August 17, 2015

Welcome to the Speas Global Elementary Blog!

All staff members, let's make sure we are teaching, reteaching, and teaching again the procedures in the common areas (Hallway, Cafeteria, Bathrooms, Playground, Bus).  We should be giving out lots of Bee's for students demonstrating the basic expectations.  It is a good idea to review the procedures before you leave one area to travel to another area.  

Our Mission: It is the mission of Speas Elementary School to provide its students with the tools necessary to successfully meet the challenges they will face in a diverse world.

Goals:

To increase English Language Arts achievement by 10%
To increase Mathematics achievement by 10%
To increase Science Achievement by 10%

Check out this graphic about global education.  The things above water are just the tip of the iceberg.   Try to go deeper in your instruction and touch some of the issues below the surface.

Always be aware of your impact on students.  :-)

No, you may not say this at open house.

I know no one here did this everyday for that last week.

Get an Android phone if you are having this issue.

Gentle Reminders:
The school day for staff begins at 7:15 AM.

Announcements:
Welcome and welcome back.  This is going to be an awesome year as we continue to develop into global educators.   This blog will be used to help organize our activity as a school family and share ideas with one another.  I like to post videos periodically.  Below you will find a few videos to help us all think about a higher level of expectations for ourselves and our students.  This year it will be critical for all of us to adopt a growth mindset. Below the videos you will find a calendar of events.  If something needs to be added to the calendar let me know and I will add it.  Beneath that you will find some resources for your consideration, including a Symbaloo page and a Livebinders directory for IB PYP material.   I also just added a very good slideshow that summarizes Eric Jensen's book Teaching with Poverty in Mind.   Thanks for looking.  It's going to be an amazing year.

We have a Speas Symbaloo page.

email: djjohnson@wsfcs.k12.nc.us
pass: speasbees2014

Here is a great idea for PBIS and/or IB.  It could be modified to reward students for exhibiting the learner profiles and/or attitudes.

http://www.luckylittlelearners.com/2015/07/brag-tags.html

Below you will find a list of files with various information, websites, etc. that other schools have used to help them implement the IB PYP.

Teaching with Poverty in Mind

Teaching with poverty in mind by eric jensen from robinlstewart

August 15, 2015

Welcome to the Speas Global Elementary Blog!

All staff members, let's make sure we are teaching, reteaching, and teaching again the procedures in the common areas (Hallway, Cafeteria, Bathrooms, Playground, Bus).  We should be giving out lots of Bee's for students demonstrating the basic expectations.  It is a good idea to review the procedures before you leave one area to travel to another area.  

Our Mission: It is the mission of Speas Elementary School to provide its students with the tools necessary to successfully meet the challenges they will face in a diverse world.

Goals:

To increase English Language Arts achievement by 10%
To increase Mathematics achievement by 10%
To increase Science Achievement by 10%

Check out this graphic about global education.  The things above water are just the tip of the iceberg.   Try to go deeper in your instruction and touch some of the issues below the surface.

Always be aware of your impact on students.  :-)

No, you may not say this at open house.

I know no one here did this everyday for that last week.

Get a Android phone if you are having this issue.

Gentle Reminders:
The school day for staff begins at 7:15 AM.

Announcements:
Welcome and welcome back.  This is going to be an awesome year as we continue to develop into global educators.   This blog will be used to help organize our activity as a school family and share ideas with one another.  I like to post videos periodically, and I've been contemplating how expectations affect student achievement all summer long.  Below you will find a few videos to help us all think about a higher level of expectations for ourselves and our students.  Below that you will find a calendar of events.  Beneath that you will find some resources for your consideration, including a Symbaloo page and a Livebinders directory for IB PYP material.   Thanks for looking.  It's going to be an amazing year.

We have a Speas Symbaloo page.

email: djjohnson@wsfcs.k12.nc.us
pass: speasbees2014

Here is a great idea for PBIS and/or IB.  It could be modified to reward students for exhibiting the learner profiles and/or attitudes.

http://www.luckylittlelearners.com/2015/07/brag-tags.html

Below you will find a list of files with various information, websites, etc. that other schools have used to help them implement the IB PYP.

June 11, 2015

Welcome to the Speas Global Elementary Blog!

All staff members, let's make sure we are teaching, reteaching, and teaching again the procedures in the common areas (Hallway, Cafeteria, Bathrooms, Playground, Bus).  We should be giving out lots of Bee's for students demonstrating the basic expectations.  It is a good idea to review the procedures before you leave one area to travel to another area.  

Our Mission: It is the mission of Speas Elementary School to provide its students with the tools necessary to successfully meet the challenges they will face in a diverse world.

Goals:

To increase English Language Arts achievement by 10%
To increase Mathematics achievement by 10%
To increase Science Achievement by 10%

Check out this graphic about global education.  The things above water are just the tip of the iceberg.   Try to go deeper in your instruction and touch some of the issues below the surface.

ISS
Specialists will begin holding ISS in their respective areas on their assigned days.  The schedule is below.  Teachers, specialists may be contacting you for work for students assigned to ISS.  Please get them work as soon as possible.   

Day	Teacher	Location
A	Arora	Room 213
B	Bowen	Music
C	King	Art
D	Childers/McMasters	Media/CL
E	Lindquist	Gym

Teachers: Having Trouble with Defiant Students?  Have you tried these strategies?

http://www.interventioncentral.org/behavioral-interventions/challenging-students/school-wide-strategies-managing-defiance-non-complianc

Global Learners

Yep!

Finish strong!

Summer Reading from ASCD

http://www.ascd.org/professional-development/summer-reading-list.aspx?utm_source=eblast&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=summerreading2015-email-6315

http://ictevangelist.com/30-essential-ipad-apps-for-the-paperless-classroom-infographic/

Ideas to try, now that testing is over:  

https://www.pinterest.com/adabjones/testing-is-over-now-what/

http://lauracandler.blogspot.com/2011/05/testings-over-now-what.html

http://www.teachingbites.com/aftertestingideas/

Announcements:

8:00-8:30 K-1 Awards in Gym
8:45-9:15 2-4 Awards in Gym
10:00- Staff v. Students Soccer Game- Soccer Field
1:00- Staff v. Students Basketball Game, Gym


***For all technology issues, please follow these steps in order to submit a SchoolDude ticket. Mr. McMasters will receive this ticket and be able to work on resolving the issue as quickly as possible. Tickets take priority so please enter a ticket for the technology issue that you have. If you have any questions on how to do this, please see Mr. McMasters. Thank you!

To submit a ticket…on either the WSFCS homepage or the Speas homepage, click on “User Options” in the top right of the screen --> “SCHOOL DUDE requests --> Click “IT request” tab --> fill out request and click submit. ***

We have a Speas Symbaloo page.

http://www.symbaloo.com/home/mix/13eOcMEZPT#

email: djjohnson@wsfcs.k12.nc.us
pass: speasbees2014

Please email us with your favorite educator sites so we can create a huge selection of online resources.  

All staff members, let's make sure we are teaching, reteaching, and teaching again the procedures in the common areas (Hallway, Cafeteria, Bathrooms, Playground, Bus).  We should be giving out lots of Bee's for students demonstrating the basic expectations.  It is a good idea to review the procedures before you leave one area to travel to another area.  

SMOD Tickets (dress code violations) are located in the workroom.  Please keep the bottom portion for your own records as a way to keep track of the number of violations.  The continuum is as follows:

1st offense: verbal warning, and letter will be sent home to be signed.  Parent or guardian notified of violation
2nd offense: Teacher notifies parent or guardian and student is removed from class until proper SMOD is delivered.

(Teachers, we all should be enforcing this, it will only work if we all enforce it).

Calendar

6.11					Awards Day 8-830 K1, 8:45 2-4,  Staff v. Students Soccer 10 AM, BBall 1 PM
6.12					5th Grade Ceremony 9 AM

Holidays Around the World

Thursday

Jun 11

Kamehameha Day

United States

Today in World History

• Today in History
  
  

  June 11

  
  

  1346		Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected Holy Roman Emperor.
  1509		Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.
  1770		Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
  1798		Napoleon Bonaparte takes the island of Malta.
  1861		Union forces under General George B. McClellen repulse a Confederate force at Rich Mountain in western Virginia.
  1865		Major General Henry W. Halleck finds documents and archives of the Confederate government in Richmond, Virginia. This discovery will lead to the publication of the official war records.
  1895		Charles E. Duryea receives the first U.S. patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile.
  1903		King Alexander and Queen Draga of Belgrade are assassinated by members of the Serbia army.
  1915		British troops take Cameroon in Africa.
  1927		Charles Lindbergh, a captain in the US Army Air Corps Reserve, receives the first Distinguished Flying Cross ever awarded, for his solo trans-AtlanticFLIGHT.
  1930		William Beebe, of the New York Zoological Society, dives to a record-setting depth of 1,426 feet off the coast of Bermuda, in a diving chamber called a bathysphere.
  1934		The Disarmament Conference in Geneva ends in failure.
  1940		The Italian Air Force bombs the British fortress at Malta in the Mediterranean.
  1943		The Italian island of Pantelleria surrenders after a heavy air bombardment.
  1944		U.S. carrier-based planes attack Japanese airfields on Guam , Rota, Saipan and Tinian islands, preparing for the invasion of Saipan.
  1963		Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested in Florida for trying to integrate restaurants.
  1967		Israel and Syria accept a U. N. cease-fire.
  1987		Margaret ThatcherWINS her third consecutive term as Prime Minister.
  Born on June 11
  1572		Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet.
  1769		Anne Newport Royall, American newspaperREPORTER.
  1823		James L. Kemper, Confederate general during the American Civil War.
  1880		Jeannette Rankin, U.S. Representative from Montana, the first woman in Congress.
  1895		Nikolai A. Bulganin, premier of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1958.
  1910		Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French oceanic explorer, filmaker, author and inventor of the aqualung.
  1913		Vince Lombardi, American football coach.
  1925		William Styron, American novelist (The Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie’s Choice).
  1932		Athol Fugard, South African playwright, director and actor (The Blood Knot, "Master Harold" . . . and the Boys).

June 10, 2015

Welcome to the Speas Global Elementary Blog!

All staff members, let's make sure we are teaching, reteaching, and teaching again the procedures in the common areas (Hallway, Cafeteria, Bathrooms, Playground, Bus).  We should be giving out lots of Bee's for students demonstrating the basic expectations.  It is a good idea to review the procedures before you leave one area to travel to another area.  

Our Mission: It is the mission of Speas Elementary School to provide its students with the tools necessary to successfully meet the challenges they will face in a diverse world.

Goals:

To increase English Language Arts achievement by 10%
To increase Mathematics achievement by 10%
To increase Science Achievement by 10%

Check out this graphic about global education.  The things above water are just the tip of the iceberg.   Try to go deeper in your instruction and touch some of the issues below the surface.

ISS
Specialists will begin holding ISS in their respective areas on their assigned days.  The schedule is below.  Teachers, specialists may be contacting you for work for students assigned to ISS.  Please get them work as soon as possible.   

Day	Teacher	Location
A	Arora	Room 213
B	Bowen	Music
C	King	Art
D	Childers/McMasters	Media/CL
E	Lindquist	Gym

Teachers: Having Trouble with Defiant Students?  Have you tried these strategies?

http://www.interventioncentral.org/behavioral-interventions/challenging-students/school-wide-strategies-managing-defiance-non-complianc

Global Learners

Yep!

Finish strong!

Summer Reading from ASCD

http://www.ascd.org/professional-development/summer-reading-list.aspx?utm_source=eblast&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=summerreading2015-email-6315

http://ictevangelist.com/30-essential-ipad-apps-for-the-paperless-classroom-infographic/

Ideas to try, now that testing is over:  

https://www.pinterest.com/adabjones/testing-is-over-now-what/

http://lauracandler.blogspot.com/2011/05/testings-over-now-what.html

http://www.teachingbites.com/aftertestingideas/

Announcements:

RTA Testing in 3rd grade this morning.  

Kindergarten will meet in the gym for a short assembly this morning.


***For all technology issues, please follow these steps in order to submit a SchoolDude ticket. Mr. McMasters will receive this ticket and be able to work on resolving the issue as quickly as possible. Tickets take priority so please enter a ticket for the technology issue that you have. If you have any questions on how to do this, please see Mr. McMasters. Thank you!

To submit a ticket…on either the WSFCS homepage or the Speas homepage, click on “User Options” in the top right of the screen --> “SCHOOL DUDE requests --> Click “IT request” tab --> fill out request and click submit. ***

We have a Speas Symbaloo page.

http://www.symbaloo.com/home/mix/13eOcMEZPT#

email: djjohnson@wsfcs.k12.nc.us
pass: speasbees2014

Please email us with your favorite educator sites so we can create a huge selection of online resources.  

All staff members, let's make sure we are teaching, reteaching, and teaching again the procedures in the common areas (Hallway, Cafeteria, Bathrooms, Playground, Bus).  We should be giving out lots of Bee's for students demonstrating the basic expectations.  It is a good idea to review the procedures before you leave one area to travel to another area.  

SMOD Tickets (dress code violations) are located in the workroom.  Please keep the bottom portion for your own records as a way to keep track of the number of violations.  The continuum is as follows:

1st offense: verbal warning, and letter will be sent home to be signed.  Parent or guardian notified of violation
2nd offense: Teacher notifies parent or guardian and student is removed from class until proper SMOD is delivered.

(Teachers, we all should be enforcing this, it will only work if we all enforce it).

Calendar

6.10					RTA Retest, PBIS Water Day, 3rd grade teachers stay after to edit answer sheets
6.11					Awards Day 8-830 K1, 8:45 2-4,  Staff v. Students Soccer 10 AM, BBall 1 PM
6.12					5th Grade Ceremony 9 AM

Holidays Around the World

Wednesday

Jun 10

Portugal Day

Portugal

Today in World History

• Today in History
  June 10

  1190		Frederick Barbarossa drowns in a river while leading an army of the Third Crusade.
  1692		Bridget Bishop is hanged in Salem, Mass., for witchcraft.
  1776		The Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Declaration of Independence.
  1801		Tripoli declares war on the U.S. for refusing to pay tribute.
  1854		The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, holds its first graduation.
  1861		Dorothea Dix is appointed superintendent of femaleNURSES for the Union army.
  1864		At the Battle of Brice’s Crossroads in Mississippi, Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeats the numerically superior Union troops.
  1898		U.S. Marines land in Cuba.
  1905		Japan and RussiaAGREE to peace talks brokered by President Theodore Roosevelt.
  1909		An SOS signal is transmitted for the first time in an emergency when the Cunard liner SSSlavonia is wrecked off the Azores.
  1916		Mecca, under control of the Turks, falls to the Arabs during the Great Arab Revolt.
  1920		The Republican convention in Chicago endorses woman suffrage.
  1924		The Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti is kidnapped and assassinated by Fascists in Rome.
  1925		Tennessee adopts a new biology text bookDENYING the theory of evolution.
  1940		The Norwegian army capitulates to the Germans.
  1942		Germany razes the town of Lidice, Czechoslovakia and kills more than 1,300 citizens in retribution of the murder of Reinhard Heydrich.
  1943		The AlliesBEGIN bombing Germany around theCLOCK.
  1944		The U.S. VII and V corps, advancing from Normandy’s beaches, link up and begin moving inland.
  1948		The news that the sound barrier has been broken is finally released to the public by the U.S. Air Force. Chuck Yeager, piloting the rocket airplane X-1, exceeded the speed of sound on October 14, 1947.
  1963		Buddhist monk Ngo Quang Duc dies by self immolation in Saigon to protest persecution by the Diem government.
  1970		A 15-man group of special forces troops beginTRAINING for Operation Kingpin, a POW rescue mission in North Vietnam.
  1985		The Israeli army pulls out of Lebanon after 1,099 days of occupation.
  1999		Serb forces begin their withdrawl from Kosovo after signing an agreement with the NATO powers.
  Born on June 10
  1735		John Morgan, physician-in-chief of the American Continental Army.
  1895		Hattie McDaniel, African-American actress.
  1901		Frederick Loewe, songwriter.
  1915		Saul Bellow, American novelist (Herzog, Humboldt’sGIFT).
  1922		JudyGARLAND (Frances Ethel Gumm), American actress and singer (The Wizard of Oz,Easter Parade).
  1925		Nat Hentoff, journalist.
  1928		Maurice Sendak, children’s author and illustrator (Where the Wild Things Are).
  1933		F. Lee Bailey, American defense attorney.