November 2017 – COUGAR PRIDE

12/7 Individual Reading Day

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PRIDE Bucks are Green for Tri2

We’ll still accept blue bucks but will change them to green for Tri2 in order to signal the new term and symbolically/visually revamp the bucks.

11/28 Behavior Expectations Review

Slideshow for Tuesday morning (work in progress).

11/30 Individual Reading Day

This week’s article should be an interesting one: Should students be paid for performance in school?

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11/20 Behavior Expectations Review

We’re going to keep with the theme of conflict resolution for one more week and put together the pieces we’ve talked about so far. Those being:

What to do/not to do in a conflict
My part in de-escalating conflicts (emotional intelligence)

This week, I’m going to provide scenarios, and you will have the opportunity to talk about ways to resolve the conflicts in those scenarios with your students.

Here’s the slideshow (work in progress): https://goo.gl/WrVTEv

[UPDATED] November Breakfast of Champions

There’s a Breakfast of Champions this month after all! The event is scheduled for November 30th at 8:15-8:45am in the library, and the theme is Always Engaged. These are the students who are always focused, listening actively, participating, and just generally paying attention in class.

Please nominate students under the November tab here: https://goo.gl/68t4B7. I’ll send out a reminder again when the day draws near.

Thank you all so much and let me know if you have any questions!

11/14 Behavior Expectations Review: Conflict Resolution Part 2

Slideshow Access

11/16 Individual Reading Day

If there are no objections, I thought we could change this week’s article to the one embedded below. This article might be more useful given some of the behaviors we’ve seen around school recently and may help students become more meta-cognitive about their thoughts and behaviors.

While the article doesn’t go into much detail about the influence of media violence on behavior, it may make for a lively and valuable discussion. Here are some additional articles that effectively present arguments from both sides:

How do video games, social isolation, and online forums contribute to violence in society?

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11/7 Behavior Expectations Review

This week’s Tuesday homeroom will focus on resolving personal conflicts.

Conflict Resolution Slides

11/9 Individual Reading Day

Due to the schedule change last week, not all teachers were able to do the article on bullying; therefore, please continue with the same article this week as well. There are multiple activities that go along with the article that involve discussion, writing, note-taking (a good opportunity to use Notability), and even math/science-related skills. Get creative! The possibilities are endless!

I’ll have hard copies of the article in your boxes tomorrow (Monday), and Caleb will email it to students before Thursday morning.

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