Mount Elden Minutes: October `18, 2026

MEMS IAP GOALS

Mount Elden Middle School will increase Math AASA scores by no less than 10% for each grade level from the 2025 Spring AASA score to the 2026 Spring AASA scores.
Mount Elden Middle School will increase ELA AASA scores by no less than 10% for each grade level from the 2025 Spring AASA score to the 2026 Spring AASA scores.
Mount Elden Middle School will increase ELA and Math AASA scores for identified special education students by 10% from the 2025 Spring AASA score to the 2026 Spring AASA score.

QUARTER ONE GOALS FOR PROJECT MOMENTUM:

100% of teachers in all content areas will shift from past school wide literacy framework to Teacher Clarity with a focus on the four content areas of ELA, math, social studies and science, posting a learning intention and success criteria daily with annotated academic language.
By the end of quarter one, teachers will identify cusp students on ELA & Math AASA and identify needed supports and strategies to impact these students.
Mount Elden Middle School will review all available assessment data for all special education students (both in general education and special education settings) to understand and identify student needs.dd

Data Training:

Last Friday afternoon we conducted the FUSD data training and review. If you missed it, please refer to the email sent via Parent Square on October 15 that included information from Mike Vogler.

Steps:

Log into the Canvas course and follow the directions.
If you are not an ELA or Math teacher, please focus on ELA data. We are ALL literacy teachers at MEMS.
Complete the Notetaker form.
Upload the the Notetaker form to the MEMS Staff Drive, Folder Data 26-27, Quarter 1 Data Review folder by Friday October 23rd.
If you have any questions reach out to Jacquie or Tammy.

FUSD Inter Rater Reliability on TEI

Administrators from other schools and district come to MEMS to conduct mini observations and we discuss how we score on the TEI. This is not an evaluation of you, it is for administrator inter rater reliability.

Rochelle Bronson, Principal Summit High School and Heather Zeigler, Assistant Director of Learning, Technology and Innovation will be joining us on Wednesday morning.

ADE will be here on Tuesday morning 10:15-10:45 to walk through our EDP room (TIA, Ms. Hardin's Class).

Safety Drill Schedule: Please review and put drills on your calendar!

LISC: Learning Intentions and Success Criteria: We are noticing that we are not reviewing our Learning Intention at the beginning of each class, throughout the lesson and at the end. Student achievement increases when students are clear on the learning intentions and know the success criteria. LISC should be posted at all times in your classroom. Please make sure your Learning Intention includes the IOT In Order To portion. Please ensure that this practice is incorporated in your lesson. Thank you!

Calling Off:

We are having difficulty to ensuring we have lesson plans.

Moving forward, please upload your lesson plans in Red Rover.

If you are using Emergency Lesson plans please indicate that in the notes.
Also email Mikkel and Tammy lesson plans.

Signing out not calling off:

If you need to leave campus during contract time you must get pre-approval from Tammy prior to signing out. Then you need to sign out on the MEMS electronic sign out form.

When is it a sign out and when is it a call off:

One hour or less you can sign out.
More than 1 hour you requires calling off.

Talk to Tammy prior to calling off.

NOTE: When staff do not call off and need coverage teachers who period sub cannot receive payment.

FRIDAY COLLABORATION

FUSD District Department meetings

Specific groups will receive an email from District to attend.

All others:

Prep

1:00-1:45

Team CT

1:50-2:45

Department CT

2:50-3:50

Magical Staff of the Week:

Christy Belardo

Magical Staff of the Week Oct 12-16: Tony Schwartz

OCTOBER:

Morgan June gone Mon-Thurs attending Safe Routes to School conference. Text Lawrence and Tammy

Oct 20:

Safety drill around 10:15 am

Oct 20 & 21:

In T-Bird Time (check Canvas course)

MetroPlan's annual Safe Routes to School Student Travel Tally. EVERY teacher MUST complete please.

Oct 21:

FUSD Inter Rater Reliability on TEI

Rochelle Bronson and Heather Ziegler will participate (see info above)

BLACKOUT DATES AND PROTOCOLS

As a reminder, the following days are blackout days under FUSD policy.

The day prior or subsequent to any scheduled holiday.
The first or last instructional week of the year.
Parent/teacher conference days

Employees requesting time off during this time must submit an alternative conference schedule with their request in order to be considered.

Make-up days such as snow day make up
Testing days for test administrators and proctors.

You must have principal pre-approval if you must call off for extenuating circumstances. Please don’t plan a trip without prior approval. Thank you for understanding.

“Personal leave will not be granted on unless you receive pre-approval from principal.:

Any day we are above the 10% threshold. When we hit the 10% threshold, I will then need to deny. It is very helpful when you secure a sub.

Upcoming Blackout Dates:

Nov 10. 12, 20, 30

Dec 18

Jan 4

OVER 10% threshold:

Do you have a SHOUT OUT for a fellow colleague?

CLICK HERE

From Liv: Thank you Emma for being such an amazing and supportive department head! I have loved being able to teach 7th grade with you!

From Anonymous: Chef D, Ms. Vital, Mr. Sawasky, Mrs. Canuas, and Admin, for coming to support students and staff at the Orchestra/Choir concert 💕 Thank you! To those and anyone else we missed!

From Anonymous: Shout out to the Science Department for being collaborative and just plain AWESOME!

From Al: Sonia Salberg: Committed to supporting staff. Showing up with excitement and a positive attitude. Valued team member.

Elizabeth Canuas: Fully immersed herself in the MEMS community. Tackling all roles, team member, coach, anchor! Great job out there.