Nov 1-Nov 5

Hope You All Had A Happy Halloween!

Week Nov 1-5

Mon	· Homeroom teacher notifies Mr. Patrick of any missing Emergency Lesson Plans. · All Teachers log into and update the formative Assessment section of MIS Monday Morning · Grade level leaders visit secondary classrooms start P 3 to go over uniforms with kids
Tues	· Class Walkthroughs run by grade Level Leaders in secondary school. · Leadership Team visit Primary Per 1 and 2
Weds	· Patrick will visit Period 3 classes and collect all students wearing jeans. To his office to fill out behavior sheet. Grade Leader contacts parents
Thursday	· Primary Homeroom Teacher meeting 2:00 Patrick’s office
Friday	· Grade Level Leaders Meeting 4:15 ·

Welcome back,

Looking forward, Nov 8 and 9 Monday and Tuesday are national holidays, not school! The following week Nov 15-19 is a school break for the students. These days are work days for the staff. More information will be coming on what this will look like.

Below you will find information about:

· MIS and updating student information each class. Attendance, etc under Formative Assessment

· Classroom ‘walkthorugh’ visits

· Classroom Discipline Protocol

· Important Documents

MIS Updated Student Information in Formative Assessment Section

Here is a message from Human Resources:

Hello, dear colleagues.

We would like to inform you that teachers who do not complete the daily check in the MIS program will not be paid in October. Log in to your MIS account by Monday and complete the work you need to do there.

Thanks in advance.

What this means is that starting Monday Morning, all teachers must enter in the class information in the formative assessment section of MIS: attendance, who is ready for class, who is not. The School administration is checking this. Please be sure to keep your records up to date. MIS is one of the key forms of communication we have with families. It is for the benefit of student learning, and also an obligation on the teacher’s part.

I want to be sure no one has an unpleasant surprise this week, so here is a video explaining what it is the HR wants.

Class Room Walk Throughs

We will continue this week with walk-throughs. This week the Secondary Grade Level Leaders will be visiting classrooms. The Leadership Team will be visiting Primary school Period 1 and 2 on Tuesday

This is not Teacher Evaluation. This is Program Evaluation. We are looking to develop Consistency in the Program.

WHY are we Doing This?

This is important because we are developing consistent classroom experiences for the students.

Consistency:

Eliminates confusion
Eliminates behavior problems
Focuses students on learning, why they are doing it, how they are doing it, and what they are doing
Makes the lives of the other teachers easier as they do not inherit messy rooms and unruly adolescents
Makes the students happier
This helps to bring to life the school Mission "To raise Happy Individuals... and create a demanding environment for learning" https://21century.edu.az/en/about/goals

ACTION.

9-11 Have the Date, Objective and HW posted immediately at the start. Have students open their notebook and copy it in the first 2 minutes. Then all students are set up with note books and are ready to begin.

Observers should be able to see evidence of this in student notebooks and on white board.

6-8 Have the Date, Do Now and Objective posted. When students finish the do now in the class journal they can copy the objective and hw into their subject notebook as other students are finishing the do now.

1-5 Think about what procedures and routines you are using in class. What do you want to share? How can we develop common practices within a grade level class (the practices the specialist teachers should use in your room) and between different primary grades 3.4.5 (Warm up)?

We will visit Primary without any check list on Tues morning. We are looking to learn.

In All Cases it is the responsibility of each teacher to keep the room orderly, dismiss students at the end of the class in an orderly way, being sure students clean up after themselves and leave desks and chairs in order.

Student Discipline

Protocol for Issuing Student Detention

The Teacher Should: Remind individual student of code of conduct if they are disrupting class. The teacher can also remind the student that detention is a CHOICE made by the student. If they chose not to follow instructions, they choose detention.
If the behavior persists, the TEACHER assigns student detention in that grade level room at the nearest break: breakfast, Lunch, After school (If at this point you need to remove them from the room send them to Mr. Patrick's Office. I may hold them for 10 minutes before sending them back to class)
The Teacher Should: Notify the grade level leader so they can coordinate having the students in the room at break
The Teacher Should Run the detention. 20 minutes. Be in the room on time
The Teacher Should: Have the students complete a “Behavior Report” during detention. Each grade level leader has one
The Teacher should: Have students practice the procedure that they violated (Raising hand, etc). Research shows it take 18 times to break a bad habit and 3 times to learn a new one. Have them Raise their hands 21 times. Each time explaining why. Or walk into the room and sit down 21 times correctly, etc)
Give the behavior report to the Grade Level Leader so grade leader can contact home
Grade leader message the parents that the student had a detention and cc it to Mr. Patrick, then give Mr. Patrick the Behavior report