Staff News Letter

2/18-2/22

I hope you all had a wonderful week and are ready for an extended weekend.  I wanted thank all of you for doing such a wonderful job with your spelling bees in your grade levels and classes.  I know some of you are still finishing up.  I think it is a wonderful way for students to have the opportunity to stretch. 

As weather begins warming up, students have a tendency to leave their coats.  If you would please remind students to be sure to have their coats as they leave each day.  I think that a reminder will cut down on the number of coats left after school in the hall, as well as, the number left outside.

Just a reminder that we have Curriculum Night next week.   Thanks in advance for the time and effort in putting together your materials and the extra time.

Thank you so much for all you do.

Thought: Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now. 
Denis Waitley 
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Staff News Letter

2/10-2/15

Thanks for your work on our lock down drill this week.  I think it went very well and the police felt good about how we did.  I will have Sherri order magnets to place in the door hinges that can be removed during a lock down.  This would allow you to leave your doors locked and not have to spend valuable time finding keys and locking the doors.  The police re-emphasized the importance of wearing name badges to help them in identifying individuals who are not supposed to be in the school. 

I am excited to finally have our SMART Board and projector installed in the library.  As you plan, this might give you an additional option with your classes in the library.  It makes me so excited that I want to extend the school year a few more weeks.

Thought: Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thoughts, and habits can be acquired.  An action repeated becomes an attitude realized.  Paul Myer

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Thanks for all your hard work.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Staff News

February 4-8

I hope you all had a wonderful week.  You should all have your DIBELS results by now.  I hope you have had a chance to review and make adjustments.  It is truly impressive to see the progress our students have made.  It represents a lot of hard work from our reading interventionists, great teacher instruction, and the many who help support our efforts.  It is hard to believe we are over half way through the year.  I sincerely appreciate the many wonderful things you do, so many of which are done quietly behind the scenes.

I would like to congratulate Danny on scoring well enough on his football picks this year to provide pizza for those of us that participated.

I would like to re-emphasize the e-mail Holly sent out regarding using the NBC Learn site.  I think that as you spend time exploring it, you will find it a wonderful source for you.

Thought: A positive attitude may not solve every problem but it makes solving any problem a more pleasant experience.  Grant Fairley     

Have a fabulous weekend.  The weather looks wonderful.

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Staff News

1/28-2/1

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I would like to express appreciation to our Kindergarten teachers and Mrs. Allen for putting together such a wonderful Kindergarten parent training.   The turnout was so large that we had to put out additional chairs.

By way of information, Eric Fieldsted and Josh Bennett will be working in our building to complete their administrative intern hours.  They will be in and out of your classrooms and will be helping throughout the school.  They are both teachers at CHS.  It will be wonderful to have the extra help in our building.

Please let me know if you need help putting together your board presentation videos.  I would like to use this video to provide a DVD for new students who move in during the year.

I would like to thank you for the extra time and effort in preparing and sending out grades.  I hope it provided good feedback for parents.

Thank you so much for all you do.

Thought: Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.  Chines Proverb

Have a wonderful weekend.

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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!!