The Bailey Times
March 4, 2019
Enjoy, Enjoy, Enjoy your time off next week! You will need it to get through the end of the year!
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Educator Survey Launching Next Week
Ya'll do a great job of completing this survey every year and I thank you! It makes our school look good and we are also contributing to making changes where needed. Please be on the lookout for the email coming with the link for you to complete. Thank you in advance!
Cindy
As a reminder, the annual Tennessee Educator Survey will open next week. As part of this survey effort, every school-level educator in the state of Tennessee will be invited to report their perceptions and expertise on education issues affecting their classrooms and school buildings. All educators should receive a personalized invitation by Friday, March 8.
We estimate that the survey will take up to 20 minutes to complete. Upon completion, participants become eligible for a lottery that awards several individual classroom grants of $300 each week through the end of the survey on April 19. A separate lottery will be held after the survey window closes to award several grants of $2,000 to the schools with the highest participation rates.
Completion of this survey is voluntary, and participants may also refuse to answer any specific questions within the survey. Individual responses are confidential and will not under any circumstances be shared or released. The department will share aggregated school-level results with school leaders by the end of May, and will make all results publicly available here later this summer. In order to receive its data, a school or district must achieve at least 45 percent participation.
More information about the survey, including troubleshooting information for teachers who do not receive their survey invitation by March 8, is available here. Any further questions about the survey can be directed to tned.research.alliance@vanderbilt.edu.
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The Why Behind RTI - ASCD
Seesaw Virtual PD Through Schoology
Dear Cindy,
Thanks,
Just love my child
Dear Just love my child,
I can tell you one thing and that is that the majority of teachers want to get to know your child and they understand that every child is unique and comes to school with different needs. That is not to say that they don't have bad days or that they don't judge because we all do, it is human. The best way to make sure that the teacher gets to know your child is to talk to the teacher and build a relationship of trust and understanding, not by telling them what they are doing wrong, but by letting them know what child's needs are and asking if they can help you. Many times it takes a team effort to make sure that our kid's needs are met, but it can be done.
Sincerely,
Cindy
As a reminder to teachers here is some great information from Pernille Ripp who is a teacher and blogger. She has some great insight to give from her perspective as a parent and a teacher. Hope you will take the time to read!
"What parents wish we would ask them about their child."
We tried to have kids for three years before we were successful. Three years of hoping this was the time. Three years of doctors shaking their heads, of appointments, of surgery, of medicine to help. Three years of dreaming. When she came I cried knowing that the miracle she was would never be fully understood by others who had not traveled our journey. She cried right along with me.
When she started school I wrote a letter to her telling her of the hopes, the fears, and the dreams we had for her as she embarked on this next phase of her journey. We held her tight, hugged her, and sent her on her way.
For the past eight years, we have been the parents of her and three more siblings, all with their own winding road into being. We have watched in awe as their personalities have grown, as their will have formed. As their knowledge of life, of who they are, of where they fit have expanded and shrank, depending on what happened at any given time. And we have seen the not-so-great, the tantrums, the curveballs that all kids present you with and we have held our breath at times when we have been in public and this thing that is happening right in front of us that seems to have come out of nowhere is making us both want to just die of embarrassment.
You are our most precious. You are the things we are the proudest of. But you are also what we worry about the most. And so with three kids about to start school, I hope we get a chance to tell your teachers who you are. Not so we can pretend you are perfect but so we can present you for everything that you are. Willful and strong, creative and flighty, funny and sometimes mad, but always you, and always a child who is exploring who they are and what life has to offer.
Today, as I prepared our own home survey (Spanish version here)that we send out to all of our incoming parents, I asked my PLN which question do they wish, as parents, they would be asked about their children. The answers were too good not to share, so thank you, everyone, who responded. Thank you for sharing your hopes so that we can all become better teachers. So that we can start the year on the very best foot, hearing who your child is from the people that know them best.
What do parents/guardians wish we would ask them about their child?
When you think about your child, what makes you proud? What are they passionate about? What do they cry about at home? How can I help make this a great year for your son/daughter? How can I make your child feel safe and open to trying new things? Do you have any suggestions on how to best connect with your child? What sparks your child’s interest? What triggers frustration or withdrawal? What two things I should do and two things that I should avoid? What are your hopes and dreams for the school year? What helps to motivate your child to do his/her best? What else? What would you add to the list? How would you like to share the story of who your child is with these new teachers?
Playground Ribbon Cutting Ceremony - Friday, March 22nd Kindergarten Students will come out to the playground around 10:00.
Coffee Chats
March 19th (Tuesday) - Stem Bins with Bond and Ferrante @ 8:00 in Rm. 410 Bond's room.
If you would like to host a coffee chat please let me know!
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Take a moment and read through the articles or blogs that I have looked at this past week! Maybe one will be of interest to you!
Month at a Glance
PTA Meeting at 6:00 in the cafe
POP Up Book Shop
March 6th
Principal's Meeting
March 7th
CEF Trivia Teacher Night 6:00
March 8th
Vocabulary Parade
March 18th
PTA Board Meeting 9:30
March 18th - 22nd
Student Council Animal Shelter Collection
March 21st
Spring Pictures
PD & Popcorn
March 23rd
Bailey Station singing at the Grizzlies Game!
March 28th
**Faculty Meeting at 7:30 in the library** This is a change!
**BSE is the focus school at the Board Meeting 6:30 at the community room at CHS**Change from March 21st*****
PTA Bingo Night 6:00 Cafe
Future Chefs Competition at the high school!
Memphis In May
March 29th
Memphis In May
April 1st - 5th
Teacher Appreciation Week
April 4th
Kindergarten Orientation Night
April 5th
Shelly Brown - author - Visiting BSE 2:00 - 2:20
April 6th
Race for the Ville 7:00
April 9th
Barnes and Noble Book Fair 5:00 - 7:00
April 15th - 29th
Testing Window
April 30th
Collierville Rotary Teacher of Year Banquet @ 6:00 Memphis National