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West NES/NESA Huddle

Principal Debrief

Demo Day Praise

●On-the-spot coaching

●Receptive to feedback

●Scared but excited

●Teachers want to do good

●Relief after the Demo Day rehearsal

●Realization of the positive impact & benefit of demo day to see lessons
rehearsed before going live

Now, immediate action steps

Friday, Aug. 25 Action Items - Non-Negotiable

●Everything in this slide deck is a non-negotiable & 80% should be done by
2:00 pm

●EDs will walk campuses to monitor progress to ensure 100% is ready by EOD
(4:00 PM)

○Being 100% ready by EOD means being 100% ready for Aug.28

○100% of faculty & staff should be on time daily & greet students at doors for ALL
classes/blocks. As students enter, they should be handed a Do Now or have the Do Now be
literally at the entrance for students to pick up & complete

●Buildings not 100% ready by EOD will consist of two things:

○Documented correspondence with further action steps

○A fourth formal walk conducted on Saturday, Aug. 26 to ensure 100% building completion

NES/NESA Physical Model

●The schools must be physically set up 100% to exude the NES model in
every classroom & every space of the school

●NES is a school-wide model NOT only an LSAE class model

○We are talking about hallway transition signs

○Classrooms with materials on desks & LO & DOLs on all boards, etc.

●We will not be NES in some spaces & not NES in others

○Otherwise it’s like you’re running two or three schools & that eats at the culture

TEAM Center Non-Negotiable

●Date on the board

●LO visibly displayed on the board for every class & grade that uses that TEAM Center at
ALL times

●Start & End LSAE Times on the Board at all times

○If you have a smartboard or clevertouch, then those tech screens must be on ALL day with the LOs & LSAE
start AND end times--no exceptions

●TEAM Center Expectations on the wall

●2 pencils & one highlighter on every students desk

●Bins on another table with a TON of highlighters, pencils, & response cards stacked

●Student desk in rows

●Annotation notes, SCR & Rubric desk cards taped on every student desk

●RR cones (or temporary RR object/pass until the cones are delivered)

AT NO POINT IN TIME SHOULD A TEAM CENTER RUN OUT OF MATERIALS ON STUDENT
DESKS OR IN THE BINS.

Learning Coaches need to own these centers.

Hallways

●B&W arrows indicating hallway directions

●All students walk on the right side of the hallway promptly & quietly

○*HS only is permitted to have indoor low voices but single file & organized is a non-negotiable

○For ES & MS level 0 is mandatory

○Because Long has multi-grades usually sharing a space, the halls need to be at a Level 0
during transitions

Classroom Board Configuration

●Lesson Objective (LO)

●Demonstration of Learning (DOL)

●DOL Start Times

○(If your first class starts at 8:00 am, then at 8:45 AM you need to start your DOL;

○If your next class starts at 9:35 AM, then your DOL starts at 10:20 am;

○DOL Times start after the first 45 mins of every lesson)

●LSAE Start & End Times

●Date

●LSAE Rubric

●The LSAE Rubric, etc. is specific only to those classes that have the LSAE
assignments

Classrooms Doors

●Doors open

○All doors must always have the locking mechanism **locked** but the door should be
physically open

■If in the event of an emergency, when the door shuts or is physically closed, the door is
already locked because the locking mechanism is locked

○Exceptions to this district expectation:

■Special Ed. Self-Contained classes should have doors closed

■T-buildings doors should be closed

■Classes that face outdoor/outdoor courtyard should have doors closed

Classrooms - ALL

●Binders & curriculum maps at every entryway

●Desks in pairs

○If in single desks (students need to have dots to match their partner in the class)

●Pencils, highlighter, whiteboard, marker, eraser (for whiteboard), & response cards should be on
every desk & plenty of it

●Organized environment

●Annotation notes & SCR & Rubric taped on every student desk

●No kidney/small group tables in any classroom in 2nd-10th grade

●Shelves/tables with clearly identifiable LSAE work for the day

○LSAE assignments are only for classes that use the LSAE

●Clearly identifiable area for do now copies & DOLs

●Clearly organized area to show the copies for the rest of the week in the room & ready to be
transitioned to the LSAE areas, etc. for the following school day

●Classroom clocks

●Three classroom rules on the wall

●RR cones (or temporary RR object/pass until the cones are delivered)

Zoom: Practice & Zoom ID

●Record all Zoom IDs in the West Zoom Tracker at ALL times for EVERY
lesson

●Zoom websites directions/links

●NES Classroom setup

●NES technology quick start guide

Printable Signage for Building & Classes

Printable Signage

If you don’t have a poster maker, then there should be clearly visible signs
on anchor chart paper, butcher paper (neatly cut), whiteboard, walls, etc.

Copy Center & Copiers

●There are no new copiers being delivered

○Wisdom will eventually get some more

●Leverage all existing copiers to run copies

●Create a system if you don’t have one already

●100% of copies must be made a week in advance for all lesson materials

●Once copies are made, they should be delivered to classrooms

○Teachers are responsible for ensuring they’re organized in labeled areas in the classroom

Student Schedules

●Have mock schedules ready for any student (not enrolled) to pick up & follow
along for the day

●No students should visibly be seen in a registration room, front office, hallway,
etc. Students should be in classes learning.

●Check Temporary Schedule sent by Ms. Teri Hampton or Dr. Vasquez on
8.25.25 to see the Temporary Schedule instructions & templates & share with
your SIRS/Registrars

●If you have kindergarten students, make sure they have this course on their
schedule

○Kinder-Writing Lab

○0K017ELAR- Writing Lab KG

By EOD - 8.24.23

●100% of classrooms should be setup

○Materials & posters/signs & Zoom projections on wall

●100% of hallways should be setup

●100% of Zoom IDs should be entered on the West Zoom tracker

●100% of TEAM Centers should be setup

○Materials & posters/signs & boards

●100% of copies should be made for week one & distributed to classes

●100% of copies should be neatly organized in identifiable areas

●100% of student schedules complete

●No clutter or excess furniture anywhere

●Sign paper due to Superintendent Miles acknowledging 100% of campus &
rooms are set up

Building & classroom setup squared away by EOD.

How to Lead to Ensure 100% is Completed by EOD

●Assign a direct report over every area

●Principal huddles with APs in the morning & reviews & assigns daily responsibilities & checkpoint
times (every 1-1.5 hours on the dot) to APs, Front Office, & Leadership Members

○Those direct reports now ensure their assigned team is 100% clear on teacher prep expectations

●For example:

○One AP responsible for all 9th grade classes, one for 10th grade classes, one for CTE, etc.

○Office mgr responsible for coordinating with PO to ensure the building is being set up correctly

○100% of teachers are responsible for their rooms & everything that goes in their room

○Learning coaches are responsible for every TEAM Center on site (including overflow areas)

○Teacher Apprentices are responsible for all hallway signs up correctly

○If copy clerk is slammed with copies at one or two printers & you have one or two more printers, then a Teacher
Apprentice can pull off to support with the copies

○Counselors/Registrars/SIRS should have 100% students scheduled & copies of rosters printed & ready for day one, etc.

○Tech person (whoever is tech savvy) should ensure 100% of zoom are working in all classes with ViewSonics

○NO ONE should be sitting with idle time on their hands

●The principal is spot checking that everyone is doing as instructed AND formally having standing
huddles throughout the day to course-correct on the spot with their direct reports

●All faculty & staff should sign off that their area of responsibility is complete by EOD before departing
for the day; everyone will sign-off on a form showing 100% is done to satisfaction & ready for
students

Principalship

Principalship (when in operation mode) is leading from the balcony & delegating,
facilitating, monitoring & following through on all areas to ensure the team is
operating to total capacity to reach the daily goal. You can't be in the trenches
24/7. If you are in the trenches 24/7, you become blind to areas of concern. I.e.,
not noticing or correcting others when they're not carrying their share of the load.
But you also can't live on the balcony & expect your direct reports to learn & grow
if you're not coaching them. Principalship & (leadership, in general) is a fine art &
a continuous balance in knowing when to go in & support & when to come back
out to assess all parts from a bird's eye view.

Monday, Aug. 28 Expectation

●EDs, Principals, & APs are all coaching in-the-moment on MRS & instruction
because 100% of building setup was completed by Aug. 25

●No energy on Monday onward should be spent on building or classroom
setup again

●The last few slides focus on the next immediate areas of focus

MRS Tools

●Videos that demonstrate MRS in action

●MRS

○If you don’t have a poster or large copier paper, then simply, but neatly write these 8 MRS
down so it’s visible to students & teachers

○The descriptions don’t need to be written down

○MRS must be studied, practiced, & used throughout all lessons (all classes)

●MRS ppt

95% of classes should consist of student discourse

●This means 95%, of even the first 45 minutes of direct teach, should consist
of student discourse

○This will happen well if all teachers are using MRS every 4 minutes

○Most of the slide decks have MRS clearly labeled on the slides

○The only way to become effective at MRS is by studying the slides ahead of time

○The only way to become effective at internalizing lessons is by studying the curriculum &
annotating the curriculum lessons ahead of time, then visiting the slide deck to enhance/edit
the slides

■One can’t be done without the other

Appraisals

●Appraisal calendar

●NES/NESA Teacher Excellence System One Pager

●NES/NESA Teacher Excellence Guidebook System

●Appraisal SharePoint