Staff Polar Bear Express
Updates for Week of July 24
Compass Rose Legacy Middle School
CRA Polar Bears do what's...
- Respect
- Ingenuity
- Growth
- Honesty
- Teamwork
Email: info@compassrosesa.org
Website: https://www.compassrosepublicschools.org/
Location: 3300 Sidney Brooks, San Antonio, TX, USA
Phone: 210-540-9265
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CompassRoseSA/
Welcome from your CR Legacy Middle School Leadership Team !!!
Hello Team!!
We hope you all are doing well!! Thank you to all who participated in the townhall. We have one more week until we begin the start of this unprecedented school year. We have been working hard to ensure that we are well prepared and ready to go. Take this next week to relax and reflect. We are so excited to see all of you! In addition, make sure to complete the action steps at the end of the newsletter. I hope everyone is enjoying their summer :)
Clear Goals, Full Hearts, All In!
Brittany Mike, Monica, and Vincent
Veronique Placke, 7th Grade ELA Teacher and 7th Grade GTL
Favorite book: In the Dream House by Carmen Machado
Inspirational quote: “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" Oscar Wilde
What are you excited for this school year?
I'm excited to meet my team, and make some memories with the kiddos!
Eric Andrade, 7th Grade Math Teacher
College: UT Pan-American, Kinesiology and Biology
Favorite book: Crucial Conversations
Inspirational word: Poor
What are you excited for this school year?
Starting with a fresh group of students
Karla Rodriguez, 6th Grade Math Teacher
Favorite book: The Kite Runner, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Inspirational quote: You are the only you I got, so take care of you. -My mom
What are you excited for this school year?
I am excited to have an amazing principal, great role model for math content, supportive coworkers, and fresh new babies to love :)
Virtual and In - Person Schedules
Covid- 19 Updates from Brittany
We hope that all of you are staying safe and continuing to relocate safely to San
Antonio. We have been hard at work here working with new information every day from
local, state and federal agencies and have some significant updates to share. We have
shared the following documents with families and we are asking you all to read and
familiarize yourself with these documents:
• COVID Web page
https://sites.google.com/compassrosesa.org/instructionalhub/covid-19-our-plan-for-a-safe-return?authuser=0 – this is the public web site that we will continue to update and revise as we move forward.
• Virtual Learning Plan
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CsK6E4eDfBBCHKmyKJ4nAURbN447zgJqWu4lFwSl9u0/edit?usp=sharing
Building Update - Check out images of the floor plan, cafeteria and a classroom!
Check out out the Academic Calendar !
Action Items
Upcoming Events ! Mark Your Calendars!
Upcoming Staff Virtual Happy Hour
July 29 @ 4:30pm
Summer PD Dates
- Compass Culture Camp - Find Your True North. Optional Summer Institute: July 29 from 2pm - 5pm.
- Network PD begins: August 3rd at 8 am Location: See email sent on Wednesday or attached below.
- School-based PD: August 10 at 8 am Location: CR Legacy Elementary
Tech pick up- Please plan to stay lat on the days of your grade level tech pic up and the virtual meet the teacher night.
5th grade - 3pm -6pm on Aug. 11.
6th grade - 3pm -6pm on Aug. 12.
7th grade - 3pm -6pm on Aug 13.
Virtual Meet the Teacher Night - 5pm -6pm on Aug 14.
Laptop Pick- up for Staff
Next Friday, July 31, we will be distributing to staff their new laptops between 9:00 am
and 2:00 pm at the Legacy Elementary campus - 8005 Outer Circle Rd, San Antonio,
TX 78234. If you are in town and can make it we highly encourage you to come
during this time to pick up your laptops so you have them before Monday, August 3rd.
If you cannot make it then you will need to arrive for PD by 7:00 AM on Monday,
August 3rd to get your laptop then.
Donors Choose Project - Optional but highly encouraged
Here are some quick steps:
1) Go to this site: https://www.donorschoose.org/teachers
2) Use your personal email and select Compass Rose Academy with the Outer Circle address.
3) Begin writing up your project.
Our budget is very tight and we have minimal funds around the following items:
a. Classroom libraries – this would consist of a bank of independent reading books for students that they could read or check out in your classroom.
b. Professional Development – these would consist of, now mostly online, opportunities for you to engage in content relevant to you.
c. Field Trips – a typical bus for a day costs from $1,000 - $1,500. Buses will also have spaced out seating so that means we need twice as many buses per field trip now. These may be limited now, in our situation.
d. Other classroom supplies tied to projects or resources that you may want for your classroom.
4) Once you have set up your account and posted a need, please let both Brittany and Monica know that you set up an account.