Celebrate Mondays!: 11-7-14

THINK WIN-WIN

PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST

11/10&11/11 Happy Veteran's Day
11/12 Walkthroughs continue at Solana Pacific-Team 2 (Elisa, Becky and Terri)
11/12 Envision Committee Meeting
11/13 Walkthrough @ Solana Santa Fe-Team 3 (Jerry and Lisa P)
11/13 School Board Meeting
11/14 Walkthrough @ Solana Ranch-Team 1 (Lisa D, Lisa R, Matt)
11/9 Congratulations to the Mother of the Bride!

SYNERGIZE

*What a great week of Walkthroughs! Thank you to all of the staff members at SV, SKY, SH and CC! Such amazing things happening at all of our schools! Check out our tweets (#sbsdedu) highlighting some of the highlights!

*Kudos to Katy and Cara for a Fabulous Math Committee Meeting. The prep from the day before's work group set the stage nicely for the meeting and as we plan for the future Math PD days!
*Thank you to John, Caroline and Tech for working with us to get the Core APP list resolved and put into place!
*A great big thank you to Monica for working with SDCOE to get all of the Eureka math materials printed! Whew! What a task!

BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND

Blogs/Articles/Videos for Instructional Leaders

The Disease of Being Busy...Something to think about for us and for our kids!
The Life of a Project -A great summary of the foundation of true STREAM Units-Project Based Learning (PBL)
9 Ways to Plan Transformational Lessons-Are you seeing these shifts in your classrooms?

I would suggest that we are in "the dip" with our New Progress Report-and that's OK-Because I know that by the end of the year, we will see the Possibilities of the Curve! Our job is to support our teachers as they move through this change.

ASCD Article on Standards Based Grading