Weekly News

Thank you for a GREAT Week for our students! Have a wonderful, long weekend!

A Week:  September 7-10

Keeping the PACE at Paine 

Thank you for ensuring our students are consistently adhering to our school behavior expectations.  This is crucial to ensure we have a safe and productive learning environment.  We will begin a Friday afternoon "Keeping the PACE at Paine" drawing for students.  The container for completed tickets will be housed in the Media Center.  We placed a supply of tickets in your boxes on Friday.  Please hand these out randomly to any student in our school you catch "Keeping the P.A.C.E at Paine".  Classroom teachers, please have your students place their tickets in the container when they go to the library sometime during the week.  Please do not permit them to leave any instruction in the classroom to place tickets in the container.

Constitution Day Lessons - September 17th

Per the Alabama State Department of Education, Constitution Day is to be observed on September 17^th! The date of the fulfillment of this requirement will be included as a part of the Alabama State Department of Education’s comprehensive monitoring program.  

• Please make plans with your grade level for a lesson(s) to be included in your plans for 9/17/20. 
• We must provide detailed documentation of your plans for Constitution Day in your lesson plans for that week as we will have compliance monitoring in January.

ALSDE has provided some resource links to help you in planning for that day:

https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution

https://www.civiced.org/lesson-plans/constitution-day-and-citizenship-day

https://www.k12.com/constitution-day.html

 

Educator Effectiveness

Educator Effectiveness will kick off this week!  This year it will be in LINCSPRING (instead of Schoology).  Reminder:  Our schoolwide indictor is Student Engagement.  By September 30th, please complete all sections of the Educator Effectiveness Learning Cycle (with the exception of "Grow"...which will be completed in March).  The instructions are included below.  If you have any technical issues/  questions, please reach out to Janet Benson or Rachel Brockman for assistance.  The due date is September 30th, and the following week our Admin team will be meeting with teachers who are on the evaluation cycle to discuss your indicator of choice.

Login

1. Navigate to https://app.lincspring.com/
2. Login with your TCS .com email address.  If you have forgotten your password, select “Did you forget your password?” for a reset email to be sent to you.

 

You do not need to complete the survey to work.  Just select the “X” to close.

 

3. You are now on your Dashboard.  Select the Educator Effectiveness learning cycle that has been assigned to you.  (All EE learning cycles will be assigned by 9/1/2021).  If you do not see your learning cycle, email April Chamberlain.

1. Educator Effectiveness Teachers
2. Educator Effectiveness School Counselors
3. Educator Effectiveness School Librarians

 

IE (Intervention/Enrichment) Block

No student should visit the library their IE Block.  During this time, all students should be working in the classroom on differentiated activities specifically to advance their individual learning, while teachers are working with their small groups.

Mandatory Trainings - Due by September 25th

TCS employees must complete the Annual Mandatory Safety Trainings required by the ALSDE. These trainings are located in Schoology. Employees will need to click on the TCS Logo labeled District Training and then click on in the green folder at the top of the page.  

 

Please complete these trainings by 9/25/21.  If you are unable to access, please contact Dr. Poovey.

 

Please Do Not Use Clinic Doors

Please remember:  Do NOT go through clinic doors in the am OR pm.  We are unable to clean and spray these areas until after everyone has left the building, and it is simply not safe to travel through these areas  Use the boulevards instead.

Wednesday Collaboration - Agenda

Constitution Day Lessons
Weekly Lesson Plans
Work on Educator Effectiveness (if time permits)
Work on Mandatory Training (if time permits)

Thursday Faculty Meeting - Agenda

PST (Problem Solving Team) Process Overview

Goal Setting in AimsWeb 

 

 

 Generation Genius

Thanks to a generous donation, every teacher in our school now has access to both the science and math components of Generation Genius.  This may be utilized to supplement instruction.  

Citizenship Grades in PowerSchool

FYI:  PowerSchool has the Citizenship grade built in to the courses. Teachers do not need to rename or create a course to provide this grade.  Our citizenship grades will be placed in the HOMEROOM course.

 

To put in the citizenship grade teachers will need to:

• Select “grading” in PTP
• Select “Traditional”
• Locate the “Citizenship” column
• And choose the letter of choice

This will only print on the report cards.

 

Paine Precepts

T:  Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together. - Woodrow Wilson

W: A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden. - Unknown

T:  Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. - Charles Eastmon

F:  Friends are the sunshine of life. - John Hay