Important dates
September 5 - No School; Labor Day
September 7 - 6th grade Camp parent meeting; 6:30 pm
September 9 - Kona Ice to visit Hixson!
September 12 - Late Start Day
September 16 - Early Release Day; dismissal at 12:32 pm
September 16 - PLC Mini Conference presenter expression of interest email due to Mayes
September 23 - Kona Ice to visit Hixson!
Early Release Day Schedule - September 16, 2022
12:32 pm to 1:05 pm - lunch (bring your own lunch)
1:10 pm - 2:00 pm - LGBTQ+ & Gender Identity Awareness Training w/Dr. Williamson (required for all WGSD staff)
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm - a bit more CLT training on Qs 3 & 4 & introduce Sherri K.
2:30 pm - 3:25 pm - CLT meetings (PLC Start Up Kit Phase 2 due by end of day)
School Improvement Team (SIT)
Please consider joining one of the sub-committees of the School Improvement Team. All staff are welcome to join! The meeting dates are listed below. Please email the leaders of the teams if you are interested in joining!
Sept 19, Oct 10, Nov 14, Dec 12, Jan 23, Feb 13, March 13, April 10
Progress Monitoring, Intervention, Grading, & Assessment (led by Aimee Vogt) - The PMIGA committee examines current practices surrounding grading and assessment and works to tighten and provide commonality amongst these practices. After completing this work, the committee will examine the success of our efforts in providing interventions using progress monitoring data.
Character Education & Social Emotional Learning (led by Jeff Atterberry) - Character Ed/SEL committee works together to design and implement a school wide character education plan based on the 11 Principles of Character Education (members will get a copy of the book). This team will also tune/refine/create Statesman Time lessons, and work together to improve overall effectiveness of the program. Please join this team if you have an interest in continuous improvement of the culture/climate at Hixson Middle School, and desire to help our school become a State School of Character!
Hixson Structures and Systems (led by Shenita Mayes) - The Hixson Systems and Structures committee will work together to seek answers to the question, "Is our school currently structured in a way that prioritizes the needs of our students?" Systems and structures can include anything from the bell schedule to the master schedule to rules/procedures/unwritten rules etc. This committee will take a deep dive into our current systems and structures by shadowing Hixson students for a day, examining sample schedules from other middle schools across the country, gathering feedback from important stakeholders, and determining what we can do to improve the middle school experience for ALL of our students. This group will receive and utilize the This We Believe text from the Association of Middle Level Education (AMLE) as a framework of best practices in middle school education to guide their work.
Team and Department Newsletters
Please make sure your newsletter is updated by the end of 7th hour on the Fridays listed below. These are also the due dates for your grades to be updated (except Aug 19 & Sept 2). We will run grades reports on these dates to ensure they are updated. If there is an issue with your grades, then your evaluator will contact you.
Semester 1
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.
Message from PTO
Hello Everyone! My name is Kelly Dunsford, and I’m part of your PTO’s Communications Team. This year we would like to highlight a “Getting to Know You” feature on the PTO Facebook page. Our hope is that by sharing information about Hixson teachers, it will help the parents feel more connected to the school by being able to put a face to a name, especially when our learners are telling us stories about their day. In order to accomplish this, the Communications Team is requesting that you answer some questions in the Google form (if interested). Thank you! (Please see a sample below)
Hello Everyone! My name is Kelly Dunsford, and I’m part of your PTO’s Communications Team. This year we would like to highlight a “Getting to Know You” feature on the PTO Facebook page. Our hope is that by sharing information about Hixson teachers, it will help the parents feel more connected to the school by being able to put a face to a name, especially when our learners are telling us stories about their day. In order to accomplish this, the Communications Team is requesting that you answer some questions in the Google form (if interested). Thank you! (Please see a sample below)
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