This Week at GCMS:
As we pause
next week to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, I would like to say that I am
very thankful for so many blessings in my life.
Our son, Scott, will be home from Minnesota, and I look forward to
family time with him, Teresa, and Tessa next week and again at Christmas. I am thankful for my work family as
well. We have a great group of people at
GCMS, and it is a pleasure to work with you each day. Our challenges with this age group, this size
school, and problems in this community are great, but I thank you for the hard
work and dedication that you show here every single day. Finally, I am thankful for those who have
influenced me over the years, including my parents. Dad recently turned 94 and lives in the
nursing home now. It has been a
difficult transition, but I am blessed to still have him. Today would have been my mother’s 88th
birthday. She passed away 16 years ago,
but not a day passes that I don’t think of the love and wisdom that she always shared
with our family. The Lord has been very
good to me, and I am truly thankful.
Observations:
Observation
reminders: all non-tenured (and
probation year) teachers will need a second mini-observation by January
13. Please contact your observing
administrator to schedule your observation.
Also, those teachers who need a peer observation this year should have
those completed by January 13 as well.
Full observations for summative year teachers may be completed any time
after your peer observation has been completed.
Safe Crisis Management:
Wendy Butler
shared this information with me about reducing the number of hours for initial
and recertification safe crisis management trainings. From now on, initial
trainings will be 12 hours and recertification trainings will be 6 hours. With
reducing the hours, it also reduces the staff to participant ratio. For initial
trainings, the ratio is 1:12 and for recertification trainings it is 1:6. It is
very important that when someone attends a training that they are registered
where we have enough trainers to meet this ratio. We are going to have another initial training
December 5-8. Training will be from 3:30-6:30 each night. Location will be
determined at a later date.
Friday Announcements:
Hats off to
Shane Morris and the IT Club for the new format Friday Video
Announcements! The first two editions
have been very informative and even more entertaining. It is so fun to see the students presenting
news about our school. I look forward to
seeing future shows!
Catch Up Café:
We have been
having some problems lately with students not showing up for Catch Up
Café. If we have to fish them out of the cafeteria, it often cuts into
the time that they have to work in CUC. The simplest and best way to help
this is for teachers to always check the CUC list to see if any of your lunch
class is on the list. Then remind them right before lunch that they are
to report to CUC. Thanks for your help
with this.
Week in Review:
We were very
pleased with this year’s Veterans Day program at GCMS. We had over 40 veterans to sign in at the program,
and our students did a great job showing appreciation and respect for our
veterans. We had a great faculty meeting
on Monday afternoon as well. I
appreciate Gary Parker and other members of the assessment team for leading the
sessions about how to provide effective feedback to student work and assessments.
Quote of the Day:
“Life is
like a game of tennis; the person who serves well seldom loses.” ~anonymous
Coming Attractions:
Nov. 21…GCMS Home Boys Basketball,
5:30
Nov. 22…GCMS Home Girls Basketball,
5:30
Nov. 23-25…No School, Thanksgiving
Holiday
Nov. 28…GCMS Home Boys Basketball,
5:00
Nov. 30…Team Leader Meeting, 7:15 am
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