The big day is here !!

PLEASE REVIEW GIBSON PRIDE ALL WEEK LONG.

Today's Date is August 25, 2009

Today is Day O on the specialists calendar

All specials except computer will start tomorrow.

No tardy students recorded today or this week.

Make sure you know about dismissal plans for students. If not call the office by 12:00.

It is certain we shall receive more students this morning. We know many are you are at class sizes that we are unaccustomed to having in recent years. Please be careful not to express a sense of frustration or reluctance to receive students-especially in the presence of the student or parent. We will continually notify administration of our enrollment in order to determine what relief, if any, can be expected.

Please remember to sit with your class during lunch for the first few weeks of school. We are asking specialists( including ESL, AIG, Title 1 teachers and assistants) to eat in the cafeteria and sit with a class as well. As a school, we are using new procedures and everyone's help is needed.

PBS news and Notes-

We received a number of questions from our initial PBS meeting. The PBS team has met and I will provide the response of the team over the next few posts. I will do a question a day and the answer:

Q. Speaking of disrespectful, is it OK to go into the boys' bathroom if you hear lots of noise or if a student does not answer if you call them out, etc. Is that being disrespectful? NO. Teachers are expected to supervise students in every setting. Noise in the bathroom clearly conflicts with bathroom expectations and the staff member can provide the necessary consequence or follow-up.

PBS is a work in progress, we will hit snags but together we can solve any problem we are presented.

Classroom teachers, If you received classroom discipline forms with three pages instead of two return to them to the office and get forms with two pages. The three pages forms will be used by specialists only.

Cafeteria News-Federal law has changed in how we must address meal choices our students make. In the past, many teachers have encouraged or even required students make certain meal choices or restricted choices based on a variety of reasons ( no meat or veggie chosen, no dessert because of behavior, etc). The law states we can no longer make those choices for students even if we disagree with them. The program is called OFFER vs SERVE. I will forward the email from our cafeteria manager. Please read it carefully.

3-5 teachers: in our QRI training, you were told that STAR reading would not be used. I spoke in error. STAR Reading will be used in the computer lab with Mr. Torian and may be used in AR leveling but it will not be used as our reading assessment. QRI will be used and implemented as described earlier.