Hellooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo everyone!!!!! Thought I would add a few extra letters considering I forgot one this week. Ha! By next week you will have a month under your belt!!! Thank you for a fantastic start to the school year. The kids are doing exceptionally well and it is in great part due to the environment you have in your classroom. ODR data clearly indicates that kids are living the expectations you have set for them and the follow through on your part has been great.
- Goal revisions are due next week. If you still need to meet with me, I have time set aside on Monday and Tuesday. If we can't make that timeline happen, just let me know.
- Thank you to the Professional Growth Team for their work in helping staff with goals and the review that took place to ensure everyone had the components we were looking for this year. The goals were well written and provided a solid structure for growth. The group discussed circulating a new set of reviewers for the 2015-16 school year and that may be a good chance to get others involved in the review and coaching. More to come on that in the spring, so review team members will remain the same throughout this year.
- I hope we can send the majority of interested people to SLATE this year. We had more applicants than we have spaces right now.
- Repeat...still a few out there...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. The Google+ community is open only to our staff...I am hoping it turns into a place where we can share articles, great ideas, and/or things going on in your classroom. Here is the link... https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/106247918310540095234. If you can not get in let me know...it means you will need a Google+ page or an invite. Either way it is a quick fix.
- How incredible is it to see our high school kids working with our elementary kids? Can't state this enough...the connection our students and families have to this place is amazing.
- Teachscape seems to have fixed their issue, but I am still having trouble seeing the workflow.
- State Report Cards...To be on the list of a handful of districts who have Exceeded Expectations the last 2 years is great and a credit to all of you...but if our scores did not fall into that category I would still say we are doing amazing things here. Don't get hung up on scores, good or bad...continue to create relationships with kids and build from there. If we see gaps in the trend data it is our job as administrators to find ways to help you. That may come in additional support, finding exemplar programs, or just allowing time to dive into data and build better programming for students. Let us worry about numbers...you worry about making sure the classroom is a place where students would choose to be even if they weren't required to be here.
- I will be out of the office on Wednesday-Friday at the State Superintendent Conference in Madison. Brian and Brad are both around if you need assistance, but I can also be reached by text or email if you need anything.
Did They Really Say That?
Send me your quotes!!!!
Kindergarten student: "Mr. Sanfelippo...we just want you to know that we both got Cricket Crotches today."
Kindergarten student: "Mr. Sanfelippo...we just want you to know that we both got Cricket Crotches today."
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...
Articles Worth Reading
Just resources...no need to feel required to read...just click if it strikes your interest.
Just resources...no need to feel required to read...just click if it strikes your interest.
- Why some kids try harder and some kids give up by Tracy Cutchlow
- My thoughts on Homework by Jeff Zoul
- The power of a positive phone call by Elena Aguilar
Videos Worth Watching:
Not always endorsements of the perspective...but all to make you think...
Not always endorsements of the perspective...but all to make you think...
Things we do in schools that would be weird in real life
Happiness is Helping Others
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