Friday Focus - Nov. 30

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." - Helen Keller

We had great discussions during grade level meetings this week.  It is really amazing to hear the progress you and your students are making with Math Expressions.  I also enjoyed some of the great collaboration to share new ideas and to help brainstorm to help with specific issues some of you are dealing with in your classrooms.

Events Next Week:
Monday: Mentors/Probationary Teachers Meeting at 3:05
Tuesday/Wednesday: I will be at CESA 6
Thursday: Documentation Log training after school (you can attend this one or the one on December 13).  I will keep it brief in case you need to leave for an XPD class.
Saturday: Elementary Dance team is competing at Watertown (I saw them last night at the BBall game and they were ADORABLE!)

"Nuts & Bolts" Notes:

• Here is the google doc of notes from grade level meetings. I got pulled out a few times to deal with issues, so there may be some "holes" in the notes.
• I contacted another school to see what they find most useful for thinkcentral.com. Here's what they said:

1.        Look at the manual online for planning at home so they don’t have to haul their manual home

2.       Displaying homework on the screen (with and/or without the answers hidden) so students can correct their own homework when they come in

3.       Print off and and all items they need from the resource index (this is awesome!)

4.       Display workbook page to talk through problems and have students write on them on their Smartboards when doing whole group instruction

Special ed teachers love that they can print off things from many grade levels to find what fits for each of their students!  Our middle school sped use this site to access stuff from grades 3, 4, 5 for their students who are that low. 

Blogs, Pins & Tweets...Oh My! 

@Joe_Mazza: If you are "grading homework," you are in a sense grading the home support/lack there of of all of your students #vachat