It's not your goals that will lead to your success but your commitment to the process,” –Jon Gordon, “You Win in the Locker Room First: The 7 C’s to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life.” Each week I will highlight some of our opening day themes: Vision Statement #1—Our Students are our top priority! 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…
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 a busy week back from our snow break. Students were excited to get a little outdoor play in as the weather turned for a brief moment on Friday. Teachers rolled up their sleeves this week and dove into some professional learning with the Go Math! Coach. Ms. Karen enlightened us with how to better utilize our resources and much more. We kicked off Jump Rope For Heart with some exciting news...RPS students have raised over $200,000 for the American Heart Association. Russell-McDowell Intermediate (From the desk of Mrs. Wright)
Russell Middle School (From the desk of Mr. Moore)
Russell Area Technology Center (From the desk of Mr. Trimble) This week has been filled with new and unique opportunities for our students. Thanks to Kentucky Power and KEDC, who received a grant to provide new and innovative ways of learning, our students interacted with people who were hundreds of miles away. Students in Mrs. Wilburn’s class have been studying contracts and labor, so they were given the opportunity to interact with a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame’s staff to review contracts of past and present players of Major League Baseball. They also examined how the players’ union has evolved over time, and how this coincided with the changes in contracts that have occurred. The following day, students in Mrs. Phipps and Mr. Williams’ classes were able to spend time interacting with the author of the book Tech Titans, as she discussed the research and work she did on six of the world’s leading figures in the field of technology. These truly were awesome experiences for our students that resulted from the work of two fantastic community partners. We also want to thank Mrs. Casto and Mrs. Perry for joining us in both of these presentations to assure our technology was working properly and to be part of these interactions with our students. We appreciate the district office team, and their continued efforts to collaborate within the building to help enhance these learning experiences. Russell Preschool (From the desk of Mrs. Staton) This week, we continued our Science exploration with a virtual field trip to learn more about caring for our bearded dragon, Spike, experimented with colors, light, & shadows at the light table, examined many things under our new microscope, completed the STEAM challenge of melting a snowman, & made our own snow in the sensory table. The Little Scientists in Room 207 were busy!! Room 208 melted snowmen as part of a STEAM challenge too! They explored shapes in the block area by driving cars on shaped roads and painted a snowy scene after reading The Jacket I Wear In The Snow. What’s happening at central office / district this week?
It’s a great day to be a Red Devil!! Have a great week Russell! Sean
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