Professional Development - We appreciate your conversation, sharing and feedback from our PD this week. Next steps will be planned using your exit slips. Several of you asked for the one of the other articles. They were emailed out on December 4th but I've also included links to them here:
- Purposeful Classroom (Chpt 6 - Identifying Outcomes Related to Purpose)
- Seven Strategies (Chpt 3 - Effective Feedback)
- Advancing Formative Assessment (Chpt 3 - Feedback that Feeds Forward)
Thank you to Morgan Singleton for being with us over the past few months as our art teacher. We appreciate the time and effort you put in at MGE and wish you the best of luck at WE after the break! Also, thank you to Abbey Doering for being a part of MGE the past eight weeks as Meggan Jone's student teacher. Good luck to you and congratulations on graduating!
Family University is set for Thursday, January 17. Registration for parents, students and community members will be going out next Thursday or Friday. We have posted the event on our website and Facebook. Please find ways to promote it among your students and families as the event nears.
ALL STAFF: AESOP - PLEASE, PLEASE check out your AESOP settings today or this weekend. Staff may mark their preferred subs accordingly but please do not exclude all but your preferred list. This makes it very hard (nearly impossible) to fill a job through the automated process. If you have or are going to exclude a sub, you need to let Diann and I know who it is and why so we have record of it. If a number of teachers have excluded a sub, we may need to make a decision at the building level.
CHANGE: Our all-staff holiday meal will be on Tuesday (not Friday) of next week. The Olive Garden will be served for lunch starting at 10:40am.
Today - SPED PLC (7:45-8:30am in Library)
Tues - Staff Lunch; Code 411 Graduation @ 2:30pm
Wed - 5th Grade PLC @ 2:45p (CHANGE)
Fri - Winter Parties @ 2:30p (early out schedule)
Fri - Related Arts District PLCs (2-4p)
Students may need that extra smile next week. Bring it. Wear it. Use it.
Optional Assignment
Take time with your team and your students next week to reflect upon the 2012 year. We have seen many changes and much growth in ourselves, our building, district and world. The end of the calendar is a great time to reflect and set goals for next year. As the 1/2 way point of the school year nears, it would be a good time to do the same for the 2nd half of the year. There are a number of "year in review" websites and videos out there you may also be able to use in your classroom to help kids reflect upon the world outside of Waukee and that could be a great entry point for engaging reading, writing and social studies lessons this "crazy" last week before the Christmas break. Here is one my brother sent me this morning to get you started...
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