High Point News
Week of: February 8th, 2016
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Teacher/Professional Employee of the Year Celebration!!!
You guys are "RIGHT ON TARGET" with everything you do to help our students!!!! We can't wait to celebrate with you all!!!!
Please join us this Tuesday at 2:50 in the cafeteria for games, prizes, light snacks, cake, and drinks. We will announce our Professional Employee of the Year and our Teacher of the Year immediately following our games. We hope to see you all there!!!
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Save the Date
High Point’s
International Night
Thursday, March 24,
2016
5:00-7:00 pm
Please mark
your calendar for High Point’s International Night!
It will be
an evening filled with cultural entertainment and food from around the world to
sample.
This is a great opportunity to showcase your family's background
and to teach others about the many cultures represented in our school.
Click the link below to get involved:
Questions or ideas? Please contact the school cultural
arts committee
Stahura (chair)
Lanford
Negrin
O’Daniels
Mendoza
Bevel
Hess
Todd
Laird
Clearing Heads Up Alerts in EASY
The STAR screening window closes on February 9th. We
will need to clear all of the new heads-up alerts starting on February
10. You will not see any new alerts show up before this date. You will
need to look at your students’ scores and determine which students may need
tier adjustments based on these scores. All heads-up alerts should be
cleared by Friday, March 11.
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Imagine Learning:
It is essential for all ESOL students to be on Imagine for 20 minutes per day for a total of 100 minutes a week. This program is customized for each student. It is a researched based program proven to show academic growth.
If you are having difficulty finding a time or computer for your students, please consult your ESOL teacher.
Monitored Notes:
Please have monitored notes entered by February 19th. Please write your name next to the comment you provide because several of the students have multiple teachers.
Here are a few guiding questions to help with monitored notes:
1. What are the student’s grades, STAR percentages, F &P levels, etc.?
2. Is the student adjusting socially and academically?
3. Is the waivered student able to be successful without daily ESOL support?
4. What accommodations are provided for the student?
Example:
Strengths
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_____ is a well-mannered student. She has shown improvement in STAR Reading with a Scaled Score of 237 in August to 391 in mid-December. On the Star Reading Assessment she has moved from the 7 percentile rank (red-urgent intervention) to 29 percentile rank (blue-on watch).- Teacher’s name
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Weaknesses/concerns
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_____continues to need additional support in all subjects. She often needs to be redirected during whole group to stay on-task. Her current grades are the following: Language Arts-70, Reading-73, Math-69, Science-72, and Social Studies-81. – Teacher’s name
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Strategies used in the classroom to address specific concerns
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Small group instruction, clearly state and write (print) content and language objectives, clarify and repeat instructions/directions, visual aids. Teacher’s name
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Staff Breakfast on Thursday!!Please join us in the cafeteria from 7:00-8:00 am for breakfast before your parent/teacher conferences. Horace Mann Insurance and the admin team will be sponsoring your breakfast of pancakes, fruit, yogurt, and more!! We hope you can join us in the cafeteria!
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Instructional Rounds
We will be having our 2nd round of Instructional Rounds this Tuesday. This is where members of our CLC observe in classrooms and give feedback on what is working well and where tweaks could be made. They will be here from about 8:00 am til 11:30 am. Please let your students know that we will be coming around to see all the learning happening in your classrooms!!!
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Career Day
We are now only at 14 speakers signed up for career day. This is only enough for 1-2 grade levels to have career day speakers. If you would like your students to be able to experience career day, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE reach out to people to come in!!!!! Here is the link to sign up again:
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Student Absences
The chart below shows by grade level how many student absences we have for each month. While this month we have seen a decrease, there were less instructional days than in the past months.
Please see Pitchford if you would like to know how many absences your particular class has since the reports are also pulled by homeroom teacher.
Also, please remember to let Hutchins or Pitchford know once a student is accruing a lot of "medical" absences (more than 6) so that it's on our radar and we can follow up with the parent. A doctor's note has to be provided after 10 medical absences.
We appreciate your support in this effort!!!
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Chain Link Fence
Fulton County maintenance has erected a chain link fence behind the portables to protect the air conditioning and heating units from balls, etc. as well as to protect students from injuring themselves while they play. Please mention this to your students and ask them to respect the boundary and refrain from playing & running between the fence and the portables. Thank you.
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What I've been thinking about...
Lately we have been discussing the different ways we can support our ESOL students more in the classroom.
Below is a great article from Edutopia giving us 10 Tips for Teaching English-Language Learners in the Classroom!!!
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/teaching-english-language-learners-ayanna-cooper
The article below gives us Strategies and Resources to support our ESOL learners. It reminds us to allow non-English talk in the classroom in order to help students develop vocabulary and concepts in their native language. It also talks about not drowning our ELL students in worksheets and grammar drills. It's a great resource!!!
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/strategies-and-resources-supporting-ell-todd-finley
Summer Offerings for Students
Camp PAWS - This summer, Camp PAWS will be primarily for our high achieving kids that are making low growth. The administration will be selecting 15 students, in each grade K-5, based off their STAR student growth reports. Letters will go out next week. Please direct any parents with questions to Ms. Salmons.
Summer FLP - We will be holding the Flexible Learning Program here at High Point which focuses on math and will be for students in grades K-5. Students will be chosen with the help of homeroom teachers and STAR reports. Students who do NOT pass the math portion of GA Milestones will be automatically offered this summer program. Please direct any questions to Ms. Truesdale regarding this program. Information for parents will be going out in the next month.
Summer School - We will be hosting summer school for students in grades 3 and 5 who did not pass the GA Milestones Reading portion. Information will be going out to parents notifying them of this option but official letters will not go out until scores have been released. If you have any questions, please see Sheri Hess.
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Congratulations to 4th Grade
Congratulations to 4th Grade for completing their 3rd Unit of Inquiry! They have created rubrics,
formatives, provocations and a long menu of learning opportunities for their students to explore! Great collaboration made it all possible!
****************Math Corner************
Math Problems to Tickle Your Noggin
Looking for a way to change up your number talks for a week or two? Grades 3-5 will find this a great way to get your kids thinking about operations!
Illuminations Grades 3–5 Lesson: Petals Around the Rose
Promote problem-solving skills by using a puzzle involving five dice and a non-standard pattern.
Ms. Collins encourages students to recognize the Learner Profiles in one another! Students write notes to one another and post the note on the corresponding profile! Look what a Caring class she has!!
One of the many ways Ms. Charles' uses the IB Key Concepts, is to frame standards based questions to promote higher level thinking and encourage inquiry! She posts them on her board alongside the question to help students make connections more readily!
*******WRITERS' GALLERY**********
Because of the short week this week, the pledge and writers' gallery will still be hosted by Ms. Ellis's class.
The pledge and writers' gallery will be hosted by Ms. Roger's class the following week (15th).
The pledge and writers' gallery will be hosted by Ms. Roger's class the following week (15th).
******CALENDAR OF EVENTS*******
Monday, February 8th
9:30 am - Parent Tours
9:30 am - Parent Tours
Tuesday, February 9th
Instructional Rounds
2:50 - TOTY and PEOTY Celebration
PLCs with Hess
Give students their NO SCHOOL Sticker!
Student of the Week Certificate
2:50 - TOTY and PEOTY Celebration
Wednesday, February 10th
8:00 - Title I Parent MeetingPLCs with Hess
Give students their NO SCHOOL Sticker!
Student of the Week Certificate
Thursday, February 11th
RFF Day - No School for Students!!!
7:00-8:00 - Breakfast served to staff in cafeteria
8:00-11:00 - Parent/Teacher Conferences
12:00-4:00 - IB Unit Writing
7:00-8:00 - Breakfast served to staff in cafeteria
8:00-11:00 - Parent/Teacher Conferences
12:00-4:00 - IB Unit Writing
Friday, February 12th
7:30-11:30 am - IB Unit Writing
11:30-until - Parent/Teacher Conferences
7:30-11:30 am - IB Unit Writing
11:30-until - Parent/Teacher Conferences
******BIRTHDAYS! ****************
Happy birthday to Kelle Pereira on the 9th, and Stephanie Cohen and Nicole Cornibe on the 13th!!We hope you all have an amazing birthday!!!
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