Cougar Staff:
As we wrap up another great week at GCMS and enter into the
Thanksgiving Break, I want to pause to thank each of you for what you do at
GCMS each day. Every staff member’s
contribution and work is important, and I don’t say thank you often
enough. I was reviewing the TELL Survey
results earlier this week, and one of the statistics that jumped out at me was
that 94.6 percent of those who took the survey said yes, that “GCMS is a good
place to work and learn.” That sounds
like a pretty good result on that question, but I would like to see this number
at 100 percent next time. I want people
here who want to be here and know that we have a great school for our students
and for our staff to work and to learn.
I appreciate our staff coming to work each day, having positive
attitudes and high expectations for students and fellow staff, and for
everything that you do. I hope that you
have a blessed Thanksgiving holiday with family and friends. Take some time to truly count your blessings. We all have much to be thankful for. I thank the Lord every day for blessing me
with a wonderful wife and two great children, for great friends and coworkers,
for good health, a comfortable home, food on the table, clothes on my back, a
great job where I have the opportunity to make a positive difference for kids,
and on and on. I am blessed far beyond
what I could ever deserve, and I am thankful.
Personnel:
Please continue to remember those GCMS staff members who
have health concerns. Stacy Pierce is
recovering well from surgery and was supposed to get some more test results
back today (Thursday). Laura Goff has
returned to work, and we are glad to have her back after having surgery last
Friday. Elaine Holley has been having
some medical testing and has a gall bladder surgery scheduled in December. Cassie Jarboe’s daughter, Alyson, has also
had some testing completed, and they are narrowing down what has been causing
her health issues. Many of you know
Gayle Ferguson, who used to work as a custodian at GCMS. Please remember Gayle in your thoughts and
prayers. He is going through
chemotherapy dealing with a recurrent cancer.
Back to the Future Day:
Thank you to everyone who helped out with our 6th
grade Back to the Future Day yesterday!
We had a good turnout of 6th grade parents, and everyone
seemed to have a very positive experience.
I appreciate Faye and Kenzie setting up and working the hospitality room. I also want to thank all of our 6th
grade teachers for opening up your classrooms to our parent visitors
yesterday. By parents getting a glimpse
into the daily school life of their children, they can hopefully better
understand and become more engaged with their child’s education.
You Are (UR) Statements:
In response to the overwhelming success of the GCMS “I Am
Project”, we are asking staff members to post UR (You Are) statements to our
students. Please take a few minutes to
write down some of the positives and potential that you see in our
students. This can be to your advisory,
to your team, to a particular class, or to our GCMS students in general. These statements can be given to Becky Miller
or Becki Pearl, or you can post it directly up on the wall in the “tunnel”
leading from the front lobby toward the library (across from the I Am
statements). Becky Miller put together a
very nice video of the I Am project. I
even told her that if she ever gets fired from GCMS, she may have a future as a
videographer! Here’s the link for those
who haven’t seen the I Am Project video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWq8oa6SiUk&feature=youtu.behttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWq8oa6SiUk&feature=youtu.be
Early Bird List:
It is time for Mr. Blain to update the School Messenger “Early
Bird” list. This is a list of staff
members who would like to receive a School Messenger call from the central
office as early as possible in the event of school delays or cancellations due
to inclement weather. Typically, the
Early Bird list is called about 30 minutes before everyone else is called. If you were on the Early Bird list last year
and want to stay on it, you don’t have to do anything. If you want to be added or deleted from the
Early Bird list, please let me know.
This is especially nice for those who drive greater distances to get
here from out of county or from the farthest reaches of Grayson County. As always, school cancellations and delays
are also posted on the Louisville and Bowling Green TV channels, K-105 radio,
and on the GCBOE Twitter.
Help Desk Tickets:
Please utilize the technology help desk ticket system when
you have technology needs. Kevin will get
to your tech requests as quickly as possible, and the ticket system is the most
efficient way to do this. Please
understand that Kevin cannot always drop what he is doing to respond to your
tech issue, but he will get to each and every tech need as quickly as
possible. We appreciate the work that
Kevin does each day to make things run smoothly with technology at GCMS. Thanks.
Also, please take the tech survey that Jerrod Graybeal sent
out yesterday. I completed it, and it
really took less than 1 minute to finish.
Please complete this by November 23.
Quote of the Day:
“Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.”
~Lady Bird Johnson
Coming Attractions:
Nov.
25-29....No School, Thanksgiving Week
Dec. 7…GCMS
hosts 6th Grade Showcase (academic team)
Dec. 7…GCMS
girls basketball conference tourney, at McLean County
Dec. 9…Christmas
Breakfast, sponsored by GCBOE
Dec. 10..Team
7 Showcase Lesson Day
Dec. 10..GCMS
Christmas Dinner, 6:00 pm at GCMS
Dec. 16..Staff
Potluck Lunch in Library
Dec. 17..8th
Graders tour the GC Tech Center
Dec. 20..Last
day before Christmas Break (that day, we will be using our Mon-Thurs schedule)
Dec. 21-Jan.
5…Christmas Break
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