Time alone at home, especially during the holidays, can be especially challenging for people. While the leadership team and your colleagues are great listening ears and are always there when you need to chat, we are not trained medical professionals who can support long term mental health support. NHA has great FREE resources available to our employees who may need support. Read about the resources available to you in the event you may need them in the weeks and months to come.
Admin Observations
This week we will continue focusing on workshop for our admin collaborative observations. These observations provide us an opportunity to support you in achieving our second 100 Day Sprint (school goal)-“To increase the overall number of students proficient from Interims 1 to 2 by 5% in all subjects through personalized instruction (workshop).” Let’s continue to use our Data Dig process to structure our approach to personalize instruction. More time will be spent on this process in our January DDI meetings.
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Best Practice Share Out
Thank you for your
active participation in our staff meeting on Tuesday. Click on the Jamboard that we created for virtual engagement and collaboration ideas from your colleagues.
Shout Out
Keystone Staff for
allowing me to be silent observer in your PLCs this week. I love how
intentional you were with sharing your resources, best practices, and
discussing planning and data.
Sarah Z for making
a special delivery to give me a Christmas gift. WOW! You made my day!
Stacey, Robyn, and
Jamie for going above and beyond to get the Commitment to Excellence forms
turned in.
Ashley and Stephanie
for your
relentless pursuit to make sure we could have some holiday fun.
Stacey, Tully, Andria, and Mandy
for sending
the most High Fives on your team in November.
Tracy, Angel, and Sarah
Z for sharing
best practices with your colleagues.
Cindy Conti for
providing our students with advanced learning opportunities (MathCon).
Jeanne for ensuring
that our playground equipment was saved. I love how you “saw a need, filled a
need.”
This Week
Monday, December 14:
·
Jen D’s Birthday
Wednesday, December 16:
·
Winter Wonderland Day: Wear All White
·
Mingle & Jingle Staff Event 4-5 PM
Thursday, December 17:
·
Holiday Colors Day
Friday, December 18:
·
Holiday Vacation Day
·
Retention Candidates Sent to Jorvonna
Admin Observations
This week for our admin
collaborative observations, we will be focusing on workshop. We cannot wait to
see how you have used assessment data to provide personalized instruction to
your students.
Staff Meeting
We have a staff meeting on
Tuesday at 4:00 PM. Please use the
Google Meet link in the calendar invite.
December 8 Staff Meeting Agenda
1.
Icebreaker
2. Good News
4. Best Practice Share Out
5. New NHA Retention Guidelines
6. Winter NWEA Testing
7. Classroom Holiday Parties
8. Remote Attendance Reminders
9. Q & A
10. Launch
School Goals
One
of our school goals is to implement our enhanced school initiatives (dress
code, Level 2 Behavior reports, Keystone Cash, etc.) consistently. Please
continue to uphold your high behavioral expectations with students, even as
they are learning remotely. If students receive a Level 2 behavior report,
please make sure to include the essential components that we discussed during
August PD.
· Show the
essential components of a level 2 write up
o
Ensure the following: professional tone, sentence
structure, and spelling
o Check
the “Include in Parent Email at the End of the Day” box when entering in a
behavior. This will automatically email
the student’s parent the behavior report at 5 PM.
o All
behaviors must be entered the day it happened prior to 4:30 PM. Those behavior reports provide valuable
information when determining the best way to support our students.
o Explain
what strategies you implemented before issuing the level 2 report (time out,
reminder of expectations, etc.).
o Explain
what happened with only facts, omit opinions.
o Please
provide the student’s statement as to “why” the student did the behavior.
o Lastly,
please state the consequence for students who receive a
behavior write-up.
Professional Development Opportunity
NHA
is offering Professional Development for NHA Teachers, Leadership and
Staff titled, Google Certification Cohort hosted by Lissa Brunan.
Sarah
Davenport stated, “it’s a wonderful training, but it’s a little different
from our traditional PD in that it covers all aspects of Google Suite (Docs,
Slides, Sheets, Site, Draw, etc.), not just the teaching components.”
We
can cover the cost for 5 teachers to attend Level 1 training. Please email me
your name if you are interested. If we have more than 5 people interested, I will
draw names. Everyone else is able to attend at your own cost.
See
below for information provided by NHA.
Intro & Tour Video - Level 1 Pre-Cohort and Level 1
Cohort Classrooms
Cohort begins in January (or get an early start in December if you want)
Certification
Costs
·
Level 1 - $150.00
·
Level 2 - $250.00 (need to complete
Level 1 certification to take level 2)
Link to Cohort Registration
Deadline to sign up December 18, 2020.
·
GVSU will cover costs for Level 1 and
Level 2 for the first 50 people to sign up that are either GVSU
students/staff/alumni or educators from their charter schools.
·
You will receive a certificate of
completion after each Level.
o Michigan teachers will receive SCECH credits with added cost to MOECS for $10.00.
Shout Outs
Ashley, Jen, Deb, and Stephanie
for my
beautiful Christmas gift. All I can say is great minds…
Sarah for providing
timely and needed technology communication to our staff during our first week
of remote learning.
Jen D for always
promoting a positive school culture.
Robyn and
Stacey for volunteering to do recall at dismissal. You saw a need and filled a
need without being asked.
Megan, Sarah M, Sarah P, Christina,
Monique, Mechelle, Julianne, Steve, Jena, Sloane, Tully, Tracy, Kari, Ellen,
Andria, Cindy Conti, Sarah Z, Jen D, Angel, Stacey, and
Jamie for your engagement, contribution and support during our virtual
collaboration meeting. All of you continue to amaze me with your ideas,
resources, and strategies as you navigate virtual learning.
This Week
Monday, December 7:
· Holiday Bingo Begins
Tuesday, December 8:
·
Jen’s Birthday
· Ugly Sweater Day for Staff and Students
·
Staff Meeting 4-5 PM
Wednesday, December 9:
· Staff Ugly Sweater Submissions Due to Robyn
Friday, December 11:
·
Due: Morning Assembly
Presentation-Turner
(New Year Goals)
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