Hackberry Howl
Vol. 3 No. 25
LOVE-SERVE-CARE
PLC WEEK 3
RESPECT
We often forget that children aren’t born with a built-in sense of respect for others. While each child has a different personality, all children need to be taught to be respectful. From birth, kids learn to manipulate their world to get their needs met—this is natural. It's the job of parents and teachers is to teach students to be respectful. Many times it is left up to school to teach these behaviors.
So how can you change the culture of disrespectful behavior—or is already a way of life? Here are things we can do to make this change.
1.Teach students basic manners and hold them accountable to it: It may sound old fashioned, but it’s very important to teach students basic manners like saying “please”, “thank you", "Yes Ma'am", and "No Ma'am". When your students deal with their teachers in school or gets her first job and has these skills to fall back on, it will really go a long way. Understand that using manners—just a simple “excuse me” or “thank you”—is also a form of empathy. It teaches your students to respect others and acknowledge their impact on other people. When you think about it, disrespectful behavior is the opposite, negative side of being empathetic and having good manners.
2. Be respectful when we correct our students: When your student is being disrespectful, you need to correct them in a respectful manner. Yelling and getting upset and having your own attitude in response to theirs is not helpful and often only escalates behavior. The truth is, if you allow their disrespectful behavior to affect you, it’s difficult to be an effective teacher in that moment. You can pull your student aside and give them a clear message, for example. You don’t need to shout at them or embarrass them. Use these incidents as teachable moments by pulling your students aside calmly, making your expectations firm and clear, and following through with consequences if necessary.
3. Be Consistent: Hackberry Elementary has to embrace this change as an entire campus. I've learned that when we only have a few that are holding students accountable to this behavior then it is not effective and is something the students see as not important.
Keep Howling!
-SR
Our One Thing: Early Literacy
Partner Reading
http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/paired_reading
Recommended by Darcie Brodsky & Ashley Measles
AVID-Strategy of the Week
MiniQs/DBQs
A document is anything written or printed that provides facts or information, such as a map, a letter, or a photograph. A document-based question
(DBQ) is a question that is about one or more of these written or printed source materials. Some document based questions ask for specific information and can be answered in one or two sentences. Others require the students to take information from several documents and use it in an extended piece of writing or essay. These questions may ask the student to analyze, evaluate, or compare the points of view of two or more documents. The question most often expects the student to use knowledge of history as well as the documents to answer an open-ended question about the subject of the documents. Generally, the more documents used to support an answer, the stronger an essay will be.
By Ruth Morales
Article of the Week
2 Evidence-Based Learning Strategies
Hackberry Happenings!
PLC SCHEDULE-WEEK 3
Monday, February 12
ATTIRE: Jeans with College Shirt
Hours: 7:45-4:00
Tuesday, February 13
Attire: Jeans
Hours: 7:45-4:00
Wednesday, February 14
-Richardson out AM/Whitehead out PM
-Valentine Parties 2:00-2:45
Attire: Jeans
Hours: 7:45-4:00
Thursday, February 15
-CIR Walks-During Conferences
-PTA Meeting-5: 30 pm
-Compacted Math Meeting 6 pm at LEHS
Attire: Jeans
Hours: 7:45-4:00
Friday, February 16
Attire: Jeans & Spirit Shirt
Hours: 7:45-4:00
Howl Outs!
Lawley to the third-grade team for making sure my class was covered while I was out sick.
Lawley to Sylvia for making sure I had a sub.
Lawley to Richardson, Whitehead, and Karla for making sure third grade had a yummy lunch on our planning day.
Lawley to Biggs and Karla for making sure our field trip is all set up.
Flores howls to Whitehead for being a great mentor and helping me with my internship!
Flores howls to my 4th-grade team for just being themselves!!
Kate howls out to my team for being so supportive and awesome!
Kate howls out to Jasleen and Leah for being awesome lunch dates!
Julie howls out to Karla for helping me navigate the Field Trip Packet this week. I appreciate you!
Julie howls out to Sylvia for always having my back.
Hatcher sends a howl to Head and Biggs for being a united front getting all our 3rd graders to understand and follow Hallway, Cafeteria, and Dismissal CHAMPS!!! The difference this week has been awesome this entire week.
Hatcher sends a howl to the entire 3rd-grade team for an AWESOME planning session on Tuesday. You guys rocked the data and setting up our student groups for success!
Lay Howls to Richardson, Mathews, and Measles for taking care of our student last night and staying with her until she was able to go home with Mom.
Lay Howls to Richardson for all that he does for our campus - students and staff. Life can throw some serious curve-balls and he is willing to catch them and try to make the best out of the situations for everyone involved.
Lay Howls to Ms. Robinson. She works so hard and has the best interest of all of our students and staff at heart. We are blessed to have her as our counselor. We love you, Ms. Robinson!
Lay Howls to our awesome Office Staff for taking care of everything with so many of us out at Camp Jolt and others out sick. I appreciate all that you do for us on a daily basis.
Brodsky howls to Romig for the cookie delivery!
Brodsky howls to Ritter & Martin for being awesome additions to our HBE family!
Brodsky howls to Lawley for memorizing the cars of all of our 3-5 car riders-it's tough work to call all those names.
Brodsky howls to Robinson for being an awesome counselor.
Brodsky howls to Measles for being Measles. We can all learn so much from how you handle every situation with grace.
Brodsky howls to Moya and Granados for all of their hard work with TELPAS.
Brodsky howls to everyone who helped make Camp Jolt possible. The 5th graders were so excited to go all week!
Moya howls Mrs. Robinson for been such an amazing counselor!!!
Moya howls Karla, Mathews and everyone involved on the snacks set up on Monday for our Telpas training.
Moya howls to Mrs. Whitehead and Richardson for all the daily support :)
Moya howls 3rd grade for sitting with me and take care of our ELL accommodations
Moya howls to Mrs. Granados for been a great Mentor!
Moya howls to Mrs. Beerley for been so dedicated and patient to our students.
Whitehead howls to Delvalle and Flores for doing an awesome job as administrator for the day!
Whitehead howls to Northcutt for helping finish up makeup tests and helping with drop-offs in the freezing cold.
Whitehead howls to Head for continuing to help with drop off in the freezing cold.
Whitehead howls to Robinson for her help with several issues this week and for being an awesome counselor!
Whitehead howls to our Pre-K teachers Torrence and Martin for doing a great job with our young students. Their students do an amazing job walking in the hall!
Whitehead howls to all staff who practiced Tier 1 behavior. THANK YOU!!!
Stephen HOWLS to Brandon for his organization of the Camp Jolt trip...What a great week of learning for our students!!!
Stephen HOWLS to Emily, Florencia, Ruth, Brandon, Neomi, Richard, Vanessa, Ashley, Stoney, Beulah, Brandon W. for making it a great experience for our students.
Stephen HOWLS to Jill for holding down the fort while I was out!
Stephen HOWLs to Lecrecia, Marta, and Vanessa D. for their help with administration duties!
Stephen HOWLS to Vanessa L. for taking such good care of our kiddos and teachers at Camp Jolt!