Staff Weekly Update
12-10-18 "Building a Legacy of Leaders"
Good Things
I appreciate the work and time spent planning for the early release. Susie and Jennifer thanks for all you do. Lindsay thanks for allowing the use of your room at the last minute and stepping in to help on Friday.
PLC Leader Stipends
Sheiko Grade Level/Content Area Leaders!
We are excited to be able to offer stipend positions for PLC leaders in the building for the remainder of the school year. There is one leadership position for third grade,fourth grade, fifth grade, special education and "specials" for a total of 5 spots. The stipend is $1500. This link includes information regarding the position and the responsibilities: Grade Level/Subject Area Leaders Role and Responsibilities
If you are interested, please complete the Grade Level/Subject Area Interest Form NO LATER THAN Thursday, December 20th by the end of the school day. If there is more than one interested person in a grade level, interviews will be held the week of January 7th. The grade level leaders will be notified by Friday, January 11th.
All grade level/content area leaders will be required to attend a half day of professional development with Teaching and Learning on Tuesday, January 22nd in the morning. More info to come!
Please see me if you have questions or concerns.
Happening This Week
11th Principal’s Meeting/JBSD Grant Award Luncheon- James attending
12th Chole Haynes Principal for the Day/Baskin Robbins
13th MTSS Art Room 7:30 am/ Restorative Practice Meeting 7:45 iCenter
Upcoming Events
December:
11th Principal’s Meeting/JBSD Grant Award Luncheon- James attending
12th Chole Haynes Principal for the Day/BaskinRobbins
13th MTSS Artroom 7:30 am/ Restorative Practice Meeting 7:45 iCenter
18th Hearing Testing
19th AdCouncil/Hearing Testing
20th Hearing Test
21st Hearing Test/WBHS Caroling/Class Holiday Parties
January:
2nd Return to School
3rd MTSS Meeting 7:30 am Artroom
8th Skate Night
10th Lockdown Drill 10:00 am
15th Elementary Principal’s Meeting
17th MTSS Meeting 7:30 am Artroom
21st No School
24th Early Dismissal
25th Early Dismissal
28th Adcouncil-James
31st MTSS Meeting 7:30 am Artroom
February:
1st Early Dismissal
Let's Be Mindful
4 C's Focus this Week- Communiation
4 C's Tweeting - Please make sure you Tweet Something, Anything, Everything Around the 4C's
We WANT TO SEE the 4C's in action in your classrooms, your lunchrooms, your activities, your professional development and more!!!! And there is nothing wrong with a little friendly COMPETITION!!!
The competition is back.This time the battle is between the principals with the focus being on Communication. This week as you are going through your lessons or using video clips that represent Communication please let me know so that I can come around and tweet it out. My personal goal is to tweet at least 5 times per day for the remainder of the week. Help me get my TWEET ON!!! Thanks for your support in advance
Research strongly suggests that when a learner is exploring a concept for understanding, trying to answer a question, or attempting to solve a problem, she's more successful if there is an opportunity to engage in dialogue with another learner. The depth of understanding of a concept that can be achieved, and the ability to internalize the learning to be able to apply it in new or different applications, is increased. According to one study by Arreaga-Mayer and Perdomo-Rivera, in many schools, student-to-student dialogue makes up less than four percent of the classroom learning experience of students, when approximately forty percent of their time should be used in dialogue in order to maximize effective learning.