Faculty Focus

Focus
Faculty
November, 2016
October, 2016

REMINDER
Students should not be in the halls
without a completed hall pass. We
returned 18 students to class, on just
Thursday and Friday, who did not have
appropriate passes. Your pass should not
be by your door for students to just take
when they leave your room. You should
keep the pass at your desk or podium and
YOU should complete it before the student
leaves the room. If it is important enough
for the student to leave class, it is
important enough for you to stop and
complete the pass appropriately.

United Way Jean DayThursday, November

10th for $5. Get your stickers in the front
office.
Friday, November 11th is a HOLIDAY for
Veterans Day.
Thanksgiving Holidays are November 21st
25th.

FOCUS AREA

Faculty
Leadership and

 Teacher/Student Videos are in the making. I

cant wait to see the final product!!!! Huge
THANKS to Mrs. Ford and Coach Brown for
putting this all together.
Remember your Pay It Forward cards. Just
put To: , From:, and the Date: on the back and
share with another adult in the building.
If you havent nominated a student for Student
of the Month, please see Mrs. Plemons.
We are also going to start having a Teacher of
the Month recognition. This will be voted on
by the students. Thank you to Mrs. Plemons
and Mrs. Bruce for working on these two
POSITIVES for MCHS!

Certified Absences
Goal: < 400
90

85
201
5

80
70
60

61

57

60

62

62
51

50
40

40

38
29

30
20

48

29

26

32
26

46
35

33.45
27

13

10
0

SEPT.

OCT.

NOV.

DEC.

JAN.

FEB. MARCH APRIL

May

FOCUS AREA

Student
Attendance

Students Missing More than 5 Days

54

53.4

53

52
51.2

51
50.3

50
49
48

Monthly Student Attendance

Missing more than 5 days
2017 Goal: <50%
10

9
8
7
6
5

% Missing 5+

4
3
2

1
0

0 Dec.
0 Jan. Feb. Mrch. Apr. May
Sept. Oct. Nov.

DisciplineStudent Referrals
Goal: < 300

60
51

50

32

30

27

24

32
22

22

20 1618
10
0

201415

40

40

24
17

18
11

20

22
1716
8

FOCUS AREA

IMPROVE
LITERACY

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2Engaging Word Wall and
Vocabulary Activities
We have already seen a number of
teachers utilizing these strategies in
class, and it is amazing at the
difference in student engagement. I
look forward to seeing our next SRI
scores!

SRI Data
% Proficient and Advanced
54

60
50

53
51

42

52
50

43
43

40
30

End 2016
SRI #1 2017

20
10
0
9th

10th

11th

12th

FOCUS AREA

INCREASE
RIGOR

WHY???? HOW???
If we really want to prepare students to be successful after high
school we need to be as flexible and analytic as we expect students
to be.
We cannot rely on a static presentation method or set of materials
to allow us to prepare students for the future.
Teaching is a process of constant adjustment, change, and
modification. We cant keep teaching the way we taught last year
or the year before if we want better results. The targets are
moving; we have to move, too.
Understand that there is no single way to increase rigor. It requires
you to be constantly changing, learning, modifying, adjusting and
overcoming obstacles.
We MUST require our students to THINK! We MUST stop giving
them the answers and accepting responses that are basic, shallow,
or without solid support and explanation.
We increase rigor by increasing EXPLANATION and EXPECTATION
not by increasing the AMOUNT of problems or the amount work.
We increase rigor by making the STUDENTS talk more, explain
more, solve more; they should the tired ones at the end of the
day.

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