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PreACT Question #32
According to the story, four prisoners are arrested for a crime, but the jail is full and the jailer has
nowhere to put them. He eventually comes up with the solution of giving them a puzzle. If they succeed,
they can go free. If they fail, they are executed.
The jailer sets three of the men into a line. The fourth man is put behind a screen. He gives all four men
party hats. The jailer explains that there are two black hats and two white hats, that each prisoner is
wearing one of the hats, and that each of the prisoners see only the hats in front of him but neither on
himself nor behind him. The fourth man behind the screen can't see or be seen by any other prisoner. No
communication among the prisoners is allowed.
If any prisoner can figure out what color hat he has on his own head with 100% certainty (without
guessing) and tell the jailer, all four prisoners go free. If any prisoner suggests an incorrect answer, all
four prisoners are executed. The puzzle is to find how the prisoners can escape, regardless of how the
jailer distributes the hats.
FHS Staff Meeting
Agenda
• Recognitions
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20 Year Pins
Hog Wild
• School-Wide Goals
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Pass Bond
Attendance Matters!
High Impact Instruction
Safe & Orderly Environment
• YMHFA – Youth Mental Health First Aid Class
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February 8-9
Friday, April 14
Saturday, May 6
• End of Semester Procedures
• PIR January 16
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Analysis of Student Work
ACT Strategies
• Christmas Catch Up
Recognizing our outstanding staff!
FLATHEAD WAY
Recognitions
20 Year Pins
Tara Barnes
Lynette Johnson
Jeff Steiner
Karen Thiesen
Hog Wild
Sara Nelson
Principal’s School-Wide Goals
Big Hairy Audacious Goals
Increase Student Achievement
• Attendance Matters! >94% 93.79% (93.82% 15-16)
• High Impact Instruction
– Engaging Activities (BEPE, Protocols)
– Higher Order Thinking
• Maintain Current Drop Out Rate 18 FHS 38 total (2016 =10 & 29)
• Maintain Success Rate 96%
Safe & Orderly Environment
• Consistency among staff
• Concerted staff effort in the hall
• Respect
Drop Outs
1 Student = ~ $6,000 ANB
18 FHS Students = $108,000
38 Total Students = $228,000
70 Students 2016 = $420,000
Having an at-risk student graduate and be successful
Priceless $$$$$
Youth Mental Health First Aid
What the course covers:
The course teaches adults how to assist adolescents who are developing a mental health problem or
in a mental health crisis. Course participants learn about adolescent development, the signs and
symptoms of the common and disabling mental health problems in young people, where and how to
get help when a young person is developing a mental illness, what sort of help has been shown by
research to be effective, and how to provide first aid in a crisis situation.
Developing mental health problems
covered are:
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Depression
Anxiety problems
Psychosis
Substance use problems
Eating disorders
February 8 & 9 4:00-7:30 p.m. NW Co-op
Friday, April 14
Saturday, May 6
Mental health crisis situations covered are:
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Suicidal thoughts and behaviors
Non-suicidal self-injury (sometimes called
deliberate self-harm)
Panic attacks
Traumatic events
Severe effects of drug or alcohol use
Severe psychotic states
Aggressive behaviors
6 PIR Credits/CIU
End of Semester Procedures
PIR - January 16
8:15 - 8:30
Coffee & Treats
8:30 - 9:20
Questioning Strategies to Develop Students' Critical Thinking Skills
Presenter - Clayton Mauritzen
9:30 - 10:20
LAPS Revisited
Revitalize your LAPS strategies to increase professional learning! We will apply LAPS to different texts to
augment our own teacher knowledge and expertise.
10:30-11:20
Analysis of Student Work
Bring a student sample of a CEAL paragraph that a student completed in your class this semester. It can be a
fabulous sample, a poor sample, or an adequate one. Please hide any grading marks you may have written.
If you have a corresponding rubric, bring that as well. If not, we will provide a generic one to you.
11:30 - 12:30
Lunch on your own
12:30 - 3:30
Department Collaboration – PreACT Information/ACT Strategies
Report to department leaders
Christmas
Christmas Catch Up Attendees
Fitness Challenge 17
It’s not too late!
For the good of the order?