Carlisle Connection
Make Good Things Happen January 16th, 2020
Avid
Flu Season
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Managing Flu Season Together
(Controlemos juntos la temporada de la gripe)
Managing flu season responsibly is a team effort. See our tips and resources on the Plano ISD website and remember to keep students with flu symptoms home until they have been symptom-free for 24 hours.:
High School theatre event
In need of family resources? - Click the link
https://www.pisd.edu/familyresources
This link It is easily searchable by category, zip code, or agency name, and includes resources to help with counseling, family literacy, GED and ESL services, medical, dental, mental health services, and financial literacy. This guide also includes resources to help with basic needs such as housing, food, clothing and transportation.
This guide has been created to be inclusive of many resources, but does not reflect the endorsement, sponsorship, position or expression of the Plano Independent School District.
One Time Workshops
1/10 8:30 & 12:30 Isaacs EC * Keeping Your Cool in the Heat of the Moment
1/14 8:30 am Isaacs EC Raising Children of Character
1/14 3:00 pm Davis ES Setting Limits and Following Through– Effective Discipline
1/16 8:00 am Huffman ES * Setting Limits and Following Through– Effective Discipline
1/16 1:30 pm Hunt ES When Nagging Doesn’t Work
1/16 6:00 pm Weatherford ES * Unplug the Media
1/23 6:30 pm Boggess I Can Do It! Building Self Esteem
1/27 7:45 am Miller ES Helping Children Develop Social Skills
1/27 6:30 pm Barksdale ES Unplug the Media
1/28 8:00 am Schell ES Trapped in a No Win Situation—Reduce Power Struggles
1/28 4:00 pm Thomas ES * Creating Harmonious Families
1/29 7:30 am Aldridge ES I Can Handle It? Facing Up to Bullies
1/20 8:00 am Rasor ES Raising Children of Character
* Denotes workshops in both English and Spanish
Series Workshops Location: Cox Building—1517 Avenue H, Plano, 75074
1/ 8,15, 22,29 10:00 — 11:30 am Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Series Workshops Location - Williams High School —1717 17th Street, Plano 75024
1/21, 28 6:oo - 7:30 pm Padre Unidos FOR SPANISH SPEAKERS ONLY
( Developing Trust within your Family, Balancing Nighttime Activities and Family Time
Series Workshops Location: Bird Center Building B, 1300 19th Street, Plano, 75074
Please enter door in 18th Street parking lot.
1/13, 27, 30 6:30—8:30 pm *Back to Basics
( Peer Pressure, Normal Adolescent Behavior, Teaching
Responsibility)
2020 SAGE Summer Expo
Saturday, February 1, 2020
11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Plano Senior High School Cafeteria
2200 Independence Parkway, Building C, Plano, TX 75075
60+ SUMMER CAMPS from Texas and beyond!!
Preschool – Elementary – Middle School – High School
Programs of interest and resources for ALL students,
especially those with special needs and gifted students.
Talk to representatives and get a feel for what a difference summer camps can make in learning and development.
FREE ADMISSION
for all the family!!
For more information, visit our website at
http://www.planopta.org/SummerExpo
Thank you to all the proud sponsors of the Plano ISD Council of PTAs who have helped
make this event possible. For more information on our sponsors, please go to
Demonstrations!
Fun hands-on
activities!
Stadium Bags Policy
Reminder: Plano ISD Stadium Bag Policy
(Política del ISD de Plano sobre Bolsas en el Estadio)
The Plano ISD stadium bag policy remains in effect for the second semester sports season. Spectators coming to track and soccer events are encouraged to review the guidelines at www.pisd.edu/bagpolicy. (en español)
Multicultural Night is Coming- Please Join Us
Theme: Walk a mile in my shoes
Helping Kids with Anxiety: Strategies to Help Anxious Children
Childhood anxiety can worsen as children grow. How can you help your child manage anxiety on their own?
Article by:
Jump to: Set Clear Expectations Let Your Child Worry Avoid Avoidance Practice Reframing Help Them Build a Coping Kit Get Back to Basics Empathize Often
When childhood anxiety is heightened, it’s natural for parents to go into protection mode. Parents may attempt to solve problems for the child, help their child avoid triggers of anxiety, and/or try to engineer a worry-free lifestyle. While there are certain accommodations that can help anxious children in the classroom, and it’s a good idea to slow the daily pace to decrease overall stress for anxious children, parents cannot protect their kids from experiencing anxiety. What they can do is help their children learn to manage anxiety.
Set Clear Expectations
It’s important to have similar expectations for anxious children that you have for non-anxious children. However, it can also be helpful to proceed at a slower pace and make some accommodations. While your other kids likely want to attend every birthday party, your anxious child probably wants to avoid them all. In this situation, it may be helpful to attend small parties that don’t include overwhelming triggers (bounce houses, loud music, lack of structure/supervision).
Setting clear expectations and helping your child create appropriate benchmarks to meet those expectations teaches your child that she/he can work through anxious feelings and manage their anxiety.
Let Your Child Worry
No child ever stopped worrying because a parent said, “Don’t worry!”, or “Relax!”. In fact, worry serves an important function in our lives. Without some amount of worry, we wouldn’t stop to consider actual dangers that do threaten us. Give your child uninterrupted time with you each day to vent worries and brainstorm solutions together.
Avoid Avoidance
Just like telling your child not to worry won’t make those anxious thoughts disappear, avoiding triggers of anxiety won’t help your child learn to cope. If your child becomes anxious around dogs, for example, crossing the street each time you encounter a dog or staying away from all dogs will only validate that anxious thought. It sends the message that all dogs are dangerous. It’s better to desensitize your child to triggers of anxiety by taking small steps. Try looking at pictures of different breeds online and talking about what feelings they trigger. Next, watch dogs at play at a dog park from a safe distance. Finally, ask to visit with a calm, older dog of a friend or a therapy dog. By taking small steps, kids can learn to work through their fears and worries.
Practice Reframing
The anxious thought cycle is overwhelming because it causes feelings of helplessness. When anxiety spikes, children get caught in a cycle of “what ifs” and “I can’ts.” Anxious kids tend to engage in a variety of cognitive distortions such as black and white thinking and overgeneralizing. Carving out regular time to work on positive reframing empowers your anxious child to take control over his anxious thoughts. It works like this:
Help Them Build a Coping Kit
If you want to empower your child to work through his worries, you have to help him learn a variety of coping skills. One thing that helps anxious kids is having a concrete list of strategies to use in a moment of anxiety. While some can memorize a list of strategies, others might need to write them down. Try these:
- Deep breathing
- Progressive muscle relaxation
- Stress ball
- Write it out
- Talk back to worries and reframe thoughts
- Get help from an adult
Get Back to Basics
Your anxious child doesn’t need to play every sport and attend every party, but he does need to slow down and focus on his basic health needs:
- Sleep
- Healthy meals
- Plenty of water
- Downtime to decompress
- Outdoor free play
- Daily exercise (think riding bikes, playing at the park, etc.)
Empathize Often
Anxiety can be paralyzing for young children. When kids feel completely overwhelmed by anxious thoughts, they struggle to do everyday things like attend school or go to soccer practice. Anxious children even avoid fun things like play dates and movies. It’s important to empathize with your child. This normalizes what they experience and helps them understand that they aren’t alone, and you will guide them through it.
Final tip: Take care of your own needs, too. Parenting an anxious child can be all-consuming. Between interrupted sleep and constant worries, child anxiety can take a toll on the caregivers. Make sure to prioritize your own health needs so that you have the energy you need to help your child through this difficult time.
Nurse notes
Below are the PISD Guidelines for keeping your kiddos home if they are sick. Please help us in preventing the spread of illness by complying with PISD guidelines. It is important to remember that your child must be symptom free, without the aid of medication, for 24 hours before returning to school.
“ The guidelines below have been developed for the exclusion of students who have communicable or contagious diseases. These regulations are in compliance with the requirements of the local health authority, Plano ISD Administrative Guidelines, and the Board of Trustees’ appointed medical officer.
1. A student with any of the following symptoms will be excluded from school until such time as the student is free of symptoms, has been satisfactorily treated, or submits a signed physician’s statement that he/she is not contagious.
· Temperature of 100 degrees or more. Student must be fever free for 24 hours, without medication, before re-entry.
· Nausea, vomiting or diarrhea. Student must be symptom free for 24 hours without medication before re-entry.
· Pain and/or swelling at angle of jaw.
· Undetermined rash over any part of the body.
· Undiagnosed scaly patches on the body or scalp.
· Red, draining eyes.
· Intense itching with signs and symptoms of secondary infection.
· Open, draining lesions.
· Jaundice”
https://www.pisd.edu/Page/1751
As we approach cooler weather, please send your student(s) with labeled weather appropriate clothing and outerwear. Per the PISD guidelines, outside activity is restricted if “actual temperature or wind chill is below 32 degrees.” Which means, if it is 32* or feels like 32* or above, and not raining, students will still be going outside for recess. Please make sure you label all jackets/coats/outerwear with your student’s name(s) in case they get lost. Lost and found does get donated by the office manager at the end of each month.
The Tardy Bell Rings at 7:45 a.m.
Students can be dropped of at 7 am in the morning.
The first bell rings to dismiss students to class at 7:30
Students should be in their seats and ready to learn when the 7:45 bell rings.
Everyday your child is in school is another day they are learning. Missing only 10% of the school year (18 days) can make it hard for your child to keep up with the lessons. If you are struggling to get your child to school on time or to get them to school at all, we are here to help you. Please reach out to us for help.
Reading is Important!!
Operation Child Safe!!
OPERATION CHILD SAFE
Dial (469) 752-0600 – Press 1 for English, then Press 3 to report an absence
Operation Child Safe is a program established to account for every child who is not present when attendance is taken (7:45am). It is important that you call our Child Safe line every day that your child is absent or tardy, even if you have notified the teacher. Please leave a brief message including your child’s full name, student ID number, grade, teacher, and specific reason for absence or tardy. Child Safe is strictly to confirm your child’s safe arrival at school.
Please remember that calling to report an absence for the purpose of Child Safe does not provide an excuse for the absence. When your child returns to school, a written note (signed and dated) from the parent or doctor stating the reason for the absence or tardy is required within 3 days in the front office.
Your child’s safety is very important to us! We appreciate your cooperation with Operation Child Safe and with our attendance procedures.
Respectfully,
Carlisle Elementary Office Staff
We'd love for you to come volunteer this year!
Accountability Ratings
Accountability Ratings
2019 accountability is now available to the public at https://txschools.gov/
Plano ISD district wide results are at: https://txschools.gov/districts/043910
If you click on School Progress > Additional Details, the Academic Growth and Relative Performance will be displayed.
Friendly Reminders
Safety First!
This is true for volunteering, lunch visits, attending Good Morning Carlisle on Fridays ~ anytime you are going past the front office. Thank you for your cooperation.
Drive Safely. Children are EVERYWHERE!
MORNING DROP-OFF:
The drop-off line forms along Old Orchard heading west, permitting a right turn only into the driveway. Driving east on Old Orchard, please do not turn left into the driveway.
The City of Plano has posted a “No Left Turn” sign at this location. You may NOT turn left into the driveway between 7:30–8:30 a.m. or 2:30–3:30 pm on school days.
Please pull forward, maintaining a single line to the main entrance before letting your child exit the car. Please stay in your car and come through the driveway. We have a system in place for carpool designed to keep our children safe. All children will enter the school by the main entrance. Parents may start dropping off children at 7:00 a.m. Students go to the gym until 7:30 a.m. when they are dismissed to go to their classrooms.
All children should exit on the right side of the automobile. Children should not exit cars in the middle of the driveway or in the streets. Safety Patrol members are stationed along the front sidewalk to assist your children until the 7:45 bell rings. Adults should not get out of the car for any reason while in the driveway. Please have your children ready to get out of the car as soon as the car stops in the carpool lane.
We recognize there are several restrictions that make carpool a bit tricky in the morning. Every single one of these are in place to keep our children safe and to start each morning with little stress and lots of smiles! Thanks you for your cooperation with each of these carpool safety rules and thank you for modeling respect for our rules and for one another when bringing your children to school each day!
Don't forget to Update Your Child's Information in Parent Portal
- Log onto PISD's parent portal at: http://parent.mypisd.net
- If you have never accessed the parent portal, you will need to set up a new account.
- Click on "New Registration" and set up and account using your student's ID number (this is the same number your child uses in the cafeteria) and your email address. (If you do not have an email address the easiest way to set one up is through a free service like Yahoo or gmail).
- Once you have registered and logged into parent portal, you will see tabs for each of your children.
- Click on each child's name and follow the directions for completing all of the registration information for the 2019-20 school year below.
You will need to complete the following information for each child you have enrolled in school:
- Emergency information (have current, accurate emergency phone contacts).
- Be sure to fill out health information completely. In the event of an emergency, it is very important that we have accurate information.
- Sign the Truancy Warning Letter for 2019-20.
- Sign the Student Policy Guide.
- Sign the Student Information Release Form indicating your preferences and consents.
Stay Informed!
PTA Information
Kroger - https://www.kroger.com/account/communityrewards
Tom Thumb - https://www.tomthumb.com/content/dam/store/good-neighbor/GOOD_NEIGHBOR_CHARITY_TT.pdf
Coca-Cola Give - https://us.coca-cola.com/give/school-profile/?institutionid=2225610
Amazon.com - smile.amazon.com/ch/75-2200635
POGO Pass - https://www.pogopass.com/product/pogopassdallas-12months
Carlisle Elementary School
Email: linda.patrick@pisd.edu
Website: pisd.edu/carlisle
Location: 6525 Old Orchard Drive Plano, TX 75023
Phone: 469-752-0600
Facebook: facebook.com/carlisle
Twitter: @carlislecoyotes