Staff Bulletin for the Week of October 5

Professional Time:

This Wednesday will be a 100-minute Instructional Data Team Meeting.

Bristol Eastern High School Faculty and Student Events this Week

Notes:  Admin/Guidance this week:  Focus on Attendance
            Don't forget to wear your orange on Tuesday!
            SRBI team will meet this Friday, October 9th
            Department chairs will meet this Friday, October 9th

BE Athletics

News and Announcements

Texting from Email:  Do you think your students would respond better to texts than email, but you don't want to text from your personal phone?  In order to text a phone number from a computer, all you need is your email, the phone number and the provider of that number.  Text the ten digit phone number @ the extension appropriate for the character.

At&t:  @txt.att.net
Boost:  @myboostmobile.com
Sprint:  @messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile:  @tmomail.net
Verizon:  @vtext.com

Reminders

Looking for a freshmen nomination for student of the month~please nominate a freshman by Wednesday.   Enter your nominations for students of the month here. 

Goal-setting meetings:  The district has extended the deadline for goals to be entered into Bloomboard to October 31st.  We are expecting  the Office of Teaching and Learning to send out some clarification regarding goals, specifically IAGDs around AP and CAPT.  We'll share any information we receive with you.  We as a team are going to keep our meetings as scheduled so that we'll have time to meet with all of our teachers and make any necessary revisions prior to the due date.  We're going to ask that all Bloomboard goals be entered into the system by October 21 so that we'll have time to review your work and suggest revisions with time for us to approve them by October 31st.

BE Life Lectures:  As you know an 84 minute study hall is an awfully long time for some of our students.  We were thinking that we might be able to insert some inspiration into study halls by offering students the opportunity to watch inspiring videos or lectures (ala TED) in the auditorium.  We'll build the schedule and announce it to students.  What we need from you:  1) Do you know of any inspirational videos or TED talks you think our students would be interested in?  2) Do you know a former Lancer who might be interested in presenting his or her life lessons?  3) Would you be willing to volunteer to supervise a session or two?  Send Mike, Debbie, or Carly an email if interested

Friday Bright Spot

From Mrs. Gammon's Pre-Cal class, a variation on the exit slip method when students write a summary of what was learned to an absent student, by having students look for their own paper by restating what they wrote, they could listen and talk with others about what they've learned at the end of class.

Mrs. Roberts shared the articles she had differentiated for readers in her Foundations class.  Interested in using current events?  Newsela provides the same article content at various reading levels (note the slight change in tittles of the articles and the Lexile levels written on the corners.

AVID Strategy!  Costa's Level of Questions with some reminders for students about what each question type asks students to do.

Mrs. Brower's organizer to help students track their learning and their own understanding of that learning.  Like how students are writing in their own evidence of their learning.