Westwood Updates
Week of September 21 - 25 th
This Week's Happenings -
** MAPS all Week - See below
Monday- 9/21/15
Tuesday- 9/22/15
2:20 Leadership
Wednesday-9/23/15
2:20 Good Citizen Names due- See below
Thursday-9/24/15
8:20 Fire Drill
Friday- 9/25/15
8:00 Friday Flag
Upcoming Dates to Know
10/2/15 Good Citizens Assembly
9/28/15 District Pro. Growth Day
10/1/15 #Innovation Ready! (RSVP by clicking)
10/3 & 10/4 /15 Maker Faire @Balboa Park
10/8/15 Bucket Filling Assembly and Workshops (schedule here)
10/13/15 TECH Tuesday - Compass Learing
Professional Learning Flex Time Template
Here are some options to consider for your Flex time planning:
1- Book Study
~ Recommendations include: Creating Innovators by Tony Wagner; Creative Schools by Ken Robinson; World Class Learners by Yong Zhao; Learning Personalized by Allison Zmuda; and Invent to Learn by Sylvia Martinez
2- Online Training: DEEP Design Thinking
~ This entails training sessions with the facilitators of DEEP design thinking from Mount Vernon Institute for Innovation (Atlanta, GA). Scheduling is flexible and adaptable to meet your needs.
3- Design Camp San Diego 2016!
~ Westwood will host San Diego's 1st design thinking "conference" of sorts. It is a FREE participant driven deep dive into all things related to design thinking, school culture, leadership, and curriculum integration, engineering, humanities, collaborative problem solving,project based learning, and more! Some guests include: Grant Lichtman (San Diego); Mary Cantwell & Ellen Deutscher (Atlanta); Qualcomm (San Diego); Henry Ford Learning Institute (Detroit).
~ Created by Design 39 Campus, Vista Innovation Design Academy, and Westwood Elementary. Sessions will run from 8:00 am - 1:00 pm. Interested? Curious? RSVP here.
This Week's Westwood Way
Westwood Way Weekly Lessons with Lindsay & Juhi- Listening with Attention
Good Citizens- Names Needed By Wednesday
Last Week of MAPS -
Just a reminder- please check your time @ Google Doc -
Superhero Friday Phone Calls Are BACK!
Check your box Monday to see if you are the next teacher who has been tapped to find a super hero. Use your x-ray vision to identify one student that has used their superpowers to grow. At recess on Friday, after you have bragged about them in front of their peers, send that student up so we can make a shout out phone call and take their picture!
** If you have a Superhero that just can't wait, let us know so we can recognize those growing powers!
College & Inspiration T-Shirts on Wednesdays
Game of the Month is BACK!!
Innovate. Design. Create.
Resources
Jump into worldwide learning with the Oreo - Our Really Exciting Online project
Classrooms around the world are invited to participate.
Classrooms will need to have each student stack oreo® cookies as high as he or she can and then average all their individual results to achieve a final Class result.
Click here to learn more!
Project Dates:
September 14 to October 16, 2015
From LSS
Culturally Responsive Resources
https://poway.instructure.com/courses/13724/pages/culturally-responsive-guidelines
ELA TEACHER RESOURCES
LSS invites you to check out the new resources on ELA CENTRAL.
One is a bank of text dependent questions for our HM stories for grades 3-5 from Achieve the Core. http://achievethecore.org/dashboard/300/search/1/1/0/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/page/796/search-for-lessons-to-use-with-popular-stories-upper-elementary-list-pg
The other is a collection of close reading lessons for grades 2-5 for both informational and literary text from Learn Zillion. Both resources provide a wealth of lessons to support our implementation of the standards. https://learnzillion.com/resources/73944-close-reading-lesson-library