Oakwood Principal's Office
What's Going on in the Principal's Office?!
Faculty & Staff Notes
What a great first week of school! The routines and procedures are coming along quite well. I have been observing teachers teaching & re-teaching the proper hallway procedures, classroom procedures, cafeteria procedures, and arrival/dismissal procedures. During lunches this week I visited with students from each of the 7 teams to ask them what I am calling #oakwoodquestions ... you will see what they had to say when you scroll down. Some of you told me toward the end of the week that your students were doing well with their lessons and learning. I cannot wait to be in the classrooms to see the learning in action!
The purpose of this flyer is to share news and information with you to keep you informed of what is coming up for Oakwood as well as for me to share my observations during the week, the latest education news on the internet, and professional development videos. I hope you find this form of communication useful to keep you informed of what is going on as well as challenge you to keep learning.
Jeff
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You can see what the students had to say by clicking here.
If you use twitter in your classroom, or would like to see one example of how twitter can be used in your classroom, this is a prime example. Have students tweet with a specific hashtag (#) in their tweets. Then you can search the # to create a timeline (story) using a program called storify.
For this story I used the following #oakwoodquestions I then used storify to organize the tweets to share with you here. I will be more than happy to work with you one on one or put together a small group to help you learn how to use twitter in the classroom, just let me know.
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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. ~Edwin Land
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Week at a Glance
Tuesday: Faculty Meeting... Library 4:10
Wednesday: Success Team Meeting 8:30-12:00, Windsor Pointe Back to School Event 4:00-5:00
Thursday: Counselors' Meeting 10:00-1:30
Friday: 5th Grade Field Trip to George Bush Library
- The campus leadership team meeting involves the department heads, team leaders, and administrators.
- All faculty are expected to attend the faculty meeting, para-professionals that attend can count hours toward comp time credit.
- Success team meetings involves both Mr. Mann & Mrs. Ramirez attending district level admin meeting at the transportation center.
- Counselor meeting involves Mrs. Haferkamp attending district level counselor meeting at central office.
- All 5th grade students will attend the GBL field trip. Mrs. Ramirez is the contact for this field trip.
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Professional Development Opportunity
This CSISD Technology video was created this summer by Stormy Hickman and myself as a part of an ongoing participation in a program called Learning in the Digital Age. This video highlights different district activities that utilize technology with student learning.
Students use different tools to learn. Part of our challenge is to meet the students where they are in the learning. Utilizing different technology tools will help us in reaching the students where they are in their learning. What technology tools do you use in your teaching? What technology tools would you like to use but you are unsure of your next steps? Lets talk about it. Come by during your conference period this week and start a conversation. I am here to help you.
Think. Achieve. Succeed.
JM
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Oakwood Intermediate School
Email: jmann@csisd.org
Website: http://ow.csisd.org/
Location: 106 Holik Drive, College Station, TX
Phone: 979-764-5530
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Twitter: @OakwoodIntermed