Week 17

Today is National Personal Trainer Awareness Day it is also National Buffet Day. You can decide which one to celebrate.

Jan. 12 - Faculty Meeting
Jan. 13 - End of Quarter

Jan. 16 - No School
Jan. 17 - Collaboration Day - Tech Camp
Jan. 19 - Board Meeting
Jan. 20 - Grade Cards
Jan. 20 - Club Day

As you all know, the PLC concept is critical for school improvement. And, PLC's are all about teamwork and collaboration. With a building our size, we must have very strong PLC teams in place. These teams should be having conversations about teaching and learning that center around the 4 big questions. We do this with our grade level teams on collaboration days, but I don't think it's enough to meet every couple of weeks. We need focused conversations on a weekly basis. Some of you are doing this and some of you can't because of scheduling, but it is something we all need to do.

Between collaboration times, you should meet as a pod to discuss individual students and how you plan to use intervention time. Again, many of you already do this, but I need for you to start sending me your meeting notes so I can have a better grasp of what is going on. Most of your teams are doing a great job of turning in meeting notes to me. The easiest way to do this is to share the folder with me that you keep them in and then I can check them out any time, but you can email them as well.

I have a form at the following link for you to use for notes: here

Replace the red with your info and get them back to me. Let's plan to start meeting weekly (if you aren't already) next week. Share your notes with me or email them to me and include the SPED teachers and interventionists in your grade level since they won't be able to make all of these meetings.

If you're like me, you probably started your annual January 2 - January 4 diet. New Year's resolutions are great, in theory, but hard to stick to. The best way to make sure you stick with it is to find an accountability partner. Someone who will help hold you accountable to meeting your goals. Find someone or start a group to work on your resolutions. There is power in numbers.

I know this is an old one, but I love Kid President. Recently, when Donald Trump tweeted:

Donald J. TrumpVerified account‏@realDonaldTrump

Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don't know what to do. Love!

Kid President‏@iamkidpresident

@realDonaldTrump You could've just said "Happy New Year". Or nothing. Sometimes nothing is good too.