PPT to share with teachers on 7-24-12.

1. Hale Kula Elementary School
School Year 2012-2013
Welcome!

2. Welcome to Our New Teachers!
 Alyssa Tanaka (Kindergarten)
 Victoria Duncan (Grade 1)
 Laura D’Alfonso (Grade 3)
 Lee Noto (Grade 4)
 Brent Copple (Grade 5)
 Anne Calef (Grade 5)
 Esther Park (Grade 5)
 Keith Merriam (Grade 5)

3. Other Personnel Changes:
 Jahna Lau (Kindergarten)
 Cynthia Michaud (Grade 1)
 Marlon Gomez (Grade 2)
 Mailei Stachel (Grade 3)
 Lora Dunham (Grade 3)
 Kerri Korycinski (Grade 3 general ed)
 Megan McKee, Cheryln Cole, Beth Araki (RTI
Literacy Coach)
 Lynele Basug, Tami Sego, Carmen Pita (Data
Coaches)
 Jessica Forney is now Jessica Curtis

4. Inclusion Activity
Think of your assignment to read/review one of the
following: “RSA Animate – Changing Education
Paradigms,” “A Bucket List for K-12
Students,” or “What is the Purpose of
Education?”
Review our school mission:
Hale Kula Elementary School educates all students
to be effective members of a global society. This
includes educating them to be competent and
confident complex thinkers and lifelong learners.

5. Inclusion Activity - continued
 Your assignment: How does our school
mission match what you read or viewed?
What do we want our students to be able to do
when they leave our classrooms?
 Get into groups of 4. You have 10 minutes to
share your viewpoints and come up with a
statement that reflects your group’s views about
education today. Using a mobile device, post
your group’s statement to:
http://todaysmeet.com/hkespd712
 You are limited to 140 characters.

6. Announcements
 Adequate Yearly Progress – In Good
Standing, Pending
 Norbert Award
 DoD Facilities Grant
 Growth Model
 Attendance Incentive Program
 Review contents of Teacher Packet

7. Professional Development 2012-
2013
http://www.scoop.it/t/pd-2012-2013

8. Focuses for SY 2012-2013

9. Tomorrow’s Assignment:
 Come up with norms for Data Team
meetings, guidelines which we can all agree
on to make our meetings more productive.
Examples:
 Begin and end on time
 Come to the meeting with your
“homework” completed
 No side conversations
We will compile all grade level suggestions
and come up with school-wide norms for
Data Team meetings.

10. Role of the Coach
 Work with classroom teachers to ensure the
required data is collected.
 Guide discussions about the data; work as a
team to analyze the data and agree on SMART
goals and instructional strategies every teacher
will implement in their classroom.
 Work with classroom teachers and co-teach if
requested to implement agreed-upon instructional
strategies.
 Meet with the RTI and Data Coach at least once
per month (e.g. during PE time) to review data for
your classroom.
 Serve as a COACH to improve teaching and
learning at Hale Kula.

11. Leilehua Complex K-12 Plan
1. 100% of teachers in the Leilehua Complex
will integrate technology in their teaching and
learning so students use technology and
web2.0 tools to:
 Develop critical thinking skills
 Communicate
 Collaborate
 Create

12. Leilehua Complex K-12
Construct
2. 100% of teachers will teach a lesson on goal-
setting, set a goal for the class, and track their
progress. 80% of our students will set a goal for
themselves for the year and track their progress.
3.100% of Leilehua Complex schools will use
Thinking Maps as a common language for
leadership. School teams will use Thinking Maps
to organize thinking when problem-
solving, analyzing data, goal- setting, action
planning, etc.

13. Other
 Introduce the 8 Thinking Maps (1 per week)

14. School Blogs:
 Hooray for Our Hale Kula Staff
hoorayforhalekulastaff.blogspot.com
 Hooray for Our Volunteers
hoorayforvolunteers.blogspot.com/
 Hale Kula Highlights
hkeshighlights.blogspot.com/

15. Let’s have a great school year!
Our DOE and USDOE Goal –
Students will be college and career
ready by the time they graduate.