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Thank you to the 15 teachers who have signed up to help with the ELA Tool-Kit Roll-Out.

We would love to have more teachers join us! Don’t be shy! All you need is enthusiasm to share information with your colleagues. Click here for the registration form. We thank you in advance for your willingness to step-up and help lead this important work.

Questions, please contact Kristin Dixon @ kristin.dixon@seattlearch.org

“Serving Diverse Learners: For the Good of All Learners”
Northwest Catholic Educational Leadership Institute
Professional Development Offering

Holy Rosary, Edmonds

St. Michael, Olympia

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The ELA Committee worked very hard last week, reviewing the rubric from our Teacher Excellence Day, making the teacher-suggested edits from both the evaluations and the group process. We then reviewed the grade level student samples, carefully choosing best examples of a 4, 3, 2 or 1 paper. Then the committee members created “justification statements” for each of the samples. We have one more meeting before we roll out our ELA Implementation Tool-Kit of Resources. Look for our work to ...

Imagine…Teacher Formation…Ongoing support...Knowing first-hand what is actually happening in classrooms…Just a few spots left for Teachscape Co-Hort Three! I offer these testimonials:

“In using the Teachscape tool, I can give immediate feedback in an email to each teacher in what I have observed or not observed. This has led to many empowering conversations about the craft of teaching and how to improve our instructional capacity to enhance both instruction and learning. ...

[I](As you probably know, the Archdiocese continues to work on updating their policies related to social media. Upon approval, these policies will allow certain Archdiocesan employees and entities to have a presence on Social Media sites -- such as Facebook -- after completing a brief training. At a Chancery level, the new policies are before the Curia, and should be approved soon. A similar policy/training at the Archdiocesan level (including schools and parishes) is expected to be implemented ...