The Lions' Den

Every Kid Needs A Champion

I'm sure I have shared this video with you before, but it is a great reminder of The Why we do this incredible job.  Please take seven minutes and watch this video as you prepare to bring meaningful instruction and activities to our students this week.

Last week, we celebrated kindness and students displayed leadership throughout the building creating positive posters, reading with younger students, helping one another, and just being kind little people.  It was a great display of students following great examples and having opportunity to show what they can do.

We have had students participating with Amazing Races moving throughout the building, locating clues and solving puzzles that engaged them in learning.

We have students winning contests, digging deeper into their learning, celebrating fluency success, making suggestions, and providing feedback in a short survey.  Our students are primed for learning, we must be EXCITED about teaching  and learning.  The more we enjoy our daily activities, the more students will value and enjoy experiences.  Our students need experience and exposure -- how do we get to the student level and make them the center of our universe?

In The Power of Positive Leadership, Jon Gordon talks about having a north star that guides our work and our organization. Our north star is to build a culture of excellence.  Our vision is for all students to demonstrate academic proficiency, develop individual talents, and display leadership throughout our school and community.  Our mission is to provide rigorous, engaging instruction and remove barriers to learning so students believe in their own ability to achieve success.

Building a culture of excellence involves every person in our building.  It's how we teach, how we supervise, how we clean and take care of our building and materials, it's how we prepare food, celebrate accomplishments, build relationships, and use data for continuous improvement.

Student Led Conferences -- March 6th and 7th 

Please view the video below to see how a kindergarten student facilitates her parent-teacher conference.  Our students will do this.

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Dates and Reminders

• See the living calendar and daily updates
• Progress reports (printed from Infinite Campus) will go home Monday, February 19, 2018
• MLK Celebration will be Friday, February 16th.

Be great this week!