Professional Development
All Vilonia School District, employees are required to earn this number of hours of PD each year.
What is 60?
Every teacher is expected to maintain an effective learning environment by creating a list of these and going over them with their students at regular intervals throughout the year.
What are rules and classroom procedures?
It is best practice to communicate concerns to parents. E mail is an acceptable form of communication, but this other form is highly recommended when communicating about behavioral concerns or performance in class.
What is a phone call?
Teachers are expected to be members of collaborative teams. When these teams meet, the focus should NOT be this particular teacher task.
What is lesson planning?
The acronym CAP is frequently used in the place of these three words.
What is Career Action Plan?
Daily lessons should be shown on these.
What are lesson plans?
This is considered any full time or part time school employee and a person who is at least 21 years of age and volunteers in a school. These people must immediately contact the Child Abuse Hotline if abuse is suspected.
What is a mandated reporter?
Every teacher should have this green binder neatly organized and placed near the desk.
What is a sub binder?
Much better than the previously used Kalpa, VSD will use this platform for the 2025-2026 school year to keep a record of professional development.
What is ESCworks (or shoebox)?
Students who come into class after the tardy bell should receive one of these, unless they have a note from the office or another teacher.
What is a detention?
If there is no response to attempted parent contact, teachers should generally try to do this.
What is contact the parents in a different way?
Collaborative team time is a time to focus on these discussion and data items, as outlined on page 24 of the handbook.
What is/what are
(Any of these five)
Common Formative Assessments
Assessment Data
Improvement Plans for Learning
Intervention Strategies
Extension Strategies
Beginning with the eighth grade class of 2018/2019, all students must have this plan in place by the end of their eighth grade year.
What is a student success plan?
Among other things, lessons plans should include the date, a description of the lesson, and these two very important components.
What are standards and learning targets?
The teacher work day spans between these two times.
What is 7:40 am to 3:40 pm?
This type of drill is executed once a month. Thankfully, though, tornado drills are only required three times per school year.
What is a fire drill?
When requesting a day "off" for professional development during the school year, you should enter the requested day in this platform in order to obtain a substitute teacher for the day.
What is WillSub?
If a student misses more than half the class period, they are considered to be this. Too many, and they might lose credit.
What is absent?
It is highly recommended that teachers keep this kind of parent contact log, just in case administrators need to access it quickly.
What is digital?
It's easy to make intentions and experiences the center of collaborative discussion, but collaborative time should really be centered around this, instead.
What is data?
Careful planning for the future can help students make this VSD mission statement come true!
What is success for all students?
HQIM stands for these four words, and should be used diligently and consistently.
What is high quality instructional material?
Teachers use the teacher access center to update grades. No fewer than this number, please!
What is one student grade per week?
Every member of the faculty receives this many minutes of prep time each day.
What are forty?
This is the number of PD hours required by the state of Arkansas for license renewal or contractual agreement.
What is 36?
Teachers are expected to supervise their classes at all times. With that being the expectation, it is never okay to do this big no-no that will likely result in disciplinary action.
What is leave students unattended?
Interaction with parents should be these two things, outlined on page 21 of the teacher handbook.
What are professional and proactive?
If a teacher must leave campus during his or her prep, the teacher must do this.
What is notify the office?
What is (any response indicating future planning).
Failure to produce a lesson plan when requested may result in this, as outlined on page 15 of the handbook.
What is daily lesson plan submission?
Each day is started with these two things. Don't force a student to participate, but don't let them cause distractions to others during this, either!
What are the Pledge of Allegiance and a moment of silence?
Students are NOT allowed to use these addictive little devices during the day. Unfortunately, we can't monitor their use before and after school.
What are cellular phones?
If you are requesting to take a professional development course that has a registration fee, you should take these steps.
What is fill out and submit the form at least two weeks ahead of time?
What is the behavior log?
At the first sign of student failure, a student must take this step, as noted in the student failure procedures.
What is contact the parents?
Teachers will be expected to participate in collective teacher efficacy teams at Vilonia High School. CTE is a team of teachers working in a cooperative way towards this:
What is a common goal?
Teachers work in conjunction with these other important members of the district in order to help students plan for the future.
Along with daily lesson plans and a semester-at-a-glance, teachers should work with the people inside their departments to create these broad at-a-glance plans.
What is year-at-a-glance?
If a teacher is handling money, he or she must turn deposits into the office by this time. No exceptions!
What is 2 pm?
As outlined on page 28 of the teacher handbook, teachers should never wear clothing that violates this rule outlined in the student handbook.
What is student dress code?