ENews 02.07.2016

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Weekly Schedule

Monday 

• 3:30pm - Staff Meeting
• 7:00pm - RCISD Board Meeting

Tuesday 

• 9:00am - Jacobs to Principal Mtg @ Royse City High School
• 12:30pm - Jayne Knighton Visiting Classrooms
• 6:00pm - Winter Writing Showcase

Wednesday 

• Spring Pictures
• Bright to HUMANeX Training
• 3:30pm - STAT Meeting

Thursday

• Bright to HUMANeX Training
• 9:30am - ARD (Jacobs, Reavis, Padgett attending)
• 5:30-8:00pm - Chicfila Spirit Night (Kindergarten)

Friday

• 8:00am - ARD (Jacobs, Worley, Martin attending)
• 1:00pm - HS, PreK, 3rd Grade Valentine's Party
• 1:30pm - Kindergarten/1st Grade Valentine's Party
• 2:00pm - 2nd/4th Grade Valentine's Party

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Important Reminders

Teacher Lesson Plans - Upload your lessons into Google Drive & make sure your file names include the date for lesson plans.

Other Important Documents:

• Campus Curriculum Meetings
• Scott Elementary Staff Meeting Dates

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EdcampAwesome
This is my FAVE type of professional development! EdCamps are UNconference events organized by groups of educators, specifically designed to create a participant driven, fun-filled day of professional development. Educators can connect with like minded individuals, collaborate ideas, brainstorm solutions to common education problems, have group discussions, and receive information that can immediately be applied in the classroom.

Save the date for Saturday, February 20th - be sure to get your FREE ticket with the link below.

http://edcampawesome3.eventbrite.com

Jayne Knighton visiting Scott Elementary - Tuesday, February 9th @ 12:00-3:00pm

Next Week, Jayne Knighton will be visiting our campus to meet/plan with our 2nd/3rd/4th grade teams. I will be sharing a tentative schedule with those teams this week.

Winter Writing Showcase - Tuesday, February 9th @ 6:00pm

I can't wait to see the different writing activities for this event. Please to communicate with our parents/students the date/time for this. I would like to see great attendance. We'll have a special treat of the homeroom teacher of each grade level with the highest attendance for the evening! 

Staff Development Day - Monday, February 15th 

This year we'll be meeting at the high school for this staff development day. We'll have a schedule of events & professional opportunities of each grade level and content area. During this time, we'll have everyone complete their online TELPAS calibration assessments.

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NEW Information

I loved the luncheon from last week. Thank you so much PBIS team for organizing this for our campus. And thanks to everyone who participated in this event for our campus. It was delicious!

**Updated Date - Judy Caskey Visiting - Tuesday, February 16th**
She will be visiting again with some classroom walk-throughs. I would like to see great teacher attendance this day. I would like you to encourage you to talk with her has she's visiting your classrooms. Be sure to share with her some of the specific things you're doing with your students.

STAAR Testing Accommodations 
It is countdown to the March test. I want to remind you all that all testing assignments and accommodations must be finalized by Friday, February 26th. This gives the Mr. Powley 3 weeks to plan and prepare. Decisions at this point are final.

Last year we had quite a number of teachers come down with the panic and want to adjust these just a week before testing. Please let Mr. Powley and I know if any updates and changes you have in mind also for benchmark and the real test.

Math/Reading Benchmark 

3rd/4th Grade MOCK STAAR testing will be on Monday, February 29th & Tuesday, March 1st. Please remind parents we will not have visitors on campus those days.

Get a #KidsDeserveIt T-Shirt
Todd Nesloney (@TechNinjaTodd) & Adam Welcome (@awelcome) are support Donor's Choose Projects by selling #KidsDeserveIt T-shirts & Hoodies for everyone. You can click on the link below to for more details and get your own T-shirt:
http://www.kidsdeserveit.com/#!The-KDI-Project-KidsDeserveIt/jykdy/56ae2eba0cf2dc1600d97888