Purpose Corner - "Purpose Corner" is a video segment where I continue to focus on what we are doing to boost student success at Waukesha West. It offers an inside view to the professional development and direction our school is taking for preparing our students to be college, career, and community ready!
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| Please click HERE to access this 1:37 video |
Family Connect Conferences - These conferences are in the place of traditional student/teacher conferences where grades and work completion were predominately discussed. Grades and work completion are just as important as they have always been, but technology allows families to track these things and communicate more efficiently with teachers. So, I have purposely moved conferences earlier in that connections can be made more quickly to support student success. Why?... see the snippet below of this March, 12th 2019 Ed Week article on why relationships matter as in captures and reaffirms my thought process. They are from 4-7 P.M. on 9/24 and 4-6 P.M. on 10/1.
"People sometimes mistake a kind of casual familiarity and friendliness for the promotion of really deep relationships that are about a child's potential, their interests, their strengths, and weaknesses," said Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Southern California who studies the effects of emotions and mindsets on learning.
"A lot of teachers ... have really strong abilities to engage socially with the students, but then it's not enough," she said. "You have to go much deeper than that and actually start to engage with students around their curiosity, their interests, their habits of mind through understanding and approaching material to really be an effective teacher."
Fox River Marching Band Invitational - This Sunday, September 29th is the Fox River Marching Band Invitational. A huge shout out in advance to Mr. Dan Duffy, Kali Granzow, and the marching band parents for all of their work in making this a great event! Come out to enjoy all the variety this competition brings among all of the participating schools. See the flyer below:
Principal Advisory Council - Below are the names of the individuals on the Principal Advisory Council for 2019-2020. We will be meeting monthly throughout the course of the year and will keep meeting minutes that will be shared out to all West families through this blog. Our first meeting is this Wednesday, September, 25th at 6:00 P.M. Please contact anyone of the reps to have them bring your questions to the council via the email provided.
Archived Announcements (Link) Please access this link to find all of the information in our daily announcements from previous weeks.
Preview of this week: Please check the calendars here: West Main Page Calendar (Link)
