leadership in high schools

This is a bountiful year for us at the Hewes Center.  We have never hired these past 6 years,  so many new teachers and staff.  A welcome reception will be hosted for them on Monday afternoon.  The purpose of this social is to introduce teachers and staff to each other before the first faculty meeting this week Thursday. 

Those on “stage” will be  Mr. Curto, Ms. DeLeon, Ms. Calimeri – teachers, Ms. Swanson – physical ed. teacher, Ms. Darling – guidance counselor, Wendy Johnson – Behavioral Consultant teacher.  New aides are Jessica Blake, Rick Cogliano and Justin Clark.  In addition to these 5 teachers are 2 that joined us at the beginning of the year, Laurie Wilcox and Christine Barber.  The Hewes Center is a vibrant, exciting place which is poised to see continued growth and development in terms of student programs, graduation rates, active, student-centered instruction, use of technology and an environment that is disciplined and professional at all levels. 

There are a ton of social networks out there for educators.  Here are some that I use.

• NING
• Tapped In
• Classroom 2.0
• Twitter

Two teachers at the Hewes Center have joined classroom 2.0 and this is great.  I would like the new gym teacher, Jamie Swanson to join Twitter because I have invited a “friend” who is following me precisely because he owns his own gym and is big into teaching, health and exercise.  I would like Jamie to maximise her interest in digital technology to introduce our students to exercising for health and mind so as to reap its myriad rewards.