Stingray Staff Sentinel 1/3/19

2020 is a new year and a fresh start. As a team we will be making 2020 #DCSSBestYearYet ! We have so many positives going our way and with just a little focused improvement, we will see huge rewards. That being said... starting back is hard on everyone. Teens and Kinders especially will seem to drag this week getting back on the right sleep schedule but as adults it takes time too. Teachers work extremely hard and as part of our gift to you, we will be yielding much of the Professional Development Day to time in your classroom!

You deserve time to get ready for the week, to get your head in the game, to be ready for those kiddos on Tuesday morning!! Yes, we have professional development days for much needed professional development and ask that you hold them sacred, free of appointments, etc., but as we squeeze more into our Tuesday PLCs, and will also be having PD on the Kagan engagement strategies after a team returns from the Kagan conference, we know that January 6th may be best used by you spending professional development time thinking through your lesson plans, standards, looking at NWEA data etc.

We would like to have a brief meeting after first socializing over breakfast at 8:00 in the cafeteria. We value both our time to get to know each other as a team as well as time in your classroom, so that is what we will be doing on Monday! Dress is casual as we are not expecting PD guests, etc. (Jeans, leggings, hats, etc. be comfy!)

During 2020, I encourage you to have your time reflect what you value in both teaching and in life, so Happy New Year!!!! We've got this DCSS, here's to an amazing 2020!

P.S. Enjoy the throwback funny below as teachers are people too!

~Amanda

**Still checking on Club and Sponsor Activities for Jan. - will update**

Monday 1/6:

Professional Development Day 7:30-3:30

Breakfast & Meeting 8:00-9:00am in cafe

(Breakfast from Metro Diner)

10:00 Elementary and Resource team mtg for boosterthon in cafe

Grades Due at NOON - powerschool & Focus, print to team leads

Lunch on your own 12-1

1:30 Team Leads in Conf. Room

1:30 Newbies DPP meeting with Erica & Mary

Tuesday 1/7:

A Day for Elementary Resource

A Day for MS Electives

NWEA 2nd Grade Math

No PLCs

Tutoring starts back 1/21

Pep Rally for Boosterthon: K&1 8:15 AM || 2&3 8:45 AM || 4&5 9:15 AM

- Happy Feet Soccer K-1 ends 3:45, 2nd-4th ends 4:00

- Artists in Motion 3:30-5:30 ?

- Basketball Game at RCSA 6pm

- K-4 Indian Classical Dance

-ODM 4th grade (normally meets Mondays)

No Drum Line

No Girls on the Run & Heart & Sole, Girls Who Code

No Brick, Beakers & Bots - Drones & Bots Robotics Club K-5

Wednesday 1/8

B Day for Elementary

MS Community Meetings

NWEA 2nd Grade ELA

ODM 3rd & MS 3-6pm

Basketball Practice 3:15-5:30

Thursday,1/9

C Day for Elementary

B Day for MS Electives

Elementary Common Planning

NWEA 1st Grade Math

-Tutoring starts back 1/21

- Playball Club 3:00-4:00

- Artists in Motion 3:30-5:30 ?

No Girls on the Run and Heart & Sole

Basketball Game at Jax Ice & Sportsplex vs DCSB 5:30

Friday 1/10:

D Day for Elementary

A Day for Middle School

NWEA 1st Grade ELA

Master Schedule Review Meeting in Elem Sci. Lab w/ visitors

Happy Birthday to Ms. Wilkes!!

Spirit Day - Jeans w/Staff Shirt or logo shirt

No Anime Club -starts back next week

-Basketball Game at Ft. Caroline YMCA vs. Coastal 6:30pm

Upcoming:

• 1/11 School Choice Expo

• 1/13 week B3 (Bricks, Beakers, Bots) starts back
  

• 1/13-1/16 Kinder NWEA
  

• 1/13 1st Grade Field Trip

• 1/13 Report Cards Sent Home

• 1/13 Updated tutoring letters sent home (including 1st grade)

• 1/13 Open Enrollment for new families begins

• 1/16 Boosterthon Obstacle Course! (no Elem Resource)

• 1/17 Anime Club Starts Back

• 1/17 Weather Make-up Day- School in Session!
  

• 1/20 No School

• 1/21 Tutoring starts back grades 1-8

• 1/22 3rd Grade FSA Night 6:00

• 1/22 SAC 8am

• 1/23 MOSH in house field trip for K

• 1/27 & 1/28 Girls Who Code Jan. Start Dates
  

• 1/28 100th day of school K celebration and dress up

• 1/29 Early Release

• 1/30 PTC 8:00am

• 1/31 End of Recommitting Window

• 1/31 DCSS Fundraiser at 'Pump it Up', starts at 6 p.m
  
• 2/5 Muffins in the Morning-K-1st from 8-8:30 a.m
  
• 2/6 Muffins in the Morning- 2nd-5th from 8-8:30 a.m
  
• 2/7 Kick off for Jump Rope for Heart
  

• 2/10 Progress Report Grades Due

• 2/12 Progress Reports Go Home

• 2/14 Jump Rope For Heart Event

January

· Sarah Schuette – 5th

· Jessica Wilkes -10th

· Amy Finnegan -17th

· Kelsey Castaldo – 19th

· Valerie Heldenbrand – 28th

You should no longer be utilizing Ultipro... only ADP - see Mike if you need assistance loggin into the program. If you need further help or leave balances appear incorrect, please utilize the help email address:

The mailbox is: Adpsupport@eduservesolutions.com

All spring leave requests were supposed to move over automatically, but this is not guaranteed.

We will have a series of new staff members joining us in the next few weeks! More to come in our meeting Monday...

Please join me in welcoming:

• Bill Stewart, our new MS science teacher, should have official email, etc. by next week!
• Kevin, SLP, will have an intern from JU: Katheryn Hernandez will be joining us for 10-15 hours per week from Jan. 6th through April 15th.
  
• Ms. Maxwell will be joining the team of Cox/Walters as a teaching intern this semester!
  
• Alexandra Abru- Figueroa will be joining our fine arts team January 6th for Music, Chorus, Drama Fun!

All teachers are teachers of reading and as education evolves and different theories of instruction have caused the pendulum to swing back and forth between a phonics based approach and Whole Language, the recent discussions have been about the Science of Reading and understanding all components of reading and how the brain learns rather than educators battling back and forth on philosophy on what approaches are better than others. Thank you to Cheryl Ferlita for sharing the article below on Fluency.

https://bit.ly/39fLEEH

Wake Up Reading Wars Combatants: Fluency Instruction is Part of the Science of Reading

• Ms. Pawlak - Thank you for being an amazing lead and being someone to look up to! from Ms. Perkins
• Ms. Henri - Thank you for being so kind and caring from Ms. Perkins
• Ms. Woodmore - For always putting the team's needs first. For being so wonderful with communication - from Ms. Rush
• Ms. Ferlita - For beinga great team leader and assisting me in several ways lately - from Mr. Colgrove

Please use the small forms available upstairs and downstairs to fill out a staff shout out to thank a peer for going above and beyond. Notice something amazing, fill one out! Place in the turn in location outside of the Principal's office. Ms. Papke will use these to put in the daily reminders as staff shout outs, and on Friday's we will be doing drawings for prizes from the turned in shout outs!

Positive Referral Online Form

This year’s main fundraiser is the Southside Stingray Obstacle Challenge! It’s a two-week program that kicks off with a Pep Rally on January 7th. Families will then gather pledges for every obstacle your student completes (30-35 obstacles) at the Southside Stingray Obstacle Challenge, which will happen on Thursday, January 16th. This year our goal is to raise $10,000 for technology, musical instruments and athletic equipment, and we need your help! We’ve asked the experts at Booster to power our fundraiser to make it easier, more profitable, and more fun.

Students will also experience an amazing character theme, MINDSPARK: WILD WEST! Booster’s most exciting theme yet combines S.T.E.A.M. skills (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) with character-building. While they're teaming up with the MindSpark Kids to save Dr. Shock, our students will learn five character traits that will help strengthen themselves and our world.

Donations will go toward technology, musical instruments, and athletic equipment and the entire two-week experience. So please help our school by getting pledges from family and friends and entering them on FUNRUN.COM. Also, all families are invited to come out and cheer on our students at the Southside Stingray Obstacle Challenge. Thanks so much for your support!

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