{"id":769,"date":"2017-12-15T21:53:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T21:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/?p=769"},"modified":"2017-12-15T21:53:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T21:53:11","slug":"12-15-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/2017\/12\/15\/12-15-17\/","title":{"rendered":"12.15.17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TO DO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Please add this to your calendar: The <strong>TELL Survey<\/strong> (for all certified educators in Oregon) will be coming in February.\u00a0 Two years ago we piloted a similar survey for our classified staff and are planning to concurrently have this available again this year. In addition to receiving and being able to review your building&#8217;s results, there is also a District Leadership Team that reviews (and creates goals) based on our district&#8217;s data.\u00a0 Because we&#8217;d love your staff input, I&#8217;m thinking of offering a prize for the MS with the highest percentage of staff participation.\u00a0 Let me know if you have any ideas (without breaking my bank) of what might incentivize your staff!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>THIS AND THAT:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As you know, having an <strong>authentic audience<\/strong> for students to demonstrate her\/his learning to adds value and accountability.\u00a0 Quite simply, it makes learning more meaningful to the student (and very likely for the teacher as well!).\u00a0 Along this thinking, I recently ran across some examples of student speeches presented as part of Project Soapbox.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know a lot about this initiative, but believe the students get to choose her\/his own topic to speak on (another obvious learning engagement strategy) and it appears they present their speech to an audience (which I can only assume includes more than their class) at a &#8220;real&#8221; setting (auditorium with a podium and microphone).\u00a0 Creating a moment of learning and sharing of that learning like this wouldn&#8217;t take much additional effort on a teacher&#8217;s part, but I&#8217;m willing to bet the lasting memories and authentic learning on the student&#8217;s part would be forever.\u00a0 Here is an example of a Project Soapbox speech given by high school student <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=noTUvsrWe5g\">Christopher Watkins on bullying<\/a>.\u00a0 Let me know if you are aware of any teachers in your building creating other &#8220;moments&#8221; of learning for students &#8211; I&#8217;d love to share those in a future TRIBE update.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>REMINDERS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Principals, if you haven&#8217;t already, don&#8217;t forget to <strong>complete your SLGGs in TalentEd<\/strong>.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve met with each of you to discuss what your goals are (or your plan for them), which I&#8217;ve greatly appreciated.\u00a0 Thank you for making your goals meaningful to the work you are engaged in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TO DO: Please add this to your calendar: The TELL Survey (for all certified educators in Oregon) will be coming in February.\u00a0 Two years ago we piloted a similar survey for our classified staff and are planning to concurrently have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/2017\/12\/15\/12-15-17\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3852],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}