Week of February 1

What OUTSTANDING learning experiences you provided our learners this week!  Twitter alone was overflowing with evidence of your talented design!  THANK YOU!  We are so proud of the work that is happening with each house's CBL and are even more excited to see the actionable solutions the children come up with.  Keep it up!!  This next week will be productive as we host our second CBL Planning days.  We are looking forward to supporting you.

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.

Thank you to the Red House designers for posting this purpose in their spaces!

DID YOU KNOW?

• that you are doing an AWESOME job of taking care of technology issues?  You are so good that some of you are not putting in tickets through Zen Desk.  I met with technology on Friday and they shared that Zen Desk will validate the need for campus help, so it is imperative that you put questions and requests in through the system. They will filter out to our CTA (Layne), Alli, or Jennifer and show that we NEED these personnel units.
• when you signed your CISD Employee handbook that you are agreed to be responsible for the iPad and MacBook if damages occur?  I strongly urge you sign up for insurance to protect you from costly repairs if you drop, spill, or cause other damage to your devices.  Here is the company that provides insurance at a reasonable price to us.
• Friday is the last day to submit Super Teacher Nominations for this semester.  Turn someone in!
• that the 9.2.1 ioS update is ready?  If you haven't already, please have your learners install the update ASAP as well as do this on your teacher devices.
• Lindsay Ayers will be here from 10:00 10:30 each design day to help with community and business outreach and connections?  YAY!

CISD LEARNING FRAMEWORK REVIEW: ENVIRONMENT

This week we will review the academic learning environment.  According to our CISD Educator Evaluation System: the educator creates a nurturing, learner-centered environment in which learners gradually construct their own meaning through rigor, prior knowledge, learner interest, and relevance.  

• an environment that considers learner emotions, interests, previous experiences, and learning styles 
• designs learning experiences that encourage learners to reflect and construct their own meaning
• encourages and respects differences of opinions
• capitalizes on making learning relevant
• collaborates with learners to determine how learning is demonstrated and assessed

Let's think about YOUR academic learning environment this week. Are your learners reflecting THROUGHOUT the day? Do they have voice in HOW they show what they know?  Is EVERY activity that learners participate in relevant to the real world?  Push yourself to reflect about these questions this week as you grow as a Designer.

SPIRIT STICK SALES
Groundhog Spirit Sticks will be on sale on Monday and Tuesday.  Please send learners to recess with their dollar. 1, 3, 5 LEEders will sell on Monday and K, 2, 4 on Tuesday.  Thanks for encouraging the sale of these.  We ordered 400, so we need half of our school to support our sale.  Please remind LEEders to wear their shirts on Thursday. We have a meeting at 1:00.

TELPAS CALIBRATION

There have been several changes to TELPAS Calibration this year. One of the changes that will directly affect all of us is that TEA is now requiring calibration sessions to be monitored. Please save the date for our K-5 Designer Calibration Session on February 16th beginning at 3:30pm.  Please BYOM (Bring Your Own Mac) and HEADPHONES (required) to complete the calibration activities. In addition to the monitored calibration, you will have two chances to pass this year instead of three- Have no fear!! There is good news: In addition to earning 2 professional development hours for the calibration and 5 hours awarded for the K-1 and 2-12 basic training courses (for all of our NEW Designers) you will have SNACKS!


LEE NIGHT AT CHS
Friday is our Lee Spirit Night at the CHS Basketball game.  Designers get in free with a guest with their ID. Learners get in free by wearing a Lee spirit shirt.  We will have 4 of our fifth grade boys serving as "Ball Boys" so, please come out and support the Cowboys! 


SPRING BOOK FAIR
Our Book Fair will be delivered on Thursday and previews will start on Friday.  Please share this website with your parents for online previewing, ordering, and downloading of the Scholastic app. Supporting Book Fair means more books for our school library and YOU!  


CURRICULUM AUDIT REQUIREMENTS
Please get your items turned in to Todd by Tuesday.  The Curriculum Audit team will be here on Wednesday and will walk the building and talk to some of you.  We ask for you to be open and honest with them while they visit Lee.  Thank you for your fast turn around on these requested items!

NOTES FROM THE OFFICE
Please be sure to have learners check the ‘forgotten lunch’ table in the café before purchasing a lunch or going without.  Parents drop off lunches at all times during the day and it is frustrating for them to find out that their child never received it.

When a learner calls home…..please be sure that they leave a message and not just hang up. We get a multitude of calls from parents returning a call from our number and the office has no way to determine who called or why.    

"LEE"DERSHIP QUALITY OF THE WEEK
Loyalty- faithfulness to another

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"I will speak ill of no man and speak all the good I know of everybody." Benjamin Franklin

LESSON IN "LEE"DERSHIP

If you hear something negative about one of your friends, don't repeat it. If necessary, let an Designer know what was said.

DATES TO REMEMBER:
Counselor Appreciation Week
Feb 1:  Groundhog Spirit Stick Sale

Feb 2:  Groundhog Spirit Stick Sale
            Red and Black Attack Shirt & Jeans
            Dad's Club Mtg. (7:00)

Feb 3:  College T-shirt w/ Jeans
             Walk at School Wednesday
             Geo Bee in 4th and 5th Grade Classes
             Curriculum Audit at Lee (8:00-10:30)
             Staff Mtg. (3:30)  
Feb 4:  Spur Savings (7:30-7:50 Cafe)
             Green House Music Performance (8:15 and 6:30)

             Geo Bee Semi-Finals

             Campus Tour (9:15)
             LEEdership Council (1:00)
             Campus Tour (4:00)
Feb 5:   Geo Bee Final
             Book Fair Preview
             Lee Night at CHS Basketball (8:00)

Week of January 18

I hope that you have a wonderful THREE day weekend!  Don't forget that there are two very large tours coming through on Thursday.  The morning is a revisit from Eagle Mountain Saginaw and the afternoon is from Wichita Falls ISD.   Nancy Garvey will also tour 4 Apple representatives during our 9:00 tour time.

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 we will participate in the HEB Community Challenge again this year?  Check out this site to learn more, to register, and earn our community points.  Coppell WON the mid-size city last year. The challenge lasts from January 1 - March 31.  Join today!
• Stacey sent out Gizmo webinar dates? Here they are again!
• that Kandice got a full time PE job in Duncanville?  Please welcome Alexandra Lucas to our famiLEE as she takes on the role of Enrichment Hour Designer starting Tuesday.  Good luck Kandice, we will miss you!
• you can put your common assessments in AWARE.  Thanks, Stephanie, or inquiring with the district. Here is a link with directions on what you need to do for online testing. 
  https://eduphoria.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/202395634-Administer-a-Test
  Once tests are ready, the learners will log on to:
  http://eduphoria.coppellisd.com/Aware/OnlineTesting
• there are National Health Observance Days that can help with your CBLs?  THANKS, Amy! http://healthfinder.gov/NHO/nho.aspx?year=2016#649

80's DRESS UP DAY

It would be like totally RAD if you channeled your inner 80's by joining us for the Red House Breakfast in your 80's attire on Friday.  If you wear 80's attire on Friday, you can wear jeans and a school shirt on Thursday.

CHUCK E CHEESE NIGHT
We hope you can join our PTO and learners at Chuck E Cheese for a short time between 3:30 and 9:00 this Friday night at the Grapevine Mills location.  Your attendance MATTERS and is APPRECIATED!


FRIDAY SCHEDULE
Please make sure you notified parents of the adjusted lunch schedule for this day.

SPIRIT RALLY
Please follow this map and sit with your learners for Friday's Spirit Rally.  We will call you down to the gym when it is time for your house to head to the gym.  Thank you, Todd, for restructuring for us.

CogAT TESTING
Don't forget if you have a K or 1 learner being tested, Ayesha will be pulling them Tuesday-Thursday.


REPORT CARD GRADES
Since there is no school on Monday, report card grades will be due on Wednesday, instead of Tuesday.  ENJOY Monday off, and THANK YOU, TODD for your flexibility!!


PLC BOOK STUDY
Please make sure that you post to the two discussion questions and complete the action items by Wednesday.  This is a campus expectation.


JRFH PEP RALLY

Please join us in the gym on Thursday to help kick off our Jump Rope For Heart Program in PE. Learners will be reviewing how to stay heart healthy, practice jumping in PE, and watch a jumping demonstration as a school.   If this is during your conference time, please let Specials Designers take care of your learners during this time.

SPIRIT STICKS

LEEdership Council will sell Super Hero spirit sticks during their recess this week.  Grade 1, 3, and 5 council members will sell during Thursday's recess and grade K, 2, and 4 council members will sell during Friday's recess.  Please advertise this in your weekly email to parents. 

DRAMA PERFORMANCE

Please join us in the cafeteria at 8:15 next Friday.  Our Drama Club learners will perform for the school.

MATHURDAY

Please make sure to complete the extra duty pay form on Saturday in order to get paid for working this day.  We also request that you link your presentation (asap) to the catalog so that we may share it with our parents ahead of time.  Here is the flyer to advertise.

MID YEAR GOAL SETTING CONFERENCES

We have enjoyed our meetings so far and look forward to visiting with the rest of you for your middle of the year goal setting!  Please reflect on these questions before your meeting so that we can have a meaningful thirty minutes together.

BEHAVIOR RTI

The Middle of Year Behavior RtI Screening Window is from January 18 – February 12. The folder can be found here:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4mahO8s0BsRfmZpUU5udWRhcU1ackxjd1FsM1ZGVlZGd2JRd3JhWGRKZEtBTmNQaXB5S0U If after meeting as a House, you have learners to bring forward to Tier II Behavior RtI, simply email Todd and Angela to get that meeting scheduled.

"LEE"DERSHIP QUALITY OF THE WEEK
Commitment- keeping a promise or pledge

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"Go put your creed into deed." Ralph Waldo Emerson

LESSON IN "LEE"DERSHIP

Be committed to your family, friends, and your values.  Follow through with your responsibilities at school and at home. 

DATES TO REMEMBER:
Jan 18:  NO SCHOOL (Flex Day)  ENJOY YOUR DAY!

Jan 19:  Mid Year Goal Setting

Jan 20:  Report Card Grades Due (8:00 a.m.)
             Mid Year Goal Setting
             House T-shirt w/ Jeans
             Walk at School Wednesday
             PLC Chapters 5 & 6 Due in Schoology
             Jump Rope For Heart Pep Rally (8:40 Gym)
             Staff Mtg. (3:30)  
Jan 21:  Spurs Savings (7:30-7:50 a.m.)
             LEEdership Council (8:00 Cafe)
             Campus Tours (9:00 and 1:00)
             Spirit Sticks for Sale During Recess
Jan 22:  Report Cards Go Home
             Drama Performance (8:15 and 7:00 p.m. Cafe)
             ESL Walkthroughs (9:00-10:30)

             Spirit Sticks for Sale During Recess
Jan 23:  MATHurday (9:00-11:00)
             Online Store closes for Yearbook
             Angela's Birthday
Jan 24:  Jess' 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)