March 21st, 2016

High Point News

Week of: March 21st, 2016

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Teacher Appreciation Week
We are so excited to celebrate our whole staff this week!!! The admin team along with the PTA have organized lots of treats for you! We are so lucky to have such an amazing staff who puts their heart and soul into the success of our students. This week, we will have: 

Monday - Coffee Cart! The PTA will deliver coffee and morning snacks to all staff from 7:20-7:50. 
**Homeroom teachers, please send the note cards you find in your box home to each of your students. 

Tuesday - NO MEETINGS + Smoothie Bar for all staff from 10:30-1:00 in the teachers' lounge. 

Wednesday - A surprise from your class! 

Thursday - "Give your teacher a break!" - PTA will cover homeroom classes 15 minutes prior to your specials time (during nap time for PreK) and will take your class to specials!
Please come join the admin team in the conference room during your specials for Popcorn Palooza and punch! We will have all kinds of great popcorn such as Chicago Style, Salted Caramel, Oreo, Hot Wings and Blue Cheese, and White Cheddar! We hope you can enjoy your extra time with a treat! 

Friday - PTA Luncheon in the Media Center

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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 1^st. I hope this gives everyone enough time considering that report cards need to be completed during these weeks. I will be reviewing each T2 and T3 plan for all of our students. If you need assistance with this task, please let me 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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Google Expeditions

A friendly reminder that we will have Google Expeditions this Friday! The schedule will be as follows:

7:15-7:45 - ALL homeroom teachers meet in media center for a quick teacher demonstration
7:50 - Google Expeditions starts (rotation every 30 minutes) for grades 2-5

Google Expeditions will be located in Lib Robert's portable and Marinos/Hicks portable. We will send out another schedule this week. 

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Instructional Rounds Rescheduled

Instructional Rounds by the CLC team have been rescheduled for May. We will keep everyone posted on the new date. 

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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.

A fun night for the whole family to celebrate High Point's cultural diversity!

Please join us THIS THURSDAY!!!!!!!!

5:00-7:00 pm

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Device Dilemma

Due to needing time to discuss GA Milestones, we will be moving our Device Dilemma discussion to our April 26th faculty meeting instead of next Tuesday. This will hopefully give everyone more time as well to discuss all the different possibilities! The Learning Tuesday will be May 3rd instead of April 26th. Thanks!!!

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VOTE for Teacher Representative on SGC! 

Voting for the Teacher Representative of our SGC will begin this Wednesday, March 23rd and will go until the 29th. It only takes a second to vote for ONE representative so please make sure to vote! The link will be sent out in an email to all staff beginning Wednesday. 

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Application to Teach this Summer

Please click on the link below to sign up to teach one of our 3 summer programs this year. All programs will be held at High point. 

There is information listed at the top of the application giving the dates, times, and pay for each program. Priority will be given to teachers available for all 4 weeks.

Please direct questions about the programs to the following people:

          Camp PAWS- Rachel Salmons

          FLP- Tashika Truesdale

          Summer School- Jacinta Alexander

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1mT3qycHkeHDBQXCEBq-996NZM-SP1Nr87oVWhjodmx4/viewform

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PBIS

How do YOU use PAWS-Up Tickets?

In Miss Frappier and Miss Jannausch’s class, the students WANT your PAWS-Up tickets. To them they = $$$. The students earn Dojo points which turn into “money”. They can then buy different rewards which includes anything from gum to swapping desks for a day. Ms. Jannausch and Miss Frappier started using PAWS-Up tickets as their money. If the students get a PAWS-Up ticket from another teacher, it is automatically worth $1. After they spend their money at the Dojo Store the students can turn their tickets in for the weekly drawing at the front office. Now that’s what you call “getting more bang for your buck!”

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What I've been thinking about...

Brian recently sent me this article in Edutopia about poverty and retaining students. 

It's a wonderful article and makes us reflect on our practices. Basically, are we asking ourselves these three questions: 

1. Are we deploying resources effectively?

2. Are we optimizing our time? 

3. Do we have a data system that works effectively for classrooms and leaders? 

The question I then asked myself was if we aren't doing these things to the best of our ability, how can we change that? Is there a Request for Flexibility that we can propose to give us more time? Is there one data system that we need to be doing as a school to constantly monitor students' progress?  Food for thought....

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/school-asking-right-questions-poverty-william-parrett-kathleen-budge?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

*******WRITERS' GALLERY**********

The pledge and writers' gallery will be hosted by Ms. Mitchler's class this week.

The pledge and writers' gallery will be hosted by Ms. Churchwell's class the following week. 

******CALENDAR OF EVENTS*******

TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK!!!!!

Monday, March 21st 
Morning Coffee on a Cart - by PTA
Book Fair PreK-1st Grade

Tuesday, March 22nd  

PreK Registration in Media Center
SIOP Training - Robert's Portable
Book Fair PreK-1st Grade
10:30-1:00 will be Smoothies!!! - by PTA

Wednesday, March 23rd

8:00 - Title I Parent Workshop
3rd Grade Field Trip
Book Fair 2nd-5th Grade
Math PLCs 

Thursday, March 24th 

Treat for Staff in Conference Room - ALL DAY
Book Fair 2nd-5th Grade
1:30 - ETT for 4th Grade
2:50 - PLCs
5:00-7:00 - International Night

Friday, March 25th 
Google Expeditions 2nd-5th Grade (all teachers meet @ 7:15 in media center)
PTA Sponsored Luncheon
Student of the Week Certificate

******BIRTHDAYS! ****************

Happy birthday to Lib Roberts TODAY, Sheri Hess on the 26th and Calin Todd on the 27th!!! We hope you all have an amazing birthday!!!