My first video podcast — talking about the first three days of the SLA Staff Workshop.
A View From the Schoolhouse
My first video podcast — talking about the first three days of the SLA Staff Workshop.
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:
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?
I had linked this before as part of a much longer post / brain-dump after Family Night, but I mentioned it on the podcast today, and it deserves its own post anyway….
The SLA Family Night Curriculum Book
This is a document that all the SLA faculty collaborated on. We gave it out to our parents at Family Night so that they could really get a sense of what they had signed up for. I’m really proud of the work we did on it because a) it really was a collaborative document, created through on-line work on our moodle sight, b) I think, if you read it, you really see how there is an underlying vision of the school that provides a pedagogical throughline through all the different pages, and c) I hope that we will be able to keep this document around as part of our historical record of SLA, so that in three or four or ten years we can look back at this and see how the school has evolved.
Enjoy.