August 26 and
September 2, 2013
“We cannot teach
students well if we do not know them well.”
—Hoffman and Leak
News/Timelines/Due Dates
College Colors Day – Wear your favorite college colors this Friday to celebrate the
beginning of the college football season.
Encourage the students to join in!
Rosh Hashanah-
This holy day for our Jewish population begins at sundown on September 5 and
many students will be out on the sixth.
Please keep this in mind as you are planning tests and due dates.
Labor Day Weekend – The opening of school is always exhausting and I hope you enjoy the
three day break and take some time to relax.
You can wear jeans on Tuesday to ease back into reality!
Peanut Allergies – Rusty sent a link out last week to help staff identify peanut safe
foods. We have some children this year
with some very serious allergies and we should be aware of what is in the food
that we are giving children. If you are
one that gives out candy for incentives (which is another discussion in
itself), make sure they are peanut free.
For those of you who do food projects be very mindful of what is being
brought by the kids especially if you have one of the children with allergies
in your class.
New Professional Learning Room (Conference Room A150)- This
new room will be equipped with furniture suitable for training sessions, duty
days, large meetings. At this point, it
is not for classroom use unless approved by admin.
PRIDE – Thank you for your patience and
assistance in getting PRIDE up and running this year! It takes some time
to prepare everything for the initial startup and we are good to go now.
There was lots of help in the hallways trying to get students into classrooms
and everyone finally found their rooms. Thank
you!!!!!
Please take time to read this message as it will help
to clarify a few things for the weeks to come:
General Info:
·
All students should have been given a PRIDE
sticker for their agenda. Stickers were distributed by HR.
·
Please keep up with attendance on your
roster. You do not need to turn in your roster but should follow up with
the grade level administrator of your students if someone is missing for a couple
of consecutive weeks.
·
Please check the room number on your
roster. You may not have the same PRIDE room location as last year.
There were many staff and classroom changes so please look carefully.
·
If you have a new PRIDE group and have not found
the PRIDE folders please check with Fran Meredith.
·
There is a lot of movement this year between HR
and PRIDE because students move to another grade level hall for their PRIDE
class. Please monitor the hallways during this transition.
Students
having to go downstairs for PRIDE should use the 6th grade side
staircase.
Students
having to go upstairs for PRIDE should use the 7th grade side
staircase.
·
Remember to collect feedback on the lessons.
Lessons & Supplies:
·
Lessons will be placed in your boxes for
advisement lessons generally 1 week prior to an advisement class.
·
If there are supplies such as bowls, popsicle
sticks, skittles, hula-hoops, parts to a game, or anything not readily
available to all staff, it will be provided for you and placed in your box with
the lesson.
·
If the lesson requests paper, markers, bulletin
board paper, etc. you will need to make sure you have that prior to the lesson.
·
Some lessons provide questionnaires,
scenarios, worksheets, etc. that each student will need a copy. Please
make copies for your PRIDE group. If you would like to work out a system
with a buddy or your team and someone makes copies for all the groups, please
feel free to work out your own system. Don’t wait until the last minute
to read through your lesson and make copies.
·
Returning Supplies: Any
items that can be reused for next year (generally items that were given to you
with the lesson) should be returned on Fridays at the completion of the
lesson. Please return your supplies to one of the PRIDE committee members
closest to you. PRIDE committee members will return all supplies to Wendy
Wilson
Committee members include:
8th Grade:
Gayla Payne & Stephanie Wilson
7th
Grade: Lizzie Haber & Marisa
6th Grade: Lisi Furman & Deborah White
Connections/PE: Jennifer McCann will collect for those that teach
6th grade groups.
Jason Landers will collect for those that teach 7th grade
groups.
Ed Clawson will
collect for those that teach 8th grade groups.
PRIDE - 8/30/13: This
week will be an advisement lesson. If you did not finish the script or
putting advisement/silent reading dates in agendas with students please
finish. Continue with your icebreaker activities. If you teach 6th
graders the lesson you receive this week will be a 2 part lesson. Please
use this lesson for 8/30/13 & 9/13/13.
Next Friday, 9/6/13 will be our first Silent
Reading session. Please remind students to bring a book with them to
PRIDE.
A MIGHTY ROAR!
Thanks
to Todd Shelnutt and his class for sprucing up the outdoor classroom.
Where is
Livingston?
Matt McNamara says, “I
am passing Livingston on to someone that does a lot more for this school then I
think at times gets credit for. Already this year she has worked
extremely hard to help the SEC teachers with the FTE’s, NCLB forms, caseloads,
Segment Reports, etc. This person is continuously supportive of all
teachers and I know specifically the SEC department REALLY appreciates all that
she does for us. She spends countless hours outside of school hours
making sure that everything runs smoothly. I know teachers and administrators
really appreciate her. That person is Debra Clark. Thank you Debra
for all you do and continue to do!”
Happy Birthday
Dana Balckburn August
29
Michelle Potts August 29
Robin Wexler August 31
Laura Hunter August 25
