Week of: January 12th, 2015
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Condolences
Our sincerest condolences to Anita Burch for the loss of her mother-in-law. Our thoughts and prayers are with her and her family.
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School Visit
Our Area Superintendent, Dr. LaCava, our school board member, Gail Dean, and our Sandy Springs Councilman, Andy Bauman, will be visiting High Point this Friday around 9:00. We are very excited to be able to show off all of the wonderful things that are going on in our school.
Please make sure that you take extra steps to make sure our classrooms and hallways are clean and standards-based.
They will be visiting some of the classrooms on our school tour so please inform your students in case we visit your room. Thank you for showing the amazing things that happen in our school!!!
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Learning Tuesday Professional Learning Offerings
We are excited to present the following workshops for the January Learning Tuesday and look forward to our learning together! Please select two (2) workshops to attend, one workshop for each session. The presenters will ask you to sign in at each session. Please let your presenter(s) know if you would like additional learning on their topic. We will be sure to include them in the February LTs.
Our sincerest condolences to Anita Burch for the loss of her mother-in-law. Our thoughts and prayers are with her and her family.
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School Visit
Our Area Superintendent, Dr. LaCava, our school board member, Gail Dean, and our Sandy Springs Councilman, Andy Bauman, will be visiting High Point this Friday around 9:00. We are very excited to be able to show off all of the wonderful things that are going on in our school.
Please make sure that you take extra steps to make sure our classrooms and hallways are clean and standards-based.
They will be visiting some of the classrooms on our school tour so please inform your students in case we visit your room. Thank you for showing the amazing things that happen in our school!!!
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Learning Tuesday Professional Learning Offerings
We are excited to present the following workshops for the January Learning Tuesday and look forward to our learning together! Please select two (2) workshops to attend, one workshop for each session. The presenters will ask you to sign in at each session. Please let your presenter(s) know if you would like additional learning on their topic. We will be sure to include them in the February LTs.
Please note there
will be a 10 minute transition time between sessions. You do not have to sign up prior to the Learning Tuesday.
Session
1
2:50-3:20 PM
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Session
2
3:30-4:00 PM
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All
In Learning Support: How To Input Tests
Presenter: Jennifer Taylor
Location: Media Center
Recommended
For: Grades 3-5
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All
In Learning Support: How To Look at Student Learning
Presenter: Jennifer Taylor
Location: Media Center
Recommended
For: Grades 3-5
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Early
Numeracy: Succeeding In the Common Core
Presenters: Megan Eigel, Rebecca Negrin
Location: Room 220
Recommended
For: Grades K-2, RTI Teachers
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Early
Numeracy: Succeeding In the Common Core
Presenters: Megan Eigel, Rebecca Negrin
Location: Room 220
Recommended
For: Grades K-2, RTI Teachers
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How
To Get The Most Out of Your Math Coach: Conversations That Improve Student
Learning
Presenters: Staci Arnold, Stephanie
Kehn-Gallagher
Location: Room 123
Recommended
For: Teachers of Math, All Grade Levels
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How
To Get The Most Out of Your Math Coach: Conversations That Improve Student
Learning
Presenters: Staci Arnold, Stephanie
Kehn-Gallagher
Location: Room 123
Recommended
For: Teachers of Math, All Grade Levels
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Unpack
that Number Talks Book! How To Plan
and Implement Number Talks That Empower Your Students
Presenter: Kerstin Long
Location: Room 222
Recommended
For: K-2, and Support Teachers
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Unpack
that Number Talks Book! How To Plan
and Implement Number Talks That Empower Your Students
Presenter: Kerstin Long
Location: Room 222
Recommended
For: 3-5, and Support Teachers
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PBIS This Week
The following strategies are good tips/reminders for the second half of the school year to help manage our classrooms more efficiently and effectively.
·
Make your students feel
responsible for their own learning environment.
·
Praise efforts and
achievements for their own sake, not for the sake of teacher approval.
·
Set logical rules and
consequences.
PBIS This Week
The following strategies are good tips/reminders for the second half of the school year to help manage our classrooms more efficiently and effectively.
·
Make your students feel
responsible for their own learning environment.
Give your students agency over their
learning environment, which gets them feeling responsible for their own
learning. Create rules together as a class, encourage those with leadership
personalities to direct the in-class discussion, and walk around instead of
standing up front for the entire lesson so that you aren’t the funnel for
conversation. Ask students to “check” themselves, as in “Check yourself to
see if you are using your indoor voice,” which sends the message that you see
the students as individuals who are capable of handling themselves.
·
Praise efforts and
achievements for their own sake, not for the sake of teacher approval.
Give constant feedback about good
behaviors: “I notice that Danielle has her book out and is ready to go. Now her
whole row is ready!” But keep the emphasis on the behavior, not always on the
teacher’s approval.
·
Set logical rules and
consequences.
Keep the goal
of learning in mind and make sure students know why the rules are what they are: “We walk instead of
running in the hallway because we want to make sure that everyone is safe.” And
fit the consequence to the crime: If a student makes a mess of the art
supplies, the logical consequence is to clean it up. Arbitrary punishments like
losing recess, or something else unrelated to the offense, teach students that
you are trying to force a power struggle.
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TKES WalkthroughsThe third round of TKES walkthroughs will begin today and will be completed over the next few weeks. If you have not had your formative assessment, you will have it prior to your walkthrough.
For this round of walkthroughs, we will be assessing standards: #4 Differentiation, #5 Assessment Strategies, and #7 Positive Learning Environment.
Conferences will be available if needed. Please email your observer to request a meeting.
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Please help recruit Career Day speakers!!
High Point will
host our second annual career day on Friday, February 13th.
We are seeking parent and community volunteers to share information about their
careers with High Point students on this afternoon. Volunteers will speak with
2-3 classrooms for 20 minutes each.
Our goal is for
every classroom to have speakers this year!!! To reach that goal, we need your
help!!!!!! So far we only have 11 speakers signed up…
Please reach
out to friends and family members as well as High Point parents to encourage
them to sign up. We need a wide variety of speakers, and there is no job too
boring for this event! I can help speakers figure out a way to make their
career interesting and child friendly. We are also able to skype in speakers
for any out of towners.
Please have
speakers visit the following link to sign up:
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Qualitative DataWe will be coming around to classrooms for approximately 5 minutes to take some more qualitative data for our Strategic Plan. These information observations will begin today through the 22nd.
This is not for evaluative purposes and data will not be connected with individual teachers' names. The following people will be helping collect this data: Pitchford, Alexander, Hess, Roberts, Long, and Salmons
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What I've Been Thinking About…
"Differentiated assessment is an ongoing process of evaluation where the teacher gathers information and data before, during, and after instruction to better facilitate the learning. This process ensures success for all students in the differentiated class with data provided from a variety of sources assisting in giving an overall view of student achievement. It is essential that when assessing students in the differentiated class, assessment is authentic meaning it offers students a variety of tasks demonstration real-life skills, tells the educator if the student has acquired the skills or concepts, is based on standard criteria to achieve validity, and guides students for roles in adult life (Chapman & King, 2012)."
The link below gives teachers many different suggestions for how they can assess what their students know differently in order to meet students' needs. It's a GREAT resource when talking about assessments!
****VISUALS OF BEST PRACTICE *******
*****WRITERS' GALLERY**********
The writers' gallery/pledge is hosted by Ms. Bradshaw's class this week.
The writers' gallery/pledge will be hosted by Ms. Quist's class next week.
******CALENDAR OF EVENTS*******
Monday, January 12th
Writing Workshop with Hess during Specials
9:30 - Parent Tour
Muffin Monday
Pitchford to Meeting from 9:15-4:00
Alexander to AP Meeting
Tuesday, January 13th
2:50 - Learning Tuesday Begins
Wednesday, January 14th
First Grade Field Trip
Wednesday, January 14th
First Grade Field Trip
Thursday, January 15th
Qdoba for Lunch - Order by Wednesday
2:50 - PLCs
2:50 - PLCs
Pitchford to Principals' Meeting
Friday, January 16th
9:00 - School Visit by LaCava, Dean, and Bauman
Send your tickets down and change your Student of the Week!
9:00 - School Visit by LaCava, Dean, and Bauman
Send your tickets down and change your Student of the Week!
******BIRTHDAYS! ****************
A happy birthday to Andi Lay TODAY, and Vera Woods and Katie Snyder on the 13th, We hope you each have a wonderful birthday!
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