Glen Rose High School

Agenda for the Day
* Introductions
* Expectations
*T-TESS training

Introductions:

Partner up!
Get with someone at least two tables away (preferably someone you don't know very well)

Note Card Instructions

• Name and years experience
• Job duties
• Anything else about them they would like for you to know (college, family, hometown)
• 2 interesting facts and a fib

What I do well

• I look for positives
• I respect, support, and value other people's passions
• I see other peoples points of view without bias
• I listen to honest feedback

My weaknesses

• Organization
• I can talk too much
• I spend most of my time celebrating people's strengths and not enough time helping them get better on weaknesses
• Not good with names
• Get distracted e

Job duties

• Manage Instruction
• Make decisions on how to improve campus
• Student Management
• Manage Fiscal, Administrative, and Facility Functions
• Personnel Management
• School Community Relations

Expectations

• Instructional strategies, classroom management, and communication will be second to none
• Positive attitudes and best effort
• All campus policies and procedures enforced at all times

Instruction

• Well planned bell-to-bell instruction
• Rigor at a high level
• Meaningful to students (real world application)
• Collaboration with team

Improvement

• Search for self-improvement
• Be open to new ideas
• Listen to others
• Ask questions
• "Good enough" is not good enough

Students Management

• Uniform, appropriate, and equitable behavioral system
• Communication home

Accountability

• We all have job duties and responsibilities. One of mine is to hold the High School staff members accountable for the performance of their job duties and responsibilities.

Positive Communication to Public

• Send something to newspaper, radio, facebook, twitter, or instagram weekly
• If you don't tell your story, somebody will.

Communication Home

• At least one parent phone call or personalized email per day (5 per week).
• Behavior/Progress/Praise
• Keep communication log

Communication at School

• Be respectful to each other
• Be honest to me about your thoughts and feelings
• Be knowledgeable and respect other people's points of view
• Find the positives in people and acknowledge those characteristics
• Golden Rule

Shack's Naughty List

• Negativity
• Failure to follow and/or enforce policy and procedure
• Failure to contact parents about their child/children
• Failure to put student needs above personal convenience

So what's new?

• Discipline procedures
• Lunch room procedures
• Communication log
• SAT/ACT question of the day
• T-TESS Evaluation
• Cell Phone Parking Lot

My Vision - STEP

• Students First
• Teamwork
• Enthusiasm
• Passion

Congratulations!
You've made it through part one and two of the agenda.
Next up is your
T-TESS training!