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
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Announcements:
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1. Please
be sure to follow news reports re: Hurricane Ignacio and be sure your
family/home plans are in place.
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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.
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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
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4. Anyone
interested in playing in the WAFF golf tournament on September 12? Please come and see me… I have entry
forms. Thanks
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Scheduled Meetings:
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Date
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Time
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Location
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What
meeting?
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Who
attends?
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8/31/15
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1 pm
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Baker’s room
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CORE team
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Counselors,
SSC, SRO, Mokihana, admin
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9/1/15
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1:45 – 3:45
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LRC
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EXTENDED
faculty
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Teachers, counselors, SSC,
registrar
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9/3/15
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1:45 – 2:20
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On own
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Dept/Data
teams
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All teachers
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Campus Supervision:
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Assigned Date of Supervision
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Aug
31
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Sept.
1, 2, 3
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Sept.
4
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Assigned campus area
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Team 1
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Team 2
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Team 3
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Upper campus
(preschool/J/I)
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Camara
Super
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Harding
Herbig
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Acoba
Messer
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library
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Saligumba
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Barber
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Klein
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front
lawn/outside cafe
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Naumu
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Rita
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Uyehara
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S/T/U courtyard
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Broyles
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O’Day
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Davalos
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AR room (ELA
teachers)
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Ibara
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B. Souza
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Mitsis
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