Week of March 16, 2020

THANK YOU for pumping up our Fun Run and for sending the daily emails to your parents.  Learners are doing an awesome job of securing pledges!  Our success is because of YOU, your encouragement, and your communication with our FamiLEEs.

We appreciate your flexibility (and Claudia, Stormy, Leigh Ann, Stephanie, and Priscilla) for helping to ensure TELPAS testing went well this week.  Great job putting your folders together and getting them to our facilitators.

We had another incredible Open House and THANK YOU for showcasing your children and their learning in such creative ways!  Our parents are always SO COMPLIMENTARY of you and our school.  These extra efforts give me a HUGE attitude of gratitude!

Have a wonderful Spring Break!  Be safe as you make memories with your loved ones and friends.  You are loved!

DID YOU KNOW:

• we will clean out the refrigerator tomorrow at 1:30?  Please have your items out of there so they don't spoil over the week off.  Please make sure you have plans for class pets, too.
• you might want to consider changing your password before leaving for Spring Break?  
• you should be adding evidence of your professional goals in Strive? Don't wait until End of Year summatives to have to curate your evidence.   Thank you for working on your final SLO trackers!  We will be scheduling end of year summatives after Spring Break.
• RTI Meetings will take place on Monday?  Please check the schedule and make sure you have uploaded your documents for your learners.

ART SHOW
Thank you for making sure your learners visited the cafe and gym for the Art Show tonight.  There was a small glitch with the credit card machine, so you may have some learners coming with cash or check to bring to the office to pick up their artwork.  Please send them down after Spirit Rally.  Designers, if you will include a small note in your newsletters to parents letting them know that they can still purchase their artwork, at no additional fee, they can email jlfloyd@coppellisd.com.


GRADES AND REPORT CARDS
Please get your grades in by 8:00 on Tuesday morning.  Report cards will go home on the Friday we return from Spring Break. Thank you!


FUN RUN
Our run is on Thursday.  I will share the schedule once I get it from the Jedi Josh.  Remember it is a GLOW run so help your learners come dressed for the event.

LEEDERSHIP COUNCIL

SCHOOL SUPPLIES

It is important that we revisit our school supply lists for PTO for next year so that PTO can secure the best pricing from EPI.  Please review, as a grade level, and make any adjustments.  Once your adjustments are made, change the date on your tab to "Your Grade 2020-2021" so we know you are done.  PLEASE do not increase items without taking other items off and also visit lists that are already completed to make sure you are not duplicating house supplies.  The total should be as close to $50 as you can get it.  Please have this done by April 3.

Register now for CEF Run to Fund on May 9th

CEF's Run to Fund registration is now open.  It's a great way to get some exercise, have some fun and connect with the Coppell community! Registering before April 2nd will get you the best prices, and we have discounts for CISD staff and students, too. Don't miss out - register today!  For more information about the run and to register, click here.

FLEX TIME

Please enter your requests for flex time so that it may be approved for you.  Chantel will be going in to approve over Spring Break.   

Hungry to learn? Want personalized PL? Your Coppell DLCs can help! Beginning Saturday, March 7 through Thursday, April 23, choose to participate in 4 different Virtual Professional Learning opportunities designed to be completed at your own pace, in your own way, outside of the school day. 

 

Location: The Spring 2020 Virtual Professional Learning Folder within our DLC Professional Learning course. Not a member? Use this code to gain access: 72Q87-RDGM5

 

Choose from offerings such as:

• Apple Teacher iPad Challenge
• Camp Schoology
• Bulb Picnic 
• “Chat Crashers” Twitter Experience

CISD FOCUSED WALKTHROUGH

We will give feedback on Domain 2 Dimension 1:  Achieving Expectations.  We will be looking for evidence that your learners have mastered content and are held to high levels of accountability for their learning.  This looks like self-assessing, reflecting on menu work or assignments, posting to Schoology or SeeSaw, etc. 

ESL THIS WEEK
Embed speaking opportunities:  Talk is CRUCIAL for ELs.  We must provide opportunities for them to discuss with a group or partner so they can negotiate for meaning, hear another's point of view, process thinking, dig deeper, learn new vocabulary, and practice language in a low stress setting.  Model what you want to see and hear EXPLICITLY, give them sentence frames and vocabulary and post the question that they will discuss so they can go back to it if they forgot.

DATES TO REMEMBER:
March 9-13- Spring Break
March 15- Linda's Birthday
March 17- Report Card Grades Due (8:00 am)
     BEAM Learning Walks
     Education Foundation Shirt and Jeans
March 18- Convocation Shirt and Jeans
     Claudia's Birthday
     Staff Meeting (3:30-5:00)
     4th Grade Austin Chaperone Meeting (6:00 pm)
March 19- Hannah H's Birthday
     Spurs Savings (7:20-7:40)
     Fun Run (See Schedule)
March 20- #internationaldayofhappiness
     LEEdership Council Meeting (8:00)
     LEEdership Council Lemonade Sale (Recess Time)