“In life you have a choice between two roads. The positive road and the negative road. The positive road will lead to enhanced health, happiness, and success and the negative road will lead to misery, anger, and failure.” ― John Gordon, The No Complaining Rule: Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at Work Each week I will highlight some of our opening day themes: Vision Statement #5--Our Technology enables our students to reach beyond the classroom. RIS Mission: Our mission is to inspire and empower all students to reach their maximum potential: one student, one lesson, one day at a time. Things I CAN Control… 1. My ATTITUDE 2. My EFFORT 3. My BEHAVIOR 4. My ACTIONS to be a Great Team Member Continue to focus on the RIS four core beliefs: It’s about Kids! —Accountability—Transparency—Communication. Positives across the district……….. Russell Primary School (From the desk of Mr. Cassity) We had another awesome week at RPS! Check out just a few of the things that went on this past week:
Russell-McDowell Intermediate (From the desk of Mrs. Wright)
Student of the Month selected and Congratulations to: o Sixth Grade-Elijah Smith o Seventh Grade-Gabe Scott o Eighth Grade-Brooke Bloss Russell High School (From the desk of Mrs. Chaffin)
Russell Area Technology Center (From the desk of Mr. Trimble) The SkillsUSA students competed on Friday at the ACTC Technology Drive campus. As always, our students represented us very well in these areas and we appreciate their hard work, as well as the assistance given to them in preparing by Mr. Parsons, Mr. Williams, Mr. Fields and Mr. Runyon. Several of these students will now move on to the state SkillUSA conference in April. Leadership Contestants Payton Parsons SkillsUSA Creed 1st - Gold Chelsi Fraley SkillsUSA Spelling 1st - Gold Quinten Clark Construction Tools 2nd - Silver EB Parsons Construction Tools 3rd - Bronze Ashley Thomas Job Skills Dem. 1st- Gold Pranesh Patel Job Interview 1st - Gold Technical Skills Contestants Wayne Stephens Architectural CAD 2nd - Silver Payton Parsons Technical CAD 3rd - Bronze Geoffery Potts Comp. Maint. 1st - Gold Aaron Eastham & Alexis Virgin Web Design 1st- Gold Russell Preschool (From the desk of Mrs. Staton) The month of March is All About Animals: we have a vet's office in our dramatic play center; STEM challenge books about animal habitats & environments; a bird's nest in our Science center; a new animals & habitats matching game in our Science center; animal stickers in the art center; ladybugs counters, turtle counters, owl counters, number ordering puzzles, inchworm rulers, number monkeys & shape turtles all in the math center; feeding a bunny & feeding a dog fine motor game & animal puzzles in the fine motor center; word family dogs, alphabet monkeys, & alphabet alligators in the Literacy center; & lots of books about animals in our classroom!! We can't forget about our class pet, Spike, our bearded dragon. We are so very excited about our upcoming field trip to the STEAM Lab at McDowell next week!! We are very thankful Mr. Jordan was willing to let us visit!! What’s happening at Central Office / District this week? March Board of Education Meeting---Monday, March 26, 2018 at 6:00 PM in the new Russell Central Office building conference room. This is an open meeting and a great opportunity to learn what is going on in the district. Great leadership opportunity!
It’s a great day to be a Red Devil!! Have a great week Russell! Sean
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