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Week of the Warrior...
MONDAY: March 5th
3:00 Faculty Meeting with Dr. Moorhouse in the library
- Wednesday, March 7, will be Spring Picture Day. It is PRE-PAID only. Sports' Pictures will also be made for Softball, Baseball, and Track.
- Cheerleading Tryouts March 5th – 9th you must have a sport physical on file to try out!
- Sevier on Stage Forensics will practice after school until 4pm in Mr. Graybeal's room on MONDAY, March 5
- Lady Warrior Softball Practice 3-5
- Track Practice 3-4:15
- "The final deadline to order a JSMS Yearbook is almost here! All yearbook orders are due by March 15. If you would like to order a yearbook, turn in your order form and money to your homeroom teacher. Yearbooks are $24. Order forms are available in the office or the library."
TUESDAY: March 6th
- Wednesday, March 7, will be Spring Picture Day. It is PRE-PAID only. Sports' Pictures will also be made for Softball, Baseball, and Track.
- Cheerleading Tryouts March 5th – 9th you must have a sport physical on file to try out!
- Science Olympiad Practice 3-5
- Track Practice 3-4:15
- Lady Warrior Softball Practice 3-5
- Sevier Baseball vs. Church Hill at Church Hill @ 4:30pm
- Student Council meeting Tuesday 3:00-3:30 in Mrs. Wagner’s room. Athletes, and others dress out from 2:45-3:00, attend meeting until 3:15, and then join team.
- "The final deadline to order a JSMS Yearbook is almost here! All yearbook orders are due by March 15. If you would like to order a yearbook, turn in your order form and money to your homeroom teacher. Yearbooks are $24. Order forms are available in the office or the library."
WEDNESDAY: March 7th
- Wednesday, March 7, will be Spring Picture Day. It is PRE-PAID only. Sports' Pictures will also be made for Softball, Baseball, and Track.
- Lady Warrior Softball Practice 3-5
- Cheerleading Tryouts March 5th – 9th you must have a sport physical on file to try out!
- Track Practice 3-4:15
- Baseball JV Game Wednesday March 7th JV @ Church Hill
- There will be a JRROTC meeting each Wednesday after school. The meetings are 3:00-4:00. Please see Ms. Moore in room 106 if interested.
- There will be a Sequoyah Scribe staff meeting from 2:45 to 3:30 pm in room 340. All staff members are required to attend. The editorial staff and newscast staff will meet until 5:15 pm.
- "The final deadline to order a JSMS Yearbook is almost here! All yearbook orders are due by March 15. If you would like to order a yearbook, turn in your order form and money to your homeroom teacher. Yearbooks are $24. Order forms are available in the office or the library."
THURSDAY: March 8th
- Science Olympiad Practice 3-5
- Track Scrimmage at Liberty Bell form 3-9
- Natural Helpers meeting 2:50-4:30pm
- 8th grade - Eastman Expo and DB Excel Tour
- 6th grade - Science Trailer Field Trip (Farmer's Market), (9:45-11:15)
- Softball Game- Home vs. Gate City, 4:30
- "The final deadline to order a JSMS Yearbook is almost here! All yearbook orders are due by March 15. If you would like to order a yearbook, turn in your order form and money to your homeroom teacher. Yearbooks are $24. Order forms are available in the office or the library."
FRIDAY: March 9th
- 8th grade - DB Tour
- Cheerleading Tryouts March 5th – 9th you must have a sport physical on file to try out!
- Lady Warrior Softball Practice 3-5
- Track Practice 3-4:15
- 8th Grade solo Competition Recordings Due
- Sevier Baseball vs. Vance at Vance @4:30pm
- "The final deadline to order a JSMS Yearbook is almost here! All yearbook orders are due by March 15. If you would like to order a yearbook, turn in your order form and money to your homeroom teacher. Yearbooks are $24. Order forms are available in the office or the library."
Save the Date:
- JSMS Dance Tryouts will take place March 12-15 in the gym. Please see Ms. Cox if you could not make it to the information session and want to try out!
- We would like to invite you all to join us for Virginia Marshall’s shower on March 14th right after school in the atrium. Below is the link to their registry on Amazon. We hope to see you there!
Baby Shower for Virginia Marshall
We would like to invite you all to join us for Virginia Marshall’s shower on March 14th right after school in the atrium. Below is the link to their registry on Amazon. We hope to see you there!
https://www.amazon.com/baby_reg/WQGCU46SNYAE
Way of the Warrior Student Awards-SOCIAL STUDIES
JSMS ACTION TEAMS
As we have worked in developing the processes at JSMS, we have developed a shared leadership model that depends upon the JSMS Leadership Team as the guiding coalition of the school. Using school data, staff surveys, parents surveys and SWOT analysis, the team has determined the work of our school. As we have continued to develop the work of our school, our Action Teams have grown and increased to align to encompass a variety of areas. Previously, we have invited all to participate in action teams as desired. While I would still like to ensure that anyone can attend any action team at any time, to ensure that all voices are heard, I would like to ask that each one of you sign up for at least one Action Team. Later this week, we will invite everyone to sign up via a Google form. Some of you have been consistent members of teams and we will go ahead and sign up those of you who have consistently participated on specific teams. You will notice that there are just a few new teams listed below. Again, you can certainly be on more than one action team, but to ensure that we have representation, we ask that everyone sign up for at least one. These meetings count toward your six additional hours of PD.
Scheduling/Tribe Time/Clubs
Staff Communication-LEILA HUBBARD
New Teacher Mentoring-STEPHEN BAKER
Transforming Teaching and Learning: Grading-RACHAEL WAGNER
Culture Club-TONY WEAVER
Data Team
Technology
Supervision-LESLIE HARDIN
Athletics-MARTY MOORE
Family Engagement-DEBBIE MOORE
TVAAS Info from Michael Hubbard
The student projections available on the TVAAS restricted website have been updated to reflect enrollment data SAS EVAAS received prior to February 1. Districts and schools now have access to reporting for students who tested in their school or district last year or had valid enrollment data in District Technology Service Desk for the 2017-18 school year when the most recent file was created.
In order to view student projections, users will need access to student reports. Contact your admin for assistance with this additional permission. For assistance with your username and password, navigating the site, or questions about reports, click here.
IEP Compliance Spreadsheet Updated
The IEP Compliance spreadsheet has been updated and is in the Admin SPED folder (Google drive). Please remember to access this file at least monthly. Please note that all red stop signs need to be addressed immediately. Also included in this folder are upcoming due dates. Please contact Jacki Wolfe if you have any questions.
Facilitators Needed for Summer Training (Paid Opportunity)
TDOE will host summer training the week of June 18-22 for teachers and school administrators on the new Tennessee Academic Standards for Science. They still need school leaders to facilitate this training. Please note this is a paid, temporary, contract position with TDOE. Click here for more details. Click here to apply to become a facilitator for this training. If questions, contact Nicole Jimenez.
FREE Summer STEM Workshop
The University of Tennessee and the USAF Civil Air Patrol will hold an Aerospace/STEM workshop for teachers on July 5-20 on UT's campus. The workshop offers three hours of graduate credit, is tuition free, and goes toward recertification. Teachers of all grade levels are invited to attend. The focus of this summer's workship will be "aviation, space exportation, robotics, astromony, and rocketry." Attendees will receive classroom STEM kits worth thousands of dollars provided free of charge by the Civil Air Patrol. Past attendees have consistently rated these joint workshops as "best...ever." Seating is limited and registration will be honored on a first come, first served basis. For more information, please contact Lt. Colonel Dave Garner (865-966-9811) or check out their website by clicking here. Access a flyer by clicking here.
Coming soon-watch your inbox TEACHERS:
The Tennessee Educator Survey is set to launch next week. Every school level educator in Tennessee is invited and encouraged to share their perceptions and expertise on education-related issues affecting their classroom and school. Completion of the survey is expected to take up to 20 minutes. Those completing the survey will become eligible for a lottery drawing that will award several $300 classroom-support grants each week through April 20. Once the survey closes, a separate lottery drawing will be held to award $2000 grants to schools with the highest participation rates.
Survey completion is voluntary and individual responses will be kept confidential and not shared or released. Aggregate school-level results will be shared with school and district leaders by the end of May, if the school or district achieves at least a 45% participation rate. Click here for more information.
Special Education Regional Mini-conferences
The department is happy to announce and offer regional mini-conferences. These regional events are intended to provide participants a high-level overview of various special education related topics. Click here to view a list of sessions, locations, and dates that will be offered.
In addition to the mini-conferences, there will also be an added day to focus on Implementing the Alternate Academic Diploma, as well as a session reserved for districts to select a limited amount of educators to attend training on dyslexia and current legislation requirements. Please indicate on your registration if you plan to attend both the mini-conference and the Implementing the Alternate Academic Diploma. Additional information and registration for the second day dyslexia training will be provided through the CORE offices. The mini-conferences are expected to reach capacity, so please sign-up quickly by clicking here.
Kingsport City Schools News Release - Kingsport City Schools Accepting Zoning and Tuition Applications for 2018-2019 School Year.
Parents who would like to request their child attend a different city school instead of one for which their child is zoned, must apply for a zoning exception. Parents of students who are not legal residents of the City of Kingsport must submit a tuition application to attend Kingsport City Schools. Parents or legal guardians must apply annually for their child’s tuition and zoning status, even if they attended Kingsport City Schools during the preceding school year.
Applications can be found online at k12k.com via the "Parents" tab, 2018-19 Zoning and Tuition Application link or if need be, in-person at the KCS Administrative Support Center, 400 Clinchfield Street, second floor, downtown Kingsport. Application deadline is April 30, 2018.
The following are excerpts from the Kingsport Board of Education’s policies and procedures for zoning and tuition:
- Parents or legal guardians must apply annually for their child’s tuition and zoning status.
- Students who are not legal residents of the City of Kingsport shall pay tuition charges as approved annually by the Board of Education.
- Failure to pay tuition will disqualify a student’s application for the next year.
- Tuition students are accepted and zoning exceptions are granted only if current enrollment permits.
- The system does not provide bus transportation for tuition or zoning exception students, except in specific circumstances.
Criteria for zoning exceptions are as follows:
- Documented medical reasons
- Child care availability
- An expected move to a different zone
- Specialized school programs
- A fifth or an eighth grade student with a previous zoning exception
- Documented justifications related to the child’s specific educational experience
The school system utilizes the following order when placing students:
- Zoning and tuition for Kingsport City Schools employees and retirees, as well as City of Kingsport employees
- Zoning exception reapplications
- Siblings of currently enrolled out-of-zone students
- New zoning exception applications
- Tuition reapplications
- Siblings of currently enrolled tuition students
- New tuition applications for out-of-district residents
Please review this link for an important science update:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e8D3YV-6_VnbE7oeIL-4Oa1APcwjo1SGJpptVqTMNhA/edit?usp=sharing
More PLearning Opportunities:
Theme: STEM and LIteraCy in Education (SLICE)
Time: Thur. 5/31/18- Friday 6/1/18
Place: The Millennium Conference Centre, 2001 Millennium Pl, Johnson City, TN 37604
Participants: 300 G4-12 teachers, 50-150 LEA administrators, IHE faculty members, Business partners. A total of 300-450 participants
Highlights:
Breakout sessions: best practices in education/ classroom innovation/ technology hands-on workshop/ project-based learning workshop/ best MSP PD sessions
Two keynote speeches from literacy and science focuses about STEM and Literacy in Education
STEM and Literacy in Education Luncheon (5/31/18)- Commissioner McQueen’s keynote and networking
STEM Partnership Celebration Luncheon (Friday 6/1/18)
Poster Session: MSP Book and Project Celebration- meet with the authors and students
Panel discussion- STEM Education for next 10 years
Host: Center of Excellence in Mathematics and Science Education (CEMSE)
Registration fee: $75/ person
Teacher Stipend: The MSP project will provide $100/day stipend to teachers who are recognized as MSP participants from the partnered LEAs
WARRIOR WHOOP!
The Sequoyah Scribe wins again!
The Tennessee High School Press Association has once again named finalists in its annual journalism competition.
The following students were named THSPA finalists for work published in the "Sequoyah Scribe" in 2017:
Ella Miller
Laura Murphy
Micah Maynard
Patrick Galloway (now a freshman at DB)
Winners will be announced on March 5th at Lipscomb University.
Please congratulate these students. The "Scribe" is the only middle school newspaper that competes in the THSPA contest.
Sevier ROCKstar! Mindy Utsman ROCKS!
I would like to nominate Mindy Utsman for the WOW award.
Mindy is always positive and has a smile on her face.
She is kind to everyone she meets and exemplifies the Sevier spirit.
Thank you Mindy for all that you do!
-Michael Stewart