The Wolf Howl
Week of February 6-10, 2017
WICOR
When making your brochures, consider adding something about "WICOR" being embedded in your lesson designs as a way to support rigor and college ready skills.
As an AVID Site of Distinction, we like to show how we are supporting our Wolves with these skills schoolwide!
The Diviners- Feb 21st & 23rd
The show is called The Diviners. It is a drama set during the depression about a tragedy in a small town.
Let Shannon know if you would like to watch and which day.
GCISD Special Programs EXPO- February 13th
Mark Your Calendars (TELPAS)
TELPAS Writing Samples will be taken on these dates:
Feb 13-15 Social Studies (Mon, Tuesday, Wednesday)
Feb 16-17, 20 Science (Thursday, Friday)
Feb 21-23 Math
Feb 24, 27-3/10 ELA
Employee Satisfaction Survey- Due Today
Our Employee Satisfaction Survey begins January 31st! The date you have chosen for your staff to take the survey is in the Google drive (Employee Survey 2017). Please remember that the link will be live on your school website from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. on the date you have selected. It will appear on the library page.
Your staff will simply need to do the following: (Please remember that you and your AP are included and should take the survey on the assigned day. You will not be asked to identify your campus once you select campus administrator. **New this year!)
1. Go to any computer and sign in to the campus website.
2. Go to the Departments and Programs tab and select Library.
3. On the library webpage, there will be a link to the 2017 Employee Satisfaction Survey.
4. Click on the link, answer the questions and close the tab. This year there are two questions with open-ended responses. This is the second year for this and will allow for additional information to be provided.
The survey is absolutely anonymous. If you have staff members who feel that by signing in, they are being tracked or are losing the confidentiality, please log in for them or have the technician do this. We are not able to see what log in is used. We need employees to log in as this is the only way to prevent non-employees from accessing the survey.
Housekeeping
- Don't forget to make the necessary corrections and see Ilia if you have students that have missing grades on your roster. Angela went over the process in the all-day faculty meeting Thursday and today.
- Wolf Time RtI vs Extracurricular activities- Teachers remember that RtI is federally mandated for students that fall into specific categories in math and reading. If a student has math or reading RtI you must let them go to their intervention during Wolf Time, regardless of their extracurricular affiliation.
Wolf Howls
Angela howls for our counseling department! There is so much behind the scenes work they do for your students. There is a lot of work our counseling team does with students that we may never even know about because it can't be discussed due to confidentiality laws.
Nikki would like to send a screaming howl to Rachel, Brooke, Nate, and Tabetha for a wonderful basketball season! All of our Lady Wolves basketball teams had a wonderful season. They had fun, improved their basketball skills, and learned the importance of playing as a TEAM! Great job, coaches!
A loud howl to Camille for helping me with a student that was having a difficult time this week. I really appreciate her support and encouragement and I know student really did as well!
Angela howls for Brendan Lowe's impressive ability to juggle multiple discipline problems in a 24 hour time-frame!
Angela howls for the CTMS faculty. When presented with problems, you are great about finding solutions! You are the best!!
Jennifer S. sends a long, supportive Wolf Howl to Trish, Linda and Terry for all of their help supporting my classes when I was out. They were in great hands!
Tabetha send a loud howl to Brooke TeeterS for her help on Wednesday when Tabetha was out sick! Brooke helped with sub plans and so many other details!
Tabetha sends a Wolf howl to Rachel Harper for her help in basketball while Tabetha was out sick! Thanks for getting the donuts for the girls!!
Tabetha would like to send another wolf howl to Brooke Teeter and all of the amazing coaches for their help with track plans!!! They are all so helpful and organized! I'm grateful for the support!!
Karyn Hamson sends a howl in awe of the coaches. They do an amazing job of coaching the male athletes in competition and off the field. They spend time teaching them social skills like looking people in the eyes when speaking with them and other life skills.
Mary Anne gives a wolf howl to Lyndee Carter for her gentle, kind and clear explanation to a parent about the importance of attendance.
Amy sends a Wolf Howl to Jason for a great job in planning our DBQ writing activities for next week. Thank you for being so great to work with.
Amy sends a Wolf Howl to Jaime for coordinating Biggest Loser. It's a great motivation.
Amy sends a Wolf Howl to Tabetha with helping me out this week. You are such a team player, and I appreciate having you on our team.
Grimes howls out to Kate Burkhart for her amazing energy and positive spirit! She is a ray of sunshine when I need it most!! Love all the hard work on career day!! Thank you!!
Grimes howls out to terry Popp for all her hard work with our avid program!
Grimes howls out to Kate Burkhart for her amazing energy and positive spirit! She is a ray of sunshine when I need it most!! Love all the hard work on career day!! Thank you!!
Laney howls for Schilleci and Swartz because they've created some incredible Holocaust lessons about propaganda and blackout poetry!
Grimes howls out to Terry Popp for all her hard work with our AVID program!
Vicky Abeyta would like to send a THANKFUL wolf howl to Brooke Schuster! You are a top notch science teacher AND YOU are EXCELLENT with our SPED kids-YOU ROCK!!!
Karen Moxley sends HOWLS of thanks for the kind words that have been expressed. There isn't too many opportunities to HOWL left, so this one is to Caroline Goodwin, Amy Dieterich, Jason Diehl, and Melissa Carpenter for taking in my Wolf Time students to give me a chance to meet with FPS students for my retirement announcement! We never lack team work at CTMS!
A BIG Wolf Howl to Jaime LeRoy, Trish Rapp, Linda McFadyen, and Terry Popp for helping with teachers' classes when a sub was not available! CTMS Wolves are great in helping where needed.
Chris H sends a WELCOMING HOWL TO HAILEY S. We are glad to have you aboard!
Chris H. gives a LOUD THANK YOU HOWL to Johanna R and Diane L for all their help with one of our 6th graders. You guys ROCK!
Raquel sends a grateful HOWL to Ilia for always attending training and working hard to be the best DADA Secretary she can be!
Raquel sends appreciative HOWL to 8th grade Math and Science teacher, Salsbury and Lisa Grimes for working really hard to get our wolves into the right Math and Science in High School
Raquel, Ali and Camille send showers of HOWLs to all 7th grade teachers for helping with 7th grade TECC field trip. You guys are amazing!
Patty gives a HOWL to Nick for retrieving her daughter's wedding pics from her computer, just before it died and went to cyber heaven!
Rachel S. gives all the howls to Bridget for always getting every copy job done, no matter how late she's asked to. Bridget is the best!!!
Memes of the Week!
Celebrations
Amber Willis- 2/14
Upcoming Events
Friday, 2/10- 7th Grade field trip to GHS (TECC); Girls BBall Tournament; Cotillion (6:30- 8:30 pm)
Monday, 2/13- Special Programs EXPO (5:00 pm)
Tuesday, 2/14- Happy Valentine's Day; Candy Grams delivered; Playbill Pre UIL- GHS
Wednesday, 2/15- Lead 2021 Principal Meeting (Fingers Out)
Thursday, 2/16- GCISD Kindness Day
Friday, 2/17 - Cotillion (6:30- 8:30 pm)
Monday, 2/20- President's Day; PD Day for Teachers; AVID Site Team meeting; No school for students
Tuesday, 2/21- CTMS Showcase (6-8)
Wednesday, 2/22- One Act Play (6 pm); Choir Pre-UIL (CHHS 8:30 am- 2 pm)
Thursday, 2/23- STAAR ALT 2 security training (4-5:30 pm)
Friday, 2/24- CTMS Career Day
Saturday, 2/25- Math-Science Meet @ CTMS (8:00 am- 4:00 pm)