Blogging Purpose

Thanks for all your comments and input thus far. I look forward to sharing ideas and philosophies through the blog this school year. Our teachers put substantial time, effort, and thought into what we do each day. Many of you and myself included have gotten into a rut on occasion and just made assignments, taught lessons, gave tests etc. simply because that is what we've always done or because it was convenient and easy for us. If you are giving of your personal time to blog, I know you want what is best for kids and you want our school to make significant academic strides. Myself and our new leadership team wants BBCES to excel fast and furiously! The only way I see us achieving this accomplishment is by integrating critical thinking and problem solving skills with every grade level standard, while simultaneously increasing student engagement by integrating technology into all lessons. Last, but most important I think, we must all self-monitor how we spend our time and constantly evaluate how we require students to spend their time. We must work smarter and harder to see marked improvement in our students’ academic achievements. I’m not even going to say we can just work smarter not harder, because I know you already work hard!
When we introduce a topic on the blog we are by no means criticizing teachers or your practice. We simply want to question you to provoke thought! Topics that we introduce on the blog are going to be areas where we see a need for school-wide improvement or focus. All educators need to frequently evaluate our practice and devise new and more efficient ways of teaching so we can teach what we have always taught and more. Each year the rigor regarding curriculum is increased, yet holding students attention is more difficult due to the digital age in which we are living. Time invested in curriculum planning and professional conversations is always going to be time well spent.