Calendar
11/5 Film Festival @ UVA
11/7 7AM Report Cards due to admin
Making Connections
11/8 Workday - trade off for teachers who have had conferences
11/9 Fire Drill @ 10:30am
11/10 Report Corrections Due
Faculty Meeting - Celebrating Our BESt
11/11 Portal Opens/paper reports sent home
11/15 Some 4th and 5th graders CoGAT testing
Wildlife Center Assembly
11/16 Some 4th and 5th graders CoGAT testing
Brownsville’s 50th Year Celebration 6-7:30
11/17 K PLC
2nd/3rd RtI/SPED Collaboration 2:45-3:30
4th/5th/Specials PLC
11/18 5th Grade Career Cafe
Olympic Swimmer Leah Smith in 5th grade PE classes
5th Grade Colonial Day 10-1pm
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New TA’s
We forgot to announce our new Teaching Assistants.The have already contributed so much.
Our new Special Education Teaching Assistants:
Raquel Wright will be joining us soon and she will be working with David and Courtney. She will be replacing Carrie Blake.
We want to thank Carrie Blake for her time here at Brownsville and wish her the best.
Kim Free our well know mom and substitute teacher has join us as a TA working with our A-Base service.
Our two new grade level support TAs are:
Pattie Stadjuhar and Aspen Shifflet. Their schedules have allowed our K and 1st grade TAs to provide more instructional support to students in their classrooms.
Welcome! Isn’t it great to Bee a Bee!
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Making Connections
Making Connections 2016 is Monday, November 7! We are looking forward to seeing you bright and early on Monday. In keeping with our traditions of Making Connections, we encourage you to connect with your colleagues and reflect on our work within the Division, your school, and your PLC. We are hopeful the day will inform our work as each of us process together, and bring back ideas for implementation.
Here are a few details you will need for the day:
1. Attendance will be taken when you enter your session, so please be sure to go where you are registered. Many sessions are full and lunch counts are based on where people registered for the morning session. To double-check your current registrations, login to the Making Connections website and click on My Enrollments.
2. Please arrive in ample time to park and find your workshop in advance of the start time (8:30 and 12:30). Please park in a legal parking spot.
3. Please bring your fully charged laptop. In addition, some facilitators have handouts or resources that we will make available to you electronically.
4. Those in the Visible Learning for Literacy sessions should bring your book if you own one.
5. You may pick up your lunch at the end of your morning session. Lunch is provided by ACPS this year, so there is no need to bring cash for the food court!
6. If you are on the waitlist for a session, expect a follow-up email regarding future learning opportunities on the waitlisted topic!
7. Finally, flu shots will be available as follows:
· E-4 at Sutherland 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
· Conference room at Henley 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
· Clinic at Monticello 3:00 – 5:00 pm
For more information on the flu shot, visit http://bewell.albemarle.org/programs/Pages/flu.aspx
Look for an email from me on Tuesday with a link to Making Reflections so the Making Connections 2016 planning team can receive your feedback and reflections from the day!
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Powerful Accessibility Tool Now Available for all Students and Educators
All ACPS educators and students now have access to a powerful accessibility tool called Snap&Read, which is designed to help learners of all ages better access content and organize ideas. Snap&Read is both a Chrome internet browser extension and desktop app that provides on-demand read aloud support for students to engage with any text that they encounter — on a website in any browser, on a PDF, or even part of a picture or illustration.
In addition to Snap&Read’s primary text-to-speech function, the resource also serves our learners in the following ways:
· Text complexity: users define the degree of adjustment, an important step in our Division’s commitment to Universal Design for Learning.
· Primary language: translates written text and then allows for translated text-to-speech.
· Note Taking, Citing & Organizing: users can select text that can be added to outlines and automatically cited into a works cited page.
The software has been “pushed” by DART to all Windows 10 and Mac laptops in the division. It can sometimes take a little while for “pushed” software to install on all laptops so please log a ticket if you have restarted your computer and are still having trouble accessing the software. The following guides provide a step by step for ACPS educators and students on how to access Snap&Read for the first time:
· Windows
· Mac
Want to learn about Snap&Read? Check out the following resources:
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It Couldn’t Be Done
The End
There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure;
There are thousands to point out to you one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing
That “cannot be done,” and you’ll do it.
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