Falcon Flyers Update
The Falcon Flyers event won't work on the half day of 2/7. Too many bus issues with elementary busing needs and half day release time. I'll schedule it a few weeks out once we know when the Cass Park staff can take us. Last year, it was scheduled on a Friday during a full day. We'll do something similar this year.
Scott Fitch this Friday
Just a reminder that Scott Fitch will be speaking with middle school and then HS kids this Friday morning. The talks will be a little shorter than our last speaker (about 35 minutes). I'll adjust the morning assembly schedule and send that out to you. Your periods will be shortened just a bit, and blocked classes will be long enough to cover all material. Scott gave a wonderful talk to many of our athletes last year. It's important that all of our students hear his great advice. If you have students during the time of the assembly, please accompany them to the presentation. Thanks.
Idea for Half days?
I received the message below from Brad last week. I'm wondering what others think. It sounds very doable to me, but I've been wrong before (ok, just once or twice). Please let me know what you think. Not sure if we could pull this off next week, but I think it's worth exploring. We'd have to come up with some sort of schedule for availability, taking into account needed prep time.
Hi guys
I just wanted to pass along some of the students sentiments
regarding the manner in which I set up the large make up session today.
All the kids that came in today felt like the time to just sit with a
teacher for the whole day, and to work one on one in a low stress
environment was both massively helpful but was also something they want
to do in the future. They asked me questions like "can we start doing
this more often like once a semester or marking period" and "can we just
start doing this on Saturday's".
I'm not sure what the correct format would be in order to make this
more of an institutional operation, but it might be worth looking into
having some days built into the schedule that are less structured, so
that they could just go and work with one teacher for a long extended
period of time, while also relieving some of the pressures that exist in
a normal class setting. If you're looking for kids to share their
opinions, Tyler, Julie, Jade, Jacob, John, Avi, Richie, Evan, and Bri were all just
about ready to march on the board meeting to let everyone know how much
they liked the set up. This might work on pre-scheduled half days, or
during field trips in the future.
Have a good weekend.
Brad
Duty sheet
Please check the duty sheet on the master file. We're still trying to fill a couple of light spots, but it's very close to being finalized. People will be contacted individually about any other changes.
2nd Semester Schedules
Please check your second semester schedule. Any problems, please let me know. Thanks.
Blendspace
This is the digital lesson tool that Rob mentioned in a recent email.
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