Secondary Leadership Message

Linda Cliatt-Wayman, author of Lead Fearlessly, Love Hard challenges Principals to have courage and vision for all students. She writes in Thinking About Your Leadership:

You, the leader, must possess courage in order to lead any turnaround effort. Nothing will happen without it. Everyone who wants to keep things the same will test you on both small and large scales.

At times, fear will step in. Keep thinking about your bottom line. You must be steadfast and willing to do what it takes to get there. You must be prepared to state your case for going the distance with your “stamp approval” plan. Having courage is very hard. Courage is where many leaders fall. Many times you will have to make unpopular decisions, but if they are needed to complete the mission you must make the call. Ultimately, winning or losing will be on you. You may as well lead strong. Winning takes a lot courage.

Examine Attentively: Your courage to lead.

Do you have the courage to do what it takes to lead?

11/10 - Massing of the Colors @ Trimble Tech (JROTC)

11/11 - Veteran's Day Parade @ Downtown FW

11/12 - SNAP Team Members & Meeting dates due (see below)

11/12 - School Board meeting - (Poly JROTC)

11/18 - Assistant Principal meeting @ PDC

Branching Minds is a web-based program that helps teachers create personalized interventions for literature, math and student behavior. The Branching Mind system will take the place of R360 and Edugence to improve the effectiveness MTSS/RTI implementation and will reduce the burden of documentation by streamlining the data collection systems utilized by the district.

Principals -

1) Sign up your SNAP team which should include at minimum (AP, Counselor, Behavioral Interventionist and a Teacher), a google doc has been created.

2) Submit the names of your SNAP team & the list of dates the team will be meeting for the reminder of the year to your Executive Director by 11/12/19.

3) Identify the administrator and team member that will participate in the Train the Trainer Training.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1phsSn7blPAxtRcoPutxP1bRQJNcQNpnZ5IgMqYstjag/edit#gid=461089695

As we walk classes, student engagement continues to be an opportunity for high leverage intervention. Below you will find a link that will provide you with numerous activities in which your staff can implement daily.

Description: Formative assessment tool to utilized by teachers primarily as mechanism to gauge students understanding. This resource is an opportunity for staff to enhance their lesson plans during planning periods and PLC’s.

Who: Teachers, Asst. Principals & Principals

When: Classroom (instruction) Planning periods (lesson plans) & PLC’s

Where: In classroom with students to check for understanding. Best practice would be for Principals, AP’s or Instructional Coaches to model a formative assessment process during a faculty meeting to check for teacher understanding.

https://learn.k20center.ou.edu/strategies

11/9 - 6th Annual Representative Nicole Collier Veterans Day Breakfast

11/14 - GRIT Challenge @ Trinity River Campus

*DAI- JCC Middle School Instructor Monthly Tuesday Meeting (7 am)*