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NEWS AND INFO FOR WILDCAT STAFF 1.22
Our Ancestors on Learning:
- Learning expands great souls. ~ Namibian proverb
- To get lost is to learn the way. ~ African proverb
- By crawling a child learns to stand. ~ African proverb
- If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents. ~ African proverb
- He who learns, teaches. ~ Ethiopian proverb
- Wealth, if you use it, comes to an end; learning, if you use it, increases. ~ Swahili proverb
- By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree. ~ Buganda proverb
- You always learn a lot more when you lose than when you win. ~ African proverb
- You learn how to cut down trees by cutting them down. ~ Bateke proverb
- The wise create proverbs for fools to learn, not to repeat. ~ African proverb
- What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help him to learn. ~African proverb
- By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed. ~Ashanti proverb
- One who causes others misfortune also teaches them wisdom. ~ African proverb
- You do not teach the paths of the forest to an old gorilla. ~Congolese proverb
- What you learn is what you die with. ~ African proverb
- Instruction in youth is like engraving in stone. ~Moroccan Proverb
- When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him. ~Ashanti Proverb
- Ears that do not listen to advice, accompany the head when it is chopped off. ~African Proverb
- Advice is a stranger; if he’s welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day. ~Malagasy Proverb
- Traveling is learning. ~Kenyan Proverb
- Where there are experts there will be no lack of learners. ~Swahili Proverb
PBL TIMELINE - YOU ARE HERE
Should Already Be Complete:
- Revised Scope and Sequence for Second Semester
- Project Design
- Entry Event Plan
- PBL Project-Planning Template (nearly complete)
PBL To Do This Week:
- Work with your team to develop the Project Calendar.
Choice Professional Learning Dates
- 1/23
- 2/6
- 2/27
- 3/6
- 3.20
- 4.17
- 5/1 (This date will bring closure to this PL series, combined with GMAS related issues).
Instructional Resource of the Week
What is the Exploring Africa Curriculum?
The Exploring Africa! curriculum is divided into units, modules, and learning activities. Each unit covers a major topic or theme in the study of Africa, which is then divided into thematic, disciplinary, regional, or country modules. Each module is comprised of learning activities, which are each aligned to the Common Core State Standards. The learning activities in each module vary in length of time needed for completion. Both students and teachers should feel free to navigate through the units, modules, and learning activities autonomously, or communally with a class, study partner, or teacher. Feel free to select one or two learning activities from a module, or complete all of the learning activities in the order in which they are presented.
TO DO LIST
- Turn in lesson plans for the next TWO weeks by 8:00 a.m. 1/28/19. Look for feedback regarding multisensory engagement. The 4 plans with the most multisensory engagment will win a prize!
- Be sure that you are implementing the small group instructional practices we have worked on in the first semester (team points/incentives, roles, timers, task cards, teacher-led group, etc.)
- MAKE SURE GRADES ARE CURRENT IN MASTERY CONNECT SO YOU ARE READY FOR PROGRESS REPORTS TO GO HOME THIS WEEK.
THIS WEEK
IMPORTANT LINKS AND NUMBERS
Lesson Plans
- Facilities Request: https://purposebuiltschoolsatlanta.formstack.com/forms/maintenance_janitorial_request
- Supply Request: https://tinyurl.com/ybtnbpwg
- Absence Request: https://tinyurl.com/yas5tbze
- Field Trip Request: https://tinyurl.com/ydx6kr4d
- Media Center Requests: https://goo.gl/forms/DT5rVm8OdUtIzzWh1
- Tech Requests: https://www.atlantapublicschools.us/Page/28827
- Digital Instructional Resources: www.portaportal.com Guest Access: dkemp
- Milestones Blueprints: http://www.gadoe.org/Curriculum-Instruction-and-Assessment/Assessment/Pages/Georgia-Milestones-Test-Blueprints.aspx