Download - Welcome and welcome back 2015
Welcome and Welcome Back2014-2015
New to (or new at) HMMS• What’s your name?
• Where ya from?
• What are you doing here?
• Anything else?
Thank you!
• “Everyone needs a Katelyn!”
• Have you met Beth?
Katelyn DemersMessages
Mrs. Hamilton brought you flowers.Not kidding.
What?
Agenda
• What’s in your folder?
• Road Map
• Time in Classrooms
What’s in your folder?
2014-2015
• Lunch bag, water bottle*
• “We got you covered!”
• *faculty meetings are BYOW
PresentsRemindersLunch DutySubsWho…?Phone ExtensionsCalendarVoicemail
• Dress Code
• Guidance Procedures– Passes, passes, passes…
PresentsRemindersLunch DutySubsWho…?Phone ExtensionsCalendarVoicemail
• Be there… on time.
PresentsRemindersLunch DutySubsWho…?Phone ExtensionsCalendarVoicemail
• Subject to change as I give Anthony more of the stuff that I don’t want to do anymore like reset passwords I cannot stand resetting passwords.
PresentsRemindersLunch DutySubsWho…?Phone ExtensionsCalendarVoicemail
• Also check FirstClass (Horace Mann Business)
PresentsRemindersLunch DutySubsWho…?Phone ExtensionsCalendarVoicemail
Shared Vision 2014-2015
What does excellent teaching look like at HMMS?
• Think about your educational vision and what instruction should look like this year in the classrooms in our school. Please bullet one word nouns.
• Examples: humor (rather than funny), engagement (rather than engaging), passion (rather than passionate)
What does excellent teaching look like at HMMS?
• Walk around the room and share your file cards with your colleagues - Each time you see a word (or similar word) on your card or someone else’s card, circle it
What does excellent teaching look like at HMMS?
• Alone, create a list of the 5-7 words most frequently repeated on your card.
• With your cluster, create a list of 7-10 words that emerge as common themes.
What does excellent teaching look like at HMMS?
• send a text to 37607 or;
• tweet @poll
• start your message with 170219
• send the whole list at once– EX: 170219 humor engagement
passion
Road Map2014-2015
“Sometimes the
road less
traveled is less
traveled for a
reason.”
Behavioral Expectations• 6 Pillars in action• Everything else
2015
Learning Expectations• ALL students at
HMMS will know or be able to…
• Academics
2014
Core Values & Beliefs About Learning• HMMS students will
thrive when…• Safety• Relationships,
relationships, relationships!
2013
dialog.ua.edu/2010/08/back-to-school-2010-back-to-basics/
“Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.”
John Dewey
“When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.”
Jean Piaget
What to expect this year• Revisit Student Handbook
• Revisit Faculty Handbook
• Renewed focus on effective teaching practices
• Peer-observations
• Update report card comments
• Conversations about classroom management
• Conversations about effective grading practices
• Increased focus on the 6 Pillars of Character
• More work with the Zones of Regulation
Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so much. Helen Keller
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Developmental Understanding of Students
Relevant Theory & Research
Effective Practice
Technology
leighloueygung.com/a-fork-in-the-road/
Opportunities• Update report card
comments
• Service-Learning
• Modeling authentic learning
Expectations• its learning
• 1st 5 Days
• Evaluation-ness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Lc21vc0kM