Enrollment HS:123 MS: 117 Total MS/HS: 240
6th: 43 9th: 36
7th: 42 10th: 25
8th: 32 11th: 35
T: 117 12th: 26
T: 122
IMPORTANT DATES:
IMPORTANT DATES:
Nov. 12: Veteran’s Assembly
Nov. 12: Fall Sports Banquet
Nov. 15: Quiz
Bowl Frenchtown
Nov. 16:
College Field Trips Mock Interviews
Nov. 19-20: MUN Missoula
Nov. 20: 12:30 Dismissal
Nov. 21-25:
Thanksgiving Break
Nov. 26-Dec. 7: My Voice Survey Window
Nov. 27-28: High School Panel Participants for RTI,MBI
and Graduation Matters
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Top Dawg Assembly
Demonstrate
Integrity
Achieve
Excellence
Work
Hard
Gain
Respect
Share
Responsibility
GO
DAWGS!!
Discipline1st
Quarter:
88%
of our middle school has had 0 or 1 referral
92%
of our high school has had 0 or 1 referral
Attendance:
We
are doing better in both schools with attendance and tardies in the high school
much better this year!!
This month we're focusing on the Drafting stage of the
writing process, as per the large posters in all rooms.
Common Core
Information:
2011-12 through 2013-2014 the MontCAS will:
ü Use
the current standards and reporting system
ü Progressively
align content with the MCCS
ü Implement
test questions to align with the MCCS
ü Provide
released field test items aligned to MCCS
***Grade levels assessed will be 3rd-8th
and 11th ***
• Montana’s
participating in an assessment consortium called SBAC (Smarter Balance
Assessment Consortium)
• Summative
assessment (required, provided by state, replaces CRT)
• Interim
assessment (optional, for a fee—probably $7 per student)
• Formative
assessments
(process tools and resources—not a test,
optional)
Assessments:
1. More rigorous
tests measuring student progress toward “college and career readiness”
2. Have common,
comparable scores across member states, and across consortia
3. Provide
achievement and growth information to help make better educational decisions
and professional development opportunities
4. Assess all
students, except those with “significant cognitive disabilities”
5. Administer online,
with timely results
6. Use multiple
measures
Ripple Effects:
— This
is a possible program we are looking at for students in ISS that will provide
actual education about behavior and their actions that work to improve the
student academically and behaviorally.
— Research
uniformly shows Ripple Effects raises grades and test scores
— Promotes
readiness to learn
— Reduces
teacher conflict
— Increases
instructional time
— Can
improve problem solving, critical thinking skills
— Can
improve language arts competency
— Can
inform students on how they learn best
— Can
increase connection to school
— Can
increase resiliency to trauma/hard things
— Ripple
Effects is proven to do all of this
Graduation Matters:
— The 8 Goals developed during optional days
are now going to be taken to student focus groups to get input from them for
ideas.
— Million Voice will be taken very soon by all
students this will be an online survey.
Every two years is the goal for this survey.
“I know my class”
We are signed up just waiting for details to get this started. Again, thanks to all of you who volunteered
MBI
Mr. Ferris attended
the MBI facilitator training in Bozeman and we are currently working on the
TIC. Teacher Implementation
Check-list.
Student Led Conferences:
Student Led
Conferences went well and I even though I have no results as of yet, I
anticipate close to 95% turnout from parents.
This format has taken us from 25% turnout to 95% turnout.
Book Club
An Unchanged Mind, The problem of immaturity in adolescence.
— Book Description
— Publication
Date: November 30, 2008
— The
author begins with a clinical riddle: Why are American teenagers failing to
develop normally through adolescence? We are presented with case studies from a
therapeutic boarding school for troubled teenagers: All new students had been
deemed treatment "failures" after conventional psychiatric care. All
were bright teenagers, full of promise, not obviously "ill." Yet they
found themselves unprepared for the challenges of modern adolescence and
inevitably failed--at school, at home, and among their peers socially.
— An
Unchanged Mind is the discovery of the essence of this problem--disrupted
maturation and resulting immaturity. The book explains the problem carefully,
with a brief review of normal development and an examination of the delays
today's teenagers are suffering: the causes of those delays and how they
produce a flawed approach to living. There is a solution. With a sustained push
to help troubled kids catch up, symptoms abate, academic and interpersonal
functioning improve, and parents pronounce their teens miraculously recovered.
This remedy is not a matter of pharmacology--and the cure is not in pills. The
remedy is, instead, to grow up.
Our Mission:
Demonstrate
Integrity
Achieve
Excellence
Work Hard
Gain
Respect
Share
Responsibility
GO DAWGS!!!!
·
Our School-Wide Focus and Goals:
o
A Safe and
Welcoming School
o
A School that
Values Sense of Belonging
o
Curriculum and
Instruction
o
A Positive Future
for All Students
GO DOGS!!!!
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