Principal Watertown Middle School Watertown, SD todd.brist@k12.sd.us 1. Name the key responsibilities in your current role I use to think my job was about schedules, staffing, budgets and behavior; time and experience have taught me that my job as a principal is to “make good things happen for other people.” To me, it is my
Defining your classroom and inspiring students by honoring your own voice and interests As I look around the classroom, I’m reminded of all the things I like about teaching. Photographs feature our ongoing service project, and displays highlight our unit on globalism. I’ve also created a modest space that showcases me, where I inspire myself
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Connecting school and community in project-based learning It’s easy to stereotype “kids these days.” Always on their phones, always taking selfies, tethered to a virtual world but disconnected from the real one. If you don’t work with kids, or know what is happening in schools, it can be easy to think of young adolescents in
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Student choice, curiosity, and passion drive inquiry-based projects Middle schools devote attention to good beginnings such as orientation programs, building tours, and icebreakers meant to ease the transition. But what is the fitting end? Before middle schoolers pack up their lockers, cross the graduation stage, and say their goodbyes, what do we hope for in
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Sandra Kowalczyk will be presented the National Educator of the Year Award at AMLE2018 in Orlando. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 22, 2018 COLUMBUS, OH – Sandra Kowalczyk, a reading specialist at Patrick Marsh Middle School, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, will be awarded the Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE) 2018 Educator of the Year Award. The award,
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A strategy to embrace all students I started my teaching career in high school English for two years before I transitioned to middle school, or what I always referred to as teaching-topia. I taught seventh grade for nine years, and during that time I had the opportunity to connect and collaborate with more than 1000 students.
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