March 8, 2013

Staff social after school today. Join the MGE crew at Mickey's for appetizers, laughter and decompressing. 

Thank you for planning, preparing and facilitating another successful round of student-involved conferences! If you have parents who did not make it, please reschedule. If you run in to challenges, please let Diann and I know and we will try to help get it scheduled or do a home visit with you if needed.

Thank you for hosting our Instructional Rounds. The team was very impressed with what they heard and observed. The team spent the morning engaged in inquiry based learning around mindsets, feedback and student involvement. Your input, point of view and your work was important to the learning of our team members.

Thank you Amanda Robinson! She will be closing her long term subbing position for Allison Costa today. We appreciate the time and work you put in and we will see you in April. :-) 

Lost & Found - If you want to have some extra items in your classroom, please come down to the Lost and Found today. We will be sorting, stocking the nurse's closet and getting rid of remaining items soon!

The Mad Dash begins (...you're thinking, "When did it ever stop?") after Spring Break. Communication is always important but it becomes even more vital as we close the school year with field trips, classroom events, activities, etc. Please visit the "Dates_to_Remember" document to review the calendar of events and more importantly add any events not listed.

Parking lot changes - A recent change is all Beyond the Bell pick-up and drop-off cars have been asked to park in the lot when they pick up their child instead of parking along the fire lane. This has lead to more in-and-out traffic in our parking lot and I'm going to ask staff to either be VERY careful when they pull in the lot from the south OR drive through the parent drop-off lane to enter from the north. We've had some near accidents recently. If you want the long story for the changes...catch me at the staff social and I'll share. :-) 

Book Study Opportunity - REPEAT from last week: After some interest in learning more about Brookview's engagement in learning around The Leader in Me, I am offering a book study opportunity for any staff member (certified, classified, nutrition, etc) to learn more about the process. Please sign up here (we'd start after spring break). To learn more about The Leader in Me, visit their home page at http://www.theleaderinme.org

The Book Fair profits will go toward a grade level set of books for each section next fall. Those will be ordered by Pam and delivered in the fall. The Pizza Ranch nights raised nearly $1600 in all ($1200 for MGE and $400 for WDE). I appreciate your help in promoting both events and for volunteer time at Pizza Ranch!

Dates to Note

• Please review/edit/update Dates to Remember document!
• 3/11 - Costa returns! Student teachers begin in Huisman and Bode
• 3/12 - Barry @ Cognitive Coaching class (all day)
• 3/12 - Kindergarten Parent Night (6:30-7:30p)
• 3/14 - An old woman in the office gets a year older ;-)
• 3.15 - Spring Break begins!

You gotta laugh...

After a week of conferences, day long class and Instructional Rounds, this

could have been me this morning. :-) Hope you find it as humorous as I did.

I think Paula would put me in a time-out prior to me taking over

the intercom, though. Don't mess with my Camry though... ;-)