Monday Memo
Week of November 4th - November 8th
Greetings, CCE!
Fall weather is definitely here! Just like our seasons and the color of the leaves, our students are changing (knowledge, maturity, ability, etc) and growing through the season of this school year. We are no different in that every day we change alongside them, maybe our instructional practices change, maybe our content knowledge changes, maybe our relationships with our students change as we begin to know the students better. Regardless of what changes, with change comes growth and insight and that is a positive thing!
Greg and I reviewed the 5 Love Languages Entrance Slips from our Mental Health and Wellness Staff Meeting and what we found was interesting! Our task had been to ask all staff to identify 1 student whom you were having difficulty building a relationship with. CCE, you did a great job of identifying that student's love language and provided some insight into the things that you could do to either fill that student's emotional love tank or deplete it. Most of the students that the staff identified as their difficult student for building a relationship were identified by you as those students whose love language was "Words of Affirmation" followed closely by "physical touch".
So let's reflect and ask ourselves: What am I doing to strengthen (or change the course of my relationship) with this student? Am I filling the student's emotional love tank or am I forgetting to fill it properly? What will I do to know more about all of my students in my classroom? How can I use what I know about their love languages to help me establish, (re)build, sustain, or strengthen the culture in my classroom?
Valerie, Greg and I returned your entrance slips in your boxes on Friday and also placed suggestions for you that will help support not only this relationship with your difficult student, but also give you some other tools that you can use to survey the rest of your students. Changing our interactions by improving our understanding of our students' Love Languages is already a positive thing!
Thank you, CCE, for taking care and growing our kids like family!
What's Happening at CCE...
11/4 through 11/8: Classroom Visits (Greg/Linda)
11/4: PTA Board Meeting 6-7 @ Science Lab
11/5: Staff Meeting (Teachers Only)
Topic: Dyslexia 101/Behavior Plans & BIPs (Kennis, Sanchez, Altoff Lead)
11/6: PLCs: RTI Please make sure that you bring your data for your students. Jeffers and Janda have an agenda for students we are discussing. Please reach out to them if you have any questions about who is on the agenda.
11/7: Principal's Meeting (Pachicano Off Campus)
PTA Covering 2nd Grade Lunch/Recess
Just-in- Time Training: Littles & Chromebooks @ HES 3:30 PM- 4:30 PM
Just-in- Time Training: Dual Language: Centers @ VHES 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
National Center for Exploited Children Presentation @ HISD Boardroom @ 6:30- 8:00 PM
11/8: First Responders (AM Schedule sent by PTA) & Veterans Day Celebration @ 1:00 PM
11/10- PTA Fundraiser @ Mod Pizza 10:30 AM - 9 PM (Order a Pizza and Mention CCE to support our Campus! )
11/11- Student/Staff Holiday - Veterans Day
Other Reminders & Need-to-Knows
1. RenFlow Progress Monitoring Window Opens November 4th- 8th (See email from Gloria). Please check off your name when you have moved your data on the data wall. All data wall moves must be completed by November 15th.
2. SLO Progress Monitoring Reminder: Remember that the end of this 9 weeks is a great time to progress Monitor your students using your SLO Goal. All teachers should use their TARGET Skills Profile Rubric to plot student progress and document student progress using the SLO Student Growth Tracker.
3. T-TESS Observations: If you have not yet sent out a time/date for your T-TESS Observation (non-waiver teachers only), please send it this week. Greg and I are working to complete T-TESS by January (latest) to prepare for testing season. Also, please sign off any pending documents in Talent ED. Thanks!
4. Chrome Station Idea: Technology TEKS are Important for all of our students. By 2023, the State Tests (STAAR) will be transitioning to online platforms for our students. That means that our students need practice to Basic KeyBoarding Skills. Here is our Technology TIps Newsletter with all you need to know to use our district purchased application learning.com for keyboarding skills.
Celebrating Good Things
No birthdays this week.
Data, Data, Data.... Oh, my!
This Week 9 Data Meeting is the only PLC meeting that will be Leadership Team Led, GLLs will be leading the rest of these meetings in our PLC room with our LT members in the audience. The goal for next review of week 18 IA Data or TPRI/TEJAS Lee Data will be to have all teachers come in with protocols completed including whole group focus, small group focus, and individual students already identified. That way the PLCs led by GLLs focus on the following instructional conversations:
What/How did we teach that worked? How did we teach that didn't work? What do we do to teach the content in a different way? How will we change how we reteach? When will we teach it (put it on your lesson plans)?
Thank you, Greg, for sending out a campus view of our IA data to keep us steering in the right direction!
Launching Us Off!
CCE salutes our Veterans!
Please share the following INFO with your classes to help them understand the importance of Veterans Day. Gracias!
Teachers' Corner
Submit a story, success, aha! moment, funny, photo, announcement, etc. that you would like our CCE family all to know about. Email it to me by Friday of each week and I will put it in the next Monday Memo.
Need a little more Classroom Culture Building Ideas?
First Responders & Veteran's Day Celebration- November 8th
First Responders Day will be in the AM and Veterans Day Assembly will begin at 1:00 PM. Information from Mrs. Kozak/PTA will be sent for the week soon.
Shout Out from Mrs. Gajdos!
I want to give a huge shout out to Courtney Johnson, Amy Chapman and Elda Rendon. They stepped up in a big way at today's awards ceremony in Mrs. Kozak's absence. They quickly organized the parents of students who were receiving an award, walked them to the stage and explained how the process worked. It's team players like these ladies that make Cottonwood Creek such a great place to be!