4-25-14

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What other SuperPowers do you have?  How 'bout your teachers?  How 'bout your students?  How 'bout your parents?  Imagine if we all knew our SuperPower and used it to create the very best school!  WOW!!  Imagine the possibilities...

LOOKING FORWARD-THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW...

4/28  ACSA/CSUSM/NCPDF Professional Development for School Leaders-Lunch at Spaghetti Factory to debrief Conference
5/5  Teacher Interviews

EDUAWESOME DROPS IN OUR BUCKET...

•Thank you to Elisa for volunteering to organize our Lunch on Monday 4/28
•The 4 TOSA's, Terry Decker and I had an EduAwesome time learning more about the Common Core State Standards and ways to support our teachers as they continue to implement these standards!
•A Drop in the Bucket for Caroline for organizing that very fun and exciting tour of Solana Ranch!

Work Hard; Play Hard!

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

2 Words Every Bully Needs to Hear!

BLOGS, TWEETS and PINS-OUR VERY OWN PLC

Another great site to follow on twitter is: @wonderopolis

Timely Articles for Principals
•Why You Should UnPlug
•10 Steps for Educators New to Using Twitter
•The Secrets of a GREAT Principal

Timely Articles for Teachers

•5 Ways to Use EdTech to Teach Students Character 
•Resources for Using iPads in K-2 Classrooms  (Disclaimer-Some are better than others...)

FINAL THOUGHTS TO PONDER

"All teachers should ask: "What powerful things can my students do now with technology, that they could not do before in any way?" Marc Prensky
Just pondering...As you walk around your campus, what examples of this transformation are you seeing?  

Too Funny...

4-18-14

QUOTE FOR THE WEEK

LOOKING FORWARD-THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW...

4-21  Administrative Professional's Week
4-21 @12:00 Carmel Valley Principal Meeting to discuss Solana Ranch Trainsiont of macurriculum and materials
4-21 @1:30  Leadership
4-21 @ 3:00 Solana Ranch Tour
4-22 & 4/-23  TOSA'S, Terry Decker and Julie to CCSS Training
4-24  Board Meeting (Matt & Becky)
4-28 ACSA/NCPDF/CSUSM Leadership Symposium @ NCPDF  (Have you registered?)
4-28 Lunch for Leadership following Symposium-Leadership meeting cancelled

EDUAWESOME DROPS IN OUR BUCKET...

•A huge HOORAY to our Media Center Teachers and our Computer Lab Instructors-the first week of SBAC went very well!!!  Nice Job everyone!
•How Eduawesome was Terry Deckers DRAFT LCAP?!  What a lot of work and so very well done!  No doubt the SBSD LCAP will be a model for others!
•A Great Big Thank You to all of the team for their active and passionate day of Teacher interviews! And an even bigger thank you to Casey for keeping us organized AND well fed!
•Kudos to Jerry, Jo, Angie and Katy S for their Eduawesome presentations at the STREAM meeting on Wednesday!  
•Another wonderful 3-6 Mathematics training this week!  Thank you to Dinah and to all of the teachers who were able to attend!

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

•Shawn Achor-"The Happiness Advantage" TedTalk*

BLOGS, TWEETS and PINS-OUR VERY OWN PLC

Another great person to follow on twitter is: 
25 Top Educators to Follow on Twitter

Timely Articles for Principals
•8 Things I'd Like to Change in Schools
•10 Tips to avoid technology integration frustration
• 5 Critical Mistakes Schools Make with iPad-and How to Correct Them
(I know I have shared this article before-but as we get ready to purchase sets of iPads and deternine how we are going to distribute them-this is timely!


Timely Articles for Teachers
•The 7 C's of Effective 21st Century Teaching
•Five Tips for Building Strong Collaborative Learning
•Making Simple Sense of iPads in Schools

FINAL THOUGHTS TO PONDER

"Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change.  It is a the realization that we can."  Shawn Achor

The 21 Day Challenge

*The TedTalk will explain more..."

Too Funny...

What's your SuperPower??

4-4-14

QUOTE FOR THE WEEK

LOOKING FORWARD-THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW...

4/10  ACSA/CUE Leadership 3.0  Check the Google Doc from Monica Smith for specifics.  We'll plan on meeting for dinner on Thursday evening-let's meet in the lobby around 6:30 pm.  There is a restaurant in the hotel-that might be easiest for everyone, since we are all arriving at different times, but we can decide that evening.
4/11  Teacher Applicant Screening due to HR
4/14  Leadership @ 1:30
4/15  Teacher Interviews
4/16  Envision Team (STREAM) meeting 3:30-6:30 dinner will be served!
4/17 & 4/18 Grade 3-6 Common Core Math Training (Which one will you attend?)
4/17  New Principal Meeting @ 4:00 (Elisa, you are welcome to attend, but this is not our monthly meeting-more for our "newbies."  (<:

EDUAWESOME DROPS IN OUR BUCKET...

•Thank You LIsa D. and Sal for creating the EduAwesome Teacher Paper Screening Spreadsheet!
•Hoorah for Angie Tremble for her EduAwesome Social Media Training with the Leadership team!  YOU ROCK!! (Has everyone tweeted their first tweet?)
•Mucho Thanks to Jo Hanes for her EduAwesome presentation to the TK teachers!  We are ready to STEAM up our TK classrooms.  Rumor has it that the Kinder teachers want to get on the band wagon!  Yahoo!
•Thank you to our Summer Enrichment principal (Lisa Ryder) and Lisa D., Lisa P. and Mary Ellen for meeting to transition the program from Skyline to Solana Vista.  Love all of the collaboration and positivity!
•Thank You to Monica for organizing our Leadership 3.0 Symposium Trip-planning for all of us is a little like herding cats!!
•Congratulations to Elisa and the entire SP team for an absolutely amazing Distinguished School Validation vist!  What an EduAwesome place for students!!
•Thank you to John Leland, Angie and Jerry for taking a road trip to Menifee with me to observe Project Lead the Way in action!  What an outstanding program!
•Thank you to Melani & the Tech Dept. for all of their hard work getting the Summer Enrichment Registration up and running!  Did you know that we already have 137 students registered AND 2 Ready Set Go classes filled!!  WooHoo!!

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

•Why would any administrator want to use Twitter?

BLOGS, TWEETS and PINS-OUR VERY OWN PLC

Another great person to follow on twitter is: Michelle Smart @PrincipalSmart

Timely Articles for Principals
•How Do You Know You've Become a True Leader?
•5 Key Practices of Effective Principal 
•Parents Guide and Tutorial for Twitter

Timely Articles for Teachers
•Cyberbullying Issue (And What Teachers Can Do To Help)  
•Students Yearn for Creativity, Not Tests
•App Smashing:  Combining Apps for Better Results

FINAL THOUGHTS TO PONDER

•It is never about programs; it is always about people!"  hmmmm...After doing our Admin walkthroughs, I couldn't agree more!!

Too Funny...

Good Luck to everyone as we begin SBAC Testing on Monday, April 14!!