Guidelines for Success
What acronym is used for BTSAHS Guidelines for Success?
What is FALCONS
The purpose of the DCPS Student Progression Plan.
What is to present to school staff, parents, and interested community members a guide to student progression which reflects state statute, school district policies and administrative procedures.
The identifier to communicate that a student is labeled ESE in FOCUS.
What is a yellow star?
What is the first thing observers look for when they walk into a teacher's classroom and what should be posted?
What is the Standard Focus Board: Standard, Objective, Essential Question
A student in your classroom has a body odor that is overwhelming and distracts others from learning. What do you do?
What is answer will vary but may include: involving CIS, school counselor, call home, speak to the student one on one.
What does the F stand for in BTSAHS's Guidelines for Success?
What is FOCUSED
The program of study our students are placed on for graduation when they attend BTSAHS.
What is program of study R or 18 credit ACCEL program?
The acronym meaning of a LAP.
What is lack of adequate progress?
What are observers looking for when they focus on PBIS in the classroom?
What is answers will vary but may include: school-wide rules posted, Guidelines for Success posted, CHAMPS, BIZI evidence.
Students begin to argue and a dispute begins in your classroom. What do you do?
What is answers will vary but may include: Call the front office, ask one of the students to leave the classroom, look out the classroom door for security.
What does the A and the L stand for in the Guidelines for Success?
What is...
ACCOUNTABILITY
LIMITLESS
The percentage a DEOC and a state EOC counts towards a student's final grade.
What is DEOC =20% and EOC = 30%?
The time when a LAP meeting must occur for an ESE student.
What is prior to an ESE student failing a semester and/or prior to having the F show on the transcript? For BTSAHS this right after each progress report period due to our 4x4 schedule.
If an observer is coming into your classroom to focus on the use of assessment FOR instruction, what would they see?
What is answers will vary but may include: intentional questioning (not unison response), exit tickets, checks for understanding throughout the lesson, etc.
A student comes to a teacher's class with work from another teacher and asks to complete the work in the teacher's classroom. The student is not scheduled to be with the teacher at this time. What do you do?
What is answers will vary but may include: Say no and tell the student to return to the scheduled class.
What does the C, O, N, S stand for in the Guidelines for Success?
What is...
CONSISTENT
OPTIMISTIC
NICE
SUCCESSFUL
What 3 courses do students on a 18 credit graduation program NOT have to take?
What are HOPE and 2 years of a World Language?
The only way a teacher can fail an ESE student.
What is if all accommodations are communicated in FOCUS, at least 3 genuine attempts to contact the parent/guardian are communicated in the school-wide communication log, and a LAP meeting occurs?
Explain the process of how to organize small groups to provide differentiation as well as a teacher led group.
What is answers will vary but may include: use of exit slips (data) to group students homogeneously, groups are developed based common misconceptions, communicated to students as they walk in the door, cooperative learning roles, different assignments due to different data and need.
You are in the teacher's workroom making copies for an amazing day of teaching when you overhear other teachers talking about another colleague in a negative manner. What do you do?
What is various response but may include: asking the teachers to be professional and remind them of professionalism, take the information to administration informally, write a formal statement to give to administration.
What is the purpose of the Guidelines for Success in a high school?
What is to provide students with clear expectations, structured support, and a roadmap for achieving academic and personal growth. They help foster a positive learning environment, promote responsible behavior, and ensure consistency in educational practices.
The amount of quality points needed for our students in Algebra 1, Geometry, US History, and/or Biology to fail the state EOC and still pass the course.
What is 3 quality points?
An ESE accommodation and an example of how to document it and implement it
What is answers will vary?
What is the last Look For that we have not discussed during the game and what does it look like to an observer?
What is using Tier 1 Supports to Increase Engagement. This may look like guided notes, graphic organizers, Venn diagrams, cooperative learning groups with roles, etc.
What is the full process of professional standards?
1. Allegation reported
2. Admin creates MRF to district
3. District speaks to Admin and provides advice and next steps
4. Admin provides 24 hour allegation letter
5. Employee can access union rep and attend meeting to hear allegation.
6. Admin conducts investigation and provides information to the district
7. Admin and district discuss consequences
8. Meeting to determine allegation and consequences with employee
**If this a Title IX investigation, the Title IX investigation occurs simultaneously but the allegation cannot be closed until the Title IX investigation is completed**