Poynette is a great place to be. I am excited to be a part of the work that we do here with our students on a daily basis. After I get the opportunity to collaborate with people from other districts, I always come away with feeling good about the work we are doing here in Poynette. After a solid week of educating our students, it is vital to enjoy the weekend!
Rigor in the Classroom
At our last staff meeting, we started to self reflect on the rigor level in our individual classrooms. A natural progression of the rigor conversation is "Authentic Learning". As we work on analyzing our lessons, looking for ways to build activities in our classrooms that naturally lead students to "advanced" level work, I encourage you to brainstorm ways to bring authentic tasks to your classroom. There are many of these activities happening in classrooms all across the building already, and I would like to come in and be a part of these authentic activities. There are many creative ways we can make small tweaks to our lessons that can have a big impact.
Communication of Student Progress
Since our mid-term message went out, I have had a couple of encouraging conversations with parents about the progress of their student. After our staff survey during our last staff meeting, our self assessment score for overall communication at about a 6.7/10. My goal for us is to get in the 9,10 range. Continue having those conversations in the classrooms about each student's progress in relation to our rubrics. Your feedback was very helpful as we plan to get the most out of our communication efforts.
Baraboo Presentation Update
We sent a small team over to Baraboo on Wednesday to present "Assessment, Grades, and Reporting" to their Grading and Assessment team that consisted of about 18 middle and high school teachers. It was a lot of fun, and we they were very interested to hear about the way we are putting theory into practice. It sounds like we will be invited back to present to their entire staff in the near future.
PPG's
The PPG process has been a lot of fun for me this year. It gives us an opportunity to breakdown a component within the Danielson framework to focus on during the year. I have had bi-weekly meetings scheduled with most teachers, and would like to get everyone on my schedule. If we have not set up these meetings yet, shoot me a quick email and we'll get the time set.
Holiday Concert
I don't know about you, but I love the holidays, and I cannot wait for the upcoming band and choir concert on Thursday, 12/18 starting at 7:00 in the 1-8 Gym. What a great way to showcase the hard work, dedication, and talent of our music department. Hope to see you there.
Data
Click HERE to check out our performance on state assessments.
Morning Duty - Rogness, Vian
Bus Duty - Anderson
Twitter Quote of the Week
"Mistakes are just proof that you are trying." @TeachTrainLove
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