Friday Faculty Focus
News and Notes about #BeBCMS-
Short Week Wrap Up- Part 2!
If we thought last week was short, this week was even shorter! HUGE shout outs to EVERYONE for coming in Thursday strong and being ALL hands on deck! Thank you for the extra supervision eyes, the extra hallway high fives, and the extra attention to the main thing: Engagement and Learning!
Celebrations:
- ALL of us: for being AWESOME!
#BeBCMS Elite PBIS update!
The PBIS School Store is OPEN
The store will be open Tuesday 6th grade, Wednesday 7th grade, Thursday 8th grade. The cart will come to your hallway! Mr, Dinkins will be managing the store during WIN time out of his classroom. We will have additional supports in there as well. This is a new change and I think it is working well!
Let's think about making a request form to see what our scholars WANT to have in the store! #StudentVoiceStudentChoice
All eyes on...
Rainbow Highlight
WE love Officer Collins
RTI News and Notes
Important Events!
Friday- #FocusFriday, Hat Day! $1.00
Tuesday- #TerrificTuesday, Leadership 7:40 AM, School Board Working Session 6:00 BOE
Wednesday- #WinWednesday, Innovation Center- Classrooms as assigned, Local School Council- 8:00 AM, MAP testing continues, Dr. Mantooth in the building
Thursday-#ThankfulThursday, Leadership 7:40: PBIS on the agenda, PEP rally during WIN, HOME football game, DANCE 3:30-5:00, Softball/AWAY, Title One Informational Meeting 5:00
Friday- #FocusFriday, Community TOTY Celebration, Begin CLUBS!
#LetsDance
This Thursday: Get ExExExCited!
We will have our first DANCE! Scholars can buy a dance and football combo ticket beginning Tuesday for $6.00! There will be a DJ and concessions! We will begin making announcements Monday, flyers will go home Monday and it will be in the Sunday newsletter! Our goal for attendance is 200!
Focus on..... Building positive climates to increase ENGAGEMENT
Engaging for a Positive Classroom Climate
I want to continue the focus on building and sustaining the poisitve classroom and school climate and culture. This is a huge component of our SIP and the work we do as educators AND human beings.
A key take away from Jensen's work on building positive climate for engagement is this:
"Teachers often tell me their students are angry and grumpy. If you grew up hearing only ONE affirmation for EVERY TWO reprimands, you would be grumpy too! The last thing low SES students need is a critical, hostile school experience"
WHAT ARE YOU DOING to make sure our scholars have a daily positive ELITE experience? What does your body language say to them? What do your words say to them?
Offer your scholars three positives to every one negative and watch your classroom climate and culture change!
Keep at your goal of giving out 5 scholar or PBIS notes a day! In semester two we are going to focus on Positive Referrals via Educator's Handbook! I can't wait to roll that out!
*resources from Eric Jensen, Engaging Students with Poverty
I love the BHH Reading model. Think about using this with your scholars.
#BeBCMS PBIS Posters
Please make sure you have your PBIS BCMS Motto poster hanging up in your classroom!
Nuggets and News
- The Innovation Center: Please be on time and be intentional in your learning!
I am VERY proud of the work we are doing in The Innovation Center and we look to have an AWESOME class selection for Quarter Two!
- Supervision: PLEASE make sure you are at your supervision spots on time. If you need to switch, please just let us know! Being at busses in the shade is NOT enough. You must be engaged with scholars: ALL eyes on them!
- Lesson Plans: Make sure data is driving your planning and have your lesson plans uploaded in the Team Drive Folders nad on your clipboards available. AB, KW, and I will begin looking at those as we begin TKES classroom walk thrus. We are looking for ENGAGEMENT of scholars this week!
- Meetings Schedules: Monday: TEAM, Tuesday: RTI, Wednesday: Math ,Thursday: ELA , Friday: Science and Social Studies
- Educator's Handbook- September referral count is at 3! Keep it up!
- TKES Walk Throughs- Please make sure you have four green checks. Walk Throughs have started! Feedback is focused, intentional, and transformational! That is what makes our scholars grow!
- Sunshine Club: We would like to have 100% participation in our BCMS Sunshine Club! Dues this year will be $20.00 to Shelby and you will get one free "anytime" jeans pass. This is the only we have as a school house to show people we care about them when they go through hardships. We are a family! Please consider this donation.
- MAP testing continues-- PLEASE use your Reading MAP RIT Scores for goal setting in WIN time on Monday! If you don't have the latest MAP score yet, explain to students that we will have one soon and use that data for your Reading goal setting.
- Morning Times: If you have scholars you want to work with in the morning (Tutorial) please write them a pass. It's an AWESOME idea to work with scholars
- Principal's Advisory Council: I will be looking for members for my council. This is an application process. I will begin announcements tomorrow.
- TWO more Jeans in September: The Woo Woo Snack Cart will be out next week! Look for it!
- Thursday- 9/21 will be BLACK AND RED AND WHITE Spirit DAY for our dance and home football game!
What I'm Reading....
Over the hurricane, I focused on two books: one is a re-read: John Hattie's work: Visible Learning for Literacy. I found so many strategies that I could envision myself doing in my classroom.
Look at my book snap below! How do you demonstrate level of complexity in your teaching and learning everyday with scholars? Do you agree that MORE work does not equal a higher level of complexity?
I did enjoy a Middle School novel over our Hurricane break. I read Wonder by AJ Palacio. I highly, highly recommend this amazing book! It will quickly transport you back to your middle school years and you will fall in love with Auggie, his journey, and the people he surrounds himself with! I would LOVE a teacher (or two) to do a read aloud of this book during DROP time. I am also going to be giving away THREE copies of this book next week randomly! I will be making an announcement!
What are you reading right now?
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This week on Twitter....
Beth Houf @BethHouf
A2: Our school hashtag helps us to build and maintain a strong school culture. I will keep modeling and supporting! #leadlap #TeacherMyth
Melody Stacy @me1odystacy Sep 9
A1: Seek out those who push your thinking, share your WHY, get out of comfort zone to be that for others. #LeadLAP
Be that one caring person. Invest time. Share your heart. Be the difference. #bekindEDU #kidsdeserveit #tlap #LeadLAP #eduAR #joyfulleaders
Beth Houf Retweeted Beth Houf
A5: Positive office referrals are one of my favorite ways to connect with kids! #leadlap #teachermyth
Think about lurking on a twitter chat this week! I love #SatChat on Saturday mornings, #WeAreWayne chats on Tuesday nights, and #OhEdChats on Wednesday nights! I learn so much cool stuff!
WIN Period -- Read Updates!
- Monday- Set goals, review personal data and school data, grade check-- USE MAP READING data to support school wide Literacy Goal
- Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday- Remediation/Enrichment: focus on Literacy- Look for information on Tuesday for RTI
- Friday- Clubs or READING time
the link for kindness lessons is here for your reference:
http://kindness-matters.org/Love all the Kindness projects! I would highly recommend continuing these throughout the year and making them a staple in your WIN time. How can you look the book "Wonder" into your kindness projects?
Club Link is here if you still need it:
College Football #FTW
My favorite football team is on a plane to The University of Montana to face off against the Grizzlies tomorrow at 3:00 Eastern time. I am excited to see how we do against this team! Next week is our home opener! I can't wait for that! Your dAwgs play Samford and the Rambling Wrecks are off. The Irish play the Boston College Eagles and Michigan plays Air Force. Please check out the article below on one of my former students at Ben Davis HS, now #12 for the Meeeechigan Wolverines! AMAZING scholar! You guys would love Chris! SUPERSTAR!
Still my favorite BCMS football picture!
This story is definitely worth your 7:54 seconds. #MakeAnImpact
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