The Hawk Happenings: Pennoyer Staff Newsletter

Hawk Thoughts & Happenings

Team Pennoyer,

As we look to start 2024 together, I hope you can all look back with some fond memories and smiles from our time together in 2023. I know there's been some tough days that have challenged us as a school, but I also know how strong we are together, and how supportive we are of one another. Even when some of us are feeling like the picture below, our family mentality that truly exists at Pennoyer always shines through.

We're definitely doing some important and hard work this year to transform our school well beyond just the brick and mortar...although we're definitely doing that too...haha. We have so much to look forward to in the New Year for students, ourselves, and our families, and I'm so excited to be a part of it with all of you. Focus on the positives in 2024 and the amazing road we have in front of us. I'll leave you with the one photo I was able to get from Sadie's Nutcracker show last weekend. The professional ones we have to pay for and wait for her company to send out. Like so many of our students and the children that many of you have, she puts in so much hard work to this passion that she loves. No matter where dance takes her, I know the character she builds from it will follow her for a lifetime.

Hawk Action Items

Starting January 8th, when we come back from Winter Break, we'll be instituting our universal expectations each day for all teachers to support students behavior and expectations. We're calling this our 3 to Succeed!

1. Greet students every morning.

2. Display School PBIS expectations OR PBIS Expectations (BLANK) in the

classroom and review everyday. Example: What are 2 ways we are

responsible in the classroom? In school?

3. Anytime your kids are in the hallway (arrival, dismissal, transitions,) you are

in the hallway with them. Middle school - transitions between classes.

*Also, admin will walk the hallways as much as possible during transitions to help support and check in on our progress, along with weekly pop ins to classrooms to support our 3 to Succeed daily universal school wide expectations. Finally, Meghan has put together a simple Google Sheet linked HERE for grade band teams to do their own fidelity checks weekly and share some of the different ways, where we can all learn from each other, that they're focusing on reviewing our PBIS expectations with students. Thanks to everyone for your openness and support with all of this!

Wanna make somebody's day at Pennoyer...don't forget about our staff shout outs we'd like to get started up again this year! It's real easy; if one staff member wants to give another staff member at Pennoyer a positive shout out for something that week, just send a quick email blurb to Adam, and he'll feature it in our weekly Hawk Happenings!

Great job with all the social media posts shared for the month of December! Keep it up in January. Here's the Google Form for teachers to complete. Thanks!!!

Stipend Opening for JV Boys Volleyball in the spring...Connect w/ Adam if interested.

Weekly Hawk Playlist/Lyric

Get Down On It by Kool & The Gang

Hawk Celebrations

There's no better way to celebrate the final week of school and looking to close out 2023 by showcasing the amazing Winter Concert event from Thursday night this week! Miss Bieda put together an incredible show. Her hard work, dedication, and thoughtfulness was truly on display, and her leadership is unmatched. Thanks to all of the staff that helped out as well to make this event all work. In the end, Miss Bieda truly helped to set the stage for the stars of the show...our PreK-4th graders! They absolutely crushed it up there. The spirit and positivity was echoing throughout the gym in every song. These students worked so hard to prepare for the Winter Concert and it certainly showed. Their voices were wonderful, and I could see the pride in everyone's' eyes that was there to see our students shine. This special event was definitely another highlight of our year at Pennoyer!