Updates: We are looking forward to a great day of learning on Jan. 19th. New teachers will continue their learning from August at the New Teacher Academy at the Middle School where it will be a fairly structured day. You will have your own Eventzee Scavenger Hunt to participate in, so download the app and scan the QR code! Employees assigned to the HS will have an exciting day of traditional and non-traditional learning. This is not a normal district day, so if you don't know where to go, please view this video! If you don't know what to do, please view the video. If you are unsure of the Learning Cafe and Swap Shop, please view the video. You will have a separate Eventzee Scavenger Hunt, so download the app and scan the correct QR code to enter! We have some really awesome door prizes that will be given out throughout the day for various reasons, including the Eventzee Scavenger Hunt. A little hint- you may want to join Twitter and have the hashtag #HP4PL ready to tweet! You never know when that can win you a door prize! QR Code for New Employees (Middle School): QR Code for Everyone Else (High School): Instructional Tidbits: We just finished a relaxing Winter break, and Spring break feels like decades away. Teachers often have the mindset that this is the time for kids to "buckle down" and "get to work". I wonder, though, if we are doing the right work. We can fall in the trap of getting carried away with the large amount of content we have to cover, and the looming testing we know our kids will face. Many of these things are out of our hands. We'll never gain more time in a day, we probably won't change standards to move from "a mile wide and an inch deep", and testing is probably going to stay with us for a while. We can, however, change our mindset. Last summer I had the opportunity to hear George Couros speak as a keynote for the North Texas Visioning Consortium Conference. Later, I came across one of his articles based on Carol Dweck's Mindset. Many of you know the "power of yet", and establish this with your students, but Couros pushes you, as a teacher, to change your own mindset. Taking a very Oprah-ish stance, he says to be innovative, you have to look at yourself as an innovator first. Read the article here, and decide what your Innovator's Mindset will be for this long and busy semester. What can you do NOW, rather than put on the list for "next year"? How can you foster innovation in yourself and your students? Maybe, with a little innovation, this long semester will be a breeze, and you just might change your mindset! So, for the Spring semester I challenge you and your students to be innovators. Then share with the school innovative things you are doing using @armstronghp and/or @brooksteacher. Retrieved 1-12-16 from http://georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/5135_
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