Week Ahead: March 28

What a great start to Student Led Conferences.  Engaged parents and students talking in depth about learning, strengths and needs.  Thank you so much for all your hard work in ensuring students were so well prepared for the SLCs.  And now we are off on the final quarter of the year!

Here is what’s up this week:

Friday, Mar. 25
Final day to complete the Principal Survey (You can access the survey HERE.)
4:30-6:30 Post PTC Happy Hour (Beer Club, Panorama Apartments)

Monday, Mar. 27
Day 7 DABC
9:45 SRT
1:30-3 Admin Team Mtg
3:15-4:30 Leadership Team

Tuesday, Mar. 28
Day 8 HEFG
*Molly departs for WASC training and EARCOS Conf (gone rest of week)

Wednesday, Mar. 29
Day 1 ABCD
3:15-4:30 Learning Plan #5 Meeting

Thursday, Mar. 30
Day 2 EFGH

Friday, April 1
Day 3 BCDA (HL Schedule; sponsored by Yellow)
1:30-3 Vertical ELA Mtg

Saturday, April 2
2:30-5 PTA Family Fun Day

Upcoming (on the radar)

• Apr. 5-7 – School Book Fair
• Apr 11-15 – Spring Break
• Apr 18-22 – Earth Week
• Apr 19-12 – WrAP Testing
• Apr 25 – Career Fair for Gr 8
• May 2-3 – No School
• May 6 – Mid-Quarter
• May 13 – Early Release (Assessment PD)

Family Fun Day This Saturday: Family Fun Day (hosted by our PTA) takes place on Saturday, April 2 from 2:30-5pm.  There will be a lot of great activities available for all age groups.  Please stop by and support our awesome parents for a bit.

Rebecca at EARCOS!:  Congratulations to Rebecca Jardin who was selected to present at the EARCOS Teachers’ Conference this week.  Wish her well as she heads off!

On Call Admin This Week: I will be heading to WASC Training and the EARCOS Teachers’ Conference this week.  I’ll be out Tuesday – Sunday.  While I am gone, Zach will be covering student discipline issues that arise and helping with general admin needs.  In order to assist him, please be extra diligent about duties.  Huge thanks to Zach for taking on this extra duty!

Visible Thinking Strategy:  On a whim, I googled Visible Thinking as an image.  This amazingly cool visual popped up …
The article focused on the use of visible thinking routines when blogging and commenting on peer work.  As I explored the website, I found excellent, thought provoking articles focused on how to assist students in developing their ability to think.  Silvia Tolisan0, author of the blog, is an educational consultant and coach who focuses on the areas of Modern Learning & Literacies, Globally Connected Learning, Blogging as Pedagogy, Digital Portfolios, iPads in the Classroom. She might be worth a follow!

Read more at:

Visible Thinking Routines for Blogging