Here in Olympia, we're busy preparing for the 2010 legislative session, which begins Monday. Part of our preparation process is familiarizing (or refamiliarizing) our members with legislative terms and front-burner issues. Need to brush up on your leg vocab? Tacoma News Tribune columnist Peter Callaghan has got you covered. Check out his "Glossary of Legislative Terms," guaranteed to provide comic relief—much needed as we brace ourselves for 60 days of apprehension and angst.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
How's Your Legislative Lingo?
Here in Olympia, we're busy preparing for the 2010 legislative session, which begins Monday. Part of our preparation process is familiarizing (or refamiliarizing) our members with legislative terms and front-burner issues. Need to brush up on your leg vocab? Tacoma News Tribune columnist Peter Callaghan has got you covered. Check out his "Glossary of Legislative Terms," guaranteed to provide comic relief—much needed as we brace ourselves for 60 days of apprehension and angst.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to all our principals, assistant principals and building administrators throughout Washington state! We're delighted to be kicking off 2010 with you!
For most AWSP members—and for the AWSP staff—it was "back to business" today. We hope you're easing back into the school year after some well-deserved R+R.
As you dive into the new decade, how about this for a New Year's resolution: Sign up for the AWSP Facebook page! Just log in to Facebook and search for "AWSP," then click on the page with the green AWSP logo. (Because it's a private group—open only to AWSP members—you'll be asked to submit a request for approval.)
For most AWSP members—and for the AWSP staff—it was "back to business" today. We hope you're easing back into the school year after some well-deserved R+R.
As you dive into the new decade, how about this for a New Year's resolution: Sign up for the AWSP Facebook page! Just log in to Facebook and search for "AWSP," then click on the page with the green AWSP logo. (Because it's a private group—open only to AWSP members—you'll be asked to submit a request for approval.)
!looc woH
That is, in Shorewood-speak, "How cool!"
Back in November, we reported on a lip-dub video created by Shorecrest High students to the tune of Outkast's "HeyYa." After their video went viral with a vengeance on YouTube, Shorecrest students challenged rival Shorewood High to top their production.
Shorewood did not disappoint. Check out the students' answer to the video challenge below, a lip dub to Hall and Oates' "You Make My Dreams." About 30 seconds into the video, you may start wondering, "How'd they do that?" Here's a clue: sdrawkcab. The students filmed everything backwards, even learning to lip sync the lyrics in reverse!
Who's winning? Shorewood's video boasts an impressive 586,412 hits—more than double Shorecrest's 254,442 hits. Looks like the ball's back in Shorecrest's court!
And just what does this have to do with education? Consider the following excerpt from "The New Untouchables," an op-ed by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman from Oct. 20, 2009:
A Washington lawyer friend recently told me about layoffs at his firm. I asked him who was getting axed. He said it was interesting: lawyers who were used to just showing up and having work handed to them were the first to go because with the bursting of the credit bubble, that flow of work just isn’t there. But those who have the ability to imagine new services, new opportunities and new ways to recruit work were being retained. They are the new untouchables.
That is the key to understanding our full education challenge today. Those who are waiting for this recession to end so someone can again hand them work could have a long wait. Those with the imagination to make themselves untouchables — to invent smarter ways to do old jobs, energy-saving ways to provide new services, new ways to attract old customers or new ways to combine existing technologies — will thrive.
A class of "new untouchables" right here in Washington state? Sure seems like it!
Back in November, we reported on a lip-dub video created by Shorecrest High students to the tune of Outkast's "HeyYa." After their video went viral with a vengeance on YouTube, Shorecrest students challenged rival Shorewood High to top their production.
Shorewood did not disappoint. Check out the students' answer to the video challenge below, a lip dub to Hall and Oates' "You Make My Dreams." About 30 seconds into the video, you may start wondering, "How'd they do that?" Here's a clue: sdrawkcab. The students filmed everything backwards, even learning to lip sync the lyrics in reverse!
Who's winning? Shorewood's video boasts an impressive 586,412 hits—more than double Shorecrest's 254,442 hits. Looks like the ball's back in Shorecrest's court!
And just what does this have to do with education? Consider the following excerpt from "The New Untouchables," an op-ed by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman from Oct. 20, 2009:
A Washington lawyer friend recently told me about layoffs at his firm. I asked him who was getting axed. He said it was interesting: lawyers who were used to just showing up and having work handed to them were the first to go because with the bursting of the credit bubble, that flow of work just isn’t there. But those who have the ability to imagine new services, new opportunities and new ways to recruit work were being retained. They are the new untouchables.
That is the key to understanding our full education challenge today. Those who are waiting for this recession to end so someone can again hand them work could have a long wait. Those with the imagination to make themselves untouchables — to invent smarter ways to do old jobs, energy-saving ways to provide new services, new ways to attract old customers or new ways to combine existing technologies — will thrive.
A class of "new untouchables" right here in Washington state? Sure seems like it!
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