Two weeks down, and many more to go. It was sort of refreshing to get an extra day off to recharge and be rested in order to give our students our best. Hopefully all of you enjoyed the GISD Convocation. It was a great program. I loved your spirit and enthusiasm. ...
Welcome back! Is that you? Glad you are back for week two. Hopefully you got some good rest. Once again thank you for a great first week. Great things do not happen without us working together. The time is now to start your march toward reaching your goals. Every...
I had a long message ready to send to you. I know you’ve had to read several emails over the last few days with very much needed instructions. So I’ll keep this short. Today is game time! I encourage you to do the things that matter the most when you first meet...
It’s the last week of school! The finish line is here. The day that we all work for is almost here: graduation. It will be so joyful sharing in that day with our students. This week will become harder for many of our students because they’ll miss each of you and...
Hopefully each of you had a great Memorial Day and Memorial Day weekend. Our country has been made greater by those who fought and lost their lives while defending our country. We are grateful for their sacrifice. We only have 2 more weeks of school. Let’s work to...
The finish line is almost near. We have been involved in two straight weeks of testing and it’s finally complete. Thank you to everyone who worked to make it go extremely smooth. We will still have some makeup days here and there as well. It is important to...
It’s Teacher Appreciation at The Forest! It’s often hard to put in words the incredible work that you do for your students. Being a teacher is challenging. It’s a challenge that’s becoming more and more challenging each year. I never thought a time would come when...
Can you believe it’s already May? The school year has gone by so fast! We still have a little bit longer to go. This is that final part of the race where you are super tired, out of breath, and your brain is saying stop, just give it up. This is where the heart...
Last week flew right on by. It seemed like there was something exciting taking place each day and night. This week will be equally as busy. As I often mention we cannot allow all of the various activities that are taking place cause us to lose our focus. One of the...
It’s a new week at The Forest! Are you ready? I hope so! Here we go! I want to thank you for how all of you stepped in as we allowed students to remember students who lost their lives in tragic school shootings. The students responded well and appropriately. Many...
Thank you for your patience and flexibility last week with STAAR testing. We’ll have another round in May and have identified things that we need to do to improve. Because of each of you both days were virtually without incident. I mentioned to you at the faculty...
Welcome back folks! This will be a fast and furious week for all of us. There are tons of activities going on as well as many of our students will be taking the STAAR test. As you all know we’ll be taking the English I EOC on Tuesday and the English II EOC...