Week of Sept 12

Thank you for a great four day week.  We had wonderful turnout for Curriculum Nights and parents left smiling and fulfilled!  THANK YOU for communicating so effectively to our famiLEEs and helping them feel at home in our school.  Have an incredible weekend!

DID YOU KNOW:

• You can split the screen on your Mac?  Thanks for the share, Ashley!

NEXT WEEK:
Chantel will be off campus Tuesday at Documentation Training and Wednesday and Thursday in Austin.  Ashley will be off campus on Wednesday at Documentation Training.  April Dyke will be here to fill in on Wednesday.  Please communicate with me, electronically, if you need ANYthing.

BUDGET
We are excited that we now have our budget dollars to order what you need to work with your learners.  Part of my role is to make sure you have the supplies you need to do your job.  Please try to plan ahead so that you do not have to spend personal funds on supplies.  Also, be thinking about items we need to add to house storage closets (like manipulatives, science tools, etc.) and write up a PO and put it in my box.  Remember that it will take a couple of weeks to process, get quotes, and ship.  You also must use these approved vendors ONLY.  We are NO LONGER PERMITTED TO USE AMAZON, so please do not submit a PO with them as a vendor.

LEAVE YOUR MARK
Please wear your dots on Thursday, in celebration of Dot Day. Here is a  Dot Day Resource website for educators for The Dot.

APPLE TEACHER
Interested?  Check out more here. I will award you flex hours if you invest your time in this endeavor.

BULLYING
If, at any time, a learner or parent claim that there is a bullying situation, you MUST alert Campus Administration (Chantel, Ashley, and Angela).  We will follow the CISD Bullying Protocol and investigate for you.

DISCIPLINE
As stated in our Lee Staff Handbook: Only after all efforts by the designer have been exhausted should a learner be sent to the office with a referral.  Repeated or serious misbehavior should be communicated to the learner’s parents as soon as possible. There is a new district discipline referral form.  Please use this instead of the three page carbon one.  Learners MUST be accompanied by a completed referral if you send them down.  Please watch this short video created by Courtney to review our discipline practices at Lee.

CISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION GRANT REQUESTS
I am forwarding you the email from the Education Foundation.  Grants are due by October 17 at 4:30 pm.

PTO MEETING
Our PTO Meeting date has been changed to Tuesday, September 20, since I will be in Austin.  Please have a learner from each house prepared to come to the 6:30 meeting, on the 20th, to share what your house is doing with CBL.

WORLD CHARACTER DAY
This special day is coming up on Sept 22.  As a district of character, CISD is participating to show our commitment to the character development of all learners.  Please watch the short film "Science of Character" together as a house.  Below are reflection and discussion questions.  More info in Angela's S'more!

Ages 4-9:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/letitripple-media/Downloads/SOCDiscussionGuideAges4-9.pdf

Ages 10-14

https://s3.amazonaws.com/letitripple-media/Downloads/SOCDiscussionGuideAges10-14.pdf

FROM ALLI:

4th and 5th grade iPad Rollout/Apple ID switch will take place in A120 on Thursday, September 15.  We will have Apple Reps, DLCs and Jennifer on campus assisting with the procedures.  If you are a 4th or 5th grade designer, please make sure to review your what to expect videos and have learners fill our their Apple ID sheets before the day of rollout.

4th grade What to Expect Video

5th grade What to Expect Video

Slides covered in the videos can be found on Alli's blog:  http://diaryofadlc.blogspot.com/p/resources.html

CURRICULUM COURIER

Here is this week's courier.

LEE LIFE PRINCIPLE:

Courtesy- consideration, cooperation and generosity

LESSON IN LEADERSHIP:

If you approach a door and someone is following you, hold the door and allow the other person to pass through it first, then you can walk through.

LEE QUOTE OF THE WEEK:

"Manners are like the zero in arithmetic; they may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else" - Freya Stark

DATES TO REMEMBER:
Sept 9- Educator Goals due in Euphoria
Sept 12- BOY Goal Setting Meetings (all day)
               Social Spurs Mtg. (3:30)
Sept 13- 3rd and 5th Stop Collaborate and Listen (3:30-5:00 AT LEE)
Sept 14- Walk at School Wednesday
               House Shirt with Jeans
Sept 15- Dot Day
              2nd and 4th Stop Collaborate and Listen (3:30-5:00 AT LEE)
              Kinder Science Training (3:45-5:00 DCE)
Sept 16- Lee Handbook must be signed off (office)
              Progress Report Grades Due (8:00 am)
              BOY Goal Setting Meetings (am)
              Homecoming Float names due (3:00 pm)

Week of Sept 5

Enjoy your well deserved three day weekend!  Make memories with loved ones and catch up on some well needed sleep.  

DID YOU KNOW:

• that there are inventory lists on our faculty website?  Check out all three tabs to see what is available to you in the broadcast studio closet, the garden, and your storage rooms.  If there are materials you need, please see your house lead to learn how to write a PO for approval.  
• we have a new MLI Designer joining us?  Her name is Mary Kennington and we couldn't be HAPPIER to have her!  Please take time to email her and welcome her to our famiLEE!  She will be emailing the designers of our 4 MLI learners.
• with campus mobility and some spaces not having phones, we could benefit from having everyone's cell number in one place.  If you are comfortable, please share your number here. When the office has an urgent message, they can contact you.  Your number will NOT be shared outside of our staff.
• we are going to have to request that staff members park in the back parking lot, if you arrive after 6:30am?  With so many employees, there are not enough spots when parents come for lunch.  Duc is unlocking the second set of back doors by 6:30, so you should have no trouble getting safely inside.  

UNITY RALLY

See you in the gym at 8:00, tomorrow, for our UNITY RALLY.  I LOVE THIS IDEA and can't wait for our school spirit to be celebrated.  Thank you to our #unitysquad for their planning and follow-through!

RED AND BLACK T-SHIRTS
If you would like to buy an Ed Foundation t-shirt, and get an extra jeans day the first Tuesday of each month, stop by the front office for an order form or go online to www.coppellisdef.com  Orders will be taken from Aug 29- Sept 21 and delivered the first week of October.


FED EX DAY
Enjoy your one hour on Wednesday where you learn about a topic of YOUR choice related to YOUR goals, and earn Flex credit for it.  This is a time for learning.  Please post to Today's Meet after 4:30, but before 5:00, on Wednesday and share what you learned during your time in order to get credit for your hour.  We will send out a separate email about goals and these CAN be worked on during Fed Ex since they are due by Friday.

DYNA PRODUCTS
Are you using any DYNA products in your class (digital OR print)?  I MUST talk to you if you are.  This is a request from Dr. Waldrip.


REMINDERS

• Sign off on Employee handbook in Talent Ed Records
• Fill out the Dismissal roster for Specials
• Add the Faculty Calendar to your devices
• Sign off on our Campus Handbook in the front office
• Select a learner from each house to attend our PTO Mtg. on September 13
• Your house morning broadcast should be watched live (at 7:55) or be started by 7:57 at the latest.  

BADGES
You are required, by the district, to wear your ID Badge at school-please wear yours!  If you see anyone in our building without a badge, you must escort them to the office.


CURRICULUM NIGHT
Please request parents arrive at 5:45 to begin promptly at 6:00.  Also, please post a PDF of your presentation on your websites.  THANK YOU!


SPURS SAVINGS
Flyers and membership applications are posted on PeachJar (our district digital flyer system).  Please inform your parents about this REAL opportunity to start a savings account that learners can begin AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.  Spur Savings dates are already on our faculty calendar for the year.

CISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION
New hires, don't forget to tweet out pics to @CoppellISDEF with images of your Back to School purchases with your Walmart gift cards.  Be thinking about any @CoppellISD EF grants you want to submit.  The window is from September 12- October 17.  I will forward the application to you.  New hires, don't forget to send thank you cards to the Admin Bldg. for your $250.


BOY GOAL SETTING MEETINGS
Please sign up on this Google spreadsheet to meet with Ashley and Chantel to review your goals for the year.  These meetings are not necessary for hourly employees.


WALKTHROUGHS
Ashley and I will continue to visit and give you feedback on the "3.1 Learning Environment" portion of the TTESS Walkthrough form.  It was DELIGHTFUL visiting your spaces this week.  By the end of next week, each of you should have a minimum of one walkthrough, each.  Remember there is a comment button to chat electronically about your comments.  Also, if you want to visit about the snapshot we are open to chat ANYtime!

STOP COLLABORATE AND LISTEN
I hope you will consider joining in with the professional learning ON CAMPUS for math.  You will earn flex credit for attendance.

5th grade - Sept 13 @ Lee (3:30-5:00)       https://coppell.schoolobjects.com//wshop/default.aspx?cid=7985

4th grade - Sept 15 @ Lee (3:30-5:00)            https://coppell.schoolobjects.com//wshop/default.aspx?cid=7986

3rd grade - Sept 13 @ Lee (3:30-5:00)           https://coppell.schoolobjects.com//wshop/default.aspx?cid=7985

2nd grade - Sept 15 @ Lee (3:30-5:00)          https://coppell.schoolobjects.com//wshop/default.aspx?cid=7986

1st grade - Sept 20 @ Austin (3:30-5:00)      https://coppell.schoolobjects.com//wshop/default.aspx?cid=7987

Kindergarten - Sept 22 @ Austin (3:30-5:00)         https://coppell.schoolobjects.com//wshop/default.aspx?cid=7988

I also added the FOSS Science sessions at Denton Creek Elementary to our faculty calendar.

PTO MEETING
In a couple of weeks we have our first PTO Meeting.  (date may be changing to the 20th)  We look forward to seeing April, Stephanie, Shari, Cindy, Courtney, Melinda, and Wendy there.  Don't forget to bring a house learner to share out what they are doing in CBL, and your house, with our PTO.

CISD CURRICULUM COURIER
none sent this week

LEE LIFE PRINCIPLE:

Patriotism-love for or devotion to one's country

LESSON IN LEADERSHIP:

Stand up for what you believe in.  You shouldn't take no for an answer if your heart and mind are leading you in a direction that you feel strongly about.

LEE QUOTE OF THE WEEK:

"I only regret that I have one life to lose for my country"-Nathan Hale

DATES TO REMEMBER:

Sept 5-  LABOR DAY (No School)

Sept 6-  1, 3, 5 Curriculum Night (6:00-7:00)

Sept 7-  Julie L's Birthday

             College Shirt Day

             FED EX (3:30-4:30)

Sept 8- K, 2, 4 Curriculum Night (6:00-7:00)

Sept 9- Goals Due in Euphoria