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Below are important dates for the 2010-2011 school year.  Please note that changes may be made and new events may be added.

AUGUST

23-27            Preschool Readiness Week

31               Meet the Teacher

SEPTEMBER

2                Teacher Professional Development Day ~ School Closed

3                Teacher In-Service Day ~ School Closed

6                Labor Day, Monday ~ School Closed

9                Back to School Night

17               Packing Healthy Lunches with children’s author, Karen Fine

25               Recycling Fair

OCTOBER

23               Fall Festival

NOVEMBER

18               Grove School Family Feast of Thanks

24               Teacher Professional Development and In-Service Day, ~ School Closed

25-26          Thanksgiving Holiday ~ School Closed

29-30          Student Conferences

DECEMBER

16               A Family Night of Giving

24-31          Grove School Winter Break ~ School Closed

JANUARY

18               Grove School Family Snow Ball

FEBRUARY

11               “Man in My Life Night”

21               Teacher Professional Development and In-Service Day ~ School Closed

22-23          Student Conferences

MARCH

30-31          Preschool Round Up

APRIL

28               Spring Fling, The Grove School Summer Program Preview

11-17          Week of the Young Child

22               Earth Day
MAY

2-6              The Grove School Teacher Appreciation Week

13               “The Lady I Love Night”

27               Teacher Professional Development and In-Service Day ~ School Closed

30               Memorial Day, Monday ~ School Closed

31               Student Conferences

JUNE

1                      Student Conferences

3                Pre-Kindergarten Graduation

6                The Grove School Summer Program Kick Off

JULY

4                Independence Day ~ School Closed

TBA            Preschool Independence

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We are thrilled to have Ms. Deedra as part of The Grove School of Cary team.  Ms. Deedra has worked with students from 12 months up to 10 years old.  She has served as a lead teacher for the past for years.  She has a Bachelor’s in Psychology.

Ms. Deedra will be working with Ms. Katie in our Early Preschool classroom.

Enjoy her video below.

Please join us in welcoming her to our Grove family.

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The Grove School of Plano is exploring grasslands, looking for plants and animals and determining how they survive in their habitats. Come check us out but be prepared for what you may see in room 1!

 

 

No, this is not a blog entry about DESSERT FUN, it is about our students’ study of the desert biome.  As part of our summer program, EcoAdventures, students have spent the past two weeks studying about the desert.  Below are some photos of their work.  Enjoy!

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The Grove School of Plano is going on a Desert Exploration; looking for  desert cactus, animals and how they survive in the heat. Come and check us out but be prepared for the heat. The Class in room #1, at the Grove School of Plano.

 

 

The Grove School of Cary is featured in an article in the Cary Living magazine! You are welcome to check it out. To get there, click on this link: http://issuu.com/midtown/docs/clm_ja10/43 , click on the page to zoom in and make it bigger, and click the right arrow to go to the next page where the blurb is located. Hope you enjoy the read!

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For now, the bags shown in the photo at left are empty. However, by close of business Friday, these bags will be full of food to help feed those in our community who need help.

In support of the Durham Rescue Mission and their efforts to feed individuals, families and children in our community, we will be collecting food items from the list shown in the photo below.

We have bags set up in the lobby and we will accept your generous donations through Friday, July 16.  The food items will be delivered this Sunday.

I hope we can all join together to share in our abundance with those who fight each and every day for something so basic as a meal.

Let’s show our friends in the community what it means to be a part of The Grove School family.

Let’s dig deep and fill up the bags in our lobby!

Thanks for your help!

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In any organization, company, team, group, etc., the difference between being just good and being GREAT always boils down to people.  In support of this, a CEO of a major company once said when asked to name the top five factors that led to his company’s success, replied with the following (as told in Jim Collins’ book Good to Great):

  1. “One would be people.
  2. Two would be people.
  3. Three would be people.
  4. Four would be people.
  5. And five would be people.”

As you know, our school is growing.  As a result, we are going through the process of looking for the best and the brightest teachers to grow with us.

And it is not an easy task!

Because our standards and expectations are so high and our program is so unique, it takes a very talented and unique teacher for our students and our school.  In the past month, we have received hundreds of resumes to review from all over the country.  We are honored to have so much interest from folks wanting to be a part of our school.  While that is a blessing, it is also a curse.  It does take a lot of our time, both Sarah (our Education Manager) and I, to review the incoming resumes and decide who should go forward in the selection process.

I would estimate that about 20% of the applicants move forward to the next phase which is a screening interview.  While I was doing my doctoral research at the University of Georgia, one of the professors I worked with published a study on hiring the right people.  Unfortunately, he found that even the best predictor of whether an employee would be a good fit for your organization was only correct about 21% of the time.  Starting with 100 applicants and by merging those two numbers, the 20% of applicants that move forward and the best predictor of a good fit being about 21%, that brings us to about 4 applicants out of 100 that are likely to be a good fit.

We cannot and will not settle for mediocre or average.  We must have exceptional talent.  For that reason, we have adopted the approach that Collins outlines in his book: “When in doubt, don’t hire and keep looking.”  As we rapidly grow and the pressure to hire staff to meet the demands of our incoming families increases, this approach can be quite scary!

The corollary to that is that we may need to limit our growth based upon our ability to find enough of the right people.  In a business sense, this corollary is equally scary.  No business would ever want to turn away customers, especially in today’s economy.  Naturally, we want every customer possible.

I am thrilled to report that our efforts and patience are paying off.  We have a lot of talent in our pipeline and are getting ready to bring on board a few more wonderfully talented teachers.  We anticipate our hiring to continue through the fall with our commensurate growth.

The pressure will continue to be on our leadership team to continually attract, hire and retain the right people.   After all, people make all the difference…the right people that is!

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Yes, it can snow in July.  And no, it has nothing to do with global warming or cooling!

But it has everything to do with our EcoAdventures summer program. On Friday, we celebrated the end of our students’ two-week study of the arctic biome.

The students participated in a snowy Rock Penguin rock hop along with sliding down a “rock.”  They also enjoyed a sled dog race with a delicious frozen treat at the end of the race along with snow globe making and other fun activities.

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