Ice cream social on Wednesday!

This week during faculty and department meeting times, teachers will continue to work on differentiation strategies to ensure the support and success of each student.  Everyone will be sharing what they’ve done differently since our two professional development sessions with district staff; we’ll be examining actual student work samples to find common threads or common misconceptions and plan for remediation.  We’ll do this again in two and a half weeks, which will help to keep us focused on using classroom data appropriately.

Teachers have also been working on our WASC accreditation report for our visit next spring.  They have been divided into five FOCUS groups and will be tasked with answering to what extent has Waimea HS teachers, staff, and administration achieved the specific criteria for each section.  Soon, we will be asking students, parents, and community members to also join our FOCUS groups – please volunteer your time if/when you are called.

Still got a lot of KIF sports going on…. Come out and support your fave team/athlete this week!

Have a great week everyone!

Mrs. Anguay  J

Announcements:

1.        Ice cream social during lunch – students with 3.0 GPA or higher can pick up their ice cream snack by the side office door.

2.        Meetings this week – faculty on Tuesday, department on Thursday.  Please bring student work samples from one class period to Tuesday’s meeting; you will be working through the template that Caroline gave us last month.  Be prepared to talk/share about how you differentiated for your students; what strategy(ies) did you use?

3.        KCC advisory visit – ABADILLA.  Please keep your students in on Thursday.

Scheduled Meetings:

Date	Time	Location	What meeting?	Who attends?
Monday 2/1/16	12:20 (per. 7)	LRC small conference room	CORE team meeting	CORE team members
Tuesday 2/2/16	1:45 – 2:45 pm	LRC	Faculty Meeting – reviewing student work (see above)	All teachers
Thursday 2/4/16	12:20 pm	LRC	DH meeting	All DH, Anguay,Asahi, Baker, Russell, Taira
Thursday 1/28/16	1:50 pm	On own	Department meetings.  DH set location of meetings; submit minutes to Baker and to OCMatrix	All staff

Campus Supervision:

Assigned Date of Supervision	Feb 1, 2, 3	Feb 4, 5
Assigned campus area	Team 6	Team 1
●     Upper campus (preschool/J/I)	Moises Muraoka	Camara Super
●     library	Evens	Saligumba
●     front lawn/outside cafe	Matsuyama	Naumu
●     S/T/U courtyard	Kellogg	Broyles
●     AR room (ELA teachers)	Erdmann	Ibara

RTI workshop and future implications at Waimea High....

Our school just sent a team to a four-day training on how to implement a school wide system of academic and behavioral interventions as part of our continuous school improvement process.   We took a close look at the four types of school data – demographic, perception, achievement, and programs/process – and began planning ways we will support students who need extra help with reading, math, and writing, beginning with effective instruction and behavioral supports in each class.  We are looking closely at each student’s test scores, from their HSA in middle school to their current STAR reading and math scores.  Those data points, along with grades, attendance, and teacher recommendations will determine which students will be placed in secondary support classes like a Reading/Writing or Math Workshop class next year so we can help bring up skill levels.  Parents of students whose schedules need to be changed will be advised before school releases for summer.  In the interim, please encourage your student to take all tests seriously, especially STAR and Achieve, as we will use the information from those assessments to select students for support classes.

Have a great week everyone!

Mrs. Anguay  J

Announcements:

1.        CORE team meeting returns to Monday at 1 pm in the LRC small conference room

2.        TUESDAY: ·         Anguay out all day at Principal Meeting ·         Extended Faculty meeting time – report to LRC and work with WASC Focus groups on your sections.  ·         Harding, Erdman, Moises, Muraoka, Dickinson – meet with Karen Aka and Billie Smith during first hour at 1:45 pm in LRC re: Performance Tasks

3.        THURSDAY: ·         Saligumba Advisory – KCC visit.  Please keep your students in. ·         Wes Yuu returns to campus ·         Asahi out at VP Meeting all day

4.         FRIDAY: ·         1 pm, Allison from Achieve on campus to meet with Anguay, Baker, Taira, Muraoka and anyone else interested in learning more about how to maximize program use and increase student achievement

5.       SATURDAY – HSTE Kauai Slam! at Waimea HS from 8:30 – 12:00 noon

Scheduled Meetings:

Date	Time	Location	What meeting?	Who attends?
Monday 1/25/16	12:20 (per. 7)	LRC small conference room	CORE team meeting	CORE team members
Tuesday 1/26/16	1:45 – 3:45 pm	LRC	EXTENDED Faculty Meeting **Harding, Erdmann, Moises, Muraoka, Dickinson meet with Karen Aka, Billie Smith for first hour	All teachers
Wed 1/27/16	7:30 am	LRC small conference room	Meeting with Gail, Mrs. Nitta re: staffing, financial plan for next year	Anguay Asahi Balisacan Duarte
Thursday 1/28/16	1:50 pm	On own	Department meetings.  DH set location of meetings; submit minutes to Baker and to OCMatrix	All staff

Campus Supervision:

Assigned Date of Supervision	January 25, 26	January 27, 28, 29
Assigned campus area	Team 4	Team 5
●     Upper campus (preschool/J/I)	Shigematsu Pereira	Nishihira Rose
●     library	Dickinson Daligcon	K. Souza
●     front lawn/outside cafe	Altomare	Sagawa-Pananganan
●     S/T/U courtyard	Kajiwara	Phillips
●     AR room (ELA teachers)	Stengel	Freitag

Busy week of athletics......

Another short 4-day week ahead of us; here’s what’s going on:

·         Athletics this week:

o   Girls and Boys varsity soccer playing at Island School Tuesday night; on Saturday, all four teams play at Vidinha starting at 10 am

o   Girl’s basketball teams will be playing at Waimea this Tuesday and at Island School on Friday

o   Boy’s basketball teams play Kauai HS on Saturday

o   KIF Paddling Championships Saturday at Wailua River

o   KIF Wrestling at Waimea’s gym Saturday, 10 am

o   KIF swimming at Kauai HS gym Saturday, 2 pm

·         Science Fair exhibition and judging this week Wednesday and Thursday in the LRC

·         KCC staff returns to the second round of advisory presentations to each of our junior and senior classes

·         Ms. Asahi will do Menehune Matters presentation over MTV3 about Chapter 19 discipline reminders for all students this week

Have a great week everyone!

Mrs. Anguay  J

  

Announcements:

1.       Out all week at Bernhardt training on Oahu – Anguay, Taira, Muraoka.

2.       Science Fair this week Wednesday/Thursday at the LRC.  LRC closed from Wednesday, period 4 and all day Thursday.

3.       KCC advisory visits start again this Thursday – O’DAY.  Please keep your advisory class in that day.

4.       Thursday meeting time after school returned to teachers this week – use to plan ahead, call parents of struggling/failing students

Scheduled Meetings:

Date	Time	Location	What meeting?	Who attends?
Tuesday 1/19/16	12:20 (per. 7)	LRC small conference room	CORE team meeting	CORE team members
Tuesday 1/19/16	1:45 – 2:45 pm	DH to determine meeting site	Department meetings for all except CTE/SPED; brainstorm enabling activities for upcoming AcPlan. **CTE and SPED department teachers meet with Joyce and Brandon.	All teachers

Campus Supervision:

Assigned Date of Supervision	January 19, 20, 21	January 22
Assigned campus area	Team 3	Team 4
●     Upper campus (preschool/J/I)	Acoba Messer	Shigematsu Pereira
●     library	Klein	Dickinson Daligcon
●     front lawn/outside cafe	Uyehara	Altomare
●     S/T/U courtyard	Davalos	Kajiwara
●     AR room (ELA teachers)	Mitsis	Stengel

West Complex PD Day tomorrow, Monday January 16, 2106

All West Complex Schools (Kalaheo, Eleele, Kekaha, WCMS, and WHS) will have a staff Professional Day TOMORROW, January 11^th…. No school for students.  Classes will resume as normal the following day, Tuesday January 12^th.

At tomorrow’s PD day, we will be continuing our work on differentiation with help from District staff, Caroline Freudig and Mariann Tabuchi, and will also start on our WASC focus group work in preparation for our accreditation visit in spring 2017.  Teachers will be reviewing our Comprehensive Needs Analysis, Future Ready implementation plan, and most recent student achievement and perception data to begin answering the prompts for the report.  We will be asking for student, parent, and community input as we work through this process over the next year; please come to our next SCC meeting on January 25^th to learn how you can participate and contribute to our report.

Have a great week everyone!

Mrs. Anguay  J

Announcements:

1.       Busy week everyone – PD Day on Monday, Wes Yuu with Math teachers on Tuesday and Friday, Migrant Ed monitoring on Friday

2.       Tuesday – grades due to Ms. Russell for quarter 2 and semester 1.  Please be sure to check with her if you have any questions

3.        Friday – Air Force recruiter on campus during lunch in Major Aguilar’s room

Scheduled Meetings:

Date	Time	Location	What meeting?	Who attends?
Monday 1/11/16	All Day	LRC	Professional Development Day	All staff
Tuesday 1/12/16	1:45 – 2:45 pm	LRC	Faculty meeting	Teachers, counselors, registrar, SSC
Tuesday 1/12/16	12:20 (per. 7)	LRC small conference room	CORE team meeting	CORE team members
Wed 1/13/16	8:00 am	Upstairs conference room	Accommodations Meeting	Rebecca, SSC, admin
Thursday 1/14/16	All Day	LRC	ART Meeting	All DH, SSC, admin, Baker
Thursday 1/14/16	1:50 PM	On own	Department meetings	teachers

Campus Supervision:

Assigned Date of Supervision	January 12	January 13, 14, 15
Assigned campus area	Team 1	Team 2
●     Upper campus (preschool/J/I)	Camara Super	Harding Herbig
●     library	Saligumba	Barber
●     front lawn/outside cafe	Naumu	Rita
●     S/T/U courtyard	Broyles	O’Day
●     AR room (ELA teachers)	Ibara	B. Souza