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Warrior Weekly Word #1: August 13-17, 2018
Warrior Weekly Word #1
Opening Keynote & Sessions until Lunch
Lunch on your own
28 possible classes in the afternoon
Tuesday 14th:
- All District Opening at SMS Multipurpose Room 8am (wear SMS Shirts!)
- Aide and Supervision Training following district meeting
- Teachers work in your room/department collaboration
- 6:30 PM Board Meeting - All New Staff Welcome!
WELCOME Our WARRIORS!
Wednesday 15th: First Day of 2018-19 School Year!
- Advisory period kickoff!
- Greet students with a smile, at the door every period
- Spend time getting to know your students
- Set expectations and practice, practice, practice
Thursday 16th: *Warrior Way* behavior assemblies
Friday 17th: Positive Contact Home (Remind, email, Dojo, etc), Staff Shirt Day; All teacher lesson plans due to Susan
Culture Club: *First Friday Session 4:00pm * See lounge for location
P.O.P. Power of Positive
Congratulations to the entire staff for being honored with the PBIS Silver Award by the California PBIS Coalition!
It takes a committed team to prepare for the coming year! Each of you have put in countless hours prepping and thinking about the start of the new year. There are so many component pieces that come together to make it all happen. I would like to acknowledge and thank the departments and teams that helped us as we get set to welcome our students into the 2018-19 school year:
- THANK YOU to our custodial and maintenance staff for prepping our campus and classrooms! Jeremy, Tiffany, Cristin, Steve, Becky, & Damacio-you did a great job preparing us! We are ready!
- A huge shout-out and THANKS to our Technology Department for getting us set for the year-Rick, Tyler, Marceles, Hector, Jeff, and Karen!!
- Thank you to our MOT department for completing summer work projects, and to Melanie for working on adding bus stops to help service our families.
- Vicki and her team in Educational Services-for prepping our Summer P.D., trainings, and SETCON, and making sure we have the curriculum for our students!
- Karen and her department Business Services-for making sure our financial house is in order and we have what we need to succeed this year!
- And a fine note of thanks to our Superintendent, Paul, and our School Board for their vision and focus, and empowering our schools to do what is best for our students!
And EVERY staff member at SMS has been preparing for a fantastic year! We have new teams, new staff, and returning staff. And together-we have an ENTHUSIASTIC staff. Let's begin this annual journey in a positive and innoviate way...the Warrior Way!
-Susan
Vision & Goal Progress
Watch us this year as we...
- Increase academic achievement in ELA & Math on CAASPP
- Close the gap from honor roll to tested achievement (total honor roll)
- Create celebration moments for students and families
- Provide rigorous curriculum and learning experiences for students (including OLF, History Day, Science Fair, BOB, fine arts, sports, clubs, etc.)
- Reduce suspensions: Fewer than last year (120)
- Increase attendance percentage (95.0%)
- Decrease truant tardy/sarb referrals (#)
Warrior Pride ~ We Have It!!
Complete the Staff Trivia Survey
Play the Staff Trivia Game! Play to Win!
Warrior Way Focus
PBIS Expectations & Introductions
Positive Reinforcement
Back to School Night
When: Tuesday, August 28th
Where: Standard Middle MPR
All parents/families attend the Title 1 Parent meeting beginning 5:30 in the MPR
- Classroom sessions - info here
- Class Rotation 6-7:30pm
Please make sure all parents sign-in, add their email.