**Please check the Meeting Schedules (in the sidebar) and the calendar at the bottom for information regarding this week's meetings and events. Laptops are not required unless requested. Thank you for leaving them in your classrooms.
***Please bookmark the Mindset link so you can access it easily.
February 27- Faculty Conversation- Instructional Leads
February 28- ES Open Day
March 1- Grade 1 Forest Walk and WL Spanish Presentation - Mi Familia (11:50 am)
March 2- EC Big Sing (8:50 am), WL Spanish Presentation - Mi Familia (11:50 am), and ES Intramural and Basketball Showcase (2:45 pm)
This week our High School students take mock exams. They will be in the MPR beginning today through Friday. Please make sure that students heading to the gym transition quietly and students are not in this area unless they have a class scheduled. Thank you for supporting our High School students and colleagues.
~from the Elementary Office
Newsletters (core and encore) will be sent home this Friday, March 2 by 4:00 pm via team leads on behalf of the grade level. Please use the templates provided (core and encore). All School important dates can be found at the end of the Parent Update or in the sidebar of the Mindset => Schedules => ES Event Calendar.
If you need support embedding your newsletter, organizing your core or encore site pages, or setting up composer to send the newsletter, please check the step by step guide. If you are still struggling, check in with Nate and his team. Please give both Krista and Leigh editing access and let them know when your newsletter is published (Thursday, March 1st by 10 am latest), so they can review it before team leads send it home Friday, March 2, 2018.
~from Karen MacMeekin
Please see the letter form Pebble Go about the new resource Pebble Go Next. We will be sending home copies of the 'Home' letter with students today (1 per family).
~from the Principal
The Cult of Pedagogy podcast is a collection of episodes focused on teaching and learning. There is something for everyone. Author, Jennifer Gonzalez , interviews teachers, parents, students and administrators about hot topics in education (MA-Grade 12). Each episode provides the listener with practical ideas, tools, and resources to reinforce, support and extend teaching and learning. Each week I will highlight one or two of Jennifer's Podcasts or resources. I hope you will find time to explore them yourself. If you do and come across one you believe others in our community might enjoy, send it my way and I will add the link here.
This Week's Cult of Pedagogy Highlight: Are You a Curator or a Dumper?
In this podcast, Jennifer takes a look at how the brain responds to dumping, talks about school-related situations where good curation skills come in handy, and shares a set of curation guidelines to follow, and a short list of tech tools that can help you curate digitally.
Have an article, website, tool worth sharing? Send it to Krista and share it with your colleagues here.
~from Krista
StartEdUp Innovation Podcast- Join student and teacher hosts, Don Wettrick and Hunter Stone, as they interview experts in education, innovation and entrepreneurship while discussing how anyone has the power to change the world and live life to the fullest.
Karen Ramirez and Dan Browne recommend: