Sunday, August 30, 2015

Performance Tasks, DefinedStem, and a Clear STREAM….

Teachers spent last Thursday (extended meeting) and Friday (all day professional development day) learning about performance tasks (PT) and how they are an excellent tool to help further prepare our students to be college and career ready.  Performance tasks encourage students to look at issues or challenges and challenge them to ‘go deep’ and think critically, work collaboratively, and work with multiple standards across multiple content areas to come up with solutions.  Teachers were introduced to and played around with a fantastic resource, Definedstem.com, that contains PT for a wide variety of content with multi-media pieces linked in.  Then on Friday, we circled back to our school’s strategic plan, STREAM, and sent teachers out into our Westside community to nine different sites, ranging from the Port Allen business area to the Kekaha dump and the old Kekaha Sugar Mill.  Teachers were grouped with others from different departments and were instructed to create interdisciplinary instructional PT using a planning guide created by our district SRS, Lisa Mireles.  They had 2 ½ hours to create their lessons and then returned to campus and shared them out with the rest of the faculty.  It was a great way to spend our Professional Development Day and it also allowed all of us to improve our technology skills, especially with Google apps!  All teachers will be required to implement at least one PT this school year and will share their results at a faculty meeting.

KIF seasons for football, bowling, air riflery, bowling, and girls’ volleyball open this week… please check the calendar to the right (Student Activities/Athletics) to see when/where our student athletes will be competing this week.  Go Big Blue!

Have a great week everyone!


Mrs. Anguay J

Announcements:
1.       Please be sure to follow news reports re: Hurricane Ignacio and be sure your family/home plans are in place. 

2.       Wednesday 9 am is the Garden Blessing.  Students in Harding’s classes have been given passes to attend; they should show their pass and/or notify their period 1 and advisory teacher on Monday or Tuesday that they will need to be excused at 8:50 on Wednesday and will be at the blessing instead of going to advisory.  Their pass will be collected at the Garden on Wednesday for attendance.  Students with passes BUT who have been assigned to HW detention on Wednesday need to report to HW detention instead.

Hula students will be performing at Wednesday’s ceremony and Broadcast/Yearbook students will be covering the event.  They may attend; their names will be shared with teachers via LN.

3.       KIF sports kick off this week – 1st games for girls VB (Wednesday and Saturday), air riflery (Wednesday),  bowling (Thursday) and football (Friday).  Please refer to Student Activities/Athletics calendar sent out earlier for you to add

4.       Anyone interested in playing in the WAFF golf tournament on September 12?  Please come and see me… I have entry forms.  Thanks


Scheduled Meetings:
Date
Time
Location
What meeting?
Who attends?
8/31/15
1 pm
Baker’s room
CORE team
Counselors, SSC, SRO, Mokihana, admin
9/1/15
1:45 – 3:45
LRC
EXTENDED faculty
Teachers, counselors, SSC, registrar
9/3/15
1:45 – 2:20
On own
Dept/Data teams
All teachers

Campus Supervision:
Assigned Date of Supervision
Aug 31
Sept. 1, 2, 3
Sept. 4
Assigned campus area
Team 1
Team 2
Team 3
·         Upper campus (preschool/J/I)
Camara
Super
Harding
Herbig
Acoba
Messer
·         library
Saligumba
Barber
Klein
·         front lawn/outside cafe
Naumu
Rita
Uyehara
·         S/T/U courtyard
Broyles
O’Day
Davalos
·         AR room (ELA teachers)
Ibara
B. Souza
Mitsis