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HU Flight 2122 possibly emerging from the early school year
clouds and turbuance - but keep you seat belts on just in case.
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Thank you ALL for your incredible work to start the 21-22’ school year with care, high expectations and a clear focus on fostering strong relationships so all students can feel safe - seen, heard, respected and understood. As we walk around the building we observe your commitment in both your BIG and small actions.
- Use of circles during TA
- Efforts to create a diverse selection of Flex block options and the lift to actually bring them to fruition today
- Your circulation during class when you prompt, support and answer students questions
- Focus on ensuring clarity of details for ELO next Wednesday
- In the consistent use of the awesome weekly TA calendar and slideshows
- Your quick efforts to learn your student’s names and use them during classes
As we all continue to adjust to our full school schedule with masks we also encourage you to continue to take breaks outside - for your health and our students AND use them to continue to build relationships ;)
With ongoing gratitude! Meg, Laurie and Duane
Important Information Staff Handbook To Do: | Thank you all for your patience as we finalized the 21-22’ Staff Handbook. This document is the first place we should all go when we have a question about procedures or expectations. Please review and sign off that you have read and understand. | Friendly Reminder to ALL. | If you see a child without a mask - even student athletes at the end of the day please remind them to mask up. Ensuring our continued safety is a collective effort. Remember:
If students struggle to meet this norm after being reminded by a staff member, we will contact home to collectively consider support. If staff need to remind students more than two times - families will be contacted and students sent home. | Preparing for Book Club on 9/21 TO DO: | If you haven’t already please grab your “So, you want to talk about Race” book from your mailbox.
Our Staff Book Club meeting will be during our staff meeting on 9/21. To prepare for our next meeting please read chapter 3 “What if I talk about Race Wrong”.
We are excited for this to be a FULL staff experience. Friendly reminder to Support Staff to complete time sheets with Shannon so you are compensated for this time. |
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Staff Member | Appreciations | Bean and Cullen | For your responsiveness to all our facilities needs including the minutiae of putting out our outside folding chairs again | Skylar | For diving into the “deep end” on day one & for putting away the lawn games each day | Lisa Therrien | For being a team player and jumping in everywhere in order to save the day | Liz | For taking on the front office with consistency and a smile and approaching each challenge with a sense of calm and patience
| Jess & Jon | For your incredible attention to detail as you logisticized ELO and Flex Block | Mari, Adam, Steve and Brian | For your spontaneous help unloading our new cafeteria furniture when it arrived unexpectedly at the start of the day | Justin | For being a one man show and meeting all our “tech” needs from setting up sign in sheets and updating our website to distributing devices and figuring out our voicemails! | Mari | For being the best Bus Herder This side of the Mississippi. | Vicki | For finally understanding that your “team” is no better than the other PA team that will not be mentioned here - and that there is only one true team. |
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Curious Topics | Information/Links | Contact(s) | TA plan for next week | Announcements! Please read new announcements every day! It is disheartening to hear students (more than I want to imagine) sharing that the announcements are rarely or never read during advisory time. Please add the daily announcements to your morning routine.
Appreciation! I appreciate the time and dedication you are all putting into the welcome meetings with families. I know this makes for long days. Family connections are incredibly important. Hopefully these meetings have helped to create or maintain positive relationships with our students and families. Connection Activity of the Week
Offer students a chance to close their eyes and imagine themselves in any place in the world that they’d like to go to at that moment. Guide them through a mini- visualization and elicit sensory details in their imagination : “What does the air feel like?” Have them open their eyes and share one detail about the place and why they might want to be there now. **The Institute for Social and Emotional Learning. All Rights Reserved.
Community/Team builder Activity Enemy and Defender Invite everyone to begin moving around in any direction. After a short time, tell everyone to freeze. Tell everyone to silently identify two people in the room: Person 1 will be their worst enemy, Person 2 will be their defender. They should not give away who they have chosen. Everyone resumes moving. Their goal is to stay safe by always keeping their defender between them and their enemy. After a few minutes yell "Freeze! again" Ask how many people met the goal, and ask them to point at their two people.
Advisory Slideshows:
Links to the TA slideshows will always be in the blog. This provides another point of access to ensure that you can locate resources easily. Remember that they are a work in progress and will be mapped out in monthly increments.
Middle School 9th Grade 10th Grade 11th Grade 12th Grade
| Ellen & TA leads | ELO & Flex updates | ELO starts Wednesday! Here are some reminders, with new information highlighted. Please read carefully! Every third week, each department will hold full classes for all their courses (this ensures that all students will have some course bookings each week) - This rotation will be pre-booked for you, and is already done for this week - English, World Language, Art, and Connected Learning departments. On other weeks, teachers must book at least 5 students per teacher per class (but you can book up to your full class if wanted; if you can’t identify at least 5 specific students to work with, you are encouraged to book your whole class). All study halls will hold their same regular study hall with the same students - these are pre-booked for you. Each week, pre-booking for courses must happen by Monday 3pm (ex. booking block 3 students to ELO 3). “Open season” booking (booking non-course students or students for other blocks) can occur from Mon 3pm-Tues AM. Students finish booking themselves in TA Tuesday morning (TA teachers double-check - any student who is not fully booked, the TA should complete their booking so that all blocks are filled). ALL students must be booked every block!
Highly recommend for everyone! After pre-booking students, choose “edit session” for each ELO session and update the capacity (I pre-set this to 40 due to some large sections). Lower it to the total number in your class, or a few more than you have booked to allow additional students from your class to opt to see you. Also include a “note” (students will see this) if you are working on something in particular during ELO.
If you’re out on a Wednesday If you know you’re going to be out, please still pre-book students according to guidelines above, and include sub plans for these blocks. If you are unexpectedly out, the students booked to you will remain, and a sub will cover the blocks. This includes if you are hosting a study space, lab, or active option for ELO.
Shared Staff/Middle School
I will be adding in ELO Wednesday blocks for every Wednesday through the semester very soon… just trying to get through this Wednesday first (so I can learn from any mistakes!).
Flex Block #1 last Friday was (generally) a success! I’m sifting through change request emails, so some rosters may change slightly for Tuesday. Scoring sheets and guidelines to come in the next week or so. | Jess | TA conferences | If you have reached out to families and they have expressed that they don't' feel the need to meet now - you do NOT need to complete an EST referral. If you have reached out to families without any response please note in the google form. If you have concerns that arose during the conference - please capture in the google form
Here is the various links for TA conference forms if you would like to access them:
Middle School (7th/8th) Class of 2022 Class of 2023 Class of 2024 Class of 2025
| Melody Frank | 2 week calendar Reminder - can also be found in our shared FacStaff google calendar | Mon, Sept 13 - Collective Leadership Meeting 3:30 Tues, Sept 14 - Staff Meeting - 3:30 - 4:30 Wedn, Sept 15 - HUUSD school board - 6 - 9 via Zoom Fri, Sept 17 - Middle School to Res- 10:00 - 1:30 |
| | Safety Drill information coming out this week. | Protocols and instructions for our first drill will be coming out this week. Disignated drill locations will be included. We will let everyone know when the first drill will be. Please review the information with your TA. |
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| Students email passwords | Password Syntax: (all lower case) <first initial><last initial><Powerschool ID><first initial of the school> Example: John Smith, Powerschool ID 12345, attending Harwood Password = js12345h
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Caring Topics | Information/Links | Contact(s) | Student Arrival Expectations | Students should head directly to their TA room when entering the school building. Please remind students if you see them in the hallway in order to help minimize wandering and maximize safety! | Meg, Laurie and Duane | FRIENDLY REMINDER re: Lunch expectation reminders: | Students should be supervised during lunch. If going outside please take attendance once outside to ensure all are accounted for. Please keep your students in Block 3 until the bell rings and then dismiss them to get lunch.
| Duane, Laurie and Meg | Student Support Team Update | Thank you also for your emails and log entries regarding behavior challenges.
A few reminders: If you fill out a log entry for attendance, this is for documentation. Next steps should include an outreach to the student/caregiver. If you need guidance of a template for that email, pl2ease copy from the document LINKED HERE
| Melody and Jon | Attendance Updates | Thank you all for your collaboration and efforts on attendance and passes!!
A few reminders: You do not need to call to the front office down for TA attendance; that starts with Block 1
| Melody and Jon | Update from the Health Office | First of all, thank you for welcoming us to Harwood! Updates: Emergency Health Plans: If a student has an allergy, seizure disorder, or asthma (severe), the emergency health plan will be in PowerSchool. If you click on the caduceus (red symbol next to the student's name), the plan will come up. Please print these for your sub folders. If you would like more training about life-threatening allergies and using an epi-pen, please let us know. If you think your student might be having an allergic reaction, call or radio us. We have extra epi-pens in our office, and students with anaphylaxis reactions should be carrying their own epi-pens to self-administer. As of now, it is fine to send students down to the office without calling us first. We continue to have a low threshold to sending students home with COVID symptoms, and following up with students who are home sick to assess if they need a COVID test before they return. COVID surveillance testing (asymptomatic) begins on September 20th for both students and staff. The event will take place in the morning. Click here to register. We are finalizing logistics and will communicate as we get closer.
Please feel free to reach out with questions. --Phil and Magge | Magge & Phil |
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Connected Topics | Information/Links | Contact(s) | Staff Meeting 9/14 3:30 - 4:30
| Rebecca Haslam Session
Objective: Structural Ideology and Institutional Culture - examine how each individual decision, response, or lack thereof, contributes to school culture; to practice responding to scenarios; and to identify some next steps.
WHERE: Please meet your small group in the classroom you used for the last Rebecca Haslam session during inservice.
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| Friendly reminders | Complete your TA conferences as soon as possible but no later than 9/23 Complete mandatory trainings by 9/23 - please see list here by . Additionally, you have received an email from HUUSD to prompt you to log in and complete your Safeschools online training.
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