Sherry celebrated Day of the Dead with her spanish classes last Friday. I love the partnership she has with parents and making them part of her celebrations while providing a helping hand.
How fun is the baby/child picture contest student council is running! Thanks to Colleen for putting this together and thanks to all of the staff that participated by turning in a childhood photo.
Our Veterans Day Assembly is coming up on Monday. April, Danielle, Stephen and Morgan have been working hard behind the scenes to prepare for an awesome assembly to honor our Benjamin Veterans. Always one of my favorite assemblies.
We concluded a second night of conferences Thursday evening. Teaching all day, conferencing at night and coming back Friday morning to teach some more is definitely the hardest stretch of our three night conference commitment. Thanks for putting in the time to have positive conversations with parents for the improvement of our students. Special shoutout to Kim for working with parents each evening to get their schedules and to Kim and Margaret for putting together our menu for our delicious dinners.
Thanks to Greg for working behind the scene to get certain data sources to our partner company Abre who will be helping to create a data dashboard for us. Among other things this will help our ease of access to data making it easier to use for student improvement.
13 formative assessments that inspire creativity.
At the school board on Monday we will be honoring our school board members and all of the school and district secretaries for what they do for our schools/district. Thank you!
I want to thank Michele D, Lauren, Nicole J., Jessica, and Danielle along with the rest of our 6th grade staff for working so hard to help gather curriculum and other tools, resources and strategies to help one of our 6th grade kiddos.
On November 21st our 8th grade kids will be taking the Pre-ACT with our HS counselors and 8th grade staff. Because of the new test and new HS staff, this date was put together quickly as the HS is behind schedule. Mark will send out a schedule in the near future and we will notify parents of the importance of their child's attendance on this day.
I have reached out to Principal Smith to find out what space they can provide for us on November 15th during the Institute Day. (during the 9:30-11am time)
I appreciate everyone's continuing effort to recognize our students for positive actions and hard work with specific positive praise, student of the month recognition, fish slips and What is a Benjamin Student common language. I was able to sit in on a couple student of the month conferences with students bubbling with joy as teachers heap praise on them. I also love the 7th grade student shout outs posted on the 7th grade hall wall.
