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Wow! What a beautiful weekend! It had a gloomy beginning but it ended with perfect weather! I hope the one day break allowed you to temporarily catch your breath! We have a few more weeks and then you are off to a week long break! Thank you all for last week! The Field Days were great! I know it was tough not having a planning period for most of the week but your commitment to keep kids first definitely showed through the sacrifice you made! The students had a blast and for the most part were well behaved throughout the building! Thank you coaches, volunteers, and the entire Connection Team for organizing such a fun event!
This week we are back at it! I can not stress the importance of teaching to reach every student. The use of different high yielding instructional strategies will help provide differentiated instruction to your students. It is expected during observations that you are using many of the strategies shared with you from our AVID Team. It is also expected that all teachers are are using Focus Note Taking and Critical Reading Strategies as these are the strategies we agreed to implement in our School Growth Plan. We will speak to this more this week during Collaborative Planning.
Our binder system is working! Thank you to everyone that is consistently checking binders. This is a reminder that binder checks are not optional. ALL teachers are expected to conduct binder checks and sign off on the student forms. We will be taking binder checks to the next level in a few weeks.
Administrators presence will be heavy in all of the collaborative plannings and RTI meetings. We will also begin conducting data analysis using a specific protocol to help us identify what we are doing well and how we can improve student learning. Please make sure that the data progress monitoring sheets are updated before Tuesday so that we can dig deep in the data. Our first Coherence Visit with Dr. Means will take place on January 9, 2018 at 1:30. I have no doubt in my mind that we will be ready to share how we are implementing our SGP and how our students are showing improvement. However we must be consistent with our practices and working diligently to do what is in the best interest of our students. You all work hard but we must make sure that our work is transferring to our numbers! Yes we are more than a number but at the end of the year, that number defines our success! I challenge the entire staff to teach like a champion for the next 27 weeks! We can do it! Let's go Panthers!
Principal Tolbert
Announcements
Welcome Mr. Brock, Mrs.Wood, and Mr. Jones to the Panther Nation! We are a family at HMS and super excited to have you all join our team! Staff take a moment and stop by their class or send an email to welcome them to Hilsman 2.0! Thank you to the teachers and staff that served on the interview committee! You selected the cream of the crop!
Grade Book Updates-Grading window opens on November 8th!
We will run reports to check for updates to teachers' grade book Wednesday. During conferences it was brought to my attention that we are not consistently putting in grades. This is an expectation that we must follow so that we can hold our students and parents accountable too! At this point in the year, grade books should be properly set up and managed consistently. If you have any questions or concerns, please see Tolbert, Brinkley, or Skinner.
News from Marty
All ELA teachers should complete their classroom spelling bee before December. Mrs. Marty sent out an email with the materials.
-Return all GES rating forms (manila forms) that were in your mailboxes a few weeks ago. These are expensive to replace.
-Mrs. Marty is offering a PL session on differentiating in the classroom during second planning Friday. If you are interested, contact Mrs. Marty. All new teachers will need to attend.
-If students are not meeting advanced criteria or gifted criteria, please make sure you put it in the spreadsheet shared with you a few weeks ago. If you have questions about the criteria, please refer to the gifted module for that information. Please make sure you have contacted parents and recorded it in campus under PLP.
-During collaborative planning next week gifted collaborators will be working with teachers to complete collaborative contracts. It will not take the entire planning.
News from Fassbender
Dress Down Day for October's Binder Check will be November 5th! Please be sure to check the binders.
Week at a Glance
Monday-IEP/504 Meetings
Tuesday-RTI/Branching Minds
Wednesday-Collaborative Planning
Pink Out Day at HMS
Thursday-Collaborative Planning
Friday-IEP/504 Meeting
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