Heights Hype
Feb. 5th - Feb. 11th
Every Day Is Game Day!
Heights Mission: Heights Elementary IB World School is dedicated to developing balanced, lifelong learners through educational excellence, a global perspective, reflection and action.
Heights Vision: To Be A World Class School.
The Vision and Mission for the School District of Lee County
- The Vision the School District of Lee County: To be a world-class school system.
- The Mission of the School District of Lee County: To ensure each student achieves his/her highest personal potential.
School District of Lee County Core Values:
- Excellence: We are committed to continuously improving the learning and working environment in order to deliver a superior education.
- Integrity : We are honest, fair, and open in all of our interactions.
- High Expectations: We establish challenging goals for our students and employees.
- Accountability: We take responsibility for our actions and their results.
- Belief in students: We believe in individualized instruction designed to meet the academic, social, and emotional needs of each learner.
- Professionalism: We demonstrate our passion for our profession by maintaining expertise in our field and holding ourselves to the highest possible standard of conduct.
If you tap into the desire, you'll run through a wall. If you don't have the desire, you won't do the smallest task.
-Jon Acuff
What Is Going On This?
Feb. 5th: House Color Day
Feb. 5th: HB 7011 Letters go home
Feb. 6th: SAC Meeting (6:00)
Feb. 6th: Faculty Meeting
Feb. 7th: 3rd quarter Interims available in FOCUS
Feb. 7th: PLC
Feb. 9th: Popcorn PBIS Party
Feb. 9th: "Soup"er Bowl and Hamburger & Hot Dog Day
Feb. 9th: Football Friday or Sports Day - Wear your favorite football jersey/shirt or your favorite sports team jersey/shirt
Heights Birthdays
Feb. 6th: Janet Elrubaie (4th grade)
Feb. 11th: Alexis Nilsson (1st grade)
The Bookfair is Coming
The BookFair is coming the first week of March!
Please sign up for your shopping timeslot using the link below. The reason for the early planning is because we need to ask for volunteers. The volunteers will often times want to come in while their own child is also shopping, so we need the teacher schedule first so we can let parents know when their child is shopping. Please sign up for your time by next Friday, February 2nd.
Please make sure you sign up HERE for:
- Tab 1: Preview Day (March 1)-two classes per timeslot
- Tab 2: Shopping Day-one class per timeslot.
Speak truth to the lies today. Fear is a tool used by the enemy to hold you back from the greatness that is inside you. It’s okay to feel fear, we all do. You just can’t let it stop you. Move forward anyways.
- Jon Gordon
Book Study
Feb. 6th: Faculty Meeting: Chap.4: Be Positive (pg. 51) and Chap.5: Be Respectful(pg. 67).
Feb. 20th: Faculty Meeting: Chap.6: Be Great (pg. 81)
“Soup”er Bowl Staff Chili Cook Off
Ready… Set… HIKE! Fire up those crock pots because Sunshine is excited to announce our upcoming “Soup”er Bowl Chili Cook Off! Which I.B. Risk Taker is going to take home this year’s prize? Don’t want to make a soup or chili? We have plenty of other items you can bring to the celebration by signing up and clicking here. We hope that you ALL will join in on the fun (more information about voting and the random assignment of numbers will be provided closer to the event date).
Who: ALL Staff
What: “Soup”er Bowl Lunch
When: February 9th (ALL DAY)
Where: Panther Den (Behind the Media Center)
Something To Think About:
2 ways to love your job more in 30 seconds
There are two walls that stand between you and doing something you love with your life. The first wall is called attitude and the second is called expectations.
If you want to do a better job today, deal with both of those walls.
I can’t teach you a new skill in the next thirty seconds that your boss will be blown away by. I can’t change your character in the next paragraph. One post of words will not deeply impact your hustle on your dream or fix all your relationships, but if you want to do a better job right this second, that’s possible. All you have to do is choose your attitude and adjust your expectations.
Notice I didn’t say, “Change your attitude.” That could take years. Choosing it, though, takes a handful of seconds. Monday at work, choose to have a good attitude. Choose not to be cynical. Choose not to act like you’re doing them a favor by showing up. Choose not to complain. Choose to cheer for the accomplishments of your coworkers. Choose to treat your students like superstars.
Choose your attitude every day until eventually it chooses you right back.
It’s not about feeling happy or feeling committed to your work or feeling like being a good employee. Feelings are the flightiest things in the world, held to the whimsy of a thousand factors. Feelings will tell you the day is already ruined because you woke up on the wrong side of the bed or had a bad commute that morning. Don’t listen to feelings. Make choices. Today, choose a good attitude. This is the one thing you can do right this minute to actually shock your boss, improve your work relationships and dramatically increase your long-term odds of an awesome career.
The second thing you need to do is to adjust your expectations. What are you expecting your job to do for you? We all carry laundry lists of secret expectations, and when our jobs fail to meet them we fail to enjoy our work.
Do you expect your job to fulfill every creative wish you have? Do you expect work to bend around your dreams and hopes? Do you expect that this will be the last job you have, since changing jobs is such a hassle?
Take three minutes and write down what your expectations are for work. And then, take another three minutes and write down the real ones because you probably just lied to yourself a little bit.
Article by Jon Acuff