Nearly there people!

Week of:  November 14th-18th, 2016

Donate four items of food to our school drive and wear jeans three days and sweats two days this week!!

Monday- Sweats/Jeans Day!
TCE Family Feast - Hosted by office - Lounge
Team Leader Meeting- Kristan's room - 3:15

Tuesday -  Jeans Day!
Spring Creek BBQ Night - 5-9
Angie, Kelly and Kristan Out (AM)

Wednesday - Sweats/Jeans Day!

Crucial Conversations Training
Kelly Out (part of AM)
TLC Meeting - 3:15 - Library

Thursday - Jeans Day!
Crucial Conversations Training
Kelly Out (AM)

Friday -  Jeans Day!
Turkey Trot - all day
Therapy Dogs
Food Drive wraps up!

Important Reminders

The Innovator's Mindset Book study

If you would please click on the following padlet link and add one or more resources/ideas you find surrounding innovation and how we can help in creating a culture focused on furthering our own learning and growth.  You  might attach a video, article link, idea, image, recording, etc.  I know many of you may use this tool with your learners, so this is another great way for us to collaborate and gather resources for learning!

Click here for the link!

Or use the following qr code:

This will be our way of responding to the final chapters we read for the first half of the book.  

If you could please respond to the padlet with your resource and your name, by December 14th.  

Please make sure you have read pages 122-229 by our January TLC meeting - January 25th.

Spring Creek BBQ Night

Thank you to those of you who have signed up to help out at our annual Spring Creek BBQ night!  If you would like to sign up, there are a few additional spots!  I will be there as well, but leaving spots for anyone else who wants to sign up first! For those of you who have signed up, I think they are still doing gift cards and a free dinner that night!  Also, you may have two extra days of sweats!   

From the Desk of BS…

From the Desk of BS…Volume 11 

Pause. Breathe. Love.

Some are saying that the 2016 Presidential Election will go down as one of the most historic events in American history. There have been many Presidential races before, about 45 I believe, but this one seems to have more significance being that we are constantly connected to one another. Social media allows the world to stay in touch, and everything that happens that once was posted the next day on the front page of the New York Times, now becomes #trending all over the world in a matter of seconds. 


We, being educators, can only take this as a learning opportunity for our learners. This week I witnessed everything from 1st graders to 60 year olds having an opinion about who should be the next president, and reasons why the opposition didn’t deserve it. We as Americans have the right to disagree, and the link below explains that there are proper ways to do it: 

Click here for video!

Thank you Kid President, and thank you TCE again for a wonderful week. Enjoy your weekend! 

BS 

Thankfulness Challenge: This week take pics or videos of your kiddos expressing what they are thankful for and post them to #tcetexans and #tcegivesthanks. Let’s flood our twitter feed with things we are thankful for all next week!

Shout Outs!

Katie, thanks for getting KidBlog set up for us! You are a ROCKSTAR! Love, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade teachers

Kate, thanks for representing TCE at CAST! We appreciate you and your innovative teaching! Love, Meredith

Candace and Tina- Thank you for taking time out of your schedules to help work on writing grants for TCE!  I appreciate your efforts and crossing my fingers for these additional resources!  - Angie

Kristan, Candace and 5th Grade Team--Thank you, thank you, thank you for all your hard work with our election this week! I appreciate you all so much for helping with everything from organizing the StuCo members, to creating the most wonderful signs for our halls, to playing our candidates books on KTEX! A special thank you to Kristan for helping me count all 519 votes at the very end of the day so we could announce our winner before the bell. You all are the best! ❤Tina

Lauren, Thank you so much for always helping get all the kindergarten parents informed and ready for our fun activities! You are so quick and you make checking things off the to-do list so much easier! I am so thankful for you!

Katy

Lorri, Thank you so much for planning and putting together all of the things needed for our fun walking field trip! It was such a cute idea and we cannot wait to go! - Katy

Kim, Thank you so much for all of the wonderful work that is being displayed in the hallway from your Thanksgiving stations! The kids are learning so much with all that you and Lauren prepared for them! Thank you for always going above and beyond for our kiddos! :)  - Katy

Angie, Thank you so much for the breakfast treat this week! That was just what we all needed to start our Thursday off right! Thank you for always thinking of us! -TCE staff

Tina,

Thank you so much for organizing Global Read Aloud.  K1 had so much fun participating!  I really appreciate you taking your time to go to Coppell Public Library and  getting two Lauren Castillo books for our last week.  You are so sweet!!! THANK YOU!! -Lorri Brehm

Tina, Thanks for getting our FriYAY Sonic drinks set up! –Marly

Mary,  Thank you for everything you are doing as you juggle two campuses each day while still staying on top of giving evaluations and meeting each learner's specific needs with your program!

Leigh Ann, thank you SO much for helping me learn how to put my learners' Google Sites into QR Codes!  You are extremely patient, encouraging, and kind!!!! Julie

Laura, you're just the sweetest.... your helpfulness, your kindness, and your sweet smile do not go unnoticed!!!  You drop whatever you're doing, which I know is very important, and you give me your undivided attention. I see you treating every single person who walks through our front doors just like that. You're our little TCE angel!  We are blessed to have you! - Julie

Click here to give someone a shout out!

November Birthdays

Katie Tonemah- 3rd

Marie Sork - 7th

Marina Chicas - 8th

Beth Dilley - 11th

Laura Fairchild - 24th

Kristan Hruby - 24th

Renee Rohani - 25th

Curriculum Ideas

As we are going through the fall semester, now is the time when we may see more inappropriate behaviors starting to escalate for our learners.  Remember the importance of reviewing expectations for working in the classrooms and hallways with stations or collaboration activities.  Also, holding them accountable with expectations in the hallways when transitioning.  Make sure you are incorporating those tools like callbacks and music in the classroom to keep the energy positive and that you are giving more positive reinforcement to those learners doing a good job than negatives for redirecting learners.  

I found another video connection for morning meetings that I thought would be a great review for you as you are incorporating these each week for your kiddos!  Remember the expectation is at least once a week, but you could incorporate them more, especially if you are having troubles with learners acting out or you can tell they are needing more attention.  It is a positive way to give them more attention, while still helping to create a safe, collaborative environment of learning!  

Click here for the article with resources.

 Click above or here for video connection!

Also, you might want to start a Pinterest board with morning meeting ideas or ideas on responsive teaching.  This is a great way to keep your meetings from becoming the same type of discussion each time.  If you have some ideas for morning meetings that have worked well for you or resources you would share, feel free to add them to the following Google Doc!

Click here to add ideas to the TCE Morning Meeting Google Doc!

Final Quotes for the Week

For our final quotes for the week, I was thinking about the power behind words and huge impact they can make on each of us.  Think about a time when you were growing up when someone said something to you that made a difference in how you felt.  Was it a positive or negative experience and how did those words affect you during that time of your life?