Weekly Update

 Team, 

Please take the time to view the Cadet Chat video(it is long). This highlights many of the questions that you likely have. In addition, I will be more than happy to meet with levels after break--keep in mind that this is optional. Please use the point person to schedule a level meeting with me if your team wishes to process the changes together. In addition, our district will be hosting a staff forum in the near future which will help with many of the logistical questions that you might have. Much of what we do will be district based, but we can certainly get creative in some instances. 

CADET CHAT VIDEO...CLICK HERE

Highlighted below are the three plans and some general Q and A that goes along with the content of the Cadet Chat: 

Cadet Tech

 

This year your Cadet Tech team is producing a monthly video of short, bite-sized PD to keep the fresh ideas flowing throughout the district during this unique school year. We invite you to spend a few short minutes watching our show each month to gain tips, tricks, ideas, and strategies that all teachers can use regardless of their technology skill level. Our fourth episode features our favorite recent updates to your favorite tools. 

 

CTOD Top 3 Episode 4: The Update Update

 

 Team,

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE VIDEO FOR THIS WEEK!

Artifacts that were mentioned in the video: 

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2)

CLICK HERE TO UPLOAD YEARBOOK PICTURES

3)

CLICK HERE FOR GEORGE ARTICLE

4)

CLICK HERE FOR THE PLAYGROUND SIGNUP

YEARBOOK PHOTO CHALLENGE:

 SO, the challenge is for each class to decide on 15-20 photos that depict or represent your classroom!   They can be orchestrated/posed or can be candid photos of favorite activities you have done in the classroom.   All you need to do is place the pictures in your class photo folder after you discuss and choose with your class.   FOLDER LINK: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-MZ2w7lC067lE4qk11FfLSuJPb7HbaNW?usp=sharing

Weekly Message for 3/5/21

 Team,

CLICK HERE FOR THE WEEKLY MESSAGE. 

Building admin. coverage next week: 

• Wed 3/10 from 8-12: Mike LeGault
• Thurs 3/11 from 8-4: Jeff Green
• Fri 3/12 from 8-4: Carol Saladzius

Principal's Message

 Team,

IT IS A SHORT AND SWEET WEEKLY MESSAGE THIS WEEK.

Be well,

Derek 

Principal's Message

 Team, 

CLICK HERE FOR THE WEEKLY MESSAGE!

As always, the podcasts below are a challenge by choice for those looking to further their learning around the topic of equity and race in America. 

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE PODCAST

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE PODCAST

Did you know Google Classroom limits you to 100 topics?

 

If you use topics to organize your Google Classroom, which I recommend you do, you might be running out of topics soon.  Google Classroom limits you to 100 topics per Google Classroom.  So, what can you do?  Deleting topics to gain back more will delete the topic, but not the assignments under the topic. Therefore the assignments will no longer be under a topic and will appear at the topic in a big mess.  The best solution is to create a new Google Classroom and archive your old one.  The best way to get older students in a new Google Classroom is to make your last assignment in your old Google Classroom a link to your new one.  For younger students you can type their name in the people section and invite them.  

 

In addition to gaining you 100 more topics, creating a new Google Classroom every 10-20 weeks will also 

1.  Help your Google Classroom be less cluttered and more organized.
2. Give your students a sense of renewal, as they will not be staring at old incomplete assignments.  
3. Give you more originality reports.  

 

When you archive your old Google Classroom, it will take it off your main screen and put it in the archived section, where you and your students will still be able to see and reuse assignments.  

Culture Day is ON! Asynchronous, but ON!

QUEST Staff!

Culture Day is ON for 2021! We will be holding it as an asynchronous event for the month of March. More info coming soon. In the meantime, if YOU or someone truly AWESOME you know wants to put together a presentation on a particular country, please contact Andrea or Anna. (We are envisioning a short slides presentation with an activity or two embedded.)

Thanks for considering and for supporting Culture Day!

Sled Race Videos

 

Friday's race: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mNF78DnR4vaKmlIX3is9uFX0e6PCyBEl/view?usp=sharing 

 

Monday's race:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ftp1nV194H0eyZR0XsHcRU5IP1ZocmJP/view?usp=sharing