Staff Weekly
Published: February 10
Video News Program
We have 4 students working on a video news program. This is the list of students they'll be coming around to videotape during 3rd period. It will be super short and they know the kids cannot be out of class long.
Friday Data Meetings
1. Read FOCUS pp. 19-27 this week.
2. Bring highlighted copy of the mastery rubric.
3. We will look at curriculum snaphots more purposefully this week and identify one target/assessment to collect data on and bring to the February 22 data meeting.
TAKEAWAYS FROM FEBRUARY 8th
- Receiving the eleot data (numbers) feels punitive and brings down morale. If the purpose is to use the data to design next steps for the building in terms of PD and staff development, than the admin should keep the numbers at admin level BUT give purposeful and immediate feedback to teachers so they are not left wondering what the admin thought when they were in the room. We will start this immediately.
- Lots of talk about he evolution of the curriculum snapshots specifically to identify the kids below mastery, at mastery, or needing acceleration above mastery based on the assessment of the target. We will REALLY be digging into this starting this week. Discussion about the possibility of having a 4 day teaching week, using assessment of the targets to sort kids for a Friday reteach/enrich day depending on where kids are on the mastery continuum.
- Some of the kids are struggling to keep pushing hard. We talked about whether this could be a symptom of reaching "mastery" too early. Talked about how important creating that mastery rubric is going to be and setting parameters that keep kids motivated to achieve mastery over the long term and then enrich mastery after they reach it. Will also require us to have a solid system in place for what we do for them to achieve enriched mastery. Baby steps.
- 7th grade team meeting right after dismissal on Monday to talk about the bullet point above.
THIS WEEK AT BALLY FOR STAFF
MONDAY
- Reverse Hour Delay Schedule
- Faculty Meeting in the Media Center--Brooks Gibbs
- Admin Meeting at 9:00am
TUESDAY
- Maley, Stacie, Meredith meet at 7:45am
- Miranda formative during 2nd period
- 7th Grade ELA work at 9:30
- Huber post during 6th period
- SLCs 4-7
- 6th grade parent gifted meeting at 6pm
- Book study at 6:30pm
WEDNESDAY
- Hansen formative during 2nd period
- Stephens post during 6th period
- ELA Department meeting after school
THURSDAY
- Stamper formative during 3rd period
- Llewellyn post during 6th period
FRIDAY
Today's Schedule
- 1st through 4th period normal schedule
- 7th period during lunches 11:19-12:39
8th grade lunch: 11:19-11:49
7th grade lunch: 11:40-12:10
6th grade lunch: 12:09-12:39
- 6th period 12:42-1:32
- 5th period at end of day 1:35-2:15
- 2:15-2:25--Dismissal/Chromebooks/etc.
- Weekly data meetings (1st period 8th grade data meeting, 3rd period 7th grade data meeting, weird 7th period 6th grade data meeting--UA we will need to figure out an alternate day)
- Meredith at MS counselors meeting in AM
- Erika at restraint and seclusion law training from 1-3
- 8th grade girls lock in from 6pm to midnight