In the coming weeks, our schools will be hosting parents and guardians at annual School Open House events. This is an important opportunity for families to experience the learning environment that surrounds their children each day and to make connections with teachers and staff. The beginning of a new school year represents an important milestone … Continue reading Open House: A Valued Back-To-School Tradition
Friday STEM Learning Days Engage Students in Engineering
Target 1 – Student-Centered Learning FWSU students will engage in personalized learning involving collaborative inquiry, problem solving and creative learning opportunities. Strategy - Highlight, create and model innovative learning opportunities that promote collaborative inquiry, problem solving and creativity for students and staff. GEMS 4th grade held its first weekly STEM Day, which offers a blended … Continue reading Friday STEM Learning Days Engage Students in Engineering
Recognizing the Language of Behavior
“The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying, but also forgetting and then remembering again.” This quote by John Gray can be easily linked to Target 1-Student centered Learning and Target 4- Engaged Community Partners of the FWSU Action Plan: As a part of FWSU’s opening inservice events, paraprofessionals were provided with a half day learning … Continue reading Recognizing the Language of Behavior
Building Community in Morning Meetings
Elementary classrooms in FWSU start the day with Morning Meeting. This daily routine from Responsive Classroom (RC) is an opportunity where students explore and practice social skills and model how social, emotional, and intellectual learning come together in school. Morning Meeting is designed to give every child a sense of belonging and helps a child … Continue reading Building Community in Morning Meetings
The Value of World Language Learning
❝If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.❞ ‒Nelson Mandela At FWSU we are fortunate to be able to offer world languages to many of our students. Learning a new language is not … Continue reading The Value of World Language Learning
Learning Joy from Our Youngest Students
One of this year's main emphases highlighted by Superintendent Ned Kirsch during FWSU Inservice, is recapturing the joy in learning. Prekindergarten classrooms are often one of the most joyful places in a school. Franklin West Supervisory Union is proud of its quality early education programs as part of our public school program. Fletcher, Fairfax, and Georgia each offer two … Continue reading Learning Joy from Our Youngest Students
Middle School Students Make GEMS’ Mission Personal
Georgia Elementary & Middle School has been guided by a Mission/Vision Beliefs Statement for years. Last year, the time had come for the staff to revisit the statement and have a discussion about what it is we believe. Teachers and staff proceeded to have a discussion and from that, a group of representative staff members … Continue reading Middle School Students Make GEMS’ Mission Personal
Ensuring the Success of Every Student
Georgia Elementary teachers spent two inservice days learning more about their incoming students than in previous years. Teachers reviewed previous years' assessments and were able review, ask questions, and plot each student's growth on a data wall. The data wall will provide an ongoing accurate picture of student growth and support needs, to provide appropriate educational opportunities for every student. Each … Continue reading Ensuring the Success of Every Student
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