This is just a quick update. I’m a little fried right now, so blogging has been noticeably light. But the good news is that we’re really moving forward with SLA planning. Two weeks from today, we get together as a faculty and continue the work that we’ve been doing all spring. We’ve had moodle chats, some face to face meetings, and lots of forum postings, but this will be the first time we’re all together for an extended period of time. (I’m still amazed that we put together our Family Night Book that way.) We’ve got a packed agenda, from designing rubrics to looking at a four-year sequence of skills to talking about our technology plans (of course.)

Our topics include:

• Inquiry at SLA
• Understanding by Design
• Creating Project Rubrics
• Backward Mapping from Senior Capstone to 9th Grade
• Planning our August Student Orientation
• Moodle Training / Tech Training
• Special Education and the Co-Teaching Model
• Guidance / Advisory Workshop
• Working with The Franklin Institute / Wednesdays at the Franklin Project
• SLA Curriculum and the State Standards
• Creating our Student Handbook

So if you were a founding teacher of SLA, what topics would you most want on the agenda of our first two-week planning session?