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Green Charter Schools Lowcountry, 8717 Old University Boulevard, North Charleston, SC (2026)

10/03/2021

Good Evening Green Parents,
I have sent you and important email. Please let me know if you haven't received it. You can check your bulkmail first.
Thank you and have a great night.
Mr. Kose

PS: Please do not miss parent-teacher conferences. Our teachers can also schedule them over Zoom if you cannot come to the school. There are no students on school on Friday, October 8th but all teachers will be at the school. 6 B is quarantined for the whole week and the details are in the email. You will also find the detailed information about our upcoming school board meeting.

10/02/2021

Good Evening Excellent GREEN Parent,

I have emailed the whole school: However, 10 or so emails bounced back. Please check your emails and bulkmails. If you have not received any email from the school today, please send me an email so that you will not miss any updates from our school.

[email protected]

Thank you very much for all your support and have a wonderful weekend.

Mr. Kose

PS: I do check my emails very often, so please do not hesitate to write to me whenever you need to reach me. I can also meet you in person over the weekend if you want to talk to me in person any time. Thank you again.

09/23/2021

Good Evening Wonderful Green Parents,

The last Friday of every month is our professional development day. It was on the calendar when we shared with you earlier. We have also sent an email about this.

Soo, this Friday, September 24th is an early release day. Our students will be picked up at 11:40.

Thank you for your continued support and have a great night.

GREEN Lowcountry

09/17/2021

Good Afternoon Wonderful Green Parents,

I am a strong believer of the saying that "A human being is like a castle with 100 doors." If one door doesn't open, we have 99 others. Instead of pushing and breaking that door, why don't we try the others? I am pretty sure such a positive approach can help us improve our communication skills.

This is our school and we will grow and succeed together. We need everyone's help and support to reach our goals. Yet, in a first year school, even in a well-established school, there might be some changes like in any other work place. When a doctor moves from one hospital to another, or when an engineer moves from Ford to Mercedes, nothing happens. Everyone keeps doing his/her job. Similarly, when a teacher moves from one school to another, it is not the end of the world. Life goes on. It is not a big deal and it should not be at all. People come and go but institutions will stay and keep growing.

I do appreciate all our parents help and support so far although everyone shows his/her support in different ways. Two parents; Ms. Katherine Smith and Terri Ackerman preferred to purchase the class supplies and a lot of decorative items and help our new 1st grade teacher from 11 AM to 4 PM last Sunday. Although I am open to all comments and welcome all our parents' valuable feedback, I believe this approach helps me and our teachers feel more supported.

Similarly, Ms. Ashley Murray offered help with the chicken coop and we are thankful for the offer. We even would like to visit your farm, if it is available for a field trip, Ms. Murray. Life is not just STEM, so we should enjoy all the beauties of it. Mr. Sean Makens left his job in the middle of the day and came to my office. We had a very fruitful meeting about our FLL competition teams and action plans. There are a lot of other parents who keep supporting us since Day 1. I am thankful for all their support.

This is a school website and I would like to see this place as a platform for all of us to share our valuable opinions and show our support to the school and each other in a positive way. No one is the representative or spokesperson for the other parents. I am a full time employee of the school and I am here all day, every day from 7:15 till 3:45. (These are official working hours but you know I am available for longer hours, too.) If you want to talk to me directly, you can call the school and ask for me. If I am available, I will be glad to listen to your concerns or answer your questions. If not, please leave your message with a number and I will call you back as soon as I can. You can also email me an schedule a meeting directly. So, I disagree with discussing our problems in public as we are the members of the same GREEN Family.

If there are some communication issues among our parents outside the school, I do not want to be involved in them at all. Also, Our parents are free to form any groups in any social media or come together physically themselves. If 5-10 parents form a group and discuss the ways to help the school, I can only thank them.

We had our first PTO meeting last time via Zoom and we have not scheduled the second one yet. Once I can breathe a little bit, we can schedule the other meeting either via zoom or face to face.

Please do not hesitate to contact me for any questions or concerns you might have. One email is sufficient, so I will respond as soon as I can. I have a bunch of unread emails right now as I were at the training for three days.

We will keep working hard until we reach our goals. After that, we will even work harder to stay where we are then.

Thanks to efforts and supports of our parents Ms. Smith and Mr. Makens, I think we can have two robotics teams this year, for the first time in my professional life. I will ask our teachers nominate those students and we will decide together as a team. There will be plenty of other clubs, too. We will have a great year together.

Thank you for your continued support and dedication.

Warmest regards,

Mr. Kose

PS: I am going to have a zoom meeting with Ms. Gatlin's Kindergarten parents tomorrow at 6 PM and we will send you the link tomorrow. Please email me if you do not get the link. Thank you.

[email protected]

09/17/2021

Good Evening Excellent GREEN Families,

I hope all our families are doing great. I had to attend mandatory 3 day workshop, so I had to miss most of the drop offs and pick ups this week. I will start accepting our students as early as I can tomorrow and hopefully we can have the fastest pick up of the week in the afternoon.

I know you offer more than what we need whenever we ask for your help, so I cannot thank you enough. GREEN parents are the best. Today, I have signed the grant acceptance letter, so our FIRST donations should be shipped in a few days for all our Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade students.

Also, Mr. Sean Makens, one of our wonderful, supportive parents, and I will have a meeting to discusss what we can do together for our robotics team(s) tomorrow. Ms. Smith has also recommended an experienced technology teacher. She is going to schedule a meeting soon. If there are other parents who are familiar with FIRST and FLL programs, or if you know any friends/teachers, I would like to meet them to offer more opportunities to our young engineers.

We also need some parents from science-related fields for our Kindergarten Science Fair. We will start focus on this after KRA tests, too.

Also, one of our parents had sent me a long email about the safety of our chicken coop. I did appreciate it a lot: However, I could not find time to respond so far. If our parent, who is expert on chickens reads this: "Can you please stop by for a morning coffee whenever you can make it?" Our coop needs to be strengthened and we need a home-office for our chickens to stay warm inside the fenced area.

My dream, for educational purpose is to have a small, self sufficient farm on that corner. We will have energy from solar panels, and the sump pump will water the chickens and vegetables. That can be a great science, math and engineering resource for our students at all levels. We would like to get these opportunities to our school. Then, we had a boat competition in the past. Model boats made by the students used to race on one of those 10,000 lakes of MN. They were all solar boats though. Our 5th and 6th graders can try making those boats with some guidance.

Besides, we can also work on building our own drone as part of our clubs... Please email me directly if any parents want to run a boat/drone/model car club together with one of our teachers. Any thoughts on Old Mr. Kose's self-sufficient farm will also be apreciated. Solar energy feeds the pump, it feeds the vegetables and they feed the chicken. Chicken will feed the soil by their fertilizers in the most organic way. I can teach the whole year just by using these materials.

These are all traditional projects. Here is the original one: We can have a school radio that broadasts 1-2 hours on weekends. Let's think about these and we can find even better ideas when brainstorming.

Since we have the best parents in town, we have to give the best education to their children. We are getting there slowly but safely.

Thank you for your continued support and understanding during our most challenging times.

Have a great night.

Mr. Kose

09/12/2021

Good Evening GREEN Parents,

I am writing to thank our wonderful PTO members for adding some beauty to our lives at the school during the week. It was not the delicious cholocates that made our week so nice and sweet but the suport that we have felt from our parents. THANK YOU!!!

Also, one of our parents offered help with construction of the canopy. Another great parent called me and volunteered his time for our robotics team. He will even bring his colleagues to work with our team at the school. We will meet at the school to plan for our robotics team this coming Friday. Furthermore, his company will sponsor one team for us. Then, our ST and OT started to work with our students. That company was referred by Mrs. Smith. (Thank you again. ) Finally, we were able to hire a new full time special ed teacher, who will bring her 28 years of experience to our schol and start on Monday. We also have a part time school psychologist who will start immediately and work with our special ed team.

Our grant application was also accepted and FIRST will give one set of educational materials to our Kindergarten, first and second grade students. Thank you, F.I.R.S.T. They will also offered professional development to our teachers as well and we will not miss this opportunity.

When we quarantene a classroom or some students, I know and feel the difficulty/pain of such a decision. I am a parent of three children and I experienced the difficulty of being called by your child's school in the middle of the day. When you are worried about your one or two children, my burden and stress is multiplied by 200. I wish I had an opportunity to take care of all our children without distracting our parents or losing any quality instructional time: However, we have to accept the challanges as they are and must move on.

We should use all our time and energy to protect our children and teachers when trying to give them the best education in town in a structured, safe and fun learning environment. I know that not all of us think the same; However, this is a life-threatening matter and it is more serious and deadly than some of us might think. If you have any relatives/friends working at the hospitals, please check them the status of those emergency rooms and who are filling those rooms at this time. Our school nurse, Ms. Reid, is really working hard. She might be using more precaution than some other schools sometimes, but all her goal is to protect our children as they are not vaccinated. Please keep supporting our school's efforts and help us overcome this issue safely.

Thank you very much for your continued support. I know some of you get upset or frustrated sometimes but please remember: We are building an excellent team that will educate our students for years. There will be some changes, additions, subtractions at the beginning and throughout this journey, which is quite normal and it is part of my job to make sure that all our students keep getting the best education regardless of what happens inside and outside of their classroom. All the changes have just made us a better, more experienced, stronger team so far. I made a promise and you trusted me. I will keep my promise and we will celebrate the success of our school at the end of our third year. GREEN Lowcountry will be among the top three public schools of SC. Period.

Sharing/exchanging dishes has been an old tradition in Anatolia, where I was born and raised. My mother used to return those dishes coming from our neighbors with her own special meals/bakeries, etc. Our neighbors also did the same. I would like to return this wonderful basket that came from our lovely PTO with my favorite CHEF COZY baklava. Maybe, we can schedule a PTO breakfast at the cafeteria; 2 people per table, or an outside tea-baklava party so that everyone can have enough space to keep the social distance.

If our PTO tells me when and where, I will prepare the fresh baklava and tea. (I personally do not love them but my brain works better when I have them, so I can make the school a better one. (Reference: George Orwell, Animal Farm).

One friendly request from our PTO: How can I answer this question when 100 parents call/email me and ask: "Why my child wasn't chosen for the robotics team?" 🏆🏆🏆 Can we find enough mentors and coaches for all of them? Each team will cost aroud $1,000 with the robot and materials+teachers/coaches time. They should spend a couple days after school every week and almost all Saturdays at school. It will require enormous amount of time, patience, discipline and hardwork. Now, it is your turn to worry and find an answer. 🧐Thank you in advance.

Have a wonderful Saturday night Excellent GREEN Parents.

Mr. Kose
[email protected]

09/08/2021

Good Evening Excellent GREEN Parents,

I hope all our families are healthy and safe. We had to quarantine our three classes this afternoon as we got some positive test results. There is no single teacher who tested positive but there was a relative and one of our students also tested positive. I wish them a quick recovery.

We had long conversations with our school nurse, Ms. Reid ([email protected]) about making our school a safer place for our students and teachers. We just wanted to be on the safe side and follow the CDC guidelines. We will send you an email and update about what we have been doing to improve the safety at the school tomorrow.

Also, as we agreed our last zoom meeting, I will have donuts ready in the morning as an apology for messing up with the times of K-2 Zoom meeting. I had ordered them last week, so there will be enough donuts for all our wonderful parents. Even if your child is quarantined at home, please get your donuts for the morning tea/coffee. They will be served at the drop off location starting at 7 AM.

I know these are tough times for all of us. Some of your children might be missing the school for the second time within a month. I am so sorry for this; However, anything about their education can be fixed later on. We can use days, nights and weekends to make up whatever they are missing at this time. We need to keep all of our children and staff members safe at this time.

Also, all our students must have their user name and password for online learning platforms. We will let you know our plan to overcome these tough days.

GREEN Schools are also working closely with our sponsor and we will be ready for the worst scenarios although we never wish that.

Thank you for your understanding and continued support.

Warmest regards,

Mr. Kose

09/04/2021

We are looking for a full time Special Education teacher to help our wonderful Kindergarten-6th grade students with some special needs.

09/03/2021

Happy Labor Day to all GREEN Families. There is no school on Monday, except for "FUN Math with Mr. Kose". If there are a small group of students, I am available for a 2-3 hour math party on Labor Day.

If not, I will catch you anytime for the rest of the year and you will have to master all STEM areas for sure.

Have a great long weekend.

Mr. Kose

I will miss you, too my new friend. See you Tuesday morning.

09/03/2021

Good Night All GREEN Families,

I hope today was a better day than yesterday. I had a very long day yesterday and our families' support at PTO meeting really made me feel better. THANK YOU!

Each and every GREEN parent is very important, and supportive to our school. I cannot thank you enough. We can never become a top school withour having top parents like you.

Especially, I'd like to thank Mrs. Katherine Smith on your behalf for what she has been doing for our school since Day 1. She has shared our job posts with her colleagues and students at the university. Then, she introduced me to her contacts who have been working with the students with some special needs, like all of you, shown her support whenever we had very long days. Thank you very much Mrs. Smith. GREEN Lowcountry will become one of the top school of SC not because I am a great principal (I know I am not), but because you and 200 other GREEN parents are great.

We should have another PTO meeting face to face at the school cafeteria soon. A weekend breakfast will be great. There is enough room to keep social distance at our cafeteria as well. So, those who missed yesterday can also join us. Together, we are stronger!

I will be teaching some advanced math to our accelerated students at the school on LABOR DAY. (Remember my saying: " Homework everyday and double homework on Labor Day?!?). I need to know what grades have the most demand and how many students/parents can sacrifice half of a free day for math. Then, I can either ask one of our great teachers (optional for them), or I can have one session in the morning and one session in the afternoon. Please comment under this post or email me directly. ([email protected])

Please do not comment about Double Homework on Labor Day as this is NOT a mandatory program. There will be NO extra credit or any type of grading. This is just a fun math event with the principal.

You can also say;

"Mr. Kose wants to celebrate the Labor Day by studying math with some great kids at the school".

Please note that this is not a baby sitting session. There may not be another teacher to help me in the building. It is open to the students who think the school is not challenging enough for them.

Thank you and have a wonderful night.....and a great Labor Day.

Mr. Kose

09/02/2021

Good Morning Excellent GREEN Families,

We had our very first PTO meeting yesterday. Thank you very much for your time and all the support you have been offering us since our first day.

We will send an email to all our parents and share the notes from our PTO meeting. It seems that we have a great group of PTO volunteers. I am sure we will be even stronger with the addition of those great parents who could not join us last night.

Thank you very much again. GREEN parents are the best!

Mr. Kose

PS: The dismissal time is getting shorter but it still needs to be improved. Visible numbers on the top, right corner of the front will surely help. Also, all students were given a number, attached to their bookbags. No upper grades will be dismissed before 3 PM, so we do encourage our parents to come after 3 PM if their children are in 3rd through 6th grades. Thank you.

08/30/2021

Good Morning Wonderful GREEN Families,

I hope you all had a great weekend and everyone is safe and well in the family.

Our students who had been quarantined for the past week can return to the school today with a mandatory mask, or without a mandatory mask tomorrow. We cannot make mask wearing mandatory; However, we do strongly encourage our staff and students to protect themselves and each other by wearing a face mask throughout the day.

I hope and wish that we will not have to do it again. Let's work together and do our best to protect our children and ourselves from the Covid.

Our school needs a pesticide company and a lawnmowing company to work with us year round. We will also need a great printing house to print our our very exciting newsletters.

If you or somebody you know are in these businesses, you can help us by sharing their contact information.

[email protected]

Thank you very much for your continued support and warmest regards.

Mr. Kose

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