March 9, 2018

Just another thank you for all of the care, concern, patience, hugs, love and such that you all have shown and given to me and my family over the past few days.  It has truly been appreciated.....

I could not resist posting this!  Check out this EASY read on PD and the ways that WE, as adults would MUCH rather have PD versus the old school way of sitting and getting!  Seriously, take these ideas and use them in your lessons with our kids!  It's everything from having "unconferences" to choice boards to blended learning and more!  We are DEFINITELY on the right track as I think back to our own GVMS PD Retreats and cannot wait to incorporate even more of these ideas!

Seriously, who wants to continue to teach a "bad" lesson where none of the students actually got the standard taught?  NOBODY.  We must ensure we are providing Good, no GREAT, instruction for ALL.  In order to do this, it takes careful lesson planning, collaboration with your colleagues on ideas and/or successes they may have and a conscious effort to remove any and all barriers that get in the way of students accessing the standards and content.  Two of the MOST successful and effective strategies are incorporating Academic Conversations and Universal Design for Learning (Do it ONCE, do it RIGHT!) into your daily lessons!  Click on the links for ideas!

HERE ARE SOME OF THE SHOTS FROM TWITTER AND AROUND OUR CAMPUS THIS WEEK!   SEND US A TEXT TO COME VISIT AS WE LOVE IT!!

     

    

    

SUPER HERO SHOUT OUTS!  KEEP THEM COMING!  We love the "I Noticed..." and will add as many as we can!

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• SUPER awesome shout out to Tamia, Josiah, Tiffany, Aurea, and Sue for joining us at the Student of the Year Board meeting on Thursday!
• SUPER awesome shout out to Josiah for placing all of Lacey's students for English! ~Heather T.
• SUPER awesome shout out to Heather T for taking care of the English placements and organizing it all for us!
• SUPER awesome shout out to our English Department for their hard work and collaboration on our collab day! ~Heather T.
• SUPER awesome shout out to Sue for organizing the Math placement and MDTP recommendations!
• SUPER awesome shout out to Josiah for ALL of the support and guidance he is giving to Morace's sub and Pereira's sub!
• SUPER awesome shout out to Elizabeth for the snacks that she gives one of my students who needs it before lunch! ~Julie
• SUPER awesome shout out to Lynn, Heather P. and Katherine for having MORE after school math boot camps to get our kids caught up!
• SUPER awesome shout out to Sue, Carol, Dave, Brenda and Cristina for some awesome ideas and suggestions during Site Council!
• SUPER awesome shout out to Ken, Cristina, Tamia, Sue, Ryan, Jamie, Katherine, Lorraine, Julie, Aubry Allison, Heather T., Elizabeth and Barb for writing 69 Good News Referrals for March already!!