Thank you for a great four day week. We have enjoyed being in your spaces and observing the learning that is taking place. Evidence of learning is starting to show on our walls and in your spaces. WHAT A BEAUTY to witness! We had wonderful turnout for Curriculum Night and parents left smiling and fulfilled! THANK YOU for your preparations, for communicating so effectively to our famiLEEs, and for helping them feel at home in our school. Have an incredible weekend- you deserve it!
- on most days I have noticed an empty atrium or empty outdoor learning pavilion? The weather is cooling off. Remember to USE our entire building. PUSH YOURSELF beyond your comfort and out into those spaces.
- there are two emails in your inbox (just sent- sorry) to include in your newsletters (DI and Room Mom)?
- that we have your learner badges ready for you? They will be in your mailboxes by the end of the day. Thank you to the office for getting clips and covers organized. We even have lanyards for some of the classes (if you want them). Please make sure learners wear their badge at all times at school. They must take it off before leaving, so please make this part of your pack-up routine.
- that we will have choice book clubs for our book study this year? If you have a book you would like to lead a book study in, please email CK the title, for approval, by next Wednesday. I will send a Google form out next week so that you can select the title you want to complete your book study with.
- you have access to Lynda? Check your inbox to learn more!
LEEDERSHIP COUNCIL
Please complete this Google Form to communicate who your members are before you leave on Friday. Your LEEder will be invited to ride the Homecoming float in the CHS Homecoming Parade. I have special news for our 4th and 5th graders this year. We will go on a special Leadership Field Trip together this year. BOY GOAL SETTING MEETINGS
Please review this Google spreadsheet . Ashley, Leigh Ann, and Chantel are excited to review your goals for the year. We are also including Jacque so she can support you as our IC. She is NOT EVALUATING YOU, only getting familiar with your goals. Please bring your laptop to our meeting in Leigh Ann's office.
LEAVE YOUR MARK
Please feel free to wear dots on Friday (or school shirt), in celebration of Dot Day. Here is a Dot Day Resource website for educators for The Dot. Ali and Melinda also have a Global Project for Dot Day. I would love to come and see the Dot Breakout Edu in someone's space. Let me know if you are doing this.
PTO MEETING
In two weeks, we have our first PTO Meeting. Don't forget to bring a house learner to share out what they are doing in CBL, and in your house, with our PTO.
BUDGET
We are excited that we now have our budget dollars to order what you need to work with your learners. Part of my role is to make sure you have the supplies you need to do your job. Please try to plan ahead so that you do not have to spend personal funds on supplies. Also, be thinking about items we need to add to house storage closets (like manipulatives, science tools, etc.) and write up a PO and put it in my box. Remember that it will take a couple of weeks to process, get quotes, and ship. You also must use approved vendors ONLY. We are still waiting for IKEA to submit their paperwork with CISD. I am asking them WEEKLY if it is in yet.
BULLYING
If, at any time, a learner or parent claim that there is a bullying situation, you MUST alert Campus Administration (Chantel, Ashley, Leigh Ann, and Angela). We will follow the CISD Bullying Protocol and investigate for you.
DISCIPLINE
As stated in our Lee Staff Handbook: Only after all efforts by the designer have been exhausted should a learner be sent to the office with a referral. Repeated or serious misbehavior should be communicated to the learner’s parents as soon as possible. There is a new district discipline referral form. Please use this instead of the three page carbon one. Learners MUST be accompanied by a completed referral if you send them down. Please watch this short video created by Courtney to review our discipline practices at Lee.
Friday is the LAST DAY to order your tshirt. There are forms in the office or you can order online. I will be forwarding you an email from the Education Foundation this week. Grant submissions open on September 13 are due by October 18 by 4:30 pm. Let's get some grants, friends!
COPPELL GIFTED ASSOCIATION
The Coppell Gifted Association is committed to supporting Coppell ISD and its educators in their efforts to meet the needs of gifted students. Please register for your FREE CGA educator membership, here.
ESL STRATEGY OF THE WEEK:
Use visuals, manipulatives, graphic organizers, models, technology, and other resources to help explain concepts.
LEE LIFE PRINCIPLE:
Patriotism- love for or devotion to one's country
LESSON IN LEADERSHIP:
"Stand up for what you believe in. You shouldn't take no for an answer if your heart and mind are leading you in a direction that you feel strongly about."
LEE QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
"I only regret that I have one life to lose for my country" - Nathan Hale
Sept 11- Celebrate Freedom Week
National Suicide Prevention Week
BOY Goal Setting Meetings (all day)
Sept 12- BOY Goal Setting Meetings (all day)
Mentor Mtg. (3:35)
Sept 13- BOY Goal Setting Meetings (all day)
Convocation T-shirt with Jeans
Donuts with Dads (cafe)
Staff Meeting (3:30-5:00 Red House-May's Space)
Sept 14- BOY Goal Setting Meetings (all day)
Nelson Visits Lee all day
Sept 15- International Dot Day
Lee Handbook must be signed off (office)
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