Marvelous Marcus Mustangs
Weekly Newsletter for the week of May 1-5
Herbert Marcus Key Actions:
2. Building Relationships
3. Providing Exemplary instruction
SHOUTOUTS
Teacher Appreciation Week Menu
M E N U
Monday May 1st: Breakfast will be served
Tuesday May 2nd: Baked potato bar with all the fixings
Wednesday May 3rd: Continental breakfast and an Elote bar snack
Thursday May 4th: Nachos & Hotdogs lunch
Friday: Cinco de Mayo spread
Teacher & Student Dress up Days next week
Monday, May 1st Western Day
Time to show you’re Texas spirit and wear your boots and cowboy hats.
Tuesday, May 2nd Sports Day
Go Team Go! Show your team some love and wear your favorite sports clothing.
Wednesday 5/3 Disney Character day
Thursday 5/4, Throwback Thursday-
Bring out your vintage clothes and dress up like the 1950’s-1990’s
Viernes 5 de mayo- Cinco de Mayo
Vístete para celebrar!!!!!
Bring a picture of yourself when you went to school for the board out front!
Positive Communication Logs
The Admin team will also be making positive phone calls. We will choose a grade level a week. This week is Third teachers please send an email with names of a student you would like the team to contact. (Mrs. A, Mrs. Cadet, Ms. Rose, Mrs. Whipple, Ms. Gray, Mrs. Morales, Mrs. Lara, Ms. Aldridge, Mr. Beard, Ms. Wallace).
Parents are loving the phone calls, please keep the names coming!
Reason to stop summer break countdown
RED HOT Info!
SLO due by May 12
-Friendly reminder that recess cannot be taken from a student according to district policy. Remember to utilize GoNoodle!
-Please make sure all staff members are strategically placed all around the playground area and actively monitoring during recess.
Please make arrangements to attend all after school meetings and trainings. The expectation is to attend all after school meetings, training, and feeder pattern meetings (i.e. job alikes, etc.) If you are unable to attend, approval from Ms. Wallace needs to be done in advance. Please let me know if you have questions.
-Please make sure you are actively monitoring during morning duty and on the playground.
***Customer service is #1, please be intentional about how you greet, and treat every person who is staff at Marcus or DISD AND anyone who enters our building. BE PROUD!!! WE ARE AWESOME!
- All in Learning and DOL Expectation:
****The expectation is that ALL staff utilize all in learning a minimum of twice weekly*****
The expectation is all staff is utilizing All in Learning, and moving towards moving assignments into the progress tracker (2 DOL's a week) and assigning a TEK from the standards
Upcoming Dates:
5/1/17 - 5/5/17 Teacher Appreciation Week
5/2/17 Kinder guided reading
5/3/17 1st Guided reading
5/4/17 Second grade Guided Reading
5/8/17 STAAR 3/4 Math & 5th Retake Math
5/9/17 STAAR 3/4 Reading & 5th Retake Reading
5/10/17 STAAR 5th Science
5/11/17 CAR graduation at 6:00pm
5/12/17 SLO from teachers due
5/15/17 Job Alike-Every teacher needs to register for a session and Momentous Coach Training
5/15/17 FIELD DAY PK(A,B,C) and K, 1st and 2nd
5/16/17 FIELD DAY PK (D, E,) and 3rd, 4th and 5th
5/18/17 Junior Achievement with Pepsi
5/23/17 Fifth grade Theory of practice
5/24/17 Fourth grade Theory of Practice
5/25/17 Third grade Theory of Practice
5/25/17 Talent Show
5/26/17 4th grade awards 9:00 am and 2nd grade awards 1:00pm
5/29/17 No School-Memorial Day
5/30/17 3rd grade awards 9:00am and 1st grade awards at 1:30pm
5/31/17 5th grade awards at Rec Center at 9:00am and Kinder awards at 1:00pm
6/1/17 PK awards at 8:30 am and EARLY RELEASE at 11:55am
2017-2018 CALENDAR START AND END DATES FOR STAFF
Classroom Teachers- 8/14/17—6/6/2018 (187 days)
Classroom Teachers New to District- 8/7/2017-6/6/2018
Teacher Assistant—8/14/2017—6/6/2018 (185 days)
Instructional Coach—8/4/2017—6/6/2018 (193 days)
Assistant Principal- 7/24/2017-6/13/2018 (207 days)
Principal- 7/17/2017—6/26/2018 (221 days)