Week at a Glance November 26-30, 2018

Welcome Back, Leaders!

Not going to lie. 
I really did not want to go to a leadership training the district sent me to last week. 

(Blech. No!!!! Too much to do!!!)   
However, I went..."volun-told" but... I went.   And of course...I loved it!

The theme of the day was growth and change... which is a topic that is hard for us but I have grown to LOVE!  Here are a few of my favorite and most reflective tidbits that you might enjoy-because EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU is a leader!

• Leaders should constantly change!
•  How can leaders expect growth from others when they are not growing?
• These areas are good questions to ask yourself:
• Am I a good listener? Am I open to change? Do I ask more questions than answer them? Do I understand the difference between being adaptable and conforming?
• Everyone must UNLEARN to RELEARN. So...you do something (enter/test)...you fail... you learn why you failed...you improve...and you "re-enter" (try again)!
• You MUST know and understand the difference between criticism and feedback. (Feedback comes from those who TRULY want you to get better!)
• Leadership takes CHARACTER-see my new favorite quote below!

~A GINORMOUS SHOUT OUT to 4th grade teachers, Laura Wells, and friends (4th Grade Math and Science Teacher)  for  hosting their annual family potluck!  So fun to see everyone together-just enjoying each other no matter your background!

       

-FREE DRESS $5.00 for whole week-STAFF AND STUDENTS!

Monday November 26
>Sorry so late- I accidentally deleted the whole WAG!
>No LPDAS observations
>2:00 RTI for 2nd grade starts!

Tuesday November 27
>Reading Planning Day
>Curriculum writers pull-out day 
     (quite a few from campus will be out)
>8:00 4th Grade RTI flooding
>2:00 2nd Grade RTI flooding
>3:30 Makers Space Club in library

Wednesday November 28
>Math Planning Day
>8:00 4th Grade RTI flooding
>11:30-1:00 Carters' House Christmas Boutique meeting (other principals and community guests will be on campus)
>2:00 2nd Grade RTI flooding
>3:30 Faculty Meeting

Thursday November 29
>7:00 Prayer in Ms. Gomez's Room
>8:00 4th Grade RTI flooding
>8:30  ARD (Fountain/Jones)
>9:30-10:00 Sanders & Patrick meet
>10:00 SSP (Sanders/Counselors/Lucero)
>2:00 2nd Grade RTI flooding
>3:30 Art Club 🎨

Friday November 30
>9:00-11:00 CORE Team meeting
>9:30-10:00 Sanders & Patrick meet
>9:50-10:20 SSP (Admin/Lucero/Counselors)
>1:00-2:00 Admin Team Meeting

Upcoming Dates:

• December 3-7: Secret Santa Week
• December 7: Collaboration Meeting Day
• December 7: Art Show Open House 5:30-7:30 (you can get a point for attending!)
• December 10-21: Middle of Year MAP testing
• December 12: Faculty Meeting
• December 19: Faculty Christmas Brunch (classrooms covered by parents!)
• December 19: Angel Tree at Nimitz
• December 21: Carters' House Christmas Boutique in small gym 11:00-4:00 (parents sign up and get to "shop" for free gifts for their kiddos)
• December 24-January 4: Winter Break
• January 7: Collaboration Day (no students)
• January 8: No LPDAS day
• January 9: Faculty meeting
• January 14-18: 3rd 6 weeks district assessments
• January 16-17: Early release days
• January 18: Workday 
• January 21: off-MLK day!
• January 22: NO LPDAS day!
• January 23: Faculty Meeting

Growing Greatness in Every Student Every Day! 

Week at a Glance November 12-16, 2018

Bulldog Staff,
Check out what's going down this week!

• Attendance GLOWSTICKS and GO-GO Parties (Tuesday)
• 2nd 6 Week Awards during Specials (Thursday)
• Field Day! (Friday)
• MANY SSPs/504s/ARDS
• Veteran's Day (Sunday-celebrate on Monday)
• Please take a minute on Monday to celebrate Veteran's Day with your students. (not requiring anything in particular!)Let us know how you are honoring Veterans into your lessons tomorrow by TWEETing out using #JHEHonorsOurVeterans! 
• If you or a close loved one are a veteran, please let us know! We would like to feature your story this week via Twitter/email/Facebook!

~A GINORMOUS SHOUT OUT to KARINA FERNANDEZ (4th Grade Math and Science Teacher)  for  leading a BOOK CLUB for the book RESTART! WOW!!!! We love to see our math and science teachers supporting reading! What an amazing partner, amIright, LaDawn? 
~Shout out to HEATHER ELLIS for going above and beyond to start the SIX FLAGS Reading Incentive program with her kiddos! We know they are beyond excited! (She said she would love to share how!)  

        Special Shout-Out: Suzanne Kline         

Suzanne works tirelessly for our staff and our kids. (Her work ethic will make anyone question their own.) She stays at school when ANYONE needs her, she works many days well into the midnight hour, she researches constantly, she answers any desperate calls I have at any time...she is waking in the middle of the night thinking about our teachers and kids. 

She is PASSIONATE. She is WILLING to LEARN new things. She is REFLECTIVE. She is HONEST. (She even tells me things that I might not want to hear!) I have seen her TWICE this week fight for our kids and teachers when something didn't feel right.

She knows that being a good teacher and coach means you are constantly trying to learn and that you have enough humility to know "its not all about me". She gives credit to others all the time, she is willing to work with anyone at any time, and she gets excited when she sees others (adults or kids) LEARN!

Thank you Mrs. Kline, for all that you do for JHE.

• Thursday 11/15 Awards
• Please make sure we have everything we need from you to make our awards awesome! 
• Friday 11-16: FIELD DAY!
•  Please talk to kids about their lunches and get a count to Mrs. DeLima TOMORROW! 

Monday November 12
>8:00 SSP (Sanders/Counselor/Vinson)
>8:30 SSP (Sanders/Counselor/Vinson)
>8:45 Castillo MAP testing in lab
>9-10 Arevalo/Sanders Budget/Ordering Meeting
>10:40-11:30 3rd Grade Data Collaboration Meeting (Rm 12)
>11:30 Plascensia MAP testing in lab
>1:10 SSP (Sanders/Counselor/Gary)
>1:40 SSP (Sanders/Counselor/Ojeda)
>2:15 SSP (Sanders/Counselor/Gomez/Fernandez/Fulton/C. Gray-getting coverage)
>3:30 CIC Meeting in Library (Gorena lead)
>3:40 SSP (Sanders/Counselor/Pinto)

Tuesday November 13
>Reading Planning Day
>Glowsticks Parties (for attendance)
>Sanders out at principal meeting 
>4th Grade at LBJ-A.M.
>8:15 Hernandez MAP testing in cafe A
>8:30 ARD (A. Gray/Fountain)
>8:45 Salazar MAP testing in lab
>11:30 Smith MAP testing in lab
>1:00-2:00 ARD (Hancock/Fountain)
>2:30 SSP (Fountain/Counselor/Wolf)
>3:30 Maker Space Club  (Esslinger/Patrick)
>3:40-4:10 SSP (Gorena/Counselors/Gary)

Wednesday November 14
>Math Planning Day
>Sanders out at training
>8:15 Mier MAP testing in Cafe A (AM group)
>8:45 Bautista MAP testing in lab 
>9:00 Partners in Education Meeting (Admin/Counselors)
>11:30 Kerans MAP testing in lab
>1:30 Mier MAP testing in Cafe A (PM group)
>2:15 SSP (Fountain/Hancock/Counselors)
>3:30 meeting for K-2 Bilingual Teachers (Room 12)

Thursday November 15
2nd 6 Week Awards
Staff Potluck Day!
National Parent Involvement Day!
>7:00 Prayer in Ms. Gomez's Room
>4th Grade@ LBJ-AM
>8:00 SSP (Sanders/Counselors/Vinson)
>8:30 SSP (Sanders/Counselors/Vinson)
>1:00-2:00 ARD (Morales/Fountain)
>1:10 SSP (Sanders/Counselors/Ojeda)
>1:40 SSP (Sanders/Counselors/Ojeda)
>3:40 SSP (Sanders/Counselors/Gary)
>3:30 Art Club 🎨
>5:00-7:00 PM 4th Grade Performance Night and Family Potluck!

Friday November 16
Field Day!

Upcoming Dates:

~November 19-23-Thanksgiving Break!
~December dates coming soon! 

Growing Greatness in Every Student Every Day! 

Week at a Glance November 5-9, 2018

Bulldog Staff,

Hope you all enjoyed your PLC Collaboration Day on Friday.  I heard there was a lot of hard work going on around the building and of course how awesome was it that everyone came together to clear out room 30 to make a new literacy room for our kids! AWESOME! It is awesome what being a TEAM can accomplish! It reminded me of what can be accomplish when you ARE A PLC! We are all working in the same direction for the same thing-STUDENT SUCCESS by:

• Being a TRUE PLC with the 3 BIG ideas
• 1. Focus on Learning  2. Work Collaboratively  3.Be Results Oriented 
• Asking and Addressing the 4 questions 
• What will the learn? How will they learn? What if they master? What if they don't?
• Leaning on each other for support!
• No one is an expert in EVERYTHING-we work better as a team! 

HAVE A GREAT WEEK! 

~Shout Out to everyone who dressed up and made learning fun these past couple of weeks! Loved the Ivan Kick-Off and Halloween parade!
~A big hug and shout out to  Janie Martinez for truly caring about kids and dealing with some VERY difficult and heavy situations this week. 
~ Shout out to our AWESOME OFFICE staff Cynthia, Eva, Nancy and Blanca for being cool, calm, and collected with all visitors...especially the challenging ones! 
~Shout out to Violeta Ojeda for organizing a fun Tostata Tuesday for her team and shout out to the First Grade Team for participating and makng it fun!
~Another thank you to Violeta Ojeda for taking a kinder kiddo during Guided Reading from Ms. Salazar and shout out to Salazar for seeing the strengths of that kiddo!
~AND Thank you to Meagan Schrull for being willing to help out with a challenge from our kindergarten class!

• Thursday 11/8 GRADES ARE DUE!
• Follow the checklist protocol and if you need help let us know!
• Friday 11-16: FIELD DAY!
•  Please talk to kids about their lunches and get a count to Mrs. DeLima by next Monday 

Monday November 5
>Counselors out in AM
>8:30-9:30 ARD Vargas/Gorena (Sanders will take RtI group)
>2:00-2:30 Staffing Meeting (Wolf/Fountain/Counselors)
>3:45-5:30 Sanders @admin building

Tuesday November 6
>Reading Planning Day
>8:15 Benavides in lab for fluency testing
>9:30 Gary in lab for fluency testing
>9:45-10:45 ARD (Morales/Fountain)
>9:45-10:45 Sanders/Arevalo meet 
>1:00-2:00 ARD (Gomez/Fountain)
>3:30 Maker Space Club  (Esslinger/Patrick)

Wednesday November 7
>Reading DA#2 Day for 2-5! 
>Math Planning Day
>Counselors out in AM/Fountain out all day
>8:15 3rd and 4th begin Reading DA (a.m. group)
>8:15 Ojeda in lab for fluency testing
>9:15 5th Grade begins Reading DA  (a.m. group)
>9:30 Pinto in lab for fluency testing
>11:00-12:00 Counselors/Adming in Carter House meeting
>11:40 2nd Grade DA begins (all)
>12:00 4th Reading DA (p.m. group)
>1:00 3rd and 5th Reading DA (p.m. group)
>3:30-5:00 Faculty Meeting

Thursday November 8
REPORT CARD GRADES DUE!
Math DA#2 Day for 2-5!
>7:00 Prayer in Ms. Gomez's Room
>7:45-10:30 Sanders at Good ES for Principal Walkthroughs
>8:15 2nd, 3rd, and 4th begin Math DA
>9:15 5th Grade begins Math DA  
>12:00 4th Math DA 

>1:00 3rd and 5th Reading DA 
>3:00-4:30 Sanders @ admin building for HR meeting
>3:30 Art Club 🎨

Friday November 9
Collaboration Meeting Day
>8:00 5th DA2 Collaboration Meeting
>9:15 5th Science DA (a.m. group)
>9:45 2nd DA2 Collaboration Meeting
>12:10 Kinder Collaboration Meeting 
>1:00 5th Science DA (p.m. group)
>1-2 ARD Rice/Gorena
>1:05 1st Collaboration Meeting
>2:05 4th Collaboration Meeting 

Upcoming Dates:
~November 15-4th Grade Thanksgiving Potluck Night!
~November 15-PeachJar kick-off (online flyers-more info at faculty meeting)
~November 16-Field Day!
~November 19-23-Thanksgiving Break!

Growing Greatness in Every Student Every Day!