Staff Update
Barbara Bush Elementary | Instruction & Information
May 15, 2020
Mission Statement
Bush Elementary: A nurturing and inclusive community where students become empowered citizens and life-long learners. Every student, every day!
ACTION REQUIRED: COVID-19 Crisis Code Entry
Instructions for COVID-19 Crisis Code Entry through ViewIT: http://tiny.conroeisd.net/pNx9b
While in the building...
Sign up for a time slot in the building for the week of May 18 using the form found online at the link below. This week, there are time slots between 8:00 and 7:00. Please adhere to the entry and exit times for which you sign up.
After you sign-up for a time to enter the school, please remember these requirements while you are on campus:
- Complete the checklist Cheryl sent out before entering the building. If you cannot meet all criteria on the checklist, do not enter the building. (The checklist will also appear when you use the COVID-19 check-in app on the SSO.)
- Enter the building using your ID.
- Disarm/arm the alarm as appropriate.
- Check-in using the COVID-19 app found on the SSO. (Remember to click the link emailed to you when you leave.)
- Wear a mask when you are not in your own room/office.
- Do not congregate in any areas in the building.
Do not enter the building at a time slot other than the one you have signed-up for. We must control the numbers of people in the building and the numbers of people in the various areas of the building.
Let Jarod know if you have any questions.
Fourth Grade Clap Out
Quick Read
If nothing else, Ken Robinson forces us to think about the structure and realities of school. I encourage to read and think about these paragraphs from Creative Schools.
"The problem with conformity in education is that people are not standardized to begin with. Let me be clear: in challenging the idea of conformity in schools, I’m not advocating antisocial behavior. All communities depend on agreed conventions of conduct. If people consistently flout them, the community itself may founder. By conformity, I mean the institutional tendency in education to judge students by a single standard of ability and to treat those who don’t meet it as 'less able' or 'disabled'—as deviations from the norm. In this sense, the alternative to conformity is not condoning disruption; it is celebrating diversity. Students’ individual talents take many forms and they should be fostered in similarly diverse ways.
Every individual is unique. We all differ physically and in our talents, personalities, and interests. A narrow view of conformity inevitably creates enormous numbers of nonconformists who may be rejected by the system or be earmarked for remedial treatment. Those who meet the system specifications are likely to do well; those who don’t are not.
This is one of the core issues in promoting a culture of strict compliance in education. I’m not talking here about standards of behavior and social conduct, but about whether and how students are encouraged to ask questions, to look for alternative and unusual answers, and to exercise their powers of creativity and imagination. Strict compliance is essential in manufacturing products, but people are different. It’s not just that we come in all shapes and sizes. In the right circumstances, we are also highly imaginative and creative. In a culture of compliance, these capacities are actively discouraged, even resented."
Robinson, Ken. Creative Schools (pp. 36-37). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Quick Read Archive
A list of all Quick Reads can be found here: https://www.smore.com/8rfxh.Week At A Glance
Remote Learning Week 9
CISD on Limited Operations
05/18 - Working Remotely
05/18 - Daily Announcements on Facebook (Kim Hull)
05/18 - Deborah Wilson Zoom | Technology Q&A @ 1:00
05/18 - Foundations Meeting @ 2:00
05/19 - Daily Announcements on Facebook (Ashley Garza)
05/19 - Third Grade Student Person Item Pick-up on Front Porch (10:00-12:00; 4:00-6:00)
05/20 - Working Remotely
05/20 - Daily Announcements on Facebook (Di Forney)
05/20 - Principals' Meeting (Jarod Virtually Off Campus AM)
05/20 - Front Office Meeting @ 10:00
05/20 - Staff Meeting @ 2:00
05/21 - Working Remotely
05/21 - Daily Announcements on Facebook (Angie Bearsley)
05-21 - Third Grade Student Person Item Pick-up on Front Porch (10:00-12:00; 4:00-6:00)
05/21 - Guiding Coalition Meeting @ 1:00
05/21 - PTO General Meeting (Zoom @ 6:30 PM)
05/22 - Working Remotely
05/22 - Daily Announcements on Facebook (Tristan Smith)
05/28 - Fourth Grade Clap Out @10:00Staff Birthdays
05/29 - Tristan Smith
06/03 - Irene Carter
06/03 - Laurie Corzine
Parking Spaces
Front Spaces for the Week of May 18
- Everyone gets a parking space as close as they can manage to their remote work location.
The Conroe Independent School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs and activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. The following persons have been designated to handle inquiries regarding these non-discrimination policies: Title IX Coordinator, 3205 W. Davis, Conroe, Texas 77304; (936)-709-7700 and the Section 504/ADA Coordinator, 3205 W. Davis, Conroe, Texas 77304; (936) 709-7670.