Week of March 25, 2019

Thank you so much for getting your grades in for report cards and for an incredible Fun Run today.  I appreciate the enthusiasm you bring to this event and I am so proud of our runners.  We will be excited to share how much we raised next week, so stay tuned!  Our Hosp tour was blown away, AGAIN, by what they saw when they visited today.  Some of the biggest compliments they had were how engaged our learners were and how involved the educators were with the children.  THANK YOU for leaving such a positive impression on them.  I notice the increased use of the outdoor spaces with the nicer weather.  THANK YOU for continuing to take advantage of ALL of our learning spaces.  YOU ROCK!

DID YOU KNOW:

• your new technology will be delivered next Friday?  I will be forwarding an email with details for your assigned times.
• you are supposed make time in this week's house meeting to share exemplar products in this document to support our next iBook for ADS renewal and as inspiration for others?  Don't forget to go observe your accountability partner using the Apple Snapshot Tool in the next two weeks.
• Jacque and Kasey are hosting a Lunch and Learn on Schoology AMP on April 16th?  Sign up here.
• it is time to nominate Red and Black Superstars? Please nominate at least one learner from your class here.  
• if you looking for ways to spice up how your learners are using their iPads in the classroom that by clicking here you can check out some great apps that will spark learner creativity?

DADS CLUB CAMP IN
Please share this information with your parents about our Spring Camp In.  This event is open to anyone that wants to sleep over in the school gym and cafeteria.  Parents can register at www.leedads.org and pay online.  It is lots of fun. 

WRITING CAMP

Thank you fourth grade, and Jacque, for hosting Writing Camp next week.  Thank you, also, to those of you that have been flexible with your schedules to accommodate this learning opportunity for the children.  We know this will help them grow in their skills.  

NIGHT AT THE BALLPARK

Please share this information with your parents Tickets for CISD Night at the Ballpark on, April 3, are now on sale.  To sit in the Lee section, click here to order your tickets by April 1.  

EOY SUMMATIVE SIGN UPS
Please take time to sign up for your EOY Summative Conference here.  We tried to block out house times on the schedule to match conference times.  Specialists, please sign up in a white or extra colored rectangle and Specials sign up for a grey rectangle.  Thank you.  I will be sending an email the beginning of next week about how to prepare for your meeting.  You can start by making sure the artifacts supporting your goals are uploaded in Strive.  Hourly employees, we will set your end of year conferences up, separately.

ENROLLMENT FOR 2019-2020

Please share this with your parents ONE LAST TIME:

Now that CISD has finalized Boundary Realignment, it will help our school to get information from our FamiLEEs so that we can prepare accordingly for the 2019-2020 school year.  Thank you for the 300 responses we have received so far.  We kindly request that the rest of our 860 famiLEEs take time to fill out this SHORT form so that we can plan for adequate placement for learners at Lee.  The Grandfathering and Transfer deadline is 4:30 pm on March 29.


KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION CONTINUES
Please share this with your parents ONE LAST TIME:
FamiLEEs,
Are you the parent of an incoming Kindergartener for the 2019-2020 school year?  Kindergarten registration begins Monday, March 18.  It is important that you register early to ensure your learner has a spot at Lee.  Please fill out and submit this NEW LEARNER FORM.  Once we have received it, the office will email the next two steps to complete your child's enrollment.  Please note: If your child is in PreK in Coppell ISD, you DO NOT have to re-register your child.  They will be transferred over internally.  We look forward to welcoming your new little Lee Spur to our FamiLEE!

YEARBOOKS

Please put a strong reminder in your newsletters that, THIS SUNDAY (March 24) is the LAST day to order 2018-2019 Yearbooks.  The cost is $30.  Go HERE to order and enter Richard J Lee's Yearbook code 13015819.

SPRING CONFERENCES

You can begin your Spring Conferences at any time, now.  Please give due diligence to make contact with all parents to review their learner's data and goal setting.  Keep documentation of parents who attend conferences.  During your time together, I would encourage you to listen for if a parent/child would like to make a change in house for the 2019-2020 school year.  Maybe their learner is not working well with classmates?  Perhaps they need a change of classmates after multiple years? Please write these requests down and EMAIL them to Chantel.  This makes sure that we have a second layer of documentation to double check when class lists are created.  In addition, remind parents that we DO NOT take requests for house colors or designers and we do our best to have siblings in the same house.  With the realignment, we will do our very BEST to keep as many learners in their house to loop up, but we will have to move some to balance our building.  Parents WILL be notified by campus administration before Meet the Designer Night, if their learner is being moved.  Please ask me if you have any questions!!!  You can log extra hours, outside of contract time, here to document for May 24.

SAVE THE DATE

LEE LIFE PRINCIPLE:

Compassion- ability to share another's feelings or ideas

LESSON IN LEADERSHIP:

When a designer is having a serious conversation with a learner, don't look at that learner.  You wouldn't want your classmates looking at you in a similar situation.

LEE QUOTE OF THE WEEK:

"It is the weak who are cruel.  Gentleness can only be expected from the strong." -Leo Roskin

DATES TO REMEMBER:
March 26-April 2- Rate TELPAS Samples
March 25-29- 4th Grade Writing Camp
March 25- RtI Meetings
March 26- #TXEdTuesday Celebrate Music in Schools
     CMSW Visit (8:30 Cafe)
     Bluebonnet Showcase (6:30 Cozby Library)
March 27- House shirt w/ Jeans
     First Grade Field Trip (Arboretum)
     Purple CBL Group to Scottish Rite
     New Learner Lunches (10:30)
     Leadership Meeting (3:30 Stephanie's Space)
March 28- Spurs Savings (7:20-7:40)
     Lee Learning Walk (8:30-9:30)
     ADS Tour (17 guests 9:30-11:00)
     Coppell Leadership Tour (1:00-2:00)
     Bluebonnet Party (3:15-4:00 Media Center)
March 29- Last Day to Transfer in CISD
     New Technology delivered at Lee
     Positive Post It Day
     Dad's Club Camp In (7:00pm- 8:00am)
March 30- Nikki gets married!!!!!!