From Venspired:

“You cannot walk into a discussion about education and not hear the word ‘standard’ mentioned at least 16,432 times. I may be exaggerating, but the focus on Common Core, on rigor, on assessing students’ knowledge has become the entire discussion. What about kids? What about guiding them to think about others? What about helping them understand that they can make a difference? This quote sums up everything about education. We want our students to excel academically. We support them in learning to read, write, and problem solve. We want them to do well in their studies, to achieve standards, to reach goals. But beyond that….Do good. We want that too. Even more importantly, we need to guide learning experiences so that students can have the opportunity to want it. Inspire them. I’m not saying standards aren’t important, but standards won’t change the world. Our kids will.”

Here’s our week at a glance:

Monday, September 2nd
NO SCHOOL: Labor Day

Tuesday, September 3rd
Mentor Meeting @ 3:45pm

Wednesday, September 4th
10:30am SLC/SLBC Outing
CCSS Common Plan Time

Thursday, September 5th
SLT Meeting @ 3:00pm

Friday, September 6th
5 by Friday!

(09/08) Happy Birthday Bailey Stenzel 🙂 

The start of the school year is the best time to begin building positive relationships with our families, too! I encourage you to meet our goal of 5 positive contacts by Friday over the next few weeks (phone calls, post cards, notes home, etc). Let’s remember our goal for the 2013-2014 school year….to make sure that 100% of our parents experience communication/contact with their child’s teacher prior to the November conferences: