Friday Focus - October 30 2020

Great Things I Noticed this Week:

• Students checking their hear rate after physical activity and then after relaxing activities to see how their heart rate changes.
• Student small group discussion of the the class quote of the day.

• A teacher that has previously used the chalktalk strategy modified it to be completely virtual since it wasn't possible to social distance for it. Students went through different pages of a jamboard responding to different thoughts/questions and each other. This also allowed those from home to participate with their classmates who were in person.
• Good bags of appreciation put together by our FFA students. 

You get an extra hour of sleep/relaxation this weekend!

Upcoming Events: Homecoming Week Dress up Days (to go along with a movie theme)

Monday- Breakfast Club -Pajama Day
  7:30AM progress reports will be run

Tuesday- Moana - Hawaiian Day

Wednesday- Dodgeball - Sports jerseys
   MS/HS Faculty Meeting at 3:00 *Topic - assessments/re-assessments 

Thursday- Grease Lightning - Throwback

Friday - Friday Night Lights - Purple Pride

"Nuts & Bolts" Notes:
*A common COVID contact tracing question: How does admin determine which days to contact trace if someone tests positive? Answer: The 2 days before the individual became symptomatic. 

*We will be adding the Work Habits domains to ARP sections and Employability Skills to Study Halls. My apologies that this got missed. Our discussions last year identified this as a way to provide feedback on how students behave/utilize their time during these times. You don't have to worry about this now for this run of progress reports, but we will add this for moving forward.

When you are looking in PowerTeacher Pro Standards, if you click on a student's proficiency level under a domain, you can then click on the professional judgement tool and see the student's evidence in that domain to help you determine if you need to override the domain grade. Here is what that looks like with the yellow arrow pointing to the icon that you can click on for this:

 

Blogs, Quotes and Tweets:
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