| Recognizing Your Value |
Change your thinking to knowing that your life matters, and that you are important.
It can be easy sometimes to buy into the illusion of our own insignificance. We may see large corporations or institutions, celebrities or successful people in our community, and compare ourselves to them, thinking that their fame or material power affirm how little our own lives amount to. But nothing could be further from the truth. Every single one of us matters tremendously. Our very existence affects countless people in countless ways. And because we are each essentially a microcosm of the larger universe, our internal experiences affect the whole of life more than we could ever imagine. The world simply could not exist as it does now if you, or any one of us, were not in it.
Perhaps you are aware that on some level you believe your life does not matter. If this thought resonates within you, maybe it is time to explore why you feel this way. You may have formed self-rejecting or belittling beliefs as a child to keep yourself safe or to help you make sense of confusing situations. You may have felt unseen or unheard and decided that there was something wrong with you, rather than with the attention span of the people around you. Spend some time looking into where these feelings of insignificance first took root, and see what changes you might be able to make in your life and in your heart.
This one belief in your own unimportance could be limiting you and impacting your life in enormous ways. When you shift your perceptions around your own ability to affect your life and impact the world, you may discover wonderful parts of yourself that you had long ago forgotten. There may even be exciting new parts that you never even knew existed. When you gain awareness of how much your life really does matter, new sources of energy can emerge and your sense of connection with the world is renewed.
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Week at a Glance
Monday - Fire Drill
Tuesday - Nesloney Off Campus
Short Off Campus in the Morning
TELPAS Training for teachers with ELL or bilingual Students - 3:45pm
TELPAS Training for teachers with ELL or bilingual Students - 3:45pm
Wednesday - Valentine's Parties (should all be happening after 2:15 unless prior approval from Nesloney; TL give exact time to Walker/Enriquez)
Bilingual Vertical Meeting - 3:30pm - TP Room
Thursday - 4th and 5th Benchmarks
Friday - 5th Grade Benchmark
3rd Grade Field Trip
End of Progress Report Time (Grades due Sunday)
TP Time
This week we will continue our growth in PLC time. Please come ready to share and find solutions! We are better when we work together and focus on the goal of moving forward! We are going to be switching the TP time this week on Wed/Thurs because of benchmarking. So that means 3-5 Math will meet Wednesday morning and K-2 Math will meet Thursday morning.
Car Rider Morning Duty
Monday - 2nd Grade
Tuesday - 4th Grade
Wednesday - 4th Grade
Thursday - 2nd Grade
Friday - 1st (outside) and 3rd (inside)
MORNING DUTY
We really need your help with morning duty. If you are stationed inside, there MUST be a teacher at the cafeteria door where kids line up for breakfast from walking in from outside.
The other indoor teachers MUST be walking throughout the kids sitting in the gym. Not standing along the side, back, or by the door. We are having a lot of issues in the gym in the morning and need teachers being vigilant, and most importantly on time. Morning duty starts at 7:15am. Meaning we need you in your station at 7:15am.
Benchmarks
Benchmarks are on Thursday/Friday. With the way the state would like us to start treating STAAR, we are going to keep this day as normal as possible. You will keep your same lunch and recess and camp times. More info may be coming.
Progress Reports
Please make sure you are keeping up with grades as our next set of progress reports will come out next week!
Birthdays
February 18 - Maura Pavlock
February 18 - Kayla Wander
Blogs/Articles
In Closing...
I always think about our perceptions of things. One of the most dangerous things we can do as educators is sit behind closed doors and talk about others negatively. This week is National Random Acts of Kindness week. I challenge you to take the time to show someone a random act of kindness with no recognition back to you! If we want things to be better, we have to start by celebrating each other. That takes all of us! We can sit and complain (whether behind closed doors, out in the open, or online) or we can vent and then sit down and work to find solutions! Together we make this school the best it can be. We aren't perfect by any means, but we are moving forward! And it takes all of us, working together, to keep this ship moving in the right direction!
This video to me is a great reminder of how easy it is to say one thing when you think no one is listening, and then say it again when the person is standing right in front of you! What a great, hilarious, reminder of the power of our words and when we choose to say them!
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