Dear Readers:
I am sure some of you have heard, but the Terril Middle School was the luckily winner of a smartboard from the Hy-Vee promotion. We participated in the event and were chosen. We would like to thank Hy-Vee and also all those involved in helping us receive the gift.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Happy Holidays
Dear Readers:
I hope all of you have a safe and happy holiday. During the remaining time here at the middle school students will be having their PBiS celebrations. The purpose of PBiS is to use a positive behavior support system to improve school climate and interaction between students, teachers, and community. I want to give a big thanks to the PBiS crew and especially Shayla Hunefeld and Becky Masters who brought the program back to the school system. Friday grades 6-8 will be bowling in the morning and activities in the afternoon. We will arrange time for those with missing work to complete during that afternoon time. Grades 3-5 will have movie watching in the morning and then have activities in the afternoon. It is hard to believe that the semester is ending this Friday and time has flown by.
I want to share a new google site called teachparentstech it is a neat site with some valuable information when you forget or need reminders on how to do something. It uses the google based site for the information.
Have a great Holiday Season.
Sincerely,
Chris
I hope all of you have a safe and happy holiday. During the remaining time here at the middle school students will be having their PBiS celebrations. The purpose of PBiS is to use a positive behavior support system to improve school climate and interaction between students, teachers, and community. I want to give a big thanks to the PBiS crew and especially Shayla Hunefeld and Becky Masters who brought the program back to the school system. Friday grades 6-8 will be bowling in the morning and activities in the afternoon. We will arrange time for those with missing work to complete during that afternoon time. Grades 3-5 will have movie watching in the morning and then have activities in the afternoon. It is hard to believe that the semester is ending this Friday and time has flown by.
I want to share a new google site called teachparentstech it is a neat site with some valuable information when you forget or need reminders on how to do something. It uses the google based site for the information.
Have a great Holiday Season.
Sincerely,
Chris
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Staff Meeting
Dear Readers:
We had staff meetings this week with the elementary and middle school. We discussed several key areas. Curriculum, collaboration, Characteristics of Effective Instruction(part of the Iowa Core), and several other areas. Curriculum we are currently entering data into a program called curriculum manager which will help the school district align our curriculum with the Iowa Core. Collaboration we are going to have a Wednesday evening demonstration on technology, instruction, management, or what a teacher feels free to share. Characteristics of Effective instruction the staff read an article by Grant Michael discussing what student centered classrooms. Several other areas were the letter home about homework, moving the Polar Express PJ day to next Friday, moving the 5th period advisory to the end of the day, and also on December 15th Mr. Richards will provide goodies. I appreciate you taking time to read the blog and again I will keep it up to date as possible.
Sincerely,
Chris
We had staff meetings this week with the elementary and middle school. We discussed several key areas. Curriculum, collaboration, Characteristics of Effective Instruction(part of the Iowa Core), and several other areas. Curriculum we are currently entering data into a program called curriculum manager which will help the school district align our curriculum with the Iowa Core. Collaboration we are going to have a Wednesday evening demonstration on technology, instruction, management, or what a teacher feels free to share. Characteristics of Effective instruction the staff read an article by Grant Michael discussing what student centered classrooms. Several other areas were the letter home about homework, moving the Polar Express PJ day to next Friday, moving the 5th period advisory to the end of the day, and also on December 15th Mr. Richards will provide goodies. I appreciate you taking time to read the blog and again I will keep it up to date as possible.
Sincerely,
Chris
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
My Apologizes
Dear Readers:
I apologize for my absenteeism from the blog posting. I for one always push for people to use technology and here I am not getting things accomplished. I will make a better effort from here on in posting articles and information I feel is relevant to student success. I will also share the information from meetings and try to keep the readers as up to date as possible. Again I apologize for not getting things done, but will do so from now on. I am going to provide a link to an article I found on Edutopia. The site focuses on different educational issues. The blog I am referencing is from Heather Wolpert-Gawron who is a contributor for Edutopia. The article is what makes a student successful in school.
I apologize for my absenteeism from the blog posting. I for one always push for people to use technology and here I am not getting things accomplished. I will make a better effort from here on in posting articles and information I feel is relevant to student success. I will also share the information from meetings and try to keep the readers as up to date as possible. Again I apologize for not getting things done, but will do so from now on. I am going to provide a link to an article I found on Edutopia. The site focuses on different educational issues. The blog I am referencing is from Heather Wolpert-Gawron who is a contributor for Edutopia. The article is what makes a student successful in school.
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