Racial Equity Committee Meeting

Racial Equity Committee Meeting 2:30 Library   All are welcome

Vet to Equine Rehab

Advisory and Viking Time

Sports World Motivational Speaker (Ellen Smith)

PSAT for Select Students in Room 158.  Students should have a pass and should report to testing site asap after checking into second period for attendance.   This test needs to begin on time as it is quite lengthy.

PBIS today

Four students to Wheeler Elementary.  See email from Marla

PBIS Meeting 2:30 Library

Audit Process continues today.  Please be prepared to have guests in your room or to be interviewed by reviewers at any time.

Please make sure you are in your room during your planning.  The auditors are coming to teachers during their planning for interviews.

Please make sure that you have signed up to score backpack defenses.  The link is on the left column.

PLCs today:  Art and English 4

End of Program Test

Please hold PLCs in 119 this week.

End of Program test - Library 1st-3rd LIST

Audit Process begins today.  Please be prepared to have guests in your room or to be interviewed by reviewers at any time.

Please make sure you are in your room during your planning.  The auditors are coming to teachers during their planning (not PLC) for interviews.

Please make sure that you have signed up to score backpack defenses.  The link is on the left column.

Department Meetings today.  Begin in the library as whole group.

Embedded PD - Backpack Scoring

Backpack Scoring Training PD Room 119.  Please attend during one of your duty free periods.   ALL BACKPACK SCORERS MUST attend one session.  This includes Admin, Resource teachers, and support staff.   This training is necessary in order to score the student presentations.

Shout outs - Send one today! Click here!

Brittany Hazel and Christine Grincius		The First Valentines Day Formal Dance was awesome! You ladies put some much work into it, and you could really tell. Everything looked beautiful and the students looked like they were having a great time!
Cathy Cline	McCandless	I love your positivity every day. You are always working for the best interest of our students.

Hero Teacher of the Week: Mrs. Jenny Cotton! She gave out 1639 Hero points last week.
Hero Student of the Week: Alexis Leis! She earned 66 Hero points last week.

Friday

The library is closed today. Thank you for your understanding.

LEEP Soft Skills Training

Embedded PD on Monday to prepare for School wide Backpack scoring.  ALL SCORERS NEED TO ATTEND - this includes administrators, resource teachers, support staff, etc.  This is necessary in order to score backpack presentations.   If you do not attend the embedded PD on Monday, an after school make up session will be conducted at a later date.   You can choose any class period you would like to attend the embedded PD.   Room 119

Thursday

The library is closed Thursday and Friday this week. Thank you for your understanding.

Aspen Challenge Field Trip

100 Black Men Field Trip 

Student of the Week Breakfast (see email from Hare)

Advisory

Viking Time

Please watch this link for information about improvements to the Backpack app.  This information indicates that there will now be an area for students to do reflections about their artifacts, organize multiple presentations (not just the backpack defense) and submit links to “turn-in” to google classroom letting you know that the student has in fact submitted an artifact to their Backpack.
https://youtu.be/g2ObMzN5rwo

Wednesday

The library will be closed Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday this week.

HVAC Field Trip to Shadow UPS See list on left column

Aspen Challenge Field Trip tomorrow  Click Here

Early Defenses in 119

Please hold PLCs in your rooms this week as we are conducting early defenses in room 119.  Please remember to record your minutes on the Harbor.

Early Defense Schedule - Click Here

From Lisa Carter: Summerworks Work Readiness soft skills workshop training(s) for students who have registered for Summer employment. There will be 3 sessions starting 2nd, 3rd, and 4th periods. Students will have color coded passes (blue, yellow, green) with the time to report & the location of the training. All tickets/passes will be distributed during 1st period by student office aids . First period teachers please make sure you give out the passes/tickets to the students whose names are listed. PLEASE do not hold them.  Only the highlighted names from the junior and senior spreadsheets will have a pass/ticket to this event. Please review and inform me of any situations or concerns of students missing your class in advance. 

The report time will be as followed:

grp 1 8:30-Cafe (blue passes) largest group

grp 2 9:30-Slinde rm 203 (green passes)

grp 3 10:25 Slinde rm 203 (yellow passes) these students will eat 3rd lunch

See Email from Lisa Carter for List

Academy Meetings 2:30 (Start as faculty?)

ILT 3:30

The library will be closed this week (Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday) for improvements. Thank you for helping Valley have the third highest book circulation for high schools in the district in January. Check out the data here.

Library Tuesday Tip:

Looking for instructional materials to support your curriculum and to celebrate Black History Month in your classroom? Check out these resources from PBS Learning Media:

"The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom has been commemorated by teachers and students across the country and around the world."

Help your students appreciate the significance of this event – and its role in the larger Civil Rights Movement using this collection of digital content from PBS LearningMedia.

Parent Teacher Conferences and MTSS Training

Don't forget to sign in to the front office today and pick up all of the required paperwork for the day.

Lunch Schedule: 
11:00 - 12:00  Freshmen and Industrial Teachers
12:00 - 1:00   HSA, Global and ROTC

MTSS Training - Library
Please choose a session that interests you most

MTSS schedule:

The first session will be from 8:30-9:30 and will cover the following strategies: Mastery Learning-Worked Examples-Problem Solving Teaching

Mastery Learning

Use of formative assessment to allow students to continually perfect skills. Involves small instructional units that are mastered before moving to the next skill, and opportunities to repeat previous steps.

Worked Examples

Worked examples, examples that have been solved, can be used as a model during instruction to reinforce the problem solving process.

Problem-Solving Teaching

Explicitly teaching a set of logical steps and strategies that maximize the students’ ability to solve novel problems.

The second session will be from 10:00-11:00 and will cover the following strategies: Cooperative Learning/Jigsaw-Spaced vs Mass-Reciprocal Teaching

Reciprocal Teaching

A metacognitive strategy where students practice comprehension strategies during small group instruction. Students act as the teacher in each comprehension strategy.

Cooperative Learning

A small group of students in varying levels working together to create shared learning goals rather than working alone.

Spaced vs. Mass Practice

Frequent deliberate practice sessions for students to demonstrate mastery over a long period of time rather than long practice sessions over a short period of time.

Homecoming

Shout Outs!  Send one Here!

PBIS Team		Being Goal oriented and supportive during a challenging time!
Amanda Wood	Kristina Herning	Shout out to Amanda, who went above and beyond to teach herself magazine basket weaving skills so she could assist Ms. Ernwine's students in art class. She is amazing and such a huge help!!! Thank you, Ms. Wood!!! :)
Bynum	Luckett	The EKG Lab was fantastic. Your students were so well prepared and professional! It was amazing! Congrats!!!!
Gose	Luckett	The play was fantastic! The cast was very well put together! I loved it!
Spiva	Luckett	Your students were engaged and working hard! Great job!
Ian Davis and Greg Morris	Science Department	Thanks for giving up your classroom again for our Science Fair! We appreciate your willingness to work with us every year!
Brennan and the Custodial Staff	Science Department	Thank you for helping to set up the Science fair- between the tables, chairs, and bleachers, everything went really smoothly!
Wayne Brown and Mr. McCrary	Science Department	Thank you for bringing the Watson Lane students to our Science Fair! The elementary students loved the fair and our students loved working with younger kids!
Dennis Williams	Science Department	Thank you for organizing the buses and the microphones for the Science Fair. The elementary students had a wonderful time and that microphone was a lifesaver!
The Admin Team	Science Department	Thank you for supporting the Science Fair and helping us with whatever we needed to make it run as smoothly as it did!
Marsha Ashcraft	Science Department	Thank you for all of your help with the Science Fair, especially making sure that our judges were well fed! We really appreciate that!
All the Teachers and Staff	Science Department	Thank you to EVERYONE who allowed their classes to be used to collect surveys, or students to work in the library or complete their presentations at the last minute. Thank you to everyone who came over to the Fair and judged the presentations, talked to the students, or just showed your overall support for their projects. It takes a village, and this would not have been possible without all of you!
Megan Winters, Dawn Roy, Becca Brannock, and Lisa Ellison	Science Department	Thank you for all of your support with the Science Fair. Between proofreading, calibrating, judging, helping to organize, and just overall being awesome on top of all of your other duties, you ladies rock!
James Wise, Donna Smith, Darin Gray, Ron Hennig, and Blake Baker	Vanegas, Vermillion, and Brooks	Thank you for covering classes so that we could be in the arena all day for the Science Fair. Giving up a planning period is always difficult, and we appreciate your willingness to help us out!
Masters, Roberts, Hazel, LeRoy, ROTC, Ralston, Baker, and McCandless	Science Department	Thank you for bringing your students over for peer judging! We appreciate you giving up your class time to support the students in their projects!
Rahmlow, Roberts, Baker, McCandless, Wise, Montgomery, Smith, and Stevens	Vanegas and Vermillion	Thank you guys for everything that you've done to support the Science Fair. Thank you for always asking what we needed help on, volunteering to work with students after school or during planning periods, making our copies, and all of the million little things that makes the Science Department so awesome!
Vanegas, Vermillion, Brooks	Baker	The Science Fair was great! You all did an amazing job putting it together!
Rebecca Brannock	YSC Staff	Awesome CART. We appreciated you and your hard work to keep VHS on track!
Chad Kelly	Alvey	For being an amazing person and making my copies when my computer wouldn't turn on and covering my 1st period! :)

Homecoming

Slinde Field Trip  See List Updated list will be sent in email

Senior Night

Winter Formal

The library will be closed for improvements Wednesday, February 20 - Friday, February 22. Thank you for your understanding!

Winter Formal Tickets on Sale at Lunch - $5

No Jeans

-----------------------------JCPS Forward Information-----------------------------------------------

Hey, Viking Nation!

As I hope you know by now, I'm our Building Ambassador for JCPSForward! My goal is to help share things internally that some folks miss that might not be on social media or that don't read our district newsletters to ensure that ALL educators in JCPS have access to the same information.

This week, I'm also highlighting ways to stay connected to grow professionally with JCPSForward: 

• #JCPSChat - Next Monday from 8:00-9:00 and all next week on FB. Our topic will be "Teacher-Generated" questions. Have a question for other JCPS teachers? DM @JCPSForward or email MeMe Ratliff. Want to learn more about Twitter chats? Click here.
• The Friday Forward newsletter - Did you know over 1/2 of all JCPS educators interact with the Friday Forward educator newsletter each week? 
• JCPSForward Facebook page - daily shares about a range of educational issues. We also share our upcoming events here like our meetups. Search for JCPSForward - be sure to like and follow.
• Twitter - @JCPSForward - follow us and tag us to spread awareness. We share resources and opportunities and promote instruction in our schools. Want to learn about Twitter? Click here.
• Instagram - Tag @JCPSForward to spread your work!

Have ideas? Want to connect? Have something cool you want to have blasted on social media? Let me know! As your ambassador, I share great things externally to district leads as well!

Other dates/opportunities on the horizon:

• Another #JCPSReads event for Read Across America Day will be held on March 1.
• February 28 will be Digital Learning Day. We will celebrate in JCPS with the hashtag #DLDayJCPS. Resources will be shared in this week's Friday Forward.
• We will have our first #PiDayJCPS event on March 14! 

If you have anything that you would like to share with the district, please let me know! Let's show off our Viking pride!

Best,

Patti Concepcion

Faculty and ILT

Faculty Meeting 2:30
Please bring your laptop to the meeting!

ILT 3:30

1st Period Teachers: Complete the T-CODE sheet with red pen this morning.

Teachers! Sign-up for a new Viking Time HERE! Intervention lists are due by the end of the day, Monday February 18th.

From Mr. Nelson

Guest composer Shirl Atwell will be visiting the Valley Orchestra on Tuesday, February 12th (today) during 2nd Period to work with the students on a piece that she composed titled 

Handelian. This is an incredibly rare opportunity for our students to work first-hand with the composer of a piece of music. Please do not call students out of class during this period. The students are preparing this piece for the adjudicated event KMEA Assessment on March 15th that we will be hosting here at Valley, and this opportunity will deepen their learning and enhance their performance.

Library Tuesday Tip: 

The Valley Library is celebrating Black History Month throughout February. Check out the page on our website with books in our library catalog that spotlight African-American history and works by African-American authors. 

Winter Formal

Winter Formal Tickets go on sale this week.   Sign up here

HSA and IMA Class Meetings

IMA 10th and 11th   1st period

HSA 10th and 11th  3rd period


Please ask students to go to the library website to vote for their favorite student-created t-shirt design for the Vikings Read! Book Campaign. If you could put a link to it in your Google Classroom, that would be awesome. Voting continues until the end of the day on Thursday.

Science Fair

Science Fair

Basketball @ Southern

Winter Formal Tickets - Sign up here

From the library: Please remember that you can check the student sign in/out response sheet for library visits from the library teacher resource page. The password is vikings033.

Check out the article on Homeroom Hero about Valley! https://homeroom.schoolmint.com/challenges click on Share-Worthy challenges, and you will find the article. If you have not signed up for a Homeroom Hero account, please do so! You earn rewards and get helpful information for using Hero in your classroom/office/building.

Make sure you are issuing Hero points every day! Try to focus today on giving those ON TIME points. Make it a big deal in your class, we want to reinforce the right behavior to decrease the unwanted behavior (tardies to class). Maybe start an on-time competition between your classes? Issue extra Hero points? Get creative! 

John Lennon and Me

In School Play  8:30 - 10:45  John Lennon and Me List HERE

Science Fair tomorrow

EKG Clinicals 7:45

Winter Formal Tickets - Sign up here

Valley Play Performances Begin

PBIS Meeting 2:30 Library

Valley Play Performances February 6-9

Winter Formal Tickets - Sign up here

Science Fair Friday

Information Literacy Resources

Senior Class Meeting  8:30
Freshmen Class Meeting 12:35

*2nd Period teachers- you will be receiving a set of play tickets tomorrow for THURSDAY. These students will be called to the auditorium around 8:00 am Feb. 7. Hold these tickets until that morning please. Hero Store Link see the sheet at the bottom for a list of students. There are approximately 300 students going.

Science Fair Friday

Winter Formal Tickets - Sign up here

Academy Meetings 2:35

Basketball v. Fairdale  6:30

Library Tuesday Tip:

KYVL (Kentucky Virtual Library) has updated their Information Literacy and Fake News guide.

In the Articles on Fake News section, they have added articles from the last year on strategies for teaching how to evaluate news and images as well as a list of academic articles on fake news, deepfakes and media literacy.  It includes the article citations and for KYVL members, direct links to each article.

Check it out by on the Teacher Resources page of the Valley Library website.

Class Meetings - Rescheduled

IMA Meeting 7:45
HSA Meeting 9:30am

Rescheduled for 2/11

Student of the Week Breakfast  1st Period

Freshman

Madyson Yurt

James Walker

IMA

Ethan Morgan

LaQuan Richardson

HSA

Garrett Lunn

Lontaea Williams

2 hour Delay

Schedule for the Day

1st Period 9:40 - 10:10

2nd Period 10:15 - 10:45

4th Period 10:50 - 12:00

     First Lunch 10:50 - 11:12

     Second Lunch 11:14 - 11:36

     Third Lunch 11:38 - 12:00

3rd Period 12:05 - 12:35

5th Period 12:40 - 1:10

6th Period 1:15 - 1:45

7th Period 1:50 - 2:20

Soup-er Bowl Moved to Next Friday Feb 8.  

Homecoming Moved to February 14.

Upcoming Next week:

IMA Class Meeting - Monday 7:45
HSA Class Meeting - Monday 9:30
Senior Class Meeting - Tuesday 8:30
Freshmen Class Meeting - Tuesday 12:35

Academy Meetings Tuesday