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Bearcat Wrap-up Podcast

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7:25

Week 28: Spring Break and Gearing Up Before the Final...

Bearcat Wrap-up Podcast ·

2024/03/15

Happy Friday!As we approach the eagerly anticipated Spring Break at Mena Public Schools, I want to express my heartfelt appreciation to every one of our staff members for their unwavering dedication and effort. Your hard work is vital in helping us advance toward our performance targets, mission, and vision. The rest and renewal we embrace this break is not just a pause but a preparation to maintain momentum towards our collective year-end success. In this week's Wrap-up, we reflect on the

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7:15

Week 27: Committed to Tier One Instruction

Bearcat Wrap-up Podcast ·

2024/03/08

Happy Friday!As we close another week at Mena Public Schools, I want to extend my deepest gratitude to all our dedicated staff members for the incredible work done throughout the week to reach our performance targets, mission, and vision. Your commitment to fostering a supportive and enriching environment for our students did not go unnoticed, especially the Read Across America activity. This week, our Wrap-up focuses on crucial educational strategies that are essential for the success of our

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6:37

Week 26: Looking Ahead and Advancing Together

Bearcat Wrap-up Podcast ·

2024/03/01

Happy Friday!As we reflect on the strides we have made in Week 26 and look forward to the remaining fifty instructional days, it is clear that our collective efforts are bearing fruit, bringing us closer to our performance targets, mission, and vision. We have fallen below the 93.5 percent target for attendance and I have shared in previous Wrap-ups why our discipline numbers will be higher this year. Our academics are improving, however, and this progress is a testament to the dedication and hard

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7:57

Week 25: Read, Read, Read

Bearcat Wrap-up Podcast ·

2024/02/23

Happy Friday!As we wrap up Week 25 of our academic year, I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to our dedicated staff at Mena Public Schools. Your continuing commitment and tireless efforts have been instrumental in steering our students toward our district performance targets. As we continue to foster a culture of excellence and learning, this week we turn our focus to a cornerstone of educational and personal development—reading practice. Emphasizing the importance of literacy, we encourage our

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8:13

Week 24: Milestones to Celebrate

Bearcat Wrap-up Podcast ·

2024/02/16

Happy Friday!Thank you for all you have done this week! Week 24 encapsulates a week filled with remarkable achievements across our school community, from the collective pride in our Special Olympics heroes and the recognition of our innovative Alternative Education program to the joyous celebration of a dedicated volunteer's 90th birthday and the steadfast journey of our bus drivers ensuring every student’s safe passage. Also, we can now retrieve data from COGNOS again, so our performance targets

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10:38

Week 23: Elevating Excellence by Reflective Practice

Bearcat Wrap-up Podcast ·

2024/02/09

Happy Friday!Thank you for all you did this week for our students and each other! I am sorry to inform you that our data system, COGNOS, is still down so updates to our performance are not completely available and we still await some assessment results for the academic portions of our performance targets. Nevertheless, our resolve to increase learning and attendance while decreasing discipline issues continues. Thank you!In this week’s Wrap-up, I want to emphasize the need for personal reflection

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5:54

Week 22: The 100th Day of School

Bearcat Wrap-up Podcast ·

2024/02/02

Happy Friday!I want to express my deepest appreciation for all of your hard work and dedication this week. COGNOS, the state data reporting system, has been down since last Friday and there are still academic assessments to finish, so there are no updates but your efforts to reach our performance targets have not gone unnoticed. We are still collecting walkthrough observation data of our own and from the Bailey Group and continue to be encouraged by the level of effort being put forth in our

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6:30

Week 21: Regaining Momentum

Bearcat Wrap-up Podcast ·

2024/01/26

Before getting the the Wrap-up, it is with a heavy heart and profound sadness that we share the news of the unexpected passing of Sonja Stueart, our esteemed School Resource Officer at Holly Harshman Elementary. Sonja was not just a guardian of safety; she was a cherished member of our school family, beloved by staff and students alike. Her dedication to our school went beyond her role, touching many lives with her kindness and commitment. Her absence leaves a void in our hearts and our halls. We

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6:00

Week 20: Not Much of a Week

Bearcat Wrap-up Podcast ·

2024/01/19

Happy Friday!This week at Mena Public Schools, we have experienced a whirlwind of events, quite literally! Our week was as brief as a snowflake's journey, starting and ending on Friday due to a picturesque yet pesky blanket of ice and snow that chilled our town from Sunday through Thursday. It is not every week that our calendar looks like a sandwich with the bread missing, but we made the most of our one-day week with enthusiasm and warmth, melting away any icy blues!Please be aware that more

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5:45

Week 19: Springing Into 2024

Bearcat Wrap-up Podcast ·

2024/01/12

Happy First Friday of 2024!Welcome back! I hope you all had a festive yet restful Christmas Break and are ready to continue our progress for this school year. The Spring Semester is an intense time bringing a heightened sense of intensity compared to the fall. This period is marked by a rapid acceleration in academic rigor, as students delve deeper into their curricula, building upon the foundational knowledge established in the previous months. Academically, it's a crucial time for ATLAS testing

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3:19

Week 18: A Good Fall Semester

Bearcat Wrap-up Podcast ·

2023/12/20

Happy Wednesday!I am proud to congratulate each of you for the academic achievements our students have gained this semester. Your dedication, expertise, and unwavering commitment to our students' education have yielded exceptional academic results, as detailed in our latest update.In our K-5 grades, the growth in reading skills has been phenomenal. Every student showed progress, with an average growth ranging from 51 to 83 points, surpassing the 60-point benchmark that signifies advancement to the

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6:02

Week 17: A Week of Learning and Accomplishment

Bearcat Wrap-up Podcast ·

2023/12/15

Happy Friday!It is the last Friday of the fall semester and it has come upon us very quickly! Thank you for all you have done this week as we approach the end. I know that these closing days leading up to a break are busier as we wrap things up and I appreciate all of the effort that has been put forth to make learning happen. Our performance targets have been updated but the academic data is not all in because of our assessment window still being open. That information will be reported to the board

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3:19

Week 16: Nearing the End of the First Semester

Bearcat Wrap-up Podcast ·

2023/12/08

Happy Friday!Thank you for all you have done this week to reach our performance targets for the year. Our trends in discipline and attendance continue on the same trajectories but we will have some academic updates by next week to see if our other efforts are paying off. There is not much to write about this week; so, this Wrap-up will be all about the instructional data that has been collected in anticipation of our end-of-semester academic updates. Data UpdateSeveral more classroom walkthroughs

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7:40

Week 15: Teaching Mastery is a Lifelong Journey

Bearcat Wrap-up Podcast ·

2023/12/01

Happy Friday!Thanks for all you did this week to model for our students the concept of lifelong learning! Working with Bailey Group, Solution Tree, and DESE consultants has caused much professional conversation about how to hone our abilities to make sure our students are getting what they need to be prepared and successful. It is a never-ending cycle of planning, doing, checking, and reflecting. As we continue our work, we will embrace these enriching experiences and collaborative efforts, ensuring

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5:21

Week 14: Happy Thanksgiving

Bearcat Wrap-up Podcast ·

2023/11/17

Happy Friday!Fridays before long breaks are even better Fridays and I hope yours has been good. Thank you for all you have done this week. Our academic updates for our performance targets will be done next month but our other trends continue on the same trajectory, which is good for attendance but bad for discipline. The district PLC team has started looking deeper into the discipline data for insights in hopes of finding ways we might reverse the trend. But as we head into this well-deserved break,

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5:09

Week 13: Updates on LEARNS

Bearcat Wrap-up Podcast ·

2023/11/10

Happy Friday!Thank you for another week of teaching and learning! Our performance targets are continuing with the same trends as last week for attendance and behavior. Our academic reports’ hard data should be updated in December and January. That is the data that is gathered from across all students at all grade levels. Not all of the data is in yet but early indicators show that we are seeing growth coming from Tier 2 intervention data. This Wrap-up is intended to update you all on the LEARNS

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7:15

Week 12: Engineers and Technicians of Learning

Bearcat Wrap-up Podcast ·

2023/11/03

Happy Friday!Thank you for a successful Week 12! We are on day number 55 with 115 remaining. Our performance targets have been updated for the week and show that we are staying on track in attendance, but our discipline referrals were up again by 11 percent.In this week’s Wrap-up, I want to focus on all of us being reflective practitioners who use data to guide instruction by comparing what we do to other professions.Technicians and EngineersTo begin this week a team of K through 5 teachers and

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4:36

Week 11: The Stories Behind the Numbers

Bearcat Wrap-up Podcast ·

2023/10/27

Happy Friday!Thank you for your efforts this week! It was a good week - a short week - and although not quite as eventful as last week we still have much to reflect on. It began with our Ladycat Volleyball team in the state tournament, a very successful Louise Durham Fall Carvinval, Red Ribbon Week activities, and the Middle School Fall Dance, and ended with day number 50 of the school year. A big thanks go out to all of you who made these things happen for our students!Our performance targets for

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5:34

Week 10: Mena, The Arkansas "Capital for a Day"

Bearcat Wrap-up Podcast ·

2023/10/20

Happy Friday!Thank you for all you have done this week to balance the celebratory events with our regular work to educate students. As far as I know, there has never been a week like this at Mena Public Schools when we have an international film crew doing a documentary and our Governor establishes her administration here to tour and operate. It has been quite a memorable week.Our performance targets are up-to-date and what is most notable is a 10.5 percent increase in discipline referrals in the

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6:04

Week 9: The End of the First Quarter

Bearcat Wrap-up Podcast ·

2023/10/13

Happy Friday!Thank you, again, for the hard work and effort in Week 9! As mentioned in the heading, our current state of progress is clearer and even though we have some data sets yet to be complete, our target dashboard is complete and useful for keeping track of our district’s overall progress. Our work is cut out for us as we strive to reach our performance targets.This week’s Wrap-up has no overall theme but will be a hodgepodge of information.The Right to ReadThe Right to Read film by Levar

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