Mike Watty Quotations

The principals felt that (professional development) was a good use of time, but the trade-off of kids going home early was lost teaching time. They wanted to make sure we had an opportunity for better balance.

We're kind of guiding (school use of professional development time) more into a specific focus on the school improvement plan. I think this year we all learned from our pilot that we may have tried to do too much, in introducing a multitude of teaching strategies and things. We want to go more in depth on one or two topics.

We're kind of front-loading some of those days when we think professional development does the most good, and that's in the beginning of the school year.

Being that we're a growing community with many of our kids coming from Central and South America, it seems very appropriate to have partnerships with the countries from where we're receiving kids.