10-2-15

QUOTE FOR THE WEEK

HONORING THE PAST

Thank You's, Kudos, and Recognitions

• Congratulation to Sabrina for surviving her first District Strategic Planning Day!
• Great admiration for our TOSAs who presented at Strategic Planning-Thank You Stephanie, Lisa, Cara and Katy!!

• Thank you also to Carlos and Caroline for their updates at the Strategic Planning Day!
• Kudos to Lisa Campbell, Estela Leidy, and Leigh Courtney for their leadership and presentations at the Writing Professional Learning days!
•  Have you checked out the Instructional Services BLOG?  Thank you to our TOSAs for taking on this challenge and making this dream a reality!

Innovate, Educate, Inspire
a community of learners in the Solana Beach School District

• Thank You to Debra Schade who visited many of our STREAM Labs this past week! And Thank You to our STREAM TOSAs for creating amazing spaces and engaging lessons!

**HAPPY PRINCIPAL MONTH!! SBSD LOVES OUR PRINCIPALS!!**

TREASURING THE PRESENT

What's Happening-Things You Need to Know

• 10/6  Solana Ranch Strategic Planning
• 10/7  Solana Pacific Strategic Planning
• 10/7 BTSA Social
• 10/8 Solana Santa Fe Strategic Planning
• 10/8  Board Meeting
• 10/14 Skyline Strategic Planning
• 10/15 Solana Vista Strategic Planning 
• 10/15 Shake Out Drill
• 10/16 Carmel Creek Strategic Planning

SHAPING THE FUTURE

Our Very Own PLN

• Leadership
• School Leaders-Gain from the October Oasis
• Essential Habits of an Excellent Educator
• Why Do More than Half of the Principals Quit after 5 years?

• Curriculum 
• 4 Tips for Writing in the Math Classroom
• 7 Videos that will make you immediately want to stat using comics in the classroom
• Teaching & Learning 
• Why the Most Important People in the Classroom are the STUDENTS!
• How to Move Away From One-Size-Fits-All instruction & Why you need to...
• 11 Ways to Teach Grit
• 5 Powerful Questions Teachers Can Ask Students

Tweets...

8 Tips to Create a Twitter Driven School Culture

 

Our Staff is Tweeting away...

 

It is great to see so many of our teachers and principals tweeting! If we don't tell our story, somebody else will!

A small word of caution-be careful not to include student faces in our tweets-I know it is sometimes hard to capture the student excitement without having them in our pics-be sure to only take pics of the tops and backs of their heads.  (<:

FINAL THOUGHTS TO PONDER