Week Ahead: Mar. 1-5

Congratulations to the VTC team for putting on one heck of a conference! I if you didn’t have an opportunity to attend, I highly recommend watching the keynote address by Craig Kemp. It was informative and inspirational. The future continues to be one heck of an exciting place to be heading toward! One of the questions that struck me was how do we continue to create conditions for invention and innovation? Both for ourselves and for our students. I am so thankful to be on the journey with this team!

Here is what’s up this week:

Monday, Mar. 1
A-H Schedule
*Happy Birthday Joycelyn Wei and Rob Howe!
1:30-3 Sr Admin Mtg (Molly attends)

Tuesday, Mar. 2
Day 1, ABCD
7:15-7:45 Review of Student Led Conferences Option 1 (library)
3:15-3:45 Review of Student Led Conferences Option 2 (library)

Wednesday, Mar. 3
Day 2, EFGH
1:00-1:40 Dragon Time: Introduce Student Led Conferences (by advisor)
3:15-4:30 Divisional Time, various locations, deconstructing standards/unit documentation

Thursday, Mar. 4
Day 3, BCDA

Friday, Mar. 5
Day 4, FGHE
Band Concert During Dragon Time!

Upcoming (on the radar)

• Mar. 9 – Early Dismissal PD SSIS In House Institute
• Mar. 9 – Regular length day
• March 22 – comments completed and peer reviewed (in Q3 bin) and grades completed by 3:00; verification reports printed at 3:45
• March 23 – verification report reviewed, signed (can be digital) and returned to office by 3:00
• Mar. 25 and 26 – Student Led Conferences

Schedule for Monday: We are so excited to welcome back students to campus! Here is the schedule for Monday.

Advisory	8-8:15	15 min
Block A	8:20-8:55	35 min
Block B	9:00-9:35	35 min
Block C	9:40-10:15	35 min
Block D	10:20-10:55	35 min
Block E	11:00-11:35	35 min
Recess/Lunch	11:35-12:05	35 min
DEAR	12:10-12:25	15 min
Lunch/Recess	12:25-1:00	35 min
Block F	1:05-1:40	35 min
Block G	1:45-2:20	35 min
Block H	2:25-3:00	35 min

Band Concert on Friday during Dragon Time:  Striking while the iron is hot! We will be having a band concern on Friday during Dragon Time. The goal is to have a live audience for the students to perform in … we are now at 1 year without a live audience for our musicians (reminder – their Dec. concert was cancelled at the last minute due to COVID outbreak). We still have to work out how many of us can attend (will depend on social distancing requirements). We will get that out ASAP. Thank you to Roxanne and Rick for their flexibility in rescheduling the HL event schedule for this week.

Student Led Conferences:  It’s time to gear up for Student Led Conferences! There are different roles for you as a teacher and you as an advisor. I will be reviewing this on Tuesday. There are two options for you to attend – AM or afternoon (see calendar above). There are no substantial changes to this year’s SLCs – but since we haven’t done them for 2 years (we missed last year due to COVID), I would like all faculty to attend one of the sessions. All advisors will be giving the presentation about SLCs to students during Dragon Time on Wednesday.

• Teacher and Advisor Guide to SLCs
• Wednesday’s Introduction to SLCs for Students (to be done during Dragon Time)
• Student Version Guide to SLCs

Caterer’s Portal: The new Caterers Web Portal is accessible via the eNews main menu, under “The Caterers” or via this link: To begin using the portal for the first time, follow these simple steps:

1. Enter your user name: Your school ID
2. Enter the password: TCtest@123. Please note that this is a temporary password. The first time you log in, you will be asked to change your password. You will only need to do this once.
3. Change your password, following the instructions in the portal

Important Tech Topics:
Edpuzzle Middle School Resource: Middle School teachers have access to Edpuzzle Pro plan and a number of our teachers are already using it.  Edpuzzle has curated a middle school resource for you to begin your journey or add to your resources: https://em.edpuzzle.com/E0z0C0vrYFT0K0RG1M0tB07

Here is the link to join our SSIS Edpuzzle organization: https://edpuzzle.com/schools/join/f0uz29

I am working on integrating EDPuzzle in PowerSchool Learning so that you may assign EDpuzzle via PSLearning.  If you are a willing beta tester please stop by and we can test it out.

Zoom and Highlight: Did you know there is a keyboard shortcut that allows you to zoom in and highlight a specific part of your screen?  But first you must enable this feature.
Go to your System Preferences, Select Accessibility, and check the following

The Hover Tex is new for me and I have been enjoying it as for some reason writing has become a lot smaller lately.

Repeat: LMS Transition (PS Learning to Schoology): The EdTech team is completing the initial sandbox setup for Schoology so that we may be ready for full implementation starting next school year.  Please fill out this survey. It will help me guide our planning and training needs in the upcoming months.  Your feedback is appreciated…so much so that I am willing to offer something for your feedback (fill out the survey and see!)