Tag: education

• Middle School Schedule [4]: Our Schedule

  Our current schedule is a seven period day. It affords 50 minutes per class in all subjects. The way the seven period day has run here over the last couple of years is grade levels are given one common planning period in the morning by having the grade levels go to electives during  either 1st, […]

  Derek L. McCoy

  02/25/2013

  ‘unit planning’, collaborate

  Change, communication, curriculum, education, School administration, school schedule, vision

• Mission POSSIBLE: Our iPad Planning Team

  The Mission: Recruit several highly trained and motivated professionals for a secret iPad mission [not really top secret, in fact no secret at all] The Team: 2 Instructional Coaches, 2 first year Science and Social Studies teachers and an veteran math teacher. The Objective: To search and gather iPad apps and resources and plan for […]

  Derek L. McCoy

  02/24/2013

  ‘unit planning’, apps, collaborate, teachers

  21st Century Learning, apps, Collaborate, curriculum, digital learning, education, learning, planning, professional development

• Middle School Schedule [3]: Support

     We have school leadership meetings twice a month in my current school district, Cumberland County Schools. The topic of one of our middle school principal break out sessions centered around our thoughts, vision and plans for our school schedules for next year.    This was a great meeting. It’s obvious that there has been […]

  Derek L. McCoy

  02/23/2013

  collaborate, plc, school administration, school leadership, teachers

  Change, Collaborate, decision making, education, leadership, School administration, School Leadership, school schedule, support

• Middle School Schedule [2]: Block = Flexibility

  Our current schedule is a 7 period schedule. We take our instructional day and divide it into 7 equal blocks of time allotting additional time during lunch as well as consistent transition time between classes.  Next year, we will be moving to a modified block schedule.    There are several options and models of the […]

  Derek L. McCoy

  02/17/2013

  change, collaborate, commit, plc, reading strategy, school administration, school leadership, student centered, teachers

  Change, education, learning, middle school schedule, School administration, School Leadership, school schedule, support

• A Great Lesson

   These are pictures and notes I’ve taken from an observation with a new teacher, Mr. Caquias. Caquias is an 8th grade Social Studies/Science teacher. I visited him while he was teaching a lesson on properties. He has been an active co-planner with an 8th grade Science teacher who is impactful with students and instructional planning […]

  Derek L. McCoy

  02/16/2013

  ‘unit planning’, collaborate, student centered, teachers

  21st Century Learning, BYOD, curriculum, education, grouping, Instruction

• Middle School Schedule [1]: A New Opportunity

     This is an exciting time!    When I first joined Spring Lake Middle last summer, I had a series of meeting with different groups and our School Improvement Team. Our talks covered getting to know the new principal to strategic planning. The SIT and I had several meeting over the summer to review our […]

  Derek L. McCoy

  02/13/2013

  change, collaborate, commit, plc, school administration, school leadership, student centered, teachers

  Change, Collaborate, communication, curriculum, decision making, education, leadership, schedule, School administration, School Leadership