THANK YOU ALL FOR ANOTHER AMAZING WEEK AT LEE! Thank you to Social Spurs for the gift cards for our custodians. Please make time to thank our custodians when you see them. WHAT A HARD JOB! You are doing a wonderful job preparing for your learner led conferences. Thank YOU!
DID YOU KNOW:
- there is a WONDERFUL resource for parents through the DLC Bulb? Please share this website with Family Resources to help support parents with their learner's at-home technology.
- you must turn your Vivatek Boards and televisions off each afternoon? Please remember to do this to save the life of these learning tools.
- you can access who is an approved vendor on the Coppell ISD Website? Go to Departments -> Purchasing -> Approved Vendors.
- Parents can start joining their learners for lunch on Fridays in October. Please share this Friday Lunch sign up form in your weekly newsletter for the remainder of the year. October 14 is our first lunch date.
WORLD DAY OF BULLYING PREVENTION
October is National Bullying Prevention Month and the first Monday of every October is World Day of Bullying Prevention. On this day students, schools, and communities all over the world go BLUE together against bullying. We want you and your learners to join us to stop bullying and cyberbullying by wearing a blue shirt on Monday.
COLLEGE SHIRT DAY
Encourage learners to participate the first Wednesday of each month.
SPIRIT RALLY
We will host our Fall Spirit Rally on Wednesday from 2:00-3:00. Please have learners packed up in your spaces before we call you down over the intercom. This is a Day 7.
STAFF MEETING WEDNESDAY
We have had quite a few newcomers join Lee Elementary this year. In order to support you with this growing need and number, Alex and Corinne will lead us through some learning Wednesday afternoon. 3rd and 5th Designers will also get your GT Testing Training afterwards.
EARLY RELEASE ON THURSDAY
Thursday is an early release for students. Please remind parents and follow the schedule below! Your duty free lunch and remainder of your conference time are whatever time you need after 12:30, so you may need a snack when your children eat lunch (if you are like me and 12:30 is late for lunch). Thursday afternoon you can prepare for conferences, host conferences, or use as work time for report cards or other work you need to get done. Remember 1st 9 week grades are due October 11.
Please send learners to pick up their lunches at these times. On early release days, learners eat in their houses.
- Blue- 10:00
- Yellow- 10:15
- Green- 10:30
- Red- 10:45
- Purple- 11:00
FALL CONFERENCES
Please make sure you are at work during normal contract hours on Friday (7:15-3:35). Document when you personally reach out to parents and they do not attend their Fall Conference. Panorama is a great place to document. If you don't document it, it didn't happen and our goal is to have 100% participation in learner-led conferences. Remember...your space is a reflection of you and the learning that happens there. While learning can get messy, Conference Day isn't the best day to showcase that! Please make sure all spaces are on point.
Here is a slide deck and video provided from CISD if you need help explaining BOY Assessment Data to your parents.
RESPECT AGREEMENTS
Next week starts the 2nd 9 weeks. Please build time in your lesson design, for the week of October 10, to include time to revisit and update your respect agreements with your classes. New copies should be sent to Leigh Ann and Angel for our discipline binder.
DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP
Speaking of a new 9 weeks, remember to review digital citizenzhip with your class. Revisiting digital citizenship conversations throughout the year helps to keep a healthy digital classroom environment. Each month, Alli will be providing some ideas to keep the conversations going!
Common Sense Media is my “go to” resource as both a parent and an educator supporting children as they navigate the waters of digital learning. They just announced a partnership with Book Creator Online and are offering 3 guided digital books - FREE!
Click here to view the books and learn more!
Which one will you implement this month? I’d love to see your digital citizens using #rjlyear9!
PARENT SQUARE
Please share this information letter with parents regarding Parent Square. In addition, here is a Smore from Alex and Corinne for instructions on changing the language settings in ParentSquare.
OCTOBER IS DYSLEXIA AWARENESS MONTH
Each week in October, Melissa and Angela will share videos and information to build our awareness of dyslexia. Follow Melissa on Twitter to see what learners do in their MLI class. You can also follow the hashtag #coppellMLI to learn more about dyslexia across the district. Do you know what MLI stands for?
M- Multisensory
L- Language
I- Instruction
To learn more about dyslexia, watch this short video to see how dyslexia affects a learner’s ability to read.
WALKTHROUGHS IN OCTOBER
For this month, we will be giving you feedback on Domain 2.4: Differentiation. We will be looking for:
- Individualized Lessons
- Monitoring participation and performance
- Recognizing confusion and disengagement
- Addressing the SEL needs of learners
- Strategies used to meet the needs of special education and EB learners
COACH'S CORNER
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ESL STRATEGY OF THE WEEK
Give Daily Writing Opportunities. No matter the subject area you teach, have students write. Writing does not need to be a lengthy process nor must it be a ticket out (though it can be). Writing can include predictions, thoughts, reflections, comparisons, justifications, etc. Writing can also include modeling by you, sentence stems, primary language, and drawing as needed by students.
DATES TO REMEMBER:
- NATIONAL HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH
- NATIONAL DYSLEXIA AWARENESS MONTH
- STOMP OUT BULLYING MONTH
- NATIONAL PRINCIPAL MONTH
- HINDU HERITAGE MONTH
Oct 3- Wear blue for Stomping Out Bullying
Oct 5- Lariettes Greet in the morning
Kinder Career Day Parade (8:00)
College Shirt Day
World Teacher's Day
Spirit Rally (2:00 Gym)
Staff Meeting (3:15-4:45)
Oct 6- Day 0 (No Team Time- Look at Master Schedule)
Audrey's Birthday
National Instructional Coach Day
Early Release (12:30)
AppleEduLeader Chat (8:00 PM)
Oct 7- Fall Conference Day
Oct 10- NO SCHOOL
Oct 11- Grades Due 8:00 AM
RED RIBBON WEEK IS THREE WEEKS AWAY!
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