Spartan Scoop #30
April 17, 2016
Thought for the Week:
A focus on the work of Stephen Covey:
This week we will "put first things first".
Habit 3: Put First Things First
Habit 3: Put First Things First
This is the last of the habits that deals with self awareness and "Private Victory".
Stephen Covey recommends that you identify what is important to do in order to keep you heading towards your destination, and then do those things.
Ok, so how do you know what's important and what is not? It's about managing our time and what we do in that time.
Now, I have always struggled with traditional time management ideas. I resist being told that I must manage my time better, or worse, being told how to manage my time. Stephen Covey has a 4-quadrant time management model that actually got me interested in thinking about how I manage my time.
Covey spends a lot of time working with this model and emphasizing that we should aim to spend our time in Quadrant II.
This is where you focus on activities that are important to your values and goals, but that are not urgent.
"If we don't practice Habit 2, if we don't have a clear idea of what is important, of the results we desire in our lives, we are easily diverted into responding to the urgent".
The urgent things are often those things that keep us away from focusing on what is important.
Click here to access the site this material is taken from and see the quadrant explained above.
http://www.change-management-coach.com/stephen-covey.html
Take from:
By Mark Connelly, Copyright 2008-2016 Change-Management-Coach.com
Building Items:
Summatives will be taking place from this point out. Once Dave or I ask to set up this meeting we need you to get these set up with Dee or Melissa quickly. Thank you!
Floating Work Day Form is due May 1 to Dave.
PD Log is due to Dave May 1.
Parent Involvement Logs turned into Angie by the end of the year.
May 5th is the last day staff can take personal days. Please keep this in mind when planning your days.
OPEN ENROLLMENT CONTINUES:
Gratz Brown Elementary – Conference Room or Guidance Office, Rep is Doug.
Monday, April 18, beginning at 10:30 AM unless otherwise instructed, building open until 4:15 PM.
A Scholastic sponsored Reading Summit shared by Jackie -- Take a look teachers!
Calendar Items:
Monday, 4/18
CLT @ 8 a.m. in the Computer Lab; 4B Field Trip-- the bus will leave by 9:30-- all students here after will not be able to attend.
Tuesday, 4/19
5th Grade MAP continues today
GBE Summer School Work Agreements go out
Wednesdy, 4/20
Vision Screening
Thursday, 4/21
7:45 GBE Literacy Team Meeting
Angie out till 1:00
4:00 PDC meeting at Central Office
Friday, 4/22
No School Today
Please access the Google Calendar for future dates regarding GBE-- this will be updated in the newsletter week by week from this calendar.
Vision Items:
CLT- Teams meet @ 8 a.m.
Meet in the Computer Lab
- PDC District Survey to Complete
- Star testing updates/clarifications
- GBE Vision and Mission Work
Keep in Mind: Final SLO Data that we are collecting for our 5 CWG data points needs to be shared with both Sheila and myself. Have these to us before the last day of school.
Retention Letters will be going out now since Progress Reports have been sent home. Some of you may have already made contact. This is perfectly fine. I know several of you are trying to set up meetings with parents. Have an administrator present for these final retention meetings.
Remember to have hard copies of the scale and the checklist placed in each retention candidate's perm file before the end of the year.
Staff Birthdays:
April
Sara McDowell-6th
Randy Harris-21st
Dana Ross - 28th
Lollipop Moments:
A Lollipop moment goes to Vicky Snodgrass for doing everything in her power to make sure a 5th grader was able to attend the carnival! It's the little things that brighten up a kid's day and make a big difference. From Kelsey Pitcher