Faculty MeetingAugust 5, 2013

Expecting Success 2013-2014

Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude that separates excellence from mediocrity.

-Anonymous

Do what is right for students. Be prepared, honest, open-minded,

and stay on task. Be positive in all that we do. Listen thoughtfully and for

understanding. Celebrate success and encourage

effort.

Meeting Norms

Morgan Brown, 2nd Grade

Catalina Pline, 3rd Grade

Hannah Snyder, 5th Grade

New WES Faculty

SUCCESS (def.)◦ The achievement of something desired, planned, or

attempted◦ accomplishment; victory; triumph

Essential Question –

How can we ensure the success of all WES students?

Standard- Focus on quality to ensure success for all students

At your table, take 2 minutes to work with your colleagues to create a list of 3 specific things teachers can do to ensure the success of all students in the classroom.

Activating Strategy

Goal Area IStudent Achievement

WES Student Data 2012-13

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

10098

9095

92

98

3rd Grade CRCT ResultsReading

Perc

enta

ge M

eets

and

Exc

eeds

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

10093

9085 85

82

3rd Grade CRCT ResultsELA

Perc

enta

ge M

eets

and

Exc

eeds

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100 94

7578

6872

3rd Grade CRCT ResultsMath

Perc

enta

ge M

eets

and

Exc

eeds

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

88

76 7771

82

3rd Grade CRCT ResultsScience

Perc

enta

ge M

eets

and

Exc

eeds

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

85

7379

7682

3rd Grade CRCT ResultsSocial Studies

Perc

enta

ge M

eets

and

Exc

eeds

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

10089

8285

89 90

4th Grade CRCT ResultsReading

Perc

enta

ge M

eets

and

Exc

eeds

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

77

85

71

8792

4th Grade CRCT ResultsELA

Perc

enta

ge M

eets

and

Exc

eeds

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

75 7471

61

83

4th Grade CRCT ResultsMath

Perc

enta

ge M

eets

and

Exc

eeds

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

10092

7377 77

90

4th Grade CRCT ResultsScience

Perc

enta

ge M

eets

and

Exc

eeds

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

76 75 73 75

83

4th Grade CRCT ResultsSocial Studies

Perc

enta

ge M

eets

and

Exc

eeds

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100100

96 9691 90

5th Grade CRCT ResultsReading

Perc

enta

ge M

eets

and

Exc

eeds

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

10097

9187

8286

5th Grade CRCT ResultsELA

Perc

enta

ge M

eets

and

Exc

eeds

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

9489 87

78

92

5th Grade CRCT ResultsMath

Perc

enta

ge M

eets

and

Exc

eeds

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

7881

6873

78

5th Grade CRCT ResultsScience

Perc

enta

ge M

eets

and

Exc

eeds

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

78

89

81

58

80

5th Grade CRCT ResultsSocial Studies

Perc

enta

ge M

eets

and

Exc

eeds

12% Exceeds

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

67

56.1 58.252.6

62

5th Grade Writing Assessment

Meets+Exceeds

Perc

enta

ge

WES CRCT Exceeds Data3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade All Students

2013 2012 2013 2012 2013 2012 2013 2012Reading 42.6 29 50.8 30 38.8 23 43.8 27.6ELA 20.4 27 32.2 20 26.5 33 27.2 26.4Math 33.3 32 32.2 18 38.8 14 34 21.9Science 31.5 41 50 35 44.9 40 42.6 38.8Social Studies 20.4 20 30 12 30.6 31 27.2 12.6

5th Writing NA NA NA NA 12 0 NA NA

3rd Grade◦ Reading- 98% M+E, 43% Exceeds ◦ Lexile >=650 increased from 52% to 70%

4th Grade◦ Reading- 51% Exceeds◦ Math- 22% inc. M+E◦ Science- 90% M+E, 50% Exceeds

5th Grade◦ Math- 92% M+E, 39% Exceeds ◦ Social Studies- 22% inc in M+E◦ Lexile >=850 increased from 47% to 59%

Overall◦ WES improved in all 5 content areas for All Grades◦ WES showed improvement in 14 out of 16 tested

areas

Celebrations

Goal Area IIStakeholder Engagement and Loyalty

Perception DataSurvey Question FY 13 FY 12 FY 11Parent Perception of Quality 93 75 87Staff Perception of Quality 100 86 92Staff perception of school climate 91 59 ?Staff perception of consistency 91 41 ?Parent perception of consistency 96 75 ?Staff perception of communication 96 55 ?Parent perception of communication 91 50 ?

Perception of Safety

FY 13 Actual

FY 13 Target FY 12 Actual

Staff 100 90 89

Parents 99 85 50

Attendance Attendance > 15 Days

FY 13 Actual

FY 13 Target

FY 12 Actual

Students 8% 4.5% 3.3%

Attendance %

FY 13 Actual

FY 13 Target

FY 12 Actual

Students 95.8% 95.5% 96.8%

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

204238

306

258

168

Student Discipline Data

Referrals

Num

ber

of D

isci

plin

e R

efer

rals

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-130

50010001500200025003000350040004500 4137

36933468

2698 27802337

1845 1841

89116691800

1848

16271807

11111261 1082

14571099

1618

Student Attendance

Days AbsentExcused AbsencesUnexcused AbsencesTardies

Num

ber

of A

bsen

ce T

ypes

8

6

8

32

WES Faculty AbsencesDistribution of Days Absent

>20 days absent16-20 days absent11-15 days absent6-10 days absent≤ 5 days absent

Each Month of School Averages 18 Days of InstructionNum

ber

of T

each

ers

Staff Devel-opment

Sick Personal Other Average Total0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

2.9

7.2

1.5 0.8

12.4

WES Faculty Absence Data2012-13

Ave

rage

Day

s A

bsen

t pe

r Te

ache

r

95.5% Days

Attended

• Each semester, you may use one “Early Leave Pass.” You must get prior administrative approval and sign out in the front office.

• Jeans week for best team attendance for the month

• Teams

ATTENDANCE INCENTIVES

Team 1 Team 2 Team 3 Team 4 Team 5Pre K 2nd 4th SPED Teaching

AsstsK 3rd 5th Hudson

1st QUEST NoellPE Jarrett

Stakeholder InvolvementFY 13 Actual FY 13 Target FY 12 Actual

Volunteer Hours

2719 2350 2324

Business Partners

16 14 8

FERPA prevents the sharing of student information with anyone outside of school personnel other than the parents/guardians of a student.

Parents or volunteers may NOT grade papers, enter grades into IC, or access student information of children other than their own.

Volunteers should not be asked to watch classes at recess.

Volunteers should schedule with a teacher ahead of time and not drop in.

Parent-Teacher conferences will be scheduled in advance and will not be impromptu.

All volunteers will be required to wear a visitor’s badge.

After the first week of school, parents will not be allowed to walk their children to class.

Parental Involvement

Master WES CalendarEach administrator approved event involving WES students should be placed on the master calendar. This includes clubs, fine arts, and everything else.Include time, date, and location for each event.Send this information to Lisa Pate. After the event, also send her pictures of the event.

Goal Area IIIEfficient and Effective Organizational

Processes

Shared through Google Drive Read Sign form stating you have read it

◦ Turn in to Mrs. Turner Points of interest

◦ Dress code◦ Duties and responsibilities◦ Meeting schedule

Do not schedule appointments on Wednesday afternoons

WES Employee Handbook

Work hours are 7:05am - 3:00pm. Sign in and out each day in the Main Office

Ask an administrator permission to leave campus before the end of the work day. Sign out in the office.

Teachers are expected to attend any school wide meetings outside of the school day.

Teacher/Staff Attendance

AbsencesYou are to notify Lisa Pate and an administrator when you are going to be absent.The secretaries are not responsible for finding subs.Enter your absence into iVisions and SchoolStream as soon as you know you will be absent for a planned absence and no later than the day after an unplanned absence.Prepare 3 days of emergency lesson plans. Place them in a folder on your desk.

Grades are to be posted weekly in Infinite Campus

Parents have a right to know how their child is performing. If you assign it, grade/give feedback, and send it home.

Grades are to be a representation of what a student has mastered and not a reflection of the quantity of work completed.

“The truth is, a lot of times it's the bad teachers who give the easiest grades, because they know by giving good grades everyone will leave them alone.” -Ron Clark

Grade books and Grades

Students will be given a car rider or bus rider sticker (with the bus #) when they arrive at school the first week of school. If a parent walks the child in without a sticker, please ask how the child will be going home and record it on the transportation form.

Know how every child in your room is going home by the end of lunch. Turn in a copy of the transportation form to Carol Turner.

Grab and Go Breakfast will be continuing. K-2nd grade students who are eating will grab a breakfast and head to the cafeteria. 3rd-5th grade students will eat in their classrooms.

K-2 teachers will have one team member on duty in the cafeteria 7:05-7:30 to assist with breakfast eaters until Aug. 16. (A rotation will follow)

Each teacher is responsible for his/her own homeroom. (Exception:K-2)

Morning Procedures

• At Open House, parents should complete the required information on the Transportation Form.

• On the mornings of the first 2 school days, as students exit the bus or car, a sticker will be placed on their shirts.

• Upon students’ arrival to the room, teachers will be asked to complete the Daily Transportation Form for the 1st two days of school. Turn in to Mrs. Turner by noon those days.

TRANSPORTATION

During the first week of school prior to dismissal, teachers will make sure that each student has a sticker/wristband indicating his/her correct mode of afternoon transportation.

Teachers that have afternoon hall duty will be posted in their assigned locations. Their job is to ensure that the students walk through the halls on the second tile from the wall in an appropriate manner.

Students will be dismissed to buses as their bus numbers are called. Classroom teachers will stand in the room doorway to monitor inside and outside of the room during this time. Two bus numbers will be called at a time.

Mrs. Turner, Eston Jennings, and Suzanne Rice will meet the students at the buses to assist the student bus riders.

After all buses have been called car riders will be called. Classroom teachers need to escort their students to the car rider line.

Those teachers that have car duty will remain until all students have been picked up.

Afternoon Dismissal

School-Wide ProceduresTake attendance before 8:15 amStudents leaving class

Students are not allowed to get teachers coffee, drinks, mail, etc. The students should be on classroom business when running errands.Students need to remain in class as much as possible. Please limit passes out.

School-Wide Procedures Cont.Hallway Transitions

Students should move on the right side of the hall quietly in a single file on second tile from the wall.

RestroomTeachers should monitor students

RecessTeachers are to supervise their studentsRecess is at an assigned time and place

August 8-14, all teachers will eat lunch with their students in the lunchroom to help establish procedures.

Music will be used to signal silent lunch times. When music plays, students are to be silent and eat. They may talk with classmates when music is not playing.

Violation of procedure will result in eating at the silent lunch table.

LUNCHROOM PROCEDURES

Make one call home to each student before Friday, August 16.

Start all conversations with positive comments. Maintain professional etiquette at all times.

The parent of any failing student must be contacted at the end of the 3rd and 7th weeks of the nine weeks.

Record all parent contacts on a Parent Contact Log (examples provided with the Employee Handbook in Google Docs).

Contact Logs are due to grade/department chairpersons at the end of each 9 weeks.

Parent Contacts

• Classroom and outside doors should be locked at ALL times.

• No child will be released to any person not listed on the student information card.

• Only share student information with legal guardians.

• Supervise and monitor all student activities.• Report safety concerns to an administrator.• Escort visitors without badges to the front

office.• Students should not open outside doors for

any visitor. Teach them to get an adult.

Safety and Security Reminders

Lockdown procedures◦ Practice during the first 3 days of school◦ Close room door; pull in any student in the hall

into the room◦ Move the students to the corner◦ Use desks/bookcases as a barricade◦ Turn off lights◦ Close blinds◦ Don’t call 911◦ Lockdown “call” overrides all else (e.g. fire alarm)

Safety and Security (cont.)

Goal Area IVContinuous System and School Improvement

Instruction Quality is more important than quantity,Teach bell to bell.Lessons should be engaging, captivating, stimulating, motivating, and relevant to the students.Assessments need to formative, summative, and

performance-based.ALL videos must be approved by administration (no PG-13 or R rated movies)Vocabulary should be taught in the context of the lessons and not by writing and memorization.

Expectations◦ Every child is different.

◦ Reinforce positive behavior. e.g. "John, I notice you are working well with your partner. Thank you.“

◦ Spend the first month of school teaching and reviewing classroom and school procedures. It takes 21 days to create a habit.

◦ All teachers must have a classroom plan. A “Clip Chart” or similar instrument must be posted in the classroom.

◦ Our job is to teach, not punish.

WES School Discipline Plan

Consequences for repetitive negative student behaviors◦ 1st offense- warning, redirection

◦ 2nd offense- warning, redirection (note in the agenda)

◦ 3rd offense- time out no longer than 15 minutes. (call the parent)

◦ 4th offense- timeout at intervention station in another room(20-30 minutes, work must be sent with the student, call the parent)

◦ 5th offense- office referral or further teacher consequence (call the parent)

Discipline Plan cont.

Sample Clip

Chart

Discipline is a learning process. Students should not be sent out of class to

the office without the office being notified. Students should not be sent to stand or sit

in the hall. They must be visible to the teacher at all times.

There is no substitute for appropriate supervision and planning engaging lessons for students.

Wednesdays (3:00-3:45 pm)

◦1st- School Leadership Team

◦2nd- Writing Team

◦3rd- Faculty Meetings (as needed)

Meeting Schedules

SCHOOL LEADERSHIP TEAM: JARED GRIFFIS, CAROL TURNER, ESTON JENNINGS, BETH CHILDERS, BETH

LITTLE, HEATHER SCOTT, LINDSAY McGUFFEY, AMANDA DRIVER, SHARON LEE, BEVERLY DILLARD, KATHY HANDLEY

WRITING TEAM: CAROL TURNER, ESTON JENNINGS, AMANDA DRIVER, AMY MUSICK, KIM

WILSON, BETH LITTLE, CATALINA PLINE, LINDSAY MCGUFFEY DATA TEAM:

CAROL TURNER, ESTON JENNINGS, SANDY DURHAM, CRAIG LONG, KIMBERLY MAXWELL, JENNIFER ROBERTS, LINDA WHORTON

SAFETY TEAM: CAROL TURNER, JARED GRIFFIS, ESTON JENNINGS, PENNY LONG, DENISE

AINSWORTH, SHERRI POLLARD, JEAN HUDSON, JUANITA LONG, SUZANNE RICE, KIM ALFORD

TECHNOLOGY TEAM: AMY MUSICK (PreK-2nd), HEATHER SCOTT(3rd-5th), BETH CHILDERS,

MORGAN BROWN, JENNIFER ROBERTS, KRISTY SPRUILL, LINDSAY GODBEE

TEAMS

Adhere to the energy management guidelines (rates are set in August).

All records request should be completed within 24 hours. All permanent records must be stored in the front office.

All parent phone calls or emails need to be returned within 24 hours. Read an email twice before sending it. (Check the grammar, spelling, and tone of email.)

The agenda will be used as an open line of communication with parents.

MISCELLANEOUS INFORMAITON

Google Drive◦Lesson Plan folders◦WES Documents Folder

Target Solutions – try to complete by Aug. 31

Social Media◦ It is strongly recommended that you do not

friend students on FB or any other social media.

◦ Do not friend parents of students who you do not personally know.

◦ Do not post pictures of you partying, drinking, etc.

MISCELLANEOUS INFORMAITON

1) Read handbook and sign acknowledgement form

2) Grade Level Improvement Plan3) Teacher self-assessment (due by Aug. 14)4) Professional Growth Plan and Teacher

Instructional Plan (due Aug. 21)5) Turn in Employee Information sheet

Things To Do

Tuesday, 1:00-1:45 Non-SPED Assistants' meeting (Staff Development Room) 

Tuesday, 4:00-6:00 Open House Wednesday, 9:00-10:00 Safety Team

Meeting Wednesday, 10:00-10:45 Code of Ethics

update (Staff Development Room) Wednesday, 2:00, Mobile Device Training

(maybe)

Preplanning Schedule

Ticket out the Door◦ Write down any questions that you have

that were not answered and place them on the “Parking Lot.”

◦ An email will be sent with answers to the questions.

Summarizer

Jared Griffis◦ 770-252-2274 Home◦ 404-886-6564 Cell

Carol Turner◦ 678-218-8935 Cell◦ 404-579-6990 Home

Contact Info

We Expect Success

2013-2014 will be a successful year at WES!