“Come Together” Parody  |  SBLSD Staff Choir  |  Convocation 2019

This Staff Choir performance is too fun and creative to not share with our community. To help non-educators understand some of the education jargon, check out the glossary at the bottom of this page. Words with an * will be defined. :) Turn up the volume and enjoy!

LYRICS

Here comes a new year We’re at

Convocation We got

Lotsa learnin’

We meet for PLCs*

Got to be on our game We can do

This with ease

We all do TPEP* create

common assessments rubrics,

SBAC* testing Schedules

always changing

Come to your conference with me

One thing I can tell you we support

IEPs*

Come together, right now
SBLSD

We got those snow days, We can

do book studies We know

How to scaffold We’re one

Great big fam’ly We got

Danielson’s 4 domains*

Explicit Instruction* Vision 2020*

Come together, right now

SBLSD

We’re thankful for bus drivers

Mechanics, maint’nance, paras

Counseling, Nurses, IT

Custodians and school board

Support staff, and Nutrition, too

Got to have our admin

They support me and you

Come together, right now

SBLSD 

(fade out music)

Come together, yeah 

Come together, yeah 

Come together, yeah 

Come together, yeah 

Come together, yeah 

Come together, yeah 

Come together, yeah 

Come together, yeah 

Come together, yeah

GLOSSARY

PLC: Professional Learning Community

TPEP: Teacher/Principal Evaluation Program

SBAC: Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium 

IEP: Individualized Education Program

Danielson 4 Domains: Instructional practice organized into the four domains of Planning and Preparation, The Classroom Environment, Instruction, and Professional Responsibilities

Explicit Instruction: Instruction that is systematic, direct, engaging and success-oriented

VISION 2020: Title of SBLSD’s strategic plan