Blog - Melinda S. Miller

Faculty Meeting/PD Exit Ticket Idea

Our staff has been using the strategy of "exit tickets" for a couple years now. It was a strategy we were mostly implementing in our special area classes, Art, Music, P.E., Library, and Computer. It was our way of making sure students were getting as much writing processing as possible. I usually ... Read More about Faculty Meeting/PD Exit Ticket Idea

Principal’s Photo Workflow

Recently I have been listening to the Mac Power Users podcast on the 5by5 network. I came across this podcast after reading the iBook Paperless by David Sparks who blogs at MacSparky. It is a great book, by the way, and has screencasts and lots of photos and uses iBooks author to the best of its ... Read More about Principal’s Photo Workflow

rebootED Podcast in Google Hangout

Last Sunday I had the privilege of recording and episode of rebootED with Andrew Schwab and Mike Vollmert. I have chatted with Andrew on his 1st podcast Small School Big Tech but it was my first recording with Mike. It was also my fist recording in a Google Hangout! That was pretty cool! Check it ... Read More about rebootED Podcast in Google Hangout

Staff Holiday Ideas

Yesterday our SWMAESP Sub D Principals group met for our quarterly meeting. We shared ideas for staff holiday gifts so I thought I would share in case you are still looking for ideas. Scarves with district logo Lottery tickets Movie tickets to the dollar movie theater T-shirts/sweatshirts with ... Read More about Staff Holiday Ideas

MAESP Survey Results

In addition to using this blog as a personal/professional space for my ramblings about the Principal-ship, I put information here that I want to link back to or find again someday. Here are the results to the survey regarding our MAESP State Conference. ... Read More about MAESP Survey Results

Why Blogging is SO Helpful!

Earlier this week I posted about my struggles keeping up with newsletters, Facebook, school website, etc. You really need to read the comments under that post. Super ideas for newsletters or no newsletters, or paper only, or copies in the office and so on. This month's newsletter was already in ... Read More about Why Blogging is SO Helpful!