The Book of FMS

1. The Book of FMS 2018-2019

2. Table of Contents FMS “Go to Pros” Special Education IEPs and 504s Advisory ISS Procedures NEE PLC: Professional Learning Communities Standards Based Grading Academic Lab Emergency Procedures Mission, Vision, and Collective Commitments Day-to-Day Operations Staff Expectations Staff Expectations - Calendar Staff Expectations - Subs Staff Expectations -Duty/Supervision PBIS Information/Resources Chromebook Expectations Student Planners

3. Mission, Vision, and Collective Commitments Mission: Educating, Engaging, and Empowering ALL Learners at Escalating Levels! Vision: Fulton Middle School will be an exemplary learning community ensuring a safe and positive academic environment with mutual respect for all. Through partnerships with our families and the community, we are dedicated to providing innovative and engaging experiences to ensure high levels of learning for ALL students. FMS Collective Commitments

4. Day-to-Day Operations Daily Schedule: Here *If you have a class mixed with 7th and 8th graders, you will run both schedules, just wait to do attendance until both students arrive. Schedule of when classes are taught by teacher: HERE Restroom Expectations: ELA classes will take a scheduled bathroom break as a class. All other classes students must use the restroom before class unless extreme emergency. Cellphone Expectations for Students- HERE Visibility to Classroom- Be sure that there is always a line of sight into your classroom during the school day. This means if we are in the hallways, we can see in your room. If the door is shut, we can see in your room. However, when we have a lockdown, we will need all windows covered. This all is for insurance purposes. Radiological plan is located in the staff workroom. Student Dress for Success Student Procedures

5. Dress • Professional dress to impress; gentlemen collared shirts and/or ties. • Fridays or last day of the week are SPIRIT days. IF YOU WEAR black and gold or a FPS spirit shirt, you can wear jeans (nice without rips/holes/etc). • What not to wear: Shorts (unless PE teachers), Shorty-short skirts/dresses, low cut tops, undergarments showing, plastic flip flops, hats (unless part of costume hook), wrinkly clothes. Attendance • Must be done (PLEASE so we don’t send a call home to parents and make them freak out) within the first 5 minutes of class. Staff Expectations

6. Grades/Data Wall • Updated every three weeks. • Data wall updated per team guidelines Times • For certified teachers and paras, the minimum expectation is for you to be in the building 15 minutes before the school day begins and 15 minutes after the day is complete. This means 7:35-3:25 unless you have a scheduled duty. Parking • We have street parking and the staff parking lot. • If you arrive to school after 7:30, you will not be able to make a left turn into our staff parking lot. Staff Expectations continued

7. Email • All email is for FPS business only. • Please check email at the beginning, middle and end of day. • Do not put anything in an email that you wouldn’t want read in a courtroom. • FMS News goes to everyone in the building and other admins in the district. • District News is only for official district business. This goes to everyone. • Bulletin Board is for when you need something not so official. (ie selling stuff, looking for a resource, etc.)--do not do during school day • Email “Helpdesk” with any Technology questions. • Reply to sender vs. Reply to all • Don’t leave email open Cell Phone Use • Please only use cell phones during class to take pictures for social media or as an education tool. Personal use should be during plan time/lunch/etc. Staff Expectations continued

8. When putting events on FMS Events (which goes on the APP), always put FMS first. EXAMPLE 8th grade event night-- FMS 8th Grade History Night Then be sure the time is correct IE 6PM-8PM (don’t put am or all day) Staff Expectations Calendars All Student events are on this calendar: Hello FMS News, We are writing to let you know that bhouf@fulton58.org has given you access to view events on the Google Calendar called "FMS Events Calendar". Click this link to add the calendar. - The Google Calendar Team All Staff events are on this calendar: Hello FMS News, We are writing to let you know that bhouf@fulton58.org has given you access to view events on the Google Calendar called "FMS Staff Calendar". Click this link to add the calendar. continued

9. Weekly Newsletter • A weekly staff newsletter will come out by 2:00pm on Sunday. Our goal is to keep our meetings designated to learning. In order for this to happen, thank you so much for reading email. Nobody likes a meeting that could be an email. • Team Newsletters need to go out on Fridays by 3:10. Staff Expectations continued

10. Sub Plans: Please make a copy of the FMS Sub Plan Template, and use it each time you will require a guest teacher. Here Please fill out completely, and make sure to have up-to-date rosters for each of your classes in your sub binder. Also, any necessary accommodations for students with IEPs/504s should be included in your plans. Share all sub plans with Beth Houf, Erica Hogan, and Tracy Hook. Sample: Here Non-example: Here Staff Expectations Sub Situations: I’m Sick and Need a Sub: • Put it in Kelly Services (not both) • Text Beth (573-220-8474) • Sick leave must be put in by 6:30 am or plan to come in until a sub can get here. (emergency situations come up and we will help with that) I Need a Personal Day: • Week’s notice unless extenuating circumstances • Follow guidelines that will be given by district I Need Professional Leave: • Enter into Kelly/AESOP and SIS ASAP :) continued

11. LUNCH ROOM • Lunch: All teachers please bring their students to the lunchroom and hand off to a person on duty. • All 6th Grade teachers will take 4th hour class down to the cafeteria. All 6th grade teachers are on lunch duty from 11:21 - 11:25 until Yore , GYates, Moebes, Evans - 1st and 3rd Quarter, Raebel get down to the lunch room. • 7th Grade Lunch Duty - Keith, Barker, Wisdom, Clark • 8th Grade Lunch Duty - Barkho, Cathey, Shrout, Lorentzen, Crowson - 2nd and 4th Quarter Duty Schedule Staff Expectations Daily Supervision ExpectationsHere • 7:45 All staff are to be at their doors greeting students, ready for the day. (Hooks ready on boards) • Between the bells, all are to be in the hallways actively supervising students and greeting students as they come into your room. If students are also coming into your room, you should be able to see both areas. We also need to monitor restrooms during passing periods. (Crowson/H.Yates-8th corner, LaMear/Luster-8th grade other corner, Chapman/Shrout, Parkes/Hoskins) continued

12. Plan Times 1st plan period is independent (lesson planning, calling parents, meet w/staff, post-conference w/observations, IEPs etc.) 2nd plan period is team/dept Team/Dept Plan Expectations Team Wednesdays (1, 3, 6, 7 periods) Staff Expectations PBIS hallway expectations should be reminded/taught/redone. Teachers need to pick up their students. Hook Boards: Write your best hook each day to get your students excited about the lesson. Learning Target Expectation All staff should either post learning target with student friendly language in classroom OR have another means of doing this. These targets should not be wallpaper. continued

13. Sunshine/Social Fund @ FMS Sunshine/Social Fund dues are $30.00 for the year and can be paid in cash or check to Ms. Jo in Guidance. Checks can be made out to FMS Social Committee. This fund is used for baby, wedding and retirement gifts. It also provides for memorial donations or sympathy gifts at the loss of immediate family members. Thank you in advance for your participation. Staff Expectations Custodial/Maintenance • All maintenance orders need to be emailed to Beth/Tracy and then will be forwarded to Tim. • Please have students stack chairs at the end of the day and pick up trash. The custodians are not here to clean up after our students, but to keep our school looking amazing. • BLUEtrash cans are for paper to be recycled. BLACKtrash cans are for trash. continued

14. PBIS Information Matrix: Here Flowchart: Here Pyramid of Interventions: Here Positive Referral: Here Hornet Bucks for Positive Referral: Here Hornet Bucks for Teachers: Here

15. PBIS Information Reward System • Students earn Hornet Bucks for doing what is expected. These can be cashed in at the Thrive Hive and Hornet Reward Store, given to his/her house or entered in the PBIS Friday Drawings. • Students earn FMS Positive Referrals for going above and beyond expectations OR going above and beyond/making improvement. The goal is to write at least one positive referral per day and send the student with the referral to the assistant principal’s office. If you write the referral after the student leaves, put the referral in Ms. Hogan’s mailbox or give to Mrs. Koontz. • FMS Encouragement System Explained

16. PBIS Resources PBIS Set up for Success New Staff Presentation from RPDC: https://goo.gl/BmzRMg 30 Classroom Procedures to Head Off Behavior Problems: https://goo.gl/YJnN8z 10 Classroom Procedures That Will Save Your Sanity: https://goo.gl/ZdKU8y NEA’s Classroom Procedures:https://goo.gl/WR2jbw Classroom Procedures Checklist:https://goo.gl/HyEV8d 8 Essential Classroom Practices:

17. Thrive Hive and Reward Store The Thrive Hive is a store where students can not only purchase prizes or things they want, but also things they might need to thrive. The term thrive means to “flourish and grow well”. The items we carry in our store help our students do just that. Items we carry for this purpose are things such as school supplies, food (similar items to what would go in a buddy bac-pac), health/hygiene, seasonal clothing, etc. Our goal in allowing students to purchase these items is to provide them with necessities to help take care of some of their immediate needs in order to help them focus on being successful students. The PBIS reward store has also had a positive impact on our student body with behavior. Students with the use of Hornet Bucks are able to buy rewards such as: hat pass, sit in the teacher chair, FMS rockstar, coffee shop hot chocolate, teacher helper, cool tube at lunch, lunch seconds, nice outside/eat outside and many more. Having the Thrive Hive and PBIS reward store has helped decrease negative behavior, helped increase instruction time, and increased the positive culture at FMS. The store is open every morning 7:30 to 7:45. Students can also email Mrs. Yates, Mrs. Horstmeier or Ms. Jo for an appointment during the day. We also accept donations if you have items you no longer want in your home.

18. Chromebook Expectations There will be three Chromebooks per classroom for students to use if they do not have a CB or if they forgot or did not charge the CB. If a student has multiple instances of not bringing a CB or not charging the CB, please notify parent and admin. If it continues, please write a referral for not being prepared for class. If a student breaks his/her CB then they need to take it to the library to fill out a work order. Ms. Lairmore will work with tech to get it fixed. In the meantime, students will use the classroom CB as needed. GoGuardian All staff will have GoGuardian up when students are working individually on CB’s and monitor use. Follow the PBIS matrix for violations.

19. Student Planners Students will have a planner with gold folder that goes home each day. • Teachers should have students write the learning target/independent practice/next steps in the planner the last two minutes of each period. • All students must have planner as a hall pass with the date and time filled out in the back w/teacher signature. • If a student loses a planner, student can use any sort of “planner” to write assignments and use as a hall pass.

20. FMS “Go to Pros” 1. Google Suite (Classroom, Docs, etc.) - Jeremiah Hoskins, Josh Howard 2. Orders, budgets, contacts, etc. - Tracy Hook 3. ISS assignments/students - Karen Koontz 4. Supplies, student schedules - Ms. Jo 5. CPI/De-Escalation- Lucy Shrout 6. Flexible Seating--Mollye Doering 7. StuCo--Barb Barkho or Amber Keith 8. Breakfast/Lunch--Pat Garner 9. Computer Issues--HelpDesk via email 10. SIS--Beth Windmann 11. NWEA- Beth Houf 12. STAR (testing and reports) - Erica Hogan, Trish Alexander 13. SPED requirements/process - Meg Plybon 14. Social Media (Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook) -Beth Houf 15. Thrive Hive & Store - Heather Yates, Stephanie Horstmeier, Ms Jo 16. PBIS - Erica Hogan, Stephanie Horstmeier, Heather Yates, Meg Plybon 17. PLC - Beth Houf and Erica Hogan 18. HIVE tutoring - Kristin Clark 19. PD/CEU Log - Kristin Clark 20: Data Binders - Kristin Clark, Angie Parkes 21: Ambassadors - Marena Crawford, Stephanie Horstmeier 22. Grading - Jeremiah Hoskins, Beth Windmann

21. They will explain the accommodations and modifications to you, and it is your responsibility to make sure these are being implemented in your classroom at all times. If you are planning to test and you have a student that requires testing accommodations outside of the classroom, you must let the case manager know at least one week before the test will take place. You will have a SpEd teacher in your weekly Grade Level TEAM meetings. This is a great time to get questions answered concerning special education. The SpEd teachers welcome your questions at anytime. Special Education IEPs There are five Special Education Teachers at FMS: Meg Plybon, Catlin Wisdom, Angie Raebel, Katherine Winfrey, and Tessa Burgher. Each of these teachers has a caseload. If you have a student in your class who has an Individual Education Plan (IEP), their Case Manager will provide you with a copy of their accommodations and modifications before the start of the year.

22. Student 504s 504 or SPED Referrals by Parents If a parent/guardian asks for a 504 or IEP, immediately notify the counselors and principal. (immediately as in within the minute:) We are under strict time bound guidelines for referrals. FMS has two school counselors, Marena Crawford and Stephanie Horstmeier. These two ladies also serve as 504 Coordinators for students with a 504. The two counselors divide up students by last name. Mrs. Horstmeier works with students last name A-L and Mrs. Crawford works with students M-Z. If you have a student in your class who has a 504 plan, their assigned counselor/504 coordinator will provide you with a copy of their accommodation plan before the start of the year. They will explain the accommodations to you, and it is your responsibility to make sure these are being implemented in your classroom at all times. Students that have a 504 plan will also have a 504 icon in SIS. A teacher can click on that icon and also find the 504 plan there as well. You will have both counselors in your weekly Grade Level TEAM meetings. This is a great time to get questions answered concerning students and their 504 plans

23. Advisory/Homeroom - 1st Period 1st period: 7:50-8:55/ 7:50-8:58 Announcements will begin at 7:50, then the advisory lesson. • Pledge and Announcements • {Wellness}August-Sept Global School Read Aloud of Fish in a Tree, daily. • Focus of the Day (Advisory Calendar) Mondays: August-May Data Binders and Goal Setting Tuesdays: August-May Digital Citizenship Wednesdays:August- May Second Steps lessons Thursdays: August- May Second Steps lessons Fridays: August-May Catch up day, Read aloud, data binders, Second Steps, Choose Kind activity and Digital Citizenship. etc.

24. Advisory/Homeroom

25. ISS Procedures • Teachers are expected to provide all work needed for that student the day before by the end of 8th Hour. There is a bin in next to the copy machine in Karen's office to place the assignments. Also note if they will need a book,Chromebook, Google Classroom, worksheets, etc For example if Beth Houf is in ISS for the next 5 days please have her work before the end of the day before so the office has work prepared for her tomorrow. • If the student has an IEP/504 and has modifications, you the teacher need to make the modifications. Example: If Beth Houf needs assignments shortened, you need to shorten them. • Realize that the student will be in ISS the entire day, so send enough work for the student to complete, but don't just send busy work. For example, saying the student needs to do math problems 1-10 and it will only take them 15 minutes to complete the problems, you are setting the ISS Instructor up for failure. You will need to remember the student still needs whatever to succeed in your class.

26. ISS Procedures • Please email Karen and Mr. Cannon if the assignment is on Google Classroom instead of a paper assignment. Please give specific assignment instructions so that Mr. Cannon will be able to know what you expect from the student. • Please stop by during your plan to make sure the student understands the assignment and build that relationship. Also, if the student was sent out of your room, this is a great time to discuss why their actions were not acceptable in your classroom and how in the future we can develop a plan so the issue will not come up again. The last thing you want is the student to come back to class without that relationship, realize students will not learn if they think you don't care about them. • Remember, that we have ISS in our building, so we need to make sure that we have work provided for our students and help make the student successful, since they are missing out on classroom instruction. • Sometimes there are situations where a student will be assign ISS in the middle of the day. It would be a good idea to have work available everyday in case this happens with one of your students. • Do not have students bring work to the ISS room.

27. NEE: Network for Educator Effectiveness: Click Here for Info 2018-2019 Indicators of Focus Indicators for FMS: 1.2, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.4 https://www.smore.com/kg8tz-nee-indicator-1-2 https://www.smore.com/0zzu7-nee-indicator-4-1 https://www.smore.com/cq3nd-nee-indicator-5-1 https://www.smore.com/4a0t7-nee-indicator-5-2 https://www.smore.com/bcbs2-nee-indicator-7-4 NEE Network for Educator Effectiveness

28. PLC: Professional Learning Communities

29. PLC: Professional Learning Communities

30. Data Teaming at FMS Click HERE for directions.

31. Curriculum Supports to be ready for Standards Based Grading This section is to assist you as you are taking your content standards and writing learning targets. Why SBG... Standards Based Grading

32. SBG: Depth of Knowledge Depth of Knowledge Below is a DOK chart that lists the levels of knowledge (rigor) and sample verbs to use when writing learning targets.

33. SBG: Unpacking Standards • List all the essential skills (verbs and action phrases) needed to demonstrate the standard. • Look at your standards and circle the verbs to identify what the standard wants the students to do. • Then underline the action phrases for the specific information the students need to demonstrate mastery. • Rewrite the standard like bullet points using each verb as a separate objective for the specific requirement of the standard. • Example: • Support claims with logical reasoning with relevant evidence • Use accurate and credible sources • Demonstrate an understanding of the topic or text 2. Identify the DOK levels of each skill. • Evaluate each learning target using the DOK Chart to make sure you are moving beyond recall and having the students think deeper. • Example: • Support claims with logical reasoning with relevant evidence, DOK 2 • Use accurate and credible sources, DOK 1 • Demonstrate an understanding of the topic or text, DOK 3

34. SBG: Unpacking Standards cont. 3. Extend the learning progression by building cognitively complex target(s) OR what to do when students already know the information: • Brainstorm targets that extend learning and require students to apply and integrate the content of the standards. • Cognitively complex target(s) require students to engage in higher levels of thinking than the academic standards so consider verbs that are identified in level 4 of the DOK chart above. • You may want to consider ways the learning goal targets might be used in the real world. • DO NOT add new content because students should only extend the level of processing related to the content knowledge they already possess. 4. Integrate the remaining knowledge and other basic processes to provide the underpinning necessary to reach the essential skills. • The essential knowledge (nouns) identified in the standards when unpacking them determines the specific vocabulary needed for recall and proficiency. • New terminology implied to be added to a list of vocabulary needed for a student to become proficient. • Once you have compiled the list, determine which terms are essential for growth and how they can be connected to previous information taught or background knowledge. • Identify other foundational learning targets that will assist who struggle access the standard. Those targets should be used to help a student move toward proficiency in a standard. • Example, Using the targets above in step 1 for guidance a student might need to show proficiency on: • Difference between a sources of information • Difference between a fact and opinion • Identifying a topic of research • Identifying a claim

35. HERE Nurse Guidelines

36. HERE Academic Lab

37. HERE Golden Hashtag

38. HERE Will be updated Building Goals

39. HERE Focus Teams