Monday, November 3, 2014

11/3/14 MMM

It's the beginning of a new month.  I can't believe how time flies.  We've accomplished so much and still there is so much ahead of us.  
A reminder that I'll be looking at standards 3 and 6 for the next few weeks.  I have all but a few of you who have signed up for a time so if you haven't, sign up for a time soon using the following scheduler.  People have told me it is pretty easy.  Those who need to have observations have receive an email with the same link to a scheduler.  Those who are on PD or Goal setting years have also received an email stating as much.  I had forms attached to your emails and available in the Faculty Handbook under Important Documents.  If you did not get an email, please let me know.

I want to give you a little insight into the reason I chose to put the weekly memo in the form of a blog.  One of the biggest reasons is the opportunity to be interactive with you.  I know we see each other every day, but this presents another way for us to communicate and collaborate with each other. I post thoughts and ideas to this blog in hopes that you will respond via the comment section at the end of every post.  I hope you will take more advantage of this.  Many of you have commented and I appreciate it.  I will also make a better effort to respond to you when you do comment.  That way it will be more interactive.  I would also encourage you to comment to each other.  We can all learn from each other.  In saying this, I am presenting the same question I did in last week's post.  If we had the audience of an expert in the education field, what would be a question you would want to ask him/her?  Please post your questions below and please respond to these questions if you have an answer.  You all have expert advice in many areas of education.  I know I've learned so much from you.

To Be Aware of
  • You have all received emails telling you what kind of evaluation you are on this year.  For those who are on an observation year, the standards you need to pay attention to are 1-3, 6-7 & 10.  For this month, we will focus on 3 and 6.
  • Don't forget to sign up for an observation time if you haven't yet.  Use this link.
  • I'm leaving this up here for those who still haven't signed up for @remind. Please sign up for both your grade level and faculty.  If you have misplaced the instruction sheets, let me know.  Here is the phone number and code for the faculty reminder:  



























  • This week my #NoOfficeDay will be Tuesday.
  • Thank you for those that left me messages for kids so I can start up my Friday Phone Calls.  Please continue sharing with me what those amazing kids are doing.
Cleaning Schedule
Sept.  Office
Oct. 6th Grade
Nov.  5th Grade
Dec.  3rd Grade
Jan.  2nd Grade
Feb. 1st Grade
Mar. 4th Grade
Apr. SPED and Computer Specialist
May  Kinder, Life Skills, & P.E. Specialist

Lunch Schedule
1st
11:31 Hull
11:32 Mac
11:33 McKell
11:34 Sharma
2nd
11:25 Herman
11:26 Higgins
11:27 West
11:28 Connell
3rd
11:56 Wilson
11:58 Whipple
12:00 Nichols
12:02 Wright
12:03 Schafer
4th
11:55 Fiorucci
11:57 Crossley
11:59 CJohnson
12:01 Austin
5th
12:20 MJohnson
12:22 Oswald
12:24 Day
12:26 Green
6th
12:21 Allen
12:23 Krall
12:25 Rooke
12:27 Paravato

Save the Date
11/4 - Voting day.  PLEASE go vote!
11/5 - CTL mtg w/ BYU 8:15
11/6 - Alio Roundtable 3-4 Kyle & Sheila
11/7 - Central Division Collaborative Cohort 

*Look at the Faculty Calendar on Google for other events.

Happy Birthday


Celebrations
  • Congratulations to BYU for finally winning a game.  This may come as insincere, but I hope Utah will recover from their close loss to ASU.

2 comments:

  1. After visiting Finland and talking with the successful educators there, I learned that high stakes testing is not apart of their educational culture.
    As an educator here, in the US, how do I teach for understanding and still incorporate the testing that is required for our "numbers" driven culture?

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  2. It is tough that we have these tests, but I look at them as gaging points for how well I'm doing. My question is, what does Finland's educational culture look like and how does that motivate kids to learn? What do they have in place of high stakes testing?

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