High Point News
Week of: March 14th, 2016
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"YES I CAN" Recipient
Congratulations to Nicole for receiving this year's "Yes I Can" Award! Below is the nomination form for Nicole! If you see her, please congratulate her!
Nicole is currently a third grader at High Point Elementary
School. Nicole works really hard and always tries her best. This year, she has
jumped 6 reading levels! When she doesn’t understand something, she isn’t
afraid to try before asking for help. She is kind to her friends, and she loves
to make people feel better whenever they are sad. Nicole loves all parts of
math, but she really loves multiplying the most. Her favorite thing to do at
home is to play on her phone and watch YouTube videos. Her favorite books are
about animals, especially koalas. When she grows up she hopes to be a doctor or
a dentist. Nicole is a wonderful student who brings a smile to everyone lucky
enough to work with her.
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Google Expeditions Pioneer Program
We recently got confirmation that the Google Expeditions Pioneer Program will be coming to High Point on March 25th. Google only allows this program for students who are 7 years and older so this will only be offered to students in grades 2-5.
As of right now, we will have Gail Dean, our board member, and Dr. Anderson, Deputy Superintendent of Academics, in attendance on this day.
Below is a blurb about Google Expeditions that we have communicated to our community:
We recently got confirmation that the Google Expeditions Pioneer Program will be coming to High Point on March 25th. Google only allows this program for students who are 7 years and older so this will only be offered to students in grades 2-5.
As of right now, we will have Gail Dean, our board member, and Dr. Anderson, Deputy Superintendent of Academics, in attendance on this day.
Below is a blurb about Google Expeditions that we have communicated to our community:
Google Expedition teams are currently selecting schools from
all over the world to bring their complete Expeditions kits to classrooms.
Google Expeditions is a virtual reality platform that is built for the
classroom. There are more than 100 engaging journeys for students to
experience. We are thrilled to be able to give our students these experiences
which relate to their specific grade level standards. For a quick 2 minute
video about the program, click here: https://youtu.be/mlYJdZeA9w4
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Best Elementary Schools in Sandy Springs 2016The Sandy Springs Patch just published an article on Niche's Annual List of 100 Best Public Elementary Schools in Georgia. Only two schools in the Sandy Springs area made the list and High Point was one of them!
High Point was listed as #92 on the list. We are so proud of our test scores, school climate, and student-teacher ratios which are only a few examples of what makes our school great!!!!
Check out the article and Top 100 list here:
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Principal's Corner
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High Point’s International Night
Come to an evening
filled with cultural entertainment and food tastings from the following
featured countries: Ecuador, Brazil, Mexico, Columbia, China, India,
Jamaica, Cuba and many more from around the globe.
High Point’s International Night
A fun
night for the whole family to celebrate High Point's cultural diversity!
Thursday, March 24,
2016
5:00-7:00 pm
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Device Dilemma
Don't forget to talk about our device dilemma with your colleagues! We want you to discuss how we should divvy out our devices and how our learning spaces could be reorganized to create the best environment possible for our students.
Check out this quick video about how a school increased their school library use by 1,000 percent.
http://www.cultofpedagogy.com/school-library/
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Congrats Oratorical!
A huge congratulations to our 19 students who participated in the Oratorical Competition last week and a HUGE thank you to all the staff members who assisted them with their speeches. Our students did amazing and could not have done all of it without our staff's dedication and hard work!!!
As Ms. Simon stated last week, the District
competition for the Oratorical Competition was held at Holy Innocence Church and High
Point came in First place in the boys division with Kendall Hudson and
second place in the girls division with Saylor Bardin.
Kendall will continue to the
next competition next Saturday representing High Point. If you see these
students, please congratulate them! They made High Point proud!!
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iPads
Teachers, please note that the county requires us to keep all ipads at school. We know there will be times you would like to take your teacher ipads home to play with a specific app or program. If that is the case, please make sure that you are bringing your ipad back to school EACH DAY.
Since they are property of Fulton County they need to be in our building during the school day. There are random audits by the county and we are required to show where each ipad is located. We appreciate your help with this!
Since they are property of Fulton County they need to be in our building during the school day. There are random audits by the county and we are required to show where each ipad is located. We appreciate your help with this!
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STEM Day - April 1st
STEM Day will be April 1st this year! This is in place of our Math Day we had last year. More information from Kerstin Long will be coming to you so please be on the look out!
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RTI REMINDERS:
· Many students have changed RTI groups due to
academic success or a change in tiers or programs. All EASY Plans will need to
be updated for accuracy by 4:00 on April 1st. We hope this gives
everyone enough time considering that report cards need to be completed during
these weeks. Brian will be reviewing each T2 and T3 plan for all of our students.
If you need assistance with this task, please let Brian know.
· Jacque Radford and the SST Team will be
scheduling end-of-the-year SST / retention meetings very soon. Please begin to
think about your RTI students and the support they may need for next year so
that we can make end-of-year decisions. No SST case will be in limbo over the
summer, or get immediate attention at the beginning of next year (ex: 4 weeks
of data and then recommend testing). All students in T2 and T3 will need to
receive RTI interventions until the first STAR screening is completed and then
the decision process will begin again in late September.
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What I've been thinking about...
I have been reflecting on the quote below that I recently heard from the Department of Education about effective PLCs. As you already know, one of the major components of an effective PLC is looking at relevant data to promote student learning.
Are we using data and discussing it in our PLCs to see if our programs, interventions, activities, strategies, etc... are effective?
What does this quote mean to you?
"The whole purpose of analyzing data is to assess our effectiveness rather than our intentions."
************MATH CORNER***********
Wondering about
math resources? Think about these things...
There are so many resources available now. Figuring out what
to use can become overwhelming.
Here's a little help from the GADOE in vetting resources
from all over.
The most important questions to consider:
- Do these resources actively develop the Standards for Mathematical Practice in students?
- Can you find evidence of the mathematical practices in the lessons/tasks?
- Do these resources you are considering help develop teacher understanding, or merely provide a script? Remember, teachers can't recognize and correct misconceptions which they themselves hold.
- Is the resource under consideration a long-term investment in teacher understanding or a short term investment which doesn't help teachers grow?
- What conceptual understandings or mathematical misconceptions do the students bring to the table? How can you find out? Will these materials help you to find out?
- What real-life situations might be used that would be relevant to the students? Do these resources require any real-life mathematizing/modeling?
Find out what else the GADOE recommends to help you determine
what the best math resources are for your kids. Click on the link below.
http://ccgpsmathematicsk-5.wikispaces.com/Wondering+about+math+resources%3F+Think+about+these+things...
*******WRITERS' GALLERY**********
The pledge and writers' gallery will be hosted by Ms. Pereira's class this week.
The pledge and writers' gallery will be hosted by Ms. Mitchler's class the following week.
The pledge and writers' gallery will be hosted by Ms. Mitchler's class the following week.
******CALENDAR OF EVENTS*******
Monday, March 14th
4th Grade In-House Field Trip
9:30 am - Parent Tour
4th Grade In-House Field Trip
9:30 am - Parent Tour
Tuesday, March 15th
1:30 - Leadership Meeting
Wednesday, March 16th
IB PLCs
Thursday, March 17th
St. Patrick's Day!
1:30 - ETT for 5th Grade
2:50 - PLCs
1:30 - ETT for 5th Grade
2:50 - PLCs
Friday, March 18th
7:30 am - SGC Meeting in Portable #1518
Student of the Week Certificate
7:30 am - SGC Meeting in Portable #1518
Student of the Week Certificate
******BIRTHDAYS! ****************
Happy birthday to Jacinta Alexander TODAY, Elizabeth Mitchler on the 17th, Sainey Faye on the 19th, and Jaime Noel on the 20th. We hope you all have an amazing birthday!!!
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