Faculty Meeting August 5, 2013

1. Faculty MeetingAugust 5, 2013 Expecting Success 2013-2014

2. Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude that separates excellence from mediocrity. -Anonymous

3. Meeting Norms • 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.

4. New WES Faculty • Morgan Brown, 2nd Grade • Catalina Pline, 3rd Grade • Hannah Snyder, 5th Grade

5. Standard- Focus on quality to ensure success for all students • 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?

6. Activating Strategy 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.

7. Goal Area I Student Achievement

8. WES Student Data 2012-13

24. 12% Exceeds

25. WES CRCT Exceeds Data

26. Celebrations • 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

27. Goal Area II Stakeholder Engagement and Loyalty

28. Perception Data

29. Attendance

31. 95.5% Days Attended

32. ATTENDANCE INCENTIVES • 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

33. Stakeholder Involvement

34. Parental Involvement • 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.

35. Master WES Calendar Each 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.

36. Goal Area III Efficient and Effective Organizational Processes

37. WES Employee Handbook • 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

38. Teacher/Staff Attendance • 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.

39. Absences You 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.

40. Grade books and Grades • 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

41. Morning Procedures • 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)

42. TRANSPORTATION • 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.

43. Afternoon Dismissal • 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.

44. School-Wide Procedures Take attendance before 8:15 am Students 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.

45. 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. Restroom Teachers should monitor students Recess Teachers are to supervise their students Recess is at an assigned time and place

46. LUNCHROOM PROCEDURES • 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.

47. Parent Contacts • 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.

48. Safety and Security Reminders • 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.

49. Safety and Security (cont.) • 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)

50. Goal Area IV Continuous System and School Improvement