The Yuletide Villager
Week of May 14, 2018
The vision of GCS is to inspire success and a lifetime of learning.
Things My Mother Taught Me
(from Splitcoaststampers)
My Mother taught me LOGIC..."If you fall off that swing and break your neck, you can't go to the store with me."
My Mother taught me MEDICINE..."If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they're going to freeze that way."
My Mother taught me TO THINK AHEAD..."If you don't pass your spelling test, you'll never get a good job!"
My Mother taught me ESP..."Put your sweater on; don't you think that I know when you're cold?"
My Mother taught me TO MEET A CHALLENGE..."What were you thinking? Answer me when I talk to you...Don't talk back to me!"
My Mother taught me HUMOR..."When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me."
My Mother taught me how to BECOME AN ADULT..."If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up.
My mother taught me ABOUT SEX..."How do you think you got here?"
My mother taught me about GENETICS..."You are just like your father!"
My mother taught me about my ROOTS..."Do you think you were born in a barn?"
My mother taught me about the WISDOM of AGE..."When you get to be my age, you will understand."
My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION..."Just wait until your father gets home."
My mother taught me about RECEIVING..."You are going to get it when we get home."
And, my all-time favorite - JUSTICE..."One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like YOU -- then you'll see what it's like."
TEST TIME
Test and Proctor Training
3-5 Teachers, K-1 Assistants & Support Staff,
Please go to one of the following schedule training sessions for upcoming EOG Testing.
- Tuesday @ 3 - Proctor Training
- Wednesday @ 3 Test Administrator Training
- See Mrs. Marett if you have questions needs
Out of Time...
- Your PDP must be signed TODAY completed and locked.
- All Summative Evaluations will be ready to sign off during next week, thus every Observation and PDP must be completed and signed in order for me to complete this process.
- Please access your NCEES and sign any document that has not been signed.
- Please do not be startled if someone shows up and asks you to come to my office as there are no other options!
- Thank you for understanding and taking care of this immediately.
The Value of Teachers
Suppose your child is about to enter the fourth grade and has been assigned to an excellent teacher. Then the teacher decides to quit. What should you do?
The correct answer? Panic!
Well, not exactly. But a landmark new research paper underscores that the difference between a strong teacher and a weak teacher lasts a lifetime. Having a good fourth-grade teacher makes a student 1.25 percent more likely to go to college, the research suggests, and 1.25 percent less likely to get pregnant as a teenager. Each of the students will go on as an adult to earn, on average, $25,000 more over a lifetime — or about $700,000 in gains for an average size class — all attributable to that ace teacher back in the fourth grade. That’s right: A great teacher is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to each year’s students, just in the extra income they will earn.
The study, by economists at Harvard and Columbia universities, finds that if a great teacher is leaving, parents should hold bake sales or pass the hat around in hopes of collectively offering the teacher as much as a $100,000 bonus to stay for an extra year. Sure, that’s implausible — but their children would gain a benefit that far exceeds even that sum.
Conversely, a very poor teacher has the same effect as a pupil missing 40 percent of the school year. We don’t allow that kind of truancy, so it’s not clear why we should put up with such poor teaching. In fact, the study shows that parents should pay a bad teacher $100,000 to retire (assuming the replacement is of average quality) because a weak teacher holds children back so much.
This latest study should elevate the issue on the national agenda because it not only underscores the importance of education but also illuminates how we might improve schools.
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The Best Show In McAdenville is June 1st
Pierce Group Benefits
The annual enrollment period for our Flexible Benefits Plan will be April 2, 2018
through June 12, 2018. Our school date will be announced as soon as we are contacted.
Practice on Tuesday
3:15 - 3:45pm
Benefits
Good Morning,
The Open Enrollment period for our Optional Benefits is quickly approaching. Please take a few moments and review the attached document. The enrollment period runs from April 2, 2018 - June 12, 2018. Benefit Counselors from Pierce Group will be providing individual enrollment sessions at each location and employees will have the option to enroll or make changes to their current plan.
Employees 50% employed or more are eligible to participate in Colonial, FSA, Dental, Vision, Voluntary Group Term Life and Basic Term Life.
Please note: The Basic and Group Term Life Insurance will need to be re-enrolled during this year's open enrollment period. If you do not take action, your current contribution will stop effective September 30, 2018.
Please note: In order to participate in Medical or Dependent care FSA both new and existing participants must enroll. If you do not take action, your current contribution will stop effective September 30, 2018.
Joey Clinton
The Pierce Group Meeting for ALL STAFF 5-21-18 @ 3PM
DUTY WEEK B
School Events Agenda
- mCLASS is underway! Stay on track ...
- Monday- Signing Party in NCEES - Please do not leave today until you have signed all ready documents.
- Tuesday - Rice @ Principal's Meeting
- Wednesday - Optional Teacher Work Day! - ...Marching to Raleigh?
- No more annual leave then you can take a Personal Day! That's a $50 deduction. But let us know by 9am on Monday! TalentEd
- Thursday - PTO Board Meeting @ 6:30PM
- Friday - Rice at GCS Job Fair! (Most of the Day)
- Staff Treat - Staff Ordering Lunch Out - Please have order and money in by Thursday at Noon!
- Remember that we ask families not to bring outside food into our school; unless it is packed in a lunchbox from home. . . thus we are going to ask you to respect our students and families just the same. You will be provided with the food but do not take outside packages into the cafe. This Friday's perk will confuse our kids and visitors. We will allow you to put it in your lunch bags or other containers! Thanks for supporting our efforts to keep our school cafe from becoming a highly trafficked fast-food haven for kids and families.
Looking Ahead:
- Summatives are to be ready week of May 21st
- Monday, May 21st - Send 1st and 2nd-grade summer camp invitation letters and enrollment forms to eligible students.
- Wednesday, May 23st - Reading EOG
- Thursday, May 24st - Math EOG
- Friday, May 25th - EOG SCANNING DAY (Elementary)
- Friday, May 25th - Notify 3rd Grade Parents for Retesting
- Monday, May 28th - Memorial Day Holiday
- Wednesday, May 30th - Science EOG
Make Referrals Here:
MES Social Worker - Whitney Hill
Please use this referral form for student Social Work Request.
MES School Counselor - Eric Otis
Please use this referral form for student School Counselor Request
If you haven't heard... there is a new local podcast
ARE YOU RENEWING THIS YEAR 2018?
See me if you have questions...
PLEASE, by all means, do not let your teaching license expire!