Administrators+Group

Wecome back Administrators! I am attempting to be more paperless this year, and I will try and put as much information for you that I can on this wiki. I am attaching the Inspirational Speech in 2 minutes, if you are looking for something to inspire your staff or students to start the year.

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I have also created a link for Administrators to the Student Services Handbook. We have had some discussions around this table regarding our new report cards and how to differentiate between Differentiated Instruction, Adaptions and Modifications. This document pretty clearly shows the distinction between these terms, and I think would be helpful to share with staff and parents regarding these terms. Information can be found in Chapter 1, pages 15-17. http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/specedu/iep/index.html

Please find attached the Powerpoint I shared at the Manitoba Education Catagorical Grants Learning Fair on Early Numeracy in Fort la Bosse

This is a copy of the Report--The New 3 E's of Education: Enabled, Engaged, Empowered. How Today's Students are Leveraging Emerging Technologies for Learning-Speak Up Findings, April 2011. As I indicated to you, this is American data, although it is a pretty good cross-section of sizes/locations and their data I think is pretty close to what we would see in a Canadian study. Over 1/2 of all 6th graders have a cell phone, and an additional 1/3 say they now have a smart phone! I guess for us, we need to "hurrry up, or get out of the way" regarding technology or the digital natives will flatten us :)