Reporting our Findings

Teachers,

Here is your weekly dose of “5-Point Friday. 

Reporting our Findings—

I appreciate your help with the PD for next year. I think you have some great ideas on what you want and we will do what we can to set these trainings up so you can get the best professional development possible. We are talking with a couple trainers from the State office that will come down and teach you more about phonics (lower grades) and writing (upper grades). These are the two we are starting to set up right now. The next question I have is if we have PD come more than once, how often would you like them to coms to you have enough time to implement and write down questions before we have them come again? 6 weeks? 8 weeks? We would love to hear your thoughts on this. Send me an email and let me know. 

We are looking at this information and looking for the best options for training we can find. We have some amazing people within our district that we will use. We will get more information on what specifically we can do as we get closer to next year with those persons. There were also some other great suggestions that we will look for next year also. Thank you for your help with guiding our PD.

Quote I’m pondering —

“We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.” 

― Archilochus

What I’m watching —

NCAA Softball Player Carried by Opponents After Injury

This is what teamwork and Sportsmanship is all about. How does this relate to us with our students? With our fellow teachers? With our parents?

Favorite Article This Week —

Transforming School from Performance to Learning

I have talked to you about growth mindset before and one of the speakers at the Title 1 Conference spoke about it. This is an article he wrote about growth mindset in schools. Love the learning zone vs. performance zone comparison. What can we do to make outle classrooms a learning zone?

A Big Thank You —

Thank you Ines. I don't think I can say thank you enough for all you have to deal with. You are the one everyone sees first in he school. You know everyone in the school. You deal with my translating issues. Ines we would be lost without you. Thank you for all you do. And thank you for keeping our school organized with inventory. It is coming up and I know you are gearing up for it. We all appreciate your work, even if I had to give up Coke for, what is it now? Oh ya, 44 days. Thank you for all you do. Thank you.

I appreciate all of you and your hard work. Have a wonderful weekend.