Panther Press
for the Week of December 18th
Reminders from the Principal
Monday and Tuesday will most likely be a light day as far as students. All teachers need to take every opportunity to wrap up any make-up work and make parent contacts during those days. Combined with the teacher work day on the 20th, you will have plenty of time to finish up your grades so that you are ready to have them completed and posted by noon of January 5th. Report cards will be sent home on January 8th.
PTA will provide lunch on Dec 19th. Everyone will go to lunch around 11 depending on the number of students present. Be flexible Tuesday.
The PD schedule, as we know it today, was sent out yesterday. Make sure you review the schedule and know where you are supposed to go on those days. If a STI-PD number is listed, you must sign-up in STI-PD.
Any teacher leaving campus during their break or at other times are required to speak to an administrator prior to leaving AND sign out in the front office. This is a non-negotiable.
All teachers are required to administer a unit assessment every 4.5 weeks and they must be labeled as a unit assessment in your gradebook. These assessments must also appear in the gradebook to reflect grades for that time period. While the expectation is that all teachers will administer at least one unit test every 4.5 weeks, the total number of assessments each nine weeks is determined by the classroom teacher. With assessments counting 75% of the nine weeks grade it behooves each teacher to have more than two. All teachers are required to have spoken or had face-to-face contact with parents of students who have an "F" in their class BEFORE the end of the 9 weeks. It is NOT the responsibility of the EX ED teacher to make those contacts for the classroom teacher, either. These are non-negotiables.
NO faculty meetings this week.
I need to remind ALL staff members of a couple of things: 1) all staff members are required to remain on campus during the work day unless they have permission from an administrator to leave (teachers must sign out in the front office and classified must clock out), 2) All staff are responsible for electronic communications and items shared through the google platform. A copy of the current staff handbook for HMS is on the google drive. We will be adding additional documents as the year progresses. "I did not read my email" or "I did not know how to access the google folders" is not an acceptable excuse.
Important Reminders for the Week of December 18th Plus
Dec 13 - 19 - 1st Semester Diagnostics
Dec 18 - HMS Basketball @ Fairfield
Dec 18 - HMS Dessert Theater @ 7 Pm in the HMS Cafeteria.
Dec 19 - No Faculty Meetings
Dec 19 - PTA Provided Staff Lunch starting around 11
Dec 19 - Last day for students before the Holiday Break
Dec 19 - Lesson Plans due by 3 PM to designated administrator via email through Jan 19
Dec 19 - Parent Contact Logs due by 3 Pm via email to designated administrator through Dec 18
Dec 19 - HMS Basketball @ PG
Dec 20 - Teacher Work Day
Dec 21 - Jan 3 - Mid-Year Holidays - School Closed
Jan 4 - District PD Day (see schedule emailed Dec 14)
Jan 5 - School PD Day
Jan 5 - Grades due by noon
Jan 5 - Grade Verification sheets due by 3 PM
Jan 8 - First day for students
Jan 8 - Report cards go home with students
PLUS Team Rotation
No PLUS Team Meetings in December or January
Lesson Plan, Unit Assessments & Contact Log Administrators
- 6th Grade teachers, Poe, Finch, Overton, and Owens submit to Mr. Anders via email.
- 7th Grade teachers, Gonzalez, Moreno, Evans, Williams and Channel submit to Mr. Powell via email.
- 8th Grade teachers, Cerka-Wilkes, A. Smith, Kunath, Whitfield and Richards-Broome submit to Dr. Foster via email.
Lesson Plans/Parent Contact Log Calendar
December 19 (LP Jan 8 – Jan 19, PC through Dec 18)
January 19 (LP Jan 22 – Feb 2, PC through Jan 18)
February 2 (LP Feb 5 – Feb 16, PC through Feb 1)
February 16 (LP Feb 20 – Mar 2, PC through Feb 15)
March 2 (LP Mar 5 – Mar 16, PC through Mar 2)
March 16 (LP Mar 19 – Apr 6, PC through Mar 15)
April 6 (LP Apr 9 – April 20, PC though Apr 5)
April 20 (LP Apr 23 – May 4, PC through Apr 19)
May 4 (LP May 7 – May 24, PC through May 3)
May 25 (PC through May 24)