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"Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed." -Corita Kent
Important Dates
August 27 - Department Chair Meeting - 2:35 Principal's Conference Room
August 28 - Open House 7:00 to 9:00
August 29 - PLCs begin - 7:15 to 8:00
August 31 - No School - Fair Day
August 31 - Marching Band on Fox 8
September 3 - No School - Labor Day
September 10 - No School - Rosh Hashanah
September 11 - Staff Meeting
September 13 - Picture Day
September 19 - No School - Yom Kippur
September 21 - Homecoming Parade/Football Game
September 22 - Homecoming Dance
Important Information
Opening - Thank you all for a great opening to the school year. The care in which you welcomed back our students was obvious. The students are happy to be in school and excited to be in your classrooms. Continue to reach each child every day!
Staff Links - Throughout the year, you will likely need access to documents, forms, website logins,etc. Sean Whelan has placed a link at the top of our website that is devoted to assisting staff in accessing this information. Be sure to click here to find out what is available to you.
Staff Links - Throughout the year, you will likely need access to documents, forms, website logins,etc. Sean Whelan has placed a link at the top of our website that is devoted to assisting staff in accessing this information. Be sure to click here to find out what is available to you.
Work Order Requests - If you need to fix a non-technical item in your classroom or the building, you will need to submit a work order. Work orders can be submitted by accessing this link. All staff has been issued a login. Your username is your email address. Your password is 12345 if you have never logged in before. If you have logged in and can not remember your password, click Send Password Reset Link.
Tech Work Orders - If you need help with anything tech related (computers, printers, projectors, logins, etc.) please complete a Technology Reporting and Support Ticket. This link is also found under the Staff Link at the top right of the website.
Open House - Open house will take place this Tuesday from 7:00 - 9:00 P.M. Parents have been asked to report to the library between 6:45 and 7:00 to pick up schedules with the first class bell ringing at 7:00. Please have available any textbooks and/or resources you expect your students to bring home or use in class. Explain where students and parents can find class documents, website and presentations online. Discuss how your parents can view your Google Classroom, Twitter accounts and/or sign up for the class Remind 101 accounts. Your classrooms and hallway bulletin boards should be decorated with relevant classroom materials. Joyce will print name tags and parent sign in sheets for each teacher. Here is the parent flyer containing the bell schedule that has been distributed to families.
Parent Contact - Parents can be your best partners when working to see your students reach their potential. It is important to develop positive relationships with all of your students' parents. You can begin this process by sending home an email introducing yourself. Be sure to include some goals and outcomes you will work hard to have their children achieve throughout the year. It is great to see that many of you send out weekly emails describing assignments and noting upcoming tests and quizzes. Keep it up! Don't forget to include your contact information in the event they need to reach you. Here are some additional resources used to build positive relationships with your parents.
Calendar - If you advise a club, group or have events that need to be on the school calendar, please send information to Lisa Porter so it can be placed on the high school's calendar.
Your WG Calendar - Be sure you have access to West Geauga High School's Parent/Student Calendar and Staff Calendars. You can easily add these to your school Google Calendar. You are expected to accept or decline appointments when invited to events by colleagues and administration. Please see Lisa Porter if you have trouble accessing any of these calendars.
School Safety Drills - Please take some time in all of your classes to discuss school safety drills that will occur throughout the year. These drills include tornado, fire and ALICE. Safety drill information is posted in your classroom near your door and should be used as reference. ALICE information is posted in the Teacher Opening Day Folder and needs to be review prior to discussing with your students. We will have a fire drill at 10:10 on Monday, August 27th and a Tabletop ALICE drill at 9:00 on Tuesday. Please be prepared for both.
Professional Growth Plans - You are scheduled to be formally or informally observed during the 2018-2019 school year. Please be sure to complete your growth plan prior to September 30th and schedule a day to review the document with me. When we meet, please have a few dates and times that are available for your first observation.
You will need to establish two goals when creating your growth plan. The first goal should address Student Outcomes/Achievement and the second goal needs to reflect Teacher Performance on the Ohio Standards for the Teaching Profession.
Please be sure to include building goals that were discussed on Convocation Day.
Here is an example of a completed Professional Growth Plan.
Click here for more information regarding the Professional Growth Plan.
Click here to access Ohio's Teacher Evaluation System's Model documentation.
Teachers with a 2017-2018 OTES Rating of Skilled or Accomplished will develop their Growth Plan independently. Teacher with a rating of Developing will work with their assigned evaluator to complete the Growth Plan.
PLC's - PLC's begin this week. Every Wednesday morning is an opportunity to collaborate with peers in order to improve students learning. Please be prompt to each 7:15 PLC meeting as your time and input are extremely valuable to the collaboration process. Specifically, you will want to address the following during your PLC meetings:
- Standards to be taught in upcoming weeks
- Updated pacing guides with thought to instructional practices for upcoming lessons
- Upcoming formative and summative assessments. Also, data from given assessments and strategies to reteach struggling students and strategies to enrich successful students.
- Focus on Results - Dufour
- What is it we expect our students to learn?
- How will we know they learned it?
- How will we respond when some students do not learn?
- How will we respond when some students already know it?
Student Needs Electronic Signature - Please complete this form after you have reviewed all IEP's, health plans, and/or 504's for students in your classes this year. Be sure to have any questions answered by the case manager or administration prior to completing the form.
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