Week of April 9, 2018

What a fantastic week of learning at Lee.  It was a pleasure being in so many classrooms this week!  I'm reminded what talent we have in our building.

DID YOU KNOW:

• sweet Willa Rose Tadgerson was born on March 20, at 2:09 pm?  She was 7lbs, 10oz and here is a picture of her and her new momma and then going home from the hospital.  Congratulations, Jessie and welcome to our newest FamiLEE member!!

• that we only have TWO BOXES of paper left in the building?  PLEASE ONLY COPY WHAT YOU NEED.  We do not have an order coming this week.  
• that it is time to start signing up for your EOY Summatives?  Stay tuned for an email from your Admin Team.
• that next year we have a full time opening for a STEAM Designer?  If you are interested in learning more about this position, please see Chantel.  
• you will get flex credit for our campus book study?  Please read and complete this form.

SPRING PICTURE DAY

Please remind parents, in this week's email, about Monday being Picture Day.  If they want a class picture, they need to bring the envelope, that was sent home with them, on Monday.  The cost is $13.  They also need to fill out the Picture Day Selection Form.  Proofs will be sent home for individual portrait orders.  Also, remind parents that the class picture is from head to toe, so learners need to be in their best outfits, including shoes.  They can change clothes before going to recess or PE.  Our schedule will be:  Purple ->Blue -> Yellow -> Red -> Green.  Purple, we will get started promptly at 8:00 and start with 5th grade, working our way down.  After the group picture, your class will head to the flex space for individual pictures.   Our staff picture is at 7:15, in the cafeteria, and we will make an announcement when they are ready for the group so that you do not waste your morning time.  

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday morning broadcast will be pre-recorded for you.  Please watch these in your individual spaces at your convenience each day.  Thanks Sam, Taylor, and the Broadcast Crew for doing this for us!

STAAR

We don't want you to sweat STAAR so, please feel free to wear your sweats and sneakers on Tuesday.  Good luck learners and designers!

#LOVEMYSCHOOL

Have you heard of this movement?  It is an effort to encourage teachers, principals, and staff to use the power of social media to share the positive and wonderful things that exist in their school with the world.  There is SO MUCH to be grateful for at Lee, so please take time to contribute why you love our school.

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING DAY

We will be covering the CISD Behavior Management Framework on Friday. We will start at 8:00 am, have lunch from 11:00-12:30 and finish at 3:30.

VOLUNTEER BREAKFAST

Our Volunteer Breakfast is coming up on April 17.  Please sign up to assist in any way you can, here.  THANK YOU, Ayesha, for heading up our planning and for making our invitation.  Please start sharing it with your parents, now.  

PARENT SURVEY INPUT

Please put this information in your newsletter this week:

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Coppell ISD is asking for you to complete two, brief surveys that will assist the district in its annual assessments of technology use, as well as provide an opportunity for parents to share their satisfaction with CISD. Your input is a crucial and valuable component of our planning for the next academic year. Please note that these surveys are for annual planning purposes and are separate from the recent CISD Strategic Design Survey sent earlier this year.

One survey is the Parent Survey, which will gather your input to help each campus improve their interactions with families. The survey will take approximately two minutes to complete. Your students will be taking a similar survey at school, so it is important to have the parent perspective to coincide with the students.
Please follow this link to the Parent Survey: http://tinyurl.com/2018parsur.

Also, CISD is continuing its partnership with BrightBytes, an educational research organization, in order to learn more about our students’ school and home technology use for learning. We are reaching out to ask you to take part in the Technology & Learning Questionnaire. Your participation is essential in helping us form a more complete picture of technology use for learning in our students’ lives. Please know that all of your responses will remain anonymous to protect your privacy. This is a national survey that allows us to compare data sets at the regional, state and national levels. Surveys will be conducted each year in the fall and spring. Students also will be taking this survey, and we would be interested in your input and insight. The Technology Survey will take you approximately 7 to 9 minutes to complete in total.
Please follow this link to our specific Clarity campus survey: www.BByt.es/GM4WP.

Note: if you have students at other campuses, that means you will need to complete multiple surveys. You will receive an email from the principals of these specific campuses that your other children attend with their campus specific questionnaire link.

Thank you for your time,

Chantel Kastrounis

Principal

CISD FOCUSED WALKTHROUGH

This week we will continue to give feedback on Domain 3 Dimension 3:  Classroom Culture.  We will be looking for high levels of learner engagement based on interest and abilities and encouragement with collaborating with peers.

CISD CURRICULUM COURIER

ESL STRATEGY OF THE WEEK:

Reread and Look for Patterns
Reread your notebook, drafts, and/or published work. Think about what patterns you see in your work. Think about whether you have any other ideas for sorties, poems, or essays that have the same topic that you tend to write a lot about..  (Taken from The Writing Strategies Book by Serravallo)

LEE LIFE PRINCIPLE:

Curiosity- the eager desire to learn, to explore, to investigate

LESSON IN LEADERSHIP:

Learn and inquire about things that interest you.

LEE QUOTE OF THE WEEK:

"The future belongs to the curious.  The ones who are not afraid to try it, explore it, poke at it, question it, and turn it inside out." - Anonymous

DATES TO REMEMBER:
April 8- Megan Schlossstein's Birthday
April 9- Spring Picture Day
     Staff Picture (7:15 cafe)
April 10- Day 0
     K-3 on Morning Duty
     STAAR 5 Math
     STAAR 4 Writing
     Mentee Meeting (3:30)
     PTO Mtg (7:00 Cafe)
April 11- Day 0
     STAAR 5 Reading
     Convocation shirt with jeans
     #lovemyschool Day
     Staff Mtg (3:30-5:00) CANCELLED!
April 12- 4th Grade Goes to Austin- SAFE TRAVELS!
     Spurs Savings (7:20-7:40)
     Progress Report Grades Due (8:00am)
April 13- NO SCHOOL for learners/ Professional Learning for Staff
April 14- Suzanne's Birthday