The CMS Helpful Handout

Welcome to April! It’s CAASPP Testing Season! Please explore these reports and know where your students are for fine tuning of skills to be tested on the CAASPP. Teachers, please share practice problems from SmarterBalanced.org with your 4th period students to help them alleviate anxiety about the upcoming test. Network Upgrades Over Spring Break, TSS performed a significant upgrade to the network at our site. Their work involved cleaning up, simplifying, changing configurations, and updating the networking equipment located at each wing of the school. Look for better performance from the devices on campus. Chromebook Upgrades Going forward, whenever Google publishes an update for the ChromeOS, it is downloaded in the background on to our ChromeBooks, allowing ChromeBooks to be updated in a non-intrusive way and to ensure that they are fully updated for testing. In addition, when the lid of a ChromeBook is closed, the student is logged out.  When the lid is opened agai

Duty Stations Teachers, please be on time to your duty stations. If you can not be at your duty station, it is your responsibility to find a substitute for yourself. Please let admin know if there are any reasons you can't be on time to your duty. We must always provide adequate supervision for our student to ensure a safe campus. Duty Assignments can be found here. Passing Periods In addition, Teachers, please be at your door greeting students and supervising the walkways during passing period. To keep our school safe, we need to be at our doors during all passing periods!  Thank you to Mr. Blaylock, Ms. Molina, Mr. Mulks, Ms. Solomon, and the PE department for doing this regularly. Let's all make this a very good habit! 'Tis the Season: Class Party Guidelines Is it time to acknowledge positive behaviors in your class. Great!! However, teachers must remember the following guidelines for hosting celebrations: Inform Admin Purchase food from Nutritional Servic

New Noon Duty Supervisors for CMS This week we look forward to having Matthew Long (2 hours) and Shaun Tripplett (6 hours) joining our staff as noon supervisors. Matt will start Monday and Shaun will start Wednesday. Welcome Shaun and Matt! CAASPP Training Our CAASPP Test Schedule is here . Please review the training slides Mrs. Lewis presented at our March Faculty Meeting. Be sure to save and keep handy the one-page Teacher Dashboard for ALL CAASPP Links and Information SSC Meeting This Wednesday at 3:30 in the Library At our SSC Meeting, the Council will discuss the data for the Annual Review and Update for our school’s 2018 - 2019 SPSA with a look forward to allocations from the 2019 - 2020 budget. This year’s programs will be evaluated for their effectiveness for improving student achievement. All staff should know that as a result of our Dashboard data from 2016 to present, Crystal is eligible for “Additional Targeted Support & Improvement” students that are two or

GREAT GATE NIGHT Thank you to Mrs. Williamson, Mrs. Halls, Mr. Dean, Mrs. Lewis and everyone that helped make it happen for a great GATE Night!  The students did a great job pitching their products during the Mega Shark Tank! F105 Students Performed Beautifully And thanks to the judges! This Week: Regarding our Active Shooter Drill on Monday Classrooms are advised to "consider participating to the point of barricading doors" , as discussed   in the attached memo . How far your participation goes with this step is up to each teacher, and should be reflective of material presented in the "Run/Hide/Fight"   training video .  To clarify, teachers should commit to whatever level of participation they believe necessary to impress upon themselves and their students the understanding of this step (hide - barricade) in response to an emergency situation for Active Shooter.  For example on Monday, the minimum level is  viewing the