Teachers thank you for your hard work and dedication to our Scholars! We appreciate everything you do from lesson planning, providing engaging lessons, collaborating with your colleagues, and doing what is BEST for our Scholars!!! We see and recognize you! Thank you!!!
Behavior Management
Check out these "Ten Variables that Affect Compliance" document on Behavior Management strategies: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_ScjtwIQ8ypMWdJZDBBdXJFeDA.
Which of these ideas are you planning on implementing next week?
The first 5 staff to email Lisa and Alison a response will earn a TREASURE CARD!
Sending a student out of your class is not always the best option.
Remember the following:
- Follow your classroom management plan
- Send the child to a buddy room with mastery work that is current content being taught in class
- Every time you send a child out they are missing valuable instructional time
- If after exhausting the options above, please send the child to the office with mastery class work, a referral and make contact with the parent/guardian.
Academic Discourse
So, you've found the questions you want to ask, but you don't know how to set up those sentence frames for the students....
Try some of these:
Send Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Guernsey an email with a photo of your kids having Academic Conversations and earn a TREASURE CARD!!!
Crystal Middle School 2017/2018 Team Drive
The Crystal Middle School 2017/2018 Team Drive is now your ONE STOP shop for all forms, documents and resources that you will need. Please refer to this DRIVE for all items related to Crystal MS. If you think something needs to be added that is not already included in this drive, please see your Admin Team.
Teach Like A Pirate Book Study
Teach Like a Pirate Book Study
All teams should have received their group poster for the November Staff Meeting presentation. Looking forward to learning from one another.
Immersion
Pages 13-18
Your ability to completely give yourself up to the moment and fully "be" with your students is an awesome and unmistakably powerful technique. Students can feel it when you are truly present!!! It's incredibly frustrating to interact with a person who is not immersed and fully invested in that interaction. A lack of immersion in the present sends a clear, although unspoken, message that this moment is somehow less important and not significant enough to be worth undivided attention.
Dave Burgess stated that he could walk by a classroom and tell after a couple of minutes whether the teacher is a lifeguard or a swimmer. Are you a lifeguard or a swimmer?
Collaboration
Great schools have talented professionals who find the very best ways to work together in order to get results. It doesn’t need to be more complicated than that. Every staff needs to create collaborative commitments that are dedicated to achieving results through action in a professional manner.
Here is a video on collaboration from the No Excuses Webpage
#FSUSDEdChat
Don't miss the next #FSUSDEdChat this Wednesday, November 1st @ 7:00 PM with Moderator Vickie Johnson. The topic is on Culturally Responsive Leadership and Instruction.
Here are the future #FSUSDEdChat Topics
Trunk or Treat
Come and join your Admin Team for a night of FUN! Hand out candy, enjoy your colleagues, and dress up!!! See you Monday night, 5:00-7:00 PM at the Fairfield-Suisun Adult School. 900 Travis Blvd, Fairfield 94533
Remember: Students are allowed to dress up on Halloween! October 31st! No blood, masks, fake teeth or fake weapons. Fake weapons or masks will be confiscated.
Favorite Staff at Crystal Video
Career Day
Crazy Hair Day
No Excuses/College PRIDE Day
Superhero Day
Halloween Spirit
Amy Doherty
English Teacher
Go observe Ms. Doherty, English Department Chair. She is an expert with organization, differentiation, and projects!!!
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| Book Tasting |
Mrs. Lewis & Mrs. Guernsey
If you would like Mrs. Guernsey or Mrs. Lewis to come model a lesson for you. Please let them know!!! This week they were able to model classroom management & academic discourse.
Guess who? The first Staff that can guess who this is will earn five treasure cards!!!
Howard Kornblum
Director of English Learners and Instructional Support
Nickname: Coyote from UCLA Unicamp or Wheels from his softball team since he was so miserably slow before he started treadmilling, strengthened his legs and dropped 20 pounds.
High school, sports, clubs etc: Played three years of varsity tennis.
Career if not a Director: Professional Fantasy Sports Player or Real Estate agent because I love working with people and am good at numbers.
Would like to be on this game show: Jeopardy
Passion: New England Patriots, SF Giants, his wife and children!
Fun Facts: He enjoy playing softball (he pitch and play two nights a week) & progressive rock
audiophile.
audiophile.
Danielle Slade
Mental Health Clinician
Nickname: Danni, "Little D"
High school, sports, clubs etc: Vaca High; Short-distance sprinting and long jump on the track team, and ran stats for the jv and varsity boys basketball teams; One of the founding members of BLACC: Black Literature and Culture Club, at Vaca High
Career if not a Mental Health Clinician: Nature therapist and/or outdoor yoga instructor; OR an animal rescuer and foster parent!
Would like to be on this game show: Definitely not Fear Factor! Maybe something a little easier, like Survivor =)
Passion: Weight lifting/training, hiking, camping, kayak fishing, rock climbing -- active and outdoorsy activities!
Fun Facts: Danielle and one of my best friends took their kids camping at Lake Siskiyou near Mt. Shasta two summers ago. A bear got into their cooler one night, and they had chased it off with nothing, but flashlights and their loud, panicky yelling. Their kids thought they were superheroes, even though the bear got away with all of their chocolate for s'mores!
Nickname: Cadillac
High school: Vallejo High
Career if not a Educator: Art Therapist
Would like to be on this game show: Wheel of Fortune
Passion: Conservation
Fun Facts: She has a dozen siblings!!!
- Thank you Ms. Onick, Mrs. Nowlin, and Ms. Murray for letting us borrow your room for the Secondary Level Meeting on Monday.
- Thank you Ms. Sue for all the translation this week and ALWAYS!!!
- Shoutout to Ms. Doherty for her AMAZING Book Tasting!!!
- Thank you to Mrs. Williamson for Spirit Week and the Harvest Dance!
- Thank you to Ms. Spinelli, Ms. Lay, Ms. Solomon, Ms. Nowlin for volunteering your time during lunch for the Red Ribbon Week Activities!
- Thank you to ALL of the teachers who completed an in lieu for our recovering staff this week! We hope Gilson and Mulks feel better soon!!!
- Thank you to all the staff who helped at the Harvest Dance!
- October 30 - Trunk or Treat @ Adult School
- November 1- Football, Volleyball and Cross Country (Grange) @ Crystal 3:45 PM
- November 3 - Staff Mixer @ Cast Iron 3:30 PM
- November 10- No School!
- November 20-24- Thanksgiving Break
- Tracy Gilson 5
- Noemi Lay 11
- Carla Accettola 16
- Maurice Mouton 25
- Jeanne Lohr 17
- Adriana Barrett 22
- Jerry Evans 23
- Terry Murray 29
- Stephen Ravina 30
Fun with the APs
