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Judaic Faculty meeting

Judaic Faculty meeting. Rabbi Akevy Greenblatt August 2009. Agenda. Welcome Mission Administrative Details School partnership Goals Good to Great . Welcome . Dvar Torah Working as a team Trust a) Strengths and weaknesses b) Opening up Sharing

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Judaic Faculty meeting

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  1. Judaic Faculty meeting Rabbi Akevy Greenblatt August 2009

  2. Agenda • Welcome • Mission • Administrative Details • School partnership • Goals • Good to Great

  3. Welcome • Dvar Torah • Working as a team • Trust a) Strengths and weaknesses b) Opening up • Sharing a) What inspires you b) greatest moment

  4. Mission Statement • The co-educational Lower School division features a caring yet rigorous environment designed to meet the diverse needs of the Memphis Jewish community and highly attuned to the individual needs of every student. Its innovative curricula and extracurricular programming actively nurture curiosity and creativity, community and camaraderie, while facilitating maximal student learning in a full array of General and Judaic studies.

  5. Administrivia First and Last • The health of an organization is that its meetings are productive – Patrick Lenciconni • In the future faculty meetings will be a time to reflect on curriculum and student needs

  6. Faculty Handbook • Sick and personal day Please call me as early as possible . Judaic substitutes are hard to find Call my cell (901) 229-1174 • Emergency Policies • You must be here 15 min. before you are scheduled to start teaching • You need to call and let me know if you are not going to be here for davening

  7. Faculty Handbook • Hallway pass • Parent Orientation First week in September All handouts due by the end of the first week Curriculum outline Rules and regulations Grading policies • Google Calendar

  8. Classroom Responsibilities • Supervision The class can never be left unsupervised • Decorum in the Hallways • Weekly class newsletters • Class rules and discipline plan • Soin a) attendance b) homework c) grades d) communication

  9. Classroom Responsibilities • Lesson plans • Learner plans ( Express what students actually learned at the end of each unit) • Tests and quizzes a) Please submit to me a copy of all tests and quizzes as well as the grades each student received • All home communication ( handouts, emails newsletter need to be approved by me first ) • Grading policies • H.W. policies

  10. Pop ins Formal Evaluation Summative Evaluation Teacher Evaluations

  11. Non Classroom Responsibilities • Lunch and recess Duty • Class recess • Safety • Classrooms locked • School newsletter

  12. Miscellaneous • Classroom set up • Book Inventory • Faculty meeting schedule • Support staff • Maintenance Email all service or supply requests to me and I will forward them to Steve • Programs Middah of the month • Monday

  13. Professionalism • Being on time • Meeting deadlines • Adhering to the schedule • Following policies and procedures

  14. School Partnership • Parents Students and Teachers

  15. Parent Communication • Newsletters Google Translate • Soin • Phone calls • Formal communication • Informal communication

  16. Goals Goals bring about Change • Divisional goals a) To focus more on student learning 2. Personal goals

  17. Good to Great • Jim Collins in his book Good to Great says the following “Indeed the real question is not Why Greatness but what work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness. If you have to ask the question why should we make it great isn’t success enough? Then you are probably engaged in the wrong line of work

  18. Thank you and I look forward to traveling with you on the journey towards excellence and becoming A Great School

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