Kerri Snyder has jumped right into our office and has done a great job of helping out. I have received many compliments from staff about the fine job she is doing in her first week!
The Boys Varsity Basketball season ended with a loss on Thursday night. Dan and Matt have done a great job of keeping the student athletes focused on doing the best job they can on and off the court.
Thanks to the 8th grade team for facilitating the WCHS counselors this week with our students. This is an important time for our 8th grade students and their transition to the high school.
7 Attention getters to use in class.
https://www.edutopia.org/article/7-attention-getters-use-instead-raising-your-voice
Nicollett has done a great job helping fill needed gaps in our support this week and will work her way into supporting our check-in/check-out students starting next week. Thanks to the grade level teams for giving us students to start this intervention with.
As we start the second half of the school year please remember to keep the structure and rigor our students need in the classroom and the hallways and other common areas. Teaching & re-teaching expectations is how our students will learn and grow.
I'd like to welcome Kim Anderson to Benjamin 25. She will be making her way around our building to become more familiar with our school and has already been a great help at the ad center in many ways. I am sure you will here more from her in the near future.
Thanks to Jessica who gave a wonderful presentation on Wednesday at our staff learning meeting. All three pedagogies (chat stations, movement, and in-class flip) seem like they would benefit our students. I am excited for you to try them out in your classroom.
Now from Cult of Pedagogy here are 6 tech tools to try in 2023:
https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/6-ed-tech-tools-to-try-in-2023/
Thank you to Kerry K, Jen Vidic and Joe H. for attending the PTA meeting Thursday night. Jen and Joe were also honored for their work with the PTA on the Fun-Run earlier in the year where the district raised $6,000 and the PTA decided to match those funds! Great job guys!
Please don't forget staff on cycle: ...it is up to you to schedule your second formal observation with me and/or check in with me on your alternate evaluation progress. Also, please keep checking in on your student growth progress. Let me know how Melissa and I can help.
Thanks to everyone for the work that you continue to do in teams to help students. Whenever I pop in I am always amazed at the dialogue and problem solving that is taking place to do what we can to support struggling students.
Thanks for the work that was done on curriculum this past Wednesday. One question that came up Wednesday that I want to share as I believe it would benefit other people. On the standards section, don't just list the numbers actually list what the standards are with the numbers. this makes it much easier for everyone when they reading the curriculum map to understand what is being taught in relation to the standards. It is a little more time consuming when you first type it out, but then can easily be copied and pasted for other curriculum units. Please let me know if I can help answer any question on curriculum mapping.
Resources for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
A collection of lesson plans, curricula, and multimedia resources for teaching the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
https://www.edutopia.org/article/resources-martin-luther-king-jr-day-matt-davis
I know that some of the March 4th County-Wide PD opportunities are opening up. You do have permission to attend an out of district conference. I know many of these are free or minimal cost. Please see me before you register as we need to do two things:
1. have an accurate account of where people will be on this day
2. Figure out the best method of payment for those that charge. Many conferences have different procedures for registration and if we have multiple people going to the same conference we want to consolidate payment as much as possible.
All people going out of district need to fill out the conference request form regardless if the conference costs money or not
Staff that is staying in-house I will send you a form that you will need to fill out with your agenda for the day. This will allow me to request PD hours for the day with the ROE. Evergreen will be doing the same. Please see me if you have any questions.
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