I was asked a great question at my WSFCS Summer Leadership Retreat, "Do you know what your "Why" is?"
Each of our paths of how we came to work here at Brunson is unique and if we are to re-connect with our individual "Why," we need to tell our story. Tell it to your spouse or children. Tell it to your friend. Tell it to anybody, but PLEASE tell it to yourself. You have to want to re-connect with your "Why." Our current reality is fast-paced and we are often too busy living the life we are in rather than focusing our energies on the actions that connect with our "Why."
Now if I was further along on my journey to connect with my personal "Why," I would end the blog here and dispense with the schedule and stuff that follows. Yet one thing I do know is our Brunson family staff needs some details to plan their current reality. I do too. I believe we should search for the meaning of life while we live life. I am not Timothy Leary advocating "tune in, turn on, drop out."
Let's start with our new Brunson Family members;
Jenny Niles will be our new Guidance Counselor. She is from Rhode Island and just completed her Masters at Wake Forest.
Jessie Spaciel will be a new 5th grade teacher. She has spent the last four years teaching 4th grade in Cary and Greensboro. Her new home will be Mobile 34.
Charity Cota-Robles will be our new 4th grade teacher. She spent some time in our classrooms last year as a sub and recently graduated from UNCG. Her new home will be room 28.
More info to come on our TBE vacancies and new 3rd grade HAG section.
Lots of movement in the building as Mr Guerra and Mr Kirby finish up the cleaning. We will be prepared to have teachers access their classrooms on Thursday, August 16th.
The following day at Noon, we will provide a pizza lunch if you are willing to spend an hour or two stuffing the student assignment envelopes. Rolls and copies for the mailing will be prepared for a 1pm envelope stuffing party. We need to have all 578 in the mail by 5pm Friday evening.
I plan on opening the building on Saturday the 18th from 9am-2pm for those who need access to their room.
The following week has been planned and is draft form. For an outline please see our Brunson Calendar at http://wsfcs.k12.nc.us/Page/21681 This calendar will be critical to keeping track of events here at our school.
Our focus for 2012-2013 will be the refreshing of our AMAZING PBIS program and building our capacity to plan for excellence with Learning Focused. Both of these topics will dominate our conversations during the first week and improve our daily culture and climate. I will post the full schedule after conferring with Andy and Kathy on the 13th. Plan on 8:00-3:45 work days except for Thursday the 23rd when we will do 12-8 for our open house.
I will also have draft copies of our Schedule for review and feedback before the Pizza Luncheon on the 17th. If you have the time and interest to review this important document please feel free to stop by the media center at 11am on the 17th.
That is enough for now. I will blog again next Friday the 10th.
Each of our paths of how we came to work here at Brunson is unique and if we are to re-connect with our individual "Why," we need to tell our story. Tell it to your spouse or children. Tell it to your friend. Tell it to anybody, but PLEASE tell it to yourself. You have to want to re-connect with your "Why." Our current reality is fast-paced and we are often too busy living the life we are in rather than focusing our energies on the actions that connect with our "Why."
Now if I was further along on my journey to connect with my personal "Why," I would end the blog here and dispense with the schedule and stuff that follows. Yet one thing I do know is our Brunson family staff needs some details to plan their current reality. I do too. I believe we should search for the meaning of life while we live life. I am not Timothy Leary advocating "tune in, turn on, drop out."
Let's start with our new Brunson Family members;
Jenny Niles will be our new Guidance Counselor. She is from Rhode Island and just completed her Masters at Wake Forest.
Jessie Spaciel will be a new 5th grade teacher. She has spent the last four years teaching 4th grade in Cary and Greensboro. Her new home will be Mobile 34.
Charity Cota-Robles will be our new 4th grade teacher. She spent some time in our classrooms last year as a sub and recently graduated from UNCG. Her new home will be room 28.
More info to come on our TBE vacancies and new 3rd grade HAG section.
Lots of movement in the building as Mr Guerra and Mr Kirby finish up the cleaning. We will be prepared to have teachers access their classrooms on Thursday, August 16th.
The following day at Noon, we will provide a pizza lunch if you are willing to spend an hour or two stuffing the student assignment envelopes. Rolls and copies for the mailing will be prepared for a 1pm envelope stuffing party. We need to have all 578 in the mail by 5pm Friday evening.
I plan on opening the building on Saturday the 18th from 9am-2pm for those who need access to their room.
The following week has been planned and is draft form. For an outline please see our Brunson Calendar at http://wsfcs.k12.nc.us/Page/21681 This calendar will be critical to keeping track of events here at our school.
Our focus for 2012-2013 will be the refreshing of our AMAZING PBIS program and building our capacity to plan for excellence with Learning Focused. Both of these topics will dominate our conversations during the first week and improve our daily culture and climate. I will post the full schedule after conferring with Andy and Kathy on the 13th. Plan on 8:00-3:45 work days except for Thursday the 23rd when we will do 12-8 for our open house.
I will also have draft copies of our Schedule for review and feedback before the Pizza Luncheon on the 17th. If you have the time and interest to review this important document please feel free to stop by the media center at 11am on the 17th.
That is enough for now. I will blog again next Friday the 10th.
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