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D O D E A P R I O R I T Y 1 :

W e m u s t s t r e n g t h e n

D o D E A ’ s s t a n d a r d s -

b a s e d e d u c a t i o n a l s y s -

t e m b y t r a n s i t i o n i n g

t o :

C o l l e g e a n d c a -

r e e r r e a d y s t a n d -

a r d s t h a t a r e i n -

f u s e d w i t h r i g o r

a n d r e l e v a n c y

A c o m m o n s t a n d -

a r d s - a l i g n e d c u r -

r i c u l u m

A c o m m o n i n -

s t r u c t i o n a l f r a m e -

w o r k

A c o m m o n a s s e s s -

m e n t s y s t e m

SCHOOL

IMPROVEMENT

GOALS

Goal 1: All students will

increase their perfor-

mance in Math.

Objective 1: At least 80%

of KES students will

score in the top two

quarters and no more

than 5% in the bottom

quarter on school-wide

assessments for numbers

and operations in math.

Goal 2: All students will

increase their perfor-

mance in Reading.

Objective 1: At least 80%

of KES students will

score in the top two

quarters and no more

than 5% in the bottom

quarter on school-wide

assessment in reading

comprehension.

P A G E 2

March

Character

Counts Trait is:

Caring

KES is certified as a

Green Boot School.

Lunch trash is sepa-

rated daily.

and place. Today, there are no snakes to be found!

Most people, whether

they are Irish or not, wear green on this day. One of the Irish tradi-tions is to pinch anyone who is not wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day.

Irish immigrants began

observing the holiday in Boston in 1737 and the first St. Patrick’s Day parade was held in New York City in 1766.

Corned beef and cab-

bage are traditional foods eaten on this holiday.

The shamrock, pot-of-

gold and leprechauns are also associated with St. Patrick’s Day. The shamrock was worn as a badge on the lapel. Three is Ireland’s magic number and the three petals that make up the shamrock are supposed to bring good luck. The three leaves

also represent the Trini-ty in the Christian reli-gion.

The leprechaun is a

small Irish fairy. He is dressed like a shoe-maker, with pointed shoes and hat. He also wears a leather apron. Leprechauns are sup-posed to be unfriendly little men who lives alone in the forest, spending all of their time making shoes and guarding their treas-ures. If someone catch-es a leprechaun, he will be forced to tell where he hides all his pots of gold. However, the lep-rechaun must be watched at all times. If his captor looks away, the leprechaun will van-ish along with his treas-ure.

St. Patrick’s Day has

become a holiday all around the world and for one day out of the year anyone can be Irish and join in the celebration.

St. Patrick’s Day is an

annual feast day cele-brating the patron saint the day is named after.

St. Patrick’s Day is the

national holiday of Ire-land and is usually cel-ebrated on March 17.

St. Patrick’s Day has

become a popular holi-day in the United States. People wear green and eat corned beef and cabbage.

It is believed St. Pat-

rick, a Roman-Britain-born Christian mission-ary, was born in the late fourth century and is credited with bringing Christianity to the Irish people.

It is also believed St.

Patrick drove all the snakes out of Ireland. However, post-glacial Ireland never actually had snakes. Many be-lieve that the term “snakes” referred to the serpent symbolism of the Druids of that time

M U S T A N G M I N U T E

We've been approached by the KMCC Manage-ment in regards of the parking lot or to be more precise, the flower beds and green areas. They are asking the schools for their assistance in re-minding students to be considerate and mindful when passing through the KMCC parking lot and not to walk through and on flowerbeds and across the green areas. Apparently the newly seeded grass and freshly planted areas get tram-pled on which obviously causes a lot of damage, especially between the parking rows.

St. Patrick’s Day Kid Facts

KMCC in Bloom