The Lions' Den

The Push Forward

The month of February can be tough with no off days in sight, but this is the perfect time to push students to proficiency.  With consecutive days of learning, we have opportunity to celebrate student growth, set goals, and outline the strategies to reach individual, class, and school-wide goals.

Mr. Tomanic is showing fourth and fifth grade students how to access the student portal in Infinite Campus so they can view their grades in progress, to further promote ownership in their learning.

Recently, we have updated some technology in classrooms, providing five Chromebooks to each second grade class and each K-1 class has six tablets (iPads and Nooks).  With this, each student is able to use iRead each day for at least 20 minutes.  We will continue to update technology.  Please ensure you are setting daily expectations for taking care of equipment and that you have a clear, consistent plan for assigning devices and locking them away when not in use.

Kindness Week

This week, we are celebrating Kindness Week at King Elementary.  Thank you to Mrs. Holloway for sharing information and thanks to Mrs. Lamb and Mrs. Schuhmann for putting together the presentation for the morning meeting and planning activities for the week.  Please remember, we are the model, show kindness daily to all.

Monday - everyone wear bright colors like yellow and orange so we can shine bright for kindness 

Tuesday - dress up like your grandma or grandpa to show that we are never too old for kindness 

Wednesday - I‘m Crazy for Kindness Day. You can wear mismatched clothes to show that you are Crazy for Kindness

Thursday - everyone should wear their favorite sports attire to show that we are on team kindness

Friday - everyone can wear their pajamas to show that we are all dreaming of kindness 

***Tuesday and Thursday themes were switched to accommodate the circus field trip

Faculty Meeting -- Room 311

• National Teacher Associates will discuss optional insurance benefits -- first ten minutes
• Committees

• Next Tuesday 2/13 -- We will not have faculty meeting.

PLCs

• Most classes will go to the circus Thursday, so on Tuesday each team will meet with Dr. Parks for the first 15 minutes of planning to review your classroom management plans and alignment to school-wide expectations.

• Next Tuesday, 2/13, Dr. Kent will do an embedded PD session during planning time to discuss three MAP reports and using this information to plan tier I instruction.

• Next Thursday 2/15, we will have PLCs as we normally do in room 104.

Dates & Reminders

Please remember to check the Living Calendar and Daily Updates

**Valentine's Day celebrations should be held on Wednesday, 2/14**

District Staffing dates for your information...

• Teacher transfer application window closes March 22nd
• March 1st -- hiring freeze on non-administrative positions
• March 18 - April 18th -- Classified employee transfer application window
• March 28th - Prior school year transfer list closes
• June 1st - Teacher overstaff placement begins