Wednesday August 13,2008

Agenda Welcome Mission Administrative Details School partnership Break D.I./Curriculum Good to Great Goals Looking a head

Mission Statement The co-educational Lower School division features a caring yet rigorous environment designed to meet the diverse needs of the Memphis Jewish community and highly attuned to the individual needs of every student. Its innovative curricula and extracurricular programming actively nurture curiosity and creativity, community and camaraderie, while facilitating maximal student learning in a full array of General and Judaic studies.

 Working as a team  Getting to know each other Share 3 things that have nothing to do with school

 The health of an organization is that its meetings are productive – Patrick Lenciconni  In the future faculty meetings will be a time to reflect on curriculum and student needs

 Sick and personal day Please call me as early as possible. Judaic substitutes are hard to find Call my cell (901)  Emergency Policies

Non Classroom Responsibilities Lunch and recess Duty Class recess Safety Classrooms locked

 Classroom set up  Book Inventory  Faculty meeting schedule  Support staff

 Parents Students and Teachers Teacher StudentParent

 Newsletters  Soin  Phone calls phone logs  Formal communication  Informal communication

 Lesson plans / Unit plans  Formal Evaluations  Grading policies  H.W. policies

To help someone reach their potential Catch them doing something good

 Introduction 1. Not something new- Torah, Rambam, One room school house 2. Philosophy  Foundation 1. Curriculum Asking the Hard questions and being honest  Tal am  Hebrew Reading  Looking back - spiral

Readiness Formation of a curriculum 1. What have we done 2. Next step for this year KUD

 K- Know – Basic facts we want our students to know Examples  U-Understand – concepts we want our students to understand Examples  D- What we want our students to be able to Do Examples

 Know your students  Pre assessment /Post Assessments  D.I. Activities

 -Getting to know the students  Step one: Ask random questions and have the students stand up each time if the question describes them (5-10 min)  For example:  Are you the oldest in your family?  Are you the youngest  Do you like chocolate  Do you like sports?  Step two have students fill out Learner profile cards: on it students will write down their interests how and what they like to learn etc. ( 3-5 min)

D.I. Activities Con’t Pre Assessment Three column chart of what they know about What I already knowWhat I don’t knowWhat I would like to know

Student needModification Give an pre assessment of concepts and terms to determine prior knowledge Based on the pre assessment you may need to go over with some students the definition and concept giving them examples while another group will come up with examples on their own for each term The class may not see the relevance of Talmud Give an example of trying to follow directions if they only give you topic headings without all the details One or two students may have impulsivity issues Come up with a develop goals and consequences both positive and negative

 Set student and personal goals  Goals bring about Change

 Jim Collins in his book Good to Great says the following “Indeed the real question is not Why Greatness but what work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness. If you have to ask the question why should we make it great isn’t success enough? Then you are probably engaged in the wrong line of work

Thank you and I look forward to traveling with you on the journey towards excellence and becoming A Great School