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??