It’s summer! I'll make it short and sweet so you can get back to a little rest, relaxation and recharging. Thank you so much for what you did this past year. The efforts you all put forth this year will never be forgotten. Only you all as dedicated classroom teachers, support staff and building leaders could have made a pandemic learning situation as successful as it was.
And now, our Teaching & Learning team is looking for a few of you amazing teachers to help us out. Each year in July and early August, we get tons of requests for PD sessions on a wide range of topics. We get more requests than we could possibly fill with our staff, so we reach out to our bullpen of educators for help. If you or someone you know might be interested in leading some of these sessions, please reach out to me.
What subject will I cover, you ask? Click here to access our existing PD and see what topics fit in your wheelhouse. If you have a topic not on our list you know you could deliver, we would be happy to have you offer it up as well. Teachers learn best from other teachers, and we want to help facilitate that learning.
So if this sounds interesting to you, let me know what subjects you could potentially help us with along with dates when you are available and the Teaching and Learning team will get back to you. Thanks again for all you do and enjoy your summer!
This is an extra to my weekly blogs because I could not let this “teachable moment” slide. I have read all of the articles I could find this past weekend after hearing of the passing of my favorite author, Harper Lee.
With education budgets continuing their decline and class sizes on the rise, it is even more critical to empower students with the ability to be in the driver's seat of their own learning and to empower teachers to serve in the role of learning facilitator.
Take a moment! Breathe! Relax! Breathe again. Even better, involve your students! Research is showing that when a teacher introduces just 5 minutes of simple breathing techniques, yoga or meditation, students’ attention spans increase, their focus on topic improves and some studies show improved test scores and fewer cases of bullying.
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