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MM 4/30/18

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Michael's Memo 4/30/18 Good evening, we have a short time to maximize the student learning for the remainder of the year. Please make all of your lessons count and ensure your students are prepared for the next grade level. Let's make some exciting and innovative lessons each and everyday that will have your students excited to tell their parents or guardians what they worked on in school. Curriculum Please make sure to have your data for your green folders from MTSS meetings on Friday updated by the end of the week. Please see Mrs. Sweet if you have any questions or was absent. Standards based lessons are dependent upon your lesson plans. Ensure we are maximizing writing, vocabulary, hands on learning, and project based learning. Behavior Update Maintain dress code by checking non uniform jackets and ensuring students are in uniform. Provide consistent structure in classrooms using CHAMPS to direct movement, volume, and levels of collaboration. Please make ...

Michael's Memo 4/23/18

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MM 4/23/18 Good morning staff, Let’s continue the journey of learning by ensuring that we are maximizing classroom instructional time with data based instruction. Utilize your formative assessments to tier student workloads. Advanced with more advanced assignments, not longer or more problems. Reduction with specific work to address the deficiency. Let’s make sure we are providing the proper care to our patients. Curriculum Update MTSS meeting this Thursday, please update your information in GOOGLE Classroom. Active facilitating and learning should take place in every classroom. Literacy Night is Tuesday 4/24/18 3:30-5:30 come out and enjoy! Interim are Tuesday, grades must be updated in order to reflect proper progress. Shout Outs!!! Mrs. Barnes for highlighting the great work of our students and staff members for philanthropy and teaching civic duties to our kids to help out others who are less fortunate. Articles are in the ledger and for Baynews 9. Shout...

MM 4/16/18

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MICHAEL'S MEMO  Good morning, I would like to say thank you to all of our staff for all of the hard work put forth in each grade level to prepare our students for the assessment season. Everyone places a hand and has a level of influence on the outcomes of all of our students. We continue our journey with FSA starting today for 4th, 5th and 6th grade students. Please stop by the 5th grade hallway and breakfast to encourage our students for their FSA testing. It's important that we stay positive and build up our students and serve as their cheerleaders. Build up students' self confidence through your instructional practices allowing the students the opportunity to believe in themselves to accomplish any goal. Relax, take a deep breathe, and teach like your life depended upon it for the remainder of the year.  Curriculum Update We will focus on covering the proper items in Math and Science.  MATH: Ensure that all modules / standards have been taught prior to ...

MM 4/9/18

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MICHAEL'S MEMO  Good evening, I would like to say thank you to all of our staff for all of the hard work put forth in each grade level to prepare our students for the assessment season. Everyone places a hand and has a level of influence on the outcomes of all of our students. We will embark on another assessment season starting Tuesday. We will be welcoming our students for FSA with banners and signs for FSA on Tuesday. It's important that we stay positive and build up our students and serve as their cheerleaders. Build up students' self confidence through your instructional practices allowing the students the opportunity to believe in themselves to accomplish any goal. Relax, take a deep breathe, and teach like your life depended upon it for the remainder of the year.  Curriculum Update We will focus on covering the proper items in Math and Science.  MATH: Ensure that all modules / standards have been taught prior to testing. Is the reteach plan reassessi...