Hackberry Howl
Love-Serve-Care
Vol.5 No.31
PLC THIS WEEK 3
Monday, March 9th---1st Grade
Tuesday, March 10th---Kinder
Wednesday, March 11th---1st Grade
Thursday, March 12th---2nd Grade
Friday, March 13th-2nd Grade
11 Thoughts about Teamwork-Jon Gordon
After reading the 11 Thoughts on Teamwork send me an email with something that really resonated with you!
1. Teams rise and fall on culture, mind leadership, healing relationships, attitude and effort.
Great teams have a great culture driven by great leadership. Relationships are meaningful and teammates are connected. The collective attitude is very positive and everyone on the team works hard to accomplish their mission.
2. It’s all about teamwork. Sometimes you are the star and sometimes you help the star.
3. If want to be truly great you have to work as hard to be a great teammate as you do to be a great player.
I tell this to athletes all the time but the same is true for any profession. When we work hard to be a great team member we make everyone around us better.
4. Your team doesn’t care if you are a superstar. They care if you are a super team member.
5. Three things you control every day are your attitude, your effort and your actions to be a great teammate.
It doesn’t matter what is happening around you and who you think is being unfair. Every day you can focus on being positive, working hard and making others around you better. If you do that great things will happen.
6. One person can’t make a team but one person can break a team. Stay positive!
Make sure you don’t let energy vampires sabotage your team. Post a sign that says “No Energy Vampires” allowed and keep them off the bus. Most importantly, decide to stay positive.
7. Great team members hold each other accountable to the high standards and excellence their culture expects and demands.
8. Team beats talent when talent isn’t a team.
9. Great teams care more. They care more about their effort, their work and their team members.
10. We > me
Unity is the difference between a great team and an average team. United teams are connected and committed to each other. They are selfless instead of selfish. They put the team first and know together we accomplish more.
11. You and your team face a fork in the road each day. You can settle for average and choose the path of mediocrity or you can take the road less traveled and chase greatness.
It’s a choice you make each day. Which path will your team take?
Tuesday After School Meeting from 4:00-4:15
Hackberry Happenings!
Monday, March 9th
- Education Foundation Donut Breakfast in the Lounge 7:30-8:00
- 5th Grade Math Benchmark
Dress: Jeans/dress/slacks/skirt
Business Professional or Business casual Attire
(T-SHIRT are not Professional or Business Dress)
Tuesday, March 10th
- 5th Grade Reading Benchmark
- District Road Show for Reading Academy 4:00-4:15 (PK-5 Teachers)
- Richardson out 10:00-12:00
Dress: Jeans/dress/slacks/skirt
Business Professional or Business casual Attire
(T-SHIRT are not Professional or Business Dress)
Wednesday, March 11th
- 3rd & 4th Grade Math Benchmark
- 5th Grade to Pine Cove
Dress: Jeans/dress/slacks/skirt
Business Professional or Business casual Attire
(T-SHIRT are not Professional or Business Dress)
Thursday, March 12th
- 3rd and 4th Reading Benchmark
- 5th Grade to Pine Cove
- 3rd/4th GT Field Trip
Dress: Jeans/dress/slacks/skirt
Business Professional or Business casual Attire
(T-SHIRT are not Professional or Business Dress)
Friday, March 13th
- 4th writing Benchmark--Not a campus shutdown
- 5th Grade to Pine Cove
Dress: Jeans and House Shirt
Either the team House or our staff shirt of the year shirt otherwise you need to be in a business professional or business casual attire.
Howl Outs!
Escamilla howls out to everyone for a fantastic Open House night.
Escamilla howls out to Stephen and Jill for providing dinner on Open House night. Thank you!
Escamilla howls out to Stoney! You will be missed by many.
Escamilla howls out to Melba for helping me find a green Isibindi dress!
Escamilla howls out to all the teachers for filling out the Ellevation progress monitoring forms. I know it was a super busy week for you all.
Escamilla howls out to Cox for her help in the cafeteria.
Carlino HOWLS to everyone for making my birthday feel special! Thank you!
Carlino HOWLS to Cox! You are a TEAlightful partner and you keep me motivated and focused. You the best!
Nulty Howls to Sandra for always helping prek:)
Nulty Howls to Prek team for making my 50th bday so special!!!
Nulty Howls to Whitehead and Richardson for your leadership!
Romig howls to Sandra and Bagby for helping me to coordinate Pine Cove snacks and meals :-)
Zaidi Howls:
Howl's to Mrs. T. Martin for helping with a student who needs a little encouragement!
Howl's to the 2nd-grade team for all they do for ALL our kids.
How's to the 3rd-grade team for all they do for All our kids.
Howl's to the kinder Team for All they do for All our kids.
Howl's to the 1st-grade Team for All they do for our kids.
Howl's to the 4th and 5th-grade teams for all they do for our kids.
Howl's to Mrs. Pereaz, Mrs.Moya and Mrs. Escamilla for working with our students and taking such wonderful data.
Howl's to the office staff for always being so helpful and funny!!
Howl's to Mrs. Reyes for all the roles she plays in our school!
Hatcher sends a howl to second grade just because you are AWESOME!
Hatcher sends a howl to Sawhney for all your patience and loving heart!
K.Martin to Richardson and Whitehead for all your hard work on getting our benchmarks ready!
K.Martin to Masai for jumping in and helping me with Cheer!
K.Martin to everyone involved in helping 3rd Grade getting on track with behavior! It's made such a difference!
Koth howls out to Diaz, Cruz, and Reyes for helping me out with our Open House. You're the best!
Finch SUPER HOWLS to Romig for doing an amazing job with organizing Camp Pine Cove. You have been so amazing with this whole process!
Finch HOWLS to Ratliff for covering my tutoring group on Wednesday when I felt bad.
Finch HOWLS to Whitehead for quick update meetings for 504. You are always so responsive and I appreciate it.
Finch HOWLS to Richardson for testing buckets and lists. This makes testing at a new campus so much easier.
Finch HOWLS to Beulah for a quick list of students to work with.
Finch HOWLS to the whole 5th-grade team for being flexible to work with online testing groups. I am so grateful for our cohesiveness.
Finch HOWLS to Escamilla and Moya for doing an incredible job organizing TELPAS!
Finch HOWLS to the specials crew! You guys always find a way to pull together and rearrange, for special events, people out, testing groups using rooms, no matter what! Ya’ll rock!
Bloom howls to Martin for subbing in my class and keeping everything on track while I was sick.
Bloom howls to Beulah and Jones for taking care of this week.
Bloom howls to Beulah for being the grade level mom.
Bloom howls to Ripple for holding it down in drum club while I was sick.
Bloom howls to Whitehead for being a great tutoring teammate.
Rollins howls to Richardson and Whitehead for coordinating testing and intervention so well!
Beulah howls to Kelli for stepping in and being a 4th-grade teacher on Wednesday! We couldn't have done it without you!
Beulah howls to Kate for letting me have my coffee fix on Wednesday!
Beulah howls to Moya and Escamilla for all your help with TELPAS!
Beulah howls to Richardson for getting everything ready and being so patient with us for our Benchmarks!
Beulah howls to Jones for doing whatever it takes and being so flexible this week!
Beulah howls to Finch for taking the time to train our kids for STAAR online!
Moya gives A BIG HOWL goes to my Super Partner Mariza Escamilla! this job has been so fun because of your company and support!!!
Moya Howls to all teachers. Thanks for your hard work and for pushing your students to their best daily.
Moya Howls Richardson, Whitehead, Cruz, Alonzo, Vergara for your support to make TELPAS run smoothly (just two more weeks).
Moya Howls Specials for your flexibility, we will need one more week of testing after spring break and MakerSpace will be all yours ;)
Moya Howls the Cafeteria girls!!!! just because of who they are and all the things they share.
Moya Howls Mrs. Cox and Mrs. Anderson for helping me covering my morning duty when I needed it.
Moya howls 2nd-grade team!!! I enjoy working with all of you!!!!
Stephen HOWLS out to Darcie for giving our run club opportunities outside of school! I am so grateful for all you do for HBE!!!!
Stephen HOWLS to Irene and her team for helping cook for the staff lunches this week! We are so lucky to have Irene!
Contact Information:
Email: Srichardson@littleelmisd.net
Cell Phone: (940) 391-3864
Jill Whitehead
Email: Jwhitehead@littleelmisd.net
Cell Phone: (903) 456-4004
Sandra Garces
Email: Sgarces@littleelmisd.net
Cell Phone:(214) 682-6339