Eric E Castro

Intellectual Sprawl

Urban sprawl is bad; intellectual sprawl is good

Year-end Performance Review

Pasted below is the follow-up email from the Principal after my year-end performance review with him.

Eric,

Thanks for our end of the year meeting; I appreciated the conversation and talking about the year.  

Our meeting was based on my observations, feedback from your Department Chair and the Assistant Principals, your portfolio, and other data like the Student Questionnaires.  Below is summary that captures the highlights of our meeting.  If you have any questions or would like to continue our conversation, please let me know.  My door is always open.

Most importantly, thanks for your great work this year!

Thanks,
Patrick

Eric Castro

Observations
9/10/14, P1 (60) AP Psych
10/22/14, P2 (60), AP Psych
12/15/14, P1 (60), AP Psych
2/2/15, P1 (80), AP Psych
3/25/15, P1 (60), AP Psych

Student Evaluations
2014-2015: 5.73
2013-2014: 5.69
2012-2013: 5.77
2011-2012: 5.64

Student Comments
AP Psychology: Great teacher, always know where I stand in the class, hard tests, love him, love class, challenging in a great way, funny, knowledgeable, understandable, awesome, teaches well, great thinker

FDB Recommendations – 2010 (5)
Academic
The Board recommends that Eric continue to work with the World History I level to increase collaboration through the unfolding of the Curriculum Design and Review Process.

The Board recommends that Eric continue striving to find balance between his work as a classroom teacher and his role as the school’s Educational Technologist, with the goal of improving his availability to students.

Co-curricular

Campus Ministry
The Board recommends that Eric follow his plan to participate in the Immersion Program, initially by joining the local San Francisco group for a two-day, drop-in experience.

The Board recommends that Eric follow his plan to complete the Spiritual Exercises.

Notes
Creative and enthusiastic, dynamic pedagogue, excellent content knowledge, great love of teaching and learning
Willing to take risks in the classroom - blended WH2
Excellent colleague in the department
Generous with your time, positive and patient
Thanks for you help with Track – even though not your favorite!
Nice job expanding Art and Pub
Thanks for you leadership on Kairos
Awesome Restless Pedagogue blog
Great grading strategies; you work hard to connect enduring understandings to specific content questions
Great work in understanding how students learn
Thanks for helping to introduce Jen Roy to Kairos
Thrilled you are doing CURA next year
Great work as Ed Technologist - all things: from Powerschool to Canvas
Thanks for helping us vision the library