Coleman Connection

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Thank you to those of you who participated in Coffee with the Principal last Tuesday morning and afternoon! I appreciate your questions and feedback to improve our school!

Dr. Hernandez.

Hello Parents and Guardians,

I hope you and your loved ones are doing well.

We want to thank you all for your support in talking to your children about the topic of appropriate use of phones and social media.

In addition to talking to our students during Daily Announcements about this topic, as well as planning the development and implementation of learning and reflecting opportunities for them, we have made Digital Citizenship, the behavior focus for the month of December.

Thank you again,

Respectfully,

Dr. Hernandez.

-Visit the GCPS website for updates on school closings: https://www.gcpsk12.org/

-In the event school being canceled due to inclement weather students will follow our Proactive Plan found at the bottom of this newsletter.

The latest Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) report on community transmission indicates "High" transmission of COVID-19 in Gwinnett County. As a result, masks are required in all GCPS facilities. Masks also are required on buses in compliance with federal mandates.

Under the school district’s current COVID-19 protocols, community transmission levels must be maintained at the "Moderate" or "Low" level for two consecutive weeks before district mask guidance transitions to “Strongly Recommended.”

And to celebrate with spirit, we have encouraged our students and staff to wear our purple and black colors on Friday, 2/4 to support our team!

Leon's composition, Epic Gamer, was selected for the Music Technology Showcase and Emerson's composition, Siege Waltz, was selected to be performed as part of the Composition Competition Recital. Use this LINK to see a few photos from the event.

Amelia Cai won a Silver Key Award in the 2022 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards awarded by the GA region Alliance of Young Artists and Writers.

As we finish this basketball season, we would like to congratulate our student athletes, cheerleaders, and dance team for their hard work and dedication to their extracurricular activities!

Thank you students, families, faculty and staff, and business and community partners, for your daily acts of love and friendship at and toward Coleman Middle School.

Attention 6th and 8th graders,

Coleman MS will conduct our annual scoliosis screening on February 24th . This screening is required by GA state law and mandated by the GA department of Public Health. Scoliosis screening is done to identify students who may have an abnormal curvature of the spine. This Friday 11th, your student will receive Form 4400 to take home. Please complete it with your option and return it to school. Last day to opt out the screening and return the form will be February 22nd. Your student will be screened on the 24th if we don’t have his/ her form 4400 on file.

You can also contact Coleman’s school clinic at 678-407-7410.

Thank you.

Dual enrollment is a program from the GA Department of Education designed to prepare students for college and career opportunities leading students to postsecondary institutions for an industry recognized certification or lic​ensure, an associate and/or higher college ​​​degree, and successful employment. More information included in this FLYER

Coleman Reads is Coleman Middle School’s one book, one school reading program. Our goal is to have our school community, students, parents, teachers and other community members reading the same book. We want people to be talking about the book in the classrooms, at the PTA meetings and at the grocery store. Our goal is for not only our students to be excited about reading, but our whole community.

The book is available for purchase through MyPayments plus for $7.

The Coleman Library Media Center will be having contests and events pertaining to the book from January 18th—February 23rd 2022. The first trivia contest is now live both on our program website or in person in the Coleman Media Center. Winners will receive a free book certificate to redeem at our Scholastic Book Fair on February 22nd - 25th.

Our culminating event will be a combined Literacy Night/ Black History night on Thursday, February 24th at Coleman Middle School from 6-8pm.

For more information, please check out the program website:

https://tinyurl.com/colemanGhost

We are collecting donated clothing **with tags** to take to CHOA's Emergency Room "closet". Clothes closet you ask- why? Don’t the kids wear gowns? Yes! But many kids come in with burned, dirty clothes, or clothes covered in substances. When they leave or are finally allowed to wear regular PJs, they have nothing. They send kids home often in just a gown, or kids who stay for an extended period of time miss some snuggly comforting PJs.

We are hoping to restock the "closet" with some new items-t-shirt, soft shorts/pants, pajamas are their most needed items. Per CHOA policy, all donations must be new/with tags. Drop off all donations in Ms. Brooks' classroom.

As part of GCPS School Nutrition Program's Big Game Pizza Promotion on Friday, February 11th, each school will receive an official Super Bowl LVI NFL Game Football to giveaway to one lucky student! More information coming soon!!!

PTA General Meeting:
Please join us for a general PTA meeting on Wednesday, February 23rd at 6:30pm. Though we are aiming to get back to conducting PTA meetings in person shortly, we will do this one on Zoom as our agenda will be quick.

We will need a quorum of voting PTA members in order to adopt our budget and vote in a nominating committee for next year's Executive Board.
If you can commit to attending, we would appreciate it! Please RSVP to colemanwildcatspta@gmail.com. We'll send the Zoom link to all attendees as the meeting approaches.

Nominating Committee/Future Executive Board:

If you have been looking to get more involved in the PTA, now is your time! We need to seat a nominating committee to present candidates for next year's Executive Board. As the nominating committee will be voted in at the meeting on February 23rd, please let us know as soon as possible.

We also NEED parents interested in taking a position on the Board. Many of us currently on the Board are either moving on from CMS or reaching the end of our two years of eligibility in or current positions - this includes the two Presidents!
If you're hesitant, just remember that each one of us on the Board was hesitant at first, too, but we truly have a great time serving our children and yours!

If you are interested in being part of the nominating committee or the Board, please email colemanwildcatspta@gmail.com, and indicate your area of interest.

Exciting News!:

Last semester we conducted a survey regarding use of Fall Fundraiser proceeds. As GCPS is installing water bottle fillers in our school at no cost to us (but on their timeline), the overwhelming majority of respondents indicated a preference for using the funds on outdoor play equipment instead.
We're excited to announce that we've placed an order for a basketball goal for the blacktop! As soon as it arrives, we'll notify GCPS for installation. We'll also buy some other games that they can enjoy on the lawn.

When you and your students pass by, you'll know that you helped make it happen. Thank you to all who donated!

Upcoming Socials:
Please mark your calendars for our 6th/7th grade social (March 11th) and the 8th grade dance (April 30th). We're looking forward to providing the kids a space to enjoy some time with their friends outside of class.
We will need a committee to help make these events happen. If you can help with this, please send us an email to address mentioned above.

We would like to ask all parents to fill out this survey to gather information on your career for a possible future opportunity to engage our parents/guardians in programming (i.e. guest speaker, small group presentation, etc).

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1dv5e6dFSrfu90pDeUxpbDm-pTdWQ9lm8G1gu7g0pV3A/edit?usp=sharing

When guest speakers visit a classroom, students listen to a presentation to learn about the speaker’s career, business and industry, and ask questions to help them consider whether they might like to pursue a career path in the industry. Often our speakers relate to our current PBL units, but we hope to expand this to a career fair-type event.

Designed to meet specific learning objectives, guest speaker presentations are linked to the curriculum and help students connect what they’re learning in school with the workplace. Presentations are usually conducted at the school, but in some cases, guest speakers may “visit” a classroom electronically via Zoom or some other format.

Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS) is inviting parents and community members to apply for the district’s Instructional Resources Review Committee (IRRC), a group charged with evaluating print and digital instructional resources. Feedback from the IRRC and teacher reviews will be considered in the selection of resources to pilot in the district. This year’s IRRC will convene on Feb. 22 at the J. Alvin Wilbanks Instructional Support Center (ISC) located at 437 Old Peachtree Road, NW, in Suwanee. Instructional resources will be reviewed for courses in the areas of Health (grades K-9), Mathematics (grades K-5 and select High School courses), Career and Technical Education (select courses in grades 6-12), and Social Studies (select elective courses in grades 9-12).

Learn more about the application process here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/S39NSF5

The deadline to submit completed applications is Jan. 24.

The Atlanta Regional Brain Bee Competition will be held on March 5th, 2022, and preparatory workshops will be offered on February 5th and February 19th, 2022. (The competition is for students only, but teachers are more than welcome to attend the workshops!) All Atlanta Brain Bee events will be held virtually. You can find more information on this link

A parent empowerment conference held in SPANISH on March 19, 2022 at Meadowcreek High School, GCPS. ALL Spanish & bilingual speaking Latino parents are invited to participate. Organizers extend the invitation FREE of charge. There will have lots of prize drawings, a cloth bag, resource tables, connections, and sessions. We will serve breakfast and lunch! Register using this link

We invite you to our 10th Annual Latino College and STEM Fair! Join us online for bilingual workshops, and inspirational conversations with Latino college students, parents, professors, and other STEM professionals. Various prizes and raffles for attendees. Hands-on STEM workshops will be available for schools and community organizations. This will be a free, fun, educational and exciting event organized by Georgia Tech’s GoSTEM program in partnership with HoPe (Hispanic Organization Promoting Education). You don’t want to miss it!

In partnership with the Gwinnett County Public Library (GCPL), GCPS provides Tutor.com as an online tutoring resource for students. Live tutoring support is available daily from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. In addition, students can receive “drop-off support,” 24-7, by uploading a document for tutor feedback that will be reviewed and returned at a later time.

For more information visit:

https://www.gcpsk12.org/site/default.aspx?PageID=26020

Mathnasium has a membership contest live for two weeks. The winner will receive 6 months free membership. Here is a link to the contest page. Want to know more about Mathnasium? Visit them at www.mathnasium.com/berkeleylake

Business Partnerships

Do you know of a business that might be interested in becoming a business partner? Business Partnerships begin at $100.

Partnership proceeds go directly to the classroom to support PBL projects, technology initiatives, and other innovations!

Please contact me at gypsy.hernandez@gcpsk12.org if you are interested. We appreciate your support and generosity!

Academic Center for Excellence

Rabia Shahbaz

3195 Buford Hwy Duluth GA 30097

Phone: 678-878-4999

E-mail: rabia677@gmail.com

Apex Eyecare

3694 Club Dr, Unit 101

Lawrenceville, GA 30044

Phone: 678-395-7262

https://apex-eye-care-eye-care-center.business.site/

Amy Fuchs, Keller Williams Realty

Family Homes GA

Amy@FamilyHomesGa.com

Phone: 404-439-1031

Indigo Trade Paper Co., LLC

500 Pinnacle Court

Suite 125

Norcross, GA. 30096

770-446-6077

www.indigotradeco.com

Mike Collard

Virtual Properties Realty

770-480-0848

mike@vpradmin.com

The Tutoring Center, Duluth GA

Email: DuluthGA@tutoringcenter.com
678-629-3227

www.Duluth.tutoringcenter.com

We continue our committment to maintain in-person instruction. However, in the event that there is a need to temporarily pivot to digital learning due to COVID19 we want to be certain that each student has access. Our teachers and students are ready IF we need to make this change.

In the event we temporarily transition to digital learning, Coleman Middle will implement our typical digital learning day plan and schedule.

As a reminder:

Teachers will post a lesson for students to complete in Google Classroom - Humanities, Math, Science, and Connections. Students may log on at any time during the day to complete the lessons posted in Google Classroom; live instruction will not take place.

Teachers will be available via Zoom (Zoom link found on every teacher's eCLASS page) at the following times to answer questions:

6th grade - 10:15 - 10:45

7th grade - 11:00 - 11:30

8th grade - 12:30 - 1:00

Connections - 1:15 - 1:45

Beginning on 1/6, homeroom teachers surveyed students to determine if a device would be needed for digital learning. If your student still needs a device, please tell her/him to speak to their homeroom teacher or call the front office at 678-407-7400.

Please remember that students and families will be responsible for lost or damaged devices.

If you want to learn more about how my personal and professional background connect to Coleman Middle School, and you did not have the opportunty to watch it during the holiday break, click this link for my introduction video message.

Gwinnett's flagship STEAM school & GA Department of Education STEAM-certified school

Principal: Dr. Gypsy Hernandez

gypsy.hernandez@gcpsk12.org

School Hours: 9:20 AM - 4:00 PM

Website: https://www.gcpsk12.org/ColemanMS
Location: 3057 Main St, Duluth, GA 30096, USA
Phone: 678-407-7400
Facebook: facebook.com/@colemanms546
Twitter: @colemanms546