The musical is just one week away. Melissa, Danielle and April will be putting the motors on full blast next week for tech week leading to the first school performance. Shout out to April for all of the extra work she has put into the backdrop the last few days. .
I hope everyone had a good time at the first annual Contest of Champions at the staff learning meeting. Congratulations to the Specials Team for taking home the coveted "Wilson" trophy. I know it will travel amongst their rooms in a place of honor for the next year! You are all winners in my book.
Jessica and the Tiger Times put out another outstanding issue this week. I am always amazed at the detail the students put into each article. They definitely earned their issue release party!
Colleen, Alex and student council have kicked off the food drive to help the Carol Stream Rotary fill the food pantry shelves. Since next week is the last week, please encourage and remind your students to participate and bring in non-perishable food and nonfood items for charity.
3 strategies to increase student participation.
increase student participation
I am looking forward to Greg's IAR presentation on next Wednesday's early release schedule. It will be in the multipurpose room and it will start at 1:45pm.
Thanks to grade level teams for ensuring that all students take the 5 Essentials Survey before the March 29th deadline. I appreciate the extra time put into explaining the purpose and process so students take the survey seriously.
8 Great Tech tools to try this year. (actually check this one out when you have time or maybe in team) From Cult of Pedagogy
https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/ed-tech-tools-2024/
Both Michele Davis and Sherry tied in awards presentations/themes to their classroom to ramp up the engagement and excitement in their lessons this week. I appreciate the effort that all of you put into your lesson planning each day.
Dr. Woell and Dr. Filas did a great job of setting the stage with the three architecture presentations to the school board on Monday. This involved a lot of work leading up to the presentations to put us in the best position to have great choices to do the work that needs to be done in the next couple years. Special thanks to Michele Davis, Megan Dusing, Dan Baker and Sherry Anderson for staying for the three hours of presentations.
Shout out to Catherine Miller for returning to Benjamin to finish her MS-SLP internship with Megan Dusing. The student is now the teacher! I look forward to seeing the work she does to help our students.
"The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning." -- Stanley Kubrick
"Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose." -- Richard DeVos
"With a purposeful story, you can change a 'wanna be' to a 'gonna be' to a 'be'." -- Peter Guber
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