Thursday, January 25, 2024

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Jen and Joe have been doing a great job with the healthy cooking and Roller Skating for our PE students.  What a fun and engaged time to be a PE student.

Professional musician Michael Miles visited us again on Thursday and created engaged classes with music, discussion/questions and hands on learning.

Whether your students are in elementary or high school, these strategies will help them develop the emotional literacy skillset they need to better understand—and react—to their feelings




The Zoom PTA meeting was well attended on Tuesday.  Just as a reminder Benjamin still has 
money for classroom incentives in their budget $150 per teacher if you are a PTA member and haven't already used those funds.  Also they will be looking for some staff volunteers at Culvers for their March 11th fundraiser.  It ia a Monday evening before the board meeting.  Looks like fun and a great way to see some of our kiddos and their families outside the classroom.   Link below

I have had a very busy week with observations, post observations, meetings both here and at Evergreen.  Since I have been less available than usual, please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions or problems I can help solve.  

The way you answer questions can force students to think rather than look to you to do the thinking for them.

Thanks for everyone's attendance and participation at our staff learning meeting.  Going through the 5 essentials data can be tedious as we work through and identify weird, prompts, bad questions but also genuine areas for growth.  

Congrats to Megan P on her employee of the month recognition.  We are all proud of her NBCT status!

I am very grateful to the Specials Team, Melissa L, Michelle F, Michele Davis, April and Lynette for taking over the student of the moth bulletin boards each month.  Such creativity and artistic talent!  Special shout out to Michele D for identifying a need and replacing and beautifying our Lounge bulletin boards that were in desperate need of an upgrade.  

Edutopia's 60 second strategies are now all in one place.  Check it out for some fresh ideas and quick PD. 


Good Luck to Matt, Dan and the girls basketball team as they have their first home game on Friday.

Team Leaders please send in your e-learning attendance for your grade when completed.  

Just to put a smile on your face at the end of a long-short week.  The Norfolk police department was challenged by another police department in Texas to a Lip-sync battle.  They shot this in one take, pretty sure they won.  #havingfunatwork


"It is either easy or impossible." -- Salvador Dali

"It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over." -- Paulo Coelho



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