Attention students: Submissions are open for the 2016-17 Character Education poster contest. Enter your original art that contains at least one character trait: honesty/integrity, self-discipline, courage, social responsibility, kindness, respect, justice, personal responsibility.
Submissions must be 8 1/2″ x 11″ in any medium. The deadline is March 8.
This is a great opportunity to participate in the development of learning resources for science instruction. Details are below if you are interested in applying. The application deadline is Feb. 8.
Become a 2017 WGBH STEM Teacher Advisor
Bringing the Universe to America’s Classrooms*, is a WGBH initiative for the development of media-rich digital learning resources to increase students’ engagement with science phenomena and practices in the classroom. Teacher voices are a critical part of our design and production efforts, which is why we developed a teacher advisor program. This is an opportunity for K-12 educators to join our team in the design and implementation of digital media tools that have the potential to impact millions of STEM classrooms nationally.
Produced by WGBH, these resources will feature WGBH and NASA content, and be available free via PBS LearningMedia™. We’re looking for 50 teacher advisors across the grade bands to help us in this mission.
Please complete this application only if you will be a full-time educator in the 2017-18 school year and are able to teach Earth science topics of weather, land and water (K-5) or weather and climate and geoscience processes (6-12) in the fall of 2017.
There are several questions on the application about your classes in the school year 2017-18. We understand that your responses will often be approximations.
The application deadline is February 8, 2017 at 11:59pm EDT. Applicants will be notified of selection by March 2, 2017.
Please refer to our information site, http://www.wgbhteacheradvisors.org/, for an outline of the expectations, benefits and timeline of the program.
Contact Carolyn Jacobs if you have questions. Thank you.
*This activity is funded by NASA under cooperative agreement award No. NNX16AD71A. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The on-line application is located on our District website in the Transfer Requests link under the Parents tab. Please call the district office if you have any questions.
Belated recognition of the December Student All-Stars. These students were recognized for earning the highest scores on the 2015-16 state assessments in reading, math and science. Great work to these hard-working students!
Central Elementary School
From left to right: Helen Whiteside, third-grade language arts and math; Jazlyn Cano, fourth-grade math; Kyla Harris, fifth-grade language arts; Cailan Darling, fifth-grade science; and Joey Markam, fifth-grade math and science.
Not pictured: Augusta Peppers, fourth-grade language arts
Liberty Elementary School
I have attached a photo of the Liberty Student all-Stars of December 12, 2016.
From left to right: Carolyn Schaefer, third-grade language arts and math; Madeline Hoffert-Hay, fourth-grade language arts; Porter Rose, fourth-grade math; and Sophia Hanson, fifth-grade language arts and math.
Waverly Elementary School
From left to right: Erica Hildenbrand, third-grade language arts; Takoda Cunningham, third-grade math; Maritza Casillas, fourth-grade language arts; Sebastian Fisher, fourth-grade math; Ashley Williams, fifth-grade language arts and math; and Tonika Cunningham, fifth-grade science.
Statewide immunization exclusion day is Feb. 15. Students in all grades must have up-to-date, state-required immunizations by Feb. 15 or they must have a completed the exemption requirements.
Students who do not meet the requirements must get proof of immunizations before returning to school.