Teacher and Staff,
What a super week! It was awesome to be in your classrooms this week and see all those great classroom management tips you shared with others. As a reminder, please add your sticky to our classroom management tips board for all to see! Your blogs are looking really great too! Please let me know if you have any questions or I can help in any way! Just a few things to share:
- Shift for K-2 (+ Cathy) PLC - As a reminder, we will need to start the K/1/2 PLC to start at 1030 AM. This will ensure Cathy can join us until 1050 AM. Thanks for you help with this!
- ALL Teachers - Specials and Classroom Teachers have a PLC. Specials Teachers make sure to join your group on your specified day! Brady and Mike you are with MS PLCs and Cathy you are with K/1/2 PLCs. Sister Mary - please let me know which PLC works best for you! :)
- A HUGE thank you to all who participated in our See the Change national video filming! Our students got to see professionals in this field at work!
- MARK YOUR CALENDARS! We will be hosting "Hard As Nails" for our middle schoolers on Friday, October 4th at 9AM followed by our school-wide World Wide Eucharistic Holy Hour at 1030AM. Check it out at Hard As Nails for more info on this! We have also invited our other Catholic middle schools and home schoolers to join us! Our Holy Hour will last for about 1 hour. Please plan to take all students back to school to classrooms after our Holy Hour. At 1130AM - parents can pick up students from classrooms who bring pets for Fr. Mark to bless for our annual St. Francis Pet Blessing. All other students will have regular dismissal. As a reminder- we will not have specials on this 1/2 day of school!
- PREP for your FIRST DATA Meeting with Erin - As a reminder teachers, you need to have your first benchmark EasyCBM Math and Reading Data collected and entered by our first DATA PLC the week of September 23rd. Please have this data ready by your PLC that week!
- Anyone interested in serving on an AdvancEd External Review Team? Please let me know and I'll send you some contact info!
- Want to adopt a priest for your class? This consists of cards, invites to special events, etc.! Please see Dawn for a list of available priests!
- Catholic Mutual Safety in the School Contest - would a student in your class like to earn $7500-$10,000 for our school? Please see the flyer posted on the info board at the front of the school for more info.! The deadline is March 1, 2014! Please let your students know we will enter only ONE entry for our school!
- Perks for Teachers- Check this out! Have you been wanting to join the Y? Now through September 30th all teachers will receive a free Y membership! Now may be your time to get healthy!
- Question On Date for ACI - By November 5 - please let Deb Baca know your vote on the date for ACI next year -Do you want to continue with the two days before labor day or have it the Monday and Tuesday of the week of Thanksgiving (giving you Wednesday, Thursday and Friday off of that week)?
Virtue of the Week: Temperance
Here's What Happening:
18 School Advisory Council Meeting 7:30 AM - Council Members Attend
18 - QUICK Junior Achievement Training for ALL TEACHERS - Computer lab - 3PM - you can plan for JA for the day to go all day long on the 20th but you will receive schedules, etc. during this time. MIKE and SR. MARY will cover your regular specials times. No Tech or Spanish on the 20th!
20 JA for the Day - Junior Achievement Comes to CC
23 New SAC Member Training - 7:30AM-9:30AM - Ave Maria OR 6:30PM-8:30PM Pauline Memorial
23-26 - Data PLCs - have your Easy CBM data ready! This year we will use percentages - below 20% - red, below 50% - yellow
24 School Picture Day - students wear Mass Uniforms
25 - NO SCHOOL MASS - Priest retreat week
25-26 - Students and teachers wear Jog-a-Thon shirts and regular uniform bottoms
27 Jog-A-Thon at Bon Park - wear jog-a-thon shirts and athletic
REMINDER: Start turning in goals - all due by Monday, September 30th
UPCOMING MIDDLE SCHOOL ASSEMBLY: 6-8 Grades will get to see Mike McCoy at 145PM on October 29th! We will therefore run an assembly schedule that day!
Diocesan Committees- Team members please mark your calendars for meetings at the diocesan office!
- ACI Team - November 5 - 2-4 PM
- Religion Curriculum Team - September 26 2-4 PM and October 10th - 2-4 PM
- Professional Development Team - October 3 - 2-4 PM
Announcement Schedule: Send two students just a little before 7:50 to the office- September 16-20 - 6th Grade; September 23-27 - 5th Grade; September 30-October 4 - 4th Grade
PLC Theme for Week of September 16: A Scream to Blow Off Steam! Making our School a Scream-free Zone!
PLC Schedule for Week of September 16: Monday, September 16- K/1/2 PLC - 10:30-10:50 Tuesday, September 17- Middle School PLC - 11:53-12:30 Thursday, September 19- 3/4/5 PLC - 11:10-11:50
PLC Theme for Week of September 23: DATA - have your EasyCBM Math and Reading Data prepped for meetings this week!
Data PLC Schedule for Week of September 23rd: Monday, September 23- K/1/2 PLC - 10:30-10:50; Tuesday, September 24- Middle School PLC - 11:53-12:30; Thursday, September 26- 3/4/5 PLC - 11:10-11:50'
Have a Wonderful Week! :)
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