{"id":2056,"date":"2013-09-03T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2013-09-02T05:24:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T12:24:05","slug":"a-new-year-new-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/a-new-year-new-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Year &#8211; New Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/files\/2013\/08\/summerread.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2061\" alt=\"summerread\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/files\/2013\/08\/summerread-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Welcome back! \u00a0It&#8217;s been a fabulous summer, especially with the spectacular weather offering lots of opportunities to rest, rejuvenate and re-energize.<\/p>\n<p>We anticipate a very exciting year filled with new connections and new ways to look at past practices. \u00a0This summer, some schools were upgraded to the new Active Directory &#8211; School Connect structure [replacing Novell]. \u00a0This along with other projects will continue throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve done a little work over the summer in readjusting some of the sites and licenses. This streamlines the experience for both teacher and student. \u00a0As well, all student progress and assessment reports are now located on the same teacher login site (one stop shop). I will host a <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>webinar session [Sept 11, Sept 19]<\/strong><\/span> on the new design process &#8211; please make sure to sign up on the <a title=\"SD Calendar\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/staffdevelopmentcalendar\" target=\"_blank\">Staff Development Calendar<\/a> if you are interested in walking through the changes in the platform. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">New sessions<\/span><\/span> are also set for sites who are joining Fast ForWord this year. \u00a0For your convenience, these are listed on the blog under <strong>Announcements<\/strong>. Registration is through the SD Calendar.<br \/>\nIf you are interested in having Fast ForWord as part of your site&#8217;s Tier 3 intervention program, please <a href=\"mailto:janet.chow@sd41.bc.ca\" target=\"_blank\">email me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re looking forward to a great year of learning and supporting each other to grow.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"__mceDel\">\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back! \u00a0It&#8217;s been a fabulous summer, especially with the spectacular weather offering lots of opportunities to rest, rejuvenate and re-energize. We anticipate a very exciting year filled with new connections and new ways to look at past practices. \u00a0This summer, some schools were upgraded to the new Active Directory &#8211; School Connect structure [replacing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,82,84],"tags":[33,9,44,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2065,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions\/2065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}