Dear Staff,
What a wonderful weekend to be a Celtic!! Starting on Thursday our Girls Volleyball Team upset Liberty in their first Tourney game, and Girls Soccer upset Watterson in their first Tourney game also. Friday night our Football team won 42-6 over Canal, and Saturday our Boys Soccer game also won their first Tourney game. Girls XC advanced to the Regionals and Tennis Vickie Chang and Rhiannon James finished 4th in the Div I Girls Doubles State Tourney!
In addition, our Girls Golf Team made OHSAA history by winning their 4th straight Div I State Championship in tough conditions. Congratulations to CD Butcher who has established the most elite Girls Golf program in Ohio history! Wow! Also congrats to Fred Seely our JV coach.
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| Coaches and players hold up 4 fingers signifying 4 straight State Championships!! |
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| Great to see Craig Zesiger and Bryan Arnold at the State Golf Tourney cheering on our Girls! |
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| Carly Davis proudly displays her 2nd place District Overall finish trophy. The Girls Team also finished 2nd overall and advances to the Regionals next weekend! Carly also set a new school record! Again! |
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| Saturday was capped by our Marching Band serving us hosts with the Scioto and Coffman bands for the first Dublin Band Invitational! Fabulous show! |
Today our Girls Tennis Team is competing in the State Team Tennis Tourney Final 4. We will let you know how we do. What a weekend!! We hope you enjoyed the long weekend with your families.
This Week--
Monday: Please remember all grades are due by the end of the day on Monday and they must be accurate as George will start printing grade cards on Tuesday. Please remember that every grade change you do starting on Tuesday necessitates George to re-print a report card for each student and grade changed. Please help George out by making sure your grades are in on time and accurate. She so much appreciates your help.
Tuesday: Tuesday and Wed are our required Insurance Benefit required conferences. Please make sure you have signed up for a conference or you will have to attend one at another building. Girls Soccer Tourney game at Pick Central at 7 AM.
Wednesday: Our first Working Wednesday from 7:15 - 8:10 AM. This time is required for every certified staff member to meet. If you do not have a counterpart in the building you may meet in another building or electronically.We will be sending out the norms and the required Google doc documentation form that each singleton and each same-subject team complete. Only one form per team.
What is the work? Answering as a same-subject team these questions COLLABORATIVELY on an ongoing basis.
1. What is it we want students to learn? (scope and sequence of standards and learning targets). (District goal- learning targets)
2. How do we know if they have learned it? (common diagnostic, formative and summative assessments, rubrics, etc) If you have not completed your team's SMART goal, they are due by the end of October. Each department received a Google Doc to complete. (District goal of Assessment)
3. How do we respond if they do not learn it? (COLLABORATIVELY developing a team pyramid of interventions.) Mike Aurin previously sent you a Google Doc to be completed by the end of October on your team's pyramid of interventions. The purpose of this pyramid is to provide EXTRA time and support for students to learn. Come together on items such as re-takes, test corrections, homework policies and grading policies, all that affect student learning opportunities. (District goal feedback and differentiation). This is the one question on which we are most different so please take time to come together. Providing students extra time and support for learning is an integral part and function of every PLC.
4. How do we respond if they already know it? Collaboratively implement enrichment and differentiation for students who are advanced in your subject area. (District goal feedback and differentiation)
It is very important that our Working Wednesdays demonstrate a collective commitment by each member of the team to focus on this important student learning focus work.
Also Wednesday-- Boys Soccer game at home vs. Kilbourne.
Thursday: New Teachers to Jerome meeting on PLC Work, 7:15 AM in the main office conference room.
Also Volleyball Tourney game at Whitehall.
Friday: PTO will provide a staff luncheon instead of breakfast. PAC meeting during all three lunches. A special Friday night-- Home football vs. Westerville South and Senior Night for band, cheerleaders and football. Also Mark Hundley's last home game as the only football coach we have had at Jerome. Come out and support the Celtics and Mark!
Looking ahead:
Oct. 27-31: OGT Fall administration Week. Please work with these students and give extra time for them to make up work from their OGT testing. Not only does this include students who failed one or more sections last spring, but it includes all of our new juniors or seniors who moved in from another state. Please do what you can to support these students.
Oct. 29: Working Wednesday
Oct. 31: Halloween Dress-Up Day. Prizes to individual staff members and to departments. Will Math prevail? Guidance? English?
Nov. 4: Election Day
Nov. 6: Department Chair Meeting 7:15 AM
Parent-Teacher Conferences 3-6:30 PM.
Have a terrific week! Remember, as Jon Gordon reminds us, "Culture is dynamic, not static. Every person on your team and organization creates your culture by what they think, say and do each day."
Help our ride on our Energy Bus be a positive one every day by embodying positive thoughts, words and actions.
Cathy
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