TMS BLIF Update
November 20, 2015
Duties
Thanksgiving Dinner
Cultural Exchange with Public Schools in Beijing, China
Please make sure that your school families are aware of the following:
Iredell-Statesville Schools is partnering with the public schools of Beijing, China for a cultural exchange program which will begin February 2016. The district is looking for host families that will consider taking these students into homes in our community. Our Chinese students will be here for 3 weeks in February and return for the entire 2016-2017 school year.
If you would like to be considered as a host family, please contact Executive Director of Secondary Education, Kelly Cooper at kcooper@iss.k12.nc.us. Host families will be compensated $900/month to offset the living expenses.
Recommended by Kelly Cooper
Professional Development
EVAAS
The 2014-15 individual teacher Value-Added reports will not be made available to teachers until the evening of Nov. 19. School users with a Value-Added report will receive an email once the reports are available on the web. Also, the evaluation dashboards (standard six and eight) are not part of this release and will not be available until later this month.
Due to the secure nature of this information, secondary authentication is required for viewing individual teacher reports or the district/school teacher summary report. The UID is not the same as your EVAAS username noted below. It is the ten-digit state ID number that has replaced the Social Security number in state databases. The UID may be available on your paystub. Your EVAAS administrator and human resources department have access to this number as well. EVAAS support staff cannot provide this number to users. The password needed for the secondary authentication is the same password you used to enter the EVAAS website.
Please note, in compliance with State policy, passwords expire every 90 days, so you may be prompted to reset your password upon your first login.
Just For Fun
99 Reasons Teachers Rock-21-25
21. Teachers tweet (by the thousands) to stay on top of the best instruction ideas. Search #educhat, #ntchat, #teachertuesday or follow @teachhub to get started
22. Many consider teaching a vocation more than a profession – that’s an idealist’s way of saying the pay stinks.
Teachers rock, because for the most part, we LOVE what we DO and that makes all the difference to our students!! They need to know we enjoy being in that room with them, teaching them! ~ Juliann Frangella
23. Teacher fight for their rights, at the Wisconsin protests and beyond.
24. The average teacher spends 11.6 hours a week on non-compensated duties.
25. Socrates is considered one of the world’s first formal teacher and he was imprisoned and put to death for spurring others to question society.
A Bi-Partisan Activity
Posted on October 17, 2013 by tattooteacher
At the end of the day today, I was asking the kids questions from BrainQuest. One was “What are the two main political parties in the U.S.?”
One of my wiggliest and most impulsive kids shot a hand up into the air, and made the universal “ooh! ooh!” sound that means oh man, I KNOW this!
So I called on him.
“Ballroom dancing!” He yelled.
Then immediately followed with “Wait, what was the question?”
Tacos > School
Posted on October 15, 2013 by tattooteacher
At the end of the day, I was walking a line of kids to their bus. The last one in line happened to be one of mine.
Before he got on, he turned his big blue eyes on me, got a thoughtful expression, and said, “School just isn’t my thing.”
Then he leaned in closer.
“What is my thing?” He said, before I could even ask.
He leaned in even closer.
“Tacos. It’s tacos.”
Then he got on the bus.