***I left off the 4th Grade music program under dates to note!***
Thursday, December 4th, 7:00 pm
Website Training – Bob Deter will conduct a 1-hour workshop on website development for our school website on Tuesday, December 2nd. All teachers and designated staff will attend this workshop. Please bring your laptop to Mrs. Braymen’s room and we will begin at 3:20 pm.
Senteo & Training – I am excited to have both teams making plans to use the Senteo software and handhelds for their formative assessments and other classroom assessments! It was fun to work with the 4th grade team and students on the Senteo-formative assessments this week. I would be interested to hear the answers to: Was it effective use of time? Does it change student learning? Also, if you want to do any of the online Smart Board or Senteo training, you must visit the website, http://www.smarttech.com/ and pre-register for a class. Talk to Sue, Mark or Jessica as to how to sign up and see me if you need covered.
Upcoming PLC Dates – December 3rd and 10th professional development dates will focus on curriculum. Locations and agendas to come.
Extra Online Tip – On the FWR blogsite (see below), I will add Dr. Zimmerman’s weekly Tuesday tip for those who need an early week motivational boost. I was fortunate enough to hear Dr. Zimmerman speak last summer and enjoy his sense of humor and positive outlook on life. Read it…or don’t.
AEA Survey – Each staff member will need to fill out the annual AEA survey before Thanksgiving break. It only takes 3-4 minutes.
1) Go to GVAEA’s website at http://www.aea14.k12.ia.us/
2) Click on “Climate Surveys 2008-09” towards the bottom of the page.
3) Click on your district surveys link.
4) Click on the appropriate survey: Staff School Climate Survey
5) Use the following passwords (all lowercase) for the surveys: Staff = survey89
6) Click “Start” to begin the survey.
7) After the questions are complete, click the “Submit” button.
8) Quit the web browser upon completion of a survey.
Coming up…
November
24-25 Barry in Des Moines (ILA/SAI)
Ms. Bates is designated decision maker if needed.
26 Two-Hour Early Dismissal/Individual PD; staff able to leave at 2:30 pm
27-28 Thanksgiving Break – ENJOY!!
December
1 Monday Assembly, 2:55 pm; PLC time
2 Website training; 3:20-4:15 pm
3 Early out/PD; Curriculum focus
5 WIS Christmas Party, 6 PM @ RO Country Club (Pay Jan!!)
A ton of useful & FREE educator templates to print or to ‘post’ on white board/Smart Board
http://www.educatortemplates.com/
Having a hard time with technology?? You all have five minutes a day to spend on this site…http://www.180techtips.com/
A smile confuses an approaching frown. ~Author Unknown
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