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While phone calls and face-to-face meetings remain standard, any digital messaging to families must go exclusively through this translation-friendly app.
What is TalkingPoints?
If the principal were running the cafeteria menu, every day would feature this/these foods.
What is chips & queso? Also acceptable - Mexican
To model focus and minimize distractions, staff are required to keep this personal pocket item out of sight during class hours, unless an urgent situation arises.
What is your cell phone?
Enacted to curb excessive screen time and promote hands-on engagement, a new state policy caps daily student technology use at this exact duration.
What is 60 minutes a day?
Designed to build school culture and personal growth, all classrooms across the building are expected to implement this assigned character curriculum daily.
What is Character Strong?
Grounded in emotional intelligence, true leaders refrain from reflecting the frustration in the room; instead of letting outside negativity drive their behavior, they do this.
What is set the standard?
To ensure district-wide visibility for family outreach history, all phone calls and emails to guardians must be logged under this Infinite Campus tab.
What is the PLP?
Essential for maintaining smooth building operations and avoiding unnecessary back-and-forth emails, staff demonstrate proactive professionalism by committing to this weekly reading habit.
What is read the weekly update?
Far beyond standing on the sidelines, school staff on recess duty are required to practice this strategy—involving constant scanning high-risk areas, moving through play-zones, and proactive monitoring and anticipating conflict.
What is active supervision?
Regarding student rights and discipline, this overarching tier of legislation always trumps state law.
What is federal law?
In Goal 1's drive to strengthen Tier 1 instruction, educators prioritize literacy, knowledge-building, and this third foundational communication skill.
What is oral language?
Rather than lingering on a classroom failure or beating yourself up over a missed opportunity, high-performing teams bounce back by doing this.
What is focus on the next play?
When classroom-level interventions aren't enough for major behavioral issues, teachers take this action—filling out a specific digital document to call in the student support team.
What is submit an ASSIST form?
If you turned every staff meeting into a bingo game (or drinking game) using this favorite verbal habit, our entire faculty would hit a blackout before slide three because our principal utters it completely phrase on autopilot.
All answers accepted :)
Even when stepping out briefly to grab a delivery or let a colleague in, doing this is strictly prohibited under the new district safety campaign.
What is propping the door open?
A student crosses the threshold into being classified as chronically absent after missing this specific total number of school days or percentage of the academic year.
What is 25 days or 15%?
While grade-level PLCs convene weekly, Data Team Meetings are held on this specific schedule to determine adjustments to small groups.
What is every 3 weeks?
Winning as a campus requires recognizing that no single staff member has to score every point alone; embracing shared responsibility means choosing to do this.
What is pass the ball?
Under state law, classroom teachers must provide formal updates to parents regarding a student's intervention plan at this recurring time interval.
What is every 6 weeks?
While our principal handles cafeteria chaos and parent meetings with ease, this small event would send her into a total tailspin.
What is spots or sees a mouse?
To ensure a substitute can seamlessly step in during an unexpected absence, our building procedures require that an emergency sub folder contain…
What is ALL of the things?
Visiting parents coming to eat with their child during lunch hours are required to follow this specific rule regarding table companions.
What is only eating with their child, or providing permission from the other child’s parents to the office if friends are joining.
According to the SE5 engagement rubric, the highest-performing classrooms shift verbal interaction away from teacher dominance so that talk is predominantly this.
What is student to student?
Explicitly teaching behavioral expectations across every campus zone—from hallways to the cafeteria—is a responsibility assigned to this group.
What is all staff members?
While classroom teachers handle daily instruction, only staff in these two distinct roles possess the official authority to sign off on an early student departure.
Who is the Principal and/or the Nurse?
Even school leaders have off days; when our principal's bandwidth is stretched thin and she needs to pass the ball to a colleague, it's usually because she is doing this.
What is struggling to track conversations and/or complete tasks.
Even if a guardian's car is visible from the office, students may not be sent out to the waiting vehicle—requiring guardians to complete these two steps in person instead.
What is come inside and show ID?
To ensure consistency across all classrooms, this specific group establishes re-admittance criteria and uses guidance from Iowa Code to define violent behaviors.
Who is the oversight committee??
If an employee's copy counts spike or they repeatedly print materials outside district-purchased curricula, they can expect a direct conversation with this district employee.
Who is the building administrator?
Rather than bringing coffee or doughnuts to the teacher's lounge, you can show true love and respect for your colleagues' sanity by choosing to do this.
What is follow the master schedule?