Goals for next year, in no real order.  

• Two to three positive progress notes once a week.  As you are going to end up writing between thirty and forty college letters each year, these PNs can become paragraphs in those documents. We don’t do narratives anymore, which is an absolute blessing, but I do think I need to do this at least once a year for each kid in the class.  (Actually to do each kid once you’d have to do three per week.)  
• Bi-weekly Friday summaries. Stagger so that English is one week and history is the next. My first year at SLA I did this religiously and I need to bring this back.  The only additional wrinkle I want to add is a statement to parents that that Canvas is up to date (let’s eliminate the “I submitted things and he hasn’t graded them” smokescreen.) I should be able to get the SATs to help with this.  
• Learn how to set Canvas up so that the gruntwork doesn’t take as long and where I get more of the details correct.  I’m pretty sure that there’s no good way to simplify the last four clicks — different due dates and closing dates a week later.   
• SATs + Notetaker + Facilitator = ensuring that each discussion is documented on Canvas. I would love to have enough of these discussions present on the discussion board so that they could be grounds for end of the year analysis.     
• Work towards completing the benchmark assignments alongside the kids. These assignments are worth doing; they change enough such that you could actually do them each year and have a fair amount of variation.  It will keep you intellectually sharp as well.    
• Build coursepacks this summer. Print at 440.  Make sure they are reading .pdfs as little as possible.
• Generating the general feedback sheet within forty eight hours of the benchmark submission.   Have SATs edit and then publish for me.   
• Making sure I don’t forget to update the portfolios at the end of second and third quarter.  These were cool documents. More than a few kids did it at the end of the year — a heroic effort to be sure — but carve out time for this.  
• Weekly: one day for me — direct instruction/lecture, one day for one-on-one meetings, and two days of cutting edge pedagogy.  These one-on-ones should result in eight to ten conversations per kid, per year.   Not enough, but better.  (One thing I’d like to watch is to see which day works best. This year I’m going to do the last meeting of the week but I wonder if the first day might be better?)  
• Not run out of gas midway through the third quarter. 
• Each quarter, in each class, bring in guests. I need to do much more of this — much more of this — but let’s start this year with the aim to do it each quarter.  Add this into the spreadsheet with all of the units in it.