Dos Rios Elementary
Weekly Rocket News * May 7, 2018
Principal's PLC-Connection
Dear Dos Staff,
"The school year is almost over, and teachers are never thanked enough for all the hard work. It’s possible that you have had a few students thank you, tell you that something you taught them, did for them, helped them learn was important and meaningful and changed them and inspired them and meant the world to them. It’s also possible few students have taken the time to thank you, because they may be so stressed and frustrated by endless tests, long hours sitting in a chair learning things that don’t seem relevant and important to them, or by past teachers or fellow students who’ve demoralized, bullied, scared, or bored them to tears making them hate school despite all you have done.
So if you haven’t received the thanks you deserve, I want to thank you now. And by “you” I mean those teachers who love to teach and do so with all their heart and soul to provide their students with what is important and necessary and inspiring and beautiful and meaningful and true and good and honest. I mean those teachers who care about kids and empower them and inspire & ignite their passions and help them achieve their big dreams. I mean those teachers who demand that their students become the best critical and creative thinkers they can be. I mean those teachers who listen and care. I mean those teachers who are passionate about the subjects they teach and who cannot help but impart that passion.
I want to thank you for doing the most important work of all – educating the next generation. The real hope for our world, for creating peace, and you deserve extra gratitude for doing what you can to make your curricula serve such ends when standardized bubble tests demand something else entirely from you and often hinder the greater goals for a truly educated student body that you aspire to provide.
Thank you for being willing to work long hours for modest pay and minimal status when you surely could be making more money with less stress and greater prestige. Thank you for buying supplies when the school ran out of money and extending yourself far beyond your job description to help and mentor your students outside of the classroom. Thank you for trying to figure out every day how to manage the needs of so many children and for loving the ones who are hard to love because they make your days so difficult. Thank you for modeling honesty, open-mindedness, willingness, patience, courage, perseverance, wisdom, and responsibility to the best of your ability each and every day in your classroom.
Most of all, thank you for everything you have done and will continue to do to create a better future. There is no other profession that so directly shapes the world of tomorrow. Thank you for teaching."
Mrs. Annamarie Dowling-Garrott
Weekly Launch Codes
Week-at-a-Glance
Monday 5/7
- Dibels Testing Begins
- Lunch Provided by PTA & D-G
- 301 Mtg w/ Weekly "DOS of PBIS" 3:15-3:30
Tuesday 5/8:
- Weekly PLC’s
- Spring Carnival 4:00-7:00
Wednesday 5/9:
- Donuts by Castro
- NO STAFF MEETING
- Continental by D-G
Friday 5/11:
- Bullying Assembly Grades 6th-8th 8:30-9:30
- PBIS Committee Meeting 3:20