Please join us for an exciting Twitter chat with @Nearpod and Amber Calderon

@PeppyZestyTeach Nearpod's Senior Manager of Social Media and Content Marketing.

You don't wanna miss this night! Questions will be posted soon! Invite your colleagues! Thursday, Oct. 3rd at 7:30 pm following the School Lead call.

Our interview day on Saturday, September 28th went incredibly well. Almost 20 Vanguardians came out to interview over 40 candidates. There were a lot of great conversations and we've got a lot of very promising new members in our future. Thank you to the following members who volunteered their time on a Saturday to help make the day a success!

Crystal Billingslea, Tawanda Brown, Jennifer Evans, Justin Evans, Jill Fears, Trameika Gee-Spencer, Shunn Gonsalves, Lora Keys, Lin-Chiou Lee, Racquel Plummer, Tamela Richardson, Ellen Rubin, Sarah Severson, Carly Shaw, Tammie St John, Carlos Sutton, Patricia Thomas, Marisa Williams, Michael Witt, Megan Endicott, Chanel Johnson

Additional interviews are being conducted this week via Teams for applicants who weren't able to interview in person on Saturday. Thank you to Crystal Billingslea, Jill Fears, Renee Morris, Dana Munson, & Beth Valentine for participating in the virtual interview process!

Our applicants will find out if they made the team this Friday.

Vanleads, do you see any vanguard members at your school doing something awesome? Were they struggling with a tool before and are now using it? BRAG on our Vanguard members. If you see something awesome, please submit about your team member.

Please share your success stories with us! You may see your "Spotlight" in an upcoming Vanweekly!

Share Your Success!

Come Learn about design thinking as an approach to problem solving. Participants will learn how to identify challenges that are human centered, observe users to build empathy, form unique user insights based on observations and create learning-oriented experiments. Leave ready to bring design thinking techniques to your classroom and real world initiatives! In addition, participants will learn about the Fulton County Bright Spark Design Competition for students . Interested parties, will be eligible to coach a team of students in completing a design challenge and enter the resulting prototypes into the Bright Spark Design Competition.

Additional Information:

Contact Heather Van Looy (vanlooy@fultonschools.org) if you have additional questions.

Click here for more information about the Bright Spark Design Competition.

Experience Innovation | Learn Flyer

To Register:

• Click on Activity Catalogs in the Frontline Navigation tab and then choose Calendar

• Navigate to October 29, 2019

• Click on "Experience Innovation | Learn: A Design Thinking Workshop"

• Click the blue Sign Up Now button

If you later decide not to attend, please return to Frontline and remove yourself from the activity so that someone else may take that seat.

To Cancel:

• Click on Learning Plan in the Frontline Navigation tab

• Click on the blue Manage button next to the desired activity

• Choose the blue Drop option

• You will see the activity information confirmed. Leave the reason for dropping the activity

• Click the blue Drop this Request

• You will see confirmation that your request has been dropped and you will no longer see it on your Learning Plan

Want to stay current with the latest and greatest tools? Sign up for one of these upcoming workshops or webinars. Please share the flyer with others at your school.