Much is said about student summer learning loss and there is data to clearly support this topic.
What about adults? Do we suffer from Summer Learning Loss? I believe we do. Now is the time to stop losing and start gaining.
I know summer is a time to refresh, rejuvenate, reflect, and relax.
However, it is also the perfect time to learn, read, attend PD
conferences, take a class, practice by “playing” with technology,
growing your PLN (professional learning network), and on and on.
Before you get carried up in the end of the year events and to-do lists, take some time to open up your reflection journals and reflect on your goals you wrote at the beginning of the year. How did your progress go? How do you want to revise your goals for next year? What would you like to learn over the summer?
Speaking of summer learning...
The 2012 Summer Regional Teacher Academy will be this August 8 and 9th at Mayville High School. This year we will kick it off with keynote speaker, Hal Urban. Has is the author of the book we read this year, Lessons from the Classroom. The schedule this year also includes DART networking sessions, since the feedback from this year's DART sessions asked for more of them.
You'll be receiving packets in your mailboxes today for all of the sessions available. I'm excited by how many Dodgeland staff are presenting! Please make sure to sign up to attend at: http://bit.ly/RSTAregistration
“A key characteristic of effective teachers & leaders: they learn….about themselves,
about others, and about their job.”-Garry Puetz
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