Collegiate Academy Heartbeat
Sunday, January 12, 2020
From the Heart
Team,
What a great start to the best semester ever at Collegiate Academy! Thank you for your preparation, your flexibility and your "can do" spirit! We are already seeing our freshmen grow up and I can't wait to celebrate our achievements in May! Let's do this!!
I would like to meet with each teacher for a 15 minute spring semester check - in. Here is the link to the sign - in sheet: Spring Teacher Check in . Please sign-up for a time by Wednesday of this week, so I can get it on my calendar. I will send out calendar invites after you sign - up! If for some reason, none of the times listed work for you, let me know and we can find 15 minutes. Here are the topics I would like to discuss: What are your goals for this year? What are you personally working on to improve and how can I help or what do you need? What are your plans for next year. Thanks in advance!
As you strive to lead this semester, I would like to share John Wooden's 7 Leadership Lessons for Success
1. Never stop teaching, but keep it brief.
2. No matter how successful you become, you'll deal with critics and loudmouths.
3. Measure yourself on the maximization of potential, not necessarily the bottom-line result.
4. When the light shines on you, deflect it to another who's deserving.
5. You'll win with star performers who've learned humility.
6. Don't hold grudges.
7. Don't forget to have fun.
For those of you that have no idea who John Wooden was....
John Robert Wooden was an American basketball player and head coach at the University of California, Los Angeles. Nicknamed the "Wizard of Westwood," he won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period as head coach at UCLA, including a record seven in a row.
REMINDERS:
- Don't forget to attend the soccer game on Wednesday! What a special night for our players and our school to play at Mustang/Panther Stadium.
- We are still wearing jeans except at the Open House on Thursday evening.
- Johannes Starks will be here Wednesday afternoon for a CCRSM meeting.
Have a great week! Courageously love your students, be prepared and have fun!
Bobbe
The courage to love unconditionally breaks all barriers.
#PhoenixFierce
Together we will make a difference!
Matthew's Thought for the Week
It's Always Interesting with Cav
If you have any students that you're missing from classes/have in too many classes/have in classes with students that they can't be the best versions of themselves with etc. please let me know. The best thing to do in these situations is to talk to the other teachers that might have that student so that we can do a 1-1 swap, because otherwise by making your life easier I may make someone else's life more difficult.
If you have a student that you want as a student aide, let me know and we should be able to make that happen.
Finally, I appreciate pretty much everyone's flexibility last week. The first week back is always crazy, and it was even crazier this time with the number of changes made to the master schedule, the TCC representatives being with us etc. I love working at Collegiate Academy because I know that we are a team of tremendous educators that put the needs of the students before our own needs. Thank you all for helping me transition into this role!
Lauren's Learnings
Thank you for being flexible last week during our first CA STAAR Bootcamp. Valentin moved his STAAR prep to another room, Ruiz took extra kids in his club so that Petrasek could support World Languages, Martinez skipped her rotation so that Bootcamp could work with ELA II, and so much more. The students in that room did not know of all of preparation, organizing, and flexibility that went into making that happen, and that's okay. When they sat with the instructional coaches going over last year's STAAR test one question at a time, and had so many "ah-ha" moments and the metacognitive experiences that were taking place made all of the strings that had to come together worth it! So again - Thank You!
This weekend I was reading Above the Line by Urban Meyer, a two-time national champion football coach. And in one of his locker room speeches to his soon to be national champion team he said, "We are going to train mentally and physically so that no matter what the event is, you respond with relentless effort."
When I read that quote, I immediately thought of our team's response on Wednesday and Thursday when the instructional coaches needed some last minute changes. We all responded with relentless effort to make it happen.
With that being said, we've had one round of CA STAAR Bootcamp, and have learned a few things moving forward, so if there are any changes I will communicate that prior than the day before.
For the most part, our structured ELL Support should be the same roster as CA STAAR Bootcamp, but there may be a few students that do not overlap. I will email you those individual names on Monday so that they can attend Bootcamp.
Please feel free to email me or grab me in the hallway if you have any questions.
See you tomorrow!
Lauren
Upcoming Events
January 15 - Soccer Game at Mustang/Panther Stadium
January 16 - CA Open House
January 20 - MLK Holiday/No school