Suwanee Express
Week of August 17th
I am so proud of you! You gave our students the best start to their school-year. You provided grace, patience, support, encouragement, and engagement. You just made history. :) As we approach this full-week, stay confident and keep believing we can do this. Review the Calendar at a Glance and let the admin team know if you need any support. Let's keep showing everyone ,we are not giving up because we know our why, we know our gifts, and we are going to continue to be the best for our students and each other.
Your Proud Principal,
Mary Taylor
Calendar at a Glance
8/17 - Specials Meeting via Zoom 2:00 discuss K&1 specials schedule (PE, ART, Music, STEM)
8/17 - Johnson, Ha, and Craig meet in Community room with admin team (K&1 numbers) bring current DLD special education schedule for each case manager @ 2:45.
8/18 - COUNT DAY8/18 - K & 1st Grade Re-Entry Meetings Today - CHANGED TO ZOOM
K - 2:30-3:15
1st - 3:30-4:15
8/18 - CLT
8/19 - K & 1 Classroom Teachers call new students to their classroom. If students remain in your class, send a friendly email.
8/20 - Self-Contained Special Education Re-Entry Training Paraprofessionals and Teachers 2:30-3:15 in Zoom - Mrs. Taylor will send zoom link.
Looking ahead.......
8/25 Count Day #2
8/25 Re-Entry to F2F Presentation 2&3
8/27 GTES Pre-Conference Zoom Sessions 2:30-3:15 (A-Team will be sending Zoom Links)
Count Days MARK YOUR CALENDARS...This is very important.
Thank you!
How are we doing attendance?
- GCPS Data Governance will review all student logins between the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m each day. Any student who logged in during this span of time will be marked present for that day using the attendance code ‘DL’ in Snergy.
- Teachers will have the ability to review the previous day’s attendance and mark ‘DL’ for any student that was not marked by this process if they have evidence of engagement by the student from that day in other ways (email, they had technical issues, etc).
Don't Forget This!
Details From Duncan!
Need Books?
Please go into the media catalog through your teacher portal under Teacher Resources. Search for you book and click hold. (If you don't see the hold button, make sure that you are logged in as you) We will check holds every morning and pull holds and get them ready for you. We will do our best to deliver them to your classroom.
Mrs. Duncan can come by and see you if you need help navigating the media catalog.
Mrs. Howard has been working hard cleaning up our guided reading room which includes weeding copies of books that are no longer being circulated. We are placing those discarded books on the table in the Bistro if you would like some for your class library.
Tech Update! Be Aware!
Unfortunately, the media catalog and online research library apps have been temporarily removed from the student portal. Please be aware if you use those apps for students to access ebooks, Tumblebooks, and other resources.
Textbooks
We are still waiting on the K-2 Handwriting Consumables. They have begun delivering these to schools, so hopefully we will get them soon.
Mrs. Duncan has extra kits for Phonics, Spelling and Word Study. These are for grades K-2. If you work with students in one of these grades and would like a kit, please email Mrs. Duncan and she will get one to you.
The Title 9 training facilitated by Katie is the "module".
Oh, yeah! We are bringing back the Staff Shout Out! Send any shout outs my way, so we can include in next week's Suwanee Express!
From the GCPS Social Studies Department
Good Morning Mrs. Taylor,
I wanted to reach out and thank you for allowing Jenni Ramsey to lead social studies professional learning during pre-planning. Jenni led over 2,600 teachers during four sessions. And, of course, she did an excellent job. She has also been creating lesson plans that teachers across the district are using to kick off their year. The feedback has been nothing but positive.
Again, thank you for allowing Jenni to support social studies instruction. Have a great start of the year, and please let me know how I can support you and your teachers.
Thank you,
Jeremy
SES K Parent Shout Out!
SES Parent
Thank YOU!
Mr. Morgan and Mrs. Stockton are both absolutely phenomenal!! We love them so much already!!
Have a great weekend!