Friday Memo - 3/4/22

Important dates
March - Women's History Month & Middle Level Education Month
March 1 - Summer school registration begins
March 2 - Probationary Teachers growth plan due
March 7 - Faculty Meeting
March 7 - 11 - School Board Recognition Week
March 11 - end of 3rd quarter
March 15 - Virtual Parent Teacher Conferences, 4pm - 8pm
March 16 - Virtual Parent Teacher Conferences, 4pm - 8pm
March 18 - 25 - Spring Break

105th issue of Hixson Happenings

Summer School registration is now open!
Click the link to visit the summer school website. https://mo02202299.schoolwires.net/Page/23078 

HXMS Children's Books Playlist
Check out our Children's Books Playlist that has been shared with our elementary schools! If you or a student of yours would like to add to this list, please do! If you need the instructions, please let me know!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lVAvXQ_7kmkT9E83oLkJwF3fMpa2DybkhwHYo70QEsU/edit

Upcoming high sub days

• Wednesday, March 9 - 8 people out mostly due to a Social Studies PD day
• Friday, April 15 - 12 people will be out that day

Important reminders

• Staffing conversations will continue through next week and up to spring break until we are finished. If you have a question about anything staffing related, please ask a Hixson administrator directly. 
• When there are Takis or Sour Patch Kids available in the vending machine, we see an increase of students at the vending machines during class. If students are asking for your permission to go to the vending machine during class, please tell them no. Most students are probably asking for permission to go to the restroom and then visiting the vending machine instead. We will contact the vending machine company to ask them to turn them on only during certain times of the day. If they can't do this, then I will unplug them.
• Please do not let your students leave Statesman Time early, and please do not let them wait in the hallway for the 3:25 pm bell to ring. 

Book Fair information from Mrs. Tumminello
A few things about book fair next week:

1. Students will be looking for 4-leaf clovers in the hallways after  1st hour.  If they fight over the clovers or if the clovers are ripped or torn they lose all their luck and students won't be able to trade them in for a prize during statesmen time.  Each day 5 to 10 clovers will be placed in the halls.  Clovers will only be placed in public areas NOT classrooms. 

2. All students will come to the bookfair through their team classes.  Please do not send them down on pass until next Thursday.  (ELA teachers if students forgot their money and need to come down after your team comes to the fair please send them only 1 or 2 at a time.)

3.  Teacher preview is today!  Please stop by and make a wish list to send home to parents.

4.  Scholastic is giving each teacher a $5.00 coupon good on any order over $20.00.

5.  We don't have a good track record with reorders right now so if you see something you really want to purchase I would not wait ...I may not be able to get you another copy.

Thank you so much for being supportive of our book fair!

CLT Leader Information - 22-23 SY

CLT Teacher Leader Responsibilities:

• Come to the meeting on time and prepared to follow norms

• Set the agenda

• Communicate with the entire group

• Facilitate the meeting

• Support disaggregation of data (by race, FRL, students with IEPs) to identify the needs of all students

• Challenge internal and external bias

• Keep student learning the priority

• Observe from a systemic lens 

• Identify areas of celebration and improvement

• Participate in ongoing professional learning associated with facilitating CLT work (2-day summer institute, 1 day of summer planning, 3-5 meetings throughout the year)
• Invite support staff and coordinators to attend if needed

Summer Institute Dates: 

Grades 6-12

June 9 & 10, 2022

Facilitator: Jason Adams and Outside Consultant

Participants: Principals, Assistant Principals, Teacher Leaders

6-12 Leadership Institute: Leading for Equity & Excellence through Professional Learning Communities 

• Overview of the PLC Model/CLT Process

• WGSD Expectations for PLC/CLT Work

• Leading through Change

• Leadership and Facilitation Strategies for Principals and Teacher Leaders

Compensation:  

CLT Teacher Leaders will be paid $15 per hour for all district professional learning experiences that are offered outside the school day. 

We will talk more about late start days, CLT set up, and structures/schedules for next year in upcoming faculty meetings. Stay tuned!