Friday October 1st, 2021

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Welcome, Fall, and OCTOBER!!

In the News This Week:

  • The October 4th Release Time Day
  • The 6-12 Learning Walk
  • Planning Ahead
October 4th RT Day:
Here is the DOC for the PD Day- As we plan for Monday, it appears that middle schools will be for the most part staying in buildings due to PDs they need to do there.  K-5, Lead Teachers and I will be at Durfee facilitating the collaborative work from 2PM to end of day.  That should give us a good chunk of time to work.  Abby and Rochelle will lead the Mapping Tasks groups, and I will lead the Literacy group.  Thank you for responding to the form that I shared, as this is how we will identify peeps for these groups throughout the school year's PD days.

The 6-12 Learning Walk:
Thank you to all that I was able to catch in the act!  I may have missed a couple due to preps, etc, but I think I caught a good snapshot of what we do in classrooms across the district.  As you know from last week's share out of the K-5 Learning Walk, the purpose of this first one was to observe rituals, routines and expectations across the 6-12 classrooms.  Here, I will share some pics from the Learning Walk- check'em out!
Some quick shout outs:
  • In Ms. Grinnell's art foundations class at Durfee, all students were on task and the time blocks for the period were clearly communicated on the screen.
  • In Ms. Nunes' class at Kuss, all students were working on a line mixed media project, and had a video tutorial on loop as well as student work samples around them to assist and support the task.
  • In Mr. Newell's class, students in piano class jumped right into the warm up exercises using scales, contrary, similar motion, and introduced a new one to the mix- Hannon.
































Planning Ahead:
  • 10/2- Band Competition
  • 10/4- Release Time Day- PD for Staff (see your building schedules for end of day times, etc)
  • 10/11- Columbus Day- No School
  • 10/12 and 10/20- Durfee Fac/Dept Meetings
  • 11/2- PD Day- No School for Students
  • 11/5- End of Term 1

Thank you all, and have a wonderful weekend!
-Jackie


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