Week of May 23

What a busy and exciting week.  THANK YOU for continuing to meet with parents for your Spring Conferences.  Your learners have grown SO MUCH this year- and this is because of YOU!!  We hope you celebrate the growth in, not only your learners, but yourself!

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

What YOU are doing to do to LIVE out this VISION at Lee?  

DID YOU KNOW?

• that Newks is opening near our school?  They will be offering us a free dinner for their soft opening.  Stay tuned for a date next week.
• this week's Curriculum Courier addresses Lit Camp and our Elementary Student Survey?  We have 2 K-2 and 2 3-5 spots open if you are interested in attending.  Let CK know- names are due by May 31.  
• part of your end of year check out will be to ensure your house work rooms are organized and inventoried.  The following list documents what was purchased by the campus/district and should be in your closet by the last day of school.  You may also have items checked out to your house from the Media Center.
• we have recommended some folks for hire.  Please welcome Stephanie Richter, Hillary Brown, Akta Patel, and (back for year 3) Nick Coenraad and Suzanne Hunt.  We still have a second grade, Enrichment, and Special Education Resource teacher to hire.  Our Practical Academics teacher will be Karen Johnson.  I am sure each would all LOVE to have a friendly welcome to/back to our FamiLEE, so please email them at: 
• stephanie.richter12@gmail.com  and srichter@coppellisd.com  
• brownhillaryb@gmail.com  
• nic605@mail.harvard.edu  
• s.patelakta@gmail.com 
• suzannehunt40@yahoo.com
• kbmhjohnson@yahoo.com 

FIELD DAY

Feel free to wear shorts or warm ups with your Field Day t-shirts tomorrow.  Shorts should be fingertip length or longer- don't ruin it for others!  Directions about "ZONES" were delivered with your t-shirts.  This information page missing times.  Please use the following schedule:

• 8:15- Go outside to your first zone
• 12:00-1:15-  Lunchtime and lounging
• 1:15-2:30- House Competition/Teacher Games

FUN RUN FUNDS
Don't forget to get your Fun Run money spent by Friday.  Totals are in last week's blog post. You MUST use approved vendors and turn in your receipts after using a tax exempt form.  Approved vendors can be found here.

DRAMA CLUB PERFORMANCE

Join us, on Monday, at 2:00 and 7:00 for our Spring Drama Performances. 

4TH GRADE AUSTIN TRIP:

Safe travels to our fourth graders, Designers, and Chaperones as they head to Austin, Texas on Tuesday.  THANK YOU, 4th Grade, for your hard work and planning for this amazing experience!

LEEdership COUNCIL:

LEEdership Council will have their FINAL pickle sale on Wednesday.  Pickles are $1 each and will be sold during recess times.  Please advertise this in your weekly email to parents!!  Also, please remind learners to wear their shirts on FRIDAY for our last meeting for the year. 

SPECIAL EVENT
Please bring your learners outside the front entrance, on Thursday, for a "surprise" from PTO at 8:30. We can sit on the cement islands along the staff parking lot, and when those are full, final classes  can sit on the loading sidewalk and on the steps into the school.  We should be done by 9:00ish.


BUFFALO WILD WINGS NIGHT:

Feel free to join our FamiLEEs Thursday night.  If you go, this time can count towards your flex time you need to earn.


LIBRARY UPDATE:
THANKS, Megan, for the creation of house accounts!  Staff, please help make sure all books and materials are turned into the media center as soon as possible.

Learners who received invitations to the Bluebonnet Party will stay after school, in the media center, on Friday.

Don't forget to follow directions on this document to help with end of year technology check-ins.

"LEE"DERSHIP QUALITY OF THE WEEK
Humor- comical or amusing quality; ability to see or show the funny or amusing side of things.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." -Victor Borge

LESSON IN "LEE"DERSHIP

Your ability to make people laugh can help others feel comfortable and relieve tense situations. 

DATES TO REMEMBER:
May 23- Drama Club Performance (2:00 and 7:00 Cafe)
              Leadership Meeting (3:30)
              Outgoing Board Member Reception (Admin 4:00-6:00)
May 24- 3rd and 4th Grade Field Trips
May 25- House t-shirt with Jeans
               FOSS Kits Due on Stage
               Talent Show Mtg. (9:00-9:30- Yellow House)
               LEEdership Council Pickle Sales (Recess times)
               New Learner Luncheons (Lunch times)
May 26- Buffalo Wild Wings Night (can count towards 8 hours)
               Hot Air Balloon Visits Lee (8:30 front of school)
               Katie's Shower (3:30)
May 27- Report Card Grades Due in the System
               ESL and GTI Folders Due
               LEEdership Council Meeting (8:00)
               4th Grade Shark Tank (1:30)
               Bluebonnet Party (3:00-4:00)
May 30- NO SCHOOL

Week of February 29

Once again, you have impressed another round of visitors!  When Dr. Turner concluded his visit, he asked guests for feedback.  Here are some quotes of what they said:

• "I heard teaching before I was even in the building. There was a math lesson going on on the outdoor second story."
• "Great student engagement and very impressive teachers"
• "There is evidence of great leadership.  It flows through the teachers and students and you can tell it is intentional. It will serve students well as they grow through K-12"
• "Structured chaos.  It looks like chaos out there, but there is an underlying matrix of structure and order. " 
• I was really impressed with the culture of the building.  You can tell there is a culture of community here.  There is an absence of hierarchy here, and everyone feels a sense of ownership."
• "There isn't a teacher name over the door of each room and you can't tell what grade it is and who it belongs to. Spaces are flexible and every space seems to belong to everybody."

Please know that your hard work is noted, appreciated, and celebrated by not only our visitors, but your Admin Team.  We truly have the BEST DESIGNERS on the planet!

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

What YOU are doing to do to LIVE out this VISION at Lee?  

DID YOU KNOW?

• our Destination Imagination kiddos will compete on Saturday?  If you would like to cheer them on, let me know and maybe we can go together.
• on Tuesday night that the math department will host a Twitter chat?  Follow #cisdchat and join in on the digital learning.
• that there is a National UnPlug Day?  If you are interested in participating, here is a website to assist you. Here is a site to post and pledge to unplug. 
• that we only have 2 learners (Haditha-G2 and Payton-Y1) and 3 EC (Taher, Roland, and Aadhav) that do not have disclosure to have their picture taken.  Thank you for being cautious when you post to social media not to include these friends.
• color printing is suspended for a little while.  Please send your projects to the copier.  If you need a color copy, email Shanna or Diana and they can print your project.

We hope you will join us in celebrating Dr. Seuss as we celebrate reading this week!   Have FUN!

DISCOVERY EDUCATION

Our trainer will be her on Monday, during your house conference time, to go over how to use this resource as a learning tool.  This is in place of after school sessions.

GRADE LEVEL SCHEUDLE

Due to the Fun Run Pep Rally at 2:00 on Tuesday, we will follow a grade level schedule.  Please review the tab on our master schedule labelled 2PM Pep Rally Schedule.  There will be no PLC time at the end of the day Tuesday and Wednesday will be Day 3 on our rotation schedule.  

PLC BOOK STUDY

Don't forget to read and post in our Schoology course.  You must also reply to at least one comment and create a T chart where you document one initiative that was implemented poorly and another that was implemented well.   Please share your Tcharts during PLC time on Tuesday. 

FUN RUN

Our kick off Pep Rally will be on Tuesday at 2:00.  Fifth grade, please get there at 1:55.  Learners will go back to class afterwards to get their fundraising packs and backpacks, but it will help to be packed up before the rally. Remember, that classroom lessons will begin on Wednesday.  Please welcome our Apex Team members, when they are on campus, and involve them ANY way you can think of.  Teacher info page and dates, here!  Apex questions can be sent to: jimmyw@apexfunrun.com 

LEEDERSHIP COUNCIL

Please send your LEEder with two risk-taking friends to the cafe after morning broadcast.  They will be helping with a taste test for the district.  Once the taste-test is complete, your LEEders will stay and the others will return. THANK YOU for your understanding as they miss a bit of class time. 

CISD LEARNING FRAMEWORK REVIEW: LEARNING

We have completed our five weeks of reviewing ENVIRONMENT, so we will begin Chapter 2 in of the CISD Learning Framework.  Please reread chapter two.  While reading, frame your thinking with some of these questions:

• How am I using the instructional coaches provided to me on campus?
• How often am I going on learning walks in other Designers' spaces, and what feedback to I provide?
• Am I designing or am I lesson planning?
• What brain-based strategies do I use to help build self-regulated learners?

SPRING CARNIVAL

Please mark your calendars now, our Spring Carnival is on Friday, April 22, from 5:30-8:00.  It is an expectation that you attend the carnival. 

PTO has requested that houses or individuals share one auction date with details by Friday, March 11. You can email this information to leeptocoppell@gmail.com or Tanisha Williams. 

BOX TOPS

Please announce an all call for box tops from your famiLEEs.  Box Tops are due March 1.  You can put your Box Tops in the PTO Box in the teachers lounge that is labelled "Box Tops."

TOURS

This Thursday we have a 30 person tour with Apple folks from Canada.  This is part of our Apple Distinguished School visit.

"LEE"DERSHIP QUALITY OF THE WEEK
Initiative- taking action; originating new ideas

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"If an opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." Milton Berle

LESSON IN "LEE"DERSHIP

Strong leaders take responsibility for events and believe that they can have an effect on outcomes and conditions.

DATES TO REMEMBER:
Feb 17:  Destination Imagination
Feb 29:  Discovery Ed Training 

Mar 1:  Red and Black Attack Shirt w/ Jeans
             5th Grade Parent Meetings @ CMSW (8, 10, 2, 5:30)
             Grade Level Schedule
             Fun Run Pep Rally (Gym 2:00)
             #cisdchat (7:00 pm)

Mar 2:  College T-shirt w/ Jeans
             Walk at School Wednesday
             PLC Chapter 8 Due
             CMSW visits 5th Grade (8:15 Cafe)
             Flipped Staff Mtg. (watch your email)
Mar 3:  Spurs Savings (7:30-7:50 a.m.)
             LEEdership Council (8:00 Cafe)
             Campus Tours (9:00 and 1:00)
Mar 4:  National Unplug Day

Week of January 4

May each of you have a restful and relaxing two weeks off.   Enjoy making memories with your family and friends.  It has been a marvelous ending to 2015 because of YOU, and we cannot wait to see what is in store for 2016!  Last year we had our ONE WORD Challenge.  How did you do with yours?  We will revisit this topic at our first staff meeting after Winter Break.  

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

DID YOU KNOW?

• school Supply lists need updated so that we can get the best price for the 2016-2017 school year? Please review lists with your grade level in your first PLC back from Winter Break so that we can submit them to PTO.  THANK YOU!
• that there will be other campuses (CMSW) and, potentially the new school, that will be using CBL?  
• that Dr. Denison was with Apple in Cupertino and they told the focus group that the best example (in the world) of what they want CBL to look like at the elementary level is at Lee Elementary??!!
• that we will pilot a Student Success App next year that is the result of a partnership between Apple and IBM using predictive software?  Samira will be going to Cupertino to learn more and will come back and share.
• that we have Ebooks that you and your learners have access to?  We will be getting you some training in the future regarding these and how to use them.
• that you can check out our Leadership Meeting Agenda and notes here?

LEEDERSHIP COUNCIL

We will have a LEEdership Council meeting on Thursday, January 7.  Please have your learners wear their shirts.  THANK YOU for sharing your learners during recess for Spirit Stick sales.


LOST AND FOUND
Please make sure that your learners clear their items out of lost and found before leaving on Friday. What is left will be donated to charity.

REFRIGERATOR
Please clean out your items by 10:30 on Friday.  We will throw out anything left so we come back to a clean refrigerator after the break.  Also....check cubbies and make sure all lunch boxes go home. You do not want to come back to a science project (and smell) in your space!

HAPPY CALLS
Thank you to those of you that took the time to make your Happy Calls!


SECOND NINE WEEKS GOAL SETTING
We are getting close to the conclusion of the second nine weeks.  Make sure your learners are revisiting their October Goal Setting documents.  The expectation is that these go home at the end of the 9 weeks and the learners have an at-home conference with their parents.  This is in our Campus Improvement Plan.


CAMPUS PLC BOOK STUDY
Don't forget that Chapters 3 and 4 (reading and posting) was extended to the due date of January 3. Thank you for your creations of grade level common assessments during PLCs!


EMAIL PASSWORD
Don't forget to change your email password before you leave.  You can do this by pressing control+alt+delete.  You will get locked out if it expires over the break!


ECONOMICS FAIR
Please remind learners that only those that bring money may shop at the Economic's Fair on Friday from 8:30 to 10:00.


DISMISSAL ON FRIDAY
You are ALL responsible for dismissal on Friday.  Please make sure you send a reminder email to parents that school dismisses at 12:50.  Homeroom teachers will have to stay with any late learners until parents arrive, so make sure you know how each is getting home.  Busses will run regular routes.

"LEE"DERSHIP QUALITY OF THE WEEK
Trustworthiness- keeping your word; doing what is right for yourself and others.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.” -Abraham Lincoln

LESSON IN "LEE"DERSHIP

People trust you when your attitudes, words, and motives align with what you actually choose to do. This includes being honest about mistakes, refusing to gossip and shift blame, and doing things the ethical way (even if it’s quicker to do otherwise).

DATES TO REMEMBER:
Jan 4:  WELCOME BACK

Jan 5:  Red and Black Attack shirt w/ Jeans

Jan 6:  Walk at School Wednesday
            CISD Spelling Bee
            Staff Mtg. (3:30)  
Jan 7:  Spur Savings (7:30-7:50 Cafe)   
              LEEdership Council (8:00)
              Campus Tours (9:00 and 1:00)

Jan 9:  Rikki's Birthday
           Priscilla's Birthday

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)