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??