MS Admin Intro
Updates and Think Abouts for the '15-'16 School Year
We believe that...
Aim High!
Goals for 2015-2016 School Year
Instruction
- Herbert Simon
Technology
- Jennifer Fleming
School Culture
- John Maxwell
Week of September 28, 2015
Instruction
In this article from The Marzano Center, author Estelle Lischalk provides five concepts teachers should incorporate into their lessons to keep students' attention. Take a look at the article and identify two concepts you'll consider sharing with teachers during a post-observation conference.
http://www.marzanocenter.com/blog/article/5-ways-to-get-and-keep-your-students-attention/
Classroom Observation
Applying the Danielson Rubric
- rate the teachers performance. Cite specific evidence from the video that draws you to that conclusion.
- What suggestions would you offer to this classroom teacher to move her to highly effective?
Technology
Voxer
This article highlights how Voxer can be used to improve student and staff outcomes. Read through this article - much of which you may already know. What way(s) do you suggest using Voxer with staff?
Here's one way that I used Voxer to provide feedback to a math teacher -
School Culture
Staff
Over the summer, we discussed using the expertise in our building to build the staff's instructional effectiveness and capacity. One of the ways we discussed achieving this goal is by encouraging staff to visit the classroom of their colleagues.
October's Instructional Challenge
During the month of October, encourage three staff members to visit a colleagues classroom. Share the specific focus for the visit and then converse with the teacher after the visit to discuss what he/she noticed, or wondered.
Huge thank you to Steve for developing and using the Remind application to communicate with staff. Positive praise has been provided around the timely notifications about upcoming events. We're always seeking ways to improve what we do every day! Keep the ideas coming.
Parents
We're on our way to creating our parent book study. Thus far, three PFA parents are reading the book - Beyond The Bake Sale. During the next meeting with the executive board, we'll discuss specific steps the PFA board would like to take to actualize some of the suggestions offered in the book (e.g, Principals' Tea)
October's Parent Challenge
Make 5 positive phone calls home a week to the families of students you're working with. These can be parents that you've spoken to in the beginning of the school year, or the parents of at-risk students.
Crucial Conversations
Answer these two questions:
- What do you think about as you listen to the video?
- What situation have you been involved in where you should have had a crucial conversation, but did not.