Show me the Money!

Our local mini-grant applications are due on October 31st.  Bristol Public Schools through the Bristol Business Education Foundation will fund up to $2000 per grant approved.  Some of you have mentioned a need for students to develop study skills, especially our ninth grade teams, could this be a way to purchase materials and incentives to encourage that developments?  Yes!  Some of you have asked about purchasing incentive for students who have maintained their positive behavior for a period of time.  Could this be a way to purchase those?  Yes!  Some of you have mentioned a need for differentiated texts to meet students' reading interests or books of non-fiction essays to better meet the common core.  Could this be a way to purchase those?  Yes!  Go for it!  The application is simple.  Please see me if you are interested.

There is also another mini-grant available to teachers.  $500 for individual teachers/classrooms and up to $2000 for school-wide projects.  The grant has been created to encourage teachers' development and implementation of CCSS activities in the classroom.  Please email me for the application.

Resources for thinking about Parent Conferences

Before parent conferences this week, you may want to check out these links for some ways of "rethinking" parent conferences and improving our communication with parents.  In the first link, you'll find tip sheets from the Harvard Family Research Project that I thought could be pretty useful--they even have some tip sheets for parents on how to make the most out of conferences.  Another link from that first bank of resources leads teachers to videos on the teaching channel that teachers new to the profession might find useful. 

http://www.edutopia.org//blog/parent-teacher-conference-resources-matt-davis

http://www.edutopia.org//blog/parent-teacher-conference-tips-elena-aguilar 

Teachers--please feel free to comment on this post to add your thoughts about the resources or add your own strategies for making parent conferences effective.

Week of October 20

BE events this week:

 

New Announcements

Reminders for Parent Conferences: 

Tuesday 6-8pm, Wednesday 6-8pm, Thursday 2-4pm

• You may want to mention Homework Club and the Late Bus with parents (M, T, Th)
• Please remember to turn in your appointment sheets at the end of the each set of conferences.

 

ASVAB Friday, October 24th.  Reminder that the ASVAB is scheduled for Friday, Blocks ½ and ¾.  Juniors and seniors are eligible to take the test.  Mr. Hochman will be sending out the names of students who will take the test.

Celebrate My Drive:  Wait, what???? Bristol Eastern High School is NOT on the Leaderboard?  WHY NOT?   Please commit to teen safe driving on Celebrate my Drive begins on Wednesday!  Check out this great video some of our students made to explain the process--https://drive.google.com/a/bristolk12.org/file/d/0BzN181m5TS5HeURFSThmSXJJTUk/view

Please show the video  during homeroom.   Let’s work together to win $100,000 for Bristol Eastern High School.  I will be asking students to participate in Celebrate My Drive during homeroom each day.  

Reminders and Due Dates:

Student of the Month: Enter your nominations for students of the month here:  https://docs.google.com/a/bristolk12.org/forms/d/1-i7HpozrADx3bkvDKSwqJFWqgK3IbpFKIxU7sxcYM_0/viewform 

Meetings for Teachers:

• There is no Wednesday meeting after school this week due to Parent Conferences

 

 

Week of October 14

This week we’ll have a 100 minute data team meeting with 30 minutes scheduled at the end for advisory planning.

BE EVENTS this week  to show your student support:

Day	Time	Event	vs.
Monday
Tuesday	3:45 3:45	Teen Read Week Girls Soccer Girls’ Swim	Maloney Middletown
Wednesday	735 5:00	PSAT (Teachers, wear your college gear) Celebrate My Drive week starts--start voting! Girls’ Volleyball	Bulkeley
Thursday	4:00	Varsity Boys’ Soccer	Bulkeley
Friday	9:00 7:00	Mayor Cockayne, guest speaker for Civics classes Varsity Football	Maloney
Saturday	6:00	Varsity Swim	“The Other School”

New Announcements

PSATs:  Please find the schedule here:  https://docs.google.com/a/bristolk12.org/spreadsheets/d/1bzUUUGqEopCVexpwUPllOa7HscvdS6nhQJydsLcmEf8/edit#gid=105729832.    To celebrate how the PSAT can begin to open doors to colleges, we’re inviting all staff to wear their college gear (could be the college you  went to or the college you currently support!) on Wednesday.

Celebrate My Drive:  Celebrate my Drive begins on Wednesday!  Check out this great video some of our students made to explain the process--https://drive.google.com/a/bristolk12.org/file/d/0BzN181m5TS5HeURFSThmSXJJTUk/view

Please show the video Tuesday during homeroom or Thursday during homeroom.  Let’s work together to win $100,000 for Bristol Eastern High School.  I will be asking students to participate in Celebrate My Drive during homeroom each day.  Stop by the cafeteria on Friday.  Teens in the Driver’s Seat, advised by Kim Hazelton, will be receiving an award check for their efforts in promoting teen safe driving last year.  Kudos to that group!

Parent Conferences next week:  This is a great time to pause and have your students reflect on the year so far.  If they were writing the script for the conference, what would it entail?  Could they articulate their strengths, their areas for improvement?  Could they look through their notebooks and backpack and find their own work that demonstrates these strengths and areas to improve?  

Workroom/Tutoring Center:  We’re waiting on our chromebooks . . .

Reminders and Due Dates

Student of the Month: Enter your nominations for students of the month here:  https://docs.google.com/a/bristolk12.org/forms/d/1-i7HpozrADx3bkvDKSwqJFWqgK3IbpFKIxU7sxcYM_0/viewform  

Meetings for teachers/staff this week:

Day	Time	Meeting
Monday
Tuesday	2:30pm	CATE and SCI literacy lesson study Secretaries’ meeting
Wednesday	8:00am 1:00pm 1:40pm 2:50pm	504 case review SLT Data team meeting Advisory planning
Thursday
Friday