May 11, 2018

I just attended a training that had awesome and useful content and I needed to learn all of it.  AND I got "talked at" for TWO HOURS straight.  Two hours.  It got me thinking, again, about the many students in our classrooms who are completely NOT engaged in what you are presenting.  Is that THEIR issue or OURS?  Easy.  It's ours.

How do we continue the engagement and make it EASY on ourselves?  Check out THIS link on the 10:2 method, feedback, and the 3-2-1 method for 7 EASY PEASY ways to keep the engagement high instead of you doing ALL of the work/talking and our students TUNING out.

As we enter our last few weeks of school (I know you aren't COUNTING or anything!), it is absolutely critical that we continue to consistently reinforce our expectations, routines/procedures, and rules.  We are seeing ridiculous increases of negative student behavior.  Yes, we know, it's Spring. Yes, they are middle school students.  Yes, we know testing makes them antsy.  AND, as the adults on campus (yes, that's you all!!) it is necessary that we continue to reinforce what we do at GVMS, supervise all students at all times, and are visible to encourage students to follow the rules.  I mean, they aren't complicated or anything!  We truly appreciate your continued diligence and support to make the end of the school year super awesome and successful!!

We LOVE donations and all that we continue to receive from grants, donations, and Donor's Choose!  Please don't forget that, when you apply for a grant or Donor's Choose and use the name of GVMS to solicit donations, all gifts, grants and bequests become district property.  Check out the Board Policy 3290 just to ensure that we follow the guidelines!  Let me know if you have questions!

We have our annual site walk through scheduled for Monday, June 25 so please be sure that you have taken personal items home, discarded items that are obsolete, and de-cluttered our classrooms.  Extra supplies need to make it back to the supply closet and if you want anything donated to charity, please leave it on the table outside the mail room by Friday, June 8 and it will magically disappear for you =)

We will be going 1:1 next year and, in order to make that happen, this is what we must do:

• Remove all markings of room number/teacher name
• Have all chrome carts with chrome books delivered to library starting Monday, June 4
• Deliver ALL chrome books that are in lockers to library beginning Monday, June 4
• If there are ANY repairs that are needed, enter the FMX ticket NOW!
• Those students that do not remember to bring their device will have to check one out in the library in the morning and return it in the afternoon
• Alex will spend summer accounting for our devices so that they are ready to be assigned to students for 18-19

HERE ARE SOME OF THE SHOTS FROM TWITTER AND AROUND OUR CAMPUS THIS WEEK!   SEND US A TEXT TO COME VISIT AS WE LOVE IT!

    

    

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 Dave F. for organizing and taking on Sport O Rama! ~Barb
• SUPER awesome shout out to Olvera, Lucero and Cherry for help with CAST Testing! ~Barb
• SUPER awesome shout out to Rosa, Brenita, Aida, and Joanna for responding so quickly to a situation with so much going on! ~Michele R.
• SUPER awesome shout out to Christen, Tamia, Josiah, Jacob, Carla, and Karyn for tackling the first round of transition meetings!  You all ROCK!
• SUPER awesome shout out to Olvera and Kinder for checking on me on Monday and answering the questions from the kids! ~Ryan
• SUPER awesome shout out to CL and KC for keeping their cool and tag teaming to handle the chaos of the front office! ~Michele R.
• SUPER awesome shout out to Josiah, Dave O., and Sue for checking on the newbies and subs on the first day of CAASPP testing! 
• SUPER awesome shout out for the DUDE. BE NICE stickers!  We LOVE seeing these on campus! ~Don
• SUPER awesome shout out to the kind and compassionate people that I work with!  Thank you to Allison, Dustin and Trevor for checking on me! ~Carol
• SUPER awesome shout out to Sandy for coming to my rescue and going to get sandpaper for my project! ~Kimberly
• SUPER awesome shout out to Katherine for rescuing an alligator lizard from the staff bathroom and relocating it! ~Don
• SUPER awesome shout out to Susan, Brenda, and Michele S. for keeping the front office running smoothly even with the craziness going on at all times! ~Michele R.
• SUPER awesome shout out to Cristina for jumping in the help Andi with SBAC testing and practice! ~Julie
• SUPER awesome shout out to Brenita, Aida, and Rosa for always checking on me to see what I need! ~Karen
• SUPER awesome shout out to Bates, Booker, DeVries, Hafich, Kinder, Love, Layne, McKenna, Nitto, Patterson, Peckham, Peila, Perriatt, Phillips, Rice, Russell, Schwazbach, Teague, Toll, Wheeler, Reimer, Rosa, and Admin for writing 275 Good News Referrals for April!