December 15, 2017

I know many of us go home and wonder why we are working so hard.  You probably ask yourself- am I even making a difference?  YES YOU ARE!!! Check out our Green Valley MS dashboard link HERE, as we are green in ALL categories!  This, of course, DID NOT happen over night!  It's hard work, collaboration, communication, support, making changes with our instruction, building relationships with staff and students, working as a POSITIVE team, and FOCUSING ON OUR STUDENTS!!!  Our students continue to grow because of your love of them and what you do, as well as, your dedication to our students and our school!  We can't wait to celebrate and see where this year takes us!!

Sometimes, we, as educators, can be the ONE person in a child's life that can make a difference.  

MORE ON ENGAGEMENT!  Until we are at 100%, we will CONTINUE this conversation as high levels of engagement directly link to higher achievement, lower off task behavior, and all around happier students!  How do we get students to make class discussions more engaging so that they are focused on the learning AND master content?  Check out THIS LINK to try 5 easy ways to make your class discussions more engaging!

WOULD YOU WANT TO BE A STUDENT IN YOUR CLASS???

IF YOUR STUDENTS DIDN'T HAVE TO BE IN YOUR CLASS, WOULD THEY SHOW UP ANYWAY??

I put this in family blog and I seriously think it needs to be in our staff one too...

Kindness.  Such an easy word to say and yet such a struggle to encourage kids and each other to practice.  Every single day, we remind our students to be nice, kind and caring.  To follow our school rules.  And every day we struggle with some of our students being mean, cruel and downright disrespectful to their peers and the adults.  Please help us encourage our Vikings and encourage each other ON STAFF to PRACTICE KINDNESS DAILY.  Here is an article about the Power of Kindness.  It makes SUCH a difference in everyone's life.

Check out some of the UPDATED Tweets that are ALWAYS going on around campus!  Stop by and see what's happening in your colleague's classrooms!  These pics below are updated WEEKLY! Aren't following everyone yet?  Follow US @GVMSVIKINGS and we have everyone's Twitter handle! =) 

SHOUT OUT to Kimberly, Tamia, Amy, Christen, Josiah, Dave F., Sue, Pozzesi, Jamie, Alisa, Liz, Heather P., Ryan, Lacey, Katherine, Anita, Cristina, Lynn, Heather T., Lorraine, Kristy, Alex, Dustin, Carol, Elizabeth and K & C for posting as many great things about GVMS as we can!  WE LOVE to brag about what's going on at GVMS!  

      

      

SUPER HERO SHOUT OUTS!  KEEP THEM COMING!  We love the "I Noticed..." and will add as many as we can!

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• SUPER awesome shout out to Jason and their newest addition! ~ALL STAFF!!
• SUPER awesome shout out to Dave F. for writing the most GNRs in November!  We will award his prize in January!  Julie is nailing it for December so far! YAY!
• SUPER awesome shout out to Heather P., Tom, Lynn and Ken for exciting kinds and parents during STEAM Night!  So exciting!  ~Kristy
• SUPER awesome shout out to Sarj and Dustin for checking on G104! ~K&C
• SUPER awesome shout out to Peter for assisting in Admin Boot camp!! ~Christine
• SUPER awesome shout out to Rosa for the adorable personalized Santa hats that made our office cheery! ~Michele R.
• SUPER awesome shout out to Heather P and Kristy for making STEAM night so engaging and exciting!  You worked really hard! ~Lynn
• SUPER awesome shout out to Admin for a great December faculty meeting!
• SUPER awesome shout out to Sue for building the confidence in so many students in math that they did great on the last math test! ~Carol
• SUPER awesome shout out to Anita, Julie and Lacey for the great collaboration in ELA/History! ~Cristina
• SUPER awesome shout out to our teachers for helping us out when we can't get subs! ~Brenda
• SUPER awesome shout out to SPED SQUAD for email help with our students! ~Don
• SUPER awesome shout out to Sue, Dave O., and Dustin for offering to take cross walk while we are VERY short handed right now! ~KC
• SUPER awesome shout out to Rosa/Mimi, Elizabeth, Ken, Cristina, Alex, Sue, Lynn, Ryan, Megan, Jamie, Katherine, Dave M., Jason, Lorraine, Lacey, Julie, Christen, Amy, Aubry, Allison, Sarj, Heather T., Tom, Carol, Barb, Michele S., and Admin for already writing Good News Referrals for December!  We have had  194 Good News Referrals TO DATE!  KEEP THEM COMING!!

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