October 23, 2015

SPIRIT WEEK STARTS NEXT WEEK!!!

The DOORS are going to be AWESOME! Please remember the Spirit Days next week! Can't wait to take pics!

Please remember that English and Math must administer the benchmarks through October 30th, so it will tie up the Chrome Books for a bit :) We are excited to check out the data that afternoon for trends and to see how our students ROCK! Each department reviewed the directions for students during their department meetings and can send the "cheat sheet" to you again if you need it. While we realize that several concept

We have seen a GREAT amount of Good News Referrals come our way! Keep these coming! Our students, parents, families, and staff ALL enjoy these! We have had a total of 294 Good News Referrals- YES 294 NOT including the gigantic stack on my desk! We have had 18 class suspensions and ZERO regular suspension from the beginning of October! Love the positive!

If you haven't already completed your nomination for Student of the Month for November and "Caring" please do so NOW! Please click this link to enter your nomination so that we can send them a post card ASAP! Thank you!

Check out this FANTASTIC "Famous Failures" video regarding Growth Mindset and how we can encourage our students to change their thinking to a positive one! Check it out here! Please check out this video too! I think you will LOVE to share it with your kiddos! I can tell you that I REALLY needed it this week....

Have you ever wondered what goes through your student's mind about being engaged in classrooms. Check out this link to see what goes through their mind. Very enlightening read!

Are you struggling with ways to use your iPad in the classroom? Not sure how to dust it off and get going? In addition to emailing Nelda Taylor directly NeldaT@fsusd.org you can also check out this quick article for easy ideas to get yourself going! Have you also wondered about the ways that you can use Google Forms in your classroom? Check out these AWESOME AND EASY ideas!

Need some ideas for our door decorating contest? Check out THIS LINK for AWESOME pics! We can't wait to see your ideas!!

Please note that there is a HIGH probability that our faculty meetings, department meetings and leadership meetings will need to move to Tuesday afternoons starting in the new calendar year. I will keep you posted on this as I get more information.

Have you checked out our Fish Moments?

BE THERE: Thank you to our 8TH GRADE ROCK STAR TEACHERS for attending the College and Career Day! Thanks to the PE Dept for being there for the game and for the meet on Tuesday! Thanks to Jason and Tom for going to the football game for supervision!

PLAY: Way to play with technology during the morning training Katherine, Allison, Sue, Anita, Gigi, Paula, Dave M., Kristy, Joe, and Prisci! I think you all are going to have FUN with this new learning! We have already seen a HUGE increase in the use of Kahoot on campus and the students are SO engaged!

MAKE THEIR DAY: Thank you to Tamia for making the College and Career Day happen for our kiddos and the ENTIRE 8th grade in FSUSD! Thank you to Tom, Gigi, Josiah, Heather, Lorraine, Suzanne, Christen, Sue, Elizabeth, Paula, Dan, Sandy, Susan, Candy, Rosa and Mimi for MAKING Career Day happen. OH MAN. It would NOT have worked without you!! Thank you to Anita for making Prisci's day! Thank you to Lorraine and Dalal for making Lynn's day! Thank you to Dustin for making my day! Thanks to Dave M for pushing for the morning training! Another one coming soon!

CHOOSE YOUR ATTITUDE: Positive is the NAME OF THE GAME right now! Thank you to Elizabeth for reminding me :) We are NOW taking nominations for Rock Star Teachers! We have THREE nominations so far! Send them our way....

Did you?

• Let us know if you are interested in after school intervention yet? Email me NOW!
• Schedule a time that you want to go visit a colleague to see them in action? It is SO powerful and inspiring! Come see us for ideas and suggestions!
• Sent us a name for ROCK STAR nomination? First 5 people to do so get a prize!!