TO DO:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Make sure you have the annual admin BBQ<\/strong> on your calendar for Monday, June 17th at noon here at the Ed Center. The dress is casual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hot off the presses… All MS health teachers will be having a half-day (morning) training with the RESPONSE curriculum on day 189<\/strong> – Friday, Aug. 30. Please notify each of your health teachers of this<\/em> as this is the first time it is being announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n THIS and THAT:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here is a Culture of Care update<\/a> from Sean – please take some time to read it, even if you were not part of the pilot this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here is another “hot off the presses” item that will take a bit more explaining than what you’ll be getting today, but wanted to provide you with enough information so you don’t have an “I have no idea what you are talking about” moment if someone asks you a question. Please reach out to me for additional information or any questions you might have at this point. We plan to have a .167 MS Literacy Coach<\/strong> position posted internally by next Friday. This position will be a current classroom MS teacher (of any endorsement area) who has an interest in doing some coaching around disciplinary literacy with her\/his first and second-year teacher peers. Dean Richards will be working directly with this individual and a HS disciplinary literacy coach. This is all part of a heightened district focus on literacy PD provided to our new hires. There will likely be a preference of where this .167 coach is teaching, based on the number of new hires (last two years) at that building. Here is a one-page document that helps provide a bit more context<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SPO needs your help again this year to ensure all SPED case managers (SPED teachers and SLPs) have completed and finalized their IEP processes and documents prior to checking out for the summer. Last year we asked that sites add a box on your check-out form that says, \u201cAll IEP documents finalized<\/strong>.\u201d Once all paperwork has been finalized, the SPO office will send each case manager and email indicating that they are “all clear” with their paperwork. It will be the case manager\u2019s responsibility to provide you a copy (or forwarding) the email from our office. Please<\/em> don\u2019t let them check-out until this has been documented. Please note, we will be sending frequent reminders to case managers on the days leading up to June 14th, so there should not be any surprises. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In this recent Education Week article<\/a> (May 14, 2019), best-selling author Daniel Pink shares four ideas on “How Schools can Spend Time more Wisely<\/strong>.” We’ve cracked the code on one of these, and I found the other three worth sharing with you and thinking about how\/if they might fit into your schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n REMINDERS:<\/p>\n\n\n\n A reminder of some information from Kerry regarding math by-pass process<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n TO DO: Make sure you have the annual admin BBQ on your calendar for Monday, June 17th at noon here at the Ed Center. The dress is casual. Hot off the presses… All MS health teachers will be having a … Continue reading