Friday Focus-Admin Style
November 22, 2013
Quote for the Week
"Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room."
Michael Smith
Looking Forward-Things You Need to Know
11/25-11/29 So Much to be Thankful for...Enjoy your break and your families!
12/2 Leadership Meeting @ 1:30 & Tour of Solana Ranch @ 3:00 (Wear appropriate shoes)
12/3 Negotiations
12/4 & 12/5 Grade 3-6 Common Core Math PD. Please plan on attending one or the other.
EduAwesome Drops in Our Bucket...
- Kudos to the Negotiations Team (Lisa D, Terry D, Carlos, Sal, Becky Gauthier, Matt Singly, Katie Zimmer, Vicki Pilling and Jeff Montag)! Thank you for your steadfast dedication to the process!
- Thank you to SV, SH and SSF for welcoming Bill Banning and his Goleta Team. It was so awesome to see how far we have come with Mobil Technology and TK! Bill was very complimentary of our schools and our programs!
- Hooray to the K-2 teachers who were able to attend one of our evening Math Cohort trainings. Such dedication-it's not easy to attend a training after teaching all day-and the week before Thanksgiving Break!
- A Drop in the Bucket to our Computer Lab Techs, TOSA's and Caroline for beginning to develop our plan for Hour of the Code and a mini unit on SCRATCH! More info on this later.
- Yeah for Nancy, Tobie, Jerry, Lisa D, Caroline, John and Debra for attending the STEM Conference in Sacramento! It sounds like it was well worth the trip! Can't wait for you all to share your insights!
Video of the Week
Blogs, Tweets and Pins-Our Very Own PLN
- An interesting spin on the SAMR Model as it relates to assessment...
- The Complete Guide to #hashtags for Education
- A great # is #leadership
Dr. Justin Tarte @justintarte1h
Completing 50 rote math problems that look exactly the same doesn’t exactly inspire passion & enthusiasm toward learning. #edchat; #justsayin
- Timely Articles/links to send out to teachers:
Final Thoughts to Ponder...
"Leadership is the key to 99% of all successful efforts."
Erskine Bowles
We have so many innovative projects in our schools...What successful effort are you leading? Just pondering...