Eatonville School District
Teaching & Learning
April 23, 2021
This is the place to find updates for Teaching and Learning and information about current PL offerings.
Dear Staff,
I hope you all had a very relaxing spring break and were able to recharge. The weather was amazing and so good for the soul. Spring brings so much hope and joy. We are now in the last quarter. Remember a sense of belonging and love are extremely important along with academic growth. We have all done an extraordinary job .............just remember to " thrive not just survive."
I would like to give out a special thanks to Matt Pederson, for leading, and all of the staff working on the secondary math adoption and book study. The process works. We will be ready to pilot next fall.
With Hope and Excitement,
Diane
REMINDER!!!!!!
Thoughts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UNHEALED CHILDHOOD
TRAUMA MANIFESTS AS:
FIXING OTHERS
PEOPLE PLEASING
CO-DEPENDENCY
EXTERNAL VALIDATION NEEDED
LIVING ON HIGH ALERT
FEAR OF ABANDONMENT
DE-PRIORITIZING OWN NEEDS
NEED TO PROVE THEMSELVES
TOLERATES ABUSIVE BEHAVIOUR
ATTRACTS NARCISSISTIC PARTNERS
DIFFICULTY SETTING BOUNDARIES
Shame is the warm feeling that washes over us, making us feel small, flawed, and never good enough. Brene Brown
Confidence
isn't thinking you
are better than everyone
else, its realizing that
you have no reason to compare yourself to
anyone else.
Maryam Hasnaa
When thinking about life, remember this:
No amount of guilt can solve the past, and no amount
of anxiety can change the future.
If you fail, never give up
because F.A.I.L. means
FIRST ATTEMPT IN LEARNING
End is not the End
In fact E.N.D. means
EFFORT NEVER DIES
If you NO as an answer
Remember N.O. means
NEXT OPPORTUNITY
Change Your MIndset!!!!!!!!!!
Diane
Travis Rush Technology Education Lead
April 9th
Greetings! I hope you all enjoyed a well needed spring break. Current updates in the technology education world continue as more digital displays are installed, and more updates to Google are sent out. As you progress through the last weeks of school, I would like to offer you all a challenge!
THE CHALLENGE!.....
I always found that the last 5-7 weeks of school provided a great opportunity to try a new method or practice that I was unfamiliar with. This practice gave me confidence for the following year in either repeating it or altering it. Here is a Google Form that you will have the ability to input what you are going to take a risk at trying in your class. It will be anonymous to the staff, but I would love to share everyone's ideas, minus your names, with staff around the district.
Form Link: https://forms.gle/hRHf3HTuUxwLxdyT9
I encourage everyone to maintain the use of Google Classroom as an access point for students, differentiation, instruction, support, integration and student engagement. I also encourage you to read the following article. This article lists 10 ways to use chat in an educational environment. I hope you can utilize this for instructional purposes in the classroom as well, not just for distance learning.
Cheers!
ONLINE LEARNING
10 Ways to Harness the Power of the Chat Function
Digital conversations are a good way to connect with students learning at home—and they can serve as a useful artifact of learning.
Click below for clock hour opportunities
AN ODE TO UDL (UNIVERSAL DESIGN FOR LEARNING)
In this Cult of Pedagogy article, author/consultant Katie Novak (University of
Pennsylvania) compares the offerings at two schools’ PTO teacher appreciation breakfasts:
- School #1: Bacon, egg, and cheese sandwiches on biscuits (no substitutions)
- School #2: A selection of fruit salad, homemade quiches, scrambled eggs, miso soup,
gallo pinto, bagels, croissants, chapattis, churros, apples, coffee, and tea
“Now, I personally love a good ol’ brekkie sammy,” says Novak, “but it certainly won’t meet
everyone’s needs. Some staff members may be vegetarian, lactose-intolerant, or gluten-free.
Some may be watching their waistlines. And some may think that the sandwich is GROSS.
We all can predict the outcome: many will leave hungry, frustrated, and needless to say –
unappreciated.
The schools’ breakfast choices are a metaphor for a one-size-all lesson versus a UDL
approach. Novak argues that rigid, take-it-or-leave-it lessons severely limit the learning of
many students, especially those who don’t do well with traditional pedagogy. “When we
design the same learning pathways for all learners,” she says, “we might tell ourselves we are
being fair, but in fact, single pathways are exclusionary.”
Novak lists three core Principles of effective Universal Design for Learning unit and less planning. Please click below to find out more.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/191pZmQ3LS9fuIhXtHwv5MMu0gb1kYdzT/view?usp=sharing
Native American Education Program
A year ago, when schools switched to online learning due to Covid-19, the PSESD Native American Education Program (and all other Title VI Indian Education programs) also had to shift in how to deliver support to the students it serves. The primary focus of the program is direct service student support in school buildings, family night events, and classroom presentations — and that suddenly was cut off.
Our PSESD NAEP staff wanted to continue to provide cultural support and show the students in the program that we were still out there and thinking about them. The program serves over 550 Native students in four Pierce County school districts, and one thing we didn’t want to do was overwhelm
them and add more stress to an already unprecedented time in their lives.
The way our program moved forward to meet this challenge was to utilize multiple ways of communication and check-ins with students and parents.
Professional Development: Since Time Immemorial(STI)
In its efforts to support the culturally relevant and accurate curriculum on Native American history and culture for all students in the state, OSPI continues to schedule numerous Since Time Immemorial (STI) curriculum training for K-12 educators. Due to Covid-19 OSPI’s Office of Native Education has changed from all-day in-person training to shorter, 2-hour webinars.
STI sessions provide instructional resources, an introductory overview of the STI curriculum and how to navigate the website, including new “Ready to Go” lessons shared by educators and tribal members as well as the Native Knowledge-360 STEM lessons developed by the National Museum of the American Indian.
Recent data released by IllumiNative shines a light on why the STI curriculum is so important and each school district in the state should be on board. IllumiNative discovered 87% of the state-level curriculum across the country fail to teach students about Native American history or culture after the year 1900. That means the last 120 years of history of Native people is not taught to students in the United States.
Peninsula School District honors Puyallup Tribe with naming of schools
The Peninsula School District recently chose to name its new elementary school Swift Water Elementary to honor the band of the Puyallup Tribe of Indians that once inhabited the area. The school district is on the ancestral lands of the Puyallup Tribe.
The name Swift Water is taken from the translation of the Lushootseed word sx̌ʷəbabš (Squal-bob-shh) which refers to the swift currents of the Narrows Passage between what is now Tacoma and the Peninsula area. The Puyallup Tribal Council sent a letter to the district before the official name was chosen, stating they approved of the use of the name if chosen.