2/2 Edgar

And I'm back!  I allowed work to get in the way of being reflective.  I want this to be a place for reflection and useful.  I stepped away and realized I miss this opportunity to think about the work I do and where I do it.  So I'm back at it!

Started the day welcoming students in the windy rainy outside drive.

Met with a kindergartener about classroom behavior

Observed 1st grade teacher

Met with 2nd grade student about behaviors

Met with 4th grade student about behavior in music

Scanned documents for use later

Sent email to MS SS teachers about upcoming PD day.

Observed a 3rd grade teacher

Lunch!

Supervised 1st grade indoor recess

Supervised 3rd grade lunch and recess

Met with 2nd grade student in the sensory room.

Volleyed emails back and forth about an Amazon order

Scheduled acceleration meetings
Clark
Bristol

More back and forth on Amazon order

Got roster for 3rd grade students

Shared rosters of 3rd grade students from CS, ERS, Avery with UMSL for local government.

Sent emails for local government.

Announcements at 3:05

Supervised dismissal

met with teacher about Flubaroo

Met with teacher about observation.

11/20 Learning Team, WGHS

Started the day with the Learning Team meeting.  I facilitated a BreakoutEDU game on Decoding the war (seen here: www.breakoutedu.com).

Also discussed the January 4th PD day and Middle School Progress Reports.


After I had a lunch meet with a team at Webster University.

I then went back to WGHS to:

• Finalize next MS Science agenda
• Draft 7th and 8th units connected to new curriculum
• Booked rooms for 3/3 Science Meeting at CIC
• Set up the final Google 101 session

11/19 Character Ed CSIP, MS Science, DLT, 1st Grade, Google 101

Started the day at Edgar Road with the Character Ed (R and R) CSIP team. Agenda found here.

1. Review the CSIP - Questions/Clarifications
2. Review Marzano feedback from last year (Summary)
3. Next steps with Action items (divide and report back)
4. When's our next meeting?
5. How will we celebrate?

Headed over the WGHS to meet with a couple meetings:
1.  The Middle School Science Teachers were working together.  Agenda found here

• Check in
• Task completion for the year
• Future Meeting drafts
• Standards-Based Assessment
• Engineering Design Progression
• Department time
• After Implementation Timeline

2.  The 1st grade teachers were using curriculum time in 324.

I stopped in the DLT meeting to review and simulate a crisis scenario.  We also discussed the pending posting of Assistant Supt of HR.

After school facilitated the Google 101 session.

11/17 Edgar Road, WGHS, 2nd grade SS, Bristol, Kindergarten

Started the day at the Edgar Road Faculty meeting.

Then headed over to WGHS to work with 2nd grade social Studies curriculum work.

Some of the highlights from today are:

• Make available learning goals into I can statements- make them more specific to the unit.
• Work on Global Connections to create lessons
• Created a BRIDGE unit to help students transition from Native Americans to World Cultures - who are you, what's your heritage
• List of consumables for each unit
• Purchased copies of Coming to America by Betsy Maestro to supplement items already at schools
• Added google drive folder of resources to THE HUB

At 1pm I went over to Bristol to work on the resources that were delivered to schools.

At times throughout the day I checked in with the Kindergarten Teachers that were working in WGHS 324.

11/16 Edgar Road, Hixson

Starting the morning welcoming students and teachers in the school...

Distributed resources to Edgar Road from SS facilitators.

Met with fine arts resource regarding lessons and connections to fine arts.

Met with Assistant Supt, building principal, ELA coordinator regarding resources and the School for Today report.

Met with 5th grade teacher

Met with support staff

Designed a Science poster

Created agenda for MS SS collaboration

Created agenda for K-5 Science collaboration

Observed a teacher in 1st grade

Observed a teacher in 2nd grade

Headed over to Hixson afterschool to attend their PLC meetings.

11/11 Edgar Road School

Started the day welcoming students and teachers in to school

Worked with a 5th grader

Worked with a kindergartener

Worked with a 3rd grader

Followed up on write up procedures

Added items to behavior document

Called some parents

Spent some time in classrooms not having to do observations

Drafted timeline to implementation of building new science kits.

11/10 WGHS, Steger, Maryville U

Started the day at WGHS

• answered emails
• hunted down software
• packed up resources
• shared resources
• set up local government experience and meeting

Met with teacher at Steger to plan intelligent behaviors unit

Presented "What happens when they google you?" at Maryville

Met with Dustin Loeffler about opportunities to collaborate with WGSD science/social studies teachers.  We discussed:

• Drone usage - 8th grade science
• Connections for 8th grade Social Studies
• iPad institute collaboration

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