December 2, 2008

8:00 We talked a little about our Jamestown group and whether or not we like it. Also, Drue reminded us to make a “failure list.” On this list we need to figure out what we have done, like Heads, call list, etc. With this list we can figure out some new methods of reaching our students in danger of failing. Freshman night next semester will be in February and will be mandatory for all academy teachers. Heads and thumbs first half now. Some improvements.

November 11, 2008

7:45 We begin by filling out our thumbs sheets. Not too much has changed since the last one. Brainstormed ideas to get these heads up forms to the parents. The students never seem to get the forms to their parents. Maybe we could mail them? It just seems weird that we do the work, but don’t see any improvement. Remember, insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Any ideas?

October 15, 2008

8:00 For unfinished business from the last meeting, Robin got her cigarette. Charlie horses, grades, missing pages, and lack of sleep caused our meeting to begin a little late. Mrs. Branton miss spelt my name on all the Heads Up forms . We made note of the amount of Heads and Thumbs. We flew through our weekly infraction logs, same type of data because we have the same students getting the infractions!! About time for some Student/parent/team conferences… We are gonna kick their butt like they owe us money.

October 14, 2008

7: 50 Team Poseidon descends upon the library. We stare blankly at each other and the students in the room. Sonic serves coffee at 6. We finish up the heads and thumbs list. I make my first Venture Bros reference of the year. Many more to come. We discussed a few students’ “new” issues and took guesses as to their cause. REMINDER get your contact logs together!!!

October 10, 2008

7:55 Meeting now in session. We have been having many confrontations between students, and Mrs. Y is attempting to find a new class for her students, but our schedules are inelastic. We are tired of seeing students make Eskimo kisses in the middle of class. We looked through our intervention data and began to collect data. Traci and Mrs. Phillips brought a baby into the room…Your Humble Narrator and Phillip were the only people not stricken with baby fever. Robin left to smoke her pain away. I guess that means we are done.

October 08, 2008

8:00 This is for all you facebook fans: We discussed our situation with Melissa Manson’s classes being…ugh…available? Anyways, they are no longer “in an open relationship,” they are officially “in a relationship” with Mrs. Viverito. Whew! since this is on midterm week, we really dodged a bullet. Thanks Mrs. Viverito! After discussing the sights, sounds, and beauties of Hawaii, we realized we did not have any PBS binders and had to save PBS for Friday. 8:25 and we are done. Oh, fun fact of the day, if you feel a sneeze, stare in to the light.

October 7, 2008

7: 45 Following in the footsteps of Team Zeus, we shall swap 2nd and 3rd block tomorrow (Wednesday) so that the midterm exam will not be split by lunch. Apollo, get on board! We spent the next 3 minutes reminiscing about our culturally diverse group of math professors while Rebecca printed our thumbs list. We are noticing many of our previous “Bs” on our list are improving; however, academic issues have not improved. 8:30 we are done with the first half, and done with the meeting