Shepherd Middle School
Principal's Weekly Newsletter September 2-6, 2019
SHEPHERD MIDDLE SCHOOL
Shepherd, TX 7737936-628-3377 Fax #936-628-6749
Website: https://sms.shepherdisd.net/
Location: Shepherd Middle School, 1401 South Byrd Avenue, Shepherd, TX 77371, USA
Phone: 936-628-3377
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ShepherdMiddleSchool/
Twitter: @pirateriffic
SHEPHERD MIDDLE SCHOOL QUOTE OF THE WEEK!
Please ensure you complete your EduHero courses by September 3, 2019. We only have eleven to go before we hit the big 100% completion mark!
School-wide book study: The Energy Bus by Jon Gordon
Kudus to Mrs. Wesley and Mrs. Bullock for Sponsoring and ensuring our students are on the Energy Bus! 🚌🚌🚌Thank you!
Teacher 10 rules for the ride of your life!
Student 5 Rules of my life!
All Aboard the Shepherd Middle School Energy Bus!
Please join the Positive Passengers Only Bus in spreading all the pirateriffic things transpiring at Shepherd Middle School on the following social media platforms!
Shepherd Middle School Weekly Visibility Walk: Our focus will be Planning Dimension 1.3: Knowledge of Students!
Getting to know your students!
Instructional design is a systematic approach.
Do a little prep for a good student experience.
Shepherd Middle School Weekly Wave Walk: Our Focus Area Will be Champs; activity!
Post-It. Please ensure you have your POST-IT posted. Also, please have the POST-IT completed to include warm-ups & closures. We will be observing your awesome lessons and closures!
Kudos to each of you for your great display of Planning Dimension 1.2: data and assessment!!
Kudos to Mrs. Ramirez and her incorporation of the Factile the online Jeopardy style quiz game!!
Create engaging jeopardy-style quiz games for the classroom.
Factile is the #1 Jeopardy-style classroom quiz review game!
It's free, easy and loads of fun! Our students are engaged!
Kudos to Mrs. Marceaux!
Shepherd Middle School Parent Contact Log. Please ensure we conduct Positive phone calls and any other student concerns.
Building Strong Parent-Teacher Relationships (Our community goal#1). Positive phone calls home will be part of SMS school’s story. Please consider sharing via Twitter #GoodNewsCallOfTheDay as well as tag @PBISRewards in your Tweets. We will be great!
Balanced Literacy for middle school initiative; Independent Reading!
Kudos to each of you!! Our 2nd Balanced Literacy Initiative was a success!! Every week beginning August 23 , 2019, everyone in the building during ADA (3rd period) will silently read for 10 minutes. This is a campus initiative, so if yo do not have a classroom please bring your book and report to any classroom, and help promote literacy at Shepherd Middle School! "Balanced Literacy instruction is focused on shared reading (e.g., the teacher reads aloud to students and asks questions about the text), guided reading (e.g., students read texts at their current ability level and discuss them with the teacher in homogeneous groups), and independent reading (e.g., students self-select books to read on their own)."
Data Analysis – Assessment Performance Reflection
Cooperative-learning technique: Quiz, Quiz, Trade!
http://www.theteachertoolkit.com/index.php/tool/quiz-quiz-trade
Why We All Need to Help New Teachers Succeed!
CHE HAEDEN -- 31-Aug
MICHELE HOFFART-- 1-Sep
ELIZABETH BROWN-- 3-Sep
PATRICK CHEEK-- 3-Sep
ALLEN GREEN-- 5-Sep
RAE PAWLOWSKI-- 6-Sep
Weekly Events for September 2-6, 2019
*** Lesson plans are due by 10:00 AM every Monday***
***Please do forget to attend your weekly PLCs and bring handy dandy notebook***
***Provine School Pictures will be September 5, 2019 ***
***Please be advised we will have a student assembly September 3, 2019 ***
***MS Volleyball (H) Thursday, September 5, 2019; 4:30 – 8:00 PM
***T-TESS Professional Goals pre-conference will be scheduled next week *** I will be sending an example to each of you.
*** Thresholds*** Please continue the "threshold" because you as teachers know the value of greeting and checking the pulse of students before the learning starts!
***Building relationships with students begins with knowing their names. When you address them by their name you show them that you care about them and have a special spot in your memory just for them.***