Charging Forward. Having just returned from 2014 NAIS Conference, I feel compelled to write and share my thoughts. The theme of this year’s event, held in sunny Orlando was, “Dare to Explore and Discover.” As I attended sessions and listened to keynote speakers, the same question kept being aimed at us. What are our core values? If we agree on our values, do we display them at our school? As I read our long list of PDS core values, I found myself asking if we can narrow them down to four. Excellence. Okay, I did not manage to keep it to four, but I was close. In another session, participants were asked: Are we inspiring our students to dream? I left the conference invigorated and confident about PDS. The PDS faculty is preparing students for a constantly changing future. So, perhaps the most powerful feeling I bring back to campus from my few days at the House of Mouse is we must thank our teachers, nurture our students, and create more PDS magic. core values · dreams · innovation As often was the case, Mr.
Interview Tips. Free Technology for Teachers. The Learning Pond. MindShift. MindShift explores the future of learning in all its dimensions. We examine how learning is being impacted by technology, discoveries about how the brain works, poverty and inequities, social and emotional practices, assessments, digital games, design thinking and music, among many other topics. We look at how learning is evolving in the classroom and beyond.We also revisit old ideas that have come full circle in the era of the over scheduled child, such as unschooling, tinkering, playing in the woods, mindfulness, inquiry-based learning and student motivation.
We report on shifts in how educators practice their craft as they apply innovative ideas to help students learn, while meeting the rigorous demands of their standards and curriculum. MindShift has a unique audience of educators, tinkerers, policy makers and life-long learners who engage in meaningful dialogue with one another on our sites. Contact the us by email. Blog - AnGeL Ministries - Anne Graham Lotz. Mar 27, 2014 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark;and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Matthew 24: 37-39 Paramount Pictures new movie, Noah, released over the weekend.
In light of the release, we at AnGeL Ministries want to make available The Message of Noah. We pray you will be blessed and that it will prompt you to rediscover this old, old story which is the Gospel story… There is judgement for sin, but there is also salvation offered by a loving God who is not willing for any to perish, but for all to come to repentance. The Message of Noah.mp3. Carla edwards blog. Greetings Middle Schoolers! Next week is Teen Tech Week all over the country and it is a day set aside by the Young Adult Library Services Association to celebrate all things technology! Well, here is the official description: Teen Tech Week is a national initiative sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association and is aimed at teens, their parents, educators and other concerned adults.
The purpose of the initiative is to ensure that teens are competent and ethical users of technologies, especially those that are offered through libraries such as DVDs, databases, audiobooks, and videogames. Now that you know what Teen Tech Week is all about and you are familiar with the library’s offerings of ebooks, Kindles, Laptops for checkout, audiobooks, DVDs, databases, etc…you should come out for the following event next week: What: ”Appetite for Apps” When: Thursday, March 14, 2013 (After school 3:20pm-4:30pm) Where: Library Reference Room Ms. Inspiring Young Minds to THINK! Engage the Learner. Tearing Down Walls. China Reflections In my last post, I mentioned I would be traveling for two weeks in China. My plan was to blog from the road, but we were so busy my plans failed.
It was the trip of a lifetime, and I got to experience 6 major cities-Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong. Climbing the Great Wall Along the way I got to tour four Chinese schools seeking to emulate American schools (in some way) and interview about 50 Chinese students (mostly 8th or 9th graders) interested in coming to the USA for high school and college. To answer that question, I think back to a presentation by Yong Zhao at the SAIS Annual Conference last fall. Zhao makes a great case that countries that score high on international tests like the PISA tend to show a low level of entrepreneurship (p. 11-12). Wow! However, what the Chinese enthusiastically embrace is just what the Americans have been as enthusiastically trying to get rid of. China bound! A little paint and a change of perspective?
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