Leading & Learning 3/9-3/13
Touching Base with weekly updates, tasks & info sharing
Fan Club, Celebrations and Birthdays!
Fan Club:
- From Charlotte: Thank you, Tressa for providing resources and helping me facilitate a vocabulary training at FHS new teacher meeting. I appreciate your time and passion for supporting our new teachers!
- From Leah: Thank you to Danielle, Sarah, Emily, Cassie, Lesley, Tracy M., Tracey N, Natalie, & Julianna for all the support in making our new coaching interview process a success on the interview nights. Furthermore, a big thanks to the Coaching Leadership team for creating meaningful tasks and rubrics to highlight potential in coaching candidates.
- From Lea: Thank you to Leah Howell and the amazing members of the coaching leadership team. The work you have done to collect and analyze data, implement thoughtful revisions and take coaching work to the next level has been incredible to see. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Hellos:
- It is with much excitement that we welcome Maggie Gardner to the team! Maggie joins us as a grant program coordinator and will be working very closely with the elementary ELA, Math and coaching teams over the next few years on some big projects we will talk more about on Friday. Maggie has recently relocated to FL, her native state, after spending some time in Virginia as a district literacy coordinator and elementary principal. Please join me in welcoming Maggie to the team!
Goodbyes:
- It is with utter sadness, heartbreak and yet immense pride that we share that our beloved Rachel Hatten has accepted a position as Director in the College of Education at USF and her last day will be March 27th. She will be leading professional development in her new position and we are excited for her to have this new opportunity. She will be greatly missed in our department as she has made a tremendous impact on our system.
- In coming days we will be posting positions as our ELA team changes, grows and evolves, more to come soon, but if you have thoughts on friends who would be great additions to our ELA team, please tell them to be on the look out.
Fan Club Challenge:
We challenge each of you to find something fabulous in the work of a peer this week and when you do, send a quick note to Sam and Lea so we can share the awesomeness.
Important Events and Reminders this Week:
Monday, March 9th
- CNA Site Visits
- Cambridge approval visits
- 8 a.m. Dual Enrollment Workgroup - Bldg. 2 Palm
- 10 a.m. Senior instructional Specialists & Program Coordinator Check in- Bldg. 2 Mangolia
Tuesday, March 10th
- CNA Site Visits
- Cambridge approval visits
- 8 a.m. Classroom Management Training - Bldg. 2 Mangrove
- 8:30 a.m. Title 1 Principal Meeting - Bldg. 2 Oak
- 8:30 AVID Coordinator Meeting - Bldg. 2 Palm
- 10 a.m. Better Lessons Meeting - Bldg. 2 Citrus
- 2 p.m. Secondary Design Team - Bldg. 3 TR C
Wednesday, March 11th
- Early Release Day- be sure you head to your SAC school!
- CNA Site Visit
- Cambridge approval visits
- 5:30 p.m. Rezoning Workshop - HES
Thursday, March 12th
- CNA Site Visits
- 8:30 a.m. PNPP - Bldg. 2 Mangrove
- 8:30 a.m. New Charter School Application Voting - Bldg. 2 Palm
- ESY Conference Calls
- Secondary: 1:00pm
- Elementary: 2:00pm- https://zoom.us/j/514042866
Friday, March 13th
- 8:00am- COMPLETE YOUR TIMESHEET FOR WEEK!
- 8:30 a.m. Department Meeting - Sign Up for Breakfast Potluck...lunch is on Lea
- 2 p.m. Coaching Leadership - Bldg. 2 Citrus
- 2 p.m. New Teacher Meeting - Bldg. 2 Cypress
Priority & General Professional Development Offerings
This year, schools are asked to engage with the appropriate school based specialist, Senior Specialist, and/or Leah Howell to make plans for priority PD days in terms of facilitation, planning, and/or both. There are NOT designated days for priority PD this year, but open across June and July depending on funding schools desire to use. Keep in mind to keep designated days held on calendars like OLL retreat and specific training that OLL staff might attend like IB/Cambridge training, etc.
The flyer & PD menus of support shared with schools can be found at the following link:
Please note: Together We Lead occurs June 9-11 (not June 9-10 as the original flyer stated)
Financial Literacy Expo- Volunteers Needed
The Financial Literacy Expo will be held on April 6th at Sunlake High school from 5-8 p.m. The event will be similar to last year with valued financial experts in the cafeteria and informational sessions available throughout the evening. We would love your help if you are able to assist. Please use this link to sign up. You can flex time for the time you volunteer. We really appreciate your help. Please reach out to Tina or Odalis with questions related to this event.
Monday, Apr 6, 2020, 05:00 PM
Sunlake High School, Sunlake Boulevard, Land O Lakes, FL, USA
Site Visits: Continue this week
Thank you for taking time to sign up for site visits. If you are still seeking support in identifying which visits you should prioritize, please reach out to Lea Mitchell or Leah Howell.
Click Here for Site Visit Logistics
Click Here for Site Visit Schedule
Meetings- Action Required: Due 3/13/2020
Please access this document and begin to identify proposed dates for work groups, committees, cross department meetings for 20-21 school year. We are seeking suggestions on cells that are highlighted yellow for now. More to come later!
OLL's Learning Corner- A place to share and learn together
This Learning Corner is a space to share what we are reading, listening to, reflecting on, etc. Please send any and all items to Lea with a small note about the item you are sharing.
This week:
Continuing the discussion we started during calibration about racial equity in public education. Here is the first episode in a podcast titled, The Complexion of Teaching and Learning. Enjoy the listening, learning and reflecting on how you can take knowledge gained and apply to your current efforts in making our system awesome for each student and adult we serve. UnBoundEd offered the questions below to guide reflections and future conversations.
- How does this history make us rethink our current practices as educators? (principal, teacher, teacher’s assistant, etc.)
- Do we recognize any systemic or cultural patterns during our time period that behave similarly to the time period we just explored?
- How does this history make us rethink our interactions with students (of color)?
Who's buddy are you?
Calendar Coordination
Where's our (OLL) stuff?
There is lots to keep up with, but most of our stuff can be found in these three locations.
OLL Resources Sharepoint