Hawk Highlights

Having new students in your classroom is a new beginning. In an effort to connect with the social-emotional needs and build relationships with your new students its important to listen and talk with them. Challenge #10 is a re-issue of the second challenge. Use the 2x10 strategy which works like this: every day for 10 school days, engage a student that you are just meeting in a two-minute conversation that has nothing to do with academics. Use https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e10zHwgZygBwYT_Nuszfk46kN2yRwMSXELoqtief7m8/edit?usp=sharing to report back what you learned about that student and how that conversation strengthened your relationship with the student and how that relationship will help that student achieve success in your classroom. CTE instructors and support staff, I ask you to conduct this challenge with students you feel you need to reconnect with.

• Seeking Powerful Development Team Members: We are currently seeking staff members interested in planning and implementing initiatives that will have a positive impact on our students and staff while simultaneously developing and strengthening their leadership skills. PD Team members provide input into our focus on literacy. Members will be provided professional learning opportunities including conference attendance, potential EPER pay, and/or snow hours. If you are interested in being a member of the Powerful Development (PD Team), please email Dr. Reynolds.

• CTSO Competitions: Preparation for our CTSO statewide competitions are in full swing. CTSOs are an important part of our CTE curriculum and our goal every year is to send our students into competition feeling prepared and supported by their CTE instructors and our St. Georges staff. Please feel free to approach our CTE instructors or Jamie Williams to see how you can support our CTSO efforts.

• Positive Office Referrals- As content area classes are changing at the start of the second semester, don't forget to recognize students that are exemplifying our core values by submitting a positive office referral. A new student in your classroom will appreciate your acknowledgment of their contributions to the St. Georges Way.

• School Psychologist Newsletter: Please check out the newsletter from our school psychologist posted below. Tenika provides excellent information about the importance of brain breaks. Also, she gives examples of how to appropriately incorporate brain breaks.

• Professional Responsibility-Punctuality: A reminder that being punctual is a professional responsibility. Staff members are expected to FOB in by 7:30 am at Lindsay Gliniak's desk. If you have any questions or concerns about this expectation, please see your immediate supervisor.

St. Georges HOSA campaign is in full swing with in-school runoffs already beginning. Our HOSA students are preparing to decimate the competition statewide! Groups of students are busy with various projects around the school with input from many teachers. On Friday, staff members had the opportunity to vote on the winning poster for the Extemporaneous Health Poster competition. Two students competed against each other. Nana Ansah, a junior MA student, and Nana Berko, a junior EMS student were given a secret topic with facts in an envelope and had one and a half hours to create a poster based on the information. The students worked diligently on their posters and showed their HOSA pride! See photograph above.

See below about Mayda Berrios, SG alumni, making an impact and recognized by the Governor during his recent State of the State address. See picture above.

"I think we can all agree that our children should be our focus. And there are perhaps no children more vulnerable than those in our foster care system. Mayda Berrios is in the audience today. Mayda spent several years in foster care and graduated from St. Georges. Today, she’s a sophomore at Delaware State, and president of a campus organization that mentors children in foster care. Mayda has had to pull together the funds to pay for college. In keeping with Tracey’s goal of giving every child a “First Chance” of success, we’re working with Representatives Griffith and Longhurst and Senators Poore and Lockman to help students like Mayda. Our proposal will waive tuition and fees at Delaware Tech, Delaware State, or the University of Delaware for students who age out of foster care." ~Governor Carney

Congratulating to Allison Diodati, Monica Cohen and Nikki DiBuono on successfully completing the 2019 Delaware Teachers Institute seminar. Participation in seminars requires over fifty hours of a teacher’s time which results in a unique and exciting curriculum unit designed for their students. These units will be published for other teachers to use as well. ~Shanta Reynolds

"Thanks to the wrestling coaches for putting together a Teacher Appreciation Night. It was refreshing to bring that kind of positivity to such a chaotic time of the year, and the students were so sweet in what they shared about their nominees. I hope it becomes a new St. Georges tradition!" ~Anonymous

"A special thanks to Jess Bell for continually pushing the TedX project forward. Jess is doing an outstanding job planning, organizing, and communicating information to the staff to ensure that there is an understanding of the expectations and outcomes of the undertaking." ~Shanta Reynolds

Tuesday, January 28th

• ACE A Meeting- 7:35 am
• HOSA Runoffs

Wednesday, January 29th

• Invest In Girls Meeting in Library- 3:00 pm

Thursday, January 30th

• SkillsUSA Competitors Group Picture in Gym- 8:10 am

Friday, January 31st

• Faculty Liaison Meeting- 7:35 am