The Lion's Den
July 16, 2018
Be There!!
July 31st- Return to work for Teachers; Classroom Prep Day (8:30-4:00)
August 1st- Teacher Classroom Prep Day (8:30-4:00)
August 2nd- Return to work for Classified Support staff
August 2nd- Peace Learning PD (9:00-1:00)
August 2nd- Staff Meeting (2:00-4:00 pm)
August 3rd- PowerSchool/Schoology Training (9:00-11:30)
August 3rd- Room/Building Prep (1:00-4:00)
August 3rd- Ice Cream Social (4:30-6:30 pm)
August 6th- First Day with Students!!!!!
Need to Knows!
NEW INFORMATION
Welcome Back!!!! This week, we all return to get prepared for the students to come back on August 6th. I have attached our latest staff roster update. I would like to welcome the following people to the building or new roles:
Anna Hill- Assistant Principal
Meghan McCrocklin- Instructional Coach
Jennifer Cook- 3rd Grade Teacher
Charlotte Maas- 5th Grade Math Teacher
Elizabeth Brunsting- Admin Associate
Corrine Gentry- Parent Involvement Educator
We still are hiring for a 1st Grade Teacher, Bilingual Assistant, and Staff Custodian. As soon as candidates are recommended, I will let you know.
I am providing a schedule for the Beginning of Year (BOY) workdays to help with your planning. Please click on the button below to review.
The Staff Handbook is still attached below. We will be reviewing this at the staff meeting on August 2nd. Access Code is ROAR.
Please complete the Staff Contact Form by the end of this week. It has basic demographic information as well as questions aligned with how to best reinforce the hard work you do daily. I will be checking on Friday and sending emails to those that have not completed by this time.
Our Ice Cream Social Open House is scheduled for Friday, August 3rd from 4:30-6:30 pm. These two hours will be traded out for comp time to use throughout the year. Here is some information about the night (click on the link to get to the document:
Ice Cream Social Responsibilities- please review and be at your assignment.
Parent Contact Information Form- please have this up electronically in your classroom and have your parents complete this form when they come in at Open House. There is a tab for each of your classrooms. We can then use this as a schoolwide database.
REPEAT INFORMATION
Another big rock this year will be work around the Growth Mindset. This will be done through our monthly staff development meetings and book study. I have purchased the following books for you by Annie Brock and Heather Hundley:
- The Growth Mindset Coach
- The Growth Mindset Playbook
- In Other Words: Phrases for Growth Mindset
The Growth Mindset Coach will be the book we will spend time in as our book study; the other two will be resources for you to use. These will be available at the staff meeting on August 2nd.
We have secured additional devices for our students! At this time, we are looking at adding enough devices that we will be very close to 1:1 at every grade level. We will be distributing the devices this week and you will have them by Friday afternoon.
Finally, we have submitted to use NWEA as our benchmark assessment tool for grades 3-6. Additionally, we have also submitted to use TRC as our reading level assessment for all grades. We will be scheduling PD for you to learn more about these assessments.
Links
Thought Leadership
What are you excited about and ready to learn about this year?!