Bankston,+K

=Kacy Bankston=

Wednesday, August 22nd
|| **"Session"** || **Reflection/Products** ||
 * **Time**
 * 8:00-9:50 || Welcome, Intro, and Review Core Competencies || It's great to be back and see all the new faces. Did someone really think I could mentor? Poor Jamie. New rules for purchase orders. Review of the "tick model". ||
 * 10:00-10:50 || Managing Website and Student Database || Great database! So much easier to use than our Outlook version. The website is awesome! What a great way for The Academy to continue to give our students a sense of community and belonging. ||
 * 11:00-11:50 || Getting Started with the TI Navigator || Great presentation Mrs. Pickens! (and her sidekick..me!) What a powerful tool for our math classrooms. ||
 * 1:00-1:50 || "Tracks of a Killer"-Collaboration between Math and Science Teachers ||
 * I think that we should plan to do more of this. The math and science teachers need to find ways to make connections. ||
 * 2:00-2:45 || Meeting with floor Vice Principal || Wow, we've grown. It is so exciting to see all these new faces and anticipate how they are going to impact our kids. ||
 * 2:45-3:30 || PACE Meeting || I learned a number of things from Andrew. Great job! I'm going to start thinking of the PACE folder differently and start making PACE discussion a part of team time. ||

Thursday, August 23rd
|| **"Session"** || **Reflection/Products** || We sorted our paces without too much trouble. Overall a good first meeting. || Cathleen Willock, The Academy || Wonderful tool. Cathleen has done a great job of giving us a way to track our ES grades. || Next year, some session that I would like to see include: (I know we have guidelines we have to follow, but there a few things I would like to be trained on and I can never find the answers.) -A session for club/class/organization sponsors to get a chance to ask questions. Approval for activities, cash procedures, accounts, etc... -More collaboration between departments. Maybe even time worked in for us to plan a unit together. ||
 * **Time**
 * 8:00-9:50 || Meet with Teams and Specialties || We had a great discussion about reading across the board.
 * 10:00-10:50 || Adding Groups to Blackboard || Interesting features. You could form "teams" within classes. Not really sure how I would utilitze this feature, but I will keep it in mind. ||
 * 11:00-11:50 || Academy Vocabulary Development || It was hard to decide on which words to add. Will this be available all year long to add to? ||
 * 1:00-1:50 || Tracking Employability Skills
 * 2:00-2:25 || Reflection Time || I have really enjoyed the combination of face-to-face sessions and on-line sessions. The variety was good and I had a hard time making a decision. These past two day were really well planned and thought out. I would like to see this type of training continue.
 * 2:30-3:30 || Meet with Departments || It was a typical math department meeting. I little unorganized as everyone collect their calculators. I would make it by appointment or something, instead of everyone grabbing their calculators. ||