Meat & Potatoes
March 20 - March 24
Up & Coming Events
Monday - Grades due by 4 PM, Coaching Committee Meeting at 4:15
Tuesday - PTO Meeting at noon, NO FACULTY MEETING
Wednesday - AVID College Day, Yoga Club, 5th Grade Orchestra Club
Thursday - VFW Awards at 9, 6th Grade Orchestra Club
Daylight Savings
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Counselor's Corner
When we return from Spring Break, please make sure you cover your walls if your room will be used for STAAR testing.
Room rosters will be placed in your box so you can create a seating chart ahead of time.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Rocco's Corner
I was in a parent conference this morning for a girl who was seen crying in the hallway. One of the first of us to console her was Ms. Edrington. When merely Ms. Edrington's name was mentioned, the mother instantly made an emphatic fist pump gesture and said "Score!!, I love Ms. Edrington!" The meeting went significantly easier after that. Ms. Edrington your relational capacity with children and parents is remarkable.
Ms. Chambers you are also a great emotional support and relationship builder with students in need here at OW. I see you talk to kids who will generally do not speak to either students or adults and they smile when they speak to you. The positive encouragement and mentoring you provide improves our student culture and guides children in the right direction.
We Public School employees provide the foundation of our community's future. Relationship building is the first step educators must make, especially within these grade levels, in effort to improve and educate their students.
Among all of the campus staffs that I have ever worked. OW's staff is the best at consistently providing Social and Emotional Support to students. That is why our student culture, campus behavior and academic performance continues to show improvement for students over the span of the two years we are able to work with them.
I am lucky to be here and work among you. Here I continue to learn by your examples.
Brain Breaks
The first few sites I found seemed a little elementary, but have good ideas, such as gonoodle.com, so I altered the search terms to focus on high school students and found this video from CSISD's own Aaron Hogan. Take a moment to watch this quick video on a few simple things you can do to help students retain information by giving their brains a minute to focus on something else.