Brave Bulls Bulletin
February 24, 2023
2nd Grade GT Update
PBLs generally address the 21st Century Skills of communication, innovation, collaboration, presentation, and integration of technology. Specifically assessing presentation in the rubric, this PBL is designed to increase students’ proficiency in presentation by addressing the developmental criteria for becoming an expert. Each GT group/student will practice and present its solution to the design challenge. Students must explain how their solutions will solve the problem, increase the benefits, and decrease risks for this challenge. Students must have sufficient evidence to back up their designs. Invite other students/groups to ask questions. If possible, invite an authentic audience to provide feedback to each group regarding the real-world application of the solution.
The Second Grade GT students are currently working on this project-based learning (PBL) which asks students to design machines that will cause marbles to slide, roll, and spin. The final products will be blueprints of the machines. Students will present their plans to the class and engineers from the community, if possible, in three-minute presentations.
This is the Entry Document the GT students were given at the beginning of their project:
A toy factory in Houston is holding a competition. They want ideas for a new toy. The owners recently saw a huge contraption called a Rube Goldberg Machine at a museum. They liked it so much that they want to package and sell something similar, only much smaller. The factory would like you to submit a blueprint for a machine that they can manufacture. This blueprint would need to include the different parts that make a marble move through the machine. To be considered, your blueprint must show how a standard-size marble will move from one area of the machine to another. The marble must slide, roll, and spin while it goes through the machine. On the blueprint, you must explain where on the machine the marble changes its position and where it slides, rolls, and spins. Time permitting students will create their own prototype.
Wellness Committee
It's important for everyone to have a balanced diet. Please see the attached link for more information.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-eating-plate/
Celebrating Black History Month: Raising Awareness on Health Disparities Among African-American Children in 2023
Goodside Health proudly celebrates Black History Month. The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) established “Resistance” as the theme in 2023.
Goodside Health recognizes this year’s theme by refusing to accept the status quo and pushing for innovative solutions that address health disparities, improve access to care and increase health equity for all Americans, regardless of race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status.
Minorities and people of color, specifically African-Americans, have historically been met with systemic challenges when it comes to accessing healthcare services in the United States. While significant improvements have been made in recent times, much work remains.
Of the more than 1.1 million students eligible to participate in Goodside Health’s SchoolMed program, 13% identify as African-American. Health disparities can’t be addressed if they aren’t acknowledged, and this month we shine a light on some important statistics impacting African-American youth and adolescents:
- African-American and Native American children are more likely to live in poverty than any other ethnic group.1
- Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) provide health insurance coverage for more than half of Black children in the U.S.2
- Non-Hispanic Black children ages 6-17 are 1.5x more likely to be obese than non-Hispanic White children. Conversely, Black children were less likely to receive guidance on physical activity from their healthcare provider than White children.3
- Non-Hispanic Black children with asthma are at least twice as likely to be hospitalized than non-Hispanic White children.4
- African-American children are more likely to have one or multiple food allergies than children of any other racial or ethnic group.5
- Medicaid beneficiaries (29.3%) and African-Americans (26.8%) were the among the most likely groups to use telehealth services in 2021.6
Goodside Health is committed to serving patients by providing appropriate, quality care that considers the cultural and ethnic backgrounds, lived experiences, and values of every individual. We understand that:
Culturally Competent care starts by acknowledging that every racial and ethnic group as well as every person is inherently unique.
The way that someone receives, processes, and reacts in a healthcare setting is both rooted in their culture and their own lived experience.
‘What is important to you?’ and ‘How can we be helpful?’ are always appropriate questions for the patient and family.
Patients and partners trust Goodside Care to care for their families because of our expertise as well as our capacity to adjust recommendations to best meet the patient’s and family’s life circumstances.
Goodside Health is proud to serve a growing number of increasingly diverse communities through our school-based and virtual care services as well as across our Urgent Care for Kids clinics.
Stay tuned to our Good News page as we celebrate important cultural and diversity observances throughout 2023.
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Supporting Military Children and Youth
- School adjustments
- Reunion adjustments
- Deployment and separation
- Parent-child communication
- Behavioral problems
- Fear, grief and loss
- Daily life
Consultations are confidential, anonymous and provided at no cost. No records are kept.
Call Tessie Vallez or Omar Reyes at 915-230-5450 to schedule an appointment
Stay Informed
Information is posted on Class Dojo and a Newsletter is sent every other week on Smore to your email. Please contact us with any questions you may have.
Tessie Vallez, Military Family Liaison
Email: tavallez@episd.org
Website: eoisd.org/tomlea
Location: 4851 Marcus Uribe Drive, El Paso, TX, USA
Phone: (915) 230-5450
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