It was a great week back for our Crew and we were all so happy to welcome back all the smiling faces on Tuesday. January is a great time to revisit our goals and add new ones. Our learners have been doing just that as most have wrapped up i-ready testing and committed to continual improvement. In fact this Thursday and Friday our EPIC awards are scheduled and students will be recognized for Excellence, Perseverance, Integrity, and Compassion as scholars and active citizens. Classroom teachers have sent come communication notifying you of these awards.
On Thursday, our learners participated in their first DEN meeting of 2024. Each month our Den meetings focus on one of the ten Expeditionary Learning Design Principle. These design principles are a foundation to our EL Model. This month learners explore design principle #7 -
7- Diversity and Inclusion
Both diversity and inclusion increase the richness of ideas, creative power, problem-solving ability, and respect for others. In EL Education schools, students investigate and value their different histories and talents as well as those of other communities and cultures. Schools and learning groups are heterogeneous.
Our learners built understanding around what this means, looks, like and sounds like at Conway. They engaged in a new version of musical chairs, reverse musical chairs, and had to communicate in order to not leave anyone out. They used their genius to problem solve and make sure everyone could fit onto the shrinking number of chairs. Make sure to ask your student about their den meeting.
This practice is deeply connected to our EUSD Framework for the Future as well as our Expeditionary Learning model. During dens, learners practiced how to be effective listeners and responsive to other's input as figured out how including everyone was crucial to the task. Effective Communication is our focus this month to highlight and see the alignment between our EL model and our EUSD Learner Profiles.
Communication is extremely important to everyone at our EPIC school. Please make sure to scroll all the way through the weekly message. If you miss a message, you can view all communication on our website under "NEWS".
I am grateful for the opportunity to inspire students to discover their unlimited potential through Excellence, Perseverance, Integrity, and Compassion. Together we are creating an EPIC school.
We are in this together and believe, We Are Crew, not passengers.
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