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Welcome Highlanders

Welcome Highlanders. This Presentation. Comprehensive Honest Helpful. This Presentation. From the perspective that you have never had a child in secondary school Will answer almost any question you could have and I believe you will feel better when you depart

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Welcome Highlanders

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  1. Welcome Highlanders

  2. This Presentation • Comprehensive • Honest • Helpful

  3. This Presentation • From the perspective that you have never had a child in secondary school • Will answer almost any question you could have and I believe you will feel better when you depart • All information will be located at our website in the district Program of Studies and the McCullough supplement

  4. Documents Available Either Now or Soon on our Website • District Program of Studies • McCullough Supplement • District math flyer • Private P.E. links (April 16) • Summer School flyer (May) • This presentation in: • English • Spanish

  5. Welcome • Looking forward to a new year • New challenges for students in secondary education • New responsibilities • New opportunities

  6. Snapshot Of Our School • Composed of young people literally from around the country and the globe • Wonderful students • Supportive parents • Tremendous staff • All are expected to be successful

  7. Snapshot of our school • T.E.A. Exemplary Campus

  8. At McCullough • We do things for a reason (We have kids here too!) • Kid-friendly and preparing for the future • Grading • Projects • Discipline • Testing • Procedurally

  9. Goal 1 • Academic Preparation • Paradigm Shift

  10. Goal 1A: Safety • Visitors sign-in and sign-out • Full-time officer for our campus • Visibility of administrators and police • Building opens at 8:00 a.m. • Monitored video surveillance system • Safety letters home

  11. Goal 2: Preparing Students for High School • 356 working days over two years to prepare students for high school once they enter our doors for the first time • Students are in high school the day they walk in the door if they take Algebra Pre-AP in seventh grade • Procedures are age-appropriate and have a reason

  12. Personal Vision • Is that we will be the best secondary school in Texas

  13. Success For Your Child • Many schools prepare students to qualify for admittance to a college or university • We are preparing students to be successful when they arrive at college and to have the tools to stay there

  14. Important Dates to be Determined • Student Orientation Dates • Football Equipment Issue Day • Semester Exams • First semester exam dates • Hinges on district adoption of district calendar • Two drafts of the district calendar on website for your review and feedback at this time

  15. Student Orientation • Final date will be announced this spring • Will publicize through Tartan Tribune • Dependent on the C.I.S.D. School Calendar once adopted for 2013-2014 • Need volunteers to make it happen • Social event of the summer • Attendance is not required, but is enormously beneficial

  16. First Day of School • Report to Alpha Homerooms until 10:00 a.m. • Obtain final schedules • Car line longer first two days • Buses a little later due to third run and K • Help everyone get where they need to go

  17. A Typical Day • Students can enter building at 8:00 a.m. • Please do not drop your child off prior to 8:00 a.m. • Students wait in Commons • Go to classes at 8:34 a.m. • Lockers/Backpacks • School begins – 8:50 a.m.

  18. A Typical Day • Lunch/3rd Period • 11:45 a.m. • Students encouraged to eat breakfast • Which lunch you eat depends on the subject of the class you are in during third block on that day • Lunch time can be different on red or green days depending on your class • Advisory – 1:55 p.m. – 2:19 p.m. • School Ends – 3:50 p.m. • Pick-up • Car/Bus

  19. Advisory • Meets each day (1:55 p.m. – 2:19 p.m.) • Distribute information • Pledges • Moment of silence

  20. Advisory • Work on completing homework • Tutoring • STAAR remediation interventions • SPARKS Homework Help • Make A Difference Anti-Bullying Campaign monthly activities • Red Ribbon Week • Generation Texas career activities • Announcements

  21. Free Academic Assistance • Tutoring- Most days of the week with your academic teachers (most important)

  22. Free Academic Assistance • PAWS Homework Help- • Tuesdays and Thursdays • 4:00 p.m. until 4:45 p.m. • Located in downstairs library • McCullough teacher • TWHS Interact students

  23. Free Academic Assistance • SPARKS- • Advisory • Elite eighth grade students • Ms. Donna Meyer

  24. Information to Help A Guide to Success

  25. Communication • E-Mail – Easiest, quickest, preferred • Please give us a day or so as we are with students as opposed to in front of a computer • Teacher e-mail addresses are listed on the left green column of our website • If you have a question about the classroom please email the teacher first

  26. Communication • McCullough Webpage • www.conroeisd.net • Links to teacher webpages • Important spring registration documents • Athletic schedules • “Tartan Tribune” online • Constantly updated

  27. Communication • Conferences • Most at 8:05 a.m. • Try to do a good job of communicating and prevent the need for you to come in • This is the time normally that the teacher is tutoring children • Important to have your child present • Most center around a young person not turning in assignments

  28. Communication • Parent Newsletter “The Tartan Tribune” • Sent home through students • Online 24 hours a day at our Parent Services Page

  29. SchoolMessenger • System that calls your phone or emails you • I try to limit the phone calls to really important items • Expect numerous calls in the immediate days leading up to the start of school • Do not worry, the 6:30 p.m. phone calls will end for the most part once school begins • You can opt out at any time if you want by clicking at the link at the lower portion of the email

  30. SchoolMessenger • We will email when breaking news happens or information becomes available you need to know • Important to have the correct phone number and email address in our database system

  31. Remind 101 Text Message Alert System for Students • A system that allows me to text students, or anyone who signs up, immediately in the case of: • School cancellation due to weather • STAAR testing reminders • Any situation needing immediate and accurate contact • Never has been used but there if needed • Information on how to sign up appears periodically in the Tartan Tribune has been used but there when needed

  32. PTO • Volunteer • Appreciate the help! • Campus Enhancement • PTO • Front Desk • Student Orientation • Socials • Library • Copy Room

  33. Daily Announcements Online

  34. Common Assessments (Tests) • Tests are high quality and developed over time to choose the most accurate/fair questions • Not the type of tests we took years ago with random questions, purple ink, and an odor that would make you nauseous • Are now “Common Assessments” in the district developed in the summer to address the specific TEKS of STAAR • Sixty percent of grade for marking period

  35. Common Assessments (Tests) • Exams, and exam questions, are now being utilized as common assessment exams among teachers in the district, school, and within departments • Tests are now developed in the summer to have questions which are asked at the rigor level wanted by the state for these tests and STAAR exams

  36. Common Assessments (Tests) • Enormous time goes into the development of each question to ensure it addresses the TEKS and is at the level of questioning required • Exams are used not only among different teachers in same discipline but also other CISD junior highs

  37. Common Assessments (Tests) • Exams are being utilized more extensively among all CISD campuses to supplement benchmark testing throughout the district and inserted into Eduphoria program to optimize individual academic support • As the exams are utilized throughout the campus and district throughout the years, they do not go home

  38. Common Assessments (Tests) • View at school with student and/or instructor • Stumble Sheets in class to learn from mistakes • Students correct any errors, with the teacher, in class

  39. Semester Exams • Last four days of each semester • Two options of calendars at our district website • One has the semester ending before the holidays and another after • Feel free to go to district website and email your thoughts on the calendar options • Please do not plan vacations during this time so that students have every chance to do his/her best on the exams • Prior week students will complete review packet and prepare in the classroom

  40. Semester Exams • Modified schedule in exams • Grading percentages • Junior high finals – 10 percent • High school finals- 15 percent • Synthesize learning and practice taking major exams as they will in the future

  41. Student Success Initiative (SSI) • Students must pass Reading and Math STAAR in eighth grade to advance to high school

  42. Student Success Initiative (SSI) • As of now, students must pass 12 End of Course Exams developed by the Texas Education Agency in order to graduate from high school

  43. Parent Access Student Access • Free opportunity to view grades, attendance, discipline, STAAR, etc. • Supplements planner • Places you on a school e-mail list to receive breaking news and routine e-mail communication • View on computer, droid, iPhone, iPad, tablet, etc…

  44. Parent Access Student Access • Unparalleled and unprecedented communication and access to data • This program exists to supplement, not replace student accountability for grades and assignments • Student should have accountability • Sign up at www.conroeisd.net

  45. Parent Access • This system will literally email you every time your child receives a grade in the gradebook if you select for it to do so

  46. Dress Code • Critical • Worth the battle if you are a parent • Cannot battle everything • We have to and will enforce • The way a student dresses affects the way he/she feels about education and success

  47. Dress Code • One of the first steps to caring in any area of life is to dress like you care • Always feel free to drop in with food at lunch to see what they are actually wearing four hours later after leaving your house • We are a junior high, not a nightclub • For the most part, a non-issue with our students

  48. Transition to Secondary School • Kids transition quickly • Tardies • 3 free each quarter • 7 minutes between classes (most around) • Resets each nine weeks • First two weeks amnesty

  49. Tardies • Email notification to your Parent Access Account when processed • Normally email comes same day to your email address in our database • Being in class for the first five to ten minutes of instruction/review/plan for the day is critical to academic success • Plans for the day • How it is to be done • What is on the exam • When is the review

  50. Discipline • Follow student handbook • Use good common sense • Administrators, teachers, police, and counselors, are proactive and visible in building

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