If you have any interest is changing grades and/or looping with your class, let me know. It helps when we are interviewing if I have these things already in mind.
Leadership Team Meeting – 4/ 22
Your Leadership Team discussed each question at length and
offered great insight.
Can we shorten the intros of the Pledge Helpers? Students want to have some time to talk with
each other, and talk to the teacher.
This is also a great time for teachers to get some intervention/reteaching
in for the day. We feel that
this recognition is very important to the students and their parents. The
teachers should be able to submit whatever they would like read and posted
without feeling limited. Mrs. Tyner will remain very aware of the time announcements
take and try to limit that as much as possible.
The time for students to visit and for any incidental intervention, is
before 8:00.
Is there any talk of changing the requirements for Wall of
Fame? Our kindergartners have such a
hard time achieving the PS score, even our smartest kids. It’s pitiful to watch them work so hard and
be disappointed over and over again. They don’t stand a chance of becoming a millionaire,
so their options are so limited. Kids
boo hoo about it. 1st graders
have a really hard time becoming a millionaire, too. I get that is celebrates academic success,
but it’s not truly attainable for K students. YES, some things will
change with the Wall of Fame next year.
We’ve heard that DreamBox is going away, so we know that will change. The
WOF was created to celebrate students who show academic talents AND students
who choose to go above and beyond expectations (AR and DB). It was never intended to be something that
ALL students could achieve. Just like
trying out for the HS baseball team, very few make it as underclassmen. However, as a Junior and Senior (4th
and 5th grader) your chances are much better. We suggest that the
teachers make a big deal about other recognitions. It was mentioned that you
may want to think of something that only K and 1 could earn. Like the Blow Pops Mrs. Tyner is doing now for
K students and the AR Charts for Popcorn that First Graders do. WOF is about
dreaming big and showing everyone that academic achievement and hard work are a
huge priority for CES. CES recognizes
students in MANY ways** everyone can
earn something.
Tents for lunch? Can we consider getting the tents back out
for lunch and places to gather for students? Often the same classes are the
ones getting the prime eating sports each time. Mrs Tyner is happy to arrange for the tents to be put up
and taken down when we need them because of heat. It’s quite an undertaking to get that done
and also watch the weather and find people to take them down quickly, if
needed. However, if you would like your class tent, please let Tony know and he’ll
bring it to you.
Duty schedules? There seems to be so many days spent coming
in to school early. Can these days where
we must come in early be limited? There
should be people here working in their rooms if there is an emergency. The leadership team discussed this and
offered a few minor changes that I’ll try next year. However, the changes they suggested won’t
change the number of early morning positions needed. I assign teachers to duty
positions for two reasons. 1. To proactively avoid any emergency situations 2.
To have adults happily greeting our students to school. Both of those require
intentionality. We have brainstormed and tried several different ways to assign
duty at CES and I’ve always taken staff input.
The plan I’ve followed this year has created the least number of
complaints. Typically everyone has early morning duty one week out of every
four. That is created by only having
four sections per grade level. EX: Kindergarten holding is covered by
Kindergarten First grade by first etc.…..
I combined 3rd and 4th this year so I could add an
additional person in the cafeteria due to following COVID protocols.
Is there a plan to honor the teachers who retired in 2020 and
who will retire in 2021? We had a plan and had to abort in
January with the upswing of COVID. We
need to get the committee back together asap.
