
October 4th 2013
The past two days of staff development at Riverstone have been incredibly productive and rewarding. Here is a short list of what the staff have been up to:
- Several teachers attended Khan Academy training at Northwest Nazarene University
- Middle School teachers prepared for their Middle Years Programme re-authorization visit in November
- Primary Years Programme and Diploma Programme teachers worked together refining curriculum
- All staff attended a two hour session with the Flourish Foundation about mindfulness
- All teachers organized themselves into department meetings to work on ensuring vertical articulation of our curriculum by subject area (Math, Science, English, etc)
- All staff participated in a training session on crisis management
- To wrap it all up, we had a delicious pizza and salad lunch in the atrium!
It was a busy two days but having the chance to learn new things and work together is invaluable and translates to a better experience for our students and staff. We look forward to bringing back what we learned to the classrooms!