Upcoming Week at a Glance:
Wednesday’s Faculty Meeting
We will use Wednesday’s faculty meeting time for a couple of different grade level band meetings. We will send out a detailed schedule with Zoom links next week.
Informal Running Records
The window for completing the second informal running records begins Monday, November 16th and ends on Friday, December 4th. Add the student data to the BAME spreadsheet. Please reach out to Alex if you have any questions.
VL Faculty Wellness Survey
Back in September, we shared a few of the data points from the VL faculty survey. Here are all of the results.
Coaches Corner
Make every lesson interactive with Nearpod
AISC has an account. Contact Hilary for details and/or a tutorial overview.
Got 2 minutes? Watch how Nearpod works!
Nearpod is one of the most interactive educational tools available to teachers. Students access lessons using a link and then type in their name. Responses are recorded and can be printed out and viewed by teachers at their convenience. Students can use Nearpod with any device. Lessons can be taught synchronously or asynchronously. Use lessons as is or customize to meet your students' needs.
Here are some of the best features:
Pre-made lessons on every topic, subject, and theme you can possibly imagine: meditation, social-emotional learning, covid, history, world languages, phonics, reading books, coding, grammar, writing instruction, teaching points from reading/writing workshop, and many more.
A variety of lesson formats: Virtual Reality, Polls, Collaborate Boards, Simulations, Interactive videos with pause and respond feature, Immersive reader with audio recording, and game-based quizzes.
Multiple ways for students to enter their responses: audio, drawing, integrated Google search, collaboration, text, matching pairs, fill-in-the-blank, etc.
Partnerships with: Learnzillion, Common Sense Media, Phet Simulations, Teaching Tolerance, Desmos, Science Kids, BBC, and many more…
Try out a lesson:
Fact and Option, Time to Climb, game-based quiz, 3-5
Me gusta ir al mercado, Novice
Celebrating Diwali, 3-5 (other grade levels available)
Asking Questions, PBS Kids, Ellenor Wonders Why, KG
Skateboard Lab, Phet Simulations, K-2
There is so much to explore!
From the Counselors
Here are Linda’s and Michele’s virtual calm down spaces. Use any or all of the slides as you like for a virtual calm space.
Have a wonderful and safe holiday weekend!
Lynn, Dave, and Elliot
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