2-5-2021

Congrats to Sherry on completing her administrative classes and tests!! What a great accomplishment.

Thanks to Angela for giving her presentation on Hope and Resiliency, I think everyone can benefit from the presentation and thinking about your support group!  

Using Visual Design in your lessons/materials.

https://www.edutopia.org/article/using-lessons-visual-design-make-better-materials-students

Thanks to all of our language arts teachers for celebrating World Read Aloud Day on Wednesday!  Kids see the love of reading that you have and they are lucky that all of you have a passion for reading.

A huge thanks to our morning and afternoon crew who make it look easy getting kids in and out of the building.

Thanks to the work that Betty has done to help get one of our students in the building.  Communication with the family has been key. 

8 quick checks for understanding.

https://www.edutopia.org/article/8-quick-checks-understanding

We all know that pe teachers are flexible but they have also been super flexible with their schedule with pictures, vision and hearing and computer imaging...we all appreciate your generosity in getting these tasks completed.

Thanks to Vanessa for working hard to get the new filter on our student computers and to Greg for researching and moving the district forward with the new filter which may cause  short term hassle but will make the district safer in the long term. 

Healthy Discourse in group work.

https://www.edutopia.org/article/5-ways-promote-healthy-discourse-during-project-based-learning

I appreciate that Jessica went over to Evergreen to help with their Fast Bridge testing.

Tim, Tony and Frank have been burning the midnight oil to keep our grounds clean and safe with their plowing,shoveling and salting.  We appreciate it.

Teaching Black History

https://www.pbs.org/education/blog/teaching-black-history-beyond-slavery-and-black-history-month?twclid=11357539659279196167

Thanks to Ellen for staying late and to Marcia and Megan S for helping out in the office.  

"Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor." --Stephen Sondheim

"Logic is no answer to passion." -- Herb Caen

The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging." -- Molly Ivins