TLC Newsletter
January 2016
This month's activities. . . .
December and January were busy months.
- Many co-teaching opportunities
- Teacher observations
- Continued growth with Professional Development in Benchmark Literacy, AIW, IPI and Growth Mindset studies.
- Programmable robots @ the Elementary Buildings
Teacher's have been working hard and we have many celebrations.
Teacher Leaders
Each month we will highlighting some of our teacher leaders who will be helping our staff throughout the year.
Dee Blanshan
Dee is a kindergarten teacher at LPC. She has been teaching K-2 for 35 years. She is our K-1 instructional coach. Dee enjoys, "Seeing the light bulb click and knowing they are on their way to a bright future."
Tracie Grosse
Tracie is a 3rd grade teacher at LPC. She is a mentor in our TLC program. Her responsibilities include helping and guiding new teachers at La Porte elementary.
Ryan Moody
Ryan teaches Social Studies and coaches at Union Middle School. Ryan is also a mentor. His job is important, because new teachers ask him for guidance and advice.
"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things."
--Ronald Reagan
Professional Development
Middle school and high school staff are having discussions about scoring AIW.
Mr. Fleshner is leading the meeting about instructional improvements with AIW.
Elementary staff are digging deeper into Benchmark Literacy's writing curriculum.
Helping Teachers
Dale Wambold helped Mike Bistline (HS Band Instructor) with adding instructional video links to his webpage.
Jenn Gates and Michelle Keegan are leading a meeting at the AEA 267 about Standards Based grading.
Corindy Stoakes is helping some kindergarten students with coding Dash and Dot.
Here is another view of Mrs. Stoakes helping with coding a robot.
Kindergarten guys are learning how to program robots.
Cory Lang (At-Risk Coordinator at the MS) is meeting with the Middle School staff.
The TLC team is meeting and sharing some new ideas that will benefit all teachers.
Celebrations!!
Jared Pospisil (Resource teacher at the HS) is happy to have many technology resources at his finger tips. He will incorporate them into his curriculum.
Video on coding Dash and Dot. Success!!!
Newspaper article in The Progress Review: LINK
"It's been a great year! Many things to celebrate. We are looking forward to finishing strong." ----- Corindy, Dale and Michelle.