1-20-2017

With today being inauguration day, here is an interesting article from the Washington Post about the 5 craziest hours in the White House...how the residence staff changes over the White House from the time the old first family leaves for the inauguration to the time the new first family comes home from the inauguration!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/local/white-house-transition/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=nextdraft


Alex and Colleen are taking some student council kids to Feed My Starving Children on Monday.  they will send out a list of who is going to this worthwhile project today.

How differentiation fosters a growth mindset.
http://corwin-connect.com/2017/01/8415/?utm_content=buffer57a8d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer


I heard rave reviews from the 7th grade students on their cultural field trip to the Art Institute.  Thanks to Melissa L for setting it up and to the 7th grade team chaperones.

Jessica E found this great resource: 18 Great tech tools and strategies to help support reading and writing.
https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/08/19/18-digital-tools-and-strategies-that-support-students-reading-and-writing/


Sherry, Chris and Melissa F are doing a great co-curricular project with 5th and 8th grade students that involves history, Mexico, food and culture.  What a great example of collegial articulation as well as a great experience for the 8th grade to serve in a mentor role.

Edgar Allen Poe's birthday was yesterday.  Here are 4 of his short stories animated.
http://www.openculture.com/2015/04/edgar-allan-poe-animated-watch-four-animations-of-timeless-poe-stories.html



I want to thank Deb LeBlanc for the leadership she provides in her role as Special Education Director.  I have learned a lot from watching and listening to her over the past three years.  We are lucky to have her in our district.




Thanks to Betty for working with our students on the Access testing this week and next.



Alicia Wisted was doing a great lesson on air traffic controllers in the 8th grade IMSA class on Wednesday.  I have been very impressed with her work ethic, flexibility and ability to maintain a positive and productive class environment.



I want to thank Dan and Matt Tylk for completing a great boys BB season this weekend with the SWAC tournament this weekend.  You have set a great example of sportsmanship that goes beyond wins and losses.



Matt Turek found this quote from Pablo Casals.

In the confusion that afflicts the world today, I see a disrespect for the very values of life. Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind to it! They look at the wonder of this earth — and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going…

Each second we live in a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that never was before and will never be again. And what do we teach our children in school? We teach them that two and two makes four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all of the world there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed there has never been another child like you. And look at your body — what a wonder it is! Your legs, your arms, your cunning fingers, the way you move! You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must cherish one another. You must work — we all must work — to make this world worthy of its children.

-Pablo Casals