I’ve just finished judging high school newspapers for an evaluation service. The comments are made. The points are totaled (in pencil). The papers are shipped UPS with a tracking number. The judging process is interesting in terms of seeing the year compressed into six issues of the school newspaper. The presidential campaigns. School sporting events. […]
Day of high spirits UF held two graduation ceremonies today. These grads added to more than 300,000 graduates of the University of Florida, according to the president of the UF Alumni Association who introduced the outstanding undergraduate student awards. As a marshal, I arrived 90 minutes before the ceremony to help with organizing for the […]
Marshals meeting – Faculty assembled for directions for tomorrow’s graduation ceremonies. Just add orange and blue robes.
I’m all for the spirit of Christmas but… It’s the beginning of August. This display and a big display of Christmas tree ornaments and large Santas were in the local Cracker Barrel, along with displays for Halloween and Thanksgiving. I imagine the Easter display will be added soon.
Oregon mentors Bill Flechtner and Carla Harris (on each end) were invited to the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association banquet, where they talked about their mentoring experience. Last year ONPA funded two mentors in Oregon. Next year, ONPA is funding three mentors. (Photo by Dale Harris)
The new JEA mentors for 2008-2009 represent California, Illinois, North Carolina and Oregon. The training program was held at the University of California/Berkeley. (Photo by Judy Robinson)
We’ve had a whirlwind three days — exchanging ideas, sharing concerns, learning strategies, asking questions. A great activity today was having the mentors work in pairs in simulated conversations — roleplaying the mentor and new teacher, working through a new teacher challenge (like grading). The pairs of experienced teachers each played a part. Afterwards, they […]
Eleven new mentors. Four states. Five trainers rotating through sessions on recruiting new teachers, working with principals, learning to develop a mentoring relationship, establishing an action plan for implementing mentoring in their states, etc. The mentors are problem solving with partners or working in table groups to develop strategies, and role playing. They are writing reflections, […]
Brighten the corner where you are – A floral display along the sidewalk at the San Francisco airport. After sitting in the plane at the gate in Atlanta during a thunderstorm, we had a safe flight. From Julie’s iPhone
I can’t say that planning for the JEA mentor academy is the reason that I haven’t been keeping up my blog for the last couple of weeks — but that would be one reason. Next week is the mentor academy, being held at UC/Berkeley with 11 new mentors joining the program. The mentors represent California, […]
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