Town Center Tidbits : Here. . .There. . .and Everywhere!

Well, it has been a crazy few days for me and I'm sure it is going to stay that way for while. So, you will see me running here, there and everywhere for a bit, but please know you can still get hold of me if you need me for anything. Just shoot me an email or a text as I want to make sure you know that I am here for you for needs. . .just not as easy to grab on some days! Since we have a busy, short week and our Cultural Night as well, feel free to wear jeans this week! We can look forward to our three day weekend coming up and of course. . .gotta love springtime and this beautiful weather!

Week of: March 26th-30th, 2018

Monday- Jeans Day - Any shirt!

TCE Potluck - Lounge

Angie's New Position Up for Final Approval by school board - Small Reception Admin building, everyone is invited if you want to swing by that evening (no obligation) - 7:00PM

Tuesday - Jeans Day - Any shirt!

Angie Out Principal Meeting (AM)

Wednesday - Jeans Day - Any TCE shirt!

After school Meeting - Library - 3:15 (Giving feedback to HR for new TCE principal)

Cultural Celebration Night 5:30-7:00pm

Thursday - Jeans Day - Any shirt!

Coaches meet with K-5 teams - Conference Times

Friday - Holiday! Enjoy your 3 Day Weekend!

Important Reminders

TCE Potluck - Monday 26th

Don't forget to sign up for our potluck this Monday! Fun time to try out a new or favorite old recipe! :)

Click here to sign up!

Cultural Celebration Night -

Wednesday, March 28th (5:30-7:00pm)

Make sure you have signed up to help for a station!!

Here is the brainstorming link to see what our committee had discussed and feel free to add ideas, etc.

Click here for brainstorming link!

Here is the sign-up that we have going so far for people to bring in their favorite family dish. This can also be something brought in from a restaurant if they don't want to cook! If we could all bring in some kind of a dish from each of our staff, that would also be great! I am going to blast out this info again to parents as well as if K-5 teachers you could make sure and add this to your blogs!

Click here to sign up for traditional dish!

Here is the sign-up for stations, please remember it would be great to have parents helping to lead/support these activities to make it more authentic toward our cultures. I know Kinder and 1st have reached out to some of their Korean families in order to work together on some activities. Once again, three to four staff members per station are fine. Then the gym will have performances which is another area we will need at least one or two staff members. Also, the cafeteria, we will need a few staff members and parents to help with the food. I am attaching a few documents for review:

Click here for link!

Save the Date!

Cultural Plunges

Please make sure you are getting your cultural plunge completed and see the Curriculum Connection in the blog for this week for more info on how we will share our plunge with others!

"Who made you happy this week?"

Shout Out Your Happiness!

Katie- Thank you so very very very very much for helping me fix the copier!!!! It seemed “unfixable” and you came into the copy room and had that magical touch!!!! You were so sweet and patient!!! Love, Julie

Grace - Thank you so much with all your technology help for 1st grade google sites and 30 hands projects. So glad to have you working and learning with our First Grade students. You are always so eager to help with projects, students, and anything that comes up! You’re the best!

Lorri

Kim, Courtney, Lauren, Grace -

Thank you all very much for all the hard work getting our hallways, Google Sites, QR Codes, and 30 Hands projects ready for Open House. Everything looked Great! I love working with you all! We have a wonderful Team!

Love,

Lorri B.

Lisa Hansen - Thank you for your help with my EL's Monitoring updates. I appreciate your time and patience you took from your day to help me complete.

Thank you!

Lorri B.

Kristan, Lisa and Laura thank you for helping all of the staff with getting the Reading Street textbooks and guided books moved and relocated to a new spot. This is so awesome and I know everyone will appreciate the extra space in their team closets! Annelise

Laura, thank you for the impending tutorials on Munis. lol Annelise

Kristan, thank you for all of your help with pulling information for our referrals. You are a rock star that shreds that guitar! Annelise

Kelly, you are the testing guru. Thank you for taking care of all the kids by organizing them into their best testing environment. You work so hard to make sure it is just right. You have done an amazing job with TELPAS and STAAR. Annelise

Teachers, thank you for getting your testing accommodations in tip top shape. You all have been amazingly organized in ensuring that they are getting exactly what they need to have all necessary tools documented. Way to go! Annelise

Huge shout out to all of our coaches and team leaders who have been helping to communicate, lead collaborations and be out go to for questions throughout the year! Appreciate all that you do each day!! - Angie

Shout out to our specials team for all of their thoughts, focus and hard work on their STEM planning day! - Angie

Shout out to Kristan Hruby for helping out with our Red and Black awards this week! We appreciate you stepping in and taking the lead on this! - Angie

A big thanks again to our office staff who is helping to keep everything running smoothly when I am pulled off campus for the transition! I appreciate you all so much and love y'all! - Angie

Curriculum Connection -

"Create Your Own Recordings

with Screencast-O-Matic"

For sharing out our cultural plunges this year, we are going to move to trying an online sharing by using screencasts and then integrate a Twitter chat as well to discuss, collaborate, ask questions and share insight. I will have more of a timeline for our Twitter Chat by the end of this week. This will also allow us to cancel our face to face meetings for TLC on Wed. April 18th and Wed. May 9th.

Please watch the video below if you have never made a screencast before. You (your group) will be using this tool (Screencast-O-Matic or another screencasting tool) to capture and share out your cultural plunge presentation so it can then be watched online. We will be storing these video recordings in a Cultural Plunge Folder within our TCE Schoology Course. I will have the due date for downloading as well by the end of this week. (it will be sometime toward the end of April)

So, if you haven't done your cultural plunge yet, please get that going, so you will be ready for these next steps!