August 2019 Accomplishments

• Curriculum booklist update 
• Professional Leadership Committees development
• Campus Closure inventory expansion to include equipment and textbooks
• Create district Overdrive
• Technology meetings
• Author visit planning: G. Neri

In an effort to continue ‘districtizing’ our schools, our educational leader set up groups of professional leadership committees. Each committee consists of staff with similar roles at each school. For example, all the CSE chairs at each school form one committee. Each committee is tasked with standardizing their operations and sharing both knowledge and resources. I am very optimistic about this new initiative. Over the past five years I have seen many redundancies across our campuses. One example is book sets. Each school lacks full sets of all the books called for in the curriculum. If we could work together as a district, we could share books across campuses, giving our teachers full access to the books they need. I started my lonely Professional Leadership Committee with ‘districtizing’ our Overdrive account. I worked with the principals to identify a dollar amount each campus could contribute to the Overdrive ‘pot’. We now have complete buy in from each school and accounts for students at each campus. 

With fall coming soon, I started working with principals to plan for our author visit in October. Earlier this summer I helped each school set up a summer reading program. Each school read books by G. Neri in preparation for his visit in October. Back in the spring, I was contacted by a librarian at the central library who wanted to partner with us in expanding our G. Neri author talk. They were able to provide us with additional time with G. Neri, books for students and professional development opportunities. I am looking forward to this event! 

This month I also participated in the Educational Technology Advisory Board meeting. We focused redistributing technology from the closing campus, confirming new devices for one campus, following up on the Google Classroom pilot, and planning a technology and education partnership information session for superintendent’s conference day in October.