It's a Matter of PRIDE!
January 14 - 18
Who We Are
Mission: The community of Sunset Valley will educate our students to achieve their highest standards of performance by engaging them in exceptional opportunities.
Vision: To create an optimal learning experience that promotes ongoing collaboration, creativity, critical thinking and communication with students, teachers, parents, and community members for the success of all students.
What's Up This Week?
**January 14th – 25th G – 3rd Aims Web Testing
**January 14th – 18th – 3rd/ 4th DCA Reading
Monday, January 14th -
- Grade Level PLC Meeting in YOUR planning room
Wednesday, January 16th -
- Make-up/New Students/Clubs Pictures
- GT PD Opportunity 4:30 p.m. – Room 407
Thursday, January 17th -
- January Bobcat Meeting – 3:30 p.m. – Library
- 3rd/4th DCA Answer Documents due
Friday, January 18th -
- Pay Day
- Rodeo Day
- 3rd/4th DCA Answer Documents due
M-W-F Jeans Days in 2019!
Wednesday - In case you forgot, get out your ROCK shirt! You can wear it with jeans.
Friday - Our normal spirit day - wear a SVES, KISD or other school shirt. Show your spirit with jeans!
Principal's Den
Once you find your word, Tweet it, share it on your Facebook or Instagram pages. Share it on the Bobcat Staff facebook page too! We would all love to hear your word for 2019.
My word for 2019 will be CONFIDENCE! I plan to Tweet it using #myword and #SVESmatterofpride Join me!!!
Team PLCs on Monday
Need a reminder what that document even looks like? Just go to our Shared Staff documents folder and look in your grade level folder in the Team PLC/Tuesday Meetings folder or just click on the following link.
Bobcat Gathering on Thursday
- You will need your computer!
- Foresters is scheduled to be with us first and will be doing a drawing!
- "Scaffolding Using Lead4ward Documents" presentation by yours truly! :)
- Personalized PD topic - FLEKS Time! Be sure and add your notes to the board in the mailroom.
Saying Goodbye is Hard
In an email Michelle shared, "It has been a pleasure to work in KISD and especially with the wonderful staff at Sunset Valley Elementary. I have grown to love many there and I will miss you all a great deal. Thank you for allowing me to work with such a wonderful school family." Many thanks to Michelle and all she has done for us this school year. She will be missed!!!
Welcome Back!
Check out all of Ashley Leitschuh's pictures from her trip to Nepal!!!
Let's Keep Growing in 2019! Check this Out!
Assessing students - Be sure and check out the way one teacher used a form to track student learning by objective.
FLEKS Time Resources
Tier 1 & 2 Intervention Resources
I have created a new folder in our Shared Staff Documents titled Tier 1 & Tier 2 Resources. There is a TON of stuff for Reading, Math, Writing and Behavior. Check it out!
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/193YC9duqY1yXzOndBlkBQMBpBqxpLd1W?usp=sharing
District provided Math Intervention resources
- Grades K-2: Developing Number Concepts books by Kathy Richards
- Grade 3: Closing the Distance
- AIRR
- Online resources/games with Investigations. Students can access all grade levels on their page.
District Information
"What If?" Campus Letter Grade reports
https://tea.texas.gov/Reports_and_Data/Legislative_Reports/Legislative_Reports/
Information about Resignations
This incentive will be offered to the first 100 teachers and other professional instructional staff such as counselors, librarians, diagnosticians, LSSP, nurses, etc. who submit a resignation/retirement letter to their campus principal by Monday, March 4, 2019. This early notification will help principals determine staffing and recruitment needs for next year. In addition, teachers who submit their letter by March 4, 2019, will receive an additional $250 for maintaining perfect attendance from April 1, 2019, through the end of the school year (last day of instruction or last day of work calendar). To be eligible, an employee must be on a probationary, term, or continuing contract.
Stress Reduction Seminars for KISD Staff
Stress Reduction Series - 6 week course on mindfulness based stress reduction
- January 22 - February 26 in Rio Grande Room/Annex from 4:30-5:30
- Sign-up through Eduphoria/Benefits & Wellness
- EQ time eligible
- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction 6 week series
- Week one: Introduction to mindfulness
- Week two: Stress management and the body
- Week three: Stress management and the brain
- Week four: Mindfulness and communication/ Using technology mindfully
- Week five: Working with difficult emotions
- Week six: Developing a personal mindfulness practice
Advanced Academics Advisory Committee
Google Read Write Training
https://sites.google.com/kellerisd.net/kisdassessment/google-read-and-write
Literacy Website
https://sites.google.com/kellerisd.com/kisdelementaryela/home
Bobcat Staff Stuff - Check it Out!
SVES Core Values
We Value:
- Care for our teachers because the impact of their work prepares students for their future.
- Passionate teaching dedicated to content and craft that inspires others.
- Relationships as the foundation for how we teach, learn, work, and play together in a safe, engaging, and caring way.
- Exploration and the pursuit of one’s passion that leads to personal growth.
- Communication and collaboration that strengthens our unity.
- Respect for the diversity of our school community through a culture of understanding and personalized learning opportunities.
Staff Remind
Text @c47d to the number 81010