1. Welcome “If there is not a big kid living inside of you, there is not a great teacher coming out of you.” -anonymous

2. FHS Staff Meeting Agenda Recognitions Hog Wild Flathead Way MooseValuable Teacher of the Month BHAG Attendance Consistency Safety Run, Lock, Fight ACT Testing Preparation April 19 Spring Testing For the good of the order

3. Hog Wild Ag Teachers Justin Heupel Brian Bay Tucker Hankinson Layne Taylor

4. Recognizing our outstanding staff! FLATHEAD WAY

5. MooseValuable Staff Members of the Month

6. Big Hairy Audacious Goals Increase Student Achievement Attendance Matters! >93% (92.67%) Common Core Implementation How We Teach – Effective Lessons Homework and Grading Maintain Current Drop Out Rate 49 (22-FHS) Maintain Success Rate 96% (97.14%) Safe & Orderly Environment Consistency among staff Concerted staff effort in the hall Respect Principal’s School-Wide Goals

8. Run, Lock, Fight http://www.kpax.com/story/31593774/flat head-educators-participate-in-armed- intruder-training

9. Spring Testing ACT April 19 – ACT Testing May 3 - ACT Make up

10. ACT Bootcamp Takeaways - Sent on March 24  Prep students to be successful, but be careful how you frame it up. Otherwise, they may just guess or skim the whole test.  Students have 36 seconds to answer each of the English questions  1 minute to answer each of the math questions  52 seconds to answer each of the science and reading questions  For the reading portion of the test, students can answer most of the questions by skimming or not reading the passage at all. (Careful how this is framed up for students)  The science tests very little science. If students can analyze and decipher graphs and charts, they will be successful.  On the writing portion, the more you write, the better your chances. The average scoring time for the writing is 1 minute. Accordion structure would fit nicely!  Doing well on the ACT is not the same as doing well in the classroom.  Bubble as many correct answers as possible and if you run out of time, bubble the same letter. (Another area of caution on how this is framed up)  Cross out best and write in according to the text  Main idea – subject or topic repeated the most  Not penalized for a wrong answer, take your best guess (Answer the ones you know, first and then take your best guess)  Answers are not in order of difficulty, they are random. Not penalized for guessing, unless you are guessing on the whole test  Time management – get as many correct as possible  If you can’t point to it in the text, it is the wrong answer  Don’t worry if you have all the same in a row. (All C’s on 4 or 5 answers)  Order of operations is important on the math  Use Accordion on the writing portion and make sure you get to the third page.  They have to write, so practice writing is not a bad idea.  Resources available in library and career center. Red Books to be ordered. What can you do as a department? What can we do as a school to prepare?

11. What can we do? *Math Prep *Library weekly questions

12. Lauren Mitchell Layne Taylor

13. 2016-2017 Themes Science Department You’re not Brave Alone Learn from Everything Grow Your Mindset #Attendance Matters ???????????

14. Activities Archie Roe – May 7 State Softball – May 26-28

15. Honey Badger Student & Teacher Perspective https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c36UN SoJenI

16. For the good of the order?

17. Thank You