5-23-14

QUOTE FOR THE WEEK

In Looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities:  integrity, intelligence, and energy."

Warren Buffet

LOOKING FORWARD-THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW...

•5/26  Memorial Day-Enjoy your day off!  Only 13 days of school left!
•5/27  Envision Team meeting-Please bring your Year One Implementation Plans 3:30-5:00
•5/28  Solana Ranch Ribbon Cutting Ceremony @ 3:30
•5/29  Teacher Interviews 
•5/30  DELAC Meeting @ 9:30-Melani will notify the parents, but you may want to remind your reps as well.
•5/30  Tentative date for Math Committee 3:30 Skyline. (We are having a terrible time trying to reschedule this meeting that was cancelled due to the fires.  We have sent out a Survey Monkey to determine if June 10 is a better day.)  We will confirm date, time and location ASAP.  Sorry for the inconvenience!

EDUAWESOME DROPS IN OUR BUCKET...

•Kudos to our EduAwesome Curriculum Resource Teachers for doing an amazing job coordinating the SBAC testing!  Their diligence and pre-planning really allowed for this to be a fairly painless pilot year!
•A great big Thank You to Nancy, Carlos and Caroline for all of their efforts during the fires!  Great team work and communication with all of us!
•A Drop in the Bucket for Terry Decker for his EduAwesome LCAP Community Forum meeting!  Everyone agrees that it was an excellent meeting and that the presentation was clear and comprehensive!
•Congratulations to all of our students who were recognized at our Board Meeting.  Truly Inspirational stories!
•Hooray for Tobie who has been working with Nicole from Casa de Amistad on a joint project providing our 3-5 year olds early intervention 2 afternoons a week next year!  Not to mention the parenting classes that will be offered at the same time!  EduAwesome!

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

•9 Videos to Explore Blended Learning
•Look Up-A spoken work film for an online generation-Very Powerful and Thought provoking...The importance of being present!
•Great Resource for articles and timely information!  Edutopia.org

BLOGS, TWEETS and PINS-OUR VERY OWN PLC

•5 Ways Administrators Can Use Remind 101  (we could add to communicate with your staff during a wild fire!)

Timely Articles for Principals
•On the Edge of Chaos:  Where Creativity Flourishes
•Reflecting on a Year of Learning It's such a crazy time of the year, and I know that we are all working on our own End of the Year Evaluations for our Supervisors.  This is a great little article-BUT what I love is the link to the document "End Of Year Reflection Questions.docx"  I used these questions to reflect on my year in the Instructional Services dept.  I loved that it connected your actions to the impact that those actions had on people and the organization.
•5 Helpful Strategies for Self Reflection
•What Makes a Great School Leader?

Timely Articles for Teachers

•5 Tools to Help Create a Paperless Book Club
•5 Ways to Get Kids Reading this Summer
•End of Year Burnout:  How to Finish Strong

FINAL THOUGHTS TO PONDER

ARE YOU READY??

5/9/14

QUOTE FOR THE WEEK

LOOKING FORWARD-THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW...

5/12  Solana Highlands Staff Appreciation Pancake Breakfast
5/12  Smile!  Leadership Picture @ 1:15
5/12  Leadership-Lyn Perino to join us
5/13  Math Committee @ 4:00-6:30
5/14  Skyline Staff Appreciation Pancake Breakfast
5/14  ACSA Student Stand Out Award Ceremony 4:00 @ Solana Pacific
5/16  Teacher Interviews

EDUAWESOME DROPS IN OUR BUCKET...

•Congratulations to all of you who survived Day 2 of Teacher Interviews!  Two down and one to go!  Such an exhaustive task, but such an important part of what we do!  Thank you to Sal and Casey for always making the day go so smoothly-and for feeding us so well!
•Hooray for the Math Committee!  They spent an entire day listening to Publisher presentations.  Terry and I were so impressed with their focus and their commitment to this process! Trust me, when I say, our district is in good hands with this group!  
•Speaking of the Math Committee...Terry Decker was EduAwesome facilitating this meeting!  I so appreciate our partnership as we work through this process!  (Be sure to ask him about his earring and scarf...)
•And one more big thank you to Monica and Melani for all of their behind the scenes work to prepare for the Math Publication Presentations!  Everything was so well organized and the day went so smoothly-Not an easy accomplishment!  Now it's time to re-pack all of the materials and ship them back to the publishers!  Whew!
•A Great Big Drop in the Bucket for Angie, Jo, Jerry, Caroline and John for working so diligently on updating and revising our Technology Acceptable Use Policy for Students and Staff!  Not to mention the work on the Social Networking Guidelines.   WHEW!  A great group effort that produced some real quality documents!
•How EduAwesome is this...Stephen Vaughn, the speaker that we heard present @ Lead 3.0, on The Happiness Advantage, has agreed to be our Keynote Speaker for our August Professional Symposium Days!  Now, that makes me happy!  

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

•No time to read??  Check out this EduAwesome Daniel Pink Animation that summarizes the popular book Driven.  What really motivates us...and our staff and students?

BLOGS, TWEETS and PINS-OUR VERY OWN PLC

Another great person to follow on twitter is: Do you know that many of our teachers are now on twitter?  Take a poll-and then follow them!  Here are just a few...
@msFerrisSSF 
@GlobalEdLisaC  
@mtajalle1 
@GlobalEdProgram
@TFarnsworth16
@GlobalEdEstela 
@AnitaAn78741611 
@ShielaCullins 
@tayloralynch 
@MrsDisch 

Timely Articles for Principals
•Work Piling Up?  5 Ways to Eliminate Backlogs
•Uppervention-Meeting the Needs of Gifted and Talented Students
•Why and How should admiinistrators be using Social Media

Timely Articles for Teachers
•10 Ways to End the School Day
•New to Twitter-Cheat Sheet for Teachers
•One Minute "Ask Smithsonian"Videos are good to watch and useful models for student creations

FINAL THOUGHTS TO PONDER

Boy, No wonder this leadership thing is such hard work!

Too Funny...Can you say Common Core Mathematics?

5-2-14

QUOTE FOR THE WEEK

LOOKING FORWARD-THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW...

5/5  Teacher Interviews
5/8   Math Committee Full Day Meeting

EDUAWESOME DROPS IN OUR BUCKET...

•Congratulations to Elisa and the Solana Pacific Staff for their California Distinguished School Award!!
•Thank you to everyone for attending the ACSA/NCPDF/CSUSM Leadership Symposium!
•Kudos to the TOSA's for setting up our first Google Hangout!  What a great way to come together and collaborate-when we can't all be in the same place!
•The CDC Spring Fling is about the cutest thing I've ever seen!  Congratulations TEAM CDC on a fabulous event!

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

How many of you remember Pete the Cat-Love this Video!!

BLOGS, TWEETS and PINS-OUR VERY OWN PLC

Another great person to follow on twitter is: Devin Vodicka @dvodicka

Timely Articles for Principals
•An Open Letter to Principals
•The 7 Best STEM Resources

Timely Articles for Teachers
•8 Characteristics of the 21st Century Teacher
•27 Ways To Be a 21st Century Teacher
•10 Characteristics of Gifted Students

FINAL THOUGHTS TO PONDER

The most powerful shift you can make is going from 'what are the educators doing' to 'what are the students doing?'
hmmmm...just pondering....what do you notice first when you walk into a class?

Too Funny..

hmmm...I was called bossy as a child-bet you find that hard to believe, huh?

Gotta Love Testing!