Golden Apple Academy Calendar

Generalized Calendar Key:  Foundation, Academy, Joint

January
GAA Administration
planning meeting
Executive Committee
Early Career Academy
Blog Topic Ideas:
Resolutions, small habits, keeping momentum, professional
development, teaching kindness
February
GAA apples to legislature
Board
Intel Stem Teacher Grants (review/update)
Early Career Academy
Blog Topic Ideas:
Love, passion, equity, race, socioeconomics, MLK’s Dream
and education
March
Preparation for tribute
Executive Committee
Early Career Academy
Blog Topic Ideas:
school gardens, food access,
cultivating teachers, cultivating learning, conferencing
with parents, spring break for educators
April
Pre-tribute meet and greet
Board
Tribute (beginning of
April):
Council Award
Presentations
Golden Apple Academy
Professional Development:
GAA Council Nominations
Nomination Cycle Ends
(end
of April)
Blog Topic Ideas:
graduation, testing, competency,
trades, college, the many paths
May
Executive Committee
Blog Topic Ideas:
restorative practices, personal growth and maintenance,
keeping a balance, development through travel, reading,
and other direct and vicarious experience
June
Board
Professional Development
Conference
Blog Topic Ideas:
GAFNM’s conference, other careers for educators, fitness,
wellness, cheap tricks for the classroom
July
Executive Committee
Blog topic ideas:
patriotism and dissent – teachers’ and education’s role,
dealing with hot classrooms, outdoor learning, wildlife in
NM, stewardship
August
Board
Elementary Math Institute
Blog topic ideas:  student teachers and mentor teachers, resources
available to teachers, first year of teaching stories, classroom management
September
Executive Committee
Blog topic ideas:
Labor Day and Education- Unions, child labor, learning
from the past, traditional school calendar vs. year round,
role of public schools
October
Golden Apple Academy Gathering:  PD, Discussion,
whatever…
Board
Wells Fargo Teacher Grants
Blog topic ideas:
teaching NM style in the autumn,
ghosts of beliefs, separation of church and state,
science
education vs traditions, respect of cultures
November
Executive Committee
Golden Apple Sponsor Recruitment Breakfast
Nomination Cycle Begins
Blog topic ideas: politics and education, activism in
democracy, compliance or subversiveness, education for
society or for individual..
December
Board
Blog topic ideas: what is an ideal education, to what
end
do we educate?, who do we want our students to become?
Biographies of local educators: Marie Hughes, Lew Wallace,
Mary Ann Binford,