Friday, September 12, 2014

9/12/14

THINK WIN-WIN


PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST 

9/15  Leadership (Lisa Ryder has snacks) 
9/15  International Dot Day-Celebrate Creativity, Courage and Collaboration!
9/16 & 9/17 Apple PD @ the District Office-Don't forget to Sharpen you Saw-this Professional Development opportunity is not just for our teachers!  Come and learn right along side of your staff!  Be the change you want to see...You get the point-We'd love to have you join us for one of the two days!
9/16 Strategic Planning Office Hours
9/17 BTSA meeting @ 3:30
9/18 Insurance Committee Mtg.
9/18 Wellness Committee Mtg.
9/18  "New" Principal Meeting @ 3:30
9/19  Strategic Planning PowerPoints due to Terry Decker

SYNERGIZE 

•A HUGE Shoutout to Terry Decker for all of his thoughtful and hard work preparing the District Strategic Planning Day!  A great day for our district!
•And how 'bout those TOSA's!  OUTSTANDING presentation Katie, Cara and Stephanie!  You absolutely nailed your presentations! 
•And we all know that behind every good video are amazing Tech people who make us look good!  Kudos to Jo and Angie for all of your support and behind the scenes effort-not to mention integrating Today's Meet into the meeting!
•Thank you to Sal for getting the interview dates on the calendar early-Now that's early planning-Thank you Matt (or was it Jerry?-I know it was one of our male principals!) for making the suggestion!
•Thank you to Caroline and Jenny for working on re-sending the NWEA passwords-So sorry that your dept. had to double back on this one!
•Kudos to all of our Principal's for their short and sweet Board presentations on the opening of school! I heard that you were all FAB!

BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND

Blogs/Articles/Videos for Instructional Leaders
*Wanna boost your PLN?  The top 25 educators on Twitter!
*Great Quotes to emphasize Growth Mindset! 
*3 EduAwesome Images on Leading Change 
*Jerry Blumengarten @cybraryman is a wealth of information and collection of   Educational Web Sites-Great page on Leadership 

SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND

Blogs/Articles/Videos for Teachers

*Very Timely article about the First 5's with iPads! First 5 minutes, First 5 Days...Great reminders as we distribute those devices in our 1:1 classrooms!
*40+ New Teacher Resources (again, I would argue that this is a great resource for ALL teachers!)

BE PROACTIVE

Wonder for the day...Why do crops need to be rotated?  If you and your teachers are not checking out the daily wonders at Wonderopolis.org, you are really missing out on daily opportunities to inspire curiosity and thinking in our students! You also can follow them on twitter-@wonderopolis 

"We are ALL influencers whether we want to acknowledge that or not. The question is; Are you a positive or negative influencer?"
Dr. Justin Tarte
@justintarte

"Sometimes our Stop-Doing list needs to be bigger than our To-Do list!"
Patti Digh

"Outstanding principals know that if they have great teachers, then they have a great school!"
Todd Whitaker
@Toddwhitaker


SHARPEN THE SAW




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