Week of September 17, 2018

Quote of the Week:

Happy Friday!

Thank you for stepping up today! I have received several emails from you offering suggestions as to how to restore our rituals and routines at HMS. Please continue to brainstorm ways that we can work to get our students back on track behaviorally. While you are brainstorming, continue to be firm, fair, and consistent with our expectations. Today was definitely better however we must be CONSISTENT!

Information was sent related to goal setting for TKES. Please follow the directions and have the required portions completed before Wednesday. ELA teachers should select the Literacy goal while Math teachers select the Numeracy goal. The second goal will need to be in the area of SEL. It is permissible for your content to have the same goal as we are working toward our school's overall goal in the three identified areas.

Progress reports were sent home this week. Please follow up via phone, email, or letter with the parents of students failing your class. There should be a recovery plan in place to help students achieve a passing grade.

Lastly, enjoy your weekend! I will see you all Monday!

Kindly,
Tolbert

Announcements:

Please complete the gifted and talented module by Friday, September 21st.

Gifted Module

Monday September 17, 2018 is College and Career T-Shirt Day. Students and staff can wear a college or career t-shirt with uniform bottoms. Solid color shirts are not permitted. If students do not want to participate, please be in regular school uniform.


Please share the PAWS lesson of the week with your students. Take the first 5 minutes of every class to present and review the lesson with our students. Ask them questions and challenge them to rise up and cease the use of physical aggression to solve their problems! 

PAWS lesson for the week - Focus "Paws in the Cafe" - Document
                                                         Paws in the Cafe - Slides
District Information

• September 25, 2018 & October 9th: AVID School-wide Coaching Visits

Your District AVID Coordinator and the GA AVID Center Program Manager will perform walkthroughs of AVID classrooms. They will generally spend 15-20 minutes in the AVID Elective class(es) and 8-10 minutes in content area classes of trained AVID teachers.  After the classroom visit, we will engage in a 30-minute debrief. Additionally, they would like principals, administration, and the site coordinator, if those individuals are available, to join us in both the observation and the debrief. The specific schools will be contacted with more information; also, the Observation Tool will be provided prior to.

AVID IN ACTION: Newsletter

AVID IN ACTION

Week at Glance

Monday-504/IEP/Team Meeting

College T-Shirt Day! All staff should be dressed for the occasion!

Tuesday-RTI/Branching Minds
                Forker with 6th and 7th grade AM Planning for MAP planning

Wednesday-Collaborative Planning-Staff Uniform Day

TKES 

Thursday-Collaborative Planning

MAP Reading Make-ups in ELA classes
MAP Math Make-ups in Math classes
TKES
Friday- 504/IEP
MAP Language Make-ups in classes

Cedar C-Team Football vs.Jefferson Time:5:30 p.m. Location: Jefferson High School

Cross Country HMS vs. Jefferson Time: 4:30 p.m. Location: Crows Lake, Jefferson Ga.