A few items came up over the past week to share a few reminders on:
1. Please know that the Business Office will be resending your SDS login and password to you. You may receive two (2) separate logins if you do any additional work for the District. No action is needed on your part, please simply store these logins/passwords in a safe place in case you need them in the future. Thank you!
2. Please know that the Human Resources Department will be sending you the yearly required Sequence of Honorable Dismissal (SOHD) letter. Please review the letter for accuracy, sign the letter accordingly, and return to your Building Principals Secretary by Thursday, December 20th. Thank you.
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
I-Ready Resource
For staff that are using I-Ready and would like some guidance on goal setting, please see the link below.
http://i-readycentral.com/
http://i-readycentral.com/
Monday, November 5, 2018
2019 Young Knights Fair
We are excited to once again be hosting the Young Knights Fair to welcome all birth to 5 year old students in our community. At this event students can learn about early intervention, register for Kindergarten, and begin to make connections with our district and community. Each year we have staff that assist in working the fair. At this time we are looking for those interested in running stations at the fair. The work time would be from 7:15AM to 11:15PM. We do have limited funding to assist in paying those that work the fair this year, so we are limiting the number of paid volunteers. So please email Sarah Mumm as soon as you can to be part of this event. If you are a school office staff member or Kindergarten teacher please email to confirm that you will be present on that day. we are excited to meet and greet the class of 2032!
Please post and PR the flier to get the word out during conferences.
Please post and PR the flier to get the word out during conferences.
Profile of Highly Educated - Focus on Competency Based Education
This past week a great research article came out by Tom Vander in support of competency based learning. Take a moment to read how his research found the key characteristics of high educated and successful people. He began the article with this quote: “Students who are deeply engaged in their own learning and fully prepared for all that the future has to offer,” they say, have the following characteristics:
• Masters of all fundamental literacies:
- Building the academic core necessary to prepare for college, career, and life;
- Critical readers;
- Compelling writers;
- Mathematical and numeric thinkers;
- Data and visual thinkers.
• Holders of foundational knowledge:
- Curious people who are knowledgeable about the world, its history and culture, its sciences and underlying mathematics, its biology and cultural currency;
- Engaged participants who are key to creating a more just and functional democracy – who participate fully in all America has to offer.
• Original thinkers for an uncertain world:
- Sense-makers – dealing with conflicting knowledge;
- Generative thinkers – creating many ideas in ambiguous and new situations;
- Creative thinkers – reframing, imagining, and seeing problems from different perspectives.
• Generous collaborators for tough problems:
- Self-aware team members who bring their strengths;
- Talent-seekers who find the expertise of others;
- Essential co-creators – because of what they bring, and how they show up;
- Inquisitive world citizens who seek out – and respect – diversity and diverse points of view.
• Learners for life:
- Self-driven, self-directed; curious learners – about themselves and the world;
- Inventors of their own learning paths, careers, and lives.
“Show What You Know: A Landscape Analysis of Competency-Based Education” by Tom Vander Ark, Mary Ryerse, et al. from Getting Smart and XQ Institute, October 23, 2018
https://xqsuperschool.org/competency-based-education-cbe/part1
• Masters of all fundamental literacies:
- Building the academic core necessary to prepare for college, career, and life;
- Critical readers;
- Compelling writers;
- Mathematical and numeric thinkers;
- Data and visual thinkers.
• Holders of foundational knowledge:
- Curious people who are knowledgeable about the world, its history and culture, its sciences and underlying mathematics, its biology and cultural currency;
- Engaged participants who are key to creating a more just and functional democracy – who participate fully in all America has to offer.
• Original thinkers for an uncertain world:
- Sense-makers – dealing with conflicting knowledge;
- Generative thinkers – creating many ideas in ambiguous and new situations;
- Creative thinkers – reframing, imagining, and seeing problems from different perspectives.
• Generous collaborators for tough problems:
- Self-aware team members who bring their strengths;
- Talent-seekers who find the expertise of others;
- Essential co-creators – because of what they bring, and how they show up;
- Inquisitive world citizens who seek out – and respect – diversity and diverse points of view.
• Learners for life:
- Self-driven, self-directed; curious learners – about themselves and the world;
- Inventors of their own learning paths, careers, and lives.
“Show What You Know: A Landscape Analysis of Competency-Based Education” by Tom Vander Ark, Mary Ryerse, et al. from Getting Smart and XQ Institute, October 23, 2018
https://xqsuperschool.org/competency-based-education-cbe/part1
One to One Technology Teacher Advisory Group
Last call for Teaching staff to take part in the Teacher Advisory Group for implementing 1 to 1 technology next year for grades 4-12th. Our first meeting will be December 6th from 3:00-5:00. The intent of this group is to provide shared decision making for the process, implementation, and use of Chromebooks as a learning tool for students. If you would like to be part of this team, please sign up using the google form link. Over the course of the next two months we will also be hosting student and parent advisory groups as well.
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