Week 34

Good Morning Team...

Happy "May the 4th Be With You" day....but more importantly...."Happy Teacher Appreciation" Week.  

As I sit here typing, I am reminded of how much each and everyone of you means to me.  I am so blessed to be able to work with you and see your dedication, commitment, caring, inspiration, and love for your students and your work.   My appreciation for you is constant, yet this week provides me an opportunity to overtly share how blessed I am to work with you.  I am truly honored to be able to serve as your Dean and to serve you.  I say it a lot...but I truly mean it...I love you guys. 

Google Classroom Invites...

Thank you to each of you who have set up and are using your Google Classroom, and who have given me the invitation to join you as a co-teacher.  I really enjoy seeing your assignments and the responses from your students.  If you have not yet done so, please give setting up a Google Classroom a consideration and bring me in with you!

During our team meetings, many of you shared out that you were meeting with your students virtually.  I really would like to join in on that, so when you set them up, please don't forget to invite me.  I am missing the kids too, and would love the opportunity to see them with you.

This Week...

• I am currently finishing up your End of Year Evaluations.  I will have these released to you electronically by Friday 5/8.  Let's plan to meet next Monday, 5/11 during your scheduled 03 time to review your evaluation. Again, this year is different as your evaluation does not have student test score data included and the score is not released to the State (this is a state mandate).  So, your evaluation will consist of data from the Classroom Framework, observations, 03s, etc. and Professional Accountablilities.
• Resource Room Teachers...please let me know if you are not receiving your grade level lesson plans by Friday at 5:00.  That way I can follow up on this.
• Specials Teachers...please make sure your Google Classroom is updated with your upcoming Assignments by the time Emilee sends out the reminder email.  
• We talked about tracking student participation.  At this time, only classroom teachers are able to input participation.  However, it is important that each of you...including Specials and Reading Specialist are tracking any type of student participation and relaying it to the classroom teacher.  This can include participation in Google Classroom Assignments, Instagram Challenges, viewing Reading Videos on You Tube, Virtual Meetings.  ANY type of participation can and needs to be documented.  You should be creating a type of participation log and recording this information.  At this time, it is not being required that you submit it, but you never know...
• Hopefully, you received the email regarding the RL 2.0 Curriculum Video release.  It was sent out this morning.  Please take the time to review these videos...they are an important part of RL 2.0.
• GrubHub email...each of you should have received an email from GrubHub in honor of Teacher Appreciation week.  If you did not, please let me know asap.  I hope you enjoy your meal....a small token of how much you are appreciated.
• Remember...Team Meetings are Fridays.  Watch for your Google Meet invite.

And don't forget...