Head U Gator News
October 9, 2016
A grateful heart...
My heart is grateful for....
....Jennifer Bisballe, Cindy Farris, and Mary Spencer-Huber for their excellent work holding a very difficult parent conference this week. Thanks to Annette Fennelly who helped out by sitting with the student.
....Lucy Chu, who always communicates with us about issues that arise with our students in the afternoon during Kidzu. That also allows us to communicate with parents about behaviors that are occurring across settings, which is very helpful.
....Cindy Felker, who not only consistently helps with dismissal each day, but also quietly heard about a need for additional help during kindergarten lunch and comes in to help there for 15 minutes most every day. Cindy not only is a terrific resource due to her literacy knowledge, but she contributes to our campus community in many positive ways.
...Molly and Laura, who do really complicated work everyday while being interrupted countless times due to phone calls, our requests, and parents coming in the building. When I sit up there because both of them have to be out, I usually give up on trying to get anything else done because of the interruptions, but they deal with it all the time and also manage to get their own jobs done. Amazing.
Staff development
Education Foundation- grant applications
We now want to give back to you the opportunity to get busy and apply for grants! This year our grant process is totally electronic. You can click on the link below that takes you to a google form, complete all the information requested, hit submit, and your grant application automatically goes into a shared folder by Curriculum & Instruction and myself with the date and time submitted recorded. We will only accept applications in this manner. All applications go to Curriculum & Instruction first, and then to me to distribute to our Grants Review Committee. I am also attaching the guidelines for this year's grant process. The below link and guidelines are also posted under Teacher Grant Applications on the employee-only GCISD website and on our GCEF webpages. Many THANKS to Dr. John Doughney for developing the google form and assisting us with our new process! If you have any questions, please let us know. The deadline to hit SUBMIT isNovember 1, by 4 p.m. Again, THANKS to the BEST for all that you do!...Click the link below now to get busy completing your grant application.
Instructional Rounds
ADHD videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyHvk_G7H9s&list=PLzBixSjmbc8eFl6UX5_wWGP8i0mAs-cvY&index=17
Humanities department survey
If you have a few minutes and don't mind registering your opinion, here's a short survey from humanities about how they can help you/us this year:
Calendar
Monday, October 10
Be here by 8:00 for a couple of required updates. Our differentiated learning will start at 8:30 after the cash handling update and a short debrief from Michael.
Tuesday, October 11
Spanish 2:55
Wednesday, October 12
Instructional rounds- Wynette gone but all principals and some C & I people will be here at some point.
Thursday, October 13
Good News Club 2:55
Friday, October 14
Spanish 2:55
Bowman Sports 2:55
Bricks4Kids- 2:55