Monday Memo

• Shifts and Changes in Scheduling this week ~ Please preview and review for students to help with predictability in the changes this week!
• Halloween Costumes ~ Character parade is the only version of costumes that is supported. Please remind students and parents (through your team communication) of this!

Registration opens in myPGS on October 21, 2019 at 8:00 am.

Pasco County Schools offers five reading endorsement courses throughout the school year and summer to provide our teachers an opportunity to add the endorsement to their teaching certificate. In order to receive the endorsement, teachers complete courses that develop their understanding of the foundations of language, research of best practices, assessment, and differentiation in reading, as well as a semester practicum. Once all five courses are successfully completed, teachers can add the endorsement to their certificate.

Book checkout for winter endorsement classes will be held at multiple locations and times. Once a participant is enrolled in a class, if they wish to borrow a course textbook from the district, they can come check one out at any of the following locations and times.

• November 7, 3:30-6:00 pm, Gulf High School lobby
• November 11, 4:00-7:00 pm, District Office, Building 3 lobby
• November 12, 5:00-7:00 pm, Pasco High School lobby
• November 15, 4:00-7:00 pm, District Office, Building 3 lobby

We are anticipating high enrollment in these courses... please register quickly.

Beginning November 2019, Clinical Educator Training will be offered through our Aspiring Leaders – LEAD program. The Clinical Educator Training develops the skills necessary to mentor and support pre-service and in-service teachers. A Principal recommendation is required to register for this course. The next Clinical Educator Training, embedded in our Teacher Leader course meets for 6 Tuesday evenings, beginning on Tuesday, November 19th from 5pm – 8pm. The Clinical Educator Training will be the first 3 sessions of the Teacher Leader course.

Let Liz or Stan know that you are interested as we have to fill out a recommendation form!

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• To everyone that helped make the dance for our students such a fantastic success!

• To Beth for her reminders for timeclock😊

• To Stan and Liz for attending the dance😊

• Thank you to all who helped with dance! Fifth grade appreciates it so much!
  

• Thank you to Shannon Beckman, Ashley Luna and her kids, Vince Losey, Ms. Aponte, Laurie Bazick, Carina Rubio and her son, Beth Kirkland and her sons, Mrs. Costin, Rebecca Bishop, Tekia Hawk, Janet Heyman, Kim Mahoney, Liz, Stan, Andre and the custodial staff for your help with the dance. It was a big success.

• Thank you to those who made the fall breakfast such a success.

• Kudos to Liz for keeping everyone in the know with her weekly newsletter!

• Thank you to administration for the roaming coffee and donut cart! What a TREAT!

• Kudos to all our creative cats who made awesome pumpkins!

• Kudos to Jen Asaro for making guidance connections for students!

• Thank you to Carol for helping students make progress through interventions.

• Thank you Iris for taking my kiddos Thursday afternoon when I had to leave to take care of my sick child!!

• Thank you Kay for watching my class during an IEP meeting!

• Thank you to 1st and 3rd for the wonderful fall breakfast!

• Thanks to Stan for Olga’s!
  

• Thank you to Makayla for picking up Olga's!

• Thank you to Janet and Larisa for holding the 1st Honor Society Meeting of the school year!

• Amazing job by the office staff for candy contests and pumpkin contests!

• Mrs. Daubney for putting aside chocolate milks for the Snowcat friends one morning for breakfast before the cafeteria ran out.

• Mrs. Shuck for jumping right in and managing behavior.

• 5th grade team for problem solving around challenging students.

• To Mr. Rob for always willing to catch the frogs in my room!

COMING SOON...

• Don't forget to turn clocks back this weekend!
• Snow Cats ~ Coffee Cart

• November 4 - Food Drive begins; Leadership Team; Cookie Dough Pickup
• November 5 - K & 1st Grade will have morning PD (Haggerty curriculum)
• November 6 - PTO 4:15
• November 8 - All Pro Dad; 2:00 Veteran's Day Kindergarten Assembly; Staff Get Together- Pinot’s Palette
• November 11 - Committee; Veterans Day Invite to WCPAC
• November 13 - Early Release Day
• November 15 - SAC and TOY/SRP Breakfast
• November 18 - Great American Teach In Week; Faculty Meeting
• November 20 - GATI Day and Concert Rehearsals
• November 22 - Student of the Month
• November 25-29 - Thanksgiving Break