faculty meeting august 5, 2013
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Faculty Meeting August 5, 2013. Expecting Success 2013-2014. Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude that separates excellence from mediocrity. -Anonymous. Meeting Norms. Do what is right for students. Be prepared, honest, open-minded, and stay on task. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Faculty MeetingAugust 5, 2013
Expecting Success 2013-2014
Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude that separates excellence from mediocrity.
-Anonymous
Do what is right for students. Be prepared, honest, open-minded,
and stay on task. Be positive in all that we do. Listen thoughtfully and for
understanding. Celebrate success and encourage
effort.
Meeting Norms
Morgan Brown, 2nd Grade
Catalina Pline, 3rd Grade
Hannah Snyder, 5th Grade
New WES Faculty
SUCCESS (def.)◦ The achievement of something desired, planned, or
attempted◦ accomplishment; victory; triumph
Essential Question –
How can we ensure the success of all WES students?
Standard- Focus on quality to ensure success for all students
At your table, take 2 minutes to work with your colleagues to create a list of 3 specific things teachers can do to ensure the success of all students in the classroom.
Activating Strategy
Goal Area IStudent Achievement
WES Student Data 2012-13
2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130
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20
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80
90
10098
9095
92
98
3rd Grade CRCT ResultsReading
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2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130
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10093
9085 85
82
3rd Grade CRCT ResultsELA
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2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130
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100 94
7578
6872
3rd Grade CRCT ResultsMath
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2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130
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76 7771
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3rd Grade CRCT ResultsScience
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2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130
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85
7379
7682
3rd Grade CRCT ResultsSocial Studies
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2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130
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89 90
4th Grade CRCT ResultsReading
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2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130
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77
85
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8792
4th Grade CRCT ResultsELA
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2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130
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75 7471
61
83
4th Grade CRCT ResultsMath
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2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130
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7377 77
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4th Grade CRCT ResultsScience
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2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130
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76 75 73 75
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4th Grade CRCT ResultsSocial Studies
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2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130
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96 9691 90
5th Grade CRCT ResultsReading
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2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130
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8286
5th Grade CRCT ResultsELA
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2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130
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9489 87
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5th Grade CRCT ResultsMath
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2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130
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5th Grade CRCT ResultsScience
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2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130
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5th Grade CRCT ResultsSocial Studies
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12% Exceeds
2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130
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5th Grade Writing Assessment
Meets+Exceeds
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WES CRCT Exceeds Data3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade All Students
2013 2012 2013 2012 2013 2012 2013 2012Reading 42.6 29 50.8 30 38.8 23 43.8 27.6ELA 20.4 27 32.2 20 26.5 33 27.2 26.4Math 33.3 32 32.2 18 38.8 14 34 21.9Science 31.5 41 50 35 44.9 40 42.6 38.8Social Studies 20.4 20 30 12 30.6 31 27.2 12.6
5th Writing NA NA NA NA 12 0 NA NA
3rd Grade◦ Reading- 98% M+E, 43% Exceeds ◦ Lexile >=650 increased from 52% to 70%
4th Grade◦ Reading- 51% Exceeds◦ Math- 22% inc. M+E◦ Science- 90% M+E, 50% Exceeds
5th Grade◦ Math- 92% M+E, 39% Exceeds ◦ Social Studies- 22% inc in M+E◦ Lexile >=850 increased from 47% to 59%
Overall◦ WES improved in all 5 content areas for All Grades◦ WES showed improvement in 14 out of 16 tested
areas
Celebrations
Goal Area IIStakeholder Engagement and Loyalty
Perception DataSurvey Question FY 13 FY 12 FY 11Parent Perception of Quality 93 75 87Staff Perception of Quality 100 86 92Staff perception of school climate 91 59 ?Staff perception of consistency 91 41 ?Parent perception of consistency 96 75 ?Staff perception of communication 96 55 ?Parent perception of communication 91 50 ?
Perception of Safety
FY 13 Actual
FY 13 Target FY 12 Actual
Staff 100 90 89
Parents 99 85 50
Attendance Attendance > 15 Days
FY 13 Actual
FY 13 Target
FY 12 Actual
Students 8% 4.5% 3.3%
Attendance %
FY 13 Actual
FY 13 Target
FY 12 Actual
Students 95.8% 95.5% 96.8%
2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130
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204238
306
258
168
Student Discipline Data
Referrals
Num
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of D
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2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130
50010001500200025003000350040004500 4137
36933468
2698 27802337
1845 1841
89116691800
1848
16271807
11111261 1082
14571099
1618
Student Attendance
Days AbsentExcused AbsencesUnexcused AbsencesTardies
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6
8
32
WES Faculty AbsencesDistribution of Days Absent
>20 days absent16-20 days absent11-15 days absent6-10 days absent≤ 5 days absent
Each Month of School Averages 18 Days of InstructionNum
ber
of T
each
ers
Staff Devel-opment
Sick Personal Other Average Total0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
2.9
7.2
1.5 0.8
12.4
WES Faculty Absence Data2012-13
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95.5% Days
Attended
• Each semester, you may use one “Early Leave Pass.” You must get prior administrative approval and sign out in the front office.
• Jeans week for best team attendance for the month
• Teams
ATTENDANCE INCENTIVES
Team 1 Team 2 Team 3 Team 4 Team 5Pre K 2nd 4th SPED Teaching
AsstsK 3rd 5th Hudson
1st QUEST NoellPE Jarrett
Stakeholder InvolvementFY 13 Actual FY 13 Target FY 12 Actual
Volunteer Hours
2719 2350 2324
Business Partners
16 14 8
FERPA prevents the sharing of student information with anyone outside of school personnel other than the parents/guardians of a student.
Parents or volunteers may NOT grade papers, enter grades into IC, or access student information of children other than their own.
Volunteers should not be asked to watch classes at recess.
Volunteers should schedule with a teacher ahead of time and not drop in.
Parent-Teacher conferences will be scheduled in advance and will not be impromptu.
All volunteers will be required to wear a visitor’s badge.
After the first week of school, parents will not be allowed to walk their children to class.
Parental Involvement
Master WES CalendarEach administrator approved event involving WES students should be placed on the master calendar. This includes clubs, fine arts, and everything else.Include time, date, and location for each event.Send this information to Lisa Pate. After the event, also send her pictures of the event.
Goal Area IIIEfficient and Effective Organizational
Processes
Shared through Google Drive Read Sign form stating you have read it
◦ Turn in to Mrs. Turner Points of interest
◦ Dress code◦ Duties and responsibilities◦ Meeting schedule
Do not schedule appointments on Wednesday afternoons
WES Employee Handbook
Work hours are 7:05am - 3:00pm. Sign in and out each day in the Main Office
Ask an administrator permission to leave campus before the end of the work day. Sign out in the office.
Teachers are expected to attend any school wide meetings outside of the school day.
Teacher/Staff Attendance
AbsencesYou are to notify Lisa Pate and an administrator when you are going to be absent.The secretaries are not responsible for finding subs.Enter your absence into iVisions and SchoolStream as soon as you know you will be absent for a planned absence and no later than the day after an unplanned absence.Prepare 3 days of emergency lesson plans. Place them in a folder on your desk.
Grades are to be posted weekly in Infinite Campus
Parents have a right to know how their child is performing. If you assign it, grade/give feedback, and send it home.
Grades are to be a representation of what a student has mastered and not a reflection of the quantity of work completed.
“The truth is, a lot of times it's the bad teachers who give the easiest grades, because they know by giving good grades everyone will leave them alone.” -Ron Clark
Grade books and Grades
Students will be given a car rider or bus rider sticker (with the bus #) when they arrive at school the first week of school. If a parent walks the child in without a sticker, please ask how the child will be going home and record it on the transportation form.
Know how every child in your room is going home by the end of lunch. Turn in a copy of the transportation form to Carol Turner.
Grab and Go Breakfast will be continuing. K-2nd grade students who are eating will grab a breakfast and head to the cafeteria. 3rd-5th grade students will eat in their classrooms.
K-2 teachers will have one team member on duty in the cafeteria 7:05-7:30 to assist with breakfast eaters until Aug. 16. (A rotation will follow)
Each teacher is responsible for his/her own homeroom. (Exception:K-2)
Morning Procedures
• At Open House, parents should complete the required information on the Transportation Form.
• On the mornings of the first 2 school days, as students exit the bus or car, a sticker will be placed on their shirts.
• Upon students’ arrival to the room, teachers will be asked to complete the Daily Transportation Form for the 1st two days of school. Turn in to Mrs. Turner by noon those days.
TRANSPORTATION
During the first week of school prior to dismissal, teachers will make sure that each student has a sticker/wristband indicating his/her correct mode of afternoon transportation.
Teachers that have afternoon hall duty will be posted in their assigned locations. Their job is to ensure that the students walk through the halls on the second tile from the wall in an appropriate manner.
Students will be dismissed to buses as their bus numbers are called. Classroom teachers will stand in the room doorway to monitor inside and outside of the room during this time. Two bus numbers will be called at a time.
Mrs. Turner, Eston Jennings, and Suzanne Rice will meet the students at the buses to assist the student bus riders.
After all buses have been called car riders will be called. Classroom teachers need to escort their students to the car rider line.
Those teachers that have car duty will remain until all students have been picked up.
Afternoon Dismissal
School-Wide ProceduresTake attendance before 8:15 amStudents leaving class
Students are not allowed to get teachers coffee, drinks, mail, etc. The students should be on classroom business when running errands.Students need to remain in class as much as possible. Please limit passes out.
School-Wide Procedures Cont.Hallway Transitions
Students should move on the right side of the hall quietly in a single file on second tile from the wall.
RestroomTeachers should monitor students
RecessTeachers are to supervise their studentsRecess is at an assigned time and place
August 8-14, all teachers will eat lunch with their students in the lunchroom to help establish procedures.
Music will be used to signal silent lunch times. When music plays, students are to be silent and eat. They may talk with classmates when music is not playing.
Violation of procedure will result in eating at the silent lunch table.
LUNCHROOM PROCEDURES
Make one call home to each student before Friday, August 16.
Start all conversations with positive comments. Maintain professional etiquette at all times.
The parent of any failing student must be contacted at the end of the 3rd and 7th weeks of the nine weeks.
Record all parent contacts on a Parent Contact Log (examples provided with the Employee Handbook in Google Docs).
Contact Logs are due to grade/department chairpersons at the end of each 9 weeks.
Parent Contacts
• Classroom and outside doors should be locked at ALL times.
• No child will be released to any person not listed on the student information card.
• Only share student information with legal guardians.
• Supervise and monitor all student activities.• Report safety concerns to an administrator.• Escort visitors without badges to the front
office.• Students should not open outside doors for
any visitor. Teach them to get an adult.
Safety and Security Reminders
Lockdown procedures◦ Practice during the first 3 days of school◦ Close room door; pull in any student in the hall
into the room◦ Move the students to the corner◦ Use desks/bookcases as a barricade◦ Turn off lights◦ Close blinds◦ Don’t call 911◦ Lockdown “call” overrides all else (e.g. fire alarm)
Safety and Security (cont.)
Goal Area IVContinuous System and School Improvement
Instruction Quality is more important than quantity,Teach bell to bell.Lessons should be engaging, captivating, stimulating, motivating, and relevant to the students.Assessments need to formative, summative, and
performance-based.ALL videos must be approved by administration (no PG-13 or R rated movies)Vocabulary should be taught in the context of the lessons and not by writing and memorization.
Expectations◦ Every child is different.
◦ Reinforce positive behavior. e.g. "John, I notice you are working well with your partner. Thank you.“
◦ Spend the first month of school teaching and reviewing classroom and school procedures. It takes 21 days to create a habit.
◦ All teachers must have a classroom plan. A “Clip Chart” or similar instrument must be posted in the classroom.
◦ Our job is to teach, not punish.
WES School Discipline Plan
Consequences for repetitive negative student behaviors◦ 1st offense- warning, redirection
◦ 2nd offense- warning, redirection (note in the agenda)
◦ 3rd offense- time out no longer than 15 minutes. (call the parent)
◦ 4th offense- timeout at intervention station in another room(20-30 minutes, work must be sent with the student, call the parent)
◦ 5th offense- office referral or further teacher consequence (call the parent)
Discipline Plan cont.
Sample Clip
Chart
Discipline is a learning process. Students should not be sent out of class to
the office without the office being notified. Students should not be sent to stand or sit
in the hall. They must be visible to the teacher at all times.
There is no substitute for appropriate supervision and planning engaging lessons for students.
Wednesdays (3:00-3:45 pm)
◦1st- School Leadership Team
◦2nd- Writing Team
◦3rd- Faculty Meetings (as needed)
Meeting Schedules
SCHOOL LEADERSHIP TEAM: JARED GRIFFIS, CAROL TURNER, ESTON JENNINGS, BETH CHILDERS, BETH
LITTLE, HEATHER SCOTT, LINDSAY McGUFFEY, AMANDA DRIVER, SHARON LEE, BEVERLY DILLARD, KATHY HANDLEY
WRITING TEAM: CAROL TURNER, ESTON JENNINGS, AMANDA DRIVER, AMY MUSICK, KIM
WILSON, BETH LITTLE, CATALINA PLINE, LINDSAY MCGUFFEY DATA TEAM:
CAROL TURNER, ESTON JENNINGS, SANDY DURHAM, CRAIG LONG, KIMBERLY MAXWELL, JENNIFER ROBERTS, LINDA WHORTON
SAFETY TEAM: CAROL TURNER, JARED GRIFFIS, ESTON JENNINGS, PENNY LONG, DENISE
AINSWORTH, SHERRI POLLARD, JEAN HUDSON, JUANITA LONG, SUZANNE RICE, KIM ALFORD
TECHNOLOGY TEAM: AMY MUSICK (PreK-2nd), HEATHER SCOTT(3rd-5th), BETH CHILDERS,
MORGAN BROWN, JENNIFER ROBERTS, KRISTY SPRUILL, LINDSAY GODBEE
TEAMS
Adhere to the energy management guidelines (rates are set in August).
All records request should be completed within 24 hours. All permanent records must be stored in the front office.
All parent phone calls or emails need to be returned within 24 hours. Read an email twice before sending it. (Check the grammar, spelling, and tone of email.)
The agenda will be used as an open line of communication with parents.
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMAITON
Google Drive◦Lesson Plan folders◦WES Documents Folder
Target Solutions – try to complete by Aug. 31
Social Media◦ It is strongly recommended that you do not
friend students on FB or any other social media.
◦ Do not friend parents of students who you do not personally know.
◦ Do not post pictures of you partying, drinking, etc.
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMAITON
1) Read handbook and sign acknowledgement form
2) Grade Level Improvement Plan3) Teacher self-assessment (due by Aug. 14)4) Professional Growth Plan and Teacher
Instructional Plan (due Aug. 21)5) Turn in Employee Information sheet
Things To Do
Tuesday, 1:00-1:45 Non-SPED Assistants' meeting (Staff Development Room)
Tuesday, 4:00-6:00 Open House Wednesday, 9:00-10:00 Safety Team
Meeting Wednesday, 10:00-10:45 Code of Ethics
update (Staff Development Room) Wednesday, 2:00, Mobile Device Training
(maybe)
Preplanning Schedule
Ticket out the Door◦ Write down any questions that you have
that were not answered and place them on the “Parking Lot.”
◦ An email will be sent with answers to the questions.
Summarizer
Jared Griffis◦ 770-252-2274 Home◦ 404-886-6564 Cell
Carol Turner◦ 678-218-8935 Cell◦ 404-579-6990 Home
Contact Info
We Expect Success
2013-2014 will be a successful year at WES!