Wildcat Weekly August 30, 2024

Happy Friday Wildcats!

I hope you had a great week. With college football officially kicking off this weekend, it's starting to feel like the beginning of fall. Sic 'em bears!

This past Tuesday our Building Leadership Team (BLT) met after school to review feedback from the first days back in August with staff, plan our staff meeting on Tuesday, and plan the professional development day on Sept. 20th. I realize you may not be aware of everyone who is on BLT, so here they are:

Andrew Boyette

Anthony Sparks

Becky Allums

Ben D'Ardenne

Carol McRae

Colleen Yanez

Graig MacHendrie

Jamie Kirkland

Janelle Ranford

Janelle Winders

Jessi Ullery

Julie Bricker

Katrina Arthen

Kim Hughes

Nancy MacHendrie

Nicole Belanger

Sean Frazier

BLT helps to provide leadership throughout the building in our PLCs, lead and develop professional development for staff, provide input in helping meat school goals, and is a voice for staff. Please share anything you'd like with a BLT member if you'd like it discussed at our next meeting on Sept. 24th.

At our staff meeting on Tuesday, it is required for all certified staff, but we'd love to see all certified and classified there if you can make it! Please consider nominating a fellow staff member for a Wildcat Wonder award for going above and beyond. I have some exciting news to share at our staff meeting.

I hope you have a fantastic long weekend!! I am out of the building next Thursday for a principal meeting. See you on Tuesday.

- Ben

Jeanne Johnson Sept 5

Janelle Winders Sept 5

Donna Noble Sept 7

September 2 - Labor Day - No School

September 3

• 3 - 4pm: Staff Meeting. Here's the agenda!

September 4

• 8th Grade Girls Volleyball - A/B Home vs. Mesa, C Away
• Cross Country Meet vs. Cimarron @ Cimarron

September 5

• Sagewood Carnival 5:00 - 7:00 pm - this is a family-friendly event that we'd love to see as many Wildcats at as possible. Whether or not you are sponsoring a club or booth, we'd love to see everyone there! It's a big deal!

September 6

• 6th Grade Team-building day - 6th grade will be up at Bayou Gulch Park in the morning and then in the library after 1:00 pm for a day of team-building activities. 6th grade will not attend any classes on this day.

In order to ensure that elective teachers who are connected with teams are in the know about changes to the weekly Wildcat Time schedule, teams need to communicate with their attached elective teachers for Wildcat each Tuesday prior to Wildcat time on Thursday. Here is an example of what the Mountain Lion team sends out each week so everyone is on the same page:

myAVID: Relational Capacity

Choose one of the following for your team.

1. Digital Locker Introduction

• Lesson Plan

• Possible district-approved option (Per Zach) for students to create Avatars: https://www.pixton.com/welcome

• Students under 13–we would need to check if parents have any tech restrictions on file/flagged before use, per DCSD Approved Software Catalog

1. Virtual Pennants - These could be displayed in the pod.

• Lesson Plan

No team meetings this week due to the staff meeting!

Nominate a colleague for a job well done with our WILDCAT WONDERS!

Make sure someone from your pod sends a picture of the PRIDE award winners to Julie Burkey!

Cristin Cockrell is a 6/7 Learning Specialist and this is her first year at SGMS. She met her husband in high school! They have two sons, one daughter, one daughter-in-law, and one granddaughter! She loves to hike and has summited two 14ers. She loves to paddleboard, camp, mountain bike, and more. Cristin qualified for the CO High School State Swimming championship each year in high school.

Now that we are 3+ weeks into the school year, how will you continue to build relational capacity within your classroom throughout the first semester? Check out this article from AVID Professional Learning for some great things to consider!

As we prepare for the roll out of Watch D.O.G.S. - Heroes of the Hallway at Sagewood, we'd like to get your input. We will have parent volunteers here for potentially the whole day and we need to know which classrooms they can come into. You will be able to let parents know if you'd like specific things they can help with. This could include sitting with kids and helping with work or even working with a small group, potentially.

For a quick overview of theWatch D.O.G.S. program, check out this video.

Please take a moment to fill out this FORM so that we can prepare for which classrooms we can allow parent volunteers to come into and what you'd like them to do.