1. Welcome “If there is not a big kid living inside of you, there is not a great teacher coming out of you.” -anonymous

2. Do you know where this is located?

3. FHS Staff Meeting Agenda Recognitions Goals Walk-Throughs AdvancEd Review Catch Up Day For the good of the order

4. Recognizing our outstanding staff! FLATHEAD WAY

5. Hog Wild 5 Year Pins Chelsea Cattelino Lisa Wolfe Amy Thoreson Libby Zimmerman Hog Wild Lynette Johnson Tara Barnes Kelli Higgins

6. Big Hairy Audacious Goals Increase Student Achievement Attendance Matters! >93% (88.6) Common Core Implementation How We Teach – Effective Lessons Homework and Grading Maintain Current Drop Out Rate 2.58% (5) Maintain Success Rate 96% Safe & Orderly Environment Consistency among staff Concerted staff effort in the hall Respect Principal’s School-Wide Goals

7. Attendance Matters

8. How We Teach Effective Lessons

9. “Focus on Five” Focus on the first 5 minutes Be in halls, smile, greet kids, be positive Continue to build relationships with kids Have a bell ringer –Reflection –Problem –Word of the Day –Question of the Day Learning targets – Student friendly

10. Look Fors Teacher greets students at the door (smile & engage) Evidence of procedures and routines – students on time Bell Work – Students begin working without direction Room arrangement – matches instructional strategy and student needs Essential Question – activates higher-order thinking Clear introduction by the teacher which ties together the previous lesson and today’s lesson Activating strategy – Word maps, KWL or other strategies that motivate students to want to answer the Essential Question (could be connected to Bell Work) Learning Targets – A good lesson starts with a clear learning target derived from the curriculum and is accompanied by an effort to stimulate student’s curiosity or existing knowledge about what is to be learned.

13. AdvancED Review November 9 & 10 Schedule ELEOT – Classroom Visitation Staff Survey – Please complete

14. Catch Up Day PowerSchool – Accurate Attendance Students asking to have absences changed Good Student Standing Students asking to have grade changed

15. FHS Book Study #1: October 12, 26, November 16

16. Thank You