What a week, friends! Congratulations to our Super Teachers: Rikki and Amber. They will be treated to lunch with Dr. Hunt at San Danielle on Wednesday. If I haven't said it lately, WE HAVE THE BEST TEACHERS AT LEE!!! Thank you for all of the kindness and acknowledgement for Principal Month. I am the luckiest principal to be here with all of you!
you should forward your Gmail Inbox to Outlook? Our wonderful SPED team utilizes Google Drive to share documents, comments, and updates to paperwork with teachers. If your forwarding isn’t set up, you might be missing important information. Directions on how to do this can be found here. If you have followed the steps and still need support, please reach out to Griffin.
- that we have a continued partnership with St. Augustine University and their occupational therapy department? They have OT students who are designing costumes for some of our learners in Rikkis and Reagan's classes for Trunk or Treat. These visitors are approved by the district. We also have guests from their university coming on Wednesdays to "check out" our building. Thank you Ayesha for touring them through when I was in an ARD on Wednesday.
- that some staff members and learners have sensitivities to plug in air fresheners and essential oil diffusers? Please be mindful of this.
- the window is open to nominate this year's Teacher of the Year? We have such talent here at Lee, so please take time to acknowledge someone. Nominations are due November 8. Please turn them in to CK so we have time to score them with the rubric.
- TOY Website: https://coppellisdtx.sites.thrillshare.com/o/cisd/page/teacher-of-the-year
- Nomination Criteria Website: https://coppellisdtx.sites.thrillshare.com/o/cisd/page/nomination-criteria-and-form
Please be mindful of our learners who will be testing over the next 2 weeks. Please ensure a secure testing environment so our learners can do their best!
10/21-10/23 – First Grade (8:15-10:30)
10/28-10/30 – Third and Fifth Grade (8:15-10:30)
PANERA SPIRIT NIGHT OCTOBER 24TH
Enjoy a quick easy meal before or after Trunk or Treat at Panera while supporting our PTO! In person orders are valid from 4-8pm, but online orders with the code FUND4U are open all day! Whether you dine in, pick up, drive-thru, or have it delivered, just use promo code FUND4U when ordering online or in person to make sure your purchase counts!
Due to some changes in how classes are created in bulb, you may have noticed that you have more groups than usual. If you are experiencing any issues with your bulb groups and would like to begin using groups to assign templates, my suggestion is to create manual groups. bulb is working to develop a better solution for automatically creating groups based on classes as we move forward.
Below are tutorials that will support you in the creation and use of bulb groups. You will have to use bulb on a web browser to complete these steps.
Creating bulb Groups
Joining bulb Groups
Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. Your learning coaches are here and available to support you with groups in bulb or any other digital portfolio needs.
💻 SATURDAY MORNING MATH MEETUPS with Greg Tang tangmath.com/freepd
Oct 19 - Place Value & Number Sense
Here is a resource to support using vocabulary throughout all you do. 📚4 Steps to Teach Vocabulary Throughout the Day
NATIONAL DYSLEXIA AWARENESS MONTH
Apple has several helpful assistive technology tools for your learners with dyslexia to use on their iPad. Click here for Apple's guide to Accessibility. Below is a list of options in accessibility that could be helpful:
- Speech- speak selections and Speak Screens
- Highlight content
- Dictation (Click microphone and enable)
- Reader view on Safari
- Color Filter / Invert colors
- Predictive Text Keyboard
If you need help updating or navigating a learner’s accessibility features, please let us know!
*Don’t forget learners with dyslexia have access to Learning Ally. This is a great way to build vocabulary and spark an interest in reading!
WALKTHROUGHS IN OCTOBER
For this month, we will be giving you feedback on Domain 2.5: Monitor and Adjust. We will be looking for:
How you adjusts instruction and activities to maintain student engagement (movement, music, manipulatives, small groups and individual work, conferences with learners).
How you address learner engagement/disengagement.
Questioning and feedback used to check for understanding.
How you use of a variety of assessment/input from learners to gather data.
Checks for understanding through purposeful questioning and feedback.
The pacing of the lesson.
- RJL WRITE A CHECK CAMPAIGN (REMAINDER OF THE MONTH)
- NATIONAL DYSLEXIA AWARENESS MONTH
- STOMP OUT BULLYING MONTH
- BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH
- NATIONAL PRINCIPAL MONTH
- HINDU HERITAGE MONTH
- RED RIBBON WEEK
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