St. Clair Middle School
Mr. Alley
e-mail: malley@ east-china.k12.mi.us
Phone: 676- 1201
Education is definitely a Team Sport. Communication is the key. Please don't hesitate to contact any of your child's teachers, counselors or administrators with any questions of concerns. With that in mind, I've jumped into the 21st Century and created a SCMS Blog that is meant to not only give updates but also give parents and community members a chance to give us feedback and ideas that we can use for improvement. Check it out and join the member list.
SCMS BLOG http://scmshappenings.blogspot.com/
If you ever have any questions about anything, please do not hesitate to give me a call or shoot me an e-mail.
Tweaking our No Zero Homework Policy
This will be our third
year of our NO ZEROS policy. In
those three years we have seen a dramatic raise in the number of assignments
completed, grade point averages and number of students that have made our Honor
Roll. Last year our Lunchtime
Homework Help helped to complete over 1000 assignments that would otherwise
zeros. This is how our process
works:
If a student does not
complete/turn in an assignment the teacher “red flags” it in their
electronic grade book. A report is
generated the next day and the student is given a homework referral reminding
them that the assignment needs to be completed and turned into the office the
next day. That night, an automated
phone call goes home letting parents know that an assignment is missing.
If the student does not turn their assignment in to the office the next
day then they are assigned a Lunchtime Homework Help. If you are following our
process, you will see that by the time the student has been assigned the
Lunchtime Homework Help the assignment is already at least two days late.
This year we are tweaking
the process to help eliminate a few problems that occasionally occurred.
If a student either is disruptive during homework help, comes unprepared
to homework help or skips homework help three times during a Marking Period they
will be taken out of the Lunchtime Homework Help program and assigned after
school detentions/Saturday Schools for the rest of that Marking Period.
During that Marking Period they also will not be able to attend dances,
Activity Nights, etc.
Obviously our main goal is
to have our students complete the assigned work.
A secondary goal is to help make the students accountable and
responsible. The easiest solution to
this problem is for students to complete their work on time.
Any and all help you can give us at home, as always, is greatly
appreciated.
Ever wonder what a GLCE is? GLCE stands for Michigan’s Grade Level Content Expectations. When you get a chance, here is a website that is a great resource for parents. Check it out and let me know what you think.
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/Form_B_Intro_138683_7.pdf
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The majority of problems that we run into at the middle school level usually centers on organization, or the lack of. We have found that one of the biggest mistakes a parent can make is to purchase their child a trapper keeper. It seems like a good idea but in reality they become a black hole for assignments.....and I speak to this from first hand knowledge of being guilty as a parent of buying one of these for my my sons and then being amazed when we would go through it and what we would find. We have found that using a separate colored folder for each class is a much better way to stay organized. We use a school wide color system for folders. Math is Green ELA is Yellow Social Studies is Blue Science is Red |
Just a Head's Up
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