1. North Carolina Middle School
Conference
Greensboro, NC
March 17-19, 2013

2.  To learn effective ways to keep teachers
awake during staff meetings
 To develop effective ways to make staff
meetings more 21st century
 To learn how to utilize technology to help
make staff meetings more teacher centered
and less administrator centered
 To help counteract the “sage on the stage”
phenomenon

3.  Written by Kelly Gallagher, English teacher in
Anaheim, CA, 2009
 “Read-i-cide n: The systematic killing of the
love of reading, often exacerbated by the
inane, mind-numbing practices found in
schools.”

4.  Meeting-i-cide n: The hours of torture that
administrators put teachers through after
they have worked all day in hopes that they
will remember some of the information that
they are told, but often forget.

5. ROLL
CALL

6. BINGO

7. 1. Count off 1, 2, 1, 2, etc.
2. All 1’s line up on one side and all 2’s line up on
one side.
3. All 1’s receive a scenario card.
4. When given the cue, all 1’s will read their
scenario and all 2’s will offer a solution.
5. After 2’s have offered a solution, all 1’s will
begin to respond to 2’s solution
6. When time is called, all 2’s will move one place
to the left.

8. JEOPARDY

9. www.edmodo.com
Click I’m a Student, input group code
3xbenc and fill in the rest of the
corresponding boxes. Be sure to click
“Sign Up.”

10.  Review objectives
 To learn effective ways to keep teachers awake
during staff meetings
 To develop effective ways to make staff
meetings more 21st century
 To learn how to utilize technology to help make
staff meetings more teacher centered and less
administrator centered
 To help counteract the “sage on the stage”
phenomenon

11. QUESTIONS?!?