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Joy. Hope. Resilience.
Week of January 21, 2020
Principal's Message
This is also the time when scholars decision making, stamina, and follow through are of major importance. Let's continue to model and remind our scholars of their responsibility in their journey. Be clear of expectations and consistent with support and high expectations of ALL our scholars.
Our preparedness, professionalism, growth mindset, and passion is what we need to bring every day!! Great things continue to happen at Super Spruce!! Thank you all for your tremendous RESILIENCE and HOPEFUL spirits. Together we can do anything we put our minds to!
We Can. We Will. We Must!!!
F. Taylor
Proudest Principal in DISD!
H Grady Spruce High School
Tardy Sweep(s) - Week of January 20th
Tardy Sweeps:
Tuesday, January 21st, 6th to 7th transition
Friday, January 24th, 2nd to 3rd transition
TARDY SWEEP PROCEDURES AND NEW STUDENT CONSEQUENCE POLICY
At the end of these transition periods please lock your doors at the tardy bell and do not allow students in who do not have the tardy/detention pass. When they return to class with the pass, please allow them back in and mark them tardy in attendance.
Please share with your students the consequence for getting caught in tardy sweeps starting this six weeks:
- Each Tardy Sweep, the student's name and ID# will be collected and
- they will be sent with a pass back to class.
- On the 3rd time (and any time after) they are caught in a tardy sweep during the six weeks, they will be assigned a full day of ISS to serve.
AM Tardy Slips Week of 1/21/20 - YELLOW
Reminder: Super Scholar Bulletin Board
- Staff meetings (Tuesdays or Wednesdays, once a month)
- Sporting Events
- Fine & Performing Events
- Campus Wide Events
- Testing Days & Campus Testing Meetings
Staff meetings are subject to change. The goals is to communicate monthly staff meetings via the calendar and to have one a month.
Catch a Timberwolf Staff member being ELITE in their 20 Square Feet, Joyful, Hopeful, Resilient, SEL Champion, or simply did or said something that was the spotlight of your day/week!
Thank you for taking a moment to highlight your fellow staff member! You made someone's day!!
Spotlight on Spruce Culture Committee
I want to say a very special thank you to the Culture Committee: Rudd, Jewell, C. Miller, Dupree, George, Daniels, Coates, and Boyer.
The team has met with each of our No Fly scholars. The have clear expectations and a support structure is in place. In addition, the team shared the expectation of teachers walking their respective floors at the top of their planning period. All the efforts are making a difference. All hands on deck!!
Spotlight on Ms. Tanisha Miller
A special thank you to Spruce High School's Social Worker, Ms. Tanesha Miller, for working tirelessly to help one of my seniors who was dealing with challenging circumstances that would have prevented her from graduating on time with the Class of 2020. From hospital to home visits, Ms. Miller advocated nonstop on this student's behalf until a plan was put in place. You rock Ms. Miller!!!
Spotlight on City Year Team
Thank you for celebrating our awesome staff with the Monday pancakes!! What a wonderful way to start our week and with so many smiles and positive energy.
Newest Timberwolf - Phillip Xavier Lewis
Thank you,
Katie Lewis
Hallway Teamwork Making a Difference!!
Spruce on Science Fair Map!! ~ 1st Place Teams Division
Super Spruce Swimming: 3 Relays & 1 Individual move onto Regionals!
Super Spruce Boys Varsity Basketball - Currently 2nd in District
City Year Thanks Spruce Staff~ Pancake Breakfast
Dallas ISD STEM Expo Presentation
Texas National Spirit Championship
Please congratulate the following "7" Varsity Cheerleaders on their performance at the Texas National Spirit Championship Competition at the Ft. Worth Convention Center. They worked really hard through all the changes and challenges, but received great feedback & scores from the judges. It's really hard performing "Live" with lights and cameras shining down on you, and being critiqued by cheer experts. The girls competed against 100 other teams within our division across the state of Texas.
We performed three separate routines:
(band dance, fight song, and crowd leading chant).
We scored the highest on our Fight Song. 🦊
Shout out to Ms. Tracie Walker-Reed for texting us a prayer 🙏 before our performance, and everyone else that gave us Well Wishes...
Ana Gayton
Chasity Johnson
Faith Dotson
Kyndal Fitzpatrick
Makenzye Blackenship
NaKaura Smith
Tyja Shead
Ms. Draper on the mend~ Thank you Mrs. Palaparthi
Spruce Leadership Temporary Organization Chart
Staff Parking in Rear
MANDATORY CLOCK IN
- Monitors & Parking Attendant: 7:30 am
- Administrators: 7:50 am
- Clerks: 8:00 am
- Teacher Assistants: Ranger 7:30, 8:00, or 8:15
- Teachers: 8:15 am
8:20 AM Duty Begins
Please be at duty post ready to go a couple minutes early so that doors are opened at 8:20am. Teamwork makes the Dream Work!!
Tardy AM Procedure (Amended for 'C' Days)
Rear Entrance - ALL DAYS (9:00 am to 9:20 am)
- Our late door entrance, rear of campus/upperclassmen entrance, is open from 9:00 to 9:20 am.
- Scholars will be given a colored tardy pass (see picture ABOVE) with the time/date written on it by late door check in monitors (Rubio/McWhorter/Espinoza). We need this process to be fast and will only involve the monitor putting the time/date on the slip and sending scholars off to class. Students may pick up breakfast but they have the time/date stamped on their pass and are to move quickly to class (5-7 minutes).
- The late door (upperclassmen entrance) is closed at 9:20 am.
Front Door Entrance - A/B DAYS (9:21 am to 9:40 am)
- Scholars that arrive after 9:20 am enter through the front of the building and check in with Ms. Edison.
- Between 9:21 am and 9:40 am scholars will receive the colored tardy pass from Ms. Edison or designated staff member when she is absent.
- If a scholar arrives after 9:40 am they will sign into the Late to School Log and be escorted to ISS for the remainder of the period.
Front Door Entrance - C DAYS (9:21 am to 9:48 am)
- Scholars that arrive after 9:20 am enter through the front of the building and check in with Ms. Edison.
- Between 9:21 am and 9:48 am scholars will sign into the Late to School Log and be escorted to ISS for the remainder of the period.
Teacher Moves:
- Every student that has arrived late should be allowed into class and still be marked tardy in attendance by you the teacher.
- Every* student should have a pass and show their teacher their pass upon entrance into class. ( * See exception below)
- Teachers should check the time on the pass against the time the student arrives in class to make sure it is reasonable. If not, teacher should follow-up accordingly with appropriate student interventions such as student conference, parent contact, etc.
- No teacher hallway passes allowed before 9:45 am. There are some scholars in the halls with hallway passes, please let's NOT slip on this expectation.
- The color of the tardy pass this week is YELLOW.
* exception - Keep in mind tardy passes will not begin being issued until 9 am. That means students arriving just minutes before 9 am will not be getting a pass yet will probably still be tardy to class. Please allow some leeway with students within the first 5 - 10 minutes of class time each day for not having a pass depending on what time they actually come through the metal detectors. This is a great opportunity to have a conversation with your student about not arriving at the last minute to school and being caught in this awkward situation of being asked for a pass and not having one.
Monthly Fire Drills
BEFORE THE DRILL:
· Review the e-mailed evacuation map for your floor;
· Review the e-mailed color-coded buddy system and find your buddy teacher/staff member; and
· Print a copy of the attendance rosters.
DURING THE DRILL:
· Use the proper stairway/exit,
· Exit the building quickly and orderly with students,
· Take attendance and ensure that all students are present once outside,
· Communicate to your buddy and person in charge of your stairwell if a student is missing, and
· Wait for the bell to ring before re-entering the building.
AFTER THE DRILL:
· Use the proper stairway/re-entry point,
· Enter the building quickly and orderly with class,
· Report DIRECTLY back to class with students,
· Take attendance and ensure that all your students returned to class, and
· Reset class and resume teaching and learning.
H. Grady Spruce High School
Located in the heart of the Pleasant Grove region of Dallas, Texas, H. Grady Spruce High School serves a diverse population of students and their families. Our neighborhood maintains a strong tradition of community, hard work, and pride. Families have made Pleasant Grove their home for generations, and many of our students can claim a legacy of Spruce alumnae that go back to the founding of the school.
H. Grady Spruce High School was built in 1963, replacing Rylie High School. The school is named for Henry Grady Spruce, a native of Omen, Texas, who earned degrees from Southern Methodist University and the University of Chicago. He devoted much of his 35-year YMCA career to youth, including 25 years as director of the Dallas YMCA's Camp Crockett near Granbury.
Email: frataylor@dallasisd.org
Website: https://www.dallasisd.org/spruce
Location: 9733 Old Seagoville Road, Dallas, TX, USA
Phone: 972-892-5500