A Special Invitation

Literacy for Life
You’re Invited

A Distributed Leadership Team Affair
Initiated by Ms. Bonnee Breese

Come in on Thursday
May 28th, 2009
6:30AM in Room 303

Additional pay provided

Please read the previous post

Literacy For Life

Have you ever envisioned Reading just one more thing in a day's time? Did you contemplate it being focused on education, development of your profession, centered around a hobby or other interest? Well, look no further -- you are in the right committee.

Literacy for Life committee will meet twice monthly -- early mornings are available! We will have coffee & danish to please the palates and reading materials that you suggest for us to digest. In an attempt to tease your brain for joining, click the title for a link to an article for you to enjoy.

Upon our first meeting, the group will decide the process for penetrating the entire school staff to "Read to Succeed." A lifelong goal in achieving reading and writing bliss. Happiness is included while on this road -- at the staff development rate!

Place your name and contact information in Bonnee Breese's mailbox when we return from Spring Break!!!!!!

OHS DL Team - Individual Action Plans

One of the ultimate goals of the Annenberg Distributed Leadership Grant is to improve instructional practices in schools. Toward that end, each member of the OHS DL Team is responsible to create and implement an Action Plan meant to focus on one aspect of instruction in our building. Below is a listing of members and their chosen areas of action:

Ms. Lewis: Peer Mentoring
Ms. Jackson/Ms. Kingsbury: SchoolNet
Ms. Baker: Math Improvement
Ms. Breese: Literacy for Life
Mr. Goodwin: Young Male Mentoring (9th Grade)
Ms. Jordan/Ms. Young: School Climate
Ms. Carlis: Arts in Education
Ms. Kingsbury: Research Across the Curriculum

Each DL member has been asked to recruit a committee of teachers to assist in implementing these action plans.

Question to staff: Do any of these action areas appeal to you? If so, which one? Would you be willing to be a (potentially paid) member of a DL Action Plan Committee? Do you think that the DL Team should focus on any other instructional areas? Please leave your name and area of interest in the COMMENTS section below, and someone will be in touch with you shortly. We look forward to your response!

Highlights from the OHS DL Team's Winter Meetings

• Staff surveys revealed an interest in learning more about technology, student engagement, and classroom management. The DL Team is in the process of obtaining a speaker from the SDP main offices to provide training on SchoolNet - from beginner to advanced user. Please let us know in the COMMENTS section below if you are interested in participating in this upcoming training (date TBD).
• DL Team members will each execute an Action Plan based on identified areas of instructional need and teacher interest. These plans will aim to incorporate more teachers into improving the academics, climate, discipline, and morale of staff and students. These plans will run from Winter/Spring 2009- Summer 2010. Team members will present their plans to the rest of the staff during March.
  

Please check back regularly for updates on the activities of the OHS Distributed Leadership Team. We value your input and look forward to hearing from you!

Please welcome the DL Team's Newest Member!

The newest member of the OHS Distributed Leadership Team is Ms. Leslie Carlis, English and Drama Teacher Extraordinaire. She brings to the team an inspirational vision for the theatrical and musical arts. She aims to infuse her curriculum, and our school at large, with creativity, compassion, and flair.

Please send her an email at lcarlis@philasd.org if you are interested in becoming a part of the theatrical renaissance at Overbrook High School!