High Point News
Week of: September 2, 2014
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PKES Timeline
Staff members who are evaluated using PKES will begin to complete their online reviews from now until September 15th. A meeting will be held on September 9th from 2:30-2:50 with all PKES employees to review the year and discuss possible SMART goals. The SMART goals have to be put in prior to September 30th.
PKES Timeline
Staff members who are evaluated using PKES will begin to complete their online reviews from now until September 15th. A meeting will be held on September 9th from 2:30-2:50 with all PKES employees to review the year and discuss possible SMART goals. The SMART goals have to be put in prior to September 30th.
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Volunteer Reminder
According to Fulton County Schools, ALL student-teachers,
interns and staff members (with children at a Fulton County School) that will
be in the classroom MUST complete the volunteer paperwork at www.fultonschools.org. Teachers,
If you have a student teacher is already working with you, please make sure that
they complete this task ASAP.
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PTA Funds for Teachers
The PTA is
thrilled, once again, to sponsor the Teacher Reimbursement Program as a thank
you for all that you do everyday at High Point. This program is available to
all teachers who are current paid members of the PTA. You are eligible up to
$200 of reimbursement for expenses for your classroom. In order to receive your
check, please fill out a Check Request Form, sign it, attach your receipts and
place it in the PTA mailbox. For your convenience, copies of the Check
Request Form can be found in the PTA mailbox.
Please note
that a deadline of December 12, 2014 has
been set to turn in your check requests.
If you have
any questions, please feel free to contact Charlotte
Schaffer, PTA
Treasurer.
*********************************************************Curriculum Night Reminders:
Just a friendly reminder to place your Barbaritos order by 3:00 TODAY in order to have dinner for Curriculum Night.
Please come to the front office to pick up your dinner at 4:45 on Thursday.
This night is CRUCIAL to our strategic plan so we appreciate everyone for sharing a little about yourself, explaining the importance of parent/teacher relationships, and discussing the great work you are doing with students each day!
5:30-6:00 - State of the School Address (Title I Meeting)
6:05-6:25 - Session I: Held in each classroom
6:25-6:40 - Transition and time for parents to meet teachers other than homeroom such as math teachers, EIP, ESOL, TAG, SPED, Special Area, etc...
6:40-7:00 - Session II: Repeat of session I for anyone with another child in a different grade level.
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What I've Been Thinking About…
"I wonder how often, as teachers, we have classes that feel like failures, but they’re really not. Instead it’s a messy, awkward success, given the stage that our students are at. How often do we want the end result — engaged, articulate, deep discussions — without being willingly to do the hard work to get there? Instead of seeing all the struggling as the necessary first step, we see it as a failure and don’t try it again. I know I've been guilty of this."
What a powerful statement. Click on the link below if you would like to read more about her journey.
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/04/jumping-into-the-21st-century-one-teachers-account/
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Oratorical Needs
Our Oratorical group has always represented High Point extremely well. We are very proud of our staff who help prepare our students as well as the students who work hard and accept the challenge of writing speeches and presenting them.
In order to effectively run this program, we need your help!
We have decided to only offer this program to 5th grade students. If you are willing to help one student during the morning times (7:15-7:40) with their writing and speeches, we would greatly appreciate it.
The dates needed are:
Sept-Dec once a week with speech writing
Jan-Mar twice a week with reading and presenting their speech.
The students will come to you if you have a homeroom. Please email Lori Simon if you are interested in helping. Thank you!!
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PBIS This Week
- Congratulations to Staci Arnold who received a Buddy Brag and received the "gift of time" this week!!!
- This week we will focus on RECESS behaviors. Please make sure that you are reviewing proper recess behavior with your students and complimenting others who are displaying PAWS up recess behavior by giving them tickets. Supervision during recess is key so thank you for always watching them during this time!
- Thanks to Mr. McCoy, who donated a candy machine that we have placed in the office area. Each child who gets their ticket pulled on Friday will have their name announced on the Morning News Monday and will receive a candy tube to take home along with a HPES blue bracelet. Both of these items should stay in their book bag until they go home.
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TKES
TKES
New TKES updates from Fulton County:
- FCS Teachers with SLO’s will not have a TEM score for 2014-15
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· FCS Teachers with SGP’s will have a TEM calculated; it will not appear in the evaluation but will be sent to the districts as “information only."
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Technology Tips of the Week
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College Spirit Wear
On the first Wednesday of each month our school will participate in College Spirit Day in which staff members are asked to wear college spirit wear. You can wear any college shirt with jeans on this day. Please take an opportunity to talk to your students about colleges. Students can be given morning work or can complete an independent center pertaining to your college: where is it located, how many students attend, what is the mascot, etc.... The purpose of this day is to support our county goal of having 85% of our students be College Ready. Thank you for supporting this goal!!!
Technology Tips of the Week
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Reminder…our password reset will occur every 60 days now; it
will most likely happen in September and you will receive a reminder. Your
password should be 8 characters in length and include an upper case letter,
lower case letter, numeric digit and a symbol. Also, when you change your
password, BE SURE to change it on all of your devices (i.e. iPads, smart
phones, or any device accessing our FCS Wi-Fi). If you get locked out, it’s
usually because you haven’t changed your password on all devices.
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Our Z, T, and G ‘drives’ are all partitioned parts of one server
space. Our allocated server space is FULL!!! Please look through
your Z drive and anything you have posted on the G Drive. If YOU have
placed items on the G drive and they are obsolete or unnecessary, please remove
them. Also, keep in mind that we cannot save pictures, music or videos on
our individual Z drives. Please help our ‘drives’ get out of the RED.
College Spirit Wear
On the first Wednesday of each month our school will participate in College Spirit Day in which staff members are asked to wear college spirit wear. You can wear any college shirt with jeans on this day. Please take an opportunity to talk to your students about colleges. Students can be given morning work or can complete an independent center pertaining to your college: where is it located, how many students attend, what is the mascot, etc.... The purpose of this day is to support our county goal of having 85% of our students be College Ready. Thank you for supporting this goal!!!
Strategies That Most Impact Achievement
In My Head/Makes Me
Think
Students fill in a thought bubble with words and/or pictures
to show what they think about when they think about the topic to be
studied. This is a great whole group
activating strategy for any grade.
Picture Postcard
At the beginning of a unit or as a formative assessment, ask students to jot down what they already know about a topic on the lined side of an index card. On the blank side of the “postcard” students draw a picture that represents their thinking. This is a great idea to see how kids are using and visualizing math strategies. Have them send their postcards to classmates as a way to share different ways to solve a problem.
At the beginning of a unit or as a formative assessment, ask students to jot down what they already know about a topic on the lined side of an index card. On the blank side of the “postcard” students draw a picture that represents their thinking. This is a great idea to see how kids are using and visualizing math strategies. Have them send their postcards to classmates as a way to share different ways to solve a problem.
****VISUALS OF BEST PRACTICES****
In Ms. Spears’ Kindergarten class, students are
working in small groups. This group of students are practicing their color
words. They are “making” the
words with magnetic letters. Using letter tiles, magnetic letters or foam
letters is very important for students to be able to see that letters make
sounds and that those letters then make a word. Making words allows students to
manipulate the sounds of language by physically arranging letters to form words
and focus on how moving the letters changes the sound and meaning of words.
*****WRITERS' GALLERY**********
The writers' gallery/pledge is hosted by Ms. Silverman's class this week.
The writers' gallery/pledge will be hosted by Ms. Griffin's class next week.
******CALENDAR OF EVENTS*******
Monday, September 1st
No School - Labor Day
Tuesday, September 2nd
Vision and Hearing Screening 3rd and 5th
2:50 - Leadership Meeting in Media Center
Wednesday, September 3rd
College Spirit Day
Pitchford to CLC Principals Meeting
2:50 - Leadership Meeting in Media Center
Wednesday, September 3rd
College Spirit Day
Pitchford to CLC Principals Meeting
Thursday, September 4th
Honey Baked Ham for Lunch - Order by Wednesday
No PLCs today
Pick Up Dinner at 4:45 if ordered
Curriculum Night - Beginning at 5:30
Hess, Long, and Alexander at meetings until the end of the day.
No PLCs today
Pick Up Dinner at 4:45 if ordered
Curriculum Night - Beginning at 5:30
Hess, Long, and Alexander at meetings until the end of the day.
Friday, September 5th
5th Grade Collegial Planning
Send your tickets down and change your Student of the Week
5th Grade Collegial Planning
Send your tickets down and change your Student of the Week
******BIRTHDAYS! ****************
Happy birthday this week to Kelly Lassiter and Stephanie Kehn TODAY, and Josephine Calhoun on September 5th!
We hope you each have a wonderful birthday!!
We hope you each have a wonderful birthday!!
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