Greystone Centennial Middle School is committed to creating a family-like community that is flexible and responsive to student needs and uses ongoing feedback for growth.
Amy Baker is was named a 2014 Claes Nobel Top 10 Educator of the Year by the National Society of High School Scholars. Ms. Baker is a business, marketing, and finance teacher at Friendship High School in Wolfforth, Texas. In this Q&A, Ms. Baker discusses her inspiration and love for being an educator, as well as the challenges she faces as a modern-day educator.
NSHSS
Palmetto school counselors presentation 2016 17Sherrie Beaver
This information was presented at the 2016-17 Palmetto School Counselor Association Conference in January 2017 by Sherrie Beaver, Claire Gatlin and Charles Hazelrigg. This presentation gives innovative ideas for connecting, communicating and collaborating with all stakeholders in a school setting.
502. Improve Your AIM on School Improvement
"Different Thinking for Different Results" will share common characteristics / practices found in K12 High Performing, Rapidly Improving, and High Reliability Schools. There are no silver bullets, but this session will help schools reflect on their Culture, Leadership, Rigor, Community practices, and the WHY of needing to increase staff's capacity for the sake of improving student learning. CHANGED People, Change People - Be Intentional.
Presenter(s): Norman McDuffie
Location: Grandover West
Amy Baker is was named a 2014 Claes Nobel Top 10 Educator of the Year by the National Society of High School Scholars. Ms. Baker is a business, marketing, and finance teacher at Friendship High School in Wolfforth, Texas. In this Q&A, Ms. Baker discusses her inspiration and love for being an educator, as well as the challenges she faces as a modern-day educator.
NSHSS
Palmetto school counselors presentation 2016 17Sherrie Beaver
This information was presented at the 2016-17 Palmetto School Counselor Association Conference in January 2017 by Sherrie Beaver, Claire Gatlin and Charles Hazelrigg. This presentation gives innovative ideas for connecting, communicating and collaborating with all stakeholders in a school setting.
502. Improve Your AIM on School Improvement
"Different Thinking for Different Results" will share common characteristics / practices found in K12 High Performing, Rapidly Improving, and High Reliability Schools. There are no silver bullets, but this session will help schools reflect on their Culture, Leadership, Rigor, Community practices, and the WHY of needing to increase staff's capacity for the sake of improving student learning. CHANGED People, Change People - Be Intentional.
Presenter(s): Norman McDuffie
Location: Grandover West
Inspired by the 30 Goals Challenge by Shelly Sanchez Terrell and Vicky Loras’s first post, I started a Project with my students, teachers and friends called “30 Days of Kindness” that was then stretched by popular demand to 72 days. The idea was to engage people with thought-provoking questions, quotes and other texts on kindness so that they could share what they are doing to bring it into their lives. In this session, we are going to look at some of these questions, how they were answered, see some practical ideas of activities I used in the classroom to spread kindness and then reflect on its meaning, inside and outside the classroom.
This slideshow served as a launching point for our conversation during the all-group presentation. I'd be happy to share particulars about that conversation with families who were not able to join us.
601. Finally . . . We "Met Growth" Again!
After 3 years of stagnating in school growth, our staff stepped back, regrouped and looked at ourselves differently. While we are not where we want to be, we Met Growth this year and raised our performance grade. The "plan of attack" caused us to take a fresh look at our processes and procedures. We will share how we turned things around.
Presenter(s): Patricia Underwood
Location: Arrowhead
"Please do like this presentation. Your Likes, my grade :)"
Subject: Educational Technology 2
Teacher: Mrs. Dañielita Patindol
Schedule: MWF 4:30-5:30 pm
John Carnesecca is a teacher, a coach and the Department Chair for Social Science at Great Oak High School in Temecula, CA. He is also a Claes Nobel 2014 Top 10 Educator of the Year. “Coach Carny," as he is known to his students, has earned a reputation for engaging students by prompting them to think deeply about their subject matter.
Greenfield Community School provides a high quality, creative and challenging international education, based on the International Baccalaureate Philosophy. We foster within each student, staff member and community member an enduring passion for learning and empowering each individual to become a caring global citizen.
Inspired by the 30 Goals Challenge by Shelly Sanchez Terrell and Vicky Loras’s first post, I started a Project with my students, teachers and friends called “30 Days of Kindness” that was then stretched by popular demand to 72 days. The idea was to engage people with thought-provoking questions, quotes and other texts on kindness so that they could share what they are doing to bring it into their lives. In this session, we are going to look at some of these questions, how they were answered, see some practical ideas of activities I used in the classroom to spread kindness and then reflect on its meaning, inside and outside the classroom.
This slideshow served as a launching point for our conversation during the all-group presentation. I'd be happy to share particulars about that conversation with families who were not able to join us.
601. Finally . . . We "Met Growth" Again!
After 3 years of stagnating in school growth, our staff stepped back, regrouped and looked at ourselves differently. While we are not where we want to be, we Met Growth this year and raised our performance grade. The "plan of attack" caused us to take a fresh look at our processes and procedures. We will share how we turned things around.
Presenter(s): Patricia Underwood
Location: Arrowhead
"Please do like this presentation. Your Likes, my grade :)"
Subject: Educational Technology 2
Teacher: Mrs. Dañielita Patindol
Schedule: MWF 4:30-5:30 pm
John Carnesecca is a teacher, a coach and the Department Chair for Social Science at Great Oak High School in Temecula, CA. He is also a Claes Nobel 2014 Top 10 Educator of the Year. “Coach Carny," as he is known to his students, has earned a reputation for engaging students by prompting them to think deeply about their subject matter.
Greenfield Community School provides a high quality, creative and challenging international education, based on the International Baccalaureate Philosophy. We foster within each student, staff member and community member an enduring passion for learning and empowering each individual to become a caring global citizen.
School Education Planning Using Design Thinkingcarolynjcameron
Ewan McIntosh's Design Thinking was incorporated into the school education planning process. What resulted was 100% understanding and commitment to the school goals we established for the upcoming school year.
Team teaching, flexible use of space, flexible grouping of students, ongoing communication and feedback is critical for the success of collaboration. When it is working well, students and teachers benefit.
Presentation for Parkland School Division Staff as we started our 2013-14 school year. Staff Engagement is one of our School Division's priority areas.
Doha British School Ain Khaled Year Book 2019-2020Signitech
This yearbook shows that 2019/20 has been filled with a myriad of creative, sporting and cultural events. All these would have not been possible without our great facilities, wonderful teachers and support staff and most importantly our fantastic and tremendously talented students. We are trying to build the tradition of excellence and now it became our habit.
112 & 312. Practical Ideas to Transform Your School Culture and Create a Vision
A positive school climate & culture is critical to the learning process for students as well as creating a collaborative environment for teachers. Listen to practical ideas on how to create a positive climate and culture in your school. Whether you are a teacher or in a leadership role, you have an opportunity to make your school inviting for all.
Presenter(s): Bruce Vosburgh
Location: Colony C
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Honest Reviews of Tim Han LMA Course Program.pptxtimhan337
Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
3. Spruce Grove, Alberta
small urban
community
of 15,000
short drive
west from
major urban
centre
Edmonton
one of 22
schools in
Parkland
School
Division
4. Greystone Centennial Middle
640 students in
grades 5 - 9
School
5 - 7 classes
per grade level
30 teachers
11 support staff
Key Contact ~ Learning Coach ~ Assistant Principal ~
Principal
5. A New Vision for
Middle School
UNDER
CONSTRUCTION
9. To All of You at Greystone…
Words cannot express my sincere gratitude.
You have helped raise my
children...Greystone staff, you have been
there all along helping my children and I
more than you will ever know. Thank you for
being teachers, thank you for being my
friends, thank you for taking care of the most
important thing to all of us – “our children” .
Love Korinna Wolodko (Greystone Parent)
10. FOSTERING FAMILY TIES
• After the Bell
• Clubs/Teams
• Camps/Trips
• Breakfast Program
• Community Partnerships
• Heroes/Rainbows/Challenge Day
12. A FAMILY OF ADULT
LEARNERS
The people we interviewed from the good-to-great
companies clearly loved what they did, largely because
they loved who they did it with. - Jim Collins
13. Student learning and
achievement increase
substantially when teachers work
in learning communities
supported by school leaders who
focus on improvement.
- Michael Fullan
14. A FAMILY OF ADULT
LEARNERS
• Team Teaching
• Team Time
• Retreat
• Book Study
• Learning Coach
• Professional
Learning Days
• Design Team
• Tech Team
• Sharing Through
Twitter/Blogging
16. LOOPING
...refers to the not-so-new but increasingly common
practice of keeping groups of students together for two or
more years with the same teacher.
22. Education is a personal process. What
and how young people are taught have to
engage their energies, imaginations and
their different ways of learning. - Sir Ken Robinson
23. FLEXIBILITY TO SUPPORT
INQUIRY • Authenticity
• Academic Rigor
• Assessment
• Beyond the School
• Appropriate Use of Technology
• Active Exploration
• Connecting with Expertise
• Elaborated Communication
28. In the growth mindset...it’s about a
commitment to learning–taking informed
risks and learning from the results,
surrounding yourself with people who will
challenge you to grow. - Carol Dweck