Step Up For Students: Success Stories
Volume 5 Issue: 9                                             April 2017

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After completing Success Partner Cohort 5 training, Liberty Christian Preparatory School in Tavares developed a Parent/School Partnership Plan that included academic Family Fun Nights.  On March 30, they held their second family event for grades kindergarten and first.  This event titled, Flight Night, centered around things that fly.  Kindergarten and first grade students along with their families enjoyed a fun night exploring flight.  Families participated in several themed stations.  These included creating an edible airplane, designing an original paper plane, graphing the flying distance of their plane, and a bible story time about Jesus controlling the wind and the rain.  Debi Zischke, principal, reported thirty families, three staff members, and six National Junior Honor Society members attended this evening.  Liberty Christian Preparatory is already planning Family Fun Nights for the 2017-18 school year.
EDUCATOR IDEAS AND RESOURCES 
Reading - Math- Organization tips 
Dear Fellow Educators,
ReadWorks Article-A-Day is a 10 minute daily routine that dramatically increases your students' background knowledge, vocabulary, and stamina. Here is a curated collection of our newest Article-A-Day Sets:
Learn more about how to do this simple, impactful routine in your classroom:
Happy Teaching!
The ReadWorks Team

DESKTOPS OF ENCOURAGEMENT 
From PINTREST
Use a dry erase marker to write encouragement notes on each student's desk. Parents could do this at a school meeting event, teachers could do this before the norm reference test, or at the end of the school year. Students could even give one another encouragement during a study break! 


DIFFERENTIATION WITH OLDER STUDENTS 
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Step into your submarine and dive into bundling with this engaging new addition to Number Gym. Students' place value understanding will bubble to the top as they group and add ones, tens, and hundreds from the bottom of the sea.
This new activity - like everything we create - is based on insights from the millions of Zearn digital lessons completed to date. Our data helps us identify where students need extra support to build the foundational math understanding required to develop deep number sense. We work to find the specific strands where students need additional support and develop new activities - like Bundle the Sea - to meet those needs. Like all of our adaptive fluencies, students will face increasingly challenging problems as they demonstrate understanding.
Bundle the Sea will be part of the fluency warm-up that occurs at the start of each digital lesson. But why should kids have all the fun? Try out concrete and abstract levels of this new activity for yourself!
  
Happy Zearning!

 
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A NEW DAY 


I was so inspired by this short article by Tim Elmore of Growing Leaders that I just had to pass it along.                                                 Let me know what you think; Scott Beck

Think for a moment about the changes that have taken place over the last few generations. It sounds cliché, but we're definitely living in a new day. As I observe the realities of our time, I notice people have the same needs we did 50 years ago - the only difference is that we've found new ways to meet them. Some good, some... well, not so good. At times we actually drift into a "new normal" without noticing. For instance:
  1.  
    Workouts... are the new work.

     
    Generations ago, no one needed to go to a gym to lift weights or run. Many worked manual labor jobs on a farm or a factory. Now, we need gym memberships to stay fit.
  2. Movies... are the new books. While I know books still sell, many from the emerging generation would rather wait for the movie to come out. They watch 35 movies for every one book they read.                                                                          
  3. M
    usicians... are the new philosophers.  
    In times past, men like Socrates, Plato or Augustine gave us our worldview. Today, it's Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber or Kanye West. Hmm...not sure they're qualified.
  4.  Athletes... are the new heroes.  Instead of statesmen or military generals, we choose celebrities from a playing field or basketball court... you know, people who throw a ball really well. Makes sense.                                                                                          
  5.  Starbucks... is the new front porch. My friend, Len Sweet, said it first. We used to gather on a neighbor's porch to share community and drink lemonade. Today, we meet at a coffeehouse for a latte.
  6. Texts... are the new letter or phone call. We used to take time to write a letter or even make a phone call. Today, we don't have time for that nonsense. We text or tweet. It's short and sweet.
  7. Facebook... is the new social hook up.  There was a time you had to go to a school dance or a church social to meet a special friend. Today, we do it virtually from the solitude of our bedrooms.
  8. Netflix... is the new Blockbuster. Today, you don't have to drive to a store to rent a video. In fact, you're antiquated if you do. Just get the movie On-Demand, on your TV set... and don't leave the couch.Today, you don't have to drive to a store to rent a video. In fact, you're antiquated if you do. Just get the movie On-Demand, on your TV set... and don't leave the couch.
  9. Smartphones... are the new Rolodex. I remember using that little contact cardholder to look up numbers and network with people. Today, you have all those names and more on a portable device.
  10. Twitter... is the new headline news source. We once read newspapers for the latest updates. Today, many don't even visit websites. They see what tweets have come through to fill them in. Wow.
Some questions for you: Are we moving in a good direction or a bad one? Can you think of any other shifts that have taken place? What must we do to adapt to our new day but still build the timeless virtues into our students?                                            Tim Elmore     Growing Leaders
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