Onward!
We're moving forward with our professional development~
Professional Development Days
Each department will meet for one more full day & we'll hash out some of this stuff! We're making great progress and getting deeper into the process. Our next task is to get our standards and learning targets shortened so they'll 'fit' into Power School's format. The learning targets need to be 70 characters or less...yikes! The descriptor of each learning target can be much longer, but the text that will appear on the actual report card needs to be condensed.
Here's the plan:
Monday 3/20: Unified Arts
Tuesday 3/21: ELA/Reading
Wednesday 3/15: Social Studies
Thursday 3/16: Science
Friday 3/17: Math
The Special Education Department will be meeting as a team as well- we just need to figure out the best day & time-
We will still have March 24th as a PD Day for continued work!
Have a Fantastic Winter Break!
Habits of Work~
*The suggestion has been brought to the table that the categories on the rubric be simplified.
Currently they are:
Responsibility, Production, and Effort
Cooperation & Collaboration
Self-Direction
*We are considering changing those category names to:
Responsibility
Respect
Safety
If this change is made, the language in the descriptors won't change much, but will be sorted a little differently, but the overall gist will be the same. The reasoning behind this change is that a significant amount of effort and time has gone into the building-wide school rules of responsibility, respect, and safety. We don't want that to be dismissed or marginalized- and when you think about it, they encompass the habits we want everyone to have.
At the March faculty meeting, we will go over what that might look like-