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As you may know, I have two loves: education in the Delta and traveling.
With Spring Break right around the corner, I have booked a trip back to Africa
for the week. However after looking at our data, Im feeling a bit down. I am
afraid that many of our students dont know where they stand in regards to
their goals, and many teachers may not know what students need to be
learning.
So, I have come to the conclusion that I cant go on my trip unless we are
100% progress known to our goals by March. Otherwise, I will need to use
the week to solely focus on problem solving around this. Judging by the
tracker, we have slacked on data this month. Many of us have a set plan to
enter in our data, but we need to make it happen.
I really want to focus our efforts to knowing where we are and where we are
going. If you need someone to help grade lets do it. If you need company
while figuring out a tracker lets do it. If you just need a cookie I can do
that too, but in all seriousness we need to get this done.

Will Sam Play it

Again?

We are currently 4 out of 26 up-todate.

I dont think I should pack my bags just yet.

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For the Love of
Home

Data
Im putting my money where my mouth is and putting my faith in you to get us
where we need to be. As you saw, no data, no trip. We have less than a month.
Whatever you need to
get this done, I want to help you get it.

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Last Week for DELTA Fellows

Second years, we have not have had anyone sign up YET for The D.E.L.T.A.
Fellowship. This is an exclusive cohort of 10-15 Alumni Teachers in Mississippi who
are committed to professional growth and enhancing their impact in the
communities where they live. DELTA fellows will receive a 3rd year of TFA support
through a PLC model that will include direct coaching from the Alumni Leadership
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Leflore Elementary Teachers <repeat>

If you attended the PD last week by our all-star facilitator, Evan, please fill out a PD
credit form to get your well-deserved credits HERE. I can only approve these for one
more week.

Data
Green- Progress
Known

PD Credits
Green- Half way
Yellow- Close

MISSING

Red- Progress
Unknown

Tim Abram

Need updates/ DBQ

10/26

Michael Christmas

Need updates/ DBQ

14/29

Kiona Davis

Need updates

Erin Duck

Red-Out of
compliance
*=DEI Credits
Sign-Up HERE

6/20
16/20

Shelby Griffin

5/20
*

Ashley Haug

7/20

Cayla Hicks

Need math updates

Zack Huffman

8/20
16/26

Jeni Jacobs

8/20

Aaron Joseph

Need P. Task/ Updates

14/26

Liz Kelly

Need updates

16/20
*

Casey Krouse

Need reading updates

Alec McAlarnen

8/20
21/26
*

Here are some great upcoming PD opportunities...

Sign-Up HERE
DEI Credits
Elementary, CRT- Web- 2/9
Working with Students Across Lines of Difference- Web- 2/10 & 2/12
For Elementary Teachers:
Total Participation- Indianola or Clarksdale- 2/10
For Humanities Teachers:
Extravaganza part 3 (3 credits)- TOMORROW
For ELA Teachers:
Non-fiction Reading Strategies- Web- 2/11
Non-fiction Reading Strategies- Indianola- 2/12
Student Conferences (2 credits)- Web- 2/18
For Math Teachers

Remediation and Rigor- Web- 2/9

Writing in Math- Web- 2/12
For Science Teachers

Remediation- Web- 2/10

Science and Social Justice (2 credits)- Web- 2/12

Kiona- For getting major props from her superintendent!

Aaron- For spending the day at Mississippi School of Math and Sciences to learn
new techniques!
Donna- For asking some amazing questions during our Math PD
Brianne- For taking in a new way to teach grammar!
Shonice & Erin- For being TEAM players in one anothers growth!

My
Calendar

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Bearden

Leflore HS

Leflore ES

Bearden

Observation
s:

Observation
s:

Observations:

Observations:

Zack
Allison
Casey

Karen
Emily

Christian
(long-form)
Erin

Jennifer
Jeni
Shonice

Debriefs:
4pm Christian
5pm Erin
@Turnrow

Debriefs:
4pm Shonice
5pm Jennifer
6pm Jeni
@ E. Till Center

Clarksdale
Math Day
with Ethan

Debriefs
4pm Allison
5pm Casey
@ E. Till
Center

Debriefs
4pm Karen
5pm Emily
@Turnrow

Friday

Office

Love of
Home
From Vaish Shastry (Sunflower County Freedom Project)
Hello comrades, I hope you are all doing well. I have two favorite places in
the Delta:
1 Delta Meat Market Happy Hour (Fridays at 5ish pm): between the music
and the excellent beer and the necessity for me to decompress on
Friday evenings, the DMM has become my happy place to catch up
with friends and chow down on delicious food. Highly recommend it.
2 Sitting in the Alluvian lounge. I didnt say drinking at the bar because
honestly, thats so expensive to keep having drinks there. But! It is
cost-effective to drink a beer and sit in the lounge and again,
decompress. There is a theme of de-stressing here, which I think we
can all agree is a necessity.
3 I said two, but I also enjoy the drive on 49S towards Jackson. I know
thats not exactly the Delta, but after living here for 4+ years, it is
incredible to go from the alluvial plain to the rolling hills and kudzu to
the big city of Jackson in less than 1.5 hours. Put on a good album and
enjoy the drive and reminding yourself that this state is crazy and
strange, but also wonderful and truly beautiful.
Samuel Crenshaw

Teacher Leadership and Development Coach

662. 207. 8580
Samuel.Crenshaw@teachforamerica.org
Mississippi region
One day, all children in this nation will have the opportunity to attain an excellent education.

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