They also have heard from the Manistee Intermediate School District's General Education Director Kay Salyer and consultant Dency Lippert. On Thursday morning the group heard from K-12's Mary Gallagher who works in the Northern region. Our teachers received it well and like what they see coming down the line."īrown said they also heard from the FAST team and talked about that processes throughout the year. "We have been at training with them and they have been wonderful. "We are working with the other Manistee area schools on the new 5D+ evaluation," said Brown. Over the past two days the teachers and staff have touched on the new teacher and administrator evaluation tool. Schroeder said an option of this kind is something that may not have been available for the students in the past. And as we continue to prove ourselves that we are real school, I think you will see more people looking at it as a viable option." "I think you are seeing more families looking at it as a viable option. "For being only three years old we are doing well," said Schroeder. Kendall Schroeder, Great Lakes Virtual Academy head of school said it has been an exciting two days, as for many of the teachers it was the first opportunity to see the central office in the Briny Building.
"If we were in the same building all the other distractions would make it hard to get from one place to another to talk so we actually talk and communicate more online," she said. "Even if we can't meet face-to-face we are always together online virtually in the blackboard room and everyone can go in to share and talk."īrown said she feels being online the teachers, administrators and staff keep in touch and communicate maybe more than if they were in the same building.
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"We try to get together for professional development every other month and sometimes it works out, but winter gets a little dicey," she said. She said teachers in attendance came from Cheboygan, Big Rapids, Muskegon and everywhere else in the Lower Peninsula.
"Our teachers live all over the state and the only place we don't have teachers yet is the Upper Peninsula." "We have 100 teachers, some of our support staff, our counselors, our Family Academic and Support Team (FAST) and we are just focusing on the school year and how we better instruction, get our processes in place and be ready for when kids start on Sept. For the past two days that hasn't been true for more than 100 teachers, principals and staff who have been in Manistee working on professional development at the BlueFish Kitchen & Bar.
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