What would Ben Mikaelsen say? "Live your life to the fullest and then write about it!" He'd also say "You are the author of your story..." To that we say, you are the the leader in your classroom - help your students live the life of learning by showing them and modeling for them what they must pay attention to for every lesson.
Staff Meeting - Jan 28 - 7:45 - 8:40am
Guest Speaker - Erin Jones, Director of Center for the Improvement of Student Learning
You won't want to be late for this meeting! Erin will be sharing information about her work with CISL and how it relates to the work we do with our diverse group of students. Be sure to take a moment before the meeting to review the website - it's linked above.
Winter Writing Prompts
February is just around the corner - and so are Winter writing prompts. Time has been scheduled into Hunt's ProDev on the February 11 (Collaboration/Teaming LIC Wednesday). As you prepare your materials and consider your grade level prompt, so must you consider the goal of every assessment - have the students learned what we wanted them to and are they able to express it? As you know, writing is developmental - but equally important, writing is personal. Your student writing samples should be genuinely reflective of student work. It's less than valid or reliable to encourage your students to use a template or directed format in a writing assessment. Please follow the Hunt protocol established in years past to conduct this trimester's writing prompt. Refer to your writing binder and if you have any questions - see Rebecca, Susan, or anyone on the Writing Committee.
January/February LIC Wednesdays
Jan 28 Independent
Feb 4 Principal Directed - Writer's Workshop
Feb 11 Collaboration & Teaming - Building Writing Scoring
Feb 18 Evaluation/Conferencing
Feb 25 Independent
In Building
Reading Intervention - SIPPS Training - Jan 27 - 3:30 - see Jodi or Nancy if you have questions
Science & SMARTBoards - Feb 19 - see Aaron or Carrie if you have questions
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