Welcome back!! Hope you all had a few days to relax and spend time with family. The next 2 weeks are going to fly!
- The insurance committee met again this week to continue the discussion of plan designs, where premiums come from, comparables (public and private sector), and where we go next in the process. Representatives from M3 were here to provide the information.
- The Cluster Superintendents met this week and started to plan our PD for next year. Edcamp style PD is back and hopefully through the use of Peer Mentoring grants we will have the opportunity to have a few more department or grade level connections. Looking forward to getting that moving.
- Going to keep this in for awhile...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.
- The PD day on January 23rd will be a combination of self directed and district directed (Google Apps For Education specific) activities. I know the HS utilizes that time for end of semester clean up and second semester organization so I still wanted to have some time available for that to continue. The February 6th day will be more self directed based on your professional growth plans.
- I appreciate the continued use of technology to engage and enhance the experience for our students. This trend will clearly continue. We have full intentions of bringing a 1:1 experience to the HS next year and as we plan for that transition we need to offer time and resource for everyone to feel comfortable with the process. This will include training in the area of Google Apps For Education, blended learning, communications...and a multitude of topics that you bring our way. I am hoping to provide sessions throughout the semester and then in the summer as well.
- Elementary and Middle School Christmas party tomorrow! Thanks to April and Brad for putting it together and Jen for taking care of the White Elephant gifts...have a great time, everyone!
- A number of staff members will be attending SLATE next week on Tuesday and Wednesday. Great opportunity to find some new tools and network with other districts. Good luck to Kristin Sandgren and Greg Larson who will be presenting a session on Tuesday afternoon! Follow the hashtag #SLATE2014 to see what is going on at the conference.
This week in Tweets...
Keep adding @fccrickets to tweets and use the #gocrickets hashtag after a tweet to add to the wonderful story of the Crickets...or let us know how we can help get your story to the world. Go Crickets.
Articles Worth Reading
Check out the Google+ community for articles...feel free to add resources to that community as well. We are better together...add what you feel would benefit the group. Thanks!
Check out the Google+ community for articles...feel free to add resources to that community as well. We are better together...add what you feel would benefit the group. Thanks!
Videos Worth Watching:
I will add videos to the Google+ page for those interested. Can be accessed here... https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/106247918310540095234
I will add videos to the Google+ page for those interested. Can be accessed here... https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/106247918310540095234
