April 21, 2017

WHOOO HOOOO!  We are officially a GOLD RIBBON SCHOOL!!!  We could not be more proud to be a part of this great moment with all of you!  May 12 is our celebration day, beginning with a ceremony of sorts to start at 1 PM and then a party for all, so keep that date in your mind as the schedule IS COMING SOON (it's also the last day of testing AND Teacher Appreciation Week!) and we are going to have fun!!

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The Energy Bus Sums It All Up...

Rule 8: Love Your Passengers

All any of us really wants is to be loved, mostly our students.  Did you know that human beings are STRONGER when they are thinking positive?  Hmmmm...wonder if this means I still need to go to the gym every morning =)

Rule 9, 10: Drive Your Bus with a Purpose and Have Fun and Enjoy The Ride

While we all focus on what stresses us out, we forget to focus on what we have to be thankful for.  I am thankful for all of you, even when we don't see eye to eye or struggle to come together.  We are STILL A TEAM!

We are already team planning for next year's engaging and hands on retreat for August 10 and I have not been more excited so see our TEAM come together!!

What IS all the hype with Twitter lately and why should I join, you ask? Well, not only does it increase your PLN (Professional Learning Network) you get to learn from educators all over the world, you get to "brag" about the awesome and engaging lessons going on in your classroom, and you get support from other educators who are learning JUST LIKE US!  Check out this SUPER EASY read  "Twitter for Beginners" for a step by step guide on how to set it up and the lingo to learn more, grow more, collaborate more, and DO MORE!  

Shout out to all of our #gvms teachers on Twitter and sharing with each other!

SUPER HERO SHOUT OUTS!

• SUPER shout out to Katherine, Kristy, Alex, Dalal, and Heather T. for working on the AWESOME AND ENGAGING staff retreat!  HINT- it DOES involved a pirate ship =)  I AM SO EXCITED!!!😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
• SUPER shout out to Mimi, Rosa, Michele S., Karen, Elizabeth, Cherry/Lucero, Mary Jane, Booker, DeVries, Diaz, Hirsch, Keffer, Kinder, Laffey, Love, McKenna, Morace, Nitto, Patterson, Pereira, Perriatt, Phillips, Pozzesi, Rice, Schwarzbach, Toll, Wheeler, and Walton for writing GNRs!
• SUPER shout out to who can come and claim a missing chrome book =)  It's been in my office for three weeks!
• SUPER shout out to Sandy, Cristina, Jamie, Lorraine, Alisa, Kimberly and Kristy for adding themselves to Twitter recently!  Good for you and we can't wait to see all that you post and share!!  JOIN US AND TAG @GVMSvikings 
• SUPER shout out to our English, History, Science, Math and 6th grade teams for ALL participating in PODs this year!  It came to my attention that this sin't always happening at every school site so -YOU ROCK!!! 💗💗💗
• SUPER shout out to Dave F., Sandy, Julie, Lynn, Sue, Dalal, and Kristy for being part of the POD and working to support each other and department!
• SUPER shout out to US as we are only 309 Chrome Books shy of being a 1:1 device school!!  Yay!
• We have had 212 Good News Referrals for APRIL and it's only been 4 days (I didn't count any for 4/7 since I am sending this early)!!  We have had 18,875 TOTAL FOR THE YEAR!! KEEP THEM COMING!! **We have had 23 referrals so far this month.  Seriously? BOO.  It's been weird...
• What to nominate a fellow SUPER HERO to be recognized at our next faculty meeting?  Click HERE!!  

MARK YOUR CALENDAR!

*April 24-May 12- Block Schedule for CAASPP test!

*April 25- Collab meetings!

*April 29- Spring Fling- Please join us!
*May 8-12 Teacher Appreciation Week!

*May 12- GOLD RIBBON CELEBRATION
*May 1-19- SPCA Drive

*May 23- Nightmare on Puberty Street Assembly- Assembly schedule!