Giesinger Elementary Staff Update
September 23-27, 2019
Eagles Soar To Excellence in All We Do!
Monday - Girls on the Run 3:30 pm; Our Academic Conference is rescheduled - TBA
Tuesday -Mrs. Giesinger's birthday celebration with 2nd grade and faculty luncheon;
Flu shots available in the faculty lounge 10:45-1:00 pm;
AdrianAnn Brock's wedding shower 3:30 pm;
Math in Action for 3rd grade at Jett 4:30 pm
Wednesday - T-TESS goal and SLO goal due in Eduphoria Strive; Girls on the Run 3:30 pm
Thursday - Faculty meeting 3:30 pm; McTeacher Spirit Night 5:00-8:00 pm
Friday - Respect character program 8:30 am
Staff Parking
Essential Standards
Grade Level Professional Learning Communities
EMPLOYEE SPEECH RIGHTS DURING BOND ELECTIONS
Everyone has an opinion about elections, and CISD employees are no different. When you are acting as a CISD employee, you can only share FACTUAL information about the bond election. As a private citizen, you can share your OPINION. Be sure you know the difference!
Below are some tips to help you comply with state law and exercise your First Amendment Rights.
In your capacity as a CISD employee, you can provide FACTUAL information about the bond by:
- block-walking;
- posting factual information on your professional social media account;
- putting factual information in the school newsletter;
- making factual information available at events at your school; and
- sharing facts when talking to or emailing your parents, staff, co-coworkers, and friends.
Just be sure that in your role as an employee, you are only providing factual information, and do not advocate “for” or “against” the bond.
As a private citizen, you can give your opinion and advocate “for” or “against” the bond by:
- block-walking;
- posting on your personal social media accounts;
- talking to or emailing from your personal account your family and friends;
- putting a campaign sign in your yard or a bumper sticker on your car;
- wearing a t-shirt or button advocating your position; and
- taking a personal day off from work or on the weekend to stand at a polling location.
When you are advocating, be sure you don’t use any CISD resources, like CISD facilities, your paid time, or CISD supplies and equipment.
EMPLOYEE WELLNESS CENTER
New, regular hours:
Monday-Thursday 7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Friday 7:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Saturday 7:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Sunday - Closed
Go to www.conroeisdclinic.com to schedule an appointment, review the services offered, and more. The cost is $10 for all CISD group health plan members and $50 for all other CISD employees.
Meet & Greet For Novice Teachers
September 23rd at 4:30 p.m. at Jett CEC
Questions? Contact creichelt@conroeisd.net.
CISD CONNECTS ONLINE COURSES
- Canvas Instructional Ideas for the Secondary Classroom
- Elementary Anchor Stations in Canvas
- Google Tools: Google Docs, Slides, Drawings
- Interactive Teaching and Learning with Mimio and MimioStudio
- Introduction to Chromebooks
- Online Research Resources
- Technology Tools for Formative Assessment
- Video Tools to Create Student Products
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
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:
23 - Academic Conference 1:00 pm - RESCHEDULED
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 for 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.
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