in June (No Fridays) 9-2 (Teacher 8-3 or 830-330) Please let me know here if you are interested: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfVLHh8DYQQraYl3dH9JTPd30pt6P3PZWnNmvOeuWVWbF9mhg/viewform?usp=sf_link
- Congratulations to Mr. Herndon for being selected as our MARIGOLD teacher for Quarter ONE! Mr. Herndon: You have won a FREE shirt from the TRIBE SHOP!
- Safety Nets! It's that time to look at your grade books! Please submit your F list as of 11/16 with your lesson plans on Friday.
- Next week is ALL HANDS on DECK for all week: AM and PM.
- Absences: When you are absent, you need to contact me via text or email. You then need to put the absence in AESOP. You then need to fill out a leave form from Ms. Amonda. Failure to work this process may result in you having to take the day unpaid. Please follow our procedures for absences.
- The Innovation Center: Changes to schedule:
This week: 11/14 Safety Nets: Gradebook Checks
11/28 All Content for Extended Writing Review
12/5 Strategy Smorgaboarg
- TKES observations have started. PLEASE make sure you are checking and signing off on your observations. The system is not emailing you right now to let you know. We have notified HR and they are working on a solution.
- AdvancED work has begun. Team Leaders will discuss this with you next week. We need to get these surveys done!
If you are a teacher (certified) please take this survey:
https://eprovesurveys.advanc-ed.org/surveys/#/action/84648/23501
If you are a staff member (non-cerfitied) please take this survey:
https://eprovesurveys.advanc-ed.org/surveys/#/action/84655/23501
Students will need to take this survey:
https://eprovesurveys.advanc-ed.org/surveys/#/action/84645/23501
These surveys close on Friday 11/16
- Lesson plans are due, in hard copy form, to the binder by Friday at 4:00. The binder will be in the data room on Fridays. I need lesson plans for the week we return before you leave campus for Thanksgiving Break.
- Teams: I will meet with you each to discuss your targets and buckets in the month of November 26th during your team meetings times.
- WIN team is 30 minutes drop and read and it is an EVERYONE expectation. Have a book and be ready to READ! There are lots of variations to this-- so be creative!
- Please make sure your weekly communication to your parents is ready. This needs to be up to date weekly. Email Mr. Kicklighter to put it on the website.
Staff Shout Outs!
- Mrs. Ennis, Ms. Shelby, and Mrs. Adams for ELITE Athletics Banquet set - up
- Mr. Forrester for organizing the Veteran's Day Assembly
- Mrs. Waddell for the new ELITE 7th-grade bulletin board
- Mrs. Meltzer for bringing her Science class to investigate the disgusting bugs on my window
- Mrs. Durrence and Mr. Herndon for modeling station teaching and teaching the scholars the process of what it looks like!
Important Events! (The •1)
#CelebrateMonday - Basketball practices after school
#TurnUPTuesday- Basketball practices after school
#WinWednesday- Basketball practices after school, Kona Ice!
#ThankfulThursday- Basketball practices after school
#FocusFriday- FREE HAT DAY, Basketball practices after school
Coming UP
- November 26th: Team meetings with Liz: Bring your laptop: will look at baseball cards
- Staff Luncheon for United Way Participation: Date TBD
- December 4th: Coffee and Conversations: PLTW focus 8:45 AM
- Save the Date! Redskins on the Rise Community Day: Saturday, March 2, 2019
- PBIS events: End of Quarter 2/Semester 1 Celebration: Dec. 21st: Ideas due to Ms. Solomon and Mr. Scott by 11/16
Sign Up for Athletics Here:
3 events min. per semester! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16Tzr1q9QiufUUWn_veX6FIjE6poQEaIofGAZhDXd0ow/edit?usp=sharing
Understanding the buckets and how to WIN at GAPS is our focus! Targets are set!
What I'm Reading.... (The •5)
I have started a new fiction read by one of my favorite authors, Mitch Albom. His new book, The Next Person You Meet In Heaven, is out and it is the second book in the series. When I was in high school, I became addicted to Mr. Albom's work in the Detroit Free Press. He wrote the book Fab Five and I was mesmerized with Michigan's basketball team. He has since gone on to write some incredible works of fiction. I highly encourage you to find a great book to read over your break. The other day, I sat in the hallway with three girls and read the back of books to them and they quickly chose a new one. Modeling the love of reading is how we grow readers.
I will be done with my book when we return and I would love to loan it to someone. Mitch Albom's books are quick, thought-provoking, reflective reads!
#ReadersAreLeaders
#LoveTheProcess
Focus on......... Literacy (The •15)
#BeBCMS Moral Imperatives:
a. Come to School- BE AMAZING- Go Home! Repeat
b. Bell to Bell instruction
c. ALL instruction/teaching will be on grade level and standards-based
d. Take a STAND for teaching and learning. Get up!
Focus On:(The Innovation Center Work)
Literacy
We will increase our student's ability to earn a 3 or higher on Extended Response. The extended response includes:
Coherence
Idea development
Organization of thoughts
We defined LIteracy at BCMS as:
- Reading
- Writing
- Speaking
- Critical Thinking (Reasoning)
Lexile Reading Bands:
997-1070- 6th grade
1045-1120- 7th grade
1097-1185- 8th grade
PBIS Update: Data and Discipline
Let me know if you have a SMARTIES for SMARTIES class that needs to be recognized!
August 2017 28 Majors 201 Minors
August 2018 23 Majors 195 Minors
17% decrease in MAJOR referral behavior
September 2017 24 Majors , 225 MINORS
Septebmer 2018: 45 MAJORS, 227 MINORS
October 2017: 59 MAJORS, 195 MINORS
October 2018: 61 MAJORS, 292 MINORS
November 2018:
24 Majors
105 Minors
November 2017:
30 Majors
89 Minors
Think about inviting Ms. Solomon to your classroom to do some co-teaching on coping skills to minimize classroom disruptions and behaviors.
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