FRMS Faculty Meeting September 12, 2017

The end of the 1st 6 weeks grading period is Friday, September 29th (three weeks as of last Friday). Homework/Classwork Category- minimum of 6 items These items should be practice/daily work type assignments. Projects which are “project-based learning” go in this category. Exit Tickets which are formative in nature go in this category. Test/Quiz/Project Category- minimum of 3 items These items should be summative only in nature. Projects which are culminating for a unit or sub-unit go in this category. In these situations, the learning has taken place and the project is the assessment for the learning. Exit Tickets which are summative in nature (given after students have had a chance to master their understanding of the learning). Go in this category. Grading Reminders

Please send a pink Nurse pass with the students going to the Nurse’s Office. Students need to have the hall pass as well as a pink Nurse’s pass. Students are not to come to the Nurse’s Office during passing period without these passes from the teacher. Nurse Pass Reminder

FRMS School Improvement Plan Goal: By the conclusion of the 2017-2018 school year, 100% of FRMS staff will implement research-based instructional strategies and interventions based upon data-gathering and analysis completed during their instructional planning for all lessons. AVID Certification has moved to a school wide Approach. The new Certification tool has 4 Domains we will be evaluated on: Instruction Systems Leadership Culture AVID

It is all of our responsibility to implement AVID’s high- impact instructional strategies into our teaching. The FRMS AVID Site Team has identified areas of focus for staff throughout the school year. During the months of September and October, we will focus on Collaboration (the C of WICOR). All Teachers will need to submit one piece of AVID Evidence for Collaboration in September and one in October. Evidence will be submitted to the crates in the Professional Library. You will need to fill out and clip one of the WICOR slips onto your evidence submissions. We will share strategies during faculty meetings that you can use as this evidence, or you can submit a different Collaboration strategy you have implemented. AVID

One-One-Two Minute Partner Share

4 Basic Principles What is Collaboration? Positive Interdependence Does one doing well help others? Does task completion depend on everyone doing their part? Individual Accountability Must everyone perform in front of someone? Equal Participation Is participation approximately equal? Times? Turns? Simultaneous Interaction What percent are performing at any one moment? What is Collaboration?