Baby steps with my goals

I'm proud of myself. One of my top goals for the year was to have more communication with parents. 

I literally sent 90 text messages to parents today. 

And even though it took an hour if my time, I'm glad I did it. I've yet to be able to call all of my parents, but I'm glad I was able to communicate. Did I get my desired number if responses? Nope. Will ingle texting them next Monday about Open House in a week? Absolutely. I am going to be all in my parents' inboxes, emails, and caller ID. I feel like I have a vengeance for success this year, and I'm determined to get these relationships going. 

However, I've had the realization...

I need REMIND 101!!!! 

Lol. I do not -ever- want to individually send mass texts again. Hopefully, I'll get them to sign up at Open House. I have started an account but I need to finish the set up. 

I'm also determined to not go into work at 6:30. I've been clocking 12 hour days and deserve a relaxing Friday morning. 

Peace and blessings,

CJ

App Lovin!

I just had to say how much I adore this app, Notability. It's amazing. I have it on my phone but it's even better on my new iPad! There are additional features that enhance my experience. I feel as though there are so many ways that I can implement the use of this app, which makes it worth a purchase (it wasn't free). 

This is an example of how I use the app.  While I was waiting for my renewed drivers license, I figured I would kill some time and draft the school supply list for my students. (Sidebar: each class period is named after a different college each year.) As I was mindlessly typing, I figured I should tally the amounts I was requesting. Thus, I switched over to the marker feature. Once I was finished, I clicked over to the eraser feature and was able to swipe it away. 

It's back to being nice and clean!

When we have professional development next week, I plan on taking pictures of the agenda and adding my notes right into the app! Less paper to carry! Woohoo! 

Do you have Notability? How do you use it? I'm going to keep this post running and post helpful links about the app when I find them. Yay EdTech fun!

Peace and blessings,

CJ