Hawk Adventures! by Shea Howard

The end of summer :(

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Summer has ended for our 3-5 teachers. They participated in STAAR4Ward training for literacy and math. Such dedication and commitment!!

Celebrities in the house!

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More celebrity sightings at HaysCON! Peyton Perez and Candi Scott presented on Token Economies in the classroom. Go by their rooms to learn more about it or to see it action!

Celebrity sighting at HaysCON

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Our very own Heather Pennel presented with Denise Schweitzer on Text Talks - how to beef up independent reading stations! Go by Pennel's room to talk more about it or even see it in action!

Hemphill Hawks are Going UP

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You all are absolutely outstanding. Get ready for an adventure.

1st Grade Adventure!

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2nd Grade Adventure!

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3rd Grade Adventure!

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4th Grade Adventure!

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ECSE Adventure!

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Kinder Adventure!

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Pre-K Adventure!

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Specials Adventure!

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5th Grade Adventure!

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When in doubt about safety/security

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Please remember Jeri's face and err on the side of caution.

Let the Adventure Begin!!!

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Awww! Yes! Kids are coming on an adventure with us!

Summer Adventures!

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Reading is also an Adventure!

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Mr. Rodgers' Neighborhood

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Using data to refine …

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Morning Duty by 2nd Grade

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Look at the 2bd grade team ready to greet kids first thing in the morning!

Forget Google sides

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Just post your centers on your wall. Old school tips coming to you from Brewer, the OG of the H.E.S.

Class Brags Idea!

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Check out this super cute brag bucket in Ruiz's class!

Backpack Storage

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McMullin has a nice backpack storage unit in her classroom. Go check it out. It might work for you.

Congratulations, Dr. Perez!

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Here she is, defending her research to professors and audience members!

Lessons in the Library

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Ellis has students to do a little writing to go along with their reading!

High Engagement in David's Class

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Students were totally into this read-aloud.

Thank you for your service at dismissal, ma'am.

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First Grade Scientists

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I walked in 1st grade and the kids immediately said - "We're scientists!"

Stumps for your rumps

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It's quite clear in Calhoun's room where students should sit - just put your rump on a stump! [I totally made that up! Not sure if she uses that, but I think she should! :)]

Whole Body Rock, Paper, Scissors

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The kids really enjoyed rock, paper, scissors with a PE twist!

Mouths and Mirrors

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Students use mirrors in dyslexia class to watch their mouths change as they articulate different sounds.

Zoom In ...

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on these super cute 3rd grade team shirts!!

Station Time

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with Calderon.

Whole group discussion

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is captivating with Diaz.

One-on-one discussions

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can happen anywhere with Perez.

Did you know

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that Duran is former cheerleader?!

Thank you, Happy Hawks!

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HEMPHILL…HAWKS!!!

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We love the energy but we also love how it looks like Mr. Rodgers is wearing elf shoes! Tis the season!

Hawk Leaders

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RACE Support

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Angel is RACE-ing along with her 4th graders by providing sentence starters and frames.

Math Lesson in PK

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Barkers students are counting and sorting letters in their name.

PK Routines

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Even PK kids know how to clean up after themselves! Way to go, Diers students!

RACE-ing in 2nd grade!

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Learning and Language Objectives in PE!

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5th Grade Leaders!

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GREAT job, Duran, with your leaders!

PK-2 did a great job at the assembly!

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Also a Hemphill Grandmother

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Hemphill Grandmother

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PK has kids identify their name as an "entry ticket"

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It's Coach's Favorite Activity!

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Scientists are digging for treasures using a piece of iron!

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Plotkin is teaching the properties of magnetism in STEAM.

STEAMy Learning Objectives!

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Learning Objectives in Music!

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4th Grade in PLC Heaven

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4th grade is unpacking standards, looking at released items, then talking instructional strategy. Beautiful things are happening!

Mensing instituted morning entry tickets for 2nd grade!

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Here she is using site words for morning entry.

Math Ticket, please

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And David is using number identification for morning entry.

Hawk Leaders!

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Yeah for Coronado’s class!

Handwriting in Kinder

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Yes! Kids need to work on handwriting!

Data Collecting

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Kinder is data, data, data 😆

Using the Resources

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Carlin uses Open Court exactly as indended.

Kinder Readers

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4th week of school and Kinder kiddos are reading!

Student led MAC expectations

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Students set the behavior expectations in Peek’s class.

Graphic Novel Planning

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Literally never seen such outstanding lessons in the library

Cross curricular teaching in STEAM

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Check out the vocabulary!

Small Grouping

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So much conceptual learning happening here in Scott’s class!

Warning - Giraffe Sighting

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Lava Lamp Making in 5th Science

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This guy is a serious scientist in LeGrande’s class. Who knew staring at a lava lamp would bring up all kinds of great discussion about density?!

Data Analysis in PK PLC

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Just brings a tear to my eye! Beautiful things, y'all. Just beautiful!

Intervention-ing

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Finally Mendez is doing something around here! HAHAHA!

Leo the Lion

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is out and about during Open Court lessons. Look at his annunciation with those letter sounds. Good job, Leo.

UPS Checking

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In Guerra’s class

Kinder Rigor!

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Fall decor

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I love seeing this jeep every day at dismissal. Just had to share!

Students support each other

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in McMullin's class. (make sure you click on play button!)

Small group instruction

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in David's class!

Bring your bear to school day

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Baby bjorns for bears

Officer Roger Ramirez retired …

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And we told him we would send the bat signal when we need him!

Watch your noise level!

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in Martinez's 1st grade class!

Meet May the Cow!

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Gutierrez’s class pet!

It’s a little hot inside the building today.

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PLC Challenging

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That’s Scott’s nail polish. Love that color!

David’s kids are CHAMPS

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Carlin leads grade level SEL assemblies!

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Carlin, along with Duran's support, is leading all of the morning SEL grade level assemblies, and it's absolutely beautiful.

Scientists in action

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I keep telling everyone that I wish I had magical powers. LeGrande seems to have some, and I'm kinda jealous. This lesson using glow sticks was super fun, and she still managed to get kids to understand chemical reactions - a new science TEKS.

Structure and High Expectations

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If you haven't 'audited' Williams' dyslexia class, you should. Not a moment of time is wasted, every piece of instruction has a specific purpose, and kids are engaged in some serious learning.

And a little more from 2nd

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The thought process!

PLCing with 2nd

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Mensing models problem solving for her team, and beautiful discussion just flowed!

Martinez's Unity Day sign! :)

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PLCing with 4th

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Perez models fraction addition and subtraction for her teammates. Super insightful!

Sign Language Club w/Martinez y Martinez!

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The Fall Festival Line ...

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I seriously could not believe it! What. A. Success!

Concoctions Club w/Coronado!

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Taylor Swift w/Garcia and Dovalina ... SOUND UP!

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This was SWEET!!

Ofrenda in the PK Hall

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This is really special.

Walking Club w/Ruiz and Armstrong

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This one spans multiple grade levels - very cool.

Gutierrez's Class has Spirit!

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I laughed at this, pretty much the whole weekend.

Strategizing

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Kids get excited about high frequency words?

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The level of legit excitement in Rodgers' class about creating their own sentences with high frequency words was a bit ridiculous. These kids came up with some crazy creative sentences!

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Blending in David's Class

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As if blending words isn't cool enough on its own! Ms. David just had go and add a little glow! I mean, come on!

Literacy Fashion Show

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Major success! Engaging Pre-K and Kinder parents is essential to increasing our attendance and building a culture of success with our kids.

Reading and Responding w/Cy Martinez

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Ms. Martinez holds her students in the resource setting to high standards.

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How do I know if you guys even look at the Padlet? The first 3 people to comment their name get a Target gift card.

Building Engineers

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Kids are ALWAYS highly engaged in Plotkin's STEAM class.

Slow Reveal Graphs

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Are you familiar with slow reveal graphs? They're soooo cool and a great tool to get kids really thinking. Perez uses them for warm-ups.

Modeling

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Scott models think-alouds during writing.

Patterns

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Can you determine the pattern that PK is working on?

Anchor Charts

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Angel references Anchor Charts during instruction.

The Honorable Judge Brewer

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Congratulations, Judge Brewer. Please know to turn your radios off before entering his courtroom.

Hawk Assembly

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Duran and student leaders did a great job leading the PK-2 Hawk Assembly.

Awesome Music Writing

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2nd grade wrote some awesome compositions last week!

Harmonious Hawks Rock!

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So proud of the our amazing Harmonious Hawks! I cannot wait for our holiday concert!!

1st Grade is SOUNDing good!

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1st grade showed off how many sounds they hear on the beat...this is not always easy and I loved their creativity!

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Student Conferencing

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It's essential.

Apparently I didn't write a caption for this pic

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And now I don't remember at all why I took it! :)

PLC Challenging

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It's a major part of the reason 1st grade is so successful.

MANY celebrations across campus!

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Brewer celebrates individual student success

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Santa just won't leave

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The Plan

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We finally have a New Plan that takes the plan of the previous plan that took the place of the other plan that took the place of that plan from before that replaces the plan.

Progress Montoring

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Armstrong is almost always working with small groups when I pop in her room.

Just let the kids take over

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Coronado has her students lead the lessons. Smart. Real smart.

Hemphill Campus History Day - MAJOR Succcess!

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Kinder PLC

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Never a moment wasted.

Hays History Day Winner!

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Way to go, Ella! Ella placed 4th in the 4th grade individual entry competition!

Top 3 Spellers!

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Congratulations!!

Spelling Bee Participants

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Super proud of all of these kiddos!

Glow Day in Stinnett's Class

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Forts in the Library ...

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... inspired by The Little Red Fort

Data Folder Presentation

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If you're interested in Data Folders for your students, go check out what Armstrong has put together for her kids.

Student Teacher in Calhoun’s class

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I didn’t realize that Calhoun has a student teacher! She’s doing a great job.

Slow Down in Hotchkiss’ room!

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Level 1 voices

… because they are writing their books!

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So serious!

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Mom was stuck in traffic and couldn't make it to the bus stop, so the bus brought the girls back. I was getting some work done and when I turned around, this had happened!

100 Days Fly By!

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These kids age well

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Geologist in the making in LeGrande's Class

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Behavior Brains in Action

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Behavior MTSS team is changing lives!

Felt the Love!

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4th grade students tracking their own data!

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Congratulations, Ms. Guerra! You look engaged!

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McMullin provides creative design activities

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The 2nd grade GT showcase activity looks like it will be fun!

Peek masters differented questions

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And students choose their own strategy. Sophia chose a number bond representation.

Fairy Tale Newscasters in the Library

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Avocado is all in on the positive self-talk

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Hank also practices positive self-talk

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We're so excited for you, Mrs. Allan!

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David's students have entered a new Era

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Feeling the Love

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Happy Waffle

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Student Leadership

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This guy is in charge of morning message.

No wasted space

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Mendez makes intervention happen in a closet. That's right. She's minimizing transition time. Ha!

Turn and Talks in PK

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Never a moment wasted!

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Fun way to show off Experts!

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Moss' wall of "Wand"erful Work!

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