From the Coaching Corner
May 21-May 25
Be Sure to RSVP for Our End of the Year Party Below!
Fulton County Summer Learning
- Going Paperless with Microsoft Teams (Tech)
- Microsoft Innovative Educator Academy (Tech)
- Science Textbook Training (STEM)
- KSU Maker Bus (STEM)
- Illuminate: The New FCS Assessment System (2 slots; contact Dr. Morrissey if interested)
Recommended Teacher Summer Reading
Empower
In Empower, A.J. Juliani and John Spencer provide a roadmap that will inspire innovation, authentic learning experiences, and practical ways to empower students to pursue their passions while in school.
Compliance is expecting students to pay attention. Engagement is getting students excited about our topics, interests, and curriculum. When we empower students, they crave learning that is both meaningful and relevant to their life, now and in the future.
Launch
In LAUNCH, teachers will discover practical strategies for using design thinking in the classroom to engage, inspire, and empower students. Here are a few key takeaways:
- Student projects that focus on making, designing, and creating
- Fixing the brainstorming process
- Structuring project-based learning to unleash creativity
- Building creative confidence in the classroom
- Leading a maker movement without spending a lot of money
Mathematical Mindsets
There is a clear gap between what research has shown to work in teaching math and what happens in schools. This book bridges that gap by turning research findings into practical activities and advice. Boaler translates Carol Dweck's concept of 'mindset' into math teaching and parenting strategies, showing how students can go from self-doubt to strong self-confidence. Boaler reveals the steps that must be taken by schools and parents to improve math education for all. Mathematical Mindsets:
- Explains how the brain processes mathematics learning
- Reveals how to turn mistakes and struggles into valuable learning experiences
- Provides examples of rich mathematical activities to replace rote learning
- Explains ways to give students a positive math mindset
- Gives examples of how assessment and grading policies need to change to support real understanding
The Book Whisperer
Robot-Proof
A "robot-proof" education, Aoun argues, is not concerned solely with topping up students' minds with facts. Rather, it calibrates them with a creative mindset and the mental elasticity to invent, discover, or create something valuable to society―a scientific proof, a hip-hop recording, a web comic, a cure for cancer. Aoun lays out the framework for a new discipline, humanics, which builds on our innate strengths and prepares students to compete in a labor market in which smart machines work alongside human professionals. The new literacies of Aoun's humanics are data literacy, technological literacy, and human literacy. Students will need data literacy to manage the flow of big data, and technological literacy to know how their machines work, but human literacy―the humanities, communication, and design―to function as a human being. Life-long learning opportunities will support their ability to adapt to change.
The only certainty about the future is change. Higher education based on the new literacies of humanics can equip students for living and working through change.
50 Things you can do with Google Classroom
Teacher of the Week: Mr. Melton
Teacher of the Week: Ms. Sahora
Ms. Jennings
We are Your Coaches
Jodi Moskowitz
Email: moskowitzj@fultonschools.org
Website: jodimoskowitz.weebly.com
Twitter: @jodimos
Celeice Hood
Email: hoodlc@fultonschools.org
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/hoodshuskyhighlightsreel/
Location: Front Office
Twitter: @lyricchood