The Bulldog Bulletin

1/23 - 1/27

Cafeteria: Emeyabbi

8th Restrooms: Strain

Front Hall: Chumney

Front Doors: Summers/ Weaver

Drop Off: Nichols

Office: M. Wood/Guinn

Dr. Harper Stewart will be meeting with us at this time! Attendance is mandatory for this faculty meeting. We will see you there!

Our New A Week/B Week WIN schedule will begin this week!

This Week is an A Week

Students have been selected to attend WIN Intervention by teachers. Each teacher has provided their partner teacher with assignments for students each week. The same assignment may be used for both A and B weeks, as the students will change to a new subject each week. The assignments are listed below:

WIN Target Intervention - Spring 2023

6th Grade

Math - Chumney and Strain

ELAR - Weaver and Wood

7th Grade

Math - Singleton and Ward

ELAR - Lackey and A Heers

Math/ELAR - Guinn

8th Grade

Math - Batla

ELAR - Henkes

SS - M Heers

Science - Lilley

Multiple Grades

Math - Emeyabbi

ELAR - Hunter

ESL - Polster

T-TESS Observations have begun on campus! This process is designed to be a growth model for ALL teachers. Please do not panic about this process. My goal every year is to help you grow continuously in your practice. You are ALL phenomenal teachers and we know that you are working diligently all the time! Please know that your efforts are greatly appreciated. Even if it doesn't feel like it, you ARE making a difference!

Last week was a great week at HJH! We celebrated our A and A/B honor roll students at lunch on Thursday and we had our 2nd Bulldog Club celebration on Friday during WIN! Our students had a great week on campus and have been working hard as we are back into the full swing of school!

Extracurricular Highlights:

Our basketball teams picked up where they left off with action against Italy last week!

JH Boys White fell to Italy in a very competitive game 16 - 21

JH Boys Red beat Italy 43 - 19

JH Girls B defeated Italy

JH Girls 7A defeated Italy

Social Emotional Highlights:

Our SEL theme for the past week was teaching about positive self talk and positive affirmations. This week, we challenged our students to find ways to speak positively themselves and others. Students were asked to share ways that they could incorporate positivity into their daily routines.

Curriculum & Instruction Highlights:

This past week was filled with wonderful classroom instruction from our staff and great performances in the classroom from our students. During my instructional walks, I was blown away by the quality of instruction and student performance in the classrooms!

During my visit to Mrs. Emeyabbi's classroom this week, I witnessed our students using instructional language as they were identifying the different parts of a mathematical equation. Instructional language is language that is often unfamiliar to learners as they begin to learn certain concepts. The importance of using this language is so that students can understand the context of how the vocabulary is used in action in the classroom. For example, students in Mrs. Emeyabbi's classroom where using terms such as coefficient and variable to identify the different elements of the equations that they are working on. This is not an easy thing to do in Math instruction and it takes hard work from both staff and students. Kudos to Mrs. Emeyabbi and her students for working hard to achieve at high levels!

Another cool thing that I was able to witness was in Mr. Batla's math classroom. Mr. Batla planned a highly engaging activity this week in the form of a scavenger hunt! Students were challenged to unlock a puzzle using directions that they got from solving equations positioned around the room. Students had to complete each equation correctly in order to solve the puzzle. I walked in at the end of the lesson and the students were excited, to say the least! Mr. Batla ended the lesson with a prize drawing that he has incorporated for students who take on enrichment challenges through our math program, Mathia! Math can sometimes be a monotonous experience for students, but this lesson was a grand slam and had our students engaged from the start to the finish! Big kudos to Mr. Batla and his students for being able to bring such an amazing experience to the Math classroom!

Monday 1/23/23

WIN in Classroom

JH Girls vs. Valley Mills @ Home

Games Begin at 5:00

Tuesday 1/24/23

WIN in Classrooms

HS Boys Basketball - JV Red/Varsity vs. Itasca @ Itasca

JV Red - 5:30 PM

Varsity - 7:00 PM

HS Girls Basketball - JV/Varsity vs. Itasca @ Itasca

JV - 7:00 PM

Varsity - 5:30 PM

Wednesday 1/25/23

WIN in Classrooms

Thursday 1/26/23

WIN in Classrooms

JH Boys vs. Valley Mills @ Valley Mills

Games Begin at 5:00

HS Powerlifting - Hico Invitational - Time TBA

Friday 1/27/23

WIN in Classrooms

HS Boys Basketball - JV White vs. Jonesboro @ Home

JV White - 5:00 PM

HS Boys Basketball - JV Red/Varsity vs. Rio Vista @ Rio Vista

JV Red - 5:30 PM

Varsity - 7:00 PM

HS Girls Basketball - Varsity vs. Rio Vista @ Rio Vista

Varsity - 5:30 PM

Saturday 1/28/23

Hamilton JH Boys Tournament @ Hamilton JH - Times TBA

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