Hero Headlines HMS Staff News
August 31, 2020
General Announcements
- Lanyards are expected to be here on Sept. 2nd! Hooray!!
- We discussed attendance & seating chart protocols as a faculty Thursday after school. If you missed that meeting, read THIS DOC. Every staff member that serves Hellstern students MUST read this.
- If parents want the update sent in an email, they use THIS LINK to sign up. Please send home with parents!
- Remind your students during Advisory on Monday: Students should not leave Chromebooks in the hallways or take them to lunch. Chromebooks need to be taken to their 4 or 5 block if they have A/C lunch or left in rooms if they have B/D lunch.
- For office staff (FYI for everyone else): Students and families who wish to rescind transfers to VIA DTSOI (meaning they want to come back to their home zoned school) have a grace period until Labor Day. After Labor Day, students will remain at VIA DTSOI until semester. Please click here for the VIA DTSOI Rescind Process.
- Check out the "Un-field Trips" from the Amazeum.
- Click here for blended model expectations for students, teachers and families.
- We will try not to Huddle on Tuesday after school.
- For Social Studies teachers: Commissioner's Memo on Constitution and Celebrate Freedom Day
- ROOTS Make-up days (1-6) are now posted on Springdale schools professional development calendar. Teachers must sign-up through this system if you need to make up any days.
Conscious Discipline Corner
Consider giving this survey during advisory. You will want to make a copy of it for your class. The google survey was adapted from this questionnaire - which will explain how to score it.
Lastly, this document gives ideas for how to support students based when executive skills are lacking.
Can we stop telling the 'corona kids' how little they are learning?
Mrs. Tisher shared this blog post by George Couros - 8 Ideas to Consider for Remote Learning (Part 1)
The blog post also includes links with ideas for building relationships with students, empowering students, and meeting the social-emotional needs of students in a remote learning setting.
Adopt a Cow!!
Upcoming Dates
September
1 & 3 - Volleyball (am working on getting schedule)
3 - Vision & Hearing Screenings for 6th grade
3 - HMS v. Bentonville Lincoln (HOME) @ 5:30
7 - Labor Day, No School
8 - School Board meeting
29 - Fall Pictures (All 5-day kids, & T/TH kids)
30 - Fall Pictures (All MWF kids, and anyone absent on 29th)
Hellstern Middle School
Website: http://hellstern.sdale.org/
Location: 7771 Har-Ber Avenue, Springdale, AR, USA
Phone: 479-750-8725
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Hellstern-Middle-School