OUR VISION

• Lilburn Middle School will become a Professional Learning Community committed to working collaboratively to engage students in learning in order to actualize student potential.

OUR MISSION

• Lilburn Middle School is committed to engaging all students in learning the Academic Knowledge and Skills through research-based best practices with mastery being measured by local, state, national, and world-class standards and re-teaching/reassessing students as needed to actualize their potential.

OUR VALUES

• We use research-based best practices to engage students in learning.

• We build healthy relationships with our students, parents, and community members.

• We provide appropriate interventions to support students in actualizing their potential.

• We collaborate with our colleagues toward building a Professional Learning Community.

Quality Plus Teaching Strategy: Collaboration, Literacy, and Summarizing

Concurrent instruction presents the opportunity to recreate new ways to facilitate collaborative instruction. Read on to see this edition which models how to differentiate learning through a Jigsaw strategy with a focus on collaboration, literacy, and summarizing. Check out how responsible decision making helps students consider the problem they face, explore the options they might select, and think about potential outcomes their choices lead to.

• https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SoEh4tzLRnEKcGrkYIdTRiB9HWTFjGe4/view?usp=sharing

NEW:

Early Release Conferences

Thank you for your professionalism and collaboration with parents during our recent Early Release conferences. We were able to make many connections with parents and develop a plan to help some of our struggling students.

The Synergy Parent mobile app, ParentVUE, is now available for use.

• • The app is available in the Apple App Store, as well as the Google Play Store. It will allow parents, who have a parent portal account, to view schedules, grades, see when assignments are due, view graduation requirements, find missing assignments, and view other important student information. An active parent portal account is required to log in to ParentVUE.

Seating Charts

• In Synergy, teachers have the ability to create a seating chart for each class. The seating chart can be printed by the teacher in Synergy TeacherVUE or by administrative staff in Synergy SIS using report STU419. Instructions are included in the TeacherVUE or SIS – Printing Seating Charts attachment.

Gallup Survey

• • Today is the last day to complete your Gallup Q12 Employee Participation Survey. Please take care of this quick survey today

Students Returning

• We have identified over 300 students who would benefit the most from returning to the building. About 50% of our students elected to remain at home. As of 10/23/20, we have had 117 students to return to the building because of their Q1 performance. Several of you are still making requests for additional students to return, which is understandable given the performance of many students. We are currently working with grade level admin on a case-by case basis for inviting any additional students back to the building. If a student is struggling and will remain digital, please continue to work with them on a plan for mastery from home.

PRIOR WEEK'S REMINDERS:

Mustang Mastery Intervention Program:

• • Lilburn Middle School is excited to have the opportunity to provide interventions for students who have excessive NTI’s, gifted learners, and students who struggle to demonstrate mastery. Students with different learning needs require different intervention approaches, so this intervention program will be targeted to support the needs of learners at Lilburn Middle School. There will be three different options offered as follows:

  • Mustang Mastery Math/ELA Remediation: Students who require skill development in the areas of ELA and MA require direct instruction in the areas of their skill deficit.

  • Mustang Mastery Gifted Learner Skill Development: Gifted learners need explicit instruction in the skills needed to tackle more rigorous tasks and apply their learning in new and different ways.

  • Mustang Mastery Academic Assistance/Study Skills: Learners who have excessive NTIs on major assignments that result in a negatively impacted grade. These students have demonstrated standard proficiency, but struggle with work completion. They can use this opportunity to obtain assistance in completing those outstanding assignments.

Please begin to identify students who could benefit from the program. Make your recommendations to your administrators by indicating this recommendation on your failure report. As discussed in CLT last Tuesday, completed failure reports are due to your grade level admin by October 7th.

• • If you are interested in teaching a section of the Mustang Mastery Program, please complete an application. Teacher selection will begin soon. Applications are due on October 9, 2020. Notification of selection will be made as soon as possible. The application can be found at the link below.

  • https://forms.gle/YRNGjzZZk1k3MHEJA

Attendance Protocol

• Please review this protocol to obtain guidance on accurately marking students' attendance.

PLC Schedule:

• https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wlYcUsPfE41WDhokn4GymRaz46I_jv_qA5WyXheKMWo/edit?usp=sharing

Links to School/Department/Academy Meetings

• Some of us were having trouble with finding the links for meetings that we needed to attend. To help with this, admin has now worked to include these links on the calendar. If you have a meeting, check the calendar and you will be able to get to the link by clicking on the event and the link can be found by going to the event description.

Lost Keys

• Losing your assigned keys brings a security risk to the school and an added expense. Please be aware that there is a $15 fee to replace each key that you lose. You will need to let Mrs. Markitan know if you need to discuss a lost key.

Dress Code

• Please remind student of our school dress code that is in place. If students are out of dress code, please remind them of the appropriate dress code and follow through the disciplinary process.

• Now that students are back in the building, we return to our professional dress. All LMS staff should adhere to the school dress code policy that is outlined in the Staff Handbook. This includes making sure that clothing are the appropriate length, transparency, and fit and that professional attire is worn each day. Spirit wear may be worn with jeans on Fridays. This includes "LMS" or "Mustang" specific clothing, not just clothing that is within school colors.

Morning arrival

• To ensure that we have adequate supervision, teachers should plan to be at their door greeting students. This can be done safely by reminding students to use the directional traffic flow and by keeping a safe distance as students arrive.

HR Compliance

• If you have not completed your HR Compliance videos, LMS Sign-Off, and Safety Awareness Training, please complete these required tasks ASAP.

Tutoring

• • The return of students to the building means that we will need to resume our tutoring. We will continue to offer tutoring at 8:10AM. The following days are still assigned for each content:

Tuesday: Connections

Wednesday: MA/SS

Thursday: LA/SC

Have a MIGHTY MUSTANG Week!