Week of September 3, 2018

What a beautiful week of learning with the children.  I have enjoyed being in so many classrooms this week giving feedback as we investigate the learning environments at Lee.  KUDOS to each of you for the incredible job you have done posting to Twitter these first two weeks.  Remember if we don't tell the story, who will?  We have more parents than ever responding and posting to our #rjlyear5 hashtag.  THANK YOU SO MUCH!

DID YOU KNOW:

• we have a new engagement on campus?  CONGRATS to Shelby on her recent engagement!  We are SO EXCITED FOR YOU!
• Ayesha is having a baby GIRL!!!!!
• we have been approved to add an additional paraprofessional to assist our inclusion learners and an additional paraprofessional to assist our ESL learners?  We are excited to welcome Kristi Howard and Delorise Foster to our our permanent teaching FamiLEE!  Shari, Misty, and Claudia will be working closely with our Admin team to use them in ALL areas of the building.
• you will want to register your Lucy Calkins kit online for extra resources? Thank you, Jacque, for the "how to" video.  Please register them so you have access!  We WANT YOU TO USE the anchor chart post its in your kits.  We will reorder a set for next year, so please use them so our learners see common language and images across grades.
• CISD Teacher of the Year, Mel Mollick, will be hosting an online session for combining organization, rules, and procedures that help embrace a 1:1 learning environment?  The event will be on September 4 from 7:30-8:30 pm and you can register here for one hour of flex credit.
• the 2018-19 CISD District Improvement Plan was approved at Monday Night's Board Meeting?   Remember that this plan drives our campus plan.  You will want to review it and be familiar with it. 
• that there are only TWO Red and Black Superstar nomination periods this year? Two learners per grade level and three staff members will be recognized in November and May.  Links will be sent out closer to the deadline.
• that we NO LONGER have to send home permission slips for field trips?  That's right!  We only need to send home information about the event because a general permission slip is already signed for your learners through the enrollment process.  YAY!

PLEASE INCLUDE IN YOUR NEWSLETTERS THIS WEEK

1. Room Parents:  If you have parents interested in serving as a Room Parents, please have them email manjusharatna@yahoo.com They should include their name, learner name, house, grade, and designer's name.  
2. Destination Imagination: We need a coordinator for our campus.  To learn more about Destination Imagination click here.  Our Coppell DI Coordinator is Tejas Purani and he can be emailed at coppelldi@gmail.com with questions. 
3. Sunshine Crew:  This website will give parents and learners information about this club opportunity before school.  THANK YOU, Kristen, for designing the site and heading up this group.  We appreciate you!

BOY GOAL SETTING MEETINGS
Please sign up here for your BOY meeting- they start on TUESDAY.   We are excited to review your goals for the year and how we can support you.  We will include Jacque in these meetings so she can support you as our IC.  SHE IS NOT EVALUATING YOU, only getting familiar with your goals.  Please make sure your personal and campus goals are uploaded and that you have multiple action steps along the way.  Bring your laptop to the PLC room for your meeting.  All campus employees must sign up.


PTO MEETING
On Tuesday, we have our first PTO Meeting.  Don't forget to bring a house learner to share out what your house is doing with CBL.


COLLEGE SHIRT DAY
College Shirt Day is the first Wednesday of every month.  Please promote this to your learners and their famiLEEs through your newsletters.  We want to represent as many different colleges as possible on Wednesday.

LEEDERSHIP COUNCIL

Please complete this Google Form to communicate who your members are before you leave on Friday.

GO MATH

GoMath is out of adoption, and the district collected the textbook materials this summer.  We were given a set of workbooks to keep for each grade level for each house.  Ashley delivered these to your storage rooms in case you need them to make copies for homework or for questions for an assessment.  We will not be getting any more of these, so copies are your best option.  

PET PARTNERS

We are so excited about the wonderful opportunity we have this year to work with Pet Partners, an animal therapy program. One of the specific benefits to having a therapy dog visit our campus is to provide an engaging, non-judgmental, creative opportunity for learners to get excited about building their literacy skills.  Dogs make the perfect reading partners for our learners!   We have the opportunity for a few learners to read to a therapy dog on September 14th and September 28th from 1:00 - 1:45 in 15 minute time slots.  We would love for you to nominate a learner who you think might benefit from this experience using this google form!  We will choose as many as we can, and hopefully we will have the opportunity several more visits throughout the year.  

WALKTHROUGH FOCUS
Our focused walkthroughs for the next three weeks are in Domain 3 Dimension 1: Learning Environment.  We are looking for evidence of effective routines, transitions, and procedures that are implemented effortlessly.  We are looking for learners to be in charge of managing materials and that your room is safe, inviting, and orderly.

RTI MEETINGS

RtI meetings will begin on Monday, September 10th.  Please use this spreadsheet to sign up for a meeting if you have a learner who was on RtI last year, if a learner did not pass STAAR, or if you have a learner who is not performing on BOY screeners.      

LEE LIFE PRINCIPLE:

Tolerance- respecting the differences of others

LESSON IN LEADERSHIP:

During discussions, respect other students’ comments, opinions, and ideas

LEE QUOTE OF THE WEEK:

“Never judge a man until you have walked a mile in his moccasins.” -Native American Proverb

DATES TO REMEMBER:
September 1- Green House takes care of Lounge for the month
September 2- Charlene's Birthday
     Nikki's Birthday
September 3- Leslie's Birthday
     NO SCHOOL
September 4- Education Foundation T-shirt and Jeans
     BOY Goal Setting Conferences (all day)
     PTO Meeting (6:30pm Cafe)
September 5- WELCOME BACK MEGAN SONNAMAKER!
     College Shirt and Jeans
     BOY Goal Setting Conferences (all day)
     Staff Meeting (3:30-5:00 Layne's space)
     Dad's Club Meeting (7:00pm Twin Peaks)
September 6- BOY Goal Setting Conferences (all day)
September 7- Julie's Birthday
     LEEdership Council Names Due
     Destination Imagination Parent Meeting (6:30pm)