MRVED Business
Upcoming Meetings
September 25, 2019 - Superintendents' Council
September 17, 2019 - Title III Teachers
October 16, 2019 - MRVED Common Inservice (Dawson-Boyd Schools)
October 16, 2019 Information
Registration for the October 16th MRVED Common Inservice was sent out last week to your local superintendents and principals. You should have received an email from them with the registration link and information regarding the inservice day. The registration link is below or it can also be found on our website: www.mrved.net under "Latest News".MRVED Registration Link
It will be held in Dawson at the Dawson-Boyd Schools. Willow Sweeney Flaherty will be the keynote speaker. The afternoon will be district time focused on Social-Emotional Learning implementation. Some districts will be staying at the Dawson-Boyd Schools, some will be returning to your home district, as directed by your principal.
Registration needs to be completed by Friday, September 27th at 4:00 p.m.! An email will be sent out one week prior to the inservice with details outlining the day. An agenda will also be handed out when you arrive to the inservice, along with your name tag and lunch ticket, if applicable. We will need to know which DISTRICT and PRINCIPAL you primarily report to. If you are unsure, please check with a principal.
Trish's Katering will be catering the lunch for the inservice. The menu will be a chicken breast (mixed with stuffing, carrots, & gravy), baby red potatoes, green beans, mixed greens strawberry salad, bar, and lemonade. The cost is $10.00 and is to paid to your district. DO NOT SEND ANY MONEY TO THE MRVED. The last day to cancel your lunch is Friday, September 27th at 4:00 p.m. After that date, you will be held responsible for the lunch cost.
The schedule for the day is as followed:
8:00 - 8:35 a.m. - Registration (Agenda, Name Tag, Lunch Ticket)
8:00 - 8:35 a.m. - Coffee, juice, and muffins, compliments of your administrators
8:40 - 11:30 a.m. - SEL Kickoff by Willow Sweeney Flaherty
11:30 - 12:30 p.m. - Lunch by Trish Kruger
12:30 - 2:30 p.m. - District time focused on SEL implementation
New Science Standards Workshop
On November 20th, 2019, Lakeview Schools will be presenting a "New Science Standards Workshop". It will be facilitated by Jay Meiners and Joan Foley. The goal for the day is to give science teachers an opportunity to establish plans for how the implementation of the new standards will look in the classrooms and districts. If you are interested in attending, please email Courtney Frie, Curriculum Director, at courtneyfrie@lakeview2167.com by October 1st.
The link to the flyer is below:
MELT 2020 Call for Presentations
The MRVED Educators Learning Together (MELT) conference will be held at Lac qui Parle Valley High School on January 20, 2020. To help make this conference the best ever, we need your help. The MRVED is looking for enthusiastic people willing to present on something great happening in your classroom. This can be anything from Google Drive to differentiation techniques in your classroom. Show us how you Teach Like a Pirate or incorporate Social Emotional Learning into your classroom! Technology or no technology proposals are welcome. Presenters will be paid a small stipend for your work. You may submit as many presentation proposals as you wish.**We are actively seeking any Pre-K people that would like to present, as well as Social Emotional Learning topics!**
**By filling out this form you are not committing to presenting, just providing the MRVED with your name and topic.**
Link to Proposal Form
Professional Development
Dave Burgess Consulting Pirate Con
If you enjoyed the Dave Burgess and/or George Couros keynotes from the past couple years, then DBC Pirate Con is for you. It will be held June 12-14, 2020 in San Diego, California. The lineup for this conference is AMAZING! You will have the opportunity to hear from the likes of Dave Burgess, Matt Miller, Adam Welcome, Jimmy Casas, etc...The best part the conference is only $379! Looking at the value of speakers at this conference, you are getting a great deal at $379. You can find out more about the conference by visiting the conference webpage.
Book Study
Lead Like a Pirate - Introduction, Passion, & Immersion
We all heard Dave Burgess speak last year on Teach Like a Pirate. He talked about the acronym of PIRATE and what that means for teaching. Using the analogy of a pirate ship, the pirates are the hard working people that run the ship on a day to day basis, but all ships need a captain - a person to steer the ship and make decisions about course and destination. Lead Like a Pirate is about how our leaders can use the PIRATE principles to steer the ship. Don't assume this book is only for principals, it's applicable for anyone in a leadership role.Passion
This week, we are going to talk about the P and I in the PIRATE acronym: Passion and Immersion. Shelley Burgess starts the Passion chapter with a quote by Simon Sinek, "Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress; working hard for something we love is called passion" (Burgess, 3). I think this quote is so true! As educators and leaders, we need to reframe our thinking about what we consider "work". Dave Burgess asked educators the same three questions, but in different terms:
1. Specific to leadership, what are you most passionate about? (Content Passion)
2. Within the profession of education, but not specific to leadership, what are you passionate about? (Professional Passion)
3. Outside of your profession, what are you passionate about? (Personal Passion)
Immersion
The "I" in PIRATE stands for Immersion. Immerse yourself in whatever you are doing. This section talks about how to do that, but more importantly talks about how to free up time in order to fully immerse yourself in whatever it is that you are leading. Burgess uses another acronym here; LEAD:
Leverage Systems
Elevate the Impact
Activate a Team
Delete, Delete, Delete
Leverage Systems - Find what tasks take up most of your time. Are there systems that can be improved upon, or new systems that can be created to alleviate the time it takes for the task.
Elevate the Impact - Think about low impact tasks that do take up your time. Can we make these tasks more impactful? For example; lunch duty - instead of simple supervision, can you use this time to strengthen relationships with kids? Deal with misbehavior from earlier in the day? Elevate it's impact.
Activate a Team - Recognize the tasks that can be accomplished by a team and activate a team.
Delete, Delete, Delete - Sometimes you just have to lighten your load. What are you doing to yourself to suck precious time away from the impactful tasks?
Next time we will cover the rest of the PIRATE acronym (RATE).
