Friday, February 28, 2014

2-28-14


QUOTE FOR THE WEEK



Education allows you to see better...

LOOKING FORWARD-THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW...

•3/3 Leadership Cancelled-Enjoy the gift of time!
•3/10 Leadership-Bring 3x5 Cards (see sample in Leadership Notes) for the SBSD Staffing activity. Also, please bring your proposal for how to compensate teachers for additional closure of the Computer Lab as it relates to SBAC.  Consider how much "additional" time students are missing their lab time, based on amount of time lab is closed compared to when we did STAR testing.  REMEMBER-SBAC takes the place of STAR.
3/27 FREE Online 2014 Virtual School Leadership Summit-Click on Link for more information-Thank You Angie for always keeping us on the cutting edge!

EDUAWESOME DROPS IN OUR BUCKET...

•A Drop in the Bucket to our K-2 Teachers for the active participation in the Math Training this week! And to those principals who were able to attend!! Great for our teachers to see us learning right along side of them!
•Kudos to Terry Decker for supporting the Media Center Teachers and the Lab Techs to better understand the upcoming SBAC Testing protocols!  He makes all of this so comprehensible for everyone!
•Gotta Love our Tech Dept!  Check out these 10 Steps that Technology Directors can take to stay current...So Validating that our Tech Dept is ON IT!

VIDEO OF THE WEEK BLOGS, TWEETS and PINS-OUR VERY OWN PLC


BLOGS, TWEETS and PINS-OUR VERY OWN PLC

Another great person to follow on twitter is: Patrick Larkin @patrickmlarkin


"ANATOMY OF A TWEET"


Timely Articles for Principals

Timely Articles for Teachers


5 Strategies to Teach Listening

FINAL THOUGHTS TO PONDER

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, do more and become more, you are a leader!" John Quincy Adams
Just Pondering...all of the amazing ways that the SBSD administrators inspire each other and our staffs...What do you think?


Too Funny...Or not...

 
Not Every Student Whose Mind Wanders is Lost..."




Hmmmm...Just Pondering...
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Thursday, February 13, 2014

2-14-14


QUOTE FOR THE WEEK...

"In a fast moving field like technology there are NO "best practices." Only "good practices" & the need to continually invent better ones."
Marc Prensky

LOOKING FORWARD-THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW...

•2/17-2/21 Enjoy Your Break!!!
•2/24  Board Update and Topics Due
•2/24  Leadership
•2/24 & 2/25 TK-2 Common Core Mathematics Professional Development-Which one are you attending?  (<:
•2/27 (9:00-11:30) SBAC Testing Meeting with MC Teachers and Tech Lab Teachers
•2/27 (4:00-5:30) ACSA Social Gathering @ WineSteals in Cardiff

EDUAWESOME DROPS IN OUR BUCKET...

•Congratulations to Jerry Jones-Solana Ranch Staffing is well on its way!
•Thank you to All of our Principals and members of Cabinet who attended the STEM Envision Team Meeting!  Thank you also to Caroline, John, Angie and Jo for working with me to plan and debrief the meeting.
•Kudos to Carlos and Terry Decker for an EDUAWESOME presentation to the Board on LCFF & LCAP!  You two ROCKED!!
•Yeah for all of the teachers and administrators who attended the iPad Summit-Two EDUAWESOME days dedicated to celebrating and digging deeper into how technology can support effective Teaching and Learning.
•Congratulations to Elisa and the Solana Pacific staff for being granted a Distinguished School validation visit!  Yahoo!!

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

•From Janitor, to Teacher, to Principal...All at the same elementary school!  Great Story!

BLOGS, TWEETS AND PINS-OUR VERY OWN PLC

Pin Me:  Be My Valentine Great ideas to support Valentine's Day to teach social and emotional learning + fun crafts and recipes.  (I know that this Pinterest Site is a little late for this year, but maybe for next year...

Timely Articles for Principals

•10 Little Things That Make a Huge Difference
•The SAMR Model in Real Life 
•What Dog Sled Teams Can Teach Us About Leadership 
• Making Time to Lead and to Learn:  Action Step for Busy Principals

Timely Articles for Teachers


•25 Things to do Before/During/After Reading 
•Thomas Edison's Insanely Ambitious To-Do List 1888 ...And We Think That Our To-Do List is Ambitious! 
•Let the Games Begin! Have a Learning Olympics in your class/school. (PS our filter block this site...but you can access the site at home.  Worth the effort)

FINAL THOUGHTS TO PONDER

•"Principals don't have all of the answers, but can engage, support, ask Questions & Listen! Affirm, clarify & continually LIVE the vision."
@Bill Sterrett

hmmm...Just pondering, about all of the ways that we as Instructional Leaders model this concept...

Too Funny...


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Sunday, February 2, 2014

1-31-14

QUOTE FOR THE WEEK

"When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others."  -Jack Welch

LOOKING FORWARD-THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW...

• 2/3-DELAC mtg-Thank you to everyone for getting their parent names to Melani!  We are going to have a great turn out!
•2/3-Leadership (Admin Professional Development-LCFF/LCAP)
•2/3 & 2/4 TK-2 Evening Common Core Mathematics Professional Development-Plan on attending one of the trainings.
•2/4 & 2/5 iPad Summit

EDUAWESOME DROPS IN OUR BUCKET...

•Thank you to Lisa D. and the Skyline Staff for hosting our Walkthrough.  Such great things happening at Skyline-So evident that everyone is working on the Shifts-especially in Mathematics!  In the words of one 4th grader..."I get it NOW!!"  And isn't that why we all went into this profession-for the moment when the light bulb goes off for a student-it was an honor to witness that moment this week!
•Congratulations to Lisa Ryder and Tabor Samuelson who were selected to be our Summer Enrichment Principals!
•Thank you to each of the principals who were able to attend the 3rd-6th grade Mathematics training this week!

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

•Just Add Rigor!  It's not as easy as we sometimes make it sound...

BLOGS,TWEETS AND PINS-OUR VERY OWN PLC 

Another great site to follow on twitter is: Connected Principals @conprin

Timely Articles for Principals
•5 Questions to Evaluate Curriculum for Rigor
•21st Century Educational Technology Classroom Infographic
•7 Myths About Rigor in the Classroom

 Timely Articles for Teachers
•Don't Discount the Use of Lecture as a Teaching Strategy-How to make it an effective tool in our Teaching Tool Box
•12 Rules the Best Teachers Live by...

FINAL THOUGHTS TO PONDER

"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." Ralph Nader
Hmmmm...Imagine what our schools would look like if Principals embraced this philosophy with their staff; and teachers embraced this philosophy with their students...Just Pondering....

TOO FUNNY...


SAMR-STARBUCKS STYLE!!
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