Great Things I Noticed this Week:
*After 10 minutes of reading in study hall, students were given 5 minutes in small groups to each share about what they were reading. I heard several responses that showed this helped students share/get book recommendations with each other: "Ooh, I want to read that when you're done!" "What's the book before that to read first?" "If you like that book, then you would like this one..." Lifelong readers have a community of readers and this is definitely helping to build that!
*A class activity focused on improving students' behaviors in class. The class watched a video on teachingchannel.org with the purpose of observing the students. Then a class discussion was held about what they noticed in the students' behavior in the video to compare to the behavior in their class. Students identified all the appropriate behaviors the teacher expects in class and this gave students the opportunity to voice for their peers to hear that they want to learn more and not be distracted by others!
*Teachers coming together to problem solve how to be proactive and consistent in multiple classrooms with a common behavior concern in a student.
*We have so many incredible students going above and beyond to lead. I see kids working hard academically while also having some late nights with sports. Several middle school students have helped ensure a new student not only adjusted and made friends, but have also been helping to ensure that he is safe with severe food allergies among peers. Our students in the musical have been putting in many hours this week to prepare for their 4 performances this weekend. Some of our FFA students returned from the national convention. Our HS Student Council and FFA have been preparing for Veterans Day assembly. This list could go on and on! Even if you have some students making poor choices, don't let them overshadow all the good that is going on! #DodgelandProud
Upcoming Events:
Today - Veterans Assembly at 9:30
Wednesday -previously scheduled HS faculty meeting. This time can be used for planning for PreACT workshop results.
Other than that, I don't see anything else on next week's calendar --what am I missing?
"Nuts & Bolts" Notes:
*Do you have parents that you know you would better be able to communicate with by text message? We have areas where cell service isn't awesome so parents don't always receive our calls, or see Dodgeland on caller ID and maybe don't want to answer, or we are calling at a time that doesn't work for them. Google voice is a tool that is available to us to use to be able to text parents without using our own cell phones. If you would like to utilize this, please let me know and I can quickly show you how. Please know if you use this to communicate with parents, that you will need to make sure to save all texts back and forth (not deleting any).
Tech Tip of the Week:
Resource Week and the topic is Copyright. If “Creativity powers the best classrooms”, who is being creative? Are students creating original works or are they “borrowing” everything? And who knew that teachers and education are not specified in Fair Use doctrine? A few resources to help us learn more and a few suggested resources to find fair use photos and music.
Quick Video: https://youtu.be/rUtGWs8VovY Resource Articles: https://www.iste.org/explore/
Blogs, Tweets & Pins:
*Tell Yourself a Better Story this School Year - this post was such a good reminder to myself to not create a story about what is happening and listen with curiosity rather than judgement. In some of the student/parent matters I deal with, this is such a good reminder, because we often only see the tip of the iceberg and do not know what's hiding underneath!
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