September 23

The SAN Script Tuesday, September 23 – first day of Autumn

Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love [that person].

-C.S. Lewis

Sept 23 - 2

We are applying for an Aviva Grant – you can see the full details and a much better version of our page here

 

Voting starts in 6 days – if we get 1000 votes, we can move on to the next round.  I have communicated this to the school council and the Communications Dept at the Board.

sept 23

More details to follow – can we get 1000 votes for our project??

St. Anthony Today

Paul out – elementary principals meeting – Meg rotating designate

Lunch  Monitor Mairi starts today at 11:15

Tech Tuesday – we start with Lisa Langsford and Karen McEvoy at 3:15 today.  Pizza arrives from Pizza Shark at 4:00PM – I may be a few minutes late due to my meeting at the board, but Lisa will get things started.  We will be using the Learning Commons and the staffroom.  Please bring the device(s) you need help with.  Thanks for all those who completed the survey – I have shared the results with Lisa and Karen.  Thank-you for volunteering for this session!!

For the latest update on our work on the Innovation Center please see this blog entry

Good news!!

we have received $2500.00 this week for our Arts Program – i will outline the entire program in a post soon and will also go over this at our October staff meeting.

We have also received a $500.00 grant from our superintendent Peter Atkinson for our Innovation Center!

really interesting article – written from the American perspective, but I think it applies very well to all of us in education

Growth Mindset: A Driving Philosophy, Not Just a Tool

Edutopia

sept 23-3

 

Picture a high school ELA honors class full of amazing kids who came up through the grades without any struggling, kids who thrive in schools that believe these students would do just fine. It was a class of mine, students who felt initially uncomfortable but were ultimately able to come together and study Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-­Five, a novel that presented content and literacy challenges the students weren’t used to.

How about my son, who entered first grade last year as five-­year-­old, not because I’m a crazy, achievement­-driven parent, but because we had just moved from New York to Massachusetts, which define cutoff ages differently? We thought to put him in with his age group, but the district saw that he’d do better in first grade (he actually tested past second), and his new teacher ran her literacy program using flexible grouping so that all the kids could continually excel as was appropriate.

There are also the children about whom we research and debate by statistically measuring their challenges and opportunities. These are the rural, inner city, low SES, ELL, and ethnic minority students who, for a wide variety of reasons, continue to show up toward the bottom of the achievement scales used by schools and American society.

Or the incredibly successful, well-­intentioned and high-­performing faculty department that is faced with changing student needs, mandated curriculum adjustments from the Common Core, and a societal call to leverage technology for a variety of reasons. Should they maintain the program they’ve always used since it’s been so successful for so many?

These are just examples, but what do they have in common? The need to grow. Please note that I didn’t say the need to meet some predefined goal or the need to adopt any particular program. I simply believe that all people, especially within the context of education, are learners with room for improvement.

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Posted September 23, 2014 by mcguirp in category random posts

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