Akers' Updates
February 21, 2020
School News
We are accepting Akers' All-Star Nominations again! We appreciate your patience while we were getting caught up.
The 10th anniversary celebration was a huge success! Thank you to everyone who helped and attended!
Vision Focus: Professional Development
Redhawk Travel Agent of the Week!
STAFF STORE!!!
Make sure to place your order for duty coverage by April 3 (this way we have enough time to fulfill them all!)
Student EdTech Expo - (formerly Technology Festival)
Para/Support Staff of the Year!
Looking Ahead
Thursday, February 27 - Marcia Kish Visits (possible blended meeting before school)
Friday, February 28 - Go Texan Day
Friday, February 28- Father Daughter Dance
Tuesday, March 3 - First Grade Musical Bugz
Thursday, March 5 - No Thursday morning meeting! Pre-Spring Break Gift!
Friday, March 6 - Character and Word Parade
March 9-13- Spring Break
Feelin' the Love on Fridays in February
Superintendent's Fun Run
PLEASE SIGN UP!!! It is competitions between the schools to see who get the MOST!!!
Join in the fun on Saturday, March 21, 2020 for a 5k run, a 1-mile stroll through Cy-Fair FCU Stadium, student performances, family games, vendors, food trucks and fun for the entire community at the seventh annual Superintendent’s Fun Run and Festival.
We have contributed nearly $400,000 to the Cy-Fair Educational Foundation in the last six years, and I can’t wait to see what we do together in 2020!
Dr. Henry will host a reception with cake for the schools with the highest percentage of staff and student participation. Let's make it RENNELL!!!
If you can’t come to the fun run, you can still contribute to student scholarships by purchasing a $10 sleep in pass. Early registration is open now until March 2, 2020!
Tweet of the Week!
Staff Shout Outs
- Carmen Walker for Caring! Thanks! - Sammie Kelly
- Ginger Corrigan for always being willing to take any spare minute to help my kiddos! - Michelle
- Shout out to Jessica for getting our Kinder field trip with H-E-B all set up!! - Laurell
- Mrs. Bottley for making sure my birthday was special and had tacos. - Ms. Szkody
- Ginger Corrigan for always being willing to help out with my kiddos :) - hannah sanches
- Tara for being such a ROCKSTAR with all of the millions of things on her plate. You are an amazing teacher and person, and you make me want to be like you!!! :-) - Kendall
- Kelly New for always being there to help me last minute with a smile on her face, even when she is super stressed. I appreciate you more than you know! :-) - Kendall
- Julie Hill for being so flexible and helpful with progress reports. Thank you! You are a rockstar!! :-) - Kendall
- Meredith for an awesome and relaxing chat and chew! Also for being such a kind person ALWAYS! :-) - Kendall
- Ina Nguyen, for always giving 100% to her students and colleagues!! - Liz Rutledge
- The A-Team for understanding how stressed we all are and providing us the gift of time tomorrow morning and during planning. We appreciate the little things like that! :-) THANK YOU! - Kendall
- Ms. Laurell! I loved your donut day celebration! You are smart, creative, and AMAZING! You’ve inspired me to do more and be better! - Molly Redner
- Ms. Laurell! I loved your donut day celebration! You are smart, creative, and AMAZING! You’ve inspired me to do more and be better! - Molly Redner
- Sherry Johnson-your support at DaVinci day is much appreciated!!! - Leslie
- Meredith-your Choice PD from Monday was filled with so many useful nuggets! - Leslie
- Thank you Jamie Diodato for printing our new unit and getting copies made! #team4th - Molly redner
- Boyd! Such awesome ideas! I love your collaboration! It feeds my soul! - Molly redner
- Jessica Huettel for always looking for ways to be encouraging to others! - Amy Bowles
- Molly Swanson for explaining things to the parents during IEPs in a way that is so friendly and always puts them at ease. - Amy Bowles
- Crystal Beverly for making birthdays such a big deal at school! - Amy Bowles
- Carmen, Sherry, and A-team for making sure Benchmarks ran smoothly this week! - Ms. Szkody
- Our IEP Meeting Village- Thanks for being so informative and helpful when our parents have questions. Y'all are an awesome team! - Jessica Huettel
- Thank you Jodi for going out of your way to help out obtaining data for students! We appreciate that you are willing to do whatever is asked of you at any time! You are amazing! - Rebecca
- Thank you Carmen and Sherry for working so hard on getting everything ready for Benchmarks! It ran super smooth and there were no hiccups!!! Your planning paid off very well! - Rebecca
- Way to go 4th, 5th, and small group testers for monitoring your students and making sure they stayed on top of doing their best during their testing! It was awesome to see you all tracking how the students were performing! Thank you ! - Rebecca
- Thanks Monica Leal for jumping in and supporting whenever asked! You are INVALUABLE to Rennell! Truly!!! - Rebecca
- Amy Bowles for teaching me new things everyday! - Jessica Huettel
- Ms. Johnson/Zero the Hero for making every 10 days so much fun! - Jessica Huettel
- Kinder Team for always catching us up on planning info when we have staffings and IEPs and can't be in team planning. - Jessica Huettel
- Terri for setting up Father Daughter Dance ticket purchase online & ordering items for PBIS! Thanks! - Jessica Huettel
- Jennifer Boyd for an easy testing day with our kids!! AND knocking out all but 1 of our mid year conferences in a week! - Ashley Loftin
- Mr. Palomares for being so helpful with finding a book I was needing. Thank you!! - Tara
- Kendall for always letting me talk things through with you. Your positivity is always so helpful in calming me down. - Tara
- The entire 5th Grade Team (Bales, Irshad, Silvestri, Holderfield, Day, Thurston), THANKS for being patient and persevering this week. You did an amazing job actively monitoring and giving feedback. You are appreciated! - Carmen L. Walker
- To all my small group testers (Ng, Bottley, Szkody, Palomares, Sandel), I could not have coordinated 2 days of benchmarks without you. You did an awesome job! - Carmen L. Walker
- Shout out to Bellomy for being the most supportive, encouraging, and all around BEST teaching partner! Extra thankful for you always, but especially the last few weeks!! - Laurell
- "To all of my Fourth Grade Teachers (Fuller, French, Boyd, Loftin, Rutledge, Diodato, Nguyen), Thanks for doing an amazing job with the 4th Grade Writing Benchmark. You guys ROCK!!!
- Counting all those sticky notes took a great deal of time and work. " - Carmen L. Walker
- Shout out to Mrs. Walker, Mr. Palomares, Mrs. Szkody, Mrs. Lee, for helping with small group math testing this week. - Sherry J
- Shout out to all of our instructional paras for helping to create the graphic organizers to help boost Math Moves Me Sessions on our campus. - Sherry J
- "Rennell Elementary 10th Anniversary Committee,
- Thanks for doing a wonderful job!
- Ms. Akers, Ms. James & Ms. Swanson, your hard work made it extra special. The linens and decor was so appropriate for the occasion.
- Sherry, it was fun collaborating with you as you perfected the Rennell Poem. I enjoyed watching you practice. It was amazing!" - Carmen L. Walker
- Mrs. Bellomy, Ms. Laurell, Mrs. Ng, Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Quadri, Ms. Truncali, Ms. Tiffany (student teacher) and Mr. Grigsby for helping with Math Moves Me for 3rd-5th grade students. Those morning sessions are made more impactful, meaningful and engaging because of you. - Sherry J
- "Mr. Stabe and members of the Rennell Choir,
- Thanks so much for a wonderful performance. Mrs. Rennell and Mrs. Thomas gave raving reviews about how touching it was. Your hours of practicing paid off!" - Carmen L. Walker
- Mrs. Bales, Mrs. Irshad, Mrs. Holderfield, Mrs. Thurston, Ms. Silvestri and Ms. Day, thank you for fantastic Math Benchmark testing days. It was smooth testing because of your help with passwords, computers and helping to keep students focused on doing well. Thank you. - Sherry J
- Mrs. Miller, thanks for using the graphic organizers in the first grade area and tweeting about it. You rock. - Sherry J