How We Organize Ourselves

March 2019

Important Dates:

March 6 Science Module Pick Up Behind Library
March 6-14 2nd Grade Math Unit 6 Window (Optional)
March 12-14 3-5 Science CBA Window
March 12-14 3-4 Reading CBA2 Window
March 13 4th Nine Weeks Science Module Delivered
March 13 K-1 Math Check Up 3 Window Closes (All Students)
March 13 NO PLC

Other Dates:

March 4 Faculty Meeting/Focus Groups
March 6 Science Module Return
March 11 Leadership Meeting
March 12 Tier 3 Meeting
March 13 Photo Texas Spring and Group Pictures
March 14 End of the 3rd Nine Weeks
March 15 Staff Development - Agenda For the Day
March 18-22 Spring Break
March 26 Tier 3
March 28 Instructional Rounds 12:30-2:30
March 1-31 Texas History Month and Women's History Month

Visit the All Things PLC Website. An easy way to find most everything you need for your PLC.

60-Second Strategy: Appreciation, Apology, Aha!

A quick, low-key way to build community in your classroom on a daily basis.

This quick, easy, and fun three-step routine helps students affirm each other (and themselves) at the end of a long day. #60SecondStrategy

Lost World

Lost World is a new film by Kalyanee Mam. The film features one woman’s relationship with her homeland in Cambodia.

For over a decade, the Cambodian government has granted private companies concessions to mine their mangrove forests for sand.

The film documents the impact of sand dredging on the mangroves, the lives of the people who live in the forests, and the surrounding ecosystem.

Mam writes, “Land was once considered the most secure and sacred ground we could stand on…Once it is mined and stripped from its home, it loses its luster. It becomes just sand, sterile and lifeless—without a home, without roots, without memory.”

Lost World, the winner of The Eric Moe Award for Best Short on Sustainability, will screen at the DCEFF 2019 film festival on March 21, 2019, followed by a panel discussion with National Geographic Society. This film reminds us, as Mam says, “how connected and interconnected we are in this fragile but powerful web of life.”

Lost WorldAs Singapore dredges sand out from beneath Cambodia’s mangrove forests, an ecosystem, a communal way of life, and one woman’s relationship to her beloved home are faced with the threat of erasure.

Read Aloud Books That Support the Learner Profile

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Mason staff and students are very thankful for our librarian Mrs. Beasley and all she does everyday!

Launch Pad/Class Link

Launchpad is designed to be a one-stop shop for all approved LISD digital resources. Some of the programs within LaunchPad will also allow direct access into programs simplifying the login process.

Your students will be automatically logged into iStation, Imagine Math, Studies Weekly, and Reasoning Mind once they are logged into Launch Pad.

Launch Pad is also called Classlink.

**Students can access Launch Pad from home by visiting the Leander ISD Website and selecting the Student link.**