Important dates
August 8 - Training for 6th grade Transition mentors
August 9 - 6th grade orientation
August 11 - District Opening Day and Hixson Opening faculty meeting
August 12 - Safe Schools Trainings, work in classrooms, team/department meetings
August 15 & 16 - Uninterrupted teacher work day
August 17 - Professional Learning Communities professional development
August 18 - Staff Pictures, Open House prep, Open House (3pm - 7pm)
August 22 - First day of school!
September 5 - No School; Labor Day
September 16 - Early Release Day; dismissal at 12:32 pm
September 16 - PLC Mini Conference presenter expression of interest email due to Mayes
Detailed Back to School Schedule
August 11 - WGSD Opening Day 8:00 am - 9:30 am, Moss Field. PLEASE DRESS IN HIXSON GEAR!!! The goal is for Hixson to be the most spirited school out there! 22-23 SY staff shirts will be available prior to this day. More details to come.
Opening Faculty meeting, 10:00 am to noon - more details to come
August 12 - 4E Training, 9am - 11am, Safe Schools Trainings, work in classrooms, team/department meetings
August 15 & 16 - Uninterrupted teacher work days
August 17 - Professional Learning Communities professional development
August 18 - Open House; staff work day is 11:00 am to 7:00 pm.
- You will take your individual and team/department pictures on this day (staff picture schedule). Open House will be a casual, drop by style for Hixson families. There will also be food trucks for our families and staff to enjoy. Please prepare a digital syllabus for parents. Create and print a QR code of the link to your eSyllabus. Hang it on your door/outside your classroom on August 18 before Open House begins. In my communication to parents, I will tell them that they can scan your QR code to view your syllabus when they visit classrooms.
- On August 19, 2022, I will publish the 117th issue of Hixson Happenings. You will publish your first team/department newsletters of the year in that issue. You will put the links to your eSyllabus in that newsletter. For that newsletter, please include a welcome message to students and families and list the syllabi links.
- More information about Open House is forthcoming.
New Hires
Please join me in welcoming the following new staff members to the Hixson family!
Please join me in welcoming the following new staff members to the Hixson family!
Stacy Camden - ELA 7
Ellis Anderson - Library, part time
Caroline Skoglund - Math 6
Kristina Kanallakan - Math 7
Jon Wetter - Gifted Social Studies 7/8
Emily Bardot - Counseling (6th grade)
Constance West - Counseling (7th grade)
Opal Pursley - Choir & Music Discovery
Kathryn Marsh - FACS
Elizabeth Mullin - SSD
Katherine Maguire - SSD
Thomas Bamvakais - SEB Teacher
Thomas Bamvakais - SEB Teacher
Kyle McGuire - SSD Math Teacher
Remaining hires include two SSD paraprofessionals, and a Clinic Aid. We have hired a French teacher. I will share who that person is after BOE approval on Thursday.
HXMS & WGHS presents: PLC Mini-Conference, November 8, 2022
Hixson and WGHS will have a full, no student day set aside for professional development on November 8, 2022. Since we share seven CLTs with WGHS, we will collaborate with them to plan a PLC mini-conference to be held at Hixson Middle School. Multiple sessions will be offered throughout the day for you and your CLT to attend. You will deepen your understanding of how PLC work helps us become even better practitioners and helps us provide an equitable education for ALL students. If you are interested in presenting at this mini conference, please review the list of possible topics below to get an idea of what we are looking to offer during the conference.
Conference Theme: Achieving Equity through Effective Professional Learning Communities
- Priority Standards (What are they and how do we choose them?)
- Common formative and summative assessments (creating quality assessments)
- Creating common scoring guides PLC Q1
- Using student work samples to calibrate instructional and grading practices
- Aligning teaching sequence to make common formative assessments possible
- Collecting assessment data
- Using standardized testing data to inform decisions around instructional practice
- Disaggregating assessment data to determine patterns and trends
- Responding to patterns and trends in data
- Classroom-based progress monitoring
- Best practices to ensure student understanding
- Creating meaningful opportunities for intervention and enrichment
- Response to Intervention 101
- Multi-tiered Systems of Supports (MTSS)
- other?
If you are interested in presenting at this mini-conference, please send Shenita Mayes an email by September 16, 2022. Please include information about what you would like to present. Your email is an expression of interest and it is not a final commitment to presenting at the conference.
Team and Department Newsletters
This year, you will be required to publish Team and Department Newsletters every other Friday instead of every Friday. I will still send the Hixson Happenings out to parents every Friday afternoon some time during 8th hour. The links to your newsletters will still be there as a reference for parents, but I will let them know that you are required to update them every two weeks. Please make sure your newsletter is updated by the end of 7th hour on the Fridays listed below.
Semester 1
August 19, 2022
September 2, 2022
September 16, 2022
September 30, 2022
October 14, 2022
October 28, 2022
November 11, 2022
December 2, 2022
December 16, 2022
Semester 2
January 6, 2023
January 20, 2023
February 3, 2023
February 17, 2023
March 3, 2023
March 31, 2023
April 14, 2023
April 28, 2023
May 12, 2023 (last newsletter of the year for teams and departments)
*The last Hixson Happenings of the year will be sent to parents on May 19, 2023.
Staff Google Calendar
Be sure you add the Hixson Middle School calendar to your Google Calendar. This calendar will include all of our important dates. Click the link below to access the calendar.
Be sure you add the Hixson Middle School calendar to your Google Calendar. This calendar will include all of our important dates. Click the link below to access the calendar.
Statesman Time
Please click the link below to access the Statesman Time teacher list. This list will tell you which teachers are assigned to which grade levels and teams for Statesman Time.
Who is my Evaluator?
Click the link below to access the teacher evaluation information and list for the 22-23 school year.
Teacher Evaluation Information
CLTs, Teams, & Departments
Staff are required to have CLT meetings during the time set aside on late start days. CLTs are also welcome to meet during common plan time, if they are able, but this is not required. Your time during the school day can be used for plan time, professional development, and other duties.
CLTs, Teams, & Departments
Staff are required to have CLT meetings during the time set aside on late start days. CLTs are also welcome to meet during common plan time, if they are able, but this is not required. Your time during the school day can be used for plan time, professional development, and other duties.
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