Friday Focus
April 29, 2016
Summary and Non-Summary Year Evaluations
Instead, please share with me some times and days that would work best for you within the month of May. This could be before school, after school, lunch, or during the school day when you do not have students. Please use the Google Form below to enter possible times and days that work best for you. Nic and I will do our best to accommodate your needs.
If you are in your summary year, you will need to complete the following activities prior to meeting with Nic and/or myself:
- Artifacts for Domains 1 and 4 uploaded to your Google Doc provided by Nic.
- Instructional walk observations reviewed and aligned with Domains 2 and 3. (I plan on each classroom teacher having at least ten (10) walks completed by early May.)
- A final rating for each of the 21 components with the Danielson Framework for Teaching.
If you are in a non-summary year, we will need less time to discuss your progress in the evaluation system.
Best,
Matt
Innovation Nights 2016-2017
East Junior High Volunteers
Reading Surveys
Site Licences for iPad Apps
Popplet: "In the classroom and at home, students use Popplet for learning. Used as a mind-map, Popplet helps students think and learn visually. Students can capture facts, thoughts, and images and learn to create relationships between them."
MathBoard and MathBoard Fractions: "More than just standard drills, MathBoard encourages students to actually solve problems, and not just guess at answers. This is done by providing multiple answer styles, as well as a scratchboard area where problems can be worked out by hand. Students can also turn to MathBoard's Problem Solver for further help. This powerful teaching feature walks students through the steps required to solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division equations. Additionally, the included quick reference tables serve as a valuable learning tool."
Poetry Corner
For A New Beginning
In out-of-the-way places of the heart,
Where your thoughts never think to wander,
This beginning has been quietly forming,
Waiting until you were ready to emerge.
For a long time it has watched your desire,
Feeling the emptiness growing inside you,
Noticing how you willed yourself on,
Still unable to leave what you had outgrown.
It watched you play with the seduction of safety
And the gray promises that sameness whispered,
Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent,
Wondered would you always live like this.
Then the delight, when your courage kindled,
And out you stepped onto new ground,
Your eyes young again with energy and dream,
A path of plenitude opening before you.
Though your destination is not yet clear
You can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is at one with your life's desire.
Awaken your spirit to adventure;
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;
Soon you will be home in a new rhythm,
For your soul senses the world that awaits you.
by John O’Donohue
(Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.)
PTC Meeting
Thursday, May 19, 2016, 06:00 PM
Howe Elementary School, 8th Street North, Wisconsin Rapids, WI, United States
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Howe Elementary School
Email: matthew.renwick@wrps.net
Website: http://www.wrps.org/schools/howe/index.cfm
Location: 221 8th Street North, Wisconsin Rapids, WI, United States
Phone: 715-424-6772
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/howeelementaryschool
Twitter: @HoweElementary