Meeting Calendar

PreService

Operations Updates 23-24

Bell Schedule

PreService

Chromebook Distribution

• MCPS is encouraging students use only MCPS issued Chromebooks.
• Inventory and distribution for all grade levels will begin the first day of school
• Science teachers will work with Ms. Hauprich to do this during the first week of school.
• Not everyone will have a Chromebook on the first day

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PreService

ROAR Expectations

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English

Spanish

Behavior Chart

PreService

Behavior Chart

PreService

PreService

• RJ Circle Card
• Student Code of Conduct
• JW Community Agreement Contract
• Spanish Community Agreement Contract
• Mindful Moment Form

Back to School Night

In addition to hosting in person classroom visits during BTSN on September 1, 2022, all teachers should have a video version of their BTSN presentation uploaded to the BTSN folder by the end of the duty day on August 31.

PreService

Team

Cell Phones

Communication

• For clarity and continuity, please encourage and remind families to email teachers at their Outlook emails (@mcpsmd.org).
• Respond to Synergy through Synergy
• For the times when people do email your gmail, please link your Gmail to your Outlook
• Team Leaders/Content Specialists send out meeting invites via Outlook calendar, make sure you accept the invitation so you get meeting reminders.
• Team leaders will coordinate a lesson for students to learn how to save all of their teachers’ Outlook emails in their Gmail contacts.

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Dress Code

Dress for respect and responsibility

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• Prohibited: hoods in the building, offensive and/or revealing clothing

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• Hats allowed instead of hoods because you can see faces and ears for safety and compliance issues

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• Earbuds only allowed in the cafeteria during lunch

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JAG

• Link to monthly JAG themes and LP traits
• ATL progression
• Community Circles 1x/month during R&R
• Coordinate with Team Leaders, Equity Team, No Place for Hate, student advisory panel
• Every other Wednesday through JAG - JAG teachers send progress reports for ALL classes

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Cafeteria Structure

All in cafeteria for the 1st 2 weeks of school year

• Allows for town hall conversations with grade levels
• First 2 days, 6th grade should sit with HR
• After 2 weeks (starting 9/12)
• Passes to courtyard (limited to 25), media center (limited to TBD), & teacher classrooms
• ALL TEACHERS MUST stay consistent: students will not be allowed out of the cafeteria without a pass
• Lunch bunch passes need to be marked with start and end date (one week max)
• One pass per child (no group passes)

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JAG/Advisory before lunch

• 1st 2 weeks have teachers help sweep kids to the cafeteria (check bathrooms, stairwells, etc.)

Consequence for wanderers

• For 2 weeks give warning and usher them to cafeteria (if you can’t usher personally, send e-mail to admin to report wanderer)
• After 2 weeks, students will have to eat on the stage on the following day on the stage (whoever identifies the student should send an e-mail to respective admin to let them know)
• Repeat offenders: call home, after school detention
• Shutting cafe doors to take names of late students

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Quarterly Hall Passes

• Hall pass on colored paper and sheet protector issued once per quarter, 4 passes per class
• Students fill out pass and obtain teacher signature in pen.
• General use pass issued for health room
• Flash pass list provided by counseling
• Teacher judgment if more than four passes are needed
• No longer use individual teacher passes
• No students may be in hall during instruction without pass (even if the room is across a bathroom/water fountain)
• No passess first and last ten minutes of class

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Student Attendance & Tardy Policies

• Record attendance during the first ten minutes of class with fidelity

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• Clear procedure followed from beginning of year:
• 1st tardy = verbal warning
• 2nd tardy = parent contact
• 3rd tardy = lunch detention in cafeteria (JAG LAG procedure)
• Students showing a pattern alert quad team

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• Completely fill out General Use pass w/excused or unexcused
• Unexcused passes counts as tardy
• Staff to allow students to class without a pass, counts as a tardy
• Teacher presence outside classrooms during passing periods is essential to cutting down on tardies
• Teacher documentation in Synergy

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Grading Policy

MCPS Grading and Reporting Policy

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Based on stakeholder input, key philosophical and procedural tenets for 2022-2023 include:

• Erring on the side of students, with multiple opportunities for reassessment and flexibility
• Recommended ranges of assignments each marking period
• Consistent gradebook templates (90% All Tasks/Assessments, 10% Practice/Preparation) in almost all courses
• Implementation of “50% Rule” to include consideration of whether the student attempted to meet the basic requirements of the assignment
• Expectations for two-way communication before assigning zeros
• Z’s calculated as a zero in the gradebook
• District assessments in English, English Language Development (ELD), and mathematics courses will continue to be included in an ungraded gradebook category, however, grade-level or course team teachers may decide to enter district assessments as one of the 4-9 grades submitted in the Practice/Preparation category.

Departments

Useful Links:

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• Secondary Grading and Reporting: Guidance and Best Practices (2022-2023)

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• Synergy Progress Report Schedule by Content

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• Z’s to Zeros

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myMCPS Classroom

• Everyone continue with MyMCPS
• Create MyMCPS during team/department (support from Tech Team)
• Optional tech Training during preservice to set-up MyMCPS
• Teachers use templates for homepages (for continuity but may customize look)
• Must include the following Buttons:
• Modules/Work of the Week
• Grades
• Resources (include syllabus)
• Zoom
• For planned snow days
• Certain tabs should be muted/hidden
• Hide all except for: Home, Modules, Announcements, Assignments, Quizzes (optional)
• Do NOT make grade button visible
• Weekly modules must be posted
• Encouraged to post electronic versions of all assignments
• Give to-teachers and para educators teacher access to myMCPS classroom

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Sub Plans

• Teachers will need to contact their PLC and CS when they will be out
• Teachers will send plans or have PLC print out plans and make copies if needed

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