Hawk Herald
News and Notes for Teachers- Jan 2
Dear Staff
Hope you had a wonderful winter break and are rested and ready to go. It's a good feeling to start back with such beautiful weather. Let's spend some time this week reconnecting with students and reminding them of our goals and expectations.
Have a good first week back.
Mary
Tardy sweeps
PLC-Wednesday
Please fill out the feedback form from Module 2 if you haven't done so.
LA observations
DLP planning day-Friday
Secondary Leadership Collaboration
Jenae, Becky, Connie, Krista, Zeke, Kim,Jenny L, Diann E, Stacy, Leah
Leadership meeting-Friday
Meetings and Events
Monday-1 New Year's Day
Tuesday-2 Check your Advisory Calendar
- Team Meetings-Cooper hawks and Red-tails Pod 4(Admin)
Wednesday-3
- PLCs 8:00
- Attendance 10:10
Thursday-4
- Team Meetings-Sparrow hawks and Royal hawks pod 1(counselors)
- secondary leadership collaboration AC100
Friday-5
- Leadership meeting 7:30
- SST
The Power of Our Words-Paula Denton (continued from last Hawk Herald)
Five Guiding Principles for Positive Language
How can we ensure that our language supports students' learning and helps create a positive, respectful community? These strategies are based on the following five general principles.Here is the second one.
2. Convey Faith in Students' Abilities and Intentions
When our words and tone convey faith in students' desire and ability to do well, students are more likely to live up to our expectations of them.
"When everyone is ready, I'll show you how to plant the seeds." "You can look at the chart to remind yourself of our ideas for good story writing." "Show me how you will follow the rules in the hall." These teacher words, spoken in a calm voice, communicate a belief that students want to—and know how to—listen, cooperate, and do good work. This increases the chance that students will see themselves as respectful listeners, cooperative people, and competent workers, and behave accordingly.
Take the time to notice and comment on positive behavior, being quite specific: "You're trying lots of different ideas for solving that problem. That takes persistence." Such observations give students hard evidence for why they should believe in themselves.
South Meadows Middle School
Email: mendezm@hsd.k12.or.us
Website: http://schools.hsd.k12.or.us/southmeadows
Location: 4690 Southeast Davis Road, Hillsboro, OR, United States
Phone: 503-844-1220
Facebook: facebook.com/SouthMeadowsMiddleSchool