Week of April 16

Bus/Parking Lot Duty: Meeks
Monday 4/16:  7:00 Secondary Departmental Collaboration 8:30-9:00 Faculty meeting.  Use the rest of the day to plan department meetings or collaborate in any way that works best for your classes.
Tuesday 4/17:  ELA ISAT
Wednesday 4/18:  ELA ISAT
Thursday 4/19  
Fri 4/20  Kaiser/Frame visiting Mica Peak

Bus/Parking Lot Duty: Cooley and Doering
Monday 4/23: Non work day
Tuesday 4/24:  Math ISAT
Wednesday 4/25:  Math ISAT
Thursday 4/26 
Friday 4/27  Kaiser/Flieger visiting Community School

Phones...
After attending several sessions at the Prevention Conference yesterday, I have a renewed commitment to protecting our instructional time by limiting phones to lunch time use.  I had the good fortune of overhearing educators arguing for their use during classroom time and their arguments were so poorly supported and so obviously based on not wanting to proactively structure an optimum learning environment, that I felt doubly certain we are doing the right thing.  Please, continue to remind students to turn their phones in at the beginning of class.  Please, if you see them with phones, don't continue to offer warning after warning.  It only makes you come across as weak and unsure of yourself.  Take their phones.  If they won't give them to you, send them to the office.  Parents are supporting us.  The kids know it.  They don't like it.  But it truly is in their best interest.

Question to Discuss in Faculty Morning...
Are we giving 'C's?  Or, are we only using incompletes, A, and B?