Staff Update Week of January 19, 2026
Important Dates
1/19- MLK Day (No School)
1/20- Fire Drill 2:23
1/23- Second Quarter Awards (1st-3rd periods)
1/30- 6th Grade Field Trip- United Skates- STEM
2/2- RIMP Meetings (Round 2)
2/3- After School Staff Meeting (3:15-4:15)
2/13- Resource Room Valentines Day Dance
2/16- Presidents Day (No school)
2/23- PD Day
2/24- Fire Drill 9:35am
Important Information
PBIS Update
The PBIS theme for quarter 3 is "Choose Resilience". Last quarter, each grade level did their own thing with community service. Our goal this quarter is to reconnect PBIS as a whole school.
We will be rolling this off on Friday, January 23rd during Flex (8th period).
During flex, we will play music over the announcements. When you hear the music, all students will walk around the building (same direction....counter clockwise....8th grade hall to six grade hall to 7th grade hall.....to 8th grade hall)
Teachers can walk with students or monitor the hallways to make sure everyone is behaving appropriately.
When the music stops, students will freeze and be sent to the nearest breakout room to discuss resilience (mixed grade level discussion).
PBIS ambassadors will lead the discussions.
There will be 4 different breakout rooms (locations to be determined) with 2-3 ambassadors per room.
PBIS teachers are still working on the talking points for the ambassadors.
I will put out more information later in the week.
January 22nd (rescheduled from 1/15)
On January 22nd, Jaimie Smith will be at EMS to provide support for The Writing Revolution. 6th, 7th, and 8th Grade PLCs will all meet that day.
6th Grade- 2nd period PLC
7th Grade- 1st period PLC
8th Grade- 8th Period PLC
When Jaimie is not in a PLC, she will be going into classrooms to offer feedback or even model is a teacher would like.
* In order to provide coverage for 8th grade teachers (8th Period), 7th Graders will have Career Connections on Wednesday (1/21) and 8th Graders will have Career Connections on Thursday (1/22)
** Please make sure you plan on incorporating The Writing Revolution strategies into your lessons on 1/22
*** ILT Members will be at the board office that day as scheduled.
After School Staff Meeting- February 3rd (rescheduled from 1/15)
Staff Meeting will be from 3:15-4:15.
All teachers are expected to be there. A few of you might be late due to some afterschool duties.
Jaimie Smith will be leading the staff meeting. Topic: Explicit Instruction Strategies and Eliciting Student Response Techniques
2nd Quarter Academic Awards
Reminder.......We have moved this back to Friday, January 23rd
Good Professional Reading (or Watching)
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