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"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself."
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Important Dates
September 10 - 3:00 Axa Financial Presentation in the HS Library
September 12 - School Picture Day
September 17 - Tech Tuesday -Using Google Drive to share files and collaborate
September 24 - Tech Tuesday - Using Google Classroom
September 25 - ELA Data Team Meeting
September 23-27 - Spirit Week
September 27 - Homecoming Football Game
September 28 - Homecoming Dance
September 27 - No School - PD Day
September 30 - No School - Rosh Hashanah
October 3 - 5:00-8:00 - Parent-Teacher Conferences
October 8 - Club/Activity Picture Day
October 9 - No School - Yom Kippur
October 10 - 5:00-8:00 Parent-Teacher Conferences
Important Information
PTO - Our Middle/High school PTO is looking for new members and I encourage all of you to join. The membership cost is $8 and the funds are used to support students and staff. There is no time commitment required for members. However, they are looking for one teacher from the HS to share their perspective and thoughts at monthly meetings. The time commitment is minimal because the meetings typically only run an hour. Let me know if you are interested. Please click here to download the membership form and turn it into the PTO mailbox located in the main office. Thank you.
Evaluation Schedule - The evaluation schedule will be posted this week. In the meantime, please complete your Professional Growth Plans.
Professional Growth Plans - You are scheduled to be formally or informally observed during the 2019-2020 school year. Please be sure to complete your growth plan in your eTPEs account 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.
Teachers with a 2018-2019 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.
Academic Support Forms - The purpose of the Academic Support Form is to provide a systematic procedure for teachers to document interventions initiated with the student. These forms are reviewed on a weekly basis by West Geauga High School's C.A.P. (Counselors, Administrators, Psychologist) team members. The system also serves to:
- document at-risk students
- identify strategies used to help the struggling learner
- notify families when their child is struggling in class
- communicate with families of the struggling learner interventions utilized by the classroom teacher
- provide an opportunity for parents to become involved in the child learning
- notify the CAP team when a student struggles in one or multiple courses
- initiate a process where all students can be successful
Forms are to be completed by teachers when a student begins to struggle in the classroom, when a student continues to struggle for three weeks and then again at six weeks. Continued documentation forms are submitted throughout the year for a student that continues to struggle beyond six weeks.
You will receive an email with a record of your responses. A second email will be received from noreply@westg.org. This second email contains a letter that is automatically generated and sent to your student and his or her parents. Keep this document for your records.
This information can always be found at the top of this website under the page link "Academic Support Form". You may access the above site or click here for a direct link to complete the Academic Support Form.
Return parent calls/emails - When a parent or a student reaches out to you through email or phone, please make sure you reply within 24 hours. Occasionally, we get requests for communication when students will be out for long periods of time due to medical conditions, suspensions, etc. A timely response to a student or family is important and should be a priority. Even if the family is not soliciting a response, a kind "Thank You" or "I will keep this in mind when working with your child" is an appropriate reply.
Suspensions - As Mr. Krippel shared with you at the end of last week, Ohio law and school board policy require students the ability to make up missed assignments, tests, quizzes, and classwork when suspensions occur. Please communicate all missed work with families of suspended students and the students themselves.
Picture Day - School Picture day is Thursday, September 12, 2019. Teachers, please hand out your picture order forms to the students during second period homeroom on Tuesday, September 11, 2018. Pictures will be taken during English classes. Staff, please make sure you get to the school's auxiliary gym sometime during the day to get your picture taken.
Axa Financial Presentation - A presentation will be made to interested staff regarding retirement savings and investments on Tuesday, September 10. Randy Lupi from Axa Financial will meet staff at 3:00 in the HS library.
Good Professional Reading (or Watching)
The Key to Effective Classroom ManagementIs That Higher-Order Task Really Higher Order?
60-Second Strategy: Cooperative Learning Roles
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