Summertime Professional Development and the current buzz on next year

This summer I attended many workshops where we collaborated to write and design science labs, small group reading lessons, math STEM lessons and reading whole group lessons.  I'm really excited to use the new math and science resources we have available to us.  The activities are creative, group activities my students really enjoyed last year. We have decided to collaboratively use CPALMS to help close achievement gaps, make bigger learning gains and prepare our kiddos for the end of course exams the stat of Florida is using.  Our county has decided to use the gradual release model and I'm very excited to try teaching my new monsters the techniques encompassed by this model.  I am still studying for the FELE and am not as overwhelmed as I was during my spring break; fingers crossed that I pass this test over Labor Day and graduate in the Spring.  My Masters will be such a huge accomplishment.