Thanks for a great two days!!

I would like to thank everyone for a great two days of work! Those of you who are not coming back next week please keep in touch. The rest of you I will see on Monday for the "One room schoolhouse" I would encourage you to try something new the first month of school relating some of the concepts you learned this week. Look through activities and lessons you are already doing and see if there is some math that you are "missing" that you can add. If you are not comfortable with Excel, keep working with it and soon you will be an expert! Your kids will be able to fill in the blanks. It is easy to be intimidated by the math or technology and as a teacher we feel like we need to know everything. This is not the case and if we are not learning new things ourselves then we are not stretching our minds enough in the classroom. Instill that sense of curiosity in your students through modeling it yourself. Thanks again for everything and I deeply thank you for your commitment to the students of SD. It is easy to see that all of you are doing amazing things in your classroom and never doubt that your extra effort pays great dividends for you students. If you ever need anything or have questions, please feel free to email me at paul.kuhlman@k12.sd.us. I will be thinking of you all while in Nashville!