Opening day presentation focused on change.

1. Welcome to a Breakthrough Year! Lee Middle & High School

2. 2007-08 How will we spend our dash ?

7. “ If it is worth doing, there’s probably a dip.” - Seth Godin

8. The Dip Effort Results The Dip

9. The Cul-de-Sac (French for “dead end”) Effort Results The Cul-de-Sac ?!?

10. “ No one quits the Boston Marathon at Mile 25.” - Seth Godin

12. “ If you are not going to get to #1, you might as well quit now.” - Seth Godin

15. “ So think about this long and hard; are there things you’d like to change ?”

26. District-Wide Goal All students reading at grade level. Theory of Action If classroom teachers have greater knowledge about teaching and assessing reading skills and see the connection to their respective content areas, then they will be more likely to integrate reading instruction within their classroom; and if classroom teachers incorporate more reading instruction in their classrooms, then student reading skills will improve.

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28. “ One extra degree makes all the difference.”

29. “ One extra degree separates the good from the great.”

30. “ It’s time to turn up the heat…”

31. “ To get what we’ve never had, we must do what we’ve never done.”