MTSS/NC STAR Meeting 1-4 PM at UNC-P (Lanham, Majka, Falls, Kline, Thomas)
5th Grade Planning at 12:50-1:50
Tuesday, March 27
Arts Integration Team Meeting
8:00-9:00
ELA- Strimel
Science- Falls
SS- Pond
Math- Lanham
4th Grade to Library 10-11
1st Grade to Library 9:45-11
3rd Grade Planning 10:10-11:10
Hill and Samuelson to CU Job Fair at 10:30-3:30
Wednesday, March 28
PLCs are work on your own. Complete the padlet found here by 3.30.18.
Hill, Covington and Thomas at CLC training at NCDPI 9am-5pm
4th Grade Planning at 12:50-1:50
Thursday, March 29
Contracts will be given out during your planning on Thursday. Please be on the look out for times for meetings later this week.
Kindergarten Planning 8-9
Administrative Meeting 9-10
2nd grade planning at 10:10-11:10
Arts PLC 11:30-12:30
MTSS Team Mtg 12:30-2:00
Middle School Awards (Popcorn Social) at 2pm
Friday, March 30: Spring Break Begins
🦎👏 Chameleon Clap 🦎👏
From Mrs. Majka:
I would like to give a chameleon clap to all of our staff for completing the working conditions survey. Thank you all for dealing with my dozen emails regarding the survey and for taking the time to complete it and help us reach 100% response!
From Mrs. Hill:
Thank you to Ms. Covington for taking a BIG problem in my mind and pairing it down to attainable.
There is this article that I really believe all educators need to read. You can find it HERE. For all my colleagues that don't get a chance to check it out and want the cliff notes of the article...no worries. Elena Aguilar wrote about an experiment she tried in her classroom after she read a book called Tribes: A New Way of Learning and Being Together byJeanne Gibbs.
The book is a guide to building a safe and caring learning community in the classroom. The teacher whole-heartedly adopted this book as a way to manage her room and tried out an activity called Secret Admirer. The basic idea was that each student picked out a peer's name and had to observe that student during the day and would share out something positive that student did that day with the entire of the class at the end of the day.
The students enjoyed it so much that they wanted to do it the next day and the next and the teacher varied what each day looked like to keep it fresh. Some days were challenge days and students had more than one student to keep their eyes on. Other days were "Me too!” days where students also had to identify their own behaviors for which they wanted recognition. The teacher discussed with the students whether they should continue to do these recognitions and they voted a resounding YES!
Why did this work?
Because they focused on strengths, assets, or bright spots. And researchers in all those fields agree that focusing on the positive not only feels good but works when you’re trying to change or want others to change.
The teacher acknowledges that some times it is struggle to get buy in but you continue to press and adjust until the change occurs.
I know some of you are at "wits end" with some students and feel like the entire room needs a makeover. Is there a way that you can adopt this activity to influence your room? What do you have to lose by trying it out?
I hope everyone has had a great weekend and I look forward to seeing you tomorrow! -Angela
Week of Monday, March 19- Friday, March 23
Don't forget to complete the worker's condition survey!
Monday, March 19
Grades are due at 8 AM
Joe out
EC Talent Code Book Study at 11 AM (EC Staff, please make your drink selection HERE)
5th Grade Planning at 12:50
Admin Meeting 1 PM- 2PM
Large Group SIT Meeting 3:30-4:30 in Theater
TCEA Board Meeting at 5:15 in Mrs. Samuelson's Studio
Tuesday, March 20
Joe PM Only
Arts Integration
8-9: 2nd Grade
Magan/Poche-Falls
Cane-Lanham
Marshall-Strimel
9:05-10:05: 5th Grade
Samuelson-Carr
Ezzel -Akers
Fleming-Falls
1st Grade to Library 9:45-11
3rd Grade Planning at 10:10
Leadership Team Meeting 12-3; Location TBD
Last day for K-3 to complete survey on Reading Supplies
Wednesday, March 21
SST facilitated by Ms. Lanham (please make sure you have all data for students when coming to the meeting); Third and Fifth Grade- We will be rescheduling our meetings this month due to conferences, they will be before spring break. Let me know when you guys can all get together with myself, Ms. Pond, Mr. Falls and Mrs. Honeycutt.
Please remember that you will need to keep a copy of what you discussed with parents and have parent signature on document. I will come around and check these documents on Monday, April 9th. DO NOT PUT IN MY BOX. The only thing that needs to be turned in to me in the conference time sheets and a list of who did not come to conferences by 3.29.18.
Please remember that you will need to keep a copy of what you discussed with parents and have parent signature on document. I will come around and check these documents on Monday, April 9th. DO NOT PUT IN MY BOX. The only thing that needs to be turned in to me in the conference time sheets and a list of who did not come to conferences by 3.29.18.
Covington and Hill at NCDPI
Volunteer Breakfast 9 AM-10 AM
4th Friday 5:30-7:30 PM
🦎👏 Chameleon Clap🦎👏
From Mrs. Weir: I would like to thank Mr. Thomas for subbing the class for my birthday gift... thank you!! From Mrs. Hill: Congrats to Joe and Melissa on their new baby!! Josie Deane Salisbury was born Friday, March 16th at 3:57 AM. I tried to steal a pic from Facebook but couldn't do it! Joe, email us all a picture!! Congrats to Mrs. Samuelson for a successful presentation at the NC Collaborative Conference for Student Achievement last week!!!
Sunday, March 11, 2018
Women's History Month
March is Women's History Month and below are some links that you can share with your students. I hope everyone recognizes that ensuring that our students see themselves in the curriculum is one way to increase student success.
RESOURCES
Thanks for all you do and I look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow!
Angela
Week of Monday, March 12- Friday, March 16
Monday, March 12
Teacher Workday: No School for Students
Math Foundations Training in Cafe
COLE Competition will take place in Mrs. Samuelson's Studio and the Theater from 8:30-1:00
Tuesday, March 13
Penny Wars Begin
1st Day of THIRD TRIMESTER
4th Grade Field Trip to Marbles Museum
Arts Integration Meeting
1st Grade 8-9
Johnson= Lanham
Person= Strimel
Brown= Pond
4th Grade 9:05-10:05: Cancelled
1st Grade to Library 9:45-11:00
Small Group SIT Meeting at 3:30-4:00
Wednesday, March 14
PLCs (Data and Intervention Facilitated by Ms. Covington)
8-9: Kindergarten
9:05-10:05: 1st Grade
10:10-11:10: 2nd Grade
12:50-1:50: 5th Grade
1:55-2:55: Middle Grades
4th Grade Planning at 12:50-1:50
Hill to Collaborative Conference on Student Achievement at 10:00 AM
Thursday, March 15
PLCs (Data and Intervention Facilitated by Ms. Covington)
10:10-11:10: 3rd Grade
12:50-1:50: 4th Grade
Kindergarten Planning at 8 AM
2nd Grade Planning at 10:10 AM
Arts PLC at 11:30-12:30
Hill at Appt at 2 PM
Friday, March 16
Hill and Covington at NCDPI: K-8 Math Standards Implementation for District Leadership Charter Schools
Spring Pictures; Mrs. Trojan will send out a time schedule later this week.
Kindergarten Planning at 8 AM
1st Grade Planning at 9:05 AM
Friends of Music Presentation at 11-12 in Music Room; Ms. Payton will let teachers know which students will be allowed to attend.
🦎👏 Chameleon Claps🦎👏
From Mrs. Honeycutt:
Ms. Lanham and Mr. Thomas for covering lunch duty for me.
Ms. Williams and Ms. E. Johnson for their extra patience with some of our school friends.
Ms. Pond and Mr. Falls for making a difference and helping push up some of our friends on the edge.
From Mrs. Hill:
Thanks to Mr. Salisbury for another successful lottery! Also, thanks to Mr. Thomas, Mrs. Trojan and Ms. Lanham for helping execute the plan!
Thanks to Ms. Akers and Ms. Lanham for filling in when things get more hectic than usually in the office.
Thanks to the AMAZING ARTS DEPARTMENT for two outstanding Middle Grades Arts Elective Nights!!!
GOOD LUCK to our Battle of the Books Team (C.O.L.E) tomorrow and thanks to Mrs. Ezell and Ms. Fleming for working tirelessly with our students!
First...please excuse the language in the video and description of the OS!M...
This past Friday, I had the chance to hear Kelly Shiley speak. Mrs. Shiley is the founder of Mary Square and the beginning of this multi-milliondollar business came from humble beginnings. She has never spoken at an event like the one I attended Friday but she did an amazing job. I loved how focused she was on making the step out on faith be one where she "left everything on the field". She shared that she always knows that she is on the right track when her stomach hurts and she's unsure what will happen next.
That feeling has been described as having that OS!M from the book The Radical Leap by Steve Farber. He describes it as follows:
Extreme Leadership is intensely personal and intrinsically scary. You are striving to change the nature of things, and that's a scary endeavor because you are asking yourself and others to give up the familiar. It is scary because you have no guarantee of a positive outcome. It is scary because you don't know how you are personally going to be judged; your credibility is on the line. There is no way -- absolutely no way, therefore -- to participate in an authentic leadership experience without fear.
We've been conditioned to believe that fear is `bad. And while it's true that fear can save your life or keep you from doing something stupid, avoiding it can also keep you from doing something great, from learning something new, and from growing as a human being. Fear is a natural part of growth, and since growth, change and revolution are all on the Extreme Leader's agenda, fear comes with the territory.
In the right context, therefore, your experience of fear (or exhilaration, for that matter) is your internal indicator that you're moving in the right direction. That you really are leading, in other words. That scary/exhilarating experience is what I call the Oh Shit! Moment or OS!M.To put it bluntly: if you're using all the buzzwords and reading all the latest leadership books, and holding forth at every meeting on the latest management fads, but you're not experiencing that visceral churning in your gut, and you're not scaring yourself every day, and you're not feeling that OS!Moment as regularly as clockwork, then you are not doing anything significant -- let alone changing the world -- and you are certainly not leading anyone else.
As educators, we are all leaders! When I leave this Earth, I want to be known as someone who made a difference. Someone who "left it all on the field" and had no regrets for not trying to improve the education field.
How often do you feel that churn in your stomach? If you haven't felt it in a while or ever, are you doing anything significant? If you thrive on that belly feel, can you find someone else to inspire and push to step out on faith?
We owe it ourselves and more importantly to those we share our lives with!
Hope everyone has had a great weekend and I look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow! - Angela
Trimester 2 Middle School Electives Performance 6 pm-8 pm (Dance and Theater/Film)
Friday, March 9
Kindergarten Planning at 8 AM
Mr. Thomas is covering for Ms. Payton
Samuelson to Library at 9 AM
Admin Meeting at 9 AM
First Grade Planning at 9 AM
Middle School to Library 9:15-12:00
Ezell to Library 9:45 AM
Fleming to Library at 11 AM
2nd Grade to Library at 1 PM
**************************** Change for Monday, March 12**************************
We will have next day of Math Foundations Training on Monday, March 12th from 8 AM- 3 PM.
🦎👏 Chameleon Clap 🦎👏
From Mrs. Cane:
I would love it if you give these shout outs on the blog...first to Mr. Kline for transforming me into the cat and the hat..and my 1 fish 2 fish red fish blue fish crew Ms Covington, Majka, Akers,and Caudle..we were great
Chameleon Clap from Mrs. Cates (4th Grade Parent):
Yesterday Colleen had a small issue with another student in her class. Mrs. Majka was quick to act, making Colleen feel both heard and safe.
When Colleen came home last night she shared with me that Mr. Thomas made her feel like the situation was being given serious attention - and that she now felt comfortable going to class again.
Both of the staff members handling the issue behaved exceptionally, and I'm incredibly grateful. While we can't be there every moment of our children's lives, I always feel comfortable sending my children to school, knowing that staff will handle any adverse situation appropriately.
