Highlights!

This week Sharmayne and Greg have planned sessions for the Learning Coaches. On Monday, we went through CAPS, Tuesday was all about Classroom Management, and today we focused on Balanced Literacy. The Learning Coaches are fabulous teachers with a wealth of experience. We have certainly learned more from them then they have from us. That being said, they have shown us a great deal of appreciation. Sharmayne and I feel like we are in our element having such rich professional conversations! The Belezeans are suprised to hear that we have similar challenges and we often get into debates about topics like mandated common exams.

The learning coaches have been split into 6 groups and to day we decided that each group could plan to run a workshop on CAPS and one other. That way, CAPs is the underlying theme for the entire week and the attendents will get consistent messages for the other three topics. The Learning Coaches will have less to plan and can instead focus on doing a great job. We are confident that these new leaders are well set up for success! We also decided that Sharmayne would stay with them for the primary sessions while I (Greg) go off to do the secondary sessions with Peggy. This way, if there is any need for support, Sharmayne can provide it.