BHMS Weekly Paws Pamphlet
August 26, 2019-August 30, 2019
Reengaging the Village
Upcoming Events:
-United Way Fundraiser-Hat Day: August 26, 2019
-Faculty Meeting, August 26 @ 7:15 am
-Design Team Meeting, August 26 @ 9:30 am
-6th Grade THINKCERCA Benchmarks, August 26-30th
-Annual Title I Meeting @ Ingram Pye August 29th (5:00-7:00)
-Student DRIVER Launch PT2: August 28th (9:30-3:00)
-Collaborative Planning: August 27th and 29th
-Professional Learning: August 28th-SBC
-Literacy Team Meeting: August 29th @ 4:15
-PBIS Kickoff-Dodgeball Game, August 29th
-Labor Day Holiday-September 2nd
-Teacher Work Day--September 3rd (Faculty Mtg, Leadership Team Mtg)
-Grade Posting Window Opens-September 3
-Grade Posting Window Closes-September 6
The PBIS Team has come up with staff spirit days to help maintain a sense of unity among the staff. They ask that you participate by wearing the attire listed below on the specified dates:
Black Out Day – 8/30
United Way Fundraiser
Remember at BHMS we are all for one and one for all.
By donating to United Way we can help fight for health, education, and economic stability in our community. We ask that you dig deep and help support our community by making a donation of any size to our district's United Way campaign. Please have you pledge forms ready and the United Way Team will come around to collect them on Monday, August 26. You can also slide your pledge forms under Ms. Evans-Daniel's door or place them in her mailbox. A drawing will be held for all who donate, the lucky winner could be you. In addition, any staff member who donates over $20 will receive 2 free jeans passes to use at any time. Please help us reach our goal of $2,500.00. We have raised approximately $1200 at this point.
Lines of Communication
In addition, the agenda for the faculty meetings will be posted in Sharepoint in the "Faculty Meeting" folder.
Reminders....
When signing a hall pass in the agenda for students, please make sure that they have properly filled out the hall pass stating their destination. Students must have a hall pass to leave your class room.
Please continue to use the Ipad located in the office suite to sign-in and out each day. If for some reason the Ipad does not work, please sign in on the paper sign-in sheet on the desk.
Please make sure that you are utilizing Educators Handbook to document both minor and major discipline concerns. The hall monitors should only be utilized to remove students from classrooms when there is a major incident. If a hall monitor is asked to remove a student then the incident should be recorded as a major incident in Educators Handbook.
**Please make plans to attend our Annual Title I Parent meeting on August 29 at Ingram Pye Elementary. The time is 5:00-7:00 and we would like our staff to at least show their faces at some point during the two hours. We will have hot dogs, bouncy houses, a game truck, and Mr. Jones on the 1s and 2s. Hope to see you there. #reconnectingthevillage
Please email any item that you would like to include in the announcements by 8:00 am each morning to Dr. Nash. Email is the most efficient way for getting the announcements read.
Please remember that the expectation is that we have bell-to-bell instruction. There should never be a time in which students have nothing to do in a classroom. Please make sure that you over plan. Our students are not in a position where we can afford to waste a single minute of instructional time. Our achievement scores are the biggest indicator of this. If you need assistance coming up with additional assignments please see your academic coach or an administrator.
If you have not completed your TKES (have green checks on the Orientation and Self-Assessment/Pre-Evaluation Conference tabs), please take care of it by the end of the day Monday, August 26, 2019. If you run into issues, please email Dr. Nash.
Please make sure that you do not cover your classroom windows or office windows. This is a safety hazard.
Envelopes and stickers have been placed in your mailboxes for student hat day Monday. During homeroom, please collect money and give students stickers to wear if they are participating in hat day. The cost is $1.00. Please let students know that they must pay in order to wear a hat, any student who is wearing a hat and does not have a sticker on will have their hat confiscated and not returned unless a parent or guardian comes to pick it up.
"AYEE, Aight!!!"
-6th grade teachers for establishing, modeling, and holding students accountable for your rituals and routines.
-Mr. Wimes for working with the Jr. Hall monitors
-Mr. Jones for agreeing to DJ for BHMS at the Annual Title I meeting this Thursday.
-Ms. Kendrick for her bright and welcoming personality and helping to create a positive, inviting climate in the front office.
-Mrs. Miller, Ms Hagins, Ms. A. Jackson, and Ms. Hefner for being actively engaged at the RTI Academy.
-Mr. Allen for holding BHMS down as the lone administrator Thursday and Friday.
-Mrs. J. Raines for always being willing to go the extra mile and help with whatever is needed.
-Ms. Hill for always being a positive presence.
-Clayborn, Hagins, Polydore, Prather, K. Smith, Threatt, Walker for having their TKES 100% complete by the deadline of August 21st.
**We know that there are many other staff members who are doing phenomenal things in the classroom and we can't wait to see them.
Intervention Schedule
Monday- Leader in Me (emailed by Mr. Allen)
Tuesday- Character Ed lesson: Understanding Conflicts
Wednesday- Character Ed lesson: Identifying Emotions in Conflict
Thursday- Character Ed lesson: Controlling Emotions in Conflict
Friday- Character Ed lesson: Using Communication Skills Effectively
The character education lessons have been placed in your boxes in manila folders. In order for these lessons to be effective, you must look over them ahead of time and make sure that you know what you are teaching and how to teach it. The purpose of these lessons is to help students to begin to think about how to appropriately handle conflict. We as adults realize that conflict is a natural part of life and it is important that we help our students be able to understand the different types of conflicts that they will encounter and then know how to respond appropriately when faced with these conflicts. These lessons are not optional. You must cover them with your intervention students. Building our students’ character might not be in our job description verbatim but it is definitely a vital part of the learning process.
Jeans on Fridays!
Option 1: Purchase the REACH for Jeans Pass to support our local middle school students. Remember a student from each Middle School in the district will receive a $10,000 college scholarship and these funds go towards that. The cost is $25 for a booklet of 5 passes. See Mrs. Brezial before the deadline of September 6, 2019.
Option 2: Become a member of the Sunshine Committee. The cost for certified staff members is $40 and the cost for classified staff members is $25. See Mrs. Brezial
Option 3: Pay $2.00 each Friday that you decide to wear jeans. See Mrs. Brezial
CLUB SPONSORS STILL NEEDED!!!!!!!!!
Jersey Day!!
Caught in the Middle!
Jerseys in Training!
Put me in Coach!
Different Jerseys...
A winning team!
Cleveland Who?
BHMS over Everybody!
We are family!
Food for Thought!
Ballard Hudson Middle School
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