October 19

The SAN Script – the week of October 20 – 24

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Richard Rohr‘s Daily Meditation

 

Be the Change
Sunday, October 12, 2014

“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” —Mohandas Gandhi

To have a spiritual life is to recognize early on that there is always a similarity and coherence between the seer and the seen, the seekers and what they are capable of finding. You will seek only what you have partially already discovered and therefore seen as desirable. Spiritual cognition is invariably re-cognition. God plants the desires in us for what God already wants to give us, but like all true love, divine love is never forced on us. We must be included in the process.

Call it the “Principle of Likeness,” if you will. The enormous breakthrough happens when you honor and accept the divine image within yourself, and henceforth cannot help but see it in everybody else too—and you know it is just as undeserved and unmerited in them as it is in you. That is almost the only way you can stop judging, and that is how you start loving unconditionally and without asking whether someone is worthy or not. The breakthrough often occurs like a momentary thunderbolt, although the living realization deepens and takes on conviction only over many years.

Spirituality is always about you changing your own way of seeing and your own way of hearing (not changing other people!). It’s about opening your heart space every day and keeping it open with some form of prayer every few minutes if need be, so that the hurts and disappointments of life won’t close you down. You have to find some practice, some ritual, some silence, or whatever it is that helps you recognize how God is trying to get in, as well as how you may be closing down. What you seek is what you will surely get.

Adapted from The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See, p. 159;

and Collection of Homilies 2008, “The Law of Attraction”
(CD, MP3 download)

Gateway to Silence:
The silence in me will love the divine silence. —Eckhart Tolle

 

Tracking a cohort - grade 6 school results

Tracking a cohort – grade 6 Board results

Tracking a cohort grade 6 - School results

Tracking a cohort grade 6 – School results

Continuing our series on EQAO – Tracking a cohort – Grade 6 our school compared to the OCSB Board.  Take a good look at these two charts.  In the areas of reading, writing and math, students at St. Anthony are compared with their fellow students across the school board.

The data is interesting – here are some points about St. Anthony and the school board:

Math 12% of St. Anthony students did not meet the standard in Grade 3 but met it in Grade 6

5% of OCSB students did not meet the standard in Grade 3 but met it in Grade 6

Writing  88% of St. Anthony students met the provincial standard in Grade 3 and Grade 6

74% of OCSB met the provincial standard in Grade 3 and Grade 6

Reading 67% of OCSB students met the provincial standard in Grade 3 and Grade 6;

18% of OCSB  did not meet the standard in Grade 3 but met it in Grade 6;

38% of St. Anthony students met the provincial standard in Grade 3 and Grade 6;

62% of St. Anthony Students did not meet the standard in Grade 3 but met it in Grade 6;

tracking a cohort - reading

These are amazing results!  in writing our students have made huge gains in reading (62%) better gains in math than the OCSB (12% to 5%)

and 88% of students met provincial standards in writing in grade 3 and 6 while 74% of OCSB students met the standard in grades 3 and 6.

One area of concern – in writing, 12% of our students made the standard in grade 3 but failed to make the standard in grade 6

 

St Anthony this week

Monday, October 20

Health and Safety workshop – Sandra attending

Squirmies today – 11:30

Tuesday, October 21

Waste Audit all day

Kathi, SLP, in Mrs. Rupnik’s Class

National Science Week Presentation – grade 4/5 – 12:30

Boot Camp for School Councils 2014 – 6:45 Immaculata High School

Wednesday, October 22

Thursday, October 23

Progress Reports to Office

Creating Pathways to Success – Natalie and Paull attending – (AM) CEC

Lunchbox Lifesaver – CSPA Event  REGISTER at : http://bit.ly/1uCSvO0 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014

7:00 – 8:30 PM  St. George School

Friday, October 24

Parent Guest Reading Session Ms. Rupnik’s class

Shayna Tate Art Exhibit Oct 24 – 7:30 PM  Shayna, our mural artist will be holding an Art Exhibit with 3 other artists on Friday October 24th 7-9pm at 255 McKay in New Edinburgh. There is no charge. Art will be for viewing and for sale.

 

Oct 19

 

 

Eight Things Skilled Teachers Think, Say, and Do

Larry Ferlazzo

from Educational Leadership – click here for the full article

Among the many challenges teachers face, often the most difficult is how to engage students who seem unreachable, who resist learning activities, or who disrupt them for others. This is also one of the challenges that skilled teachers have some control over. In my nine years of teaching high school, I’ve found that one of the best approaches to engaging challenging students is to develop their intrinsic motivation.

The root of intrinsic is the Latin intrinsecus, a combination of two words meaning within and alongside. It’s likely that our students are intrinsically motivated—just motivated to follow their own interests, not to do what we want them to do. Teachers’ challenge is to work alongside our students, to know their interests and goals, and to develop trusting relationships that help students connect their learning to their goals in a way that motivates from within.

How can teachers do this? It’s helpful to consider this question in three parts: What skilled teachers think, what they say, and what they do.

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