Friday, February 27, 2015

2/27/15

THINK WIN-WIN


PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST 

3/2  Negotiations!  Good Luck Team!
3/2  Leadership-Time to talk about STREAM-bring your clever ideas and STREAM dreams
3/5  STEAM Connect Conference at Qualcomm
3/5  Temporary Teachers Meeting with Sal
3/6  Ed Coalition  

SYNERGIZE 

*Wahoo!!! Our Common Core TOSA's ROCKED the Primary Math PD days this week! Simply Amazing!
*Congratulations to Stephanie for setting up and coordinating a TERRIFIC Professional Development on STEMScope Digital Curriculum!  Loved that the focus was on Pedagogical shifts and not just the resources!
*Thank you to our Kinder teachers for serving on the Kinder Task Force sub committee!  They are working very hard to get a protocol in place for our district!
*Thank you to Erik Johnson and Tabor Samuelson for working so hard to get the Summer Intervention program organized-working with the sites, interviewing candidates and assigning teachers to classrooms!
*Loved spending time with so many at the USD Spotlight on Education and hearing Kevin Honeycutt!  

BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND

Blogs/Articles/Videos for Instructional Leaders
Interesting ideas about 21st-Century Libraries:  The Learning Commons
10 Things That All Educators Should Commit To!
8 Things We Can't Accept in Education

Love This!!!  
"People listen to your words; they observe your actions.  It's your actions that determine if they listen a second time..."

What's your school motto?  (See article below about What's your motto in the classroom?) I challenge all of us to develop a motto for your school or department!

SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND

Blogs/Articles/Videos for Teachers

BE PROACTIVE

Terrific Twitter Tweets
•"Dance with your own greatness today!  Don't be a wallflower in your own life. The rhythm is your heartbeat and it only plays so long.  This is your song...dance!" @Kevinhoneycutt
•"Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion." @ASCD 
•"Take responsibility for the energy that you bring into a space!" @ipdx15
•"If teachers can get in each other's classrooms then all teachers can become like the best teachers!" @ToddWhitaker
•"It's good for people to think differently about education, but what really matter is for them to act differently!" @ToddWhitaker
•"Educators going to resist most new stuff cause they don't feel like they have gotten good at what was new last year." @cybraryman1
•"The #oscars would be really boring without twitter!  (just sayin!)
•"We are shifting from giving a 'report card' to parents where we simply 'report' results back to parents.  Instead, we are shifting to a 'Progress Report' which communicates the 'progression of their child's learning toward their year end goals/standards." Becky Gauthier (ok...it wasn't a Tweet, but it was in her Monday Memo!)



Hmmm....What are we doing about this??

SHARPEN THE SAW


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