Deans Dish: Team Stevenson

Weekly Updates

October 17, 2016

Moral Focus

Social Contract

Respect

Asking a follow up question

when Good News is shared
is a great way to engage
with your scholars and learn
more about them!

Break down respect into

what it feels, looks, and
sounds like over a series
of days.

Deans Corner: Are you Engaging?

Culture & Planning
As we transition from Classroom Culture to Planning within the
Classroom Framework, keep in mind the individual needs of your
students when you plan. Many of your students will have similar
needs and many will have different needs. Utilize the students data to
individualize your instruction, and to construct groups for workshops.
This will help to raise engagement for students with unique needs.
Moral Focus
Lets keep moral focus alive in our classrooms! I would love to see
more of you reference the Monthly Virtue during classes. We need to
show students, through our modeling, that Moral Focus is real and
alive within our school. With October being the month for Respect
it should be very easy to slide this in throughout the day and in every
class!

Important Dates:
10/17:4-8 Science Night
10/19: Committee Meeting
10/19 Progress Reports: Sent home with
students.
10/23: Trunk or Treat
Action Items:
Lesson Plans Monday by 7:00 a.m.
hard copy to my mailbox, save copy on
U drive
Weekly Duties:
Assembly: Mr. Remmers
Late Pick Up/Lounge: 5th Grade
Good News Students:
Nikayla Matthews- Remmers
Brian Wellons- Vincent
SummerLynn- Boheme

Important Oakside Information

Call

Ins: Check call in procedures in staff manual page 6.

Remember to create an ASEOP absence each time you are out.

Classroom Framework
Monthly Focus
Wing Goal:

Hall

Passes: ensure students know how to use these properly

with the restroom procedure.
Transition

Procedures: Make sure that students are at a level

0 during transitions. Student lockers should be utilized in the
morning and during dismissal. Please communicate this with
diligence.

Working intentionally to
ensure unified routines and
procedures to maximize
instructional time while
building a positive school
culture.
Team Action Step:

Dress

Code: Please make sure you are doing a dress code

check every morning with your scholars. I see lots of off color
Hoodies and shirts! Remember, you can decide the
consequences for this.

Having an organized plan will

assist with the flow and
ensure that you accomplish
great things during this time!

Shout Outs:
Mr. Dolson & Ms. Boheme, awesome job with consistently making
sure scholars know their expectations using CHAMPs before and
throughout the lesson.
Specials team: Thank you for working together as a team to cover
classes when we were short on staff to sub. I appreciate your
flexibility and willingness to work as a team.
Thank you for all those who helped make Eagles Blast a success!
It was great to see you connect with your students and they seemed
to enjoy this event.
I urge you this week to continue to think about how you are
engaging your students in the curriculum by using real-life or
relatable topics to get them excited or to help them better understand
the topic. If you are not sure how, ask your teammates!

Mindset Matters
No one will ever be the first or last human being to think, feel, say or do something. He/she will always have a lot of
company. No student will ever be the first or last kid in human history to think, feel, say or do what he/she does. Kids
have been doing the same kinds of things that adults dont like since the beginning of time. That just suggests that it
part of being human (and being a kid) to think, feel, say and do what they do. Sometimes you'll hear teachers say
"They're just being kids". Again, it doesn't mean you have to like everything they do, or even tolerate it. It just helps
temper your emotional response to what they do by choosing to look at it this way, which in turn helps temper your
behavioral response. Remember, there's two ways to make something you don't like worse, do nothing and
overreact to it.
Of course, you'll never be the first or last person, or teacher in human history to think, feel, say or do what you do
either. So if you make mistakes with students, welcome to the human race, and the profession of teaching. Don't
beat up on yourself. Just learn from it, make a commitment to do better next time.