WELCOME BACK NAUSET STAFF

1. WELCOME BACK NAUSET STAFF

2. TODAY’S AGENDA • Connect with colleagues and share a smile or two • Provoke your thoughts and stimulate your ideas on how to: • Engage our students in their learning • Collaborate with colleagues in your school and across the District • Use technology as a powerful tool of teaching and collaboration • Thank you and inspire you to continue to be GREAT at what you do for the Nauset Schools

3. BUT FIRST…PLEASE GIVE A WARM WELCOME TO 7 OF NAUSET’S FINEST STUDENTS

4. STUDENTS AT RIGHT SIDE OF STAGE STUDENTS AT LEFT SIDE OF STAGE Olivia Viningcompleted kindergartenNaomi Francis completed Gr. 2Leo Flores completed Gr. 2Max Boulericecompleted Gr. 5 Jack Our completed Gr. 8Hannah Sweeney completed Gr. 9Clare Roycroftcompleted Gr. 11

5. NAUSETPUBLIC SCHOOLS EMPLOYEES OF THE YEAR2013-14

6. Andrew Clark – Nauset High School

7. Rafe Torres – Eddy Elementary

8. Wende O’Brien – Eddy Elementary School

9. WELCOME TO TEAM NAUSET

10. TODAY’S AGENDA • Connect with colleagues and share a smile or two • Provoke your thoughts and stimulate your ideas on how to: • Engage our students in their learning • Collaborate with colleagues in your school and across the District • Use technology as a powerful tool of teaching and collaboration • Thank you and inspire you to continue to be GREAT at what you do for the Nauset Schools

11. ENGAGE INVOLVE HOLD ATTENTION ENGROSS ABSORB CAPTIVATE ENTHRALL MESMERIZE

13. “Every child deserves a CHAMPION, someone who will never give up on him.” Rita Pierson

14. ENGAGE • Uses instructional practices that reflect high expectations regarding content and quality of effort and work; engage all students; and are personalized to accommodate diverse learning styles, needs, interests, and levels of readiness. • Consistently uses instructional practices that motivate and engage most students both during the lesson and during independent work and home work.

16. “Great teachers know that the way you get people to learn is by connecting to the learner’s interests, to motivate them, to find what energizes them, what excites them, what engages their imagination.” Sir Kenneth Robinson

17. COLLABORATE COOPERATE WORK TOGETHER JOIN FORCES TEAM UP WORK IN PARTNERSHIP POOL RESOURCES ACT AS A TEAM

20. COLLABORATE • Actively pursues professional development and learning opportunities to improve quality of practice or build the expertise and experience to assume different instructional and leadership roles. • Supports colleagues to collaborate in areas such as developing standards-based units, examining student work, analyzing student performance, and planning appropriate intervention.

21. TECHNOLOGY • Yes, it’s just a tool … kind of like the new chalk… but WOW, what this tool can do for our learners! • Check out these two student projects from Nauset Middle School…

24. TECHNOLOGY • Technology can also help our environment with the paperless office, the paperless classroom, and even the paperless home.

26. TECHNOLOGY Technology will enable all educators to collaborate, not just through old methods like email, but through new portals like Google Classroom where teachers can learn about great APS for their students instead of searching and searching …

28. Keep what works but…. Try to imagine the world of the future that today’s students will live in … what can we teach them today that will still be important in 50 years? “Sometimes teaching questions is more important than teaching answers.” Erno Rubik

30. So here are your challenges for 2014-15 • How will you engage your students in their learning this year? • How will you collaborate with colleagues, administrators, and parents in your school and across the District? • What technology tools will you learn to use this year for teaching and for collaboration?

31. Title Layout IT’S A MARATHON NOT A RACE Subtitle

32. AND NOW A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO OUR EDUCATORS

34. ARE YOU HAPPY YET? WE’RE ALMOST THROUGH.