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| Hello Zane Hulls! |
Happy Trifecta (Friday-Three-day-weekend-Payday) Day!
I will be out of the building on Wednesday, 14 November, to visit a Reggio Emilia School in Paradise Valley along with some of our teachers, Kathy Brown, and a group from NAU. I continue to be so happy with the dedicated and deliberate efforts our Reggio team is making to incorporate this fascinating approach to early childhood education into Marshall School. It aligns extremely well with our magnet emphases, our mission and vision, and likewise promises to be of great benefit to our students, too.
Along similar lines of thought, Diana Laufenberg is a former FUSD educator who now teaches at a unique arts-and-sciences school Philadelphia. She also remains a good friend to some of you. Diana visited our campus the other day and I had a chance to meet her and learn that (much to my great envy) she had a chance, not to long ago, to speak at a TED conference. Her talk covers a lot of ground related to the current climate in public education. And she makes some fine points about our nation's current "infatuation with the culture of one right answer that can be properly bubbled on the average multiple choice test." I hope you'll take a moment to watch her talk.
Family Involvement Plan
Please review the Revised Family Involvement Plan and the Marshall Parent Compact. As a School Improvement Committee we have already made some revisions to these documents. Now, subsequently as a school, we must ask you to review them and, following that, I will then submit them to Educational Enrichment before 20 Nov. If you, as a member of the faculty or staff, would like to suggest changes, revisions, improvements, etc. to these documents, please provide them to me before Thursday morning, 15 Nov. in hopes that we will have this process completed well in advance of our deadline.
Centro Educativo Amauta
One of our Marshall parents, Eduardo Tapia Castro, visited with me a few days ago to tell me about the school he and his family helped to found in his native Ecuador. Like Marshall, the school, Centro Educativo Amauta, is a unique, child-centered learning place wherein students are given many opportunities to learn via the arts and sciences. He would be interested in helping classrooms and grade levels at our school to begin to develop a relationship with theirs. Students from preschool through middle school attend Amauta. If you're interested in corresponding with students at Amauta, please let me know and I will put you in touch with Eduardo.
Calendar
- Monday, 12, Nov.
- NO SCHOOL - Veterans Day
- Wednesday, 14 Nov.
- Coe in PHX -- Ballard has the helm
- Thursday, 15 Nov.
- Faculty Meeting in the Library, 7:45 AM
- Kindergarten Family Night, 5:30 PM
- Friday, 16 Nov.
- Taiko Assembly, 9:00 (location to be announced)
- Saturday, 17 Nov.
- Taiko Performance at Coconino High School, 11:30
