High Point News
Week of: September 26th, 2016
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Work Days
The work calendar for 184 day employees is: (paras, school liaisons, clinic assistants, etc..)
The work calendar for 190 day employees is: (admin, coaches, teachers, etc...)
- October 7th (RFF Day @ HPES) - Work day
- October 10th - HOLIDAY
- October 11th - No Work
- November 7th (RFF Day @ HPES) - Work day
- November 8th - No Work
- January 5th and 6th - No Work
- February 10th (RFF Day @ HPES) - Work day
- March 10th and 13th - No Work
- May 26th - Work day
The work calendar for 190 day employees is: (admin, coaches, teachers, etc...)
- October 7th (RFF Day @ HPES) - Work day
- October 10th - HOLIDAY
- October 11th - Professional Learning day
- November 7th (RFF Day @ HPES) - Work day
- November 8th - Work day
- January 5th - Work day
- January 6th - Professional Learning day
- February 10th (RFF Day @ HPES) - Work day
- March 10th - Work day
- March 13th - Professional Learning day
- May 26th - Work day
Attendance
As we have done in the past, we are starting to pull monthly attendance reports and monitoring absences of our students. Of course it's not only important for students to be present to learn but our CCRPI score is greatly impacted by students' absenteeism.
While we know that teachers do not have complete control over whether or not a child comes to school, everyone can help encourage their attendance and follow up when a child is absent. As our school policy states, teachers should be contacting parents when a child has 3 or more unexcused absences.
Below lists the totals for each grade level for the past 31 days. If you would like your individual class total, please email Pitchford.
We appreciate your help monitoring absences and promoting 4 absences or below!!!
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PBIS This Week!
Why is it so important to focus on teaching
positive social behaviors?
Frequently,
the question is asked, “Why should we have to teach kids to be good? They
already know what they are supposed to do. Why can we not just expect good
behavior?” In the past, school-wide discipline has focused mainly on reacting
to specific student misbehavior by implementing punishment-based strategies
including reprimands, loss of privileges, office referrals, suspensions, and
expulsions. Research has shown that the implementation of punishment,
especially when it is used inconsistently and in the absence of other positive
strategies, is ineffective. Introducing, modeling, and reinforcing positive
social behavior is an important step of a student’s educational experience.
Teaching behavioral expectations and rewarding students for following them is a
much more positive approach than waiting for misbehavior to occur before
responding. The purpose of school-wide PBIS is to establish a climate in which
appropriate behavior is the norm.
Head
to carpool/bus/ or
after-school area with a stack of cards.
What I've been thinking about...
I've been hearing a lot lately about behavior charts. The following article is advocating for "ripping the behavior charts off the wall." It states that it's the teacher's job to build children up regardless of their behavior and to help them talk-out their conflict rather than imposing inappropriate consequences.
It's a great article and definitely gets you thinking.......is the behavior chart necessary to help students behave?Check it out!!
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FALL FESTIVAL THIS SATURDAY!
Don't forget to come to our Fall Festival this Saturday!!! We hope to see everyone there. Hopefully there will be more information from PTA to come!
****************Math Corner************
Effective Instructional Strategies for Students in Math
Please click on the link below to access instructional support
strategies for students in math. The document is located on One Drive.
******VISUALS OF BEST PRACTICE*******
In Ms. Freemeyer's class, students have pictures of a variety of
famous structures from around the world in their block center! This
student built a replica of the Brandenburg Gate, which is one of the most
recognizable landmarks in Germany!
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Mrs. Wooden's counseling lessons help students reflect by accessing the Learner Profile! Students connect attributes of the profile to actions in problem solving!
*******WRITERS' GALLERY**********
The pledge and writers' gallery will be hosted by Ms. Jannausch/Frappier's class this week.
The pledge and writers' gallery will be hosted by Ms. Calhoun's class next week.
The pledge and writers' gallery will be hosted by Ms. Calhoun's class next week.
******CALENDAR OF EVENTS*******
Monday, Septmber 26th
9:30 - Prospective Parent Tour
9:30 - Prospective Parent Tour
Tuesday, September 27th
2:50 - Faculty Meeting
Wednesday, September 28th
PLCs with Long
Thursday, September 29th
Mass Hearing and Vision Screening for 1st, 3rd, and 5th
3rd Grade HT/HT Field Trip In-House
1:30 - ETT for 3rd Grade
2:50 - PLCs
3rd Grade HT/HT Field Trip In-House
1:30 - ETT for 3rd Grade
2:50 - PLCs
Friday, September 30th
7:30 am - SGC Meeting
3rd Grade HT/HT Field Trip In-House
Saturday, October 1st
FALL FESTIVAL!!!! We hope to see you here!
7:30 am - SGC Meeting
3rd Grade HT/HT Field Trip In-House
Saturday, October 1st
FALL FESTIVAL!!!! We hope to see you here!
******BIRTHDAYS! ****************
There are no birthdays this week.
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