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August 22, 2023 27 mins

This week, we are setting our goals for the upcoming school year. We'll chat about both our professional and our personal goals, from mastery-based learning to leadership goals and maintaining a good work-life balance this year. 

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Professional Goals:

  • Mastery-based learning - building more whole class activities
  • ChemEd Conference 2023
  • Conferencing with students - try roster checklists
  • Data collection - what is the impact of mastery-based learning?
  • Tweaks to grading practices
  • New SERT role (special education)
  • Other PBL projects in ESL (podcast, video, something else?)

Leadership Goals:

  • Supporting implementation of de-streaming in grade 9 and new courses in grade 11
  • Political landscape might cause a lot of challenges to our roles
  • Avoid social media to avoid negativity
  • Leading Grading for Equity and Street Data book studies with leadership team

Personal Goals:

  • Try to leave the building at a reasonable time each day
  • No email at night
  • Complete prep at work to avoid working at home (leave work at work)
  • Explore opportunities in academia (M.Ed. program, conferences, collaborations, etc)
  • Continuing hobbies (violin lessons, strength training)
  • Maintaining balance - being ok to say no when something doesn't align with our goals

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