the RAH
October 19 - 23, 2015
Board of Education Study Session
Tuesday, Oct 20, 2015, 05:30 PM
1359 E St Louis St, Springfield, MO, United States
SPS Pay It Forward
Ozarks Food Harvest - Food Fight
Annual Performance Report
10/19 9-11am
10/21 9-11am
10/23 1-3pm
Senior Leadership Series
Tuesday, Oct 20, 2015, 08:00 AM
1359 East Saint Louis Street, Springfield, MO, United States
from Mayor Range-
This week, I attended a Summer Learning Conference in Baltimore with others from SPS. Two takeaways include: (1) Getting under-resourced students enrolled in summer school is critically important for students’ families and the communities in which they live. Under-resourced students who are not provided an engaging summer experience, complete with meals, experience summer learning loss and fall farther behind. When this cycle occurs summer after summer, the entire community feels the impact. (2) Community partnerships are important if we want summer learning to look different. Summer is a great time to cultivate relationships with business that want to assist in providing services to students, but on a smaller scale like (one to 4 weeks).
The literacy team met this week to plan the November job-alike, which includes the use of Lexia.
I appreciated this list of 52 Mistakes we make over and over again in education - http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/definition-of-insanity-in-education/?utm_content=buffer6e7f6
from Unconscious Incompetence to Unconscious Competence - from J
I ran across the above graphic the other day, and thought it was appropriate for what my daughter has been experiencing. Thinking about it, the cycle is very fitting and can be applied to many ventures we have embarked upon. The one that stands out in my mind the most at this point is using Tower as a tool to give feedback. Based upon my discussions with you as I'm rounding, we (as a collective group) are ranging from Consciously Incompetent to beginning of Consciously Competent. I believe what will keep us moving in the right direction is to continue to have conversations and calibrations with each other. Opportunities will continue to be provided, such as roundtable discussions and learning walks. If those do not work for you, pick up the phone and schedule time that works for you with a peer or two and continue the deliberate effort. Below is the same graphic (this one goes counter clockwise), minus the driving analogy, for your application to this and any other changes (IGNiTE, PBL, curriculum, site-specific, etc.)
I'm looking forward to continuing conversations this next week at Boyd, Robberson, Truman, Weller, Bingham, Delaware, Pittman and Rountree schools. I will be connecting to see what specific times work best for you.
Thank you for all you do! #ThankAPrincipal