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

“

goo.gl/neZ6Nd

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