EMS Staff Information

 Staff Update Week of August 19, 2024

Important Dates

8/19-        Teacher Work Day

8/20-        Convocation Day

8/21-        First Day of School

8/23-        PBIS Kickoff 1st period

8/27-        Open House (6:30-7:30pm)

8/28-        Fire Drill 2:28pm

8/29-        School Picture Day

8/30-        PBIS Kickoff 8th period

9/2-            Labor Day (No School)

Important Information

Monday, August 19th

6th Grade Orientation 9:00-11:00

7th/8th Grade Schedule Pick Ups 9:00-1:00

Building open to 6th Grade Families 5:00-7:00pm

    *Students have been invited to "chalk the walk"  on Monday

Tuesday, August 20th

Convocation Day @ South High School

7:45am-  Continental Breakfast

8:30am-  Program Begins

10:45am-  Staff Meeting @EMS   (room TBA)

12:30-3:00pm    Staff to work in PLCs

Guidance Intros

The schedule is as follows:

1st Period - All 7th Graders in the Gym (no bleachers needed)

2nd Period - All Explorers (6th) in Rm 212

6th Period - All Aviators (6th) in Rm 212

8th Period - All 8th Graders in the Gym (no bleachers needed)

If you have kids during these periods, please bring them to the appropriate places.  They will need just their Chromebooks and will take about 25 minutes.

SmartPass

We will be going with a digital hall pass system this year.

I am hoping we can have this up and running by August 26th.

We will talk about it during the staff meeting on Tuesday.

Here is a link to a SmartPass Demo video I suggest you watch.

Grade Level Expectation Talks

6th Grade-  Thursday 2nd Period

7th Grade-  Thursday- 1st Period

8th Grade-  Friday- 2nd Period

PBIS Assemblies

Friday, August 23rd  1st period (adjusted bell schedule)

Friday, August 30th 8th period (adjusted bell schedule)

                        Adjusted Bell Schedules

Good Professional Reading (or Watching)

BIFF:  A Method that Teachers can use to Navigate Hostile Written Communication

Using a Murder Mystery Game to kick off the year

RTI: Tier 1 Examples