Summer Post - 7/26/13

School News:  

Congratulations and best wishes to Carla DeGironimo and her new husband Aaron Pastore.  Welcome Aaron to #warriornation

If you didn't get to see my post on Personal Growth Time @ WHS the 80/20 model, please take the time to read it and if your interested please fill out the Google Form.  

GradeBooks are open! 

Don't forget to take care of the Suicide Prevention Online Course

Simply go to http://spts.pldm.com click on the class entitled “Making Educators Partners in Youth Suicide Prevention 2012-2013 “ the New Jersey version.  Once you have completed the class at your leisure please print out a copy of the certificate.  Maintain a copy for your records and provide me with a copy as well.  All staff will be required to complete this online course by November 1, 2013.  District Code - 5410

**This online course counts for 2 hours of PD, which can go towards the 20 hours required for the 13-14 School Year.  

Professional Development Resources 

Adam Bello who you can follow on twitter at @adambellow was one of the Keynote speakers at this years ISTE 2013 conference back in June.  It was a tremendous speech!!  The speech is about on hour long but I wouldn't recommend it, if I didn't think it was worth the time.  Hope you find the time to watch it.

You can jump ahead to the 21:40 minute mark on the video, which is when Adam starts his speech.   



This next video has nothing to do with Education but when a saw it on SportsCenter last week I thought it had a really powerful message about determination, perseverance and over coming obstacles.    

The inspirational story of Richie Parker, a man born without arms thrives in NASCAR