It was so much fun to start my week at Swallow Union for this week's first school site visit. As you can see from the images above, I saw students working hard at literacy and numeracy, as well as using traditional and progressive learning tools.
This past week we had the second data meeting at the middle school as part of our new data based decision making model. We explored root cause analysis, root cause verification, and the logic model to define an action plan. We also discussed the recent instructional data meeting protocols that occurred in the ELA and Math departments. Thanks to building administration, Dr. Novak, Karen Gartland, and Emma Blydenburgh for their hard work in this area. This all means that we are looking at student data to drive our decisions. You will see products of this work when we soon present our school improvement plans, district plans, and the district data overview.
I conducted my second school visit of the week when I visited Boutwell. Students were hard at work in the areas of letter identification and fine motor skills practice. It was also picture day!
As you know the students had a half day this week to allow staff to participate in professional development. On Thursday, all teaching staff attended professional development at the building level. Mr. Hoyt facilitated great trainings this week at Boutwell. Teachers at Florence Roche and Swallow Union focused on PD in math, specifically, how to facilitate rich classroom discussions in math. This work was presented by math coach, Sue Wynn. Middle school teachers attended a presentation by Dr. Katie Novak on refining DDMs and then teachers worked in departments to examine their current measures. High school teachers worked as departments with academic advisors to focus on content-area PD.
Although I only capture a fraction of the exciting things happening in our district in this Roundup, I encourage you to go on Twitter and search #gdrsdchat (https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=gdrsdchat). This will link you to a number of photos and tweets about what is occurring across the district in any given day/week. For example, this week you can see student writing, images of Fright Feast, sports updates, drama guild students, third graders discussing code in schools, students using iPads in math class, a homecoming sumo-wrestling match, images of technology staff attending MassCue, staff participating in building PD, staff modeling good book conversations for students, a link to a TED talk on vulnerability, the pep rally schedule, and an image of social studies staff at the HS working with the Groton Historical Society.
Below, I invite community members to join me in 2 upcoming open forums. We also have one more parent open forum coming up! If you are unable to attend a forum in person, please complete my entry survey at the link below:
https://docs.google.com/a/gdrsd.org/forms/d/1UlRkxNRQa-H2e5-irqXAaiRa_ZuKH2K9-T_kGN91Xp8/viewform
Kristan Rodriguez, Ph.D.
Superintendent
Groton-Dunstable Regional School District
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Dr_Rodriguez21
This past week we had the second data meeting at the middle school as part of our new data based decision making model. We explored root cause analysis, root cause verification, and the logic model to define an action plan. We also discussed the recent instructional data meeting protocols that occurred in the ELA and Math departments. Thanks to building administration, Dr. Novak, Karen Gartland, and Emma Blydenburgh for their hard work in this area. This all means that we are looking at student data to drive our decisions. You will see products of this work when we soon present our school improvement plans, district plans, and the district data overview.
I conducted my second school visit of the week when I visited Boutwell. Students were hard at work in the areas of letter identification and fine motor skills practice. It was also picture day!
As you know the students had a half day this week to allow staff to participate in professional development. On Thursday, all teaching staff attended professional development at the building level. Mr. Hoyt facilitated great trainings this week at Boutwell. Teachers at Florence Roche and Swallow Union focused on PD in math, specifically, how to facilitate rich classroom discussions in math. This work was presented by math coach, Sue Wynn. Middle school teachers attended a presentation by Dr. Katie Novak on refining DDMs and then teachers worked in departments to examine their current measures. High school teachers worked as departments with academic advisors to focus on content-area PD.
Although I only capture a fraction of the exciting things happening in our district in this Roundup, I encourage you to go on Twitter and search #gdrsdchat (https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=gdrsdchat). This will link you to a number of photos and tweets about what is occurring across the district in any given day/week. For example, this week you can see student writing, images of Fright Feast, sports updates, drama guild students, third graders discussing code in schools, students using iPads in math class, a homecoming sumo-wrestling match, images of technology staff attending MassCue, staff participating in building PD, staff modeling good book conversations for students, a link to a TED talk on vulnerability, the pep rally schedule, and an image of social studies staff at the HS working with the Groton Historical Society.
Below, I invite community members to join me in 2 upcoming open forums. We also have one more parent open forum coming up! If you are unable to attend a forum in person, please complete my entry survey at the link below:
https://docs.google.com/a/gdrsd.org/forms/d/1UlRkxNRQa-H2e5-irqXAaiRa_ZuKH2K9-T_kGN91Xp8/viewform
Kristan Rodriguez, Ph.D.
Superintendent
Groton-Dunstable Regional School District
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Dr_Rodriguez21