Captivate your class, create outrageously engaging lessons, rediscover your passion for teaching.
TEACH LIKE a PIRATE!!! To teach is to touch a life 4 EVER!!! Build relationships, touch a life!!! Be that teacher that they tell their own children about. Be REMARKABLE!!!
Engagement
Read this article on Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement Find out how your students like to learn/how they learn BEST and incorporate it your lesson!
Smart Goal Setting With Students
Read this article on how yours students can set POSITIVE goals!
MAP Skills Incentive
Please send Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Guernsey dates and times of you using MAP Skills or Khan Academy (using MAP Data) in your classrooms to earn a treasure card!
CS Hour of Code
The Hour of Code is "a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify "code" and show that anyone can learn the basics to be a maker, a creator, an innovator." Coding is the process of writing a program to make the computer do something. Everything that is done on a computer, like websites, games, applications, word processing, videos, and photos, has been coded to do its specific feature. The process of coding may seem daunting, but learning the basics can be quite easy.
Every year we participate in Hour of Code during Computer Science Week - December 4-10. This short video explains a variety of ways to get your students involved in Hour of Code.
If your school or classroom is participating in Hour of Code, we'd like to invite community members to participate at your school rather than the district office! Please consider creating activities that not only allow students to show what they know, but also allows community members to be taught by students and participate themselves!
Use this form to let the district know what activities your school is participating in during Hour of Code and remember to share your pictures on Twitter with #codeFSUSD!
CALL For Staff Photos!!!
Please bring in a small headshot photo to add to our Staff College Board! Turn your photo in to Mrs. Guernsey by Friday December 1, 2017. If you don't have a hard copy photo, please send a digital copy via email. Thanks!!!
Teach Like A Pirate Book Study
We are looking forward to your group skits at our December Staff Meeting.
Teach Like a Pirate Lesson Plans
Teach Like a Pirate Teams
Transformation
Pages 55-63
"Provide an uncommon experience for your students and they will reward you with an uncommon effort and attitude." - DAVE BURGESS
I want my class to stand out in the sea of sameness that is the educational landscape. I want my class to be, as Seth Godin says, a Purple Cow. In his book, Seth writes, "Something remarkable is worth talking about. Worth noticing. Exceptional. New. Interesting. It's a Purple Cow. Boring stuff is invisible. It's a brown cow."
Students are hit with so much information and stimuli every day that to stand out in their minds, you must be remarkable. Remarkable means that you are so exceptional and different that people talk about you- in a good way. Being merely good doesn't cut it; you have to be extraordinary!!!
No Excuses University
Standards Alignment
As professionals, we are called to participate in activities that improve our results while learning from our successes and failures. Aligning standards provides an objective framework that can guide our path. The beauty of this framework is the ability that it has to allow continuity from one grade level to the next. When we participate in such continuity, our instruction becomes more meaningful and purposeful. When every grade level follows this framework, our instruction can never be in vain. But this can only happen when it is completed with the aid of systematic collaboration. Which is exactly why standards alignment follows collaboration on the exceptional system staircase.
Click on this Link to watch a video on standards alignment
Symbolism
Data Wall Challenge
We encourage you to create a Data Wall for your MAP scores! Data Wall Challenge- submit a photo to Admin by December 20th for a chance to win a prize!
Professional Development Compensation
For the 2017-2018 school year, ALL teachers are contractually allowed to earn up to two days (13 hours) of per diem for attending approved professional development. In addition, teachers are able to participate in approved professional development for salary credit.
Upcoming Professional Development
- Student Engagement: Student Choice and Voice- November 30th- 3:30 PM-5:45 PM
- T.E.A.M Workshop- January 17th- 3:45 PM-5:45 PM
- 6-8 Writing With Springboard and the Common Core- January 20th- 9:00AM-4:30PM
- 6-8 Writing With Springboard and the Common Core- February 3rd-9:00 AM-4:30PM
- 6-8 Writing With Springboard and the Common Core- February 17th-9:00 AM-4:30PM
- T.E.A.M Workshop- February 21st- 3:45 PM-5:45 PM
- T.E.A.M Workshop- March 21st- 3:45 PM-5:45 PM
Toys For Tots
ASB is hosting Toys for Tots. Students will turn in their toys to their first period class. The classroom that donates the most toys will win a class prize! All toys are DUE by December 20th
Click HERE for flyer
Ms. Shearer
Math Teacher
Go #Observe Ms. Shearer. She is an expert with classroom management, curriculum, and structure/transition.
Melissa Apostolos
Consulting Teacher
Nickname: Mel
High school: Will C. Wood
Career if not a Educator: Social Worker or working for the Department of the Interior
Would like to be on this game show: SURVIVOR
Passion: Going on adventures with my 2 daughters, hiking, running, camping, reading
Crystal Gomez
Nickname: Don't have one
High school, sports, clubs etc: Cordova High (in Rancho Cordova - near Sac) Played soccer in college (intramural), played in band in HS and college.
Career if not a Educator: I would have been a doctor - but I didn't want to attend that much college, wanted to start a job sooner rather than later.
Would like to be on this game show: Jeopardy - only the college or the Teacher's edition though
Passion: Family and working with kids
Fun Facts: I love working with teachers, but do miss the classroom. Middle school is my favorite age. I love teaching and learning math! I have 2 daughters, 18 months and 5 years old.
Guess who? The first Staff that can guess who this is will earn five treasure cards!!!
- Thank you to the Basketball Coaches for giving up a few days of their Thanksgiving Break to support our Basketball Teams.
- YAHOO!!! Ms. Spinelli and Mr. Alarcon-Young met during break to plan their instruction for the next few weeks!
- Our custodians ROCK!!! Thanks for all the hard work this break cleaning our campus and preparing for our students to come back to a clean campus!
- Thank you ALL for respecting the "No Email during break" policy! It was great to take a break from work!
- December 1 - 20- Toys for Tots
- December 4 - 10 - CS Hour of Code
- December 21 - Teacher Work Day
- December 22 - January 5 - Winter Break
- Sorensen 1
- Abbott-Grotrian 6
- Mikkola 6
- Morales 19
- Mulvihill 29
- Lewis 30
- Balthazor 31
Fun with the APs
