May 31, 2013

HAPPY FRIDAY!

Info for EVERYONE!

Remember:   Inservice Review will be Monday.  Please arrive in the conference room, 2113 around 315.  The committee is suppose to be here at 330.   It will probably be a question and answer time.  They as questions and we answer to the best of our knowledge. 

I am going to take Wed - Friday off.  June 5-8 and maybe leave early on Tuesday(depending on Tim's schedule). 

Monday AM, I will print the final batch of confirmation letters.  WHEW! I think we will have everyone registered. 

Thanks to everyone who made the OGAP sessions a success.  It truly was a TEAM effort.   Melanie and Amber did a great job presenting/facilitating.

Specialists:   

June  12, I need to meet with Polly and Shelley about the Administrator PD for June 19-20.  I am going to need your help to manage a group.   


PD week is filling up.  

August 12:  Quality Questioning at White Plains HS 8 - 11
August 13:

• Quality Questioning at Pleasant Valley Elementary 8-11 and Thinking Through Quality Questioning 1-3. 
• Hokes Bluff Middle Data: 9-11 (need a volunteer)
• Saks E data:  8-10 (need a volunteer)

August 14: Saks Middle and High Quality Questioning 8-12 and Data Saks Middle, 1-3
August 15:  PLT PD - beginning PLTs presentation at Walnut Park - 8-12

Info for Everyone
PreService Training for JSU is set.  Dates have been approved.
Tara, Polly, Amber, Kay and Lynn Vaughn will be involved in these sessions. 
We will provide the participant guides.
It will be 3rd grade, year 1 so we will need Plant Growth and Development and Chem Test as well a a 3rd grade GLOBE kit and a 3rd math kit and bundle.   We should have one left from training. 
We will not need bundles for science guides for everyone.  Probably 6 science TGs total and one or two sets of bundles.  (we should have that left from training this summer).
 

	Group A	Group B	Group C
Math	Sept 12, 13, 19, 20	Sept 5, 6, 19, 20	Sept 5, 6, 12, 13
Science	Sept 4, 5, 6	Sept 11, 12, 13	Nov 13, 14, 15
GLOBE	Nov 8	Sept 4	Sept 20

May 10, 2013

May 10, 2013

• Everyone:  Please meet Monday, May 20th for a brief staff meeting.  There are a few things I need to share with everyone. 9:00
• Tara, Kay, Amber and I need to talk "Preservice" Monday after the staff meeting.

• Everyone:  Let's plan for a staff meeting on 9:30 on May 28th so that we are all on the same page for summer institute/training.  What needs to be done, etc...   I know OGAP is May 29-31 and the session for Calhoun County administers is May 29 and trainers is May 30 but we need to get together.   
• May 29 is the Leading Through Quality Questioning for Calhoun Admins.
• May 30 is the Coaching Conversations PD for our new trainers .   If Polly and Shelley are available then, I would appreciate you sharing facilitating tips, working with adults, etc.  I have activities to take them through each chapter of CC.  

• Math Extras for SI 2013.  There are some things that need to be made.   Please help get these made this week (May 20-24) if you have the time.

For next year:  Specialists

• I'm just thinking out loud and sharing some thoughts for next year.   All of this is up for discussion.  Just sharing my thoughts, so please don't read it as a must do
• An idea for next year:   develop a Survey to send to teachers after a cycle at a school.   Help them to be reflective, give us good data and also helps us to be reflective.  Use survey monkey, kwik survey, etc
• Someone volunteer to put together a committee of three (elementary math, elementary science and middle school/high school specialist) to develop a way so taht between staff meetings we know everyones agenda for a week.   Calendar is an option nbut it needs to be more specific.  ie what classes are schedule, who are you meeting with, where, etc.   I will leave the how up to the committe on how to communicate the specifics of each specialists agenda but this is a real need.  Lots of reasons, one is if someone calls, text, they are sick then how can we communicate to the school what was scheduled other than the specialist not just showing up.   Also, it will help me and help with documentation for what is going on in each school.  This has been a strange year but I feel completely lost as to what is going on.  I don't want this to be a burden or just somehitng else to do, but we need a better way of communicating what we are all doing each week.  I'm open to ideas.  The committee  can bring recommendations, send them to me and then I will meet with the committee and we will come to a decision.  I don't think the Activity Log has plans to return at this time.   
• Another topic for the committee:  Please think about this:   Let's also visit how we can have some type of communication at the begining of each year with all teachers.   It can be an email, it can be a flyer sent to teachers at schools, just something that connects us with them at least once a year.  Even if it is just a postcard at the begining of the year.  UseEdumundo, etc. 

• Change in CCRS dates for April 2014:  JSU dates are April 24 and April 25.

• 2013-14 Staff Meeting Updates
  May 20 – replaces the canceled date May 6th
  May 28 – get on the same page for what needs to be done to move to Saks Middle June 10
  2013-2014 school year
  Aug 19
  Sept 16
  Oct 21
  Nov 18
  Dec 9
  Jan 13
  Feb 17
  Mar 17
  Apr 14
  May 12
  2013-14 Birthday Lunches
  July 15
  Oct 28
  Dec 2
  Jan 27
  Apr 7
  May 19