Happy 2018, Staff! We hope you enjoyed relaxing with your friends and family! We hope you ate lots of good food, slept in and took time to take care of yourself!!!
Socratic Seminars
Check out these resources on Teaching Channel on Socratic Seminars!
Procedures, expectations and routines!
As we return from break, please remember to reteach procedures and expectations in the classroom and on campus! Today is a great day to reestablish your classroom expectations, routines and procedures as we start the second semester! Here is a great article on some classroom management strategies and ways to engage students!
Looking for more....
Check out this article on the 5 Principles of Classroom Management.
1. Take care of yourself to take care of your students
2. Focus on building relationships
3. Set rules, boundaries, and expectations (and do it early!)
4. Take a strength based approach
5. Involve parents and guardians
Teach Like A Pirate
Long Live The Arts
Pages 95-101
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
- Albert Einstein
Music and art can be incredibly powerful ways to engage our students and enhance our lessons. We have unbelievably talented kids sitting in front of us and many are starving for the opportunity to display their creativity. We should do everything we can to provide them the opportunity to hone their artistic skills an d create!
The Picasso Hook pgs 96-97
- How can I incorporate art into this lesson?
- Can I create an art-based option that students could choose instead of another assignment?
The Mozart Hook pgs 97-99
- What songs have lyrics that relate to this lesson?
- How can I use music to aid my presentation?
The Dance and Drama Hook pgs 99-100
- Can I provide the opportunity for my students to do skits or appear in videos related to what we are learning?
- Can they reenact historical events?
The Craft Store Hook pgs 100-101
- How can I incorporate a craft into this lesson?
- Could there be craft skills my students already possess that could enhance my curriculum and simultaneously allow them the chance to be an expert for a day?
Teach Like A Pirate Book Study
Please complete this flipgrid before our February Staff Meeting. Please post individually. Reflect on our book study, Teach Like A Pirate. How are you going to teach like a pirate? What is one take away from this book?
No Excuses University
Data Management
Data is given to us for one reason and one reason only, to use as a means of securing greater success for each individual student. In order for it to be used as a means of driving instruction, data must be easily accessible, openly shared, and deliberately arranged. Many might think that the key to data management is dependent on the quality of database that you have access to on your campus or in your district. However, a high-quality database is only as important as the belief around how that very database is going to be used by the staff of the school. To create a database without developing a commitment to endorse why the database was created in the first place will leave you in the same place you were in at the start – a bunch of numbers that are stored on a computer or in files throughout the school.
Check out this video on data management
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Maurice Mouton
Lead Campus Monitor
Nickname: Cup Cup
High school, sports, clubs etc: Leadership Council, Richmond. He played basketball.
Career if not a Campus Monitor: YMCA
Would like to be on this game show: American Idol
Passion: His passion is church and his family.
Fun Facts: He loves video games!
Jonathan Williams
Campus Monitor
Nickname: J-Will, Big Jon
High school, sports, clubs etc: Armijo High School (class of 2012)
played high school basketball and baseball. College and Career Club, Christian Club, and Leadership
played high school basketball and baseball. College and Career Club, Christian Club, and Leadership
Career if not a Educator: Sports Broadcaster
Would like to be on this game show: Family Feud
Passion: Mentoring, Counseling, Faith, Family
Fun Facts: He won student of the year in the 8th grade at Grange Middle School!
Fun Facts: He won student of the year in the 8th grade at Grange Middle School!
- Thank you all for refraining from email over break! It was great to spend time with our families and disconnect from work! Much appreciated!
- Thank you for all your efforts getting grades input on the final day of work of 2017! What a great effort!
- Department Meeting - January 9 @ 3:15 PM
- SSC Meeting - January 10 @ 3:15 PM
- Basketball @ BGW - January 11 @ 3:45 PM
- MLK Jr. Day - No School - January 15
- Staff Meeting - January 23 @ 3:15 PM
- T.E.A.M Workshop - January 17 @ 3:30 PM
- Basketball vs Green Valley @ Crystal - January 18 @ 3:45 PM
- Coffee With The Principal - January 19 @ 9:05 AM
- Grade Level Meetings - January 23 @ 3:15 PM
- Middle School Site Walk - January 25 @ 9:00 AM
- Basketball vs Grange @ Crystal - January 25 @ 3:45 PM
- Jeff Zwiers PD - January 27 @ 9:00 AM
- Winter MAP Assessment Window - February 5-23
- Olsen 8
- Alviar 21
- J. Williams 21
- Hamilton 24
- Long 26
Fun With The APs
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