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🕵️May C.I.A. Newsletter

Spring Reflection

This spring has been packed. Thank you for allowing me to press pause on publishing a newsletter in April--and if you didn't notice that there never was one, that's just fine too! Between state testing, planning the D.C. trip, and lots of packed days I kept thinking I would publish an April edition eventually and then it was May. And now it's mid-May.

Thank you all for everything you have done for making my first year at BVMS such a great experience. I can't wait to serve you and our students in the years to come.

I figured that we teachers probably fall into one of these groups when it comes to thinking about the end of the current school year and start of the next school year.

You're in the last grueling leg of the race to the end of the year. You need a much-deserved break from any thinking about school. You press pause on thinking about next year until August.
You're someone who needs a full summer to rest/recharge, but you're a planner, so you start thinking about next school year in May so you can take a break from that until August.
You need a break from planning here in the home stretch of the school year right now in May, but you like to plan throughout the summer new ideas you want to try next school year.

So that I can support ALL of you in any of these VERY VALID workflows, I want to put a few things out there this month that are focused on how you might tweak your planning, syllabus, or classroom management ideas for next year.

In this issue:

Eduprotocols Smart Start
Control the Chaos Transition Bootcamp & End of Year Games
Behavioral Leadership Academy with Scott Ervin (The Kid Whisperer) in Cincinnati (Northwest Local Schools) this summer

Smart Start Your Year with Eduprotocols

Check out the Wakelet Below...it is amazing.

"Think about it: kids go to camp and get rapidly acclimated on the first day or two - then they have a great week. The more expensive a university is, the more days freshmen spend in a Summer Camp. Businesses spend a LOT of money for lavish on-boarding and culture to benefit their productivity. In K-12 what do we do? Launch kids into the syllabus, the rules and then rocket right into the content - with about the same results every year... What if there was a better way to start up your classroom? Well, there is. The Eduprotocols Smart Start." (Jon Corippo)

Eduprotocols "Smart Start" Ideas

Think about how you start your school year with students--all the culture-building and procedure-based intro activities. That time is NOT LOST. I might even argue that taking the time to invest deeply in your planning of these "lessons" to "smart start" your year. The more you are intentional with the groundwork you lay with students in that time, the easier your year can be. But it DOESN'T mean it's just pointless fluff. I was never one to overdo the canned "getting to know you" stuff--I was ready for content early. However, if you explore the concept of Eduprotocols "Smart Start" you can tap into this relationship-building time to drop the cognitive load of a lesson frame and end up with fun lessons that can pay off in spades instructionally for you and your students later in the year when you drop in new content! The goal is to be teaching students HOW to learn with something that is not cognitively difficult (high load) so you can up the engagement and they LEARN how to be better learners without trying to learn that at the same time as content standards. Then later, you can up the cognitive load but never waste time teaching the lesson frame process/directions again. BOOM! Ton's of time saved by spending more on the front end.

Eduprotocols smart start Wakelet

Control the Chaos Podcast

I started listening to this Podcast by some local Central Ohio educators. I think there are two good episodes that are timely for this month with end of year and start of school year items! @ControlChaosEdu on Twitter and website

Scott Ervin: The Kid Whisperer/Behavioral Leadership ResourceS

Behavioral Leadership Academy

This is the Kid Whisperer and author of the book that many of you got from Dr. Gallatin this spring. To the left are the resources I shared previously. Embedded there is the Google form I asked you to complete to indicate interest in possibly getting some funding for our school to send a team.

CLICK HERE TO if you are interested in registering for Behavioral Leadership Academy in Cincinnati this summer. You can learn dates, goals, etc. Email Jen Page if you are interested! https://www.behavioralleadership.com/events

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