Tuesday, August 11

7:13 a.m. - There was a big wind storm yesterday.  We are very fortunate that we have power, as many folks north of us across the Midwest are without power and may be without power for days.  Here, the worst things that happened was for our plastic play set needs to be reassembled and the pool needs vacuumed.  In other news, today is the first day of school for new teachers, as well as the student teacher that I'm working with.  I'll be headed to school today for a mentor meeting, but I may go earlier to work on my room a bit. 

6:57 p.m. - It's been a busy day today.  I met two of the folks I'm going to be trying to help with their teaching careers at school - one is our new agriculture teacher and the other is a student teacher that will be in my classroom first semester.  Then I helped Kourtney cut up a tree limb, and now I'm back at home while Amber is at work.  So far I've created my contact groups for the students for the upcoming school year, and I have set up Google Classroom sections.

Things that I NOW think about with the coronavirus. (8/11) 

• Stats
• February 29 was the first reported positive case in Illinois. 
• March 20, there were 585 reported positive cases.
• As of May 29 (3 months), there were 120,260 positive cases and 5,390 deaths.
• As of June 29 (4 months), there were 142, 461 positive cases and 6,902 deaths.
• As of July 31 (5 months), there were 178,837 positive cases and 7,495 deaths.

• ILLINOIS PREVIOUS DAY
• hospitalizations - 322
• ILLINOIS YESTERDAY
• hospitalizations - 352
• ILLINOIS TODAY
• hospitalizations - 336

• ROCK ISLAND COUNTY
• YESTERDAY - 1,756 positive cases; 36 deaths
• TODAY - 1,764 positive cases; 36 deaths

Things I Could Do or Need to Do In the Future

• Complete Leah's recommendation.
• Tuesday, August 11 - 11:30 a.m. Mentor Meeting in cafeteria - DONE
• August 13th - first institute day - 8:30 a.m.
• August 14th - institute day
• August 17th - institute day
• First day of "classes" Tuesday, August 18 - A day
• August 17 - 10 a.m. - Zoom meeting for Cooperating Teacher
• Complete volleyball video and test.
• Paint the shed.
• Continue working on restoring the channel of the ditch.
• Replace seals and gaskets in the pool motor.

• Possible Campground Sites
• Spring Lake Park - Macomb
• Scott County Park

Things to do for Ms. Mitola

- provide desk, faculty handbook, student handbook, and calendar

- invite Mrs. Hasson to visit Ms. Mitola's classroom

- introduce to other faculty and tour of the building - done

- routinely evaluate her performance - form, informal, how many times per week?

- help her with professional portfolio

- meet/talk with CS student teacher supervisor

- by second week of September - Ms. Mitola takes over advanced sections

- by end of September - Ms. Mitola has all sections

- by second week of December, I take over all sections and Ms. Mitola wraps up

Things to do for school

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Prayer for My Heart

Holy Spirit...

Help me have... 

    a pure heart, that I may see;
    a humble heart, that I may hear;
    a heart of love, that I may serve;
    a heart of faith, that I may abide in the spirit. 

                                                                     Amen