I Am BACK!

This has been a very busy week.  Tuesday I attended my first PD on the Evaluator Standards.  Mrs. Beaudry and Mrs. Bidus did a great job and the participants in my group really had some great conversation about Standard 1.  It is very surprising how much you can see in a Standard when you really focus word for word on the descriptors in the rubric and when you start to look at evidence to show proficiency/mastery of that standard.  The discussion was so rich.  I love working with these two colleagues on the PLN and I love my MHS colleagues also.

Wednesday was also hectic with students in and out of class for presentations during College and Career Awareness Week and field trips.  I had very few students in my Spanish V class but we did move along.  El joven had to use my room on Wednesday because his room was used for one of the presentations.  I think they decided that he could be uprooted because after all he is el joven!  HA HA!  There would have been more resistance with la vieja.  We also have been trying to get the paths in the language lab fixed now that our dead computer drive is once again working.  We tried to download the Teamviewer application which CTS was going to use to remote in, but GUESS WHAT?  It is blocked at MHS.   The story of my life.  Everything seems to be blocked here.  I love iBOSS!  NOT!  So that task was abandoned.

 Today I went with our PLN to Franklin for our Teacher Evaluation PLN Mid Term Meeting  with DESE.  I was so proud of our team.  We really have accomplished a lot.  We got to re-connect with our friends at Hopkins Academy in Hadley and the other schools who were awarded these grants. The work that all of the schools have done was shared by each team and it was so interesting all of the various tasks undertaken.    Great job to all the  PLNs.  I always have so much fun with my Monson PLN.    They are so energizing.   I got back to the school just around 2:00 and was eager to check in with el joven who was being observed today by his supervisor at Worcester State.  I got there just in time and el joven was just going over the observation with his supervisor.  It appears that el joven can consistently receive KUDOS for his lessons.  I am so glad that he has started to put the lesson goals/targeted learning goals on his board and starting to revisit them with his students.  Best Practices . . .joven!   Best Practices.

La Vieja