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Hello Mark,

Going against the stream is not easy. It takes hard work and determination to go against the flow. That is why so few people do it and why those who do strive to break away from the status quo of going with the flow really stand out from the crowd. 

For the last month, my family has been watching a live webcam in Alaska that is fixed on a rushing river in the Alaskan wilderness. We have been watching the migration of salmon as the fish swim upstream to spawn. The waters of the river are flowing down stream with great force and ferocity. For the fish in the river, the easy thing to do would be to swim with the current, to head down stream and to let the current whisk them along with the flowing water. This would require no effort at all. However, if the salmon were to do this, it would ultimately lead to their destruction. Salmon need to swim upstream, going against the current, in order to make it to the calm headwaters where they lay their eggs. This annual migration ensures the survival of the species but it is not without great effort. Watching on the live webcam the salmon struggle, jump, and swim to make it to the next level of the river is really impressive and entertaining.  

The easy thing in life for all of us is to go with the flow, even when the flow is flowing in a direction that is unhealthy or destructive. When someone breaks away from the flow, we take notice. For example, don’t we take notice when someone says “please” and “thank you?” I know that I certainly do. Why? Because unfortunately, please and thank you are not words that we normally hear anymore. Good manners and polite civility are not the social norms that they were not too long ago.

At Corner Lake we want to change that. We want to dare to swim against the stream and to go against the societal flow when that flow is unhealthy or destructive. When society is disrespectful, we will be respectful. When others are rude, we will be civil. When the world is cruel, we will strive to be kind. I often tell our students, and staff, that we need to be kind and respectful to one another and treat others the way we wish to be treated. When we do this, we will turn heads and people will take notice, not for negative reasons, but for the positive impact, we are making on our community and beyond. We want to make a difference in the world!

Raising the bar of expectations and excellence is something we are going to talk about a lot this year at Corner Lake. Our students performed so well last year and we are so proud of their accomplishments, but we want to continue to raise the bar in order to reach our full potential. As any high jumper will tell you, you do not know how high you can jump until you raise the bar. Our students will never know just how excellent that they can be until we raise the bar of expectations. Together, let’s see how high our Eagles can soar this year by raising the bar of expectations and excellence. We can do it!

Paul E. Browning

Principal

Pictured very top and just below: Snapshots from Meet the Teacher on August 8. Thank you again to everyone that turned out.

Parents can use the OCPS Parent Portal to log into Canvas Parent and Skyward Family Access to view assignments, grades, test scores, and attendance. To create an OCPS 

Parent Portal account, follow the directions at this link:

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Each month students and parents will be notified of overdue library books/materials and fines from all OCPS schools. If you don’t feel you owe the book or fine, please make sure to contact the media specialist at the school where the book was originally checked out.

Also, over 400 more eBooks for grades K-12 are already available on Sora! If you are looking for reviews of books & audiobooks, Booklist Reader is now included in the Sora collection of digital magazines!

CHECK OUT E-BOOKS and AUDIOBOOKS on THE SORA APP on Launchpad or this web link: https://soraapp.com/library/ocps

READ BOOKS ONLINE USING DESTINY! Destiny link is: https://search.follettsoftware.com/metasearch/ui/66561

Book Fines:

https://www.schoolpay.com/pay/for/Book-Fines--Media-Center/Scbc4En

Latin and Greek Root Word(s) of the Week: 

Root words are also useful for creating new words, especially in technology and medicine, where new innovations occur frequently. This week’s Latin and Greek ROOT WORD of the week is ANTI which means AGAINST. Examples of words using the ANTI root word are ANTIBACTERIAL and ANTIDOTE. Which other ANTI words do you know that also mean AGAINST? 

Your copy should address 3 key questions: Who am I writing for? (Audience) Why should they care? (Benefit) What do I want them to do here? (Call-to-Action)

Create a great offer by adding words like "free" "personalized" "complimentary" or "customized." A sense of urgency often helps readers take an action, so think about inserting phrases like "for a limited time only" or "only 7 remaining"!

Benefits of reading for pleasure each day!

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Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to Lenore and Charles Hammack by way of the Seminole County Sheriff’s Department and Molly Pierson owner of Central Florida Complete Cleaning for the pallets of mulch for our school beautification project! Thanks for helping make CLMS a beautiful place for learning.

Our first SAC (School Advisory Council) meeting of the year will be held on Thursday, September 15th at 5:30pm in the CLMS Media Center. The purpose of the School Advisory Council is to support the school and principal in school improvement efforts and to provide all stakeholders the opportunity to provide valuable feedback and input.

Media center is ready for students to check out books!

Thank you, Rob Bickerstaff, for donating a refrigerator to our IND classes!

Ms. Gefter’s awesome door!

Ms. Watson’s classes are ready for fun!

Ms. Asher is getting her theatre students excited for future performances.

Ready for another great year!

Girls’ Coach — Coach Jacas sarah.jacas@ocps.net

Boys’ Coach — Coach Recinos daniel.recinos@ocps.net    

Girls’ games will start at 5pm

Boys’ games will start immediately after the girls’ game.

Soccer Fest Tournament (Top 3 teams from each cluster advance to a single elimination 21 team playoff for girls and 21 team playoff for boys):

• Round 1 - Monday, Oct. 3
• Round 2 (16 teams) - Wednesday, Oct. 5
• Quarter Finals (8 teams) - Monday, Oct. 10
• Semi Final (4 teams) - Wednesday, Oct. 12
• Championship - Week of Oct. 17 (TBD)

Contacts for additional information:

• Mr. Roderick Young (Coordinator) - ryoung@bgccf.org
• Ms. Cenci Ramos (Co-Coordinator) - clmsbgccenci@gmail.com

Current qualifying OCPS students are eligible for FREE hotspots with a monthly data allowance through generous partnerships with the T-Mobile EmpowerED and Spring 1 Million projects. 

Qualifying students receive a hotspot with 2GB of data monthly and qualifying high school students receive a hotspot with 10GB of data monthly.  

To qualify students must:

- be a current OCPS student 

- be in an OCPS school that is not a charter school

- not have wireless internet at home wireless Internet (Wi-Fi) at all or not have wireless Internet (Wi-Fi) at home strong enough to have everyone connect their devices at the same time and still be able to complete your homework without websites loading slowly or being kicked offline.

Available hotspots are limited in number and available on a first-come, first serve basis to qualifying students. Fill out the hotspot request using this link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUHJKcZNNgBKJAQX6oDhESFhAF0aVN2eMZdMRxxJuZ9Nsf8Q/viewform

I-Ready

I-Ready for Intensive Reading and Intensive Math are available for Diagnostics. Students in Intensive classes will have a Diagnostic. The window for I-Ready Diagnostics are from August 10th - September 10th, 2022

FAST (PM1) “Florida Assessment of Student Thinking” 

Administration for these assessments are as follows:

ELA Reading: August 23rd, 2022

(Make-ups: August 24th - September 19th)

Math: August 26th, 2022*

(Make-ups: August 29th – September 19th)

* Students taking Algebra 1 or Geometry will not test for PM1, nor PM2. They will test EOC under these specific courses. 

For more information please refer to enclosed communication. They have been made available in English and Spanish (links below).

Please contact our school for more information or the Testing Coordinator, Thamara Capelli at (407) 568-0510, extension 504-2232

Corner Lake Letter to Parents on Testing - ENGLISH

Corner Lake Letter to Parents on Testing - SPANISH

Screenshot of the OCPS Parent Portal Online Form Reference Guide prepared to help our Eagle parents complete important online forms: 

Corner Lake parents/guardians, 

Corner Lake Middle School has partnered with Health Hero to offer you a $0 dollar co-pay flu vaccine at your child’s school. You heard right, completely FREE! Consent forms were sent home on Wednesday, August 17th and must be returned by Friday, August 26th. Be on the lookout for clinic dates and times! Please note we must have a consent form on file in order to administer your child’s vaccine.

Parents - Health Hero

At Health Hero, we have Board Certified physicians licensed in every state we serve. Our immunizations are administered by licensed local nurses. And every one of our clinics has a Health Hero nurse on-site at all times. Thanks to these experienced people, our clinics safely and efficiently improve the health of communities.

www.beahealthhero.com

Meet Ms. Iadarola

My name is Alyssa Iadarola and I am so happy to join the Corner Lake team this year. This is my fourth-year teaching. Middle school is the best!

I am teaching Grade 7 Math and Accelerated Grade 6 Math. It will be a great year!

Thank you,

Alyssa Iadarola

Meet Ms. Hatfield

My name is Jennifer Hatfield. I am from West Virginia and have lived in Florida for the past 6 years. I have been teaching a variety of subjects for 16 years in High School and Middle School. My favorite hobbies are reading, hiking, bike riding, and spending time with my family. I live at home with my husband, our 16-year-old daughter, 2 dogs, a cat, and a guinea pig. Our favorite family activity is trying new restaurants. I am excited to join the Corner Lake team and I look forward to having a great year with all my students!

Thank you,

Jennifer Hatfield

A Gift For Teaching

Huge thank you to A Gift For Teaching for donating 75 brand new, stuffed backpacks for our students! Having the tools and essentials to succeed is the first step to ensuring a bright future. Thank you for not only the supplies, but for your donated time stuffing each backpack. We are so grateful! 

Clothes Closet Update

Thank you so much to those teachers and community members who have donated clothes and supplies to our clothes closet! Thanks to you, we are FULLY stocked and are no longer taking clothing donations at this time. If you still wish to donate, we are only currently accepting toiletries (Cleaning products, hygiene products, feminine products, etc.) 

Also, special shout out to Ms. Rivera and the Boys and Girls Club for donating time over the summer to get our clothes closet looking amazing! We are ready for the 2022-2023 school year! 

* We will update needs throughout the year so keep a look out for what donations we are looking for!

Classroom Spotlights

Team building with Ms. Asher

Ms. Asher and her classes had some fun while learning some team building skills! Here are some highlights and the marshmallow tower building winners!

The Book Tasting Café with Ms. Gefter

Ms. Gefter treated her students to a wonderful experience at her book tasting café last Friday. She served up an experience for our students and they will remember it forever!

Language Arts with Ms. Reul

Ms. Reul’s Language Arts classes participated in some community building activities during the first week of school! Seen here – students had to put together a puzzle blindfolded while their group members directed them on how to do so without touching them or giving them any of the pieces.

Pre-Planning Week '22

Mr. G held a painting class for all the teachers!

Corner Lake Vital Signs

Social media usage

Students doing their assignments #1 with Mr. Ho A Yun

IED: Simple Trebuchet

8th Grade: Introduction to Engineering Design

Using Tinkercad to get a model of a Foot Orthosis

7th Grade: Design and Modeling

Foot Orthosis Model

Using Tinkercad

Closing Images of the Week . . . 

Welcome back Eagles!!

Friday's Motivational Moment!

WISDOM TO LIVE BY

Principal Browning opened this week's edition by writing about the importance of showing kindness and manners. Here are several inspirational quotes about finding ways to show kindness and putting your life in motion by working hard. 

George Washington Carver On Kindness

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

~ George Washington Carver, botanist and inventor

Annie Lennox On Compassion

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

~ Annie Lennox, singer-songwriter

Aesop On Empathy

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

~ Aesop, Greek storyteller

Mark Twain On Kindness

Kindness is the language the deaf can hear and blind can see.

~ Mark Twain, writer

Fred Rogers On Success

There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.

~ Fred Rogers, TV personality and minister

Conan O'Brien On Work Ethic

If you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.

~ Conan O'Brien, comedian

Have a great weekend!

Paul E. Browning, Principal

Corner Lake Middle School

Friday, August 19, 2022

Corner Lake Middle School Leadership Team

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