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Jumping Peanut: Shows

2011-09-10T09:44:00.000-07:00

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Introduction to Think Alouds

2009-09-28T11:53:00.001-07:00

Introduction to Think Alouds

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Hey TCS teachers check it out!!!! TWENTIES STUFF Y'ALL

2009-02-09T12:33:00.001-08:00

THIS IS AN EXCELLENT GENERALIST SITE
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/educator/modules/teachingthetwenties/

WANT TO HAVE THE KIDS UNDERSTAND CONSUMERISM? THIS HAS SOME GOOD IDEAS OF HOW TO DO IT.
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1979/2/79.02.06.x.html

THIS IS AN AWESOME SITE TO GET YOUR STUDENTS TO LOOK AT PRIMARY MATERIALS IN A FUN AND CREATIVE WAY. DINNER ANYONE?
http://www.primarysourcelearning.org/db/LE/display.php?d=&p=Overview&k=3409

THIS IS ANOTHER GENERALIST SITE THAT RANKS WHAT THEY CONSIDER THE BEST WEBSITES OUT THERE RELATED TO HISTORY
http://www.besthistorysites.net/USHistory_Roaring20s.shtml

This site has a good JIM CROW assignment in it

2009-02-09T12:22:00.000-08:00

http://www.eastconn.org/tah/JimCrowLawsAndConstitution.pdf

Really cool site for science folks.

2009-02-06T08:03:00.000-08:00

Hey Jessica! Is this what you are looking for?

http://science-class.net/

HEY LRC!!!

2009-01-29T10:54:00.000-08:00

Tired of the student who says "I don't have anything today?" Here is a great site to enrich their basic math skills in pre-algebra, algebra, and geometry. There are also other general math activities and games that could help your students.

http://www.gamequarium.com/math.htm

This website has PowerPoint tutorials which are really helpful to the struggling student.
http://www.hcbe.net/itc/powerpoints/math.html

These links are helpful to MUS teachers

2009-01-29T09:15:00.000-08:00

http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/

Links to games and activities related to Pre-Algebra

2009-01-29T08:08:00.000-08:00

http://letsplaymath.wordpress.com/

Banks, I will start putting some links right here that should be helpful for your class. Instead of sending you emails all of the time you can pull stuff off whenever it works best for you.

PAY OFF STUDENT DEBT

2008-12-01T09:16:00.000-08:00

Here are websites that will help you with loan cancellation. You must teach at the same school for 5 years to get considered. McNary is classified as a low-income school so we have the chance to get the cancellation. I placed the link that shows we are low-income and the link to print out the application. I know I will be able to do it after the 2009-2010 school year and I know there are others that are able to now, will be able to, or has family or friends that may be able to get this.

https://www.tcli.ed.gov/CBSWebApp/tcli/TCLIPubSchool.jsp?807009*2007

http://studentaid.ed.gov/PORTALSWebApp/students/english/cancelstaff.jsp

POSTED BY SHALESE BORDEN

AVID Library: Check it out!

2008-11-06T14:54:00.000-08:00

The AVID library is now open for those who want to read all about it.
Advancement Via Individual Determination is a program designed to help under-served kids “in the middle” achieve in rigorous coursework to better prepare for college. Mrs. Elisabeth Sonis is teaching an AVID section of 30 freshmen, but AVID does not stop there. AVID offers training and methods all teachers can use, which is where the AVID library comes into play.
A small AVID library of staff development materials are available for checkout in the conference room across from Jay Crystal’s office.
Each of the books is reviewed below by Ryan Somerville, who taught AVID for three years in Freeport Illinois.

Implementing & Managing the AVID Program, High School: This is the book for those who want to join the AVID team. You know, teachers like you! This book details the AVID methodologies of WICR (Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration and Reading—AVID is a lot like alphabet soup!), and shows the AVID plan for ensuring that students “in the middle” have access to and success in a rigorous curriculum. If you did not attend the AVID summer institutes and want a thorough description of the program, this is the book.

College & Careers, Student Guide: This book does what AVID does best: break down the path to college into achievable steps. There are over 100 pages of reproducible activities helping students explore their goals, career aspirations, decision making, and junior and senior year checklists for the college bound. I went to college because my friends and family did. I didn’t know any better, it was just how the system worked for me. This volume explains the system to the kid who may not be aware of the hidden rules one needs to know to be on the right track to college.

Strategies for Success, Student Guide: College is not easy, nor is getting ready for it. This volume details for the student the AVID methodologies in easy to understand introductory lessons. It also has great reproducibles for the teacher. The volume covers Cornell notes and learning logs, study groups and time management, as well as behavior issues such as conflict management and communication skills. Choosing the path to college can be surprisingly stressful to kids. This book has some tools to help them manage the trip!

High School Writing, Teacher Guide: Having taken an eight year hiatus from teaching AVID, it is the expansion of the AVID language arts curriculum that has impressed me the most. This 400 plus page volume is packed full of lesson ideas and methods. Sure, you have probably seen them before and probably use a lot of them, but having them in one book without the college textbook style explanations justifying their psychological validity is very nice. Activities include AVID methodologies such as Cornell notes, the writing process, vocabulary, sentence analysis and revision, reflective writing, expository and persuasive writing. Great one-stop shopping for the English teacher.

World Languages Supplement, Teacher Guide: This is the thinnest in the library. It offers the same explanations of Cornell Notes and the AVID methodologies of writing, inquiry, collaboration and reading. Example methods in the book apply to ELL and foreign language classrooms. Activities include circle of conversation, storyboards, living history, acrostics, on/off transparencies, quickwrite, writearound, 5 x 5, superbowl, draw and guess, match-ups, line-ups. Methods seem to stress fun for reluctant learners.

Codes for integrade. Thanks Molly G.

2008-10-28T13:56:00.001-07:00

Excused ( EXC) = student does not have to make-up due to absence/transfer (does not affect grade)
K = Turned in, but not graded yet (does not affect grade)
/ = Student has not completed task (score of 0)
CC = Copying or cheating (score of 0)
UNX = Student not able to make-up due to unexcused absence (score of 0)
NP= Non-participation (score of 0)
Redo = Not acceptable work, but student can redo for a better score (score of 0)

Very useful website

2008-10-28T12:19:00.000-07:00

Click on this link if you want a really quick rubric built for you. \\http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

NEW ENGLISH HELP SITE

2008-10-20T08:30:00.000-07:00

One of my former students has put together a wonderful help site for high school writers: English Survival 101 http://englishsurvival101.7h.com/articles/ It includes various articles, sample essays, and a peer reviewing function. I highly recommend you check it out and recommend it to your students. (She gets credit for the number of subscribers she gets, so if you can subscribe and have your students subscribe, she would greatly appreciate that.)

The many faces of the great Andy Sheldon

2008-10-16T13:23:00.001-07:00

Good Golly Dan, Judy, and Marie!!!

2008-10-15T14:55:00.000-07:00

I know so many staff had a huge role in the October 15th testing day but from my perspective I think that Teacher Leader Dan Borresen, Crystal Apple Nominee Judy Peterson, and Master Teacher and Test Proctor Extordinaire Marie Crammer went above and beyond the call of duty. If you are feeling overwhelmed or overworked walk in these wonderful peoples shoes!

Ann Gerig...this lady is all business...

2008-10-15T14:37:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to Ann Gerig for winning the Business Teacher of the Year award for the state of Oregon this week. Did you know that she also spent untold hours assigning hundreds of students and teachers into their respective rooms for our Oct. 15th testing day? She is such an incredible teacher and member of our staff.

Ms. Dora loves blogging!

2008-10-15T13:19:00.000-07:00

(Erik paid me to do this.)

But seriously, this is a fabulous resource and a swell way to share ideas without increasing the steady flow of emails. By the way, for those of you who have not set up a personal website, might I make a suggestion? Classjump. It's free, it's easy to set up, and students can use it to catch up when they're absent from class (that means much less of "what did I miss?"). I'm a huge fan.

Check out my page and those of several other Celtic staff at www.classjump.com/dora.

Gail Brooks Sent these to me today

2008-10-09T07:36:00.001-07:00

Hi, ErikYou likely already know of most of these, but just in case, here's a collection of sites for obtaining graphic organizers:

http://www.graphic.org/goindex.html http://www.region15.org/curriculum/graphicorg.html

http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/

http://www.childgraphics.com/html/novelunits.htm http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/graphic_org/sq3r/

http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/edis771/notes/graphicorganizers/graphic/

http://www.edhelper.com/teachers/graphic_organizers.htm

http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/graphic_organizers.php http://www.gliffy.com/

http://www.inspiration.com/vlearning/index.cfm?fuseaction=techniques

http://gotoscience.com/Graphic_Organizers.html

Graphic Organizers

2008-10-06T12:07:00.000-07:00

Found this on a Time website. Some good graphic organizers that go with what we have been doing in school.

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/teachers/teachingresources/wr/search/0,28116,,00.html?searchstring=all&searchtype=skillandtheme&searchcase=graphicalorganizers&startindex=1&endindex=20

Intramurals are back!

2008-10-03T13:09:00.000-07:00

Please encourage your students to participate in intramurals this year. We will be having coed volleyball and basketball "seasons" between now and November 10th. We will have another basketball "season" in the spring, as well as a soccer "season". Any McNary student can participate except in season athletes. Good grades are not a requirement. We are looking for perfect attendance and no disciplinary actions on game days. The program is targeting those at-risk students who need to feel connected to the school some how. If you or your students have questions, please contact me (room 255) or Marlo Cleary (gym).If you want to help with these or any other intramural activities please let us know. Thanks, Dawn Reichle Bailon

Peer review or just plain fun!

2008-10-03T07:25:00.000-07:00

I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to Elizabeth Sonis' AVID classroom yesterday during 7th period. My observation was made possible by the efforts of Erik Jespersen with the encouragement of Mike Maghan, along with Liz Sonis' willingness to be observed. Erik covered my Algebra 2 class for about 40 minutes while I sat in. I love the energy of young teachers and varied techniques that I am able to witness when observing their lessons. The next few on my list of must see teachers will be Stephanie Lassiter ( new to McNary teaching math), and Dan Borreson (English). I plan to keep Jesperson busy!
Thanks again to Erik, Mike, and of course Liz for making this a worthwhile experience.
-LT

Come Join Us, English Teachers!!!

2008-10-01T15:35:00.001-07:00

Come join our blogging party!

cool election 2008 tool

2008-09-29T20:17:00.000-07:00

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/calculator/index.html

AVID Library: Check it out!

2008-09-29T16:11:00.000-07:00

CLICK HERE FOR DEPARTMENT UPDATES

2008-09-29T11:13:00.000-07:00

http://www.classjump.com/wwwcelticinstructionblogspot/index.php?section=classes&class_id=16747

Jim has a great question...Can some of you help me out with it?

2008-09-24T10:54:00.000-07:00

Erik,
Is there a way for each teacher or individual department to have their own "spawn" off the main blog? Better yet, are we going to have a Celtic Blog for student access where we could do the same? I am assuming that the blog is for faculty only. I have friends in California who have begun using a school blog and are having big gains with attitude and timeliness because parents and students have access to information at all hours.
Thanks, Jim

School Spirit Friday: Sprague High School v. McNary High School - KOINLocal6.com

2008-09-24T08:42:00.000-07:00

School Spirit Friday: Sprague High School v. McNary High School - KOINLocal6.com

Amazon.com: The Last Lecture: Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow: Books

2008-09-24T08:11:00.000-07:00

Amazon.com: The Last Lecture: Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow: Books

Great Science Link's for Molly Gehley

2008-09-23T12:45:00.000-07:00

http://www.science-teachers.com/
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/matrix.cfm
http://www.csun.edu/science/books/sourcebook/chapters/13-games/index.html

Free Office Software

2008-09-23T06:25:00.000-07:00

Do you ever want to have students turn in assignments electronically? Do you find some do not Microsoft Office?

There is an alternative and it's free. OpenOffice.org has a great suite of software for virtually every type of operating system and it produces compatible documents.

Teaching tip #4

2008-09-22T14:11:00.001-07:00

A Dozen Classic Teaching TipsRobert Harris Version Date: March 2, 1991

Do you do these twelve things?

1. Organize.

2. Teach Incrementally.
3. Move.
4. Modulate.
5. Illustrate.
6. Enthuse.
7. Pause.
8. Ask Questions.
9. Summarize and Repeat.
10. Laugh.
11. Model.
12. Use a variety of teaching tools.
VirtualSalt Home Copyright 1991 by Robert Harris http://www.virtualsalt.com/teachtip.htm

Writing Help

2008-09-22T10:02:00.000-07:00

You can send students here for all sorts of writing help. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

National Novel Writing Month

2008-09-22T07:28:00.000-07:00

Hey folks,
here is a cool writing site--NaNoWrimo. That stands for National Novel Writing Month! This November is the time to try and write a 50,000 word novel!
Ryan Somerville

www.nanowrimo.org

DO YOU have a great educational link?

2008-09-21T12:45:00.000-07:00

Then you should send it to the McNary Celtics Instructional BLOG!!!

What a great web page

2008-09-19T13:18:00.001-07:00

Wow. I never thought I could learn so much by going to the McNary Celtics Instructional Coach Center.

59 writing prompts for math teachers

2008-09-19T13:18:00.000-07:00

59 writing prompts for math teachers
Prompts for math journals (assessing disposition)
• My best experience with math was when____________.
• My worst experience with math was when____________.
• I love math because…
• I hate math because____________.
• I want to become better at math so that I____________.
• Is math your favorite subject? Why or why not?
• What did you like most about your math class last year? What did
you like the least?
• People who are good at math____________.
• One mathematics activity I really enjoy is ____________ because
____________.
• When I study for a test, I____________.
• When it comes to math, I find it difficult to____________.
• When I hear someone say math is fun, I____________.
• When I see a word problem, the first thing I do is ____________.
Then I ____________.
• Does mathematics or math class scare you in any way?
• Draw a picture of a mathematician and describe what a
mathematician does.
• Explain how you feel about mathematics now as compared to before
you took this class.
Prompts for learning logs (assessing learning)
• My three personal goals for this term are____________.
• Explain everything you know about ____________.
• What is a ____________? Write all you can about ____________.
• Find something that you learned today that is similar to something
you already knew. Write about these similarities.
• How would you use what you learned today in your life?
• The main idea today’s lesson was____________.
• Write a definition in your own words of a ____________.
• What is the most significant thing you learned this week?
• What questions are still unanswered at the end of this week?
• Last week in math I learned __________.
• My favorite part of math last week was __________.
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• The hardest part of math last week was __________.
• This is how I used math this week (outside of
school)____________.
• Describe any discoveries you made about mathematics today, this
week/month/year.
• Give two examples of situations in which you have used, seen or can
find the concept of ____________. OUTSIDE of this classroom.
• I want to learn more about ___________.
• I wish I knew more about____________.
• I need more help understanding ____________.
• My math grade now is ____________ because____________.
• What was your grade on the exam/quiz/project? If you were not
satisfied with your score, what can you do to improve? If you were
happy with your score, what did you do well?
• Write instructions for a (insert grade level here) grader to follow
when (adding fractions, finding percentages, calculating averages,
etc.)
• How would you describe a ____________?
• The difference between____________ and ____________
is____________.
• Compare and contrast the terms ____________.
• What patterns do you notice in ____________.
• You know several ways to____________(solve an equation, add
fractions, etc.) Which method is your favorite? Why?
• Make a list of objects or figures in the room which have
____________. How can you tell?
• Write a letter to your teacher explaining what you understand about
________, and what is still giving you trouble.
• Write and solve a word problem whose solution involves
____________.
• Describe practical uses for ____________.
• Write___ possible test questions for this unit.
• Write a letter to a student who will be taking this class next year,
giving some advice about this class.
Prompts to use for problem-solving (assessing process)
• The most important part of solving a problem is____________.
• Describe the process you undertook to solve this problem. (Problem
needs to be provided.)
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• I knew I was right when____________.
• Tips I would give a friend to solve this problem
are____________.____________.____________.
• Could you have found the answer by doing something different?
What?
• What strategy did you use to solve this problem and why?
• Was this problem difficult or easy? Why?
• Were you frustrated with this problem? Why or why not?
• Where else could you use this type of problem solving?
• What would happen if you missed a step? Why?
• What other strategies could you use to solve this problem?
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