March 13 - Daylight Savings Time Begins
March 17 - Board Meeting @ 7:00
March 20 - Morgan Barks - Birthday
March 21-25 - Spring Break
March 26 - Wesley Lewis - Birthday
March 28 - Collaboration Day
March 29 - Wendy's Night - 6th grade
March 31 - Spring Pictures
April 4 - Joan Lack - Birthday
April 4 - MAP window opens
April 8 - MAP Assembly 5th @ 12:15, 6th @ 1:15
April 10 - Kathy Patillo - Birthday
April 11 - Map testing begins
April 12 - Wendy's Night - 5th grade
April 13 - Mid quarter grades
April 13 - Faculty Meeting
April 14 - Shannon Fowler - Birthday
April 14 - Insurance Meeting
April 19 - Choir Concert @ 6:30
April 20 - Honor Choir to Cardinals
April 21 - Board Meeting @ 7:00
April 23 - Jamie Woolard - Birthday
April 26 - Wendy's Night - 6th grade
April 27 - Secretary Appreciation Day
April 28 - MODOT Presentations
April 28 - Kids on Broadway @ 6:30
May 2 - Retirement / End of the Year Celebration @ 5-7
May 5 - Honors Reception - @ 6:00
May 6 - Track Day
May 9 - Shelly Ridens - Birthday
May 10 - Wendy's Night
May 11 - School Nurse Day
May 12 - Last Day of School
June 1 - Summer School
As you probably know, discipline issues have been through the roof the last couple of weeks and show no signs of slowing down. I feel like we have been pretty reactionary with our approach, so we are going to try a couple of things to try and stem the tide.
First, we are shifting our CKH focus to Social Contracts. Please be sure to review your social contracts with your students and remind them that these are the guidelines they came up with. It wouldn't hurt to remind them that when you use the four questions, you are doing that as a warning to change your behavior and get back on task. If we didn't use the four questions, there would be no chances, just consequences.
Be sure your social contract is in the front of the room and refer to it often. Ask your students to rate themselves on how well they followed their own expectations. Track their ratings and remind them they are trying to get better.
Second, we are going to add more people to the duty schedule. We have put off adding to the number of teachers on duty for as long as we could and apologize for it, but there is no way around it due to the number of referrals we are receiving.
Starting Monday we will add 1 person to each shift. The extra person needs to be where most of the kids are, which seems to be on the 6th grade playground. Please make sure you circulate and keep big groups of kids from gathering in one spot.
See the new schedule below:
On March 28, we will have our final collaboration day. Part of that day will be spent doing MAP training. So, anyone who tests students should plan to be there (let your paras know).
We will also have our 4th grade teachers with us for a short time that morning before I work with them in the library.
The rest of the day will be spent vertical teaming and working on our CW data.
We had a visit from our CKH trainer this week and he shared some data he had collected back in January when he came and did some walk throughs of the building.
Here are some of the things he found:
73% of our teachers were doing whole group instruction while 9% were one to one and 18% were not engaged with students at all. I have a few concerns about these numbers. 1.) No one was doing small group instruction (0%). We have talked about interventions and working with kids who need extra help. We have to get to that point. I am pretty sure that I couldn't make it through a class of lecture and be engaged the entire time. I know you all aren't engaged when I lecture you on collaboration day, so why would we think our students could do it.
The other side of this is that 18% of our teachers were not engaged with students at all. That is about 1 out of every 5 teachers.
Todd Whitaker is an author in the field of education and he puts it this way, "How often do you want your doctor to be engaged with you during your appointments?" Sometimes? 80% of the time? or All the time? This can be applied to many areas. There is a saying that a teacher on their feet is worth ten in the seat. I have walked down the hall and counted the number of teachers sitting at their desks and it is a higher number than it should be.
43% of our students were engaged. 52% were compliant. 5% were off task.
56% of our teachers are greeting kids at the door. That is following the CKH guidelines (shaking hands, eye contact, squaring up, etc).
100% of our students know the learning objective.
100% of our learning environment is clean and inviting.
56% of our students are on task bell to bell.
100% of our teachers explore our students' needs.
100% of our teachers use safe body language and tone.
45% of our social contracts are in the correct form (placed in the front of the room).
0% of our teachers used the non-verbal signal to gain attention.
0% of our students were dismissed with a launch.
100% of our hallways were orderly during passing.
100% of our students were respectful in common areas.
This was just a snapshot. These numbers are not representative of the entire time we are with students, so they must be taken with a grain of salt. However, they do give us some things to work on.
March 17 - Board Meeting @ 7:00
March 20 - Morgan Barks - Birthday
March 21-25 - Spring Break
March 26 - Wesley Lewis - Birthday
March 28 - Collaboration Day
March 29 - Wendy's Night - 6th grade
March 31 - Spring Pictures
April 4 - Joan Lack - Birthday
April 4 - MAP window opens
April 8 - MAP Assembly 5th @ 12:15, 6th @ 1:15
April 10 - Kathy Patillo - Birthday
April 11 - Map testing begins
April 12 - Wendy's Night - 5th grade
April 13 - Mid quarter grades
April 13 - Faculty Meeting
April 14 - Shannon Fowler - Birthday
April 14 - Insurance Meeting
April 19 - Choir Concert @ 6:30
April 20 - Honor Choir to Cardinals
April 21 - Board Meeting @ 7:00
April 23 - Jamie Woolard - Birthday
April 26 - Wendy's Night - 6th grade
April 27 - Secretary Appreciation Day
April 28 - MODOT Presentations
April 28 - Kids on Broadway @ 6:30
May 2 - Retirement / End of the Year Celebration @ 5-7
May 5 - Honors Reception - @ 6:00
May 6 - Track Day
May 9 - Shelly Ridens - Birthday
May 10 - Wendy's Night
May 11 - School Nurse Day
May 12 - Last Day of School
June 1 - Summer School
As you probably know, discipline issues have been through the roof the last couple of weeks and show no signs of slowing down. I feel like we have been pretty reactionary with our approach, so we are going to try a couple of things to try and stem the tide.
First, we are shifting our CKH focus to Social Contracts. Please be sure to review your social contracts with your students and remind them that these are the guidelines they came up with. It wouldn't hurt to remind them that when you use the four questions, you are doing that as a warning to change your behavior and get back on task. If we didn't use the four questions, there would be no chances, just consequences.
Be sure your social contract is in the front of the room and refer to it often. Ask your students to rate themselves on how well they followed their own expectations. Track their ratings and remind them they are trying to get better.
Second, we are going to add more people to the duty schedule. We have put off adding to the number of teachers on duty for as long as we could and apologize for it, but there is no way around it due to the number of referrals we are receiving.
Starting Monday we will add 1 person to each shift. The extra person needs to be where most of the kids are, which seems to be on the 6th grade playground. Please make sure you circulate and keep big groups of kids from gathering in one spot.
See the new schedule below:
On March 28, we will have our final collaboration day. Part of that day will be spent doing MAP training. So, anyone who tests students should plan to be there (let your paras know).
We will also have our 4th grade teachers with us for a short time that morning before I work with them in the library.
The rest of the day will be spent vertical teaming and working on our CW data.
We had a visit from our CKH trainer this week and he shared some data he had collected back in January when he came and did some walk throughs of the building.
Here are some of the things he found:
73% of our teachers were doing whole group instruction while 9% were one to one and 18% were not engaged with students at all. I have a few concerns about these numbers. 1.) No one was doing small group instruction (0%). We have talked about interventions and working with kids who need extra help. We have to get to that point. I am pretty sure that I couldn't make it through a class of lecture and be engaged the entire time. I know you all aren't engaged when I lecture you on collaboration day, so why would we think our students could do it.
The other side of this is that 18% of our teachers were not engaged with students at all. That is about 1 out of every 5 teachers.
Todd Whitaker is an author in the field of education and he puts it this way, "How often do you want your doctor to be engaged with you during your appointments?" Sometimes? 80% of the time? or All the time? This can be applied to many areas. There is a saying that a teacher on their feet is worth ten in the seat. I have walked down the hall and counted the number of teachers sitting at their desks and it is a higher number than it should be.
43% of our students were engaged. 52% were compliant. 5% were off task.
56% of our teachers are greeting kids at the door. That is following the CKH guidelines (shaking hands, eye contact, squaring up, etc).
100% of our students know the learning objective.
100% of our learning environment is clean and inviting.
56% of our students are on task bell to bell.
100% of our teachers explore our students' needs.
100% of our teachers use safe body language and tone.
45% of our social contracts are in the correct form (placed in the front of the room).
0% of our teachers used the non-verbal signal to gain attention.
0% of our students were dismissed with a launch.
100% of our hallways were orderly during passing.
100% of our students were respectful in common areas.
This was just a snapshot. These numbers are not representative of the entire time we are with students, so they must be taken with a grain of salt. However, they do give us some things to work on.
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