Thursday Thriller
March 11, 2021
Just a few of our AMAZING Support Staff!!! Thank you for all the work you do for students and staff!
Nuts-n-Bolts
1. Hope your conferences went well and you were able to have some great conversations with families.
2. Spirit Day on Friday, March 19th will be COLLEGE DAY. Please promote this day with students. Great opportunity to talk about college, trade school, 2-year and 4-year universities and colleges. I wonder which hallway of teachers will have the most spirit? Will it be the upstairs, SEL, paras, art, shop and music crew? Or possibly the 7th grade hallway and PE group? Or the 8th grade hallway? Or better yet the office staff, custodians, cooks and Gear Up?! Hmmmmm...who will show the most spirit? Can't wait to see!
3. Monday, March 15th the Fairgrounds will be holding another shot clinic from 8-5. We will have our parking lot signs up. It has actually gone really well. Parents have been great during drop off and pick up.
4. Testing going on in the library the next couple of weeks. COGAT- 6th graders who were not tested last spring. Steve communicated via email the details. ELPA testing will begin the week of March 22nd. Communication of who will be tested and the schedule is coming. Just wanted this on your radar.
5. Sports for middle school on hold We are waiting until after spring break to do any planning. Chad H. has been great about 'poking the bear' to keep MS sports alive. It may be intramurals, maybe some clinics we don't yet. We hope to have some sports. We just don't know yet.
6. Yearbook and pictures -I talked with Will. I think we are going to try and take each student's picture, combine them by grade level and create our own paper yearbook (we will send to the printshop). Ashley will start taking candid photos. The goal is to not have a huge production of a picture day but to capture photos of students in a year book. If I am missing something in regards to this, please help a friend out and don't let me step in a land mine. Thanks
7. You are doing a great job at keeping the blue tubs of cleaning supplies out and in the open for custodians! THANK YOU!
8. Updated polices around showing videos in class:
Minor tweaks were made to our "videos in classroom" procedures to better align with current practices. Primarily, the following adjustments were made:
Something to Ponder
In talking with a few of you, observing students in the hallway and classrooms it is evident that students are not engaging like we had hoped upon return to in-person learning. Re-engaging with students in person is a challenge! Students just don't know how to respond nor interact...yet. I found this article from Grape Seed about Children in Trauma: How You can Help. This read does not offering academic strategies. Rather, ideas on how to engage with students on an emotional and social level through predictability, confidence and relationships.
While the title of the article names 'children', I still think of our middle school students as children who need our guidance, love, laughter and willingness to champion for them.
I hope you find a gold nugget in this article to reflect upon.
Quote
March 8th was International Women's Day. Cheers to all the women who have made a difference in your life AND to all the women on this staff!
Little Humor
Three grown daughters, their significant others, my old husband (LOL) and old me group text each day. The slang used often makes my husband and me scratch our heads. This video made laugh because I love Schitt's Creek and I learned something new watching Dan and Eugene.
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