Cardinal News
Were Stronger Together 2/01/16
Week at a Glance
This Month:
LEP pull-out students will not have ESL classes from February 1 to March 1
Black History Month
This Week:
ESL Testing
School Counselor Appreciation Week
Monday
Feb 1
Ned Show @ 9am
Todd @ FHES
Tuesday
- Todd @ FHES
- PLCs meet in PLC Room
Wednesday
Feb 3
5th Grade Meteorologist
1st Grade Field Trip - Schiele Museum
Thursday
- Tech with T & 2nd Grade @3pm
Friday
- Dr. Goins @ FHES
In the Coming Days:
- Feb 8-12
School Bus Drivers Appreciation Week
- Feb 20
STEM for Learners Program
School Counselor Appreciation Week
If you're working on something you care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you. - Steve Jobs
Stay Tuned for The NED SHOW on Monday
The Messege
Let's keep encouraging the positive by giving DOJO: 3 positives for every 1 negative.
Unspoken Moments
Each year we are given teaching tools, resources and even support of our professional colleagues to ensure that we have the best of the best in front of our learners each day. Our toolboxes are full.
Each day our students enter the building and anticipate what will be taught. Teachers step through their doors and know that there are lessons and knowledge to be gained. Administrators do their part in the process and work to ensure that their are the tools that teachers need and students want in front of them each day.
Each moment we are a team. We are a collective unit. We are better together.
And often times, it is the unspoken moments that give us some of the greatest returns on the work that we do. Whether a nod of acknowledgement, a grin of gratitude or a gesture of thanks, it is these very moments that make our days as purposeful and productive as they are. Our days are consumed with simple yet powerful exchanges that often go unnoticed and not even recognized.
With that in mind and as you go through your week ahead, think of the unspoken moments that help drive your instruction and how that impacts both student learning and teacher instruction. Consider how the unintentional becomes the intentional. And how the unspoken moments become the powerful force behind the great things that happen each and every day. Embrace each day.
Yearbook
Please use the link below and drop pictures of your classroom events into the appropriate folder for our 2015-2016 yearbook. We need them ASAP.
Lunch
Louie the Litter Bug in Kinder
Tuesday
Mrs. Maurer: 9:30-10:00
Mrs. Preston: 10:00-10:30
Ms. Burrell: 10:30-11:00
How to Decide What Skill to Work On Next
Most of us know that success in today’s work world requires continuous growth and learning. You can’t just rely on your current knowledge and expertise if you expect to keep up, let alone advance. But how do you identify the areas in which development efforts will yield the best return on your investment?
In our years coaching executives, my colleagues and I have noticed that people who improve in ways that best support their success look for the overlap between what their organization needs and what will give them the most satisfaction. We’ve discovered that using a version of Jim Collins’s “hedgehog” idea, from Good to Great, helps clients think it through. Collins found that great organizations focus on three things: what will drive their economic engine, what they can be best in the world at, and what they are most passionate about. The approach, he has noted, is just as good for figuring out how to become “great” individually. Here’s how it works:
- Driving the economic engine: We encourage executives to focus on this element first. How can you grow in a way that will help the organization succeed?
- Best at: Once you’ve surfaced useful capabilities you might develop, think about whether you could become really excellent at them. One way to do that is to consider whether you’re good at doing similar things. For instance, if you’re already quite organized and sequential when you approach your tasks, that bodes well for being able to learn complex project management. And if you’re already clear in your own mind about what needs to be done and who’s best to do it, you could probably learn to more effectively share that thinking with your team. On the other hand, if you’re just OK at research, getting really good at sourcing materials might be difficult.
- Passionate about: As soon as you’ve gotten a sense of where your potential strengths match up with useful areas for development, honestly assess how interested you are in those areas. Let’s say, for example, that of the two skills you believe you could get quite good at — project management and providing clearer direction — you’re much more interested in and excited about the former. As an ops person, the idea of taking a formal course on process architecture really appeals to you; working on your “soft skills” does not. So go ahead and sign up for the process seminar. But also recognize that you have more control over this element of the “hedgehog” model than any other. You can, in fact, increase your desire to learn particular skills simply by identifying the personal benefits of doing so and then envisioning a future in which you’re reaping those benefits. For example, getting better at talking to employees about goals and timelines and giving them balanced feedback might create a more positive team culture and demonstrate that you’re worthy of being promoted to a more senior management role. Picture your team proud and happy and your boss congratulating you on those accomplishments. Chances are you’ll now be more interested in working to improve those skills.
Given all the ways in which organizations and jobs are changing, figuring out which new skills to develop and when to develop them can be hard. The key is to focus on skills that will propel your organization forward, that play to your strengths, and that you feel passionate about learning.
ESL Testing info From Dr. Lartec /Walton
On the days that she is not using the computer lab testing will be in the Art Room or in her office area. Please make sure that you are respectful this week of testing and keep our halls quiet.
We're Stronger Together!
Know your Purpose (EVERYDAY)
Principal Lucretia Rice
Email: lrrice@gaston.k12.nc.us
Website: http://www.gaston.k12.nc.us/Domain/22
Location: 1 Learning Place, Gastonia, NC, United States
Phone: 704-866-6079
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Twitter: @msprincipalboss