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Tragedy changes our brain and our everyday functioning. Life altering events create a disconnect with everyone and everything. States of hyper-vigilance and numbness can cycle. Triggers can set off reactivity. Your spiritual life can suffer. Trauma can make you feel detached, irritable, anxious and highly reactive in a myriad of ways. It re-wires the brain in an attempt to protect you but it can actually harm you more.
Traumas highjack our sense of well-being and true purpose. You may have been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or Acute Stress Disorder. The good news is you have neuro-plasticity, which means your brain can recover and be restored. You can live well again or maybe for the first time.
Trauma doesn't have to define you. It can refine you. With reframing and proper processing, you can learn to reconnect with yourself and others. You can change the course of your life by focusing on the things that aid your healing. In doing so, the thoughts and reactivity that harm you will extinguish over time. You can find your value and purpose and move toward it.
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Week at a Glance
Monday - Picture Money Due
Wednesday - Admin Professionals Day (Walker and Enriquez)
Math Fair
Head Start Begins Moving Over
Meeting with Flooded Rooms - 3:30pm - TP Room
Thursday - Nesloney and Short Off Campus
Friday - Nesloney Off Campus
House Games
End of Progress Report Grading Period
Annie, 6pm, Brosig Auditorium
Saturday - Annie, 3pm, Brosig Auditorium
Annie, 6pm, Brosig Auditorium
Admin Professionals Day
Wednesday is National Administrative Professionals Day, so let's make sure we really thank and celebrate all that Jeannette and Annie do for our school!
Math Fair
The annual 5th Grade Math Fair is coming! This is an awesome opportunity to support our 5th Graders and celebrate their hard work. HERE is the flyer if you want to share it out. I believe Robertson and Sipp have been getting with teams to schedule times!
Head Start
Wednesday, the teachers of Head Start will begin moving over their things. Their first day with kids is Monday, April 29th!
Meeting with Flooded Rooms
If your room got water on the carpet when it rained really bad recently, you MUST be in attendance at the Wednesday meeting at 3:30pm in the TP room. We will be discussing with our insurance and building people next steps.
Thursday
Short and I will be off campus at a Master Scheduling meeting at Central office. We will have our phones on us for emergencies.
Friday
I will be out of town, but as always will be available via phone, text, FT, skype, GHO, and voxer if you need me.
House Games
House Games are this Friday! Remind your students, as this is our second to last house games! There will also be some special guests on campus to view the House Games.
Progress Reports
This is also the end of another progress report period and as always gradebook will close Sunday night.
T-TESS End of Year Meetings
We will begin scheduling our end of year T-TESS Meetings. If you haven't heard from your evaluator by Friday please contact them about scheduling a time. Make sure you're adding in evidence into your account BEFORE the meeting.
Contracts
Please sign and return contracts to Annie by Tuesday.
PLCs this Week
This week in PLCs we will be discussing end of the year and next few weeks (in leu of having an after school staff meeting). You will need your laptop and a list of your students. I will schedule a separate meeting with PreK.
DUTY/PLC DAYS
Monday - Kinder ELAR inside; 1st Grade ELAR outside
Tuesday - Kinder MATH inside; 1st Grade MATH outside
Wednesday - 4th Grade ALL inside; 3rd Grade ELAR outside
Thursday - 2nd grade ALL inside; 3rd Grade MATH outside
Friday - Brewer, Brak, Hafley, Bradford outside ; 5th Grade ALL inside
Friday - Brewer, Brak, Hafley, Bradford outside ; 5th Grade ALL inside
Scholastic
Wow, I don't even know where to begin with what Friday was like. It was a special experience for sure. The amount of books we were able to purchase is CRAZY. This will definitely be a yearly experience for us. We broke the all time warehouse record, and we broke it bad! All of the company is talking about the trip on Friday AND how wonderful all of you were to all the staff.
DO NOT give out any books to students yet as we plan out exactly how this is going to roll out. I know, that's a lot to ask. But we want to do this big and do this right. We'll be discussing more in PLCs this week.
Annie
Please come out and support our kids as they perform Annie this weekend! Friday at 6pm and Saturday at 3pm and 6pm!
Shout Outs
Haliburton's musical is this weekend! I cannot wait. But what I adore even more is the amount of time he and Ms. Williams have put in after school and even on Saturday!! You will NOT want to miss the many performances.
Annie did a fantastic job helping run and organize all of the Kinder pictures on Thursday!
And of course, everyone involved in the wreck on Wednesday and all those at school who supported and helped. It was a team effort if ever I've seen one. I'm so proud to be part of this school family.
T-Shirts
TODAY is the LAST DAY in April to purchase a Kids Deserve It or Tell Your Story shirt! Get yours HERE.
Tell Your Story
This week, my special guest on #TellYourStory was none other than our own Kevin Haliburton. I hope you tune in and share this like crazy, because it's some awesome stuff.
Articles/Blogs
In Closing
I am a huge fan of P!nk and all the work that she does outside of just singing. I loved this short video clip of her and thought it was empowering so I wanted to share. Here's to blazing our own trails!
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