Giesinger Elementary Staff Update
September 16-20, 2019
Eagles Soar To Excellence in All We Do!
Monday - Math Universal Screener window; Team Leader meeting 3:30 pm; Girls on the Run 3:30 pm
Tuesday - WatchDOG Kick-off 6:00-7:00 pm - 3 teachers from each attend please.
Wednesday - Read for A Better Life; Girls on the Run 3:30 pm
Thursday - AdriaAnn Brock's wedding shower 3:30 pm
Friday - Mrs. Giesinger's birthday celebration and staff luncheon in the library; Math Universal screener data due in Eduphoria
Official RTI documentation begins on Monday
Tier I: All students get Tier I best practices during the instructional day.
Tier II: Tier II occurs during Eagles time (8:00-8:30) daily with grade level teachers as interventionists. Grade levels have had two weeks of Eagles time and by now all teams should have data and a plan for all students and where they go during intervention and enrichment time (Eagles Time).
Tier III: Tier III occurs some other time during the school day and the interventionists are Cheryl Satterfield or Connie Payne. Students in Tier III also receive Tier I instruction in class and Tier II intervention during Eagles time.
Worth Quoting
― John A.C. Hattie, Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximizing Impact on Learning
Essential Standards
Grade Level Professional Learning Communities
Meet & Greet For Novice Teachers
September 23rd at 4:30 p.m. at Jett CEC
Questions? Contact creichelt@conroeisd.net.
Student Support Services Staff Development
LLI Level I for Teachers 9/17/2019
This is the initial training for teachers that will be providing Tier II/III intervention to their RTI students.
CISD Mathematics Trainings for Fall 2019
- Number Sense Progression (Grades K-6)
- Math in Action (Grades K-12)
- Addition & Subtraction Progression (Grades K-6)
- Kindergarten Instructional Number (Grades K)
- CISD Solves: Math Review & Mental Math (Grades K-12)
- CISD Solves: Poster Method (Grades K-12)
- CISD Solves: Fact Fluency (Grades K-6)
- Guided Math Training (K-12)
How is everyone doing on the Kickstart math? Remember that we are teaching routines and procedures the first 24 days of school.
CISD ELA Trainings for Fall 2019
Sep 17 Getting a jumpstart on Editing and Revision in 4th grade
Sep 18-19 Foundations of Writing Workshop (K-6)
Oct 10 Raise our Reading in 4th grade
Oct 15 Revision in Writing (K-6)
Oct 22 Conferring and Small Group (K-6)
Nov 5 Mentor Sentences (3-6)
Nov 14 Making the most of Performance Assessments and Progressions (3-6)
Nov 21 When Readers Struggle Grade 1
Dec 3 Technology in the ELA Classroom (K-6)
Dec 5 Texas Boxes and Bullets for 4th grade
Dec 10 Book Clubs 3-6
Upcoming Events
September:
16 - Team leader meeting 3:30-5:00 pm
17 - Watch DOG kick-off 6:00-7:00 pm; 3-4 teachers per team please attend.
18 - Read for a Better Life
19 - AdriaAnn Brock's wedding shower 3:30 pm
20 - Mrs. Giesinger's birthday celebration with 2nd grade and faculty luncheon
23 - Academic Conference 1:00 pm
25 - T-TESS goals and SLO goals due in Eduphoria
25 - Severe Weather Drill 2:15 pm
26 - Faculty meeting 3:30 - 5:00 pm
26 - McTeacher Spirit Night 5:00-8:00 pm
1st grade/2nd grade/Special Ed
27 - Respect Character program 8:30 in the activity room
27 - BAS literacy testing window closes
30 - Fall pictures
30 - Team leader meeting 3:30 pm
Kudos to..
Neva Hammonds for printing the names for the staff signs in the hallways!
The special education teachers and paras for the awesome PLC meetings with all grade levels.
Happy Birthday to...
Amy Barber - 2nd
Laurie Garlock - 9th
Jaime Peek - 12th
Brooklyn Clopton - 21st
Katie Feagin - 24th
Victoria Reed - 24th
Wendy Andrada - 25th
Brandy Edgar - 27th
Conroe ISD Bond Referendum
The November 5th CISD Bond Referendum includes a total of 5 new campuses throughout the
Caney Creek, Conroe, and Grand Oaks Feeders. Classroom additions and capacity upgrades are
also included in The Woodlands, TW College Park and Oak Ridge Feeders.
To learn more about the November 2019 Bond Election, please visit www.conroeisd.net/bond
or visit our Facebook page at @CISDBond2019.
2019-2020 Giesinger Staff Handbook
Please copy and paste the link below to read and reference our staff handbook.
2019-2020 Giesinger Student Handbook
A new working link for the student handbook is here:
Please Avoid Parking at the Church of Christ on Longmire
The Church of Christ on Longmire will begin repairs on their parking lot and has asked us to please avoid parking there until the end of September. We appreciate using their parking lot for the overflow of our school events and want to accommodate to help them with their needs.
Thank you for your assistance.
"Feels Like" Temperature
We will be using Weather Underground for our daily weather check.
Please use this link and/or app. Graystone Hills has a weather station here so we will use this unless it goes down.
https://www.wunderground.com/weather/us/tx/conroe/KTXCONRO198
The app looks like this. Our ZIP code is 77304 then you may have to select the weather station "Graystone Hills".
Come see me if you have trouble.
If the "feels like temp" is 95-98 degrees, you may have 15 minutes of outside recess instead of 30.
If the "feels like temp" is 99 or greater there is no outside recess.
Enjoying the new playground!
Loving the shade structure and picnic tables!
Twins!
4th grade enjoying an author visit from HJ Ralles
Kindergarten and Special Ed PLC
Mrs. Peek's class observing and writing in Science
Kudos to Mrs. Matthews - cleaning up a spill during car duty
The Most Talented Educators on the PLANET! Eagles Soar!
Connect with Us!
"Eagles Soar to Excellence In All We Do!"
Email: giesinger@conroeisd.net
Website: http://giesinger.conroeisd.net
Phone: 936-709-2600
Facebook: www.facebook.com/GiesingerCISD/
Twitter: @GiesingerElementary