This Week at AES
1/25 - 1/29
This Week at a Glance
Monday 1/25
- KEA Jean Day
- Caleb out all day
- Paragon Kick-Off 1:30
Tuesday 1/26
- Lock Down 10:00 am
- Christ Club
- Staff Meeting: TBA
Wednesday 1/27
- Academic Team
Thursday 1/28
- $2 Jean Day
- Caleb out AM
Friday 1/29
- 5th grade to Students on Stage
- Sharpen the Saw
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Notes for the Week
This Week is an Intermediate Week
- Darn you Snow……If I didn’t talk with your team last week….This week I will need to meet with every grade level team. Be prepared the discuss the information below: After you complete a common assessment, what are your next steps for grading and organizing the assessment data? How do you determine what skills will be addressed for Eagle Time? How do you determine student groupings?
- As a PLC start working on your timeline to complete these items prior to April 30th :
- Development and Implementation of 1 Science Unit
- Implementation of Lucy Calkins Unit
- Examine current Essential Standards: Add standards that you believe are Essential to your grade level and Remove standards that your grade level do not believe are essential.
- Examine ELA and Math Standards and determine which non-essential standards are Secondary and Tertiary. Achieve the Core’s Major Works of the Grade should be used for Mathematics.
Hot Links
- Information on the Sessions with Sarah and Barbara can be found here.
- Please be mindful of your printing. When possible, always print to the copy machine and not actual printers. Printer printing costs 5 times the amount of printing to the copier. Reports of our largest printers can be found here.
Tweets of the Week
#Motivate
I'm a sucker for teacher movies. There is not one that I have seen that I don't get misty eyed (yes, I'm a girl). The clip above is one of my favorites. In the scene the teacher (Robin Williams) is working with a student who doesn't believe in his ability to write a poem. We deal with this issue all of the time. Some place, some where our students felt an inadequacy about school work. It is better to not do the work and be in trouble than to look dumb. But the teacher in this instance is not going to let him get away with that. He presses the issue and busts through the fear by not accepting anything but his best effort.
I'm guilty of getting frustrated when students do not try. We must always look beyond the lack of effort and find the reason behind their lack of effort. Regardless of what it is, we must find a way to bust through the fear, apathy, or defiance and press our students to see their potential. One last important step, just as Mr. Williams' character does, we must plant that seed with students by reminding them not to forget what they can do.