Crestwood Comments December 2020
Hang in there!
We appreciate your flexibility during this unprecedented time in education. Remote at-home learning is not only new to parents and students but our staff as well. As an organization, we have learned a great deal about this instruction mode and all of its nuances. Like any good organization going through a rapid change that has been thrust upon us by this global pandemic, we will learn from it and grow and get better. We would expect this type of growth mindset from our students as well as our staff.
Hopefully, very shortly, this pandemic will end. We will all learn from it and be better for it. So, if this tragically happens again, we will be more prepared to deal with the consequences.
I wish you and your family a happy and safe holiday season!
David Toth, Superintendent
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CPS Happenings
Music Explorers
Kindergarten students are continuing their exploration of musical opposites with lessons on dynamics and pitch. Singing and playing instruments to "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt" is a popular way to differentiate between loud and soft sounds. Kinders will predict the high and low tone chimes in upcoming virtual lessons and compose their own high and low songs.
Students enrolled in our virtual Music Explorers club have recently been using Flipgrid as a culminating lesson activity to share about veterans in their families and share the winners of fun-filled dreidel games.
CPS Art
CPS Math
What is going on at CIS?
PBIS Award
PBIS Bronze Award - Crestwood Intermediate School, has been recognized for its success with Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS). PBIS involves teaching students expected behaviors consistently and positively, modeling and acknowledging those behaviors, and helping all students meet expectations and be successful. PBIS has been shown to improve student achievement, student behavior, and school climate. In 2015, Ohio PBIS Network first recognized schools that were model examples of strong PBIS. In 2020, Crestwood Intermediate School applied and earned the Bronze level. They are one of 215 for Bronze award-winning schools to be recognized at any level Gold, Silver, or Bronze. Crestwood Intermediate School will be honored at the 2020 Ohio PBIS Showcase in conjunction with the Ohio Leadership Advisory Council (OLAC) virtual conference on December 15, 2020.
This is a great reward and is a testament to the staff, students, and community working together to make great things happen!!
Middle School Stuff!
Socio-Emotional Learning
7th grade Science
Band
High School Highlights
CHS Graphic Design Internship Class
The new graphic design internship class at the high school has had a few delays but is now up and running. Some of the projects we have been working on are a large 8X4’ banner that will soon be hanging out in front of CHS announcing that Crestwood High School was recognized as one of the “Best High Schools” by U.S. News and World Report. The graphic design students also competed in a CHS yearbook cover design contest, which senior Emma Miller won. Her Design will be the 2021 cover design. The students have also been working on inspirational posters and graphics to hang around the high school, including window perforated signage that will hang on the glass doors near the main offices at the front of the school.
CHS Student Council
Student Council has created "Bringing sunshine to your day cards" that will be dropped off this week at a nursing home to help brighten their days since covid has kept them pretty isolated. Student Council is also holding an essay contest with the theme Gratefulness to help focus on the positives we have in life.
Engineering
There are a variety of projects that have been happening in the various engineering courses. Students have been getting accustomed to CAD or Computer-Aided Design to create 3D objects on their Chromebooks for this year in engineering design. They have been making virtual representations of a puzzle cube project they already made out of wooden blocks. Eventually, the goal will be to get proficient in CAD to design their own and 3d print out these objects before the end of the year using the 3d printers. In engineering principles, students wrapped up their unit of electricity by building physical circuits using breadboards to construct a mock city electrical grid, using power sources ranging from solar panels to miniature windmills. As for civil and architectural engineering, students are continuing to design and model their habitat for humanity homes, designing it for their future self. These students will eventually construct a miniature version of their design to present towards the end of the semester.