Thank you for ALL of your help with this year's Write-A-Check campaign! 💙💚 I KNOW how hard you have been working to encourage participation, celebrate progress, and make the incentives fun and exciting for your learners. Your enthusiasm and efforts have made such a difference, and I truly appreciate everything you've done to support this important fundraiser! Thank you for continuing to rally your FamiLEEs and help us work toward our schoolwide goal. It truly takes a TEAM, and I am so grateful for YOU! Thank you for bringing the energy tonight for Trunk or Treat. YOU ARE THE BEST!
DID YOU KNOW:
- your THREE candy buckets are labeled and ready to go for Trunk or Treat tomorrow?! A BIG thank you to Linda and Amber for sharing their buckets with us! A few quick reminders:
- Your three labeled buckets are ready for pickup.
- After the event, please combine any leftover candy into ONE bucket.
- Stack your empty buckets and return all buckets to the same location where you picked them up.
- Please be sure to follow the Trunk or Treat directions PTO sent through Amy yesterday.
- Educators have until November 1 to apply for the H-E-B Excellence in Education Awards, with multiple award categories available, including Teacher, School Counselor, Principal, School Board, and School District.
- Hour of Code is coming up next month? If you are interested, please sign up if you plan to participate and start reaching out to Julie and Priscilla for coding assistance for the week of December 7-13.
- the Panorama window is open through November 6? Staff, please make time to take this survey. Your log in access code is your staff ID. Your Admin Team will be taking learners to the cafeteria on November 5 to complete their surveys. We hope this helps you take one thing off of your over-full plates.
- 3rd -8:00
- 4th -8:30
- 5th -9:00
Family Survey Link: go.coppellisd.com/Fall26FamilySurvey
Access Method: Parents and guardians do not need an access code. They can simply follow the link and select their student's school from the dropdown list.- Lee has a new shout out board? We have the greatest people on Earth, working at the greatest school on Earth, and it is time to recognize them. Please take a football from our very own RJ and add a Shout Out to the greatest team @ Lee!! (Thank you, Ayesha, for starting this celebration board, the blurb for the blog, and executing your idea).
LEEDERSHIP COUNCIL MEETING
We will have a LEEdership Council meeting on Monday morning at 9:35. Please send them with their iPad when the announcement is made. We will send them an email to remind them to wear their shirts.
NO SCHOOL FOR LEARNERS ON TUESDAY
We will see learners for their learner-led conferences, and that will be all. Enjoy the day off.
NOVEMBER 3 CONFERENCE DAY
Thank you for being intentional about including our learners in these visits! We appreciate the opportunity for them to be involved in these meaningful experiences. We will have someone stationed at the front entrance to welcome our guests and assist them with entering the building.
NATIONAL SANDWICH DAY
Tuesday is National Sandwich Day. Admin is happy to be providing your lunch on this day. We hope this eases your busy schedule during conferences. ENJOY!
Wednesday is College Shirt Day. We encourage learners to participate by wearing a college or university shirt on the first Wednesday of each month.
LEEDERSHIP COUNCIL SELLING HIGHLAND COWS
LEEdership Council will have squishy mascot cows for sale on Friday morning during arrival. Get here on time before they run out.
CIP
The 2025-2026 Lee Campus Improvement Plan goals and strategies can be found here (trying to make it easier for you all). Each quarter the CIP must be reviewed by our stakeholders. Leadership, please review this document in your House Meeting next Thursday (you have MTSS this Thursday) and add evidence under strategies (CK added some already). Please add bullets for new or additional evidence, don't repeat. Add any evidence by Friday, November 6, please and thank you.
VETERANS DAY
As Veteran’s Day approaches, we would like to honor and recognize the brave men and women who have served our country. We invite anyone who has served in the military—or has/had a family member who has served—to share a photo and information about them so we can include them in our Veteran’s Day recognition wall. If you would like to participate, please send the following information with your picture:
- Name of Veteran
- Branch of Service, Rank, and Dates of Service (if known)
- Name/House/Grade of learner
- Relationship to learner
SAVE THE DATE FOR FAMILEE FEAST
Please let your famiLEEs know if they want to attend our annual Thanksgiving Lunch that they need to sign up ahead of time. This lunch will be in place of FamiLEE Friday lunch this week. Parents can Sign up here. THIS YEAR: Child Nutrition has requested guests PREPAY ($8) for their meal to expedite their lunch line. Please send payment to your child's lunch account before the event.
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WRITE-A-CHECK DEADLINE EXTENDED: 3 DAYS LEFT TO DONATE!
We’ve extended our annual fundraising campaign through November 3rd in an effort to help us reach our goal! This is the final opportunity to contribute for this year. Thank you to everyone who has already donated - your generosity makes a huge difference for our FamiLEE PTO and allows us to avoid sending learners door to door selling items each year.
We’ve extended our annual fundraising campaign through November 3rd in an effort to help us reach our goal! This is the final opportunity to contribute for this year. Thank you to everyone who has already donated - your generosity makes a huge difference for our FamiLEE PTO and allows us to avoid sending learners door to door selling items each year.
As of mid-week, we’ve reached 66% of our goal with 48% participation — we know we can pull together and get to our goal of $35,000 with everyone’s support! Thank you; if you haven’t yet had the chance to give, please consider making your donation today rjlpto.org/WAC
We suggest a donation of $100 per student, but any amount you’re comfortable giving truly makes an impact. Wondering what your donations support? Visit rjlpto.org/whypto for a closer look.
TIA REMINDERS FROM CISD
This was a reminder shared in my Admin Meeting this week. I'm happy to answer any questions. If you are interested in serving as our TIA Campus Rep, please let CK know.
COACHES CORNER
Cooperative Learning Structure of the Week
There are many Cooperative Learning Structures that we did not learn during our district PL. This series aims to highlight new structures for you to try out in your classrooms!
Simultaneous Round Table gets all your learners writing and thinking at the same time while giving you evidence of what they are thinking.
How to:
- Pick 4 different questions (or 5 if you have any groups of 5)
- Put one question at the top of a piece of paper (or even better, have the students do it!)
- Each student writes/draws one idea on the piece of paper, then passes it to the next student.
- Consider having each student write in a different color so you can see their thinking.
Grade band | What students add | Suggested time | Helpful supports |
K–1 | A drawing, label, copied word, or dictated idea | 1–2 minutes | Picture cues, oral rehearsal, sentence starters, adult or peer scribing |
2–3 | A word, short phrase, labeled sketch, or simple sentence | 2–3 minutes | Word banks, examples, partner rehearsal, bilingual resources |
4–5 | A complete idea, sentence, or claim with evidence when appropriate | 3–4 minutes | Response frames, vocabulary banks, evidence prompts, think time |
Want to implement but don't know where to start? 👉 Click here for some class building question sets👈, perfect for introducing and teaching the structure before using it with content. Make sure you click on your grade band tab!
WALKTHROUGHS IN NOVEMBER
This month we will give you feedback in Domain 3.2 Managing Student Behavior. We will be looking for:
- Routines that are clearly communicated and reinforced
- educator responds to off-task behavior respectfully
- proximity control and awareness of classroom
- Smooth and timely transitions
- use of attention signals
- respect from learners toward teacher, peers, and materials
- Students managing supplies/equipment
- learners are responsible for behavior with minimal teacher prompting
- materials and routines support independence and responsibility
- Organization of space
- classroom layout promotes safety
- tone of classroom is positive, calm, and conducive to learning
LESSON IN LEADERSHIP
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DATES TO REMEMBER:
- NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH
- NATIONAL SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY WEEK
- YELLOW HOUSE LOUNGE DUTY
- PANORAMA WINDOW
Nov 1- Daylight Savings Time
Nov 2- LEEdership Council Mtg. (9:35-10:30)
Sky Ranch Chaperone Mtg. (5:30 Yellow House)
Nov 3- NO SCHOOL for learners
Elementary Conference Day
Father of Texas Day
National Sandwich Day
Nov 4- Julie S's Birthday
College Shirt Day
Leadership Mtg. (3:15 Yellow House)
Nov 5- Purple House Music Performance (2:00 and 6:30)
Purple House Art Show (6:00)
Nov 6- 5th Grade Sky Ranch Student Mtg. (8:00 Cafe)
Menaka's Birthday
International Food Luncheon (Social Spurs)
CIP Documentation Due
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