Week of October 28, 2019

We appreciate your participation in this week's Red Ribbon Week spirit days. We saw some interesting pajamas and hairstyles this week, FOR SURE!  We had a wonderful day of tours, today.  All three tours commented on how engaged our learners are!  THANK YOU for your constant efforts to showcase the greatness that is inside Lee when we have guests!  While we have a beautiful building, it is WHAT YOU ARE DESIGNING that impresses our visitors.  We hope to see you, for a little bit, at the dance on Friday and CANNOT wait to see your Book Character Parade Costumes next week!  Have an awesome weekend.

DID YOU KNOW:

• you should inform the front office and CK & LAH if your learners are moving or going to be on extended leave? 
• you should phone to check on a learner that is absent 3 consecutive days?
• some mailboxes are not being emptied daily?  Please remember to visit your box, at your lunch time, so that important information and items make their way to you and your learners. 
• you MUST hit submit to appraiser on your SLO before you leave for the weekend?
• Keiko and the Compost Crew are collecting vegetable scraps and used coffee grounds EVERY FRIDAY for composting?  They can bring them to the cafeteria each Friday morning.  Please share this information with your parents.

WRITE A CHECK

It is our final week for our Write a Check campaign.  We are halfway to our goal.  Please turn in your WAC Acknowledgement Forms to the front office, daily.  Good luck, and thank you for pumping this up with your learners!  I have heard of individual class incentives being offered- THANK YOU!

BOOK CHARACTER PARADE
Learners can dress up this day and parade as their favorite book character.  Please bring a book to accompany your costume.  If parents would like to attend, please have them sign up here and we will have a visitor's badge preprinted for them to avoid waiting upon arrival.  

SCHOOL DANCE

Our Fall School Dance is approaching.  Please  plan to bring your family to this FUN school event.

TEACHER OF THE YEAR

We have SO MUCH TALENT on campus.  Please take time to nominate someone in our building.   If you need admin to cover your class so you can observe your nominee, to help you better answer the questions, please arrange that with us.  We are happy to help.  Nominations are due November 8.

SCHOOL PICTURES

We have placed school pictures in your mailboxes.  Please share in your newsletters:

Still need to order? Order online here and use your Portrait ID and Access Code found in your portrait envelope.

DYSLEXIA AWARENESS MONTH

Did you know… Writing letters backwards is not necessarily a sign a learner has dyslexia?  Click here to read more about letter reversal.

CIP
The Campus Improvement Plan can be found here. Please have your house review and make annotations on a house copy by November 15.

VETERANS DAY

Veteran's Day is quickly approaching.  Have you seen Linda's beautiful decorations?  Please share this Veteran's sign up for parents and guests to attend for our Veteran's Day event.  Don't forget that we have been invited by a School Board member to donate Veteran's Day letters to the Greater Dallas Veteran's Foundation.  Please incorporate this request into your writing plans the next few weeks and send your published letters to the office by November 1.  We will also share some of these letters with a Veteran that Jessica has made contact with.

TTESS OBSERVATION SIGN UP

Please make sure you have signed up for your TTESS Observation with Chantel and Leigh Ann by Monday.  The Pre-observation Conference Form is here.

PARENT FEEDBACK

Based on some conversation with parents, there is concern that they aren't always sure what learners are doing during the school day.  Fourth and fifth Designers, please include in your newsletters a reminder to your parents (I know you shared at Curriculum Night) that they can access grades through the Home Access Center.  This presentation (thank you Khan gals who created this a couple of years ago) can help your parents understand how to use this tool at home to keep on top of learner grades.  A friendly reminder to you, to get grades posted weekly.  All Designers using Schoology,  please remind parents that they can access learner work using information found here.  If you use other tools (such as Notability, Drive, SeeSaw, etc) please resend information out this week reminding all parents.  Thank you for your help. 

HOLIDAY ASSISTANCE

Please include in your newsletters: The Coppell Lion's Club provides holiday baskets and toys to needy families in Coppell's attendance area.  If you and your family are in need this holiday season, please reach out to Angela Garvin by phone (214)496-7912 or email agarvin@coppellisd.com so that she can send home a confidential family input sheet.  As always, if we can help with any additional resources, please don't hesitate to ask.

CISD FOCUSED WALKTHROUGH

This week, is the last week, we will give feedback on Domain 3 Dimension 2:  Student Behavior.  We will be looking for evidence of praise and positivity as management strategies.  We will listen for encouragement of learners and how you monitor and respond to learners while teaching and learning.  Learners should manage themselves with minimal teacher redirection.  We should see evidence in your space of class respect agreements and view high expectations for ALL. 

ESL THIS WEEK

DATES TO REMEMBER:
Final Week of Write a Check
Welcome back to our Mommas this week!  We've missed you Taylor, Stormy, and Jacque!
Oct 28-  RtI Meetings
     CoGAT training (3:30-4:15)
October 30- House Shirt with Jeans
     Jessica's Birthday
     Meeting with Mr. Hunt (Media Center Flex Space 3:30-4:00)
October 31- Spurs Savings (7:20-7:40)
     Storybook Character Parade (8:00-8:30)
     New Learner Lunches (Lunchtimes)
Nov 1- Yellow House cleans the lounge this month
     Veteran's Day Letters Due to Office
     So You Think You Can Dance (6:30-8:30)