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 October 5

I hope you have an outstanding weekend!  The highlight of my week has to be seeing the work getting completed on our vertical scope and sequence and listening to our Teachers Observing Teachers discussions.  There is GREAT work happening in our building. THANK YOU for all that you do!

OUR GUIDING PURPOSE: We empower learners to positively impact the world by designing learning experiences that promote positive relationships, risk taking, and collaboration in a flexible environment.

DID YOU KNOW?

• that part of learning our guiding purpose is seeing it every day?  Please add our campus guiding purpose to your electronic signature on your email.  This will communicate it to parents with each and every email you send.  
• your house lanyards and nametag holders have arrived and are in the office?  We will place enough for your class in your teacher mailbox by the end of day Friday.  Please share if you create a template for the nametag.
• that this folder contains all the information you need regarding field trip planning, collection of money forms, and staff favorites?  Please use the documents in the Field Trip folder as field trips start approaching.
• Alli will be hosting a more in depth training session/design time with Schoology during the October 14th FedEx time?  Sign up here if you are interested in attending!
• Chantel will be with 5th grade at Allaso Ranch Tuesday-Thursday?

GOAL SETTING DOCUMENTATION
Copies if your signed goals are due to Todd by end of day, Friday.  THANK YOU for your help! Yay to getting everyone's goal setting done before the due date!

DISCIPLINE REFERRALS
Thank you for documenting learner misconduct on the discipline referral form.  Please view this document (thank you, Todd) to ensure that you are filling out the forms correctly.


DIGITAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
Interested in learning more about strategies for Digital Learning?  Check out the fall offerings from the DLC team.  Save the date or dates of sessions you are interested in now.  More Eduphoria sign ups and more details will be coming soon!

LEADERSHIP COUNCIL:

Please let me know who your LEEder is, by October 8, on this form.  

POSITIVE POST IT DAY
Monday is Positive Post It Day.  Please spread campus love by writing a positive note to someone and posting it in a special place.  If you see a positive post it, please take a picture and tweet it out to @positivepostit and #rjlyear2


FALL CONFERENCES
Please make sure that you have parents sign in for your conferences.  This is excellent documentation that they attended.  Save the documentation in case you need it in the future.


SPIRIT MONKEY RINGS
A letter will be going home with learners in Kindergarten, and new learners to Lee, on Monday.  We will provide them a ring for their lanyards so they can collect their Spirit Sticks.


"LEE"DERSHIP QUALITY OF THE WEEK
Responsibility- making the choice to be reliable and dependable


QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you.  Never excuse yourself.” -Henry Ward Bee


LESSON IN "LEE"DERSHIP
After we eat, we will clean up after ourselves. This includes cleaning off the tables and making sure we haven’t left any trash on the floor or around the eating area.


DATES TO REMEMBER:
Oct 5: Kinder Design Day
Oct 6: Red and Black Attack Shirt w/ Jeans
           Fifth Grade at Allaso Ranch
           Dad's Club Mtg. (7:00 Buffalo Wild Wings)
Oct 7:  Fifth Grade at Allaso Ranch
            College Shirt w/ Jeans
            Staff Mtg. (3:30-5:00)
Oct 8:  Fifth Grade at Allaso Ranch
            Tour Thursday (9:00 and 1:00)
            Science is Messy Training (4:00)
            Going Bonkers Night (6:00-8:00)
Oct 9:  Conference Day
Oct 10: Taylor's Wedding Day!!
Oct 12:  NO SCHOOL
Oct 14:  Education Foundation Grants Due (4:30)