NEXT WEEK’S EVENTS (April 30 – May 4)
- Tuesday, May 1 – Wednesday, May 9: PARCC testing
- Monday, April 30: Grade 1 Team Meeting, 9:20-10:05
- Tuesday, May 1: Happy Birthday to Susan Wrynn!
- Tuesday, May 1: Kindergarten Team Meeting, 10:50-11:35
- Wednesday, May 2: A-Team Meeting in the afternoon – Ross out of the building
- Wednesday, May 2: Grade 2 Team Meeting, 2:05-2:50
- Thursday, May 3: Grade 4 Team Meeting, 10:50-11:30
- Friday, May 4: Grade 2 Class Trip
- Friday, May 4: Grade 3 Team Meeting, 1:20-2:05
POINTS OF INTEREST
- If you’re looking to do some Summer R&D, I’d be happy to brainstorm ideas with you and/or help out with the work. I believe there are benefits to aligning this work to what we’ll be focusing on as a school during the 2018-2019 school year. (Submissions are due May 11.)
- Kindergarten Roundup is Friday, June 1. On this day, all students should eat lunch in their classrooms.
- For next year, we’ll be having a new Child Care program, in partnership with the YMCA. Click here for the flyer, and more information is upcoming.
UPCOMING LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- Project Based Learning @ TBD
- As part of this year’s local professional learning options that have been put together by Tom Marshall (Elementary Principal in Paramus), I’m offering a 3-part PBL course at TBD from 4:15-6:15 on the following dates: March 27, April 24, May 15. For those who attend these sessions, I believe you’ll start to see how project based learning can help us to satisfy the Next Generation Science Standards (among other subject areas) while meeting the needs of our students. You can attend as few or as many sessions as you’d like.
- Global Day of Design: May 4, 2018
- “Students need to make, build, and tinker. The Global Day of Design is one-day that focuses on using the Design Thinking process in school. Our goal for the Global Day of Design is to inspire a transformation in schools around the world to incorporate design into an every day practice with our students.”
- Paramus Summer Institutes on the Teaching of Reading and Writing: July 2018
- These four-day institutes offer great alternatives to Teachers College. Each institute has a beginners track and an advanced track.
Of course, if you’d like to attend any of these events, please let me know!
CURRICULUM RESOURCES: Active Monitoring
With PARCC testing upon us, here are a few resources that emphasize the significance of active monitoring!
- The 10 Stages of Monitoring a Standardized Test – via We Are Teachers
- 17 More Things You Can Do While Actively Monitoring a Standardized Test – via We Are Teachers
- 16 Things You Can Do While Actively Monitoring during Standardized Testing (or the next time you’re crazy bored) – via Love Teach
“Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.” – Alfie Kohn
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