Superintendent’s Blog

Check out this excellent video from Ms. Staci Nazareth our Middle School Media Specialist.  It highlights some of the innovative ways Saline Area Schools is using technology to engage students.  For perhaps the first time ever - we are talking about “appropriate” use of cell phones in the classroom!
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Over the past weeks we have been working on a framework that we can use to develop a Strategic Plan.  We have begun to assemble a steering committee of community members, parents and staff.  The process will include a variety of steps with the final version to the Board of Education by the end of [...]

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A parent sent me the link to an interesting article in the New York Times about a developing phenomenon called “mini-generation gaps”.  It talks about the ever increasing pace of technological change.  Here is an excerpt:
“People two, three or four years apart are having completely different experiences with technology,” said Lee Rainie, director of the [...]

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I was recently sent a copy of a New York Times Op-Ed piece about the mission of high schools in public education based on some of the language in the Race to the Top guidelines. The opinion piece notes,
No longer is it enough just to graduate students, or even prepare them for college. Schools must [...]

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