On the Eve of Fall Break...
Winfield Staff Blog
102016
Next week is Red Ribbon Week, with The Halloween Social on Friday after the AC LAB Challenge.
- What should we stop doing?
- What should we start doing?
- What should we continue doing?
2. To engage children, begin with a hook, teach with a story, give them some reason, spark some interest, share your passion and make it relevant.
Watching the trailer will give you the basic idea of the movie...
5. Next Week: Red Ribbon Week
Short Week Schedule
Oct 26-28
Friday
- No School
Monday
- No School
Tuesday
- No school but teachers meetings
- Technology Training
- Bright Futures Meeting at Central Office
Wednesday
- Follow your Dreams - Wear PJs
- Don’t let drugs MIX you up - Wear mixed up outfits
- 6th Grade - ELA Planning Day
- Binder Meetings - Teams should have first set of data cycles ready or submitted
- Football Banquet in the Commons at 5:30
Friday
- RED-Y to live a drug free life. Wear RED (No Halloween Costumes)
- Ac Lab Assembly - 2:00ish/8th hour
- Students to take things to the Gym
- Cosby to “host”
- Then dismiss outside and re-enter the cafeteria after school.
- October Halloween Social Right after school in commons till 4:45
Ongoing/Upcoming
- Early Release PD - Nov 2
- Jay Reese
- Scott Taylor
- First Aid for Coaches
- Poverty / Reading Connection
- SMART Goal
- Pick Three
- Brunswick - Round Two -Nov 9th for 8th & 9th
- November 16 Early Release theme
- Poverty
- Reading
Great Tiaras! Everybody wants in on the the #photobomb…
6. Data: Binder work for Thursday
Where do we need to focus based on our strand scores?
I have additional supporting details on the IBDs. They are large documents of many pages. Binder teams will use the data to drive their goals and action steps. I have emailed a few out. If you want them again, they are on google docs as well.
Intermediate eValuate Data from last year...
When looking at the Intermediate work from last year, I begin to wonder how we might be able to duplicate that right here? I think it is an accurate use of eValuate as a formative tool reviewing results directly after the test.
7. Pick 3
Think about all the things that are going on at the middle school and consider what else we do to try and help students learn. Are there things we should be doing instead? Activities that should cease? New things that should replace these?
- eValuate/MAP Incentive Brunswick - Oct 19th for 6th & 7th
- Nov 9th for 8th & 9th
- Parent / Teacher Conferences 10/17 & 10/19 for the Middle School
- Fundraising
- Chromebooks for All*
- MobyMax for all*
- eValuate for all,
- Results Review
- Newspapers in Education*
- Data Walls*
- NEE Teacher Evaluations
- Units of Instruction
- Lesson Plans
- Word Walls*
- Lesson Plans
- Student Self Reported Grades*
- Teacher Support
- Collaborative Work Grant
- Math Consultants*
- ELA Trainers*
- Teacher Collaboration
- Block Scheduling in ELA
- Binder Content Meetings
- Parent Positive Postcards Home*
- PBiS
- Collaboration Days
- Pepsi (& Pizza*) with the Principal
- * New this year
BRUNSWICK 2016
After raising scores or earning Proficient or Advanced, students enjoyed a trip to Brunswick XL Zone for Laser Tag, Bowling, Pizza, and an Arcade Card for prizes and loot!
Was it worth it? YEP!
8. Start, Stop and Continue???
We are in a great spot. We have so many effective interventions going on here at the Middle School. Please help me by gathering other interventions that we are currently doing.
We will use Sticky Notes at our next PD time and prioritize together .
Tom McCracken
Links
Maybe I should leave this section here so we can refer to it as a bookmark page???
The Manifesto
- Binder Team Notes - If you want editing rights, please request
- Committee Progress - (Report back during Next PD)
- Culture/Climate - PD Early Release Archives
- HOT Sheets - maybe a work in progress
For instance, at the beginning of the year, I wrote out a huge document, almost a manifesto, on what I thought the building should be. The document even needed an introduction page, called Page One, and a Table of Contents. I discussed
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