The TITAN Connection
November 26, 2024
NCE Families,
As the weather is changing and we are getting colder days, for recess, your students will need to have their jackets, hats, boots, and mittens/gloves at school. Also make sure they have an extra set of clothes for their locker in case they need a change of clothes due to being wet or dirty. Unless it is raining or too wet outside, we will be going outside for recess. We will have extra winter gear for students/families if needed. Please contact the office for a request of winter gear (218-584-5151).
Our students will be getting TITAN Time lessons again this year. These lessons will focus on social-emotional learning. These lessons will focus on self-awareness, social awareness, responsible decision making, self-management, and relationship skills. These lessons also help create a supportive classroom climate, and better student-student and student-teacher relationships.
Please talk with your NCE students about their TITAN Time lessons.
The topics of the TITAN Time lessons are:
Building Community
Self-Discovery & Creating a Positive Identity
Communication
Grief & Loss
Setting Goals and Having Hope for the Future
Establishing Social Support
Addressing Bullying
Leadership
Diversity & Multiculturalism
7-12 TITAN Time Lesson Next Week:
What Are Your Assets?
Purpose: To help participants analyze their own assets and compare their responses to those of thousands of students surveyed by the Search Institute, creators of the Developmental Assets theory
Assets: Positive Identity
KG-2nd Grade TITAN Time Lesson Next Week:
Do You Know You?
Purpose: To help participants identify strengths in their classmates and help participants realize and reflect on how others see them
Assets: Positive Identify and Support
3rd-6th Grade TITAN Time Lesson Next Week:
Do You Know You?
Purpose: To help participants identify strengths in their classmates. To help participants realize and reflect on how others see them.
Assets: positive identity, support
Parents/Guardians,
Please take the time to communicate with your students regarding the NCE phone policy. It is attached below for reference and there are important details below as well. Thank you for your help and support with this policy!
Academic Intervention Time is an intentional time to focus on academic progress and support. The focus of AIT is to support students in their academics. All other activity during AIT is secondary to academic support.
Students may be requested by any teacher during AIT. If a student is requested, they must go to that teacher.
If a student is not requested, that student has choices. They may remain in their AIT room, ask to go to another teacher, ask to go to the media center, ask to go to the gym, or ask to leave the building if they are eligible for open campus.
Students can only use their phones in the media center during AIT.
In order for a student to go to the media center or the gym, they must not be requested by another teacher and they must have C’s or higher in all of their classes. No student can request to leave AIT if they have any Ds or Fs. They may request to go to the teacher(s) for help in those classes.
Students that are in the media center must be there for quiet study or quiet recreation on their devices. If students want to be active, they must go down to the gym.
Our teachers are signing students up for AIT if they need them to catch up or are in danger of failing the class. With 155 minutes of AIT per week, failure is not an option for our students at NCE. We will do everything we can to ensure our students are successful in their classes.
Please visit with your 7-12 students about AIT.
Parents & Guardians,
It has been brought to our attention that we need to revisit and teach bus safety and etiquette to our students. We kindly ask that you have a conversation with your children about the following bus safety and etiquette standards that we are going to address with our students:
1. Students need to choose a seat and stay in that seat until they are dropped off. They cannot stand while the bus is moving.
2. When sitting in their seat, students need to face forward at all times for their safety.
3. We expect students to refrain from using poor language and to maintain respectful behavior towards others.
4. Students should keep their hands to themselves and refrain from any form of physical contact that may disrupt others.
5. It's important for students to speak at a normal volume, ensuring a peaceful and pleasant environment for everyone on the bus.
6. Lastly, we encourage students to express their gratitude by thanking the bus drivers when they are dropped off.
We truly appreciate your support in reinforcing these standards with your children. By working together, we can ensure a safe and positive experience for all students who utilize bus transportation as well as showing gratitude and respect for our bus drivers.
