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Week of October 29-Nov. 2, 2018!
- 10/29-11/2: Book Fair
- 10/30: Text-n-Treat 6:00-8:00 pm
- Attention: Date Change: 11/1 - PLC meetings during planning: Deconstructing Standards (Replaces Nov. 13th PLC day)
- 11/1: Literacy Team & 50th Anniversary Team meeting after school
Text n Treat
Book Fair
Days 3-6 (Oct. 26-Nov. 2) we will be open for shopping! Students in Building 1 may come and shop whenever you allow. Beginning on Day 4 (Oct. 29) we will come to Building 2 and collect our friends one grade at a time to bring them up, shop, and then bring them back.
Day 6 (Oct. 30) we will be open during the Text and Treat!!
Day 9 (Nov. 2) we will close at noon! We will not come and collect friends from Building 2 on this day.
Sub Admin Change - 11/1/18
Data Team Meeting Dates - Please add to calendar
11/1 - Learning Targets (moved from 11/13)
Please bring your deconstructed standards so that we can move on to our next step in our Back to Basics plan.
11/27 - Common Assessments
1/10 - Create instruction
2/19 - Gather Data
3/14 - Review the Process
May - Power Planning
Georgia School Personnel Survey
The Georgia School Personnel Survey (GSPS) is modeled after the student survey and includes 31 questions. The GSPS is for all certified and classified staff members who work at least 50 percent of the day in the school. At least 75% of certified and classified staff members must participate in the survey to be eligible for the School Climate Star Rating. Most teachers should be able to participate in the GSPS using their classroom computer. The survey is also accessible using a tablet or smartphone. Survey responses are anonymous and will be submitted directly to the Georgia Department of Education for analysis. The Georgia School Personnel Survey link is posted below.
Overbooked: A Sawnee Reading List
Cahill's sharing her recommendations this week in one work of historical fiction and one memoir.
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein follows the story of two women that are pulled into military service in WWII. Maddie (an English pilot) and Julie (a Scottish interrogator) both tell their side of the story as they deal with war, discrimination against women, and fighting the enemy in occupied France. This was a book that I did not want to put down!
I have just started Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover and read over 50 pages before I even realized it! Tara was born into a survivalist family in rural Idaho and did not enter a school building until the age of 17. Westover tackles family dynamics, mental health, education, politics and that is just in the first 50 pages!