Best Way to Use Inservice Days Input

This year, lets look at making the best use of every inservice day. My thinking is that each department has priorities and as Dept. Heads each of you can look at the inservice calendar and we can define what activities and resources that we want to use each day to make the best use of this time.
Lets not use inservice days for general staff meetings or general inservices. Lets look at it as a resouce that matches what we actually want to accomplish. For instance, Science may want to rewrite classroom assessments to match low subtest areas on the 8th Grade WASL. Exploratory may want to plan a Performance Calendar that highlights the arts at Skyview throughout the year. Math may schedule a shared inservice on improving geometry skills through our exisiting curriculums with Canyon Park Junior High. Your department may want to visit Bellevue SD middle schools to see how they are implementing middle level IB.

You will be given the general school inservice plan in your Dept. Head packet. Please talk with your Department and strategize and provide input through this BLOG into what your department would like to do each of these inservice days.

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2005-06 Inservice Schedule


DATE Morning Activity PM Activity

8/29/05 S Staff Opening Meeting P Professional
8/30/05 P Professional P Professional
10/14/05 S Team/Department Meeting P Professional
10/17/05 S Team/Department Meeting ID/P Intra-District
11/10/05 S Team/Department Meeting P Professional
1/27/06 P Professional P Professional
3/20/06 SIP Site Improvement Plan P Professional
4/7/06 ID/S Intra-district Day P Professional
5/30/06 SIP Site Improvement Plan P Professional
6/20/06 S Staff Closing Meeting P Professional