November 15, 2019

Hear Ye, Hear Ye

• Staff members supporting each other with students that are struggling with following the Trojan Way at school.  When we help each other, we all feel supported and encouraged. 
• A young man was beaming about his first EVER award certificate after the pride assembly yesterday.  He even initiated a hug with his teacher!
• Shout out to Christina Abegglen for working so hard at helping our students share the expectations of how to behave at an assembly!  Thank you so much!
• Third graders sharing their table of contents with me about their informational writing pieces.  I learned about fishing, skateboarding, and cats!

What's Happening at Dodgeland

• Monday, November 18
• Last full week before Thanksgiving!  Make every moment count!  :-)
• Tuesday, November 19
• Newsletter articles due to Marie.  Optional: Include a picture (or two) if you have one.
• 3rd Grade Data meeting
• Wednesday, November 20
• Workout Wednesday

Nitty-Gritty

• Thank you for your time on Wednesday during the staff meeting.  I hope you were all able to get an idea or two from your colleagues that helps.  If you have a situation that you would like to talk through with me, please let me know!
• If you haven't shared the priority standards document for your grade level, please do so.  I would like to work with them to compile them in a format that allows us to see the whole school in one chart.  If you have already done this, thank you very much!
• An email went out to staff members that notified me that they would like to work on a math or phonics analysis team.  If you would like to join this team, please let me know!

PD Spotlight

• I wanted to use this week's PD Spotlight to highlight the PinkCast video that I showed on Wednesday for all staff that may not have been able to be there.  Click here to watch the 100 second video.  I am challenging us to do this every day here at Dodgeland.  I wonder what effects, if any, there will be on our work environment.  Will our students mimic us?  How will that affect the climate at our school?  I think it is worth our time to try to influence others in a way that helps build habits of kindness.  It will take time, but I believe it will happen!  Every day, every minute is important.  What a great career we have!

Friday Funny

Saw this and thought it was funny.  Hope you do too!