2016 Updates

Welcome Back

I hope your Holiday Vacation was restful and rewarding.  Our focus now turns to closing out the year with fidelity to our standard operating procedures and our academic goals and initiatives.  On today, 4th Grade teachers will participate in training for a new pilot program designed to increase student reading ability.  All other teams will remain on campus and conduct grade level meetings from 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM.  Lunch 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM.  Team leaders should provide administration with a copy of the minutes by the end of business today.

Grade Level Meeting Agenda

1.  Classroom Needs Assessment (Repairs, technology needs etc).  Provide list to Mrs. Holmes.
2.  IB Thematic Unit Discussion and Planning
3.  Chalkable Lesson Plans - All plans should be posted through January 15, 2016.
4. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Projects - Students should complete a project examining the travels, accomplishments and beliefs of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  The Guiding Question for this project is to whether Dr. King should be considered a Global Learner based on the characteristics of the Learner Profile which we ascribe to in our school.  Teachers should develop student activities for this project, emphasizing research, declarative writing, social studies/social science, reflection and applications to the world today.
5.  Review/Discuss
     a  Morning Duty - All teachers at their door from 7:45 AM - 7:55 AM monitoring students at lockers and entering classes.
     b.  Exchanging classes - Students must be quiet in the hall.  Teachers should lead their students and not send students ahead.  Teacher should always remain positioned at the head of the line when exiting the building.  The teacher should be the first person to arrive at classes' destination.  While walking, the teacher should move from the midway point of the line to the front.
     c.  Student Rest room Activity - Students may not be sent in groups without Teacher supervision.      d.  Lunchroom Decorum - Classes should be quiet in the lunchroom speaking only at a low tone.
     e.  Dismissal - Teachers must escort students out of the building and supervise them until picked.  Students may not enter building without a teacher and may not use phone until signed in by their teacher at 3:15 PM.  Teachers are to sign in their students, students should not sign themselves in.
    f.  Student Discipline - Student discipline referrals should submitted on the appropriate forms after teacher interventions have been attempted and documented.  At no time should Teachers nor any one under the Teacher's supervision make audio or video recordings of student behavior.