Welcome back!!!! I hope the summer was restful and you are ready to jump into a new school year! Here are a few things so I can get you out of our all staff meeting in a short amount of time...
- The individuals on Evaluation Rotation 1 will meet after our staff meeting today to go over the process of getting their goal into Teachscape. Everyone else will have to do this as well, but we are looking for an easier way to get the goals in if you are not on the formal rotation year. More to come, but continue to use the PGM forms we have on the O drive at this point.
- Any training (bloodborne path etc) link will be sent via email to you so it can be done on your schedule. We will need the completion letter for your files.
- Screens! We are hoping to provide more opportunities to tell the story of our kids throughout the school so you will be seeing some monitors go up that will scroll announcements, twitter feeds, CricketTV, etc during the year.
- Chromebook rollout!!! We have a number of devices placed in school this year. I have been asked if there will be more or what the future holds. I am willing to find dollars to implement new technologies in classrooms, hallways, offices, or anywhere you need if it transforms the learning environment into something new for kids. Let me know what you need and how it is going to transform what happens in your classroom and we can make it happen.
- My 3...every year I ask you to come up with 3 things that you can look to at the end of the day and feel like your time was useful. I wrote a blog post this summer that emphasized the importance of leading the learning. We all need to be model learners for our students and being able to celebrate little victories along the way is important. Here is a link to the blog post http://fcsuperintendent.blogspot.com/2014/07/learning-to-lead.html
- If you haven't signed up for text alerts you can do that by sending a text with the message @fcstaff to 720-445-9824 or send an email to fcstaff@mail.remind.com and Remind will take you through the process.
- If you did not receive an invite to the Google+ page from let shoot me an email. I tried to get as many people as possible while I was at Google Tech Academy last week.
- Here we go!!!! Another great year...looking forward to spending time with everyone and seeing both staff and students grow. Good luck getting your classroom ready! Go Crickets.
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This week in Tweets...
All of our #gocrickets tagged tweets can be archived...this is a great way to tell the stories happening in your classroom. The idea of telling your story before someone tells it for you is a really key element in getting the word out about the wonderful things happening in your classroom. If everyone with a Twitter account here posted 2 positive tweets per week we would have over 100 positive messages about our school out to the public. That number is astounding...and just by taking a minute to shout out a great thing happening in your space. Add @fccrickets in the tweet and use the #gocrickets hashtag after a tweet to add to the wonderful story of the Crickets...
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