Staff News and Announcements
Staff News and Announcements
Embedded Files
Need to Know
Need to Know
Building Collaboration for December:
- December 2nd: Building Collaboration meetings (7:05 AM)
- December 4th: Building Collaboration meetings (Watch Mr. Cooper's Rock Talk - 7:05 AM)
- December 6th: Team of 8 Challenge meeting (7:05 AM - info will be sent this week to team connectors)
- December 9th, 11th and 13th: Building Collaboration meetings (7:05 AM)
- December 13th: Big Rock Focus Team meetings (7:05 AM)
- December 16th: Building Collaboration meetings (7:05 AM)
- December 18th: No Building Collaboration meetings
- December 20th: RockStar Celebration meeting (7:05 AM)
Tuesday, December 3rd: District Leadership Team meeting (9:30 AM - Central Office)
Tuesday, December 3rd: Building Fusion Team meeting (2:35 PM - KIVA)
Tuesday, December 3rd: Junior Parent College Planning meeting (7:00 PM)
This Week in Connect Time :
- December 4th- Lots of information in these plans, please be sure to look at them as all teachers will be effected
- Upcoming , December 11th will be a double Connect Session day. Teachers will only need to plan for one 30 minute session. With final exams upcoming it may be worthwhile to think about students who may need pulled into content specific help sessions.
MHS OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) for the 2019-2020 school year
Improve Your Instruction
Improve Your Instruction
- Why It's Imperative We All Learn to Be "Emotion Scientists"
- How One-on-One Time With Students Made Me a Better Teachers
- Helping Students Track Their Own Learning
- Yes, Personalized Learning and Standards Can Co-exist - Blog by Allison Zmuda
- December Teacher Collaboration Time - Are you looking for colleagues to collaborate with during Tuesday/Thursday Collaboration time? Wanting to share ideas, brainstorm, develop lessons, have meaningful discussions and connect with colleagues? Feel free to add to the wall if you have something that you would like to open up to others for collaboration. Just click on the plus sign under the date in which you are wanting to collaborate, and add the brief description and location.
- Do you want to push yourself to grow and improve? The Never-Ending Conference is a great way to follow your own professional growth trail. You are able to present an area of expertise or attend a session. The opportunity is yours. Don't miss out!
Safety First
Safety First
-During the Dec. 11th Connect Time, we will be reviewing A.L.I.C.E with the students. Please use the following SlideShow for information and table top discussion. Dec. 11th
As we continue to examine Safety practices at MHS, we will be having tourniquet training for the building during the week of December 9th-13th from 7:05 am to 7:35 am. Mason Fire in collaboration with Mason PD will be running the training with support from the school nurses. We have divided up by departments, so please report to the Harvard room on your designated day. We are doing it by Department (as opposed to by Pods), to still allow for two days of department collaboration time for the week. The American Red Cross website provides excellent information if you are interested in additional resources. We will cover many of these aspects during the training.
Schedule:
December 9th (Monday) 7:05 am-7:35 am
Business Department
Visual Arts Department
Language Arts
World Language
Admin Assistants
December 11th (Wednesday) 7:05 am-7:35 am
Perform Arts Department
Intervention Department- all teachers plus other support staff
Mathematics Department
Science Department
December 13th (Friday) 7:05 am-7:35 am
Social Studies
Learning Commons Staff
ESL Department
Guidance Department
Teacher Academy/Biomedical
Health/P.E. Department
Administration
Big Rock Connection
Big Rock Connection
Culture Team:
"If this isn't happening in you, it won't happen through you." ---Tim Kight (<--- click to watch the video)
As we begin to present the R-Factor System to the students, we encourage you to participate in the journey, begin to use the system in your personal lives, and share your experience with your students. The next Connect Time dedicated to student R-Factor training is January 22.
Inclusive Excellence Team: As we talk more about the E +R=0, we hope that you will continue to Step up to Bias, and use the R to Educate! We continue to work to use our responses to teach others about how words matter, and to take responsibility for the impact that words have.
Personalized Learning Team:
As the semester winds down, consider creating space for students to sketch concept maps. A concept map/mind map supports learning by boosting voice, co creation, social construction, and self discovery.
Voice: All students have room to voice their ideas about the concept.
Co-creation: Teacher and students can use the map to gauge understanding and make decisions about what needs more focus.
Social Construction: Students can build understanding by combining ideas onto one concept map.
Self Discovery: Making connections between ideas challenges depth of thinking. Students are challenged to “Aha!” learning moments in the challenge to explain connections between seemingly distinct ideas.
These can also be created through online apps such as Canva.
Wellness Moment
Wellness Moment
Check out these nine stress management tips every teacher should know.
If you are interested in staff yoga, check out the scheduled classes and sign up online.
Counselor's Corner
Counselor's Corner
Freshman counselors visited World History classrooms this week to introduce the idea of Final Exams in regards to study and test taking strategies; how Finals Week looks on a daily basis; and how to get some extra help. Freshmen are invited to Finals Countdown on December 2-5 and again on 9-12 from 2:30-3:30 in the B 2 pod. NHS students and teachers will be there to assist and help Freshman study for exams.
Sophomores interested in applying to Scarlet Oaks and did not attend the meeting, can see Sally Clark in the guidance office for more information. We will be taking a field trip January 24 for all who are interested but applications for programs are open now.
Junior College Planning Meeting will be held on December 3 at 7:00 pm in the High School Auditorium.
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