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Monday 1/3 - Back from break. Today I spend the day at Ashbrook, mainly working with Mrs. Nelli on a presentation she has to give to district officials on PLCs. I convinced her to do a Notebook presentation on the SMART board. I think her buy-in on SMART will be important to help win over teachers. I also did some other teacher support.

Tuesday 1/4 - I started at Ashbrook, continuting to work on the presentation. Later I went by McAdenville to troubleshoot some problems with the new NCWISE updates. I later went by Lowell and Gardner Park doing the same. In the afternoon, I attended TRICKS at Woodhill

Wednesday 1/5 - I assisted with SMART developing Day three at Cherryville all day.

Thursday, 1/6 - At Sherwood today. I met with Mrs. Andrews and Mrs. Kennedy to finalize and upload the Rules of divisibility movie to teachertube. It turned out great! The movie can be seen here. I also worked on ironing out some final NCWISE issues. I also prepared a Notebook file for Mrs. Andrews to use with 5th graders learning pre-algebra concepts. I headed over to Gardner Park for a short while to meet with Shay Matthews. She is concerned about the speed of the SMART initiative and I assured her that she is ahead of the curve. She is supposed to have 6-7 boards installed within the next week.

Friday, 1/7 - I spent the full day at Lowell and worked with a number of teachers on SMART, general issues future training possibilities. One problem that might be a big issue for SMART installs is that the heating units in many of the rooms seem to aim directly at where projectors will go. This is already causing a projector in one room to overheat.