Faculty News Letter 

Jan. 21-25

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I hope everyone had a wonderful week and look forward to an extended weekend.

On Tuesday of next week the School Board will recognize our school, along with 3 other Title I schools, for being a High Performing Title I school.  You are all invited to attend that portion of the meeting.  The meeting will begin at 4:00 PM.

If you have parents or people in the community ask you questions regarding enrollment for next year’s dual immersion classes, please let them know that enrollment forms will be available the first week of February.  We will also have a parent meeting Feb. 13^th at 5:30 to share information about the program.

Thank you so much for regularly holding your PLCs.  In our last principal’s training, it was emphasized that grade levels should look to establish the same objectives at the same time during the year.  The presentation of the lesson could definitely be different, but the book we are studying, suggests that grade levels should be covering the same material at approximately the same time and have the same objectives.  For the segment of students who fall behind, that is where plans can be developed in the PLC to help intervene.   I know many of you are already doing this, but if not, I would encourage you to work toward aligning more thoroughly.

I hope many of you have taken advantage of the NBC Learn web site.  It looks like it could save quite a bit of time searching the Internet.  It is an impressive program.       

I am excited to now have the mother of all projectors mounted in the gym.  It will now be an incredible technological oasis for programs and for East Elementary cinema extravaganzas.  It just gives me goose bumps all over.

Thought: Everyone is better looking when they are smiling.  Joe Harsel

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Have a fantastic break.

Staff News

1/14/13-1/18/13

I hope you all had a wonderful first week of the new year.  I need to pass on a HUGE congratulations to all of you.  We received the High Performing Title I School Recognition award again this year.  It is so easy to get so bogged down in working hard that we don’t take enough time to celebrate the progress.  This is a great indicator of the wonderful work you each do every day.  Thank you so much for all you do for our kids.

If you would please take a look at the calendar regularly. I had to make a few changes.  Our lock down drill had to be rescheduled for next month to accommodate the police department who will be participating with us.  I also changed the Internet Safety training to avoid conflicts with DIBELS testing.

**If you are renewing your license this year, you must take the suicide prevention training.  Go to the professional development link on the district employees part of the district web site and be sure to sign up to attend the training.   Feb. 11^th is the first training.  Here is the link: http://prodev.ironk12.org/ . 

Thank you for all of your support on increased safety procedures.  I have also appreciated the suggestions on what we could do to improve.

I am still working on our school app.  It is now available for Android, but I ran into an issue to get it listed in the Apple Store that I am still working with.  We will soon be joining the extensive world of the technology cloud in the sky.  Along with technology, thank you so much to all of you who have regularly updated your web pages and would like to encourage everyone to keep up the good web page work.

PTA Funding Note:  The PTA has provided funds to each grade level.  I would encourage you to use it as a grade level rather than individually.  The intent of the funding from the PTA was to provide enough funding to purchase something nice for the entire grade that was agreed upon.  If the funds are split, it dilutes the funding.

Thought:  Weakness of attitude becomes a weakness of character.  Albert Einstein

I hope you all have a fantastic weekend!

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Staff News Jan. 7-11

I hope everyone is ready to have a fantastic Christmas break.  It is amazing that we are nearly half way through the year.  Thank you so much for all of your hard work this year.  I feel that we have the hardest working staff in the district.

Please take a few minutes to sign up for our texting program.  I am sending home instructions for the parents to sign up for the parent portion of the program.  I would encourage you to sign up for both the parent and teacher text notifications.

We are collecting an enormous number of coats on the stage.  If you would please remind your students to check on the stage if they are missing a coat, and remind them to be sure to have their coats at the end of the day.

I wanted to thank the Social Committee for a wonderful Christmas party.  I’m sure we all walked away with gifts that we will treasure for a lifetime. 

Enjoy your 2 weeks off.  Remember who you are and what you stand for, and please wear shirt and shoes in public.

Merry Christmas!!

Staff News Letter
12/3-12/7

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I hope you all had a wonderful week.  I wanted to express my appreciation to all those who have been so diligent in posting objectives.  As I have visited with several of you, it sounds like it has been beneficial to cover learning objectives with your students.

Reminder: We will be reviewing the 2^nd chapter of Leader in Me at our next faculty meeting on the 5^th.  I know that many of you have read beyond that, but if you would take a minute to read it if you have not, and review it if you have.

As Christmas is on the way, please e-mail me with names of students who may need assistance this year.

I wanted to express my appreciation to all those who have checked in on how my family and I are doing after sending my son, Austin, to the MTC.  As many of you who have already had the experience know, it is difficult, but wonderful experience at the same time.

As many of you know, Sherri now has a broken foot and is using a wheel chair to get around.  Speaking from experience over the past couple of days, please use caution when you come into the office, Sherri is a crazy driver and might just take you out.  You don’t want to go home with wheel chair tracks across your face.  I really don’t want to get a call from your spouse, like the call I received last night from a parent, asking about why another student was jumping on her son’s face yesterday.  In this case it would be to ask why their spouse has tire track on his/her face instead of footprints.

Thought:  A little You Tube laugh for you.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=QuwgoIFgQpY

Have a fantastic weekend!

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Staff News Nov. 5-9

I hope you all had a wonderful week.  A special congratulations to our 5^th grade who will undergo the highly coveted maturation training today.  I will be extremely grateful to have such highly matured 5^th graders.

If you would each take just a moment to visit with all of your students about not taking food out at lunch.  Most students are pretty good, but Jeff is still spending quit a bit of time cleaning up juice containers…that have been brought out at lunch.

As I have been in and out of many of your classes, I have found that we are exceptionally consistent at not posting or reviewing objectives.  If you could look for ways to post objective in your rooms.  I will be finding incentives for those who have them posted.  If you can find ways to review simple understandable objective with your students, I think you will find them much more meaningful than simply listing them on the board.  We will visit more about this in our next faculty meeting.  I promise that if you will begin using your objectives, your life will reach new heights of celestial and spiritual enlightenment.

I wanted to thank those of you who were able to help with the Fall Carnival last Saturday.  We had a wonderful turnout.  I know that helping meant a lot of extra time at school and I appreciate your willingness.

I hope you all have a fantastic weekend.

Thought:  Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets it gets you know where.  Glenn Turner

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Staff News Letter

I hope you all had a wonderful week.  It was nice to have a normal week after such a busy SEP week.  I will be sending out a Google Doc to collect your SEP percentage of attendance.  We have been at about 98% attendance for the past several years.  If you need to catch a family or 2, we could approach 100%.  Right now 3 Peaks has the 100% bragging right.  Of course, they could be cheating.  You just never know.  If you could just do your very best to catch your parents. 

I wanted to remind you that ESL Night will be held on Tuesday of next week.  Please remind your ESL students on Monday that we would love to have them and their families to attend. 

We also have the Data Fair on Tuesday the 23^rd at the District Office.  If you are able to drop by, it would give me goose bumps and chills.

When you have students who are sick, whenever possible, if you could be the one to call home.  There are times when a student comes to the office to call home sick and the parent has questions that only the teacher can answer.  If you are unable to come break away to call, please send a note with your student so Sherri can have a little information to share with the parent.  If you are the one who is sick, it is OK to call your parent though.

Thanks again for all of your hard work.  I appreciate all that you do.

Have a fantastic weekend!

Thought: The mind works more effectively when you’re telling it what to do rather than what not to do.  Casstevens, Mind Gym p.11.

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Staff News Letter

Thank you all so much for all of your hard work and extra time with SEPs this week.  They seemed to go exceptionally smooth this year.

If you would please make a special note that our next AR assembly will be on Wed. the 24^th this month.  This is to better accommodate Red Ribbon Week.  Please note also that the fall carnival will be on Saturday, Oct. 27^th, from 11-3:00.  I know there will be scheduling conflicts, but I would love to see you there if you can attend.  It will fun to try it outside.

Please take just a few minutes this next week and reinforce with your students that they need to keep all food and drinks in the lunchroom.  Jeff spends an extensive amount of time cleaning up juice boxes… that are taken out of the lunchroom.

I wanted to pass on a special thanks to Mary Belle for teaching the Leader in Me in to our students.  Please be sure she is able to have her scheduled time to teach your students so that it is consistent throughout the school.

Above all, have an incredible weekend!

Thanks for all that you do.

Thought: Treat a man as he is and you make him worse than he is.  Treat a man as he has the potential to become and you make him better than he is.  Geothe.
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