Thursday, May 30, 2013

Fwd: Need graduate credit?



-- Gary Ackerman, Ph.D.


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From: nelms@nelms.org
Date: May 30, 2013, 9:35:51 AM EDT
To: "Dr. Gary L. Ackerman" <gary@hackscience.net>
Subject: Need graduate credit?
Reply-To: NELMS <nelms@nelms.org>

May 30, 2013 - NELMS Weekly Blast E-mail
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Need graduate credit?
It's not too late…
Register now for NELMS Summer Institute

June 24, 25 & 26, 2013
Sheraton Harborside, Portsmouth, NH

Meeting the Needs of Middle Level Learners in a 21st Century Common Core Learning Environment

Response to Intervention (RtI) (Customized Models)

  • Beyond identification
  • Interventions during the school day-without fear of stigma
  • Intervention strategies
  • Scheduling
  • Using data for monitoring and designing on-going instruction

Integrating Depth of Knowledge Skills into the Classroom

  • Examples- what do 2s, 3s and 4s look like?
  • Problem solving
  • What is it?
  • What does it look like?
  • How do I do it?

Using Technology for Collaboration

  • Web 2.0 tools
  • How to manage the classroom (norms)
  • Collaborations: student to student, student to teacher, teacher to teacher, etc.
  • Communication
  • Instruction

Project Based Learning Using Common Core State Standards

  • Student voice
  • Standards based
  • Global awareness
  • Integrating standards from all content areas
  • Successful "doable" models

For more information and/or to register click here.

 

Current Issue of Midlines Is Online

The Spring edition of MidLines has been posted for member schools. Log in info has been sent to your building principal so don't forget to ask for the link information. If you are an individual member of NELMS the log in info will be sent in the next day or two.


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You can access the NELMS web site from your iPhone, Android phone, iPad, or smart tablet? Try it and see. The site has been coded to dynamically re-size pages, pictures, and menus depending on the device accessing it.

 

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June 24, 25 & 26, 2013

 

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Friday, May 24, 2013

Fwd: MidLines online and Summer Institute coming up



-- Gary Ackerman, Ph.D.


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From: nelms@nelms.org
Date: May 23, 2013, 8:38:54 AM EDT
To: "Dr. Gary L. Ackerman" <gary@hackscience.net>
Subject: MidLines online and Summer Institute coming up
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May 23, 2013 - NELMS Weekly Blast E-mail
nelms logo
portsmouth sites and the hotel pics

Register Now for
NELMS Summer Institute

June 24, 25 & 26, 2013
Sheraton Harborside, Portsmouth, NH

Meeting the Needs of Middle Level Learners in a 21st Century Common Core Learning Environment

Response to Intervention (RtI) (Customized Models)

  • Beyond identification
  • Interventions during the school day-without fear of stigma
  • Intervention strategies
  • Scheduling
  • Using data for monitoring and designing on-going instruction

Integrating Depth of Knowledge Skills into the Classroom

  • Examples- what do 2s, 3s and 4s look like?
  • Problem solving
  • What is it?
  • What does it look like?
  • How do I do it?

Using Technology for Collaboration

  • Web 2.0 tools
  • How to manage the classroom (norms)
  • Collaborations: student to student, student to teacher, teacher to teacher, etc.
  • Communication
  • Instruction

Project Based Learning Using Common Core State Standards

  • Student voice
  • Standards based
  • Global awareness
  • Integrating standards from all content areas
  • Successful "doable" models

For more information and/or to register click here.

 

Current Issue of Midlines Is Online

The Spring edition of MidLines has been posted for member schools. Log in info has been sent to your building principal so don't forget to ask for the link information. If you are an individual member of NELMS the log in info will be sent to you in the next day or two.

 

NELMS Summer Institute
Meeting the Needs of Middle Level Learners in a 21st Century Common Core Learning Environment
June 24, 25 & 26, 2013

 

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Fwd: Inspiring Middle School Literacy



-- Gary Ackerman, Ph.D.


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Date: May 21, 2013, 12:32:18 PM EDT
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Subject: Inspiring Middle School Literacy
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Welcome to Inspiring Middle School Literacy, a newsletter for middle school educators from WGBH. This newsletter highlights topics in middle school education, along with ways you can boost literacy using the Middle School Literacy Initiative, funded by the Walmart Foundation, and other resources from PBS LearningMediaTM.

This lesson covers a topic that is engaging to students, while covering some key literacy strategies: comparing and contrasting information; determining important information; understanding fact vs. opinion; and making inferences. 

To launch this lesson, determine what students already know about texting, and about the debate between parents and teens over how much texting is too much. The Teacher's Guide accompanying this lesson provides specific questions you can use to start the discussion.

An important component of this lesson are writing assignments in which students write opinion pieces supported by facts from the video, charts, and lesson text. 


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Interested in other topics? Click here to other lessons in the Middle School Literacy Initiative, funded by the Walmart Foundation.

PROFILE: Emily Dawson, Riverview Grade School, IL 

Emily Dawson

Emily Dawson is a science teacher at the Riverview Grade School in Peoria, Illinois. She is also a PBS LearningMedia (PBS LM) "Teacher Core" member, affiliated with WTVP in Peoria, and advocating PBS LM's vast collection of educational digital assets to fellow teachers. Ultimately, however, she is an excellent example of someone using blended learning to engage students.

 

A self-described "space nut," Emily says she is always looking for hands-on activities to get her students excited about science. On Wednesday, May 22 at approximately 10 a.m. CDT, Emily and her middle school students will be launching a weather balloon 100,000 feet up into Earth's atmosphere. The balloon will gather weather data, take photos, and show the students an Earth perspective they would not see from their classroom.

 

While the weather balloon launch is taking the students outside and giving them lots of hands-on experience, the project was inspired by Dawson's use of PBS LearningMedia. Emily says that when she ran across the balloon launch idea on PBS LM, she knew the project was rich with opportunities for research, design, and tracking the balloon in flight. The launch is the central focus of a multidisciplinary unit on weather, science, and language arts.

  

WTVP, central Illinois' public television station, will create a program around the launch. Click here for more information, and to follow the launch. You can also follow the project on Twitter, using hashtag #dawsonsciencewtvp.

 

For other lessons that combine science with English Language Arts, visit the Middle School Literacy Initiative page on PBS LM. 

 
Does texting hurt grammar and other communication skills? In a column titled "The Problem of Textspeak in Middle School," TeachThought tackles this issue and presents a fascinating infographic. Click here to read the column and see the full infographic.
 
What do you think? Does "textspeak" affect your students' grammar and writing? What do they think? Try this quick exercise with them: Have your students write a short paragraph using "textspeak," then have them write the same short paragraph using regular grammar and punctuation. Compare and discuss. Do they see any potential problems when using "textspeak" in regular written communication?
 
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In This Issue
Free Webinar!
AMLE Webinar
 
May 22 6pm-7pm EDT
 
Join AMLE and PBS LearningMedia for a close look at free online literacy lessons  for blended learning! These cross-curricular lessons support literacy strategies while engaging students with interactive exercises, video content, informational texts,  and writing activities.

During this free webinar, Carol Studebaker, literacy coach, and Charlotte Hodges, 6th grade teacher, will provide suggestions from the trenches on how to integrate these Common-Core aligned lessons into your classroom. 

Space is limited. To register or for more information, click the link below.

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 Where Are We?
Find the Middle School Literacy Initiative at these webinars and confereces. (Click each for more info.)
 
Teach Shakespeare?
Do you teach Shakespeare in middle school? If so, please take our "Teaching Shakespeare with Digital Media" survey. Your feedback is important to us! Click the image to link to this quick survey.

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