Welcome to the Speas Global Elementary Blog!
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
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Teacher
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Location
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A
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Arora
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Room 213
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B
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Bowen
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Music
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C
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King
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Art
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D
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Childers/McMasters
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Media/CL
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E
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Lindquist
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Gym
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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
Our jobs may get hectic as we try to close out the year strong. Here are some things to remember about what we may call disrespect or defiant behavior:
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THE THREE RELATIONAL FORCES THAT DRIVE THEIR SCHOOL BEHAVIORS
ÒThe drive for reliable relationships. Students want the safety of a primary safe and reliable relationship. Students would prefer parents, psotive friends, and teachers, but they’d take an “iffy” friend if no one else were available. The relationships that teachers build with students form the single strongest access to student goals, socialization, motivation, and academic performance. To foster high achievement, every student will need a reliable partner or mentor.
Ò The strengthening of peer socialization. Socialization is the drive for acceptance that encourages students to imitate their peers and join groups, from clubs to cliques to gangs. Students want to belong somewhere, Evidence suggests that it is peers, not parents, who have the greatest influence on school-age students. Academic success must be culturally acceptable among students.
The quest for importance and social status. This is the quest to feel special. Students compete for attention and social elevation by choosing roles that will distinguish them (e.g., athlete, comedian, storyteller, gang leader, scholar, or style maverick). Kids are very interested in what other kids do, whether others like them, and how they rate on the social scale. Every student will need to feel like the “status hunt” can just as well lead to better grades as better behaviors
Announcements:
***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.
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
Global Holidays
Today in World History
4.24
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5
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E
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X
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School-Wide Assembly Diggerdoo Down Under
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4.26
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5.1
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Canty out meeting
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5.4
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TRC Window Opens
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5.5
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Ash out AM
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5.8
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GSN Module 4 due; PEP checks begin
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5.14
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Ash out AM; Papa Murphy’s Spirit Night
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5.7
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4th Grade Heritage Theater, New Winston Museum
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5.20
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Johnson out AM
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5.22
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1st Grade NC Zoo 8:00-2:00 PM; Yoforia Movie Night; Ready EOG window opens; TRC window closes
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5.27
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EOG ELA
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5.28
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EOG Math
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5.29
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EOG Makeups
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6.1
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EOG Sci 5
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6.2
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EOG Sci 5
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6.3
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EOG Makeups
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6.4
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RTA/EOG Makeups
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6.5
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EOG/RTA Makeups
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6.7
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6.8
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EOG and RTA Makeups
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6.9
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EOG and RTA Makeups
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6.10
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3rd Retest
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6.11
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RTA and Retest
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6.12
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Last day for students; RTA and Retest
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6.22
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Last day for teachers
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Global Holidays
| Friday | Apr 24 | Genocide Remembrance Day | Armenia |
| Friday | Apr 24 | Action Day for Tolerance and Respect between People | Argentina |
| Friday | Apr 24 | Arbor Day | United States |
Today in World History
- April 24
858 St. Nicholas I begins his reign as Catholic Pope. 1519 Envoys of Montezuma II attend the first Easter mass in Central America. 1547 Charles V's troops defeat the Protestant League of Schmalkalden at the battle of Muhlburg. 1558 Mary, Queen of Scotland, marries the French dauphin, Francis. 1792 Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle composes "La Marseilles". It will become France's national anthem. 1800 The Library of Congress is established in Washington, D.C. with a $5,000 allocation. 1805 U.S. Marines attack and capture the town of Derna in Tripoli from the Barbary pirates. 1833 A patent is granted for first soda fountain. 1877 Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire. 1884 Otto von Bismarck cables Cape Town, South Africa that it is now a German colony. 1898 Spain declares war on United States, rejecting an ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba. 1915 Turks of the Ottoman Empire begin massacring the Armenian minority in their country. 1916 Irish nationalists launch the Easter Uprising against British occupation. 1944 The first B-29 arrives in China, over the Hump of the Himalayas. 1948 The Berlin airlift begins to relieve surrounded city. 1953 Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. 1961 President John Kennedy accepts "sole responsibility" for the failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. 1968 Leftist students take over Columbia University in protest over the Vietnam War. 1980 A rescue attempt of the U.S. hostages held in Iran fails when a plane collides with a helicopter in the Iranian desert. 1981 The IBM Personal Computer is introduced. 1989 Thousands of Chinese students strike in Beijing for more democratic reforms. Born on April 24 1620 John Graunt, statistician, founder of demography. 1743 Edmund Cartwright, English parson who invented the power loom. 1766 Robert Bailey Thomas, founder of the Farmer's Almanac. 1769 Arthur Wellesley, general during the Napoleonic Wars, Duke of Wellington. 1815 Anthony Trollope, British novelist. 1856 Henri Philippe Pétain, French Marshall, WWI hero, Nazi collaborator. 1900 Elizabeth Goudge, English author. 1904 Willem de Kooning, abstract impressionist painter. 1905 Robert Penn Warren, novelist, America's first poet laureate. 1906 William Joyce, 'Lord Haw-Haw,' British traitor, Nazi propagandist.
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