The Gator Tales
The weekly staff newsletter for Glenwood Elementary School
Welcome Back to School Edition
Welcome Back!
There has been a lot going on in our school this summer. Our custodial team has been hard at work stripping ALL of our floors of the old yellowed wax and applying new coats over the shiny-white floors. We have done a few updates here and there with some new paint along with a few other things to make our school more attractive, functional for you, and fun for our kids.
We will have around 25 new faces to our school this year and are looking forward to making Glenwood the best school for our kids.
There has been another level of excitement surrounding our focus for the year- Kids Deserve It. Much of our conversations and work will be from our summer reading. I am sure everyone has finished the book, but if not, make sure you do before next week. That led to some great #GlenwoodKidsDeserveIt Twitter Chats that attracted much attention from others outside our school, along with our staff that participated. There is one more scheduled for August 14 so make sure you join in. Great ideas and conversations/reflections. Thanks to MerceMalit for their hard work on this. Their leadership has been powerful this summer.
Below is our work week schedule. Note that we have our OPEN HOUSE during the work week, so I want to make sure that you have as much time as possible to prepare.
See you soon!
Schedule for Teacher Back to School Workweek+
Thursday, August 23
Friday, August 24
Work in your classrooms
Monday, August 27
Meeting for All Teachers-9:00 am-12:00 pm
12:00-1:00 Lunch on your own
1:00- 3:10- Work in your classrooms
Tuesday, August 28
Teacher Assistants Report Back to Work
8:00 am- PTA Breakfast for all staff
9:00 am- Focusing on Student Agency- Student Goal Setting in Learning Commons
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch on your own'
1:30-2:30- Schoology (Grade Levels will work with their Schoology Champion to dive into Schoology. Specialists select a grade level to work with)
2:30-3:10- Work in your rooms
Wednesday, August 29
6:30 pm- PK-2 Open House.
Specialists Please choose one night to attend.
Thursday, August 30
6:30 pm- Grades 3-5 Open House.
Specialists Please choose one night to attend.
Friday, August 31
Wear your Orange Glenwood T-shirt
11:30 Staff Meeting for all in Learning Commons