Thank you all for your hard work and devotion to the students and parents of Hooksett. We were so pleased to see the professional relaxed atmosphere that was HMS. The feedback we received was so positive and encouraging. Keep up the great work!
Drew and Carol
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
PowerSchool, oh, PowerSchool! We're updated and refined to a new system that virtually corrects itself. It is called Oracle, and it is the newest programming that identifies bugs in individual places, creates a plan for a solution, solves it and fixes it. It does this all for individual cases as opposed to the "old fashioned kind." They would wait for a plethora of problems to arise, fix all of the problems at once, and then send out a mass update to everyone at the same time. Does this sound familiar to what we're doing in the educational world? We're all changing our practices based on the data collection techniques being developed.
How Far We've Come
Yesterday's SINI meeting was a great success. The expanded team, which included a memeber from each data team, helped generate rich conversation about our progress in the mathematics portion of our SINI action plan.
Perhaps the best conversation of all involved looking back at our progress from the inception of the SINI team. The conversation then focused primarily on the school's culture and climate and "how are we ever going to be able to do this!" Now, we are having data based conversations that are fine tuning our instruction to address the needs of all our students in the classroom.
We still have improvements to make and areas we can continue to develop, but we are getting there. Regardless of how difficult it feels some days, your efforts are improving the lives of the children we teach exponentially. For that, one has to be proud!
Perhaps the best conversation of all involved looking back at our progress from the inception of the SINI team. The conversation then focused primarily on the school's culture and climate and "how are we ever going to be able to do this!" Now, we are having data based conversations that are fine tuning our instruction to address the needs of all our students in the classroom.
We still have improvements to make and areas we can continue to develop, but we are getting there. Regardless of how difficult it feels some days, your efforts are improving the lives of the children we teach exponentially. For that, one has to be proud!
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Last Night's HMS Leadership Meeting
Last night's leadership meeting was fruitful in its attempt to increase communication throughout the many facets of our school. Locate minutes from the meeting on the HMS Public Drive. Notable topics included:
- Report Cards
- NECAP Follow Up
- DIBELS
- Collaboration Time
- Communication/Town Criers
- PowerSchool
- Progress Reports
- 2010-11 Budget
Inspired by Children
Greetings!
Here is a nine minute inspirational video. This young man really is something. He presented the opening day speech for a group of teachers in Dallas.
Here is a nine minute inspirational video. This young man really is something. He presented the opening day speech for a group of teachers in Dallas.
Monday, October 26, 2009
New Post
Hi Everybody,
Communication is the most consistent difficulty we face here at HMS. Try and try as we may, through the web site, PowerSchool Daily Bulletin, Memorial Messenger, Email, Faculty Meetings, Grade Level Team Meetings, Town Criers, Leadership Meetings, Open Forums, Sign-In Book Message Stand, Mailbox Postings, and Notes in Mailboxes, we still experience difficulty sharing ideas and informing each other of day to day operations of out building. I hope that this blog can be your "one stop shop" in terms of building communication. Our plan is to treat this web log (blog) as the daily bulletin for teachers, only it is interactive. You may add your comments to each post after you read them.
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J. Andrew Bairstow
Assistant Principal
Hooksett Memorial School
603.485.9890 ext. 1002
Communication is the most consistent difficulty we face here at HMS. Try and try as we may, through the web site, PowerSchool Daily Bulletin, Memorial Messenger, Email, Faculty Meetings, Grade Level Team Meetings, Town Criers, Leadership Meetings, Open Forums, Sign-In Book Message Stand, Mailbox Postings, and Notes in Mailboxes, we still experience difficulty sharing ideas and informing each other of day to day operations of out building. I hope that this blog can be your "one stop shop" in terms of building communication. Our plan is to treat this web log (blog) as the daily bulletin for teachers, only it is interactive. You may add your comments to each post after you read them.
--
J. Andrew Bairstow
Assistant Principal
Hooksett Memorial School
603.485.9890 ext. 1002
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