The Gator Tales
The weekly staff newsletter for Glenwood Elementary School
Week of January 28
Upcoming Important Dates and Events
Feb 4- 4th Grade All Day Collaboration
Feb 6- 4th Grade Symphony Field Trip
Feb 7 -Club Pictures
Feb 8- Citizen of the Month
Feb. 11- Report Cards Issued
Feb. 11- Imagine Math Meeting with all grade levels during PE in Pirate Room
Feb 15- 4th Grade all day collaboration
Feb 18- Black History Month Special Activities
Feb 19-20 Donuts with Dads
Feb 22- 5th Grade All Day Collaboration
Feb 26- Begin Fun Run Glenwood Fundraiser
Feb 27- Pirate Daty
March 1- ACCESS testing begins
Mar 4- Achieve 3000 meeting with teachers 3-5 during PE
Mar 6- 2nd Grade Seussical Program 6 m
Mar 7- FUN RUN DAY During PE
Mar 7- Learning Walk #4 for Learning Walk Team
Grateful Gators!
Big kudos to Amy Doss for going above and beyond to help out a Super 2nd Gator!
Terri Ennis for being brave and taking the plunge into creating assessments in Schoology! Dina Dreistadt
Mrs. Barba, Mrs. Slinde, Mrs White, Mrs. Baltazar for lending me siblings of your students to help and encourage my students in reading. They absolutely loved it and your students were amazing with my littles! It was great to see unprompted and authentic kindness from older students! Amanda Agreste
Thank you Tina Repa for always being there for the kids and staff! Thank you for opening up your schedule to give 5th grade teachers an extra lesson to get gifted applications done! Don't know what we'd do without you!
Jessica Palmer
Kudos to Mrs. Seabrook for bringing in spaghetti and meatballs for the "CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS" book. It was a big hit with the kids.. Debra Fulp
Thank you to Mrs.Hill for ALL THE THINGS. You keep me functional. Thank you to all the support staff that helps make SRT/SEC run so smoothly- Haws,Colombara, Buchardt, Blaine, Sinues, McCarvill and anyone else I missed! I am so impressed with how quickly we can provide supports for our children and families. EMerce
Big THANK YOU to my 4th grade team for jumping in and helping me while I was home with a sick little one...again! You all are the best. -Andi Larson
KUDOS to our Golden Gators, retired teachers, for their fabulous donations for the Glenwood Beach Bags. It is very heartwarming to know they continue to care about our Gators. Paula Gee
Sue Arnold for all the help and guidance she gave me while I was in for Mrs. Harder. Joann Baxter
Kudos to Carol for your flexibility with a few ACCESS testing students who came late to lunch.
Kudos to Jamie Phoenix for juggling a busy week of ACCESS testing with absent kids.
Kudos to Tina Repa for leading our PBIS team. Your patience and organization is much appreciated. Kudos to our PBIS Leadership Team for sharing PBIS information with their grade level teams. We're ready for our fidelity walk on Feb 15th. Thanks! Mrs. Haws
Kudos to the 3rd grade team for stepping out of our comfort zone and recording our Virtual Learning Day video using the green screen.Kudos to Caroline Altman, Tammie Soccio, and Jenn Malit for helping us with our video. Kudos to Lindsey Recine for creating our 3rd Grade YouTube channel and for working with me as we learned how to create the video and upload backgrounds for our Virtual Learning Day! Stephanie Marshall
Symphony Keatts and Teresa Habib for a melodious strings and chorus concert. The students were pitch perfect and very professional. Julie White, Jessica Palmer, Kelli Medina for supporting their students at the winter musical concert. Jen Malit and Scott Thietje for an effective IEP meeting. Grace Colombara
Happy Birthday!
January
O'Callahan, Michael -January 28
February
Kimpan, Barbara . February 2
Dykes, Diane . February 7
Altman, Caroline February 11
Rouse, Matthew . February 18
Stacy, Mary . February 18
Silvey, Rosa . February 19
Jones, Debra . February 24
Bacus, Romeo . February 28
Bussuvanno, Melinda . February 28
Hernandez, Jennifer . February 29
Special Weeks in February
Working Relentlessly
In our studies of teachers whose students have and have not made exceptional academic progress, we have seen many less effective teachers working extremely hard. They are working long hours, pouring energy into their classroom and students and yet they do not get dramatic results. Working relentlessly is not the same as working hard; rather, it is a particular kind of working hard. Working relentlessly is working hard in ways that ensure you achieve your goal. The following are some insights received from highly effective teachers about how they distinguish working relentlessly from working hard:
The major take away is that you control your and your students’ success. That core tenet is the well from which all of the elements of working relentlessly spring. Teachers who understand their power to determine students’ success or failure will go on to:
Work through, around, and past obstacles
Maintain high expectations even in the face of students’ significant needs and burdens
Expand the time and resources available for student learning
Expand their influence in order to decrease burdens and increase opportunities for student learning
Sustain their efforts over time
~ From Teaching as Leadership the Highly Effective Teacher’s Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap, by Steven Farr
THANKS ROFO ES
Glenwood Virtual Learning Day Videos for Parents! Glenwood Teachers ROCK!!!
Career Teacher Allowance Application Process 2019
The Career Teacher Application for 2019 will be available for downloading from the Intranet (Forms/Human Resources/Career Teacher Application) beginning in February. Every teacher requesting consideration for a Career Teacher allowance needs to:
• Complete the Career Teacher Application 2019. • Collect supporting documentation as directed by the building principal to verify actions in each of the four categories of the form. (Teachers keep all of the supporting documentation with a copy of the completed application for their records.)
• Request the signature of the building principal on the cover sheet between Feb. 1, 2019, and the last day of school, June 21, 2019.
• If applicable to the application, include a copy of the National Board Certification if not already on file in the Licensure Office.
All applications must be scanned by a designated school office member into LaserFiche using the LaserFiche Document Drop folder and the Career Teacher Application Template. Once the successful scanning of the application is complete, teachers should retain the original documents for their records. Applicants will be notified by email upon receipt of their application. Once the Career Teacher Application is reviewed and processed, the teacher will receive another email indicating approval or denial of the application. Those teachers with questions about the Career Teacher Application, or those who need assistance with the completion of the application, may contact John Ogden, Human Resources Specialist, in the Department of Human Resources at 263-1133 or John.Ogden@vbschools.com.