Essential Info - Week of 5/6/19

·       Happy Teacher Appreciation Week

o   5/7 Arcades - run through ASB

o   5/8 Staff BBQ - both lunches in the MPR

o   5/9 PTSA Luncheon- both lunches in the MPR

o   5/10 Teacher Raffle- run through ASB

·       SLT Meeting 5/7 - Meet in Room 703 at 3pm.

·       Form A- Please complete your reflection for your annual goals and submit it to your evaluator by May 15th. This is also the deadline for Form F conferences to be held for teachers on a formal year.

·       Crashbar Installation- installation will begin tomorrow and the company will be installing them one at a time to ensure safety.

·       Love and Logic- May 8th - June 5th (every Wednesday) from 4-6pm at Lakeview Elementary. You can get more information HERE. No need to register beforehand.  Registration will take place on the first day. Participants may receive college credit.

·       PD Day 5/13- Be on the lookout for a Google Form from Chris.

·       VHS Testing Schedule - CAASPP/CAST Administrator Slides

·       Teacher Sound Byte Hub- Click here for the 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 - How Teachers Can See Students' Identities As Learning Strengths

In this MindShift article, the blogger writes a review and dive into a new book by Christopher Emdin. 'Teaching with reality pedagogy means, in part, opening up space for, and actively valuing, students’ expertise on their own lives, communities and ways of learning."

Tech Tip - Captioning in Google Slides

Back from CUE Conference, we were all excited to learn about and integrate captioning in Google Slides. As many teachers begin to seek out methods of flipping the classroom, this could be a great way to record lessons.