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= Pennsbury School District Year 2 Induction =

Welcome to Year 2 Induction!  Portfolio Orientation Power Point Presentation:  

Year 2 Dates:



Pennsbury School District Website: [] On the website/intranet, be sure to locate information regarding Trade Days, Service Components, My Learning Plan, Curriculum Plans, Pre-Observation forms, 426, 427, 428 forms, etc. =__Pennsbury Professional Portfolio __ =

//Portfolios are made powerful in the hands of their users when they become tools for generating thinking //

__Coordinator Assignments:__

__Digital Portfolio Help/Technology Assistance:__ Mandy Gancarz, Central Office x10034 mgancarz@pennsbury.k12.pa.us

__Frameworks for Teaching:__  <span style="display: block; font-family: georgia,serif;"> [] <span style="display: block; font-family: georgia,serif;">[]

=__ Mindful Quotes __= //Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. - Saint Francis of Assisi// Teachers have an opportunity to touch lives in ways that can make a difference in the futures of thousands of people. I believe that from the efforts of teachers all careers spring. - Don Quimby

//When you find yourself lying awake at 3:00 in the morning, wondering what you can do to make yourself a better teacher, you have reached the point where you really do understand what teaching is all about. - David Friedli// If you are glad to be teaching, your students will know. - Robert L. Wyatt and J. Elaine White

//Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. - Haim Ginott// Sometimes in teaching, you don't get to see the fruits of the labor for many years, but it is so sweet when you do! - Gerri-Lynn Nicholls

//The greatest gift you can give anyone is your honest self. It's the only unique gift anyone can give. Whatever I did, I would have to be myself, because I believe that is what children respond to. It's a privilege to be trusted by children. And I don't take it lightly. - Fred Rogers// Parents do not keep their best children at home and send their worst to school. They send the best they have with the expectation that their children will return home much better. - Pearl M. Drain

//Love the kids you teach. If you don't love them, pray that you can find something about them to love...If they don't feel safe, it will be hard for them to learn anything except fear. - Joani Heavey// Show me a school where instructional leaders constantly examine the school's culture and work to transform it into one hospitable to sustained human learning, and I'll show you students who do just fine on those standardized tests. - Roland Barth

//It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Fredrick Douglas// The things that matter most should never be at the mercy of the things that matter least. -Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

//You are the best thing you have to offer them. They do not take a year of fifth grade from you. They take a year of YOU for fifth grade. - Chick Moorman// It isn't all about the subject. Sometimes, it rarely is about teaching a class. It is about assisting in the raising of a child. - Dave Friedli

//It is incongruous to expect children to be respectful when you are not respectful in your attitude toward them. - Mary Robinson Reynolds and Craig Reynolds// We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace. - William E. Gladstone

//Pick your worst students, the ones whose behavior brings you to the edge. Investigate their personal background. You'll wonder why their behavior is so good. - Mel Alper// It takes a strategy for inclusion to counteract human fears and shortcomings. - Mike Smith

//Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain// The value of persistence comes not from stubbornly clinging to the past. It comes from a vision of the future that's so compelling you would give almost anything to make it real. - Steve Pavlina

//The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hope only makes sense when it doesn't make sense to be hopeful. - Paul Hawken// The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated. - William James

//Learning from a teacher who has stopped learning is like drinking from a stagnant pond. - Thomas Becket// Great teachers are not only focused on helping their students become their personal best, but they understand that they have to work on becoming their personal best as well. - James Burns

//I always said that in my first year I was unaware and in my second year of teaching I was fully aware that I was unaware. That is truly an important change of perspective to becoming a teacher, leader, and a lifelong learner. - 3rd grade teacher// Your life will only make sense when you don't need other people to confirm that it does. The greatest understanding you can have about yourself and others is that no one will ever understand you completely. - Betty Haas

//Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely. - Ralph Waldo Emerson// Hang in there. What you do really makes a difference in the lives of children. You are making the world a better place. - Carrie Balent