Monday Memo
Week of 3/9/20: Central's Newsletter for Teachers & Staff
THIS WEEK'S HAPPENINGS
March 9th, Monday-
- School Site Board Workshop at 12:30 in Media Center- We will be borrowing some students in various clubs to assist.
- Don't Forget Daylight Saving Time Change
March 10th, Tuesday-
- Tutorials
- Family Read Night at 5 PM -Get Kubit Kash for attending!
March 11th, Wednesday-
- Tropicana Speech Contest 8:30-10-30
- Tutorials
- SAC Meeting at 5 pm- Kubit Kash for attending!
March 12th, Thursday-
- Spring and Club Pictures- Students will be called to report to Mrs. Medrano's Room
- A Land Remembered Day for our In-School Field Trip -Organized by Mrs. Tuten. Thank you Mrs. Tuten- Please see email with schedule...BE PROMPT!
- Opening Ceremonies for our Field Day Olympics - Organized by Coach Spearow. Thank you Coach Spearow! We are excited to participate. Times will be shared later this week.
- Tutorials
March 13th, Friday-
- Field Day Olympic Games
- Last Day of Grading Period
- No Tutorials
Next week is SPRING BREAK March 16th-20th. NO SCHOOL
March 23rd, Monday- Teacher Plan Day
March 24th, Tuesday- Students Return to school
SPECIAL APPRECIATIONS:
One more SHOUT OUT! Thank you to Ms. Norman, Ms. Davis and Ms. Syples for keeping things running smoothly when I was out with my mother while she was in ICU and also when I was out doing my own hospital stay after mom. I can't say how grateful I am to have them. They are an amazing leadership team. They do so much behind the scenes, on their own time and receive little thanks for the difficult tasks they sometimes have to complete. Just wanted you to know that I love my Leadership Team!
Kubit Ka$h will be given for surprise reason this week!
Kubit Ka$h for Teachers
You earn them for attending or helping in extra-curricular events at school. Principal Kubit reserves the final say in a Kubit Ka$h transaction. For example they will be given for a certain fulfilled task this week! :)
Enjoy and don't spend it all in one place.
P.S. Watch the video below and look at that Kubit Ka$h! This is the life! lol
How to Determine Your Current In-Service Points for Recertification
A CULTURE GROWING FROM GOOD TO GREAT!
Action Items and Reminders
- FERPA: Just an important reminder that FERPA and other applicable laws and regulations relating to student information are critical laws we must follow. All staff must comply with these security regulations and policies. DO NOT give out school information, class updates or information, or student information to non employees or former employees. Information is given out to us on a need to know basis. That means we can't even share with other teachers unless they need to know. We need to be vigilant that we do not give out any information to anyone else. Just let them know you can't give out information and direct them to administration.
- ALL teachers should be at their door, door open and greeting every student while monitoring the halls. This helps with school wide expectations and our students follow those expectations because they know they will be held accountable. We greet them EVERY day so they know we care about them!
- Time should go in ASAP in Skyward if you are out for any reason.
- PLEASE REMEMBER: Leave right before a holiday can create undue hardship on the school. For example, everyone would love to take off the day before break, but we don't have the capacity to provide enough subs and splitting classes is difficult for your team. Also, if you are out of days, this doesn't mean you can just take days for no pay. Technically you should be here unless you have days to take. No pay leaves should be only for emergencies. We should each take care of our time off and not rely on Jenn to remind us. This makes her job for keeping payroll extremely difficult and time consuming as she has to check and recheck. If you are out, put your leave in.
- The big printers: Only send an original and if your papers are on the counter, please pick up and clean them up. Do not send large print jobs- just an original.
- Review PBIS expectations for classroom, halls, assemblies, etc. Ms. Norman will be sending an email of what to review. We all need to reinforce with Panther Paws.
- This week's PLC will be a school-wide calibration of our instructional plans.
- Please encourage students to read for AR. Reading is a great homework task to boost reading skills. Set high expectations. Their average should be 85% or higher and they should not have a problem making their goal. Let's get our kids reading! Lead by example and let them see you reading too! New leaderboard will up this week and a new challenge announced.
- Reading Certification Test Info Session at OMS on Monday, March 2nd at 4:15-5:15
Please sign in daily.
If you have a time sheet it is very important to come up and sign in each day.
Don't forget to upload your plans in our shared drive. Outstanding job to everyone on getting your plans submitted and on time!
- Attendance notes must be checked daily and turned in daily. Attendance must be completed by 9 AM sharp. I get an email each day of who hasn't completed their attendance. Please make this a practice.
- Wear your I.D. Badges at all times! Please send anyone who doesn't have a badge or sticker to the office and notify the office.
- Lesson Plans should be in by Sunday night to the Team Drive.
- #GOPANTHERS
Have you liked our Facebook Page?
Happy Birthday to these special Panthers!
MARCH Birthdays!!
3/7- Julee Pickles
3/24- Christina Norman
3/25- Jackie Skinner
Let me know if I missed someone!
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Self Paced- WIDA e-Learning https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ScARqrkVBi8p8mE59xG1etr_8Rl9E9F12hOXzCQcRxY
Mrs. Andrea Canaday (Andee) is our Professional Learning Coordinator at the District Office. Her emails often contain professional development opportunities for you that are approved by the district.
The county's Inservice Form is at the link below.
APPRECIATIONS
Our Commitment and Pledge to Central Instruction
Together we commit to working hard to make sure instruction and assignments are both rigorous and engaging. We will continue setting the bar (grade-level standards) high and placing that intellectual lift on our students. This is the key to mastering complex material.
Time and time again, research has shown that when students are given access to four critical classroom level resources, they can and will make BIG academic gains.
- Grade-appropriate assignments (Rigor of the Standards)
- Strong instruction that lets students do most of the thinking in the lesson (facilitate with probing questions- most of the talking should be the students)
- A sense of deep engagement in what they're learning
- Teachers who hold high expectations for ALL students and truly believe they can meet grade-level standards (Set the bar high)
Every student will receive daily access to challenging, engaging, and grade-appropriate work. With each day that passes we will refine our skills to the best of the best in our profession! We will focus daily on what our students are learning and doing, we will strengthen our belief about what students can accomplish.
Together we are committed. Together we are Central. We are #ONECENTRAL