BCMS Friday Rewind
Week of 4-24-2017
The Science of the Individual
A teacher shared the following link with me last week and I found it very interesting. As the words personalized learning have become buzz words in the world of education, Todd's thoughts really made me think. He states that, you are not average and neither am I. Actually, no one is average. The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average - like developmental milestones, GPAs, personality assessments, standardized test results, and performance review rankings reveal something meaningful about our potential is so ingrained in our consciousness that we don’t even question it. That assumption, says Harvard’s Todd Rose, is spectacularly, and scientifically, wrong. The end of average, as Todd Rose puts it in his book, is a huge shift in how we think about medical studies, designing fighter jet cockpits, and our current educational system. The video is quite long, but if nothing else, I think you will find the first 10-15 minutes very interesting.
Todd Rose: "The End of Average" | Talks at Google
8th Grade Impact Retreat - BHS - Friday, May 5th
8:50 - Prime Time teachers hand out name tags to 8th graders in Prime Time
8:55 - 8th grade boys board buses out front
12:40 - 8th grade boys return to BCMS and go to 4th hour
10:40 - 8th grade girls board buses out front
2:40 - 8th grade girls return and go to 6th hour
UPCOMING EVENTS AT BCMS
- Tuesday, May 2 - 6th and 7th grade Orchestra Concert - BHS PAC
- Wednesday, May 3 - Staff Meeting - 8:00 am - Media Center
- Friday, May 5 - Impact Retreat - BHS - More to come on schedule soon
- Friday, May 19 - BCMS Staff Twins Game Day!
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