Empowering Teachers and Students
I’m attending the NYSCATE conference in Rochester, arrived yesterday morning and leaving tomorrow afternoon. I’ve been coming to this conference about technology in education off and on for many years, the first of which was as a teacher for Pine Valley. Why do I come? To stretch my thinking, learn something new, talk with others who have similar interests. What am I leaving with? A renewed sense of commitment that we can do more and we can do it better. I started yesterday as I expected, attending sessions that left me with notes like, “consider Fablevision’s Animation-ish fo

When is Life Fair?
Unless you’re brand new to this blog, you know by now that our football team is headed for Rochester Friday, for the last game before STATES on November 28, 2009. It’s something to celebrate, a huge student success and it’s a part of our program. Not a more important part than any other (sorry Coach Brown) but it is a part of us. We applaud the 110% efforts of our players and coaches and I personally can’t wait to get there on Friday! Sometimes the smallest things just become ENORMOUS for people. You’ve probably read here how we handled the dismissals, first at 1:00 last week with everyone permitted to leave and then at 11:30 this week with employees

Friday, 11/20/09 Early Dismissal
What a wild ride we’re on with RCS Football! As most of you have probably heard by now, our incredible football team beat out Dundee to become the Far West Regional Champions on Friday night in Rochester. GO CARDINALS! This means they advance to play Groton on Friday night, 11/20/09, in Rochester again at 5:00. That’s our last step on this journey to the State Championships which will be held on Saturd

Randolph Parent Responds
A reader known as “randolphparent” posted a comment on my previous post about Facebook and our RCS Facebook page that warrants further thought and discussion. “randolphparent” says, Having a school facebook page is a great idea. However, is it necessary to unlock it for the children at school? Should children be on facebook during school from their phones/schools computers? It happens, the proof is out there. How about the teachers that have students as ‘friends’ on their personal pages? Is that professional behavior? I could see a ‘class’ page to be checked from HOME. Let’s take the two points raise

Randolph Cardinals Keep On Winning!
Big news for our athletes this week, as Rhiannon Carnahan joined Travis Nagle in qualifying for STATES for Cross Country–WOO HOO!  Congrats to Rhiannon, Travis and Coach Lauren Carnahan who travel on to the STATE competition this Saturday. We’ll have a send off from the school this Thursday before they board the bus to STATES–do it up Cross Country! As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, our boys football team beat Maple Grove at Ralph Wilson stadium to become the Section VI champions—another WOOT! A huge congratulations to our team and our coaches–I think half the town was a