Hey kids . . . no school on Monday!

Mike Dawson, assistant superintendent, has announced that on Monday, Sept. 24, school will not be in session to allow teachers to participate in a day of professional development.

Campus schedules include the following professional development activities:

Monett Elementary

* PBS Tier 2, school-wide positive behavior.

* Teambuilding/coop.

* Learning structures.

* Technology, vokies, ELLC, new Pre-K curriculum.

* BYOC, Build Your Own Curriculum.

*Writing Strategies

Central Park Elementary

* Faculty book study, "The Leader In Me."

* SMART goal development and sharing of goals vertically.

* PBIS training and staff survey reports.

* Collaboration time for teams and vertical collaboration for departments.

Monett Intermediate

* Training for student-led parent/teacher conferences.

* Effective Feedback work

* PLC, Professional Learning Community work.

* PBS, school-wide positive behavior work.

Monett Middle School

* Continued work on Professional Learning Communities with Southwest RPDC.

* Collaborative team work.

Monett High School

* Instructional practices presented by Social Studies and Communication Arts departments.

* Strategy presentations.

* Lesson development for the classroom, utilizing at least one of the strategies presented

Scott Regional Technology Center

* Ozark Writing Project, warm-up Writing and sharing, motivating every student to write.

* Think, learning, log strategies.

* Journal article summary/ team teaching method.

* Webquest: Ebsco Host and other online resources with Jason Smith, SRTC Instructor.