Teaching and Learning
January 2020
Purpose
Minnesota Indian Education Association (MIEA) Conference
MIEA Liaison of the Year
Her recent article: Everyone belongs at annual Myers-Wilkins powwow was featured in the September 26, 2019 Duluth News Tribune.
Foster Care Transportation (FCT) - Darren Sheldon
Foster Care Transportation (FCT)
Foster Care Transportation (FCT) is relatively new to the district. It falls under Title I, Part A Set-Aside. The purpose of FCT is to keep students in their "school of origin." What is "school of origin?" Example: The child (student) is living with mom and attends Lester Park Elementary School. The student is then placed in Foster Care in the Piedmont attendance area. We would try to keep the child in their "school of origin" which is Lester Park. So, St. Louis County, Federal Programs, and District Transportation work together to try to keep the student in his/her school of origin.
Office of Education Equity - Patty Paquette, Office Support Specialist, William Howes, Office of Education Equity, Coordinator
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The Office of Education Equity is in the process of cataloging resources for student and staff use. You can view the items that have been inputted thus far and are available for check out by following this link and directions.
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Find something on this list that you'd like to check out? Contact us at 218.336.8714 or Patty at patricia.paquette@isd709.
Interested in seeing all the resources we have to offer? Contact us to set up a time to come view our collection.
Please let me know if you have any questions or need any additional information.
Thank you,
Patty Paquette
Office Support Specialist
ISD 709 - Office of Education Equity
215 N 1st Ave E, Room 321
Duluth, MN 55802
218.336.8714
Xylobas For Piedmont - Teri Akervik, Music Content Specialist
ELA Standards Review - Gail Netland, Director of Curriculum and Instruction
The First Draft of the English Language Arts (ELA) Standards is available on MDE's website. We encourage you to provide feedback and comments on the standard drafts via the online feedback survey Town Hall meetings were scheduled at several locations across the state. These meetings provide background about the standards revision process and provide an opportunity for input.
The second draft of the standards will be published in February and the final draft will be available in May. The final draft will be available for planning purposes and the standards become law through the Minnesota rulemaking process. More information on the standards development process, to view the first draft of the ELA standards and information on how take the online feedback survey is available on the MDE English Language Arts (ELA) webpage.
Duluth East A Cappella Choir - Teri Akervik, Music Content Specialists
Doodle! - Deb Hannu, Art Content Specialists
Did you ever get in trouble for doodling in class? Perhaps you were directed to
‘put the pen down and pay attention’ when your teacher spotted you scribbling
away on your page?
The broader world of education can learn yet again from the arts – doodling is
GOOD FOR LEARNING. Rather than robbing you from being attentive in class, it
indeed creates easier access for what you are listening to to enter your conscious
mind. Here are just a few research-proven benefits of doodling:
- Doodling stimulates parts of the brain that are normally inactive when you are in
linguistic mode. As such, it can help one envision or ‘picture’ solutions that may
not otherwise have been discovered.
- Doodling helps you concentrate. Studies have shown that doodling provides
sufficient cognitive effort to prevent you from daydreaming, yet not enough to
prevent you from paying attention to what’s going on around you. Doodling
anchors your attention.
- Doodling can help you be in touch with your emotions, as it lives in that place
between conscious and unconscious thought.
- Doodling can help you relax. While painting classes and coloring books for adults
are a known stress-reducer, doodling takes that relaxation even further. Moving
lines, without a necessary topic or pattern, are non-judgmental!
- Doodling boosts relaxation, problem-solving, and happiness; all factors that feed
the highest form of intelligence: creating. It can happen anywhere, under a
variety of circumstances, to pull your mind into a soft, productive focus.
- Doodling helps with big-picture thinking by bridging focused and diffused
learning. The mark-making that happens between conscious and subconscious
thought internalizes the incubation of ideas and thought.
So, rather than discourage your students from ‘thinking with their pencil’, realize
that encouraging them to doodle while they are listening or engaging with you is
providing a conduit to retained and internalized learning. You might even do it
along with them!
Gail Netland, Director of Curriculum and Instruction
Email: gail.netland@isd709.org
Website: https://www.isd709.org/departments/curriculum-and-instruction/index
Location: 215 North 1st Avenue East, Duluth, MN, USA
Phone: 218-336-8711