Maya and Dylan started their first day of fourth and sixth grade! I can't believe how fast time is going by. I am starting my 7th year here at Suisun Valley and Chris is starting his 4th year at Vaca High. I look forward to seeing you and you families tonight.
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News: BEHAVIOR EXPECTATION DUE (Your class rules are due today 8/18). This was in staff handbook :) ALL emergency sub plans are due to the front office 9/1. Please make sure 504 plans are attached to plans when you turn them in.
Please make sure you read pamphlets in August staff meeting folder and sign off that you read them on Kristin's desk. This must be completed by 8/25. Please make sure you complete Mandated Reporter and turn in certificate to Kristin.
Have your COLLEGE chants ready for Friday's Dragon Award ceremony!! Can't wait to hear them! |
We had an AMAZING first week of school because you have done a great job working as a TEAM!! PICK UP ROUTINE- we are still working out the details: It is getting better every day. Do you know why??? Because you guys are AWESOME!! With a great TEAM every day we are able to get our pick up process going very smoothly. I received a lot of compliments from parents and wanted you to know that they appreciated all of you! I am working on an email and a map to help parent with pick up procedures. I want to take one more day so we can iron out the glitches. I will email out to parents tomorrow.
Expectations vs. Standards (Good Enough to Repeat)
Expectations should not be confused with standards. Standards are levels of achievement. Teachers who practice positive expectations will help their students reach high standards. It takes just as much energy to achieve positive results as it does to achieve negative results. So why waste your energy to fail when the same amount of energy can help you and your students achieve.
Key idea: Expectations of students will greatly influence their achievement in school and in life.
There is absolutely no research correlation between success and family background, race, national origin, financial status, or even educational accomplishments. There is but one correlations with success, and that it ATTITUDE!
Humans have a success instinct. They want success. They strive for success.
Knowing what you can or cannot achieve is called expectation. An expectation is what you believe will or will not happen.
Classic Research on Expectations
Robert Rosenthal in the 1960’s fed erroneous information to a group of South San Francisco elementary teachers. In the spring of the preceding year, the students at a school were pretested. The researches and administrators told the teachers they were special teachers who were to be part of a special experiment. They were told, “Based on a pretest, we have identified 20 percent of your students who are special. They will be ‘spurters’ or ‘bloomers’ and are a designated group of students of whom greater intellectual growth is expected. The names were really selected at random. The teachers were told to not tell the students or the parents. “Thus we expect and know that you will do extremely well with these special students.” Eight months later all students were tests again. The results showed a significant gain in intellectual growth for the 20 percent who were designated as special. The teachers were quite surprised to learn that neither the teachers nor the students were “special.” The expectations, however, made all the difference.
Students tend to learn as little or as much as their teachers expect. Teachers who set and communicate high expectations to all their students obtain greater academic performance from those students than teachers who set low expectations.
(Taken from The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher by Harry and Rosemary Wong
Here’s to high expectations for all students and ourselves! As a No Excuses School we have committed to teaching our expectations for the first 10 days of school.
- I HAVE NEW SCHOOL T-SHIRTS FOR YOU IN STAFF ROOM. COME BY AND PICK ONE UP :)
Observable Fish Moments at SV:
I have really appreciated how everyone has volunteered their own time (BEING there) to either help out a new staff member in such a short amount of time. Staff members are really CHOOSING their attitude when there was SO much to do before Wednesday. Keep smiling :) YOU are MAKING someone’s day just by offering a helping hand or just by listening. You make me proud!!
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