May 18, 2018

"____ more days" seems to be the most common greeting we here lately....

If you think that you are feeling the "burn" and classroom management is slipping, the Good Behavior Game is a quick and easy solution for your most "challenging" period during the day!  It has a TON of evidence to support it, it's easy to do and it has impressive outcomes (click here!) and results in classrooms, especially in secondary!! 

Check out THIS LINK on a "how to" guide to get started NOW!!!

I have already registered, have you?!?!  Don't miss out on this exciting and engaging PD where you can learn all new ways and ideas for engaging students, increasing your technical knowledge, and all while attending an "unconference"!!  Sign up NOW and don't miss out!  It's going to be FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!

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!

Click HERE to add! (253)

• SUPER awesome shout out to MATH AND ENGLISH for plugging away at CAASPP and making sure students complete their tests!!
• SUPER awesome shout out to SUE and DAVE and HEATHER for taking all of our overflow testers for us!!
• SUPER awesome shout out to our SPED squad for taking care of ALLLLLLL of the transition IEPs to GVMS and from GVMS!
• SUPER awesome shout out to SUE for getting the math manipulatives for all of the math department!
• SUPER awesome shout out to BARB, DUSTIN, POZZESI, SANDY, KIMBERLY, TOM, AUBRY, and SUE for attending the transition IEPs for our outgoing 8th graders!!! ~SPED Squad
• SUPER awesome shout out to DON for being my partner for the past three years! ~Cristina
• SUPER awesome shout out to DAVE O. for always being in the right place at the right time! ~Sue
• SUPER awesome shout out to SHARON and JULIET for handling CAASPP testing so well! ~Sue
• SUPER awesome shout out to ROSA, BRENITA, AIDA for always helping in the classes that need it! ~KC and CL
• SUPER awesome shout out to BRENITA and ROSA for having our backs! ~Joanne
•  SUPER awesome shout out to ALISA for her positivity around Sport O Rama and her thoughtfulness when planning activities around testing! ~Aubry
• SUPER awesome shout out to OUR SCHOOL for staying in one piece while KC was away!~ Sue
• SUPER awesome shout out to EVERYONE who provided breaks to English during CAASPP testing! ~Heather T.
• SUPER awesome shout out to LORRAINE, MEGAN, and AUBRY for all of your support and team work!  We are so much stronger together! ~Heather T
• SUPER awesome shout out to 6TH GRADE TEAM for making it another great year! ~Cristina
• SUPER awesome shout out to KATHERINE for taking the lead at the Science Collaboration!  She created some things that were extremely helpful in planning!~ Lynn
• SUPER awesome shout out to Bates, Booker, Campus Monitors, Diaz, Hafich, Kinder, Laffey, Lapid, Love, Layne, McKenna, Patterson, Perriatt, Pozzesi,  Rice, Schwazbach, Reimer, Wheeler and Admin for writing 167 Good News Referrals for MAY!