12/14-12/18 Blog Post

Today I am out visiting Adam Welcome and Todd Nesloney at Adam's school down in Danville.  Both do amazing things at their schools and excited about getting to learn more from them today.  I should be back around 2 if you need me.  Jill is in charge until then.

Adam and Todd

Dalen is obviously ready for tonight: 

Patricia Polacco Visit  Thank you Kristen for your hard work on this (again).  Here is the schedule: Monday lunch with Patricia and catered lunch from Mr. Pickle's  Grades K-2 12:45-1:45.  2nd grade teachers let your students know they will not be going out to recess, they will just stay in the lunch room.  Students will eat outside that day if the weather is nice if not 2nd-5th might have to eat in their classrooms with K and 1 still coming up to the lunch room.  2nd grade teachers if you could please take them out to recess before lunch that would be great.  Tuesday, Grades 3-5, 1:45-2:45. 

So cool to see Sheila taking what she learned from best practices the day before and using the maps app with her students on Thursday.

Telling our Story At the staff meeting we spoke a little bit about websites that rate schools and how their rankings are so severely flawed for many reasons.  That is just another reminder of why we need to keep telling our story and not have others tell it for us.  Thank you to everyone for helping share our story and successes through parent communication and on twitter.   Our students are doing amazing thing (thanks to you!) so don't be afraid to share it so we can tell our story and not have some random marking company tell it for us.

A Look at the Week Ahead:
12/11 Staff party at Dalen's at 6pm
12/14 Patricia Polacco visit
12/15 Patricia Polacco visit
12/16
12/17 Canned food drive ends, get those cans in!  Eich Choir 2pm
12/18 Winter Sing a long 10:15-10:45, early dismissal at 1:52

Every student at Stoneridge went through Hour of Code this week!

Interesting Articles I've Read this Week:
The Wrong Way to Teach Grammar - The Atlantic  At some point we will talk more about grammar and spelling
President Obama signs new educational law, leaving 'No Child' behind- NPR
Why adults have to stop trying so darn hard to control how children play - The Washington Post
Disneyland Opening Day: What You Didn't Know A fun article on how Disneyland didn't get off to the best start when they first opened