TO DO:

• Enjoy meeting your next year’s 6th graders for the first time on Tuesday!  They will be excited to be in your building and creating a first impression of what MS will be like!

THIS AND THAT:

• Thank you!  A few weeks ago I asked to have someone from each school indicate the electives you currently offer on a Google form. This information is now collected and ready for you to review if you’d like to see what your fellow “tribe” members are offering. There are definitely some courses that all of our middle school are offering (music choices), but not all are offering the same (some percussion, some brass, some orchestra). I hope this is one more opportunity to see behind the curtain of what we are making available to our MS students.
• Educational institutions are known for being innovative. There is innovation in building design, in pedagogy, in curriculum materials, in leadership “best practices,” in well, just about anything.  This article by Mike Schmoker caught my attention in that he is advocating against innovation in education.  Curious for more? Read his article: “Whims, Fads, Opportunism, and Ideology.”

REMINDERS:

• We are meeting as a Horizontal (our last of this year) at PBMS on Monday.  (NOTE: This is a change of location from our original schedule.) We’ll meet in the PBMS library… and might even have time for a quick tour of ongoing construction occurring there! Here is a link to the agenda.  Please bring your laptop with you.  Let me know if you’d like to add anything to the agenda.