Week of September 22, 2008

Preparing Quality Lessons
During the Staff Professional Development Day last Friday, I was pleased to see the level of commitment demonstrated by teachers. They were working together to build common lessons, select strategies that match each day’s learning objectives, and determine which skills need strengthening to help students both in their own classroom and someone else’s classroom as well. It was not enough for our teachers to write lessons that students could achieve just in their class. They wanted to make sure that the learning experiences would help students achieve in any classroom and in any school. The Sequoia staff is committed to providing our students a path to become Leaders in Learning. Take a look at the survey on this page and let us know how we’re doing. Your opinion matters, so join us in evaluating our performance.

Sports
I am very proud of our students and coaches who are competing during this Fall sports season. Our volleyball, football, and cross-country teams are good athletes and are committed to doing their best. Currently our football team is undefeated – YEAH! – and the volleyball team has suffered only one loss. Our cross-country team has not placed lower than third this year in their performance in a field of runners representing seven, and sometimes eight schools at every meet. Please check our sports schedule. Then plan to come out and see the energy and excitement our Hawk athletes bring to the game. Go HAWKS!