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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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June
Board
Professional Development
Conference
Blog Topic Ideas:
GAFNM’s conference, other careers for educators, fitness,
wellness, cheap tricks for the classroom
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July
Executive Committee
Blog topic ideas:
patriotism and dissent – teachers’ and education’s role,
dealing with hot classrooms, outdoor learning, wildlife in
NM, stewardship
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August
Board
Elementary Math Institute
Blog topic ideas: student teachers and mentor teachers, resources
available to teachers, first year of teaching stories, classroom management
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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
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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
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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..
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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,
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Golden Apple Academy 