October 5, 2018

As I attending a conference at a middle school in Truckee this weekend to improve my practice and bring back tools to help us succeed even more, I realized that we want our GVMS staff to do the same.  We know it's hard to leave your classroom (we love that you feel that way!) and hard to leave family on the weekends (trust me, we get it), AND please find an awesome PD that speaks to you.  One that challenges you to be a more effective educator.  One that helps you to continue to reach ALL of our GVMS students.  From Super Saturdays to NGSS Lesson Design to Classroom Management to FALL CUE in American Canyon, please take a look at the 69 different opportunities in our district or go online and do some research!!  We want to support your learning!

Anyone?  Anyone?  Does this look familiar?  Ever sat through a presentation that made you feel this way?  I did (recently too) and was reminded that, while ALMOST ALL of our classrooms have much higher levels of engagement than EVER before, we are still missing it in some areas.  Our students have less and less of an attention span than ever before and keeping them engaged CAN be tricky.  It's been shared before and HERE it is again on easy peasy ways to keep engagement happening!

As we head into October (our historically challenging month), we need positive.  We need support.  We need collaboration.  We need each other.  We need to build resilience.  How, you ask?  Take a look at THIS EASY article on 12 EASY ways that we can work together to not be exhausted, burned out, and wanting to cry/scream/hide =)

SUPER HERO SHOUT OUTS!

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• SUPER awesome shout out to CJ and Alex Chalmers for getting the Netbooks up and running! ~Lynn
• SUPER awesome shout out to Larissa for getting the Elodea leaf for our lab and going out of her way to put the plant light for our science class!
• SUPER awesome shout out to Tamia and Cristina!  What a team we make! Love you both! ~Heather P.
• SUPER awesome shout out to Carol for taking Dave's class to Soul Shoppe! 
• SUPER awesome shout out to Dustin for always being kind, supportive and helpful! ~Paula
• SUPER awesome shout out to Brenda for always hitting the right spot and forcing me to relax a bit! ~KC
• SUPER awesome shout out to Lynn, Heather, Tamia for field trip arrangements! Cristina
• SUPER awesome shout out to PE for being flexible to help us with Soul Shoppe being here and using the gym! ~KC, CL, EB
• SUPER awesome shout out to Sue for taking faculty meeting minutes!
• SUPER awesome shout out to Tamia for saving me and having jumper cables! ~Rosa
• SUPER awesome shout out to Rosa for always going above and beyond!~ Brenda
• SUPER awesome shout out to Jason for having a bathroom log =)! ~Rosa
• SUPER awesome shout out to our teachers for covering for in leius! ~Brenda
• SUPER awesome shout out to Ric for helping me with the golf cart on Friday! ~Rosa
• SUPER awesome shout out and love to Sue for all of her HARD work making the math curriculum manageable!  Year after year she has helped teachers throughout the district be successful! ~Paula
• SUPER awesome shout out to Brenda for always being there when I need something! ~Rosa
• SUPER awesome shout out to Brenda for the oils to help with carpel tunnel! ~Remier
• SUPER awesome shout out to Nate for helping change the tire on the golf cart! ~Rosa