Presentation

For those of you who attended our presentation, what did you think?

Ideas Anyone

I'm looking for motivational ideas that administrators have used during there first few days of school. If you have any stories, or ideas that you have used in the past let me know, and please post them below.

Admin Retreat

I had a chance to hear from Marc Prensky at the Lake Placid Administrators Retreat this afternoon. Interesting presentation about digital natives and digital immigrants. There is no question that we have a digital divide between our teachers and our students. As always, a presentation like this always brings up some difficult questions.....

1. How do we help our teachers see the need to teach our students in a different way, when we are already a successful school? (Or at least according to state standards)
2. Are we teaching 21st century skills?
3. How do we get more students involved with our school improvement?

These are only a few questions popping into my head.....I'm looking for practical answers to these questions....

Antcipation

So now it starts.....July 2nd will be the start of a new principal at Beaver River....

What will the new year bring?
What changes will happen?

How exciting is this???? The summer months are filled with anticipation of the new year. Deciding on what to improve upon while maintaining the good from the past year.

My task is to decipher all of the information given to me. There are so many questions, and I have only touched the surface of where all the answers are.

It's time to put the nose to the grindstone and get to work.