Essential Info- Week of 11/26

• Academy Tour 11/28- We will be hosting an Academy Tour for prospective families this Wednesday morning. IB and Val Tech classes will be featured.
• Mock Trial 11/27 and 11/29- 5 PM Santa Ana Courthouse. If you’ve never been to one of these, you owe it to yourself to come watch our team(s) in action. You will be glad you did.
• Monday PLC 12/3- We will be meeting in our PLC’s next Monday at 7:25am.
• SCAC Visit 12/3- We will be hosting a visit from the Superintendent's Community Advisory Council next Monday morning. IB, Val Tech, AVID, and ROP classes will be featured. 
• School Leadership Team 12/4 -(AKA Dep’t Chairs & Coordinators) 3 pm in Rm. 703 
• Hour of Code Week 12/3-12/6- Here is a curated resource containing Hour of Code links.
• Monitoring for Redesignated Students- If you have Redesignated Fluent English Proficient (RFEP) students in your class, you will be receiving an email on November 27 notifying you that you have monitoring forms to fill out. Forms are due on December 12, 2018. As a new feature, you will now be able to use e-signatures on the monitoring forms. If you need help, please refer to the Ellevation Quickstart Guide HERE or contact Blanca Gibbons or Jane Roh.
• Go Sign Me Up is LIVE - Log in via Clever or pylusd.gosignmeup.com, Select the Preservice course and register for it. We know you attended preservice in August. (you can’t sign up for a past date). You are not really signing up to attend a new class. I will roll the date back to the proper date. You will have to edit and save some of your participant information before you can "checkout" . This video provides those details. At the top of the screen, you will see a link to for STEP BY STEP directions. We are confident that you will have fun "shopping" for courses. Should you experience any difficulty after following these directions, please contact Kim Voge kvoge@pylusd.org or x82609
  ***We cannot move forward with inputting previously attended 18-19 training until you take these steps. We really need you to log in and edit. Thank you in advance for expediting this step!
• Join PTSA! Membership is $15. You are encouraged to join online at this LINK (there is a $1 processing fee) or if you prefer to pay by check or cash, membership envelopes have been placed in your mailboxes.
• Teacher Sound Byte- here’s this week’s Secondary Weekly Update.

Shout Outs

Give a shout out to someone you’d like to recognize by writing a quick message on this Padlet: bit.ly/VHSShoutout. Bookmark the link. Your messages are embedded weekly in the Tiger Telegram. Simply write the name of recipient as title + twitter lengthed message to that person.

Professional Growth- A 4 Step Process for Building Resilience

A 4-Step Process for Building Student Resilience

A special education teacher has developed worksheets to help all students identify and manage their stressors.

Tech Tip - Open Educational Resources (OEM)

Open Education Resources (OER) Commons is a platform that provides open access to a wide variety of open educational resources that are either in the public domain or are licensed under Creative Commons.  These resources include things such as :’ full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.’

Essential Info - Week of 11/12

• New (to VHS) Teachers’ Meeting 11/13- Will be held at 7:25 am in Conf Rm A. 
• School Leadership Team 11/13- (Department Chairs and Program Coordinators) - Meeting will be held at 3pm in Rm. 703.
• College Athletes Signing Ceremony 11/14- Will be held in the CCC at 7:15am. 
• PLC Team Training 11/14- Will be held at the PDA for all Department Chairs.
• IB Night 11/14- Will be held at 6:30 PM at Professional Development Academy for all prospective IB students. 
• Pancake Breakfast 11/16- See Erica Harding’s email for specifics on donations needed.
• Future Ready Day 11/16 - Please distribute folders to Seniors in your 3rd period class ASAP. Friday: Distribute schedules to 9th-11th in 3rd period. Staff Assignments, Presenter/Volunteer Parking, Event Flyer
• CIF Semifinals 11/16- Come support our boys football team at Bradford Stadium!
• Thanksgiving Break 11/19-11/23 - Enjoy and give thanks for your well-deserved time off!
• Staff Meeting 11/26 - We will hit the ground running at 7:25 am the Monday we return. Donuts and coffee will be available beginning 7:15am.
• Go Sign Me Up- All employees must log in via Clever or pylusd.gosignmeup.com. You will have to edit and save some of your participant information before you can "checkout". This video provides those details. At the top of the screen, you will see a link to for STEP BY STEP directions. We are confident that you will have fun "shopping" for courses. Should you experience any difficulty after following these directions, please contact Kim Voge kvoge@pylusd.org or x82609
• Join PTSA- Membership is $15. You are encouraged to join online at this LINK (there is a $1 processing fee) or if you prefer to pay by check or cash, membership envelopes have been placed in your mailboxes.
• Teacher Sound Byte @ The Hub - updated weekly

Shout Outs

Give a shout out to someone you’d like to recognize by writing a quick message on this Padlet: bit.ly/VHSShoutout. Bookmark the link. Your messages are embedded weekly in the Tiger Telegram. Simply write the name of recipient as title + twitter lengthed message to that person.

Professional Growth - How do I know they know?

Professional Growth - How do I know they know?

Sometimes we believe that students know more than they are showing on a standard test. Why not use a conversation as a form of assessment?

This EduTopia Article by teacher/instructional coach Andrew Miller explores the notion of conversation for assessment.

Tech Tip - Google Docs: Force Copy

Force a Copy

Using the File menu allows people to manually create a duplicate document. However, if you want to force a duplication of the file when sharing one, you will need to modify the document URL.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1c6jYEbJrV3_ten5MIykbBArJ8FGEjO5znHMhs2fWvwI/edit#slide=id.g50b4ebc505780bce_33

Look for Slash Edit

Copy the document URL (address). Notice it contains /edit at the end of the URL (and possibly some other junk). You want to replace the slash edit (and the junk) with /copy.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1c6jYEbJrV3_ten5MIykbBArJ8FGEjO5znHMhs2fWvwI/copy

Sharing the link that ends with this will prompt the user to make a duplicate document without having to use the File menu.

Essential Info - Week of 11/5/18

·       Informal Observations- The first round of informal observations is due by November 16th for all temporary, probationary, and permanent teachers on a formal evaluation year.

·       Monday, November 12, 2018- No school due to Veteran’s Day.

·       Go Sign Me Up is LIVE (Professional Learning Opportunities)- Log in via Clever or pylusd.gosignmeup.com. You will have to edit and save some of your participant information before you can "checkout". This video provides those details. At the top of the screen, you will see a link to for STEP BY STEP directions. We are confident that you will have fun "shopping" for courses. Should you experience any difficulty after following these directions, please contact Kim Voge kvoge@pylusd.org or x82609

·       AVID Demo Showcase Visit 11/7- We will be hosting an AVID showcase visit the morning of the 7th. They will be looking at our schoolwide college readiness system and WICOR instructional strategies.

·       HOPE Showcase Visit 11/8- We will be hosting visitors from Nogales High School on the morning of the 8th. They will be looking at our at-risk programs and visiting our HOPE, Opportunities, and GEAR UP classrooms.

·       School Leadership Team 11/13- (Department Chairs and Program Coordinators) - Meeting will be held at 3pm in Rm. 703.

·       Pancake Breakfast 11/16 - See Erica’s email for specifics on donations needed.

·       Future Ready Day 11/16 - Event Flyer

·       Join PTSA! Membership is $15. You are encouraged to join online at this LINK (there is a $1 processing fee) or if you prefer to pay by check or cash, membership envelopes have been placed in your mailboxes. Members qualify for the Teacher Grant opportunity!

·       Teacher Sound Byte @ The Hub - updated weekly

Shout Outs

Give a shout out to someone you’d like to recognize by writing a quick message on this Padlet: bit.ly/VHSShoutout. Bookmark the link. Your messages are embedded weekly in the Tiger Telegram. Simply write the name of recipient as title + twitter lengthed message to that person.

Professional Growth - Demonstrations of Learning

Here’s a five minute video on how competency-based education personalizes how students show mastery by giving them choice in how they’re assessed.

https://www.edutopia.org/video/demonstrations-learning

Tech Tip - Flipgrid

You still have free access to Flipgrid. Great way to have students share their learning via selfie video from phone, Chromebook, etc. or even upload a narrated screencast. 

Share with students - Students don't create accounts. Simply share the Flip Code and have them input the Code at flipgrid.com or on the free Flipgrid app. Students will verify via email, Student ID, or QR code to participate!

BONUS LEVEL: First 2 VHS teachers to record themselves (10-seconds) on this Flipgrid WIN a Starbucks Gift Card on Mike's dime. Talk about how you think you can use it or how you've already used it in your classroom.