WMS - Weekly Wauna Know

December 11, 2023

Middle School Sports Schedules

To check the most updated schedule for wrestling and boys basketball, please click

Waunakee Middle School Sports Schedules for the week of December 11-15, 2023. Make sure you check it frequently for any changes.

This Week in Sports

Monday 12/11

8th Grade Boys Basketball vs. DeForest - A Team @ 4:15pm, B Team @ 5:15pm -WMS Gym

7th Grade Boys Basketball vs. DeForest-Black A and White A Teams @ 4:15pm; Black B and White B Teams @ 5:15pm-WMS Gym

Wrestling vs. Multiple Schools @ Lodi High School #1 Athletic Stadium 4:15pm

Tuesday 12/12

8th Grade Boys Basketball @ DeForest - A Team 4:15pm; B Team 5:15pm

7th Grade Boys Basketball @ DeForest-White A and Purple A Teams @ 4:15pm; White B and Purple B Teams at 5:15pm

Thursday 12/14

Wrestling - Middle School Quad vs. Multiple Schools @ Pardeeville HS 4:15pm

UPCOMING DATES TO PUT ON YOUR CALENDAR

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Important Dates Coming up

Winter Choir Concert - 12/12 - 7pm - High School PAC

FFA Meeting - 12/18 Mrs. Puntney's Classroom

Waunakee Staff Support Group - 12/20 Heritage Large Group Room 4pm-5pm

Staff Meeting 12/21 7:30am-8:00am

Winter Break 12/23-1/1

Spotlight on PLC

Students who have warm-demanders as teachers don’t just make “normal” progress, but accelerated growth. This is what we want for our students. This type of teaching is what they need from us.

What do warm-demanders have in common?

These teachers are consistent and steady with students.
They notice and respond to learning and struggle.
They respond with feedback
They seek to build, maintain, and repair relationships.

High-expectations teaching is a cornerstone of being a warm-demander in the classroom. To become a warm-demander, you must have high expectations for your students and provide high support (instructional scaffolding) to your students as well. We will provide ideas and resources for instructional scaffolding throughout the year, but let’s keep with the topic of high-expectations.

High expectations are necessary in the classroom to support student growth and achievement. Are your teaching practices reflecting high expectations? Use these questions as an opportunity to reflect with your PLT.

How often does your team:

Ask open questions?
Rephrase questions when answers are incorrect as opposed to rephrasing student answers?
Use mixed-ability groupings?
Work with students to set individual goals?
Link achievement to motivation, effort, and goal setting instead of just "smarts"?
Make explicit learning intentions and success criteria (Learning Targets!)?
Give specific instructional feedback?
Work with all students equally?
Differentiate the tasks, not the content? - we want all students exposed to grade-level material

Those are a few points of a much longer list. Just like our students, we must continue to learn, grow, and evolve in our craft. Pick one or more of the above high-expectation teaching moves and commit to incorporating it. Have fun with it! Measure if it works! Share your successes and struggles! High expectations and action research can lead to greater job satisfaction and learning for us, and accelerated growth for our students.

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WMS i-Ready Data

Below is a snapshot of some i-Ready instructional data from the whole school

Upper left is the percentage of lessons passed as a school by subject. Alerts will show up in the i-Ready dashboard if a student is not passing the same lesson topic multiple times.
Lower left is the total time and lessons passed as a school so far this school year, let’s see how big we can get them this year (could be fun to show your homeroom)!
Right side is a quick graph of how many students met their minutes goal for a previous week (i-Ready sees the best growth if students are above 30 minutes per subject per week). These percentages were calculated in a new way to more accurately reflect the percentage of students meeting goal minutes.

Let's Get Our Discovery Board Filled!

Our board is looking good. Let's get more pictures on the board!

Coaches Corner

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Continuing to go Backward - By Design

This week I have two resources for you. The first is a good article from one of my favorites, The Cult of Pedagogy. This article focuses on the basics of the Backward by Design process and provides a nice layout of why this approach is best for student learning and the ability to acquire skills that are transferable (the ultimate goal). Here is the link:

Backward by Design The Basics

https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/backward-design-basics/

The second is a resource for using the process for planning assessments in this manner. If anything, there are some really useful questions for your PLT to chew on when crafting common assessments.

Assessment Tool BBD

More to come next week.

Bingo Numbers for This Week

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BINGO

Each week you will receive 2 numbers. When you get a regular bingo (across, down, or diagonal) bring your card to the office for a prize. Look for your card in your mailbox. Good Luck.

This week's numbers:

O 72

I 26

AM/PM SUPERVISION

AM/PM Supervision Reminder - Week of 12/11-12/15

Murray--- AM**Flagpole - Direct students to the playground

Lavin ----AM**Bus Loop - Direct students to go to the back of the school to enter

Place---- AM**West Door #7 OR Entryway outside Gym (inclement or cold weather days)

Rocco--AM **West Door #7 OR Entryway outside Gym (inclement or cold weather days)

Schmitz---AM**West Door #6 OR Cafe (inclement or cold weather days)

Thibo---- AM**West Door #6 OR Cafe (inclement or cold weather days)

Gahnz --PM**Bike Racks

Withrow ----- PM**Bus Loop (near where the second to last bus lines up)

Booms---PM**Bus Loop (near the fire hydrant)

Anich---- PM**Flagpole (outside the main entrance)

Please Submit Pictures For Our Yearbook

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Did you take a Great Picture? We'd Love to Use it in our Yearbook!

Attention Teachers,

If you are taking pictures of students in your classroom or attending school events and have a great picture, please use this QR Code to submit them to us for review and possibly use in our yearbook! We'd greatly appreciate it! The QR code should allow up to 10 photo uploads, and you can submit multiple times.

How Many Days Have You Taken Advantage of Your Opportunities?

TEACHER CHALLENGE

90 DAY CHALLENGE

Please fill out this form each time you visit a colleagues classroom! Thanks for taking part in promoting a culture of learning for staff and students!