Today my first shipment of books arrived from Catherine Payant at CFO. Yeah! Quels beaux livres! I can hardly wait to tackle them.
For the group project I located this website last night. It parallels our project in many ways: It is an exemplar project. http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/perf_stands/f_premiere.pdf Check it out.
I also received an email from a good friend of mine: Andrea H. She wanted to let me know that's she's been reading the blog and she's impressed with the projects. She reminded me that she has access to 400 kids in Immersion, through her school board. She offered any help we might need.
Interestingly, our recent School Effectiveness framework meeting with the Superintendent, outlined the need for more teacher-directed Professional Development. I think these 2 projects are a definite fit!
Cheryl, Francine and I are looking forward to meeting on Tuesday and getting started in earnest. I think we'll like begin by looking at what the above-mentioned project did and going from there. I know we definitly need to set some immediate goals and deadlines, or we are going to sunk!
I suppose I will soon need a 1/2 day to get started looking at that box of possibilities that Catherine sent my way. If I don 't send them back within 21 days I get invoiced for ALL of them, not just the ones that will be useful to my project.
