Spotlight on C & I

The morning of October 10th looks to be an awesome learning experience with many teachers coming forward to offer some great sessions to benefit the learning of all! If you are interested in leading either a 1.5 or 3 hour session, please send the Title and a brief description of the session to Tracy Fasick and Kelly Shenk by Friday, September 22nd. Once all the sessions are recorded, we will send out information on how to sign-up to attend sessions for this day. The morning will run from 8:00 until 11:20. Lunch will be from 11:20-12:30, providing everyone with time to walk to the farm show if you choose to enjoy the lunch selections provided at this venue. The afternoon of October 10th will be centered around Wellness and will run from 12:30 to 3:30. More information will be provided closer to this date.

On September 18th, administrators and coaches had the opportunity to work with Steve Barkley as he visited Manheim Central High School and HC Burgard Elementary. The focus was on conferencing and coaching. Mr. Barkley engaged in a pre-conference with a teacher at each school while the administrative team and coaches observed. Following the pre-conference, the team visited classrooms doing walkthroughs and then Mr. Barkley followed up with modeling a post-conference with the same teacher from the pre-conference. Many thanks to the teachers who were involved in this work as they helped to create a learning opportunity for administrators and coaches!

For the past 35 years, Steve Barkley has served as a consultant to school districts, teacher organizations, state departments of education, and colleges and universities nationally and internationally, facilitating the changes necessary for them to reach students and successfully prepare them for the 21st century.

Mr. Barkley will return to Manheim Central on December 7th when he will visit both Doe Run Elementary and the Middle School. The focus will again be on creating a culture of coaching and improvement through observing student behaviors during walkthroughs. Mr. Barkley will again model a pre-conference and post conference for administrators and coaches in December. A link to Steve Barkley's Blog can be found below:

http://barkleypd.com/blog/

With STAR going on across K-8, the connector between STAR & Compass is active and working for this year. Once the assessments are complete, Compass will go out and grab the data each night and create automatic learning paths for all of the students. It is available to EVERY student and EVERY teacher… even if the teacher hasn’t set up a class yet, the students can still log in and do the Learning Path activities that are automatically created by STAR.

This is a tremendous tool for the teachers to leverage… It is data-based, differentiated, and AUTOMATED (less work for you to do!). Almost every activity will work perfectly on the iPad, but occasionally some will not function because they have yet to be converted from Flash to HTML5, but that process is ongoing and there are fewer and fewer Flash-driven activities each day. There's no need to come up with all these differentiated activities on your own!