Assessment, Bomb Threat, and Snipping!

What an incredibly eventful day el joven and I had today.  We began with a great conversation about assessment and what is acceptable evidence of student accomplishment of goals.  El joven had developed an open ended assignment in which students were asked to sequence events using Primero, Entonces, Después, Luego y Por Fin.  I loved the idea and the overall concept of the assignment, but I felt I needed to ask el joven if he thought this was sufficient evidence of student mastery of the goal  - the students will be able to narrate activities/events using sequencing words.  When I asked the question, I could immediately see el joven deeply reflecting on this query.  He felt that it provided some evidence, but also thought about how students might simply use Google Translate or ask a more advanced student to complete the task. He then determined that this would be a great formative assessment to provide him with some information, but a similar task would need to be incorporated into a more formal/summative assessment task later.  I have determined that el joven is a very honest and reflective practitioner and I appreciate that he is willing to throw questions back at me to challenge some of my beliefs and practices.
Well, shortly after our "deep" convesation, we heard the evacuate the building alarm.  We quickly exited to the school parking lot to learn that we had a bomb threat and were to be transported by our school buses to the middle school.  This was great news as it was rather cold outside.  El joven and I were on prep so we had no classes to oversee, so we immediately were put work by Principal Metzger to assist with various tasks.  This could not have played out any better as el joven got to see what the procedures are in these cases and he had the opportunity to observe what the veteran teachers were doing.  I volunteered for bathroom duty and had a great time with Mr. Sitnik organizing student use of the lavatories.  It was not a bad job until one girl exited the girls room and mentioned that one of the toilets was about to overflow!  YUK.   I am not good in emergencies but Mr. Sitnik who is familiar with that school because he taught there immediately took charge and found a custodian to remedy the problem. Thank goodness for my pal Mr. Sitnik!   I am sure el joven has a good idea of what to do in case of another incident like this, as he had this entire incident to observe.  Who knows, joven, the next time you might be teaching a class!  I hope you will be ready to spring into action!

The day ended with students being dismissed and a faculty bus trip up to the high school to debrief and plan next steps.  As we were sitting around after the debriefing session, el joven stated that he needed a picture but couldn't get just that portion of a chart to print.  I said to him  "Just pull it up on your screen and get the snipping tool to get the image."   Well what do you know?  La vieja knew what the snipping tool was and el joven didn't!  I think la vieja should get a point for that!  What do you think?