Best Practices at FJH
Teacher Buddies: Each adult in the building has one or two students who they try to build relationships with during the school year.
VIP’s:
Viking Instructional Pals: Stronger students who are chosen to work with weaker
academic students during the school year. They help the academically and
socially. They check on grades, meet with teachers, help at tutorials and even
call parents sometime.
CSI’s:
Creating Success Interns. Our Algebra, Geometry and Advanced LA students who
are chosen to tutor students who have failed right before TAKS. They are chosen
when they have not been successful on TAKS in the past or current Benchmarks.
We pull them from their electives every other day starting right after Spring
Break until TAKS testing (usually about 10 days total) The CSI’s are trained by
Mrs. Wallace, Mrs. Cazanas, Mrs. Lewis and Mr. Meyer. We have to certified
Teachers to monitor them in the Lab, One for Math and one
For
LA.
LEP
Pull out program with Alana Moser. Language Folder games for each academic
area. Use First Books for things that happen US History. Multi sensory grammar,
used colors with various parts of speech.
Math
Camp: Begins in Feb through first of April each Tues. Students stay after
school to do Hands on activities over Major Math TEKS. Mrs. Lewis and the Math
Dept take turns designing lesson and monitoring groups. All 3-grade levels
attend.
Blooming
Vikings: Our gardening club headed by our Nurse Zohlen. They have designed a
garden at our school; they tend it, harvest the vegetables and take nature
field trips during the school year.
Students
of the Month: Each month is represented by a different concept, like honesty or
loyalty, etc. We choose one girl and one boy from each grade level that
exemplify that attribute. We display their pictures in the pods and on a board
in Cafeteria. Then we invite them and their parents to the PTO where Shell Oil
Co. who is our sponsor of the program gives them a certificate and gift card to
Barnes and Noble.
SEGUE-Strategies
for Encouraging Growth, Understanding, and Excellence: a grant program operated
by Our Sp Ed Dept chair, Counselors and LSSP (Licensed Specialist in School
Psychology)
Writing
Pull out Programs before TAKS Writing
SSI-
Student Success Imitative- Update includes 8th grade now- students
must pass