North High School
Staff Bulletin - December 16, 2019
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Literacy Goal: North High School will raise the percent of students proficient on the Open Response from fall to spring by 10% in 2019-2020.
Actions Being Taken to Improve Literacy
- Daily Writing - Writing activities every day to boost our student writing
- Departments with different responsibilities in teaching areas of the OR Rubric
- Advisory students tracking their progress on OR
- Working on quality task creation and examining student work from those tasks
Math Goal: North High School will raise the percent of students proficient on the High School Math Assessment from fall to spring by 10% in 2019-2020.
- Understanding and applying the Common Core's 8 Mathematical Practices in all classrooms
- Advisory students tracking their progress on the BME Assessment
- Develop an auxiliary leadership team to focus on math data assessments
- Working on quality task creation and examining student work from those tasks
Math teachers will be administering the mid year assessments this week for our Math Goal. Please take a moment in each class to encourage the students to do well!
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Last Week's Average Daily Attendance: 86.73% (-3.54%) (Monday, 12/9 was 77.09%)
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TV and Marquee Information
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Daily Announcements
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Weekly Strategy Challenge - Practice This Strategy In Class!
Strategy - Understanding What the Brain Needs to Learn
Would you hire a chef who doesn't understand how ingredients work together?
What would you do if you found out your doctor didn't know anything about infections?
This video shows what needs to happen (scientifically) for students to learn. Students must struggle to learn and they must have motivation to complete this. If these items are missing, students become apathetic.
- Autonomy - meaningful choices toward empowerment
- Connections - discussions, collaborate, connect to the real world
- Progressing toward Mastery - Finding the right balance between challenge and ability
- Activity - movement and multi-sensory engagement
- Self-Reflection - transferring learning to long term learning
For more information on how the brain works and processes information, search information on "Brain Rules" by John Medina. Here is a good video on one of the elements of his work (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck-tQt0S0Os). I have used this element when working with an uncooperative student. If I can't get someone to open up, I often take them for a walk with me.
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Nearpod Certified Educator Wall of Fame
The following staff have been named as "Certified Nearpod Educators!
Maggie Elgert
Tracy Gilbert
Michael Lamoreux
Crista Limoges
Shawn Meth
Travis Monk
Allison Wagner
If you receive the designation, please let me know!
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Department and Safety Meeting Notes
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Advisory Calendar of Events
Tuesday:
Grade Check - Focus students on what they should complete prior to break.
Wednesday:
Grade Check - Focus students on what they should complete prior to break.
Thursday:
MVP Lesson
Friday:
Have a "resolution" chat with students. Talk about goals (school and personal). Maybe just a pep talk about tackling life). Here is a video that is always good to show: Kid President - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-gQLqv9f4o&list=PLsgOUPLhd47i8wS7ReUNlhW7ozUVMbj3O&index=1
Current CPR Training:
K. Langel (S209) starting on 11/26
A. Jelken (335) starting on 11/26
Upcoming CPR Training - 12/10 to 12/20:
Lamoreux (S209) and Powers (335)
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Upcoming Dates
Below are currently scheduled events that will take place during the school day. These will interrupt academic work.
Tuesday, December 3 - Siouxland Cares Survey - All juniors will take this survey in homeroom. It will take around 15 minutes. Please have all present students complete the survey (it will be sent to them in email). If they aren't attending on Tuesday, they can complete it any day of the week: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SiouxCitySchools19
Wednesday, December 11 - Senior College and Career Readiness Survey (homeroom only, should not be an interruption).
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Monday Morning Music
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Reminders and Checklists
All Staff:
- Safe School Training is released. Here is the link: https://siouxcityschools-ia.safeschools.com/ There are five training's on this year's module. Total time indicated is 129 minutes. Due dates are varied.
Certified Staff:
- Sign up for duties with Chris. If you sign up now, you will have a choice. If you wait, you will be assigned to an open duty.