TPS custodian Vernetta Whitten volunteered to spend her days off on past Sunday & Monday to ensure that the Head Start classrooms were in tip top shape for the Head Start monitors that arrived on Tuesday January 19. This is just one example of how Mrs. Vernetta is always going above and beyond for TPS students and staff. Over the years Mrs. Vernetta has worked at several campuses, however TPS has always been "home"! TPS loves Mrs. Vernetta!
What a great idea and message from Melody Ojeda
It's that time of year again, and my graphic design and debate students will be making Valentines for chronically ill kids in hospitals and seniors in assisted living facilities. If you would like to have your students do the same and join in on the community service opportunity, I am happy to take them with ours. I have included a link below with more information about the program. I will be taking ours this Friday the 29th, but the final deadline isn't until February 9th if you would like to take them to one of the drop off locations after Friday.
https://kvne.com/valentines-
Growing Excellence (+10 for ALL)
This week I had the pleasure of hearing Sir Ken Robinson and George Couros speak at the TASA conference. It is rare that you get the opportunity to heard amazing thought leaders like this, but to hear 2 in one day was mind-blowing to say the least. What I found interesting is that the emphasis of the messages from both speakers was that creativity in schools is not only essential but critical if we want to make more kids successful in learning.
Now when I think about creativity in schools, I naturally gravitate to the mindset of more difficult and a vast change, but that was not the case in both of their keynotes. In George's message, he drove the point home was that in order to create the schools that kids deserve, it's all about the relationships that we cultivate daily with our kids. It's about knowing them as individuals and creating the conditions in our classrooms where we leverage our relationships with kids that inspires them to dream beyond the confines of the curriculum.
"Your job is to unleash talent!" +George
Robinson's message was similar but his approach to making change in schools focused on how we engage and then empower kids daily. We don't know what kids will be when they grow up and neither do they, so we must remember that our job is to create an engaging environment where kids slowly discover that for themselves.
When the rhythms of education match the rhythms of a student's learning, kids will never disengage from learning. Sir Ken Robinson
As you look at your students this week, I want to encourage you to look at them not as what they are or where they're from. View them as what they could become and where we want them to end up. When we look at our kids from the lens of what could be, we create empowering learning environments that change for kids, not content.
College AND Career
College & Career Prezi by Amy D from Mrs. Ojeda's Class
Google Me This
Are your kids well googled? This is how high school kids are being evaluated for college admissions and scholarships. It's a great question to pose to kids in social media or as they begin to make their digital footprint.
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