On Thursday, November 10th, the Laconia School District offered its staff members a full day of professional learning throughout the district's five schools.
Your Woodland Heights classroom teachers spent the day on their home turf while hosting their colleagues from Elm and Pleasant Street Schools while collaborating in cross-district grade level curriculum and program development in Science, Social Studies, mathematics, and literacy. Teachers also invested time in improving our electronic portfolio process for students, and participating in discussions about best practices in our district for technology integration.
WHS also hosted the district's guidance counselor training and media generalist / technology teacher training. Our arts teachers went across town to meet with their district counterparts, as did our school's paraprofessional staff.
There has been a theme growing amongst the staff of our district's three elementary schools, we call it: "We Are One!" Perhaps seeming a bit corny in the beginning of last year, our district's "We Are One!" campaign is really getting a head of steam. We are observing that gains in our schools' improvement initiatives are occurring at an exponential rate here in Laconia. The energy and enthusiasm is absolutely fabulous to see and feel. As some of our city's social service organizations noted a while back, that they were "Better Together", so are we. Your Laconia elementary schools continue to build upon and share strengths, and work collaboratively, effectively, and efficiently in meeting areas of relative weakness with focused effort and a relentless drive for improvement.
The Laconia school system is a dynamic and exciting place to work and to learn, and our inservice day this past Thursday proved to be a marvelous example of this. Many thanks to you all for 'taking the kids' on the 10th so that your teachers and staff could continue their work to get our district and the education that it delivers "to the next level".
