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Filmmaker Works with Middle School Students
Huey working with Pittsburg students as the "crew" learns camera techniques and sound recording tips.
A Portland, ME filmmaker, Films by Huey, is working with middle school students participating in the North Country Middle School Film Festival. Over 200 students from 13 schools are part of teams planning to submit entries into the competition.
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NC Students Participate in Supreme Court Session by Video Conference
On October 21, the NH Supreme Court held its 12th "On the Road" special session at Sanbord Regional High School. Berlin High School Social Studies teacher Tammy Watson participated with a class of her students through video conference at NCES. Lin-Wood High School also participated through video conference from Lincoln. They joined approximately 500 students from 11 schools who attended the live session.
Since 2002, the members of the Supreme Court have traveled to a different location around the state to provide high school students with a unique opportunity to learn about the justices, their careers and experiences as members of the state Supreme Court. The event includes an informal question and answer session both with the lawyers who are appearing before the court during the session and with the justices themselves.
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Neurodevelopmental Approach to Differentiated Instruction
LAST CHANCE - Register by Friday morning, Oct 29th!
This course will provide teachers with information on how to observe for typical breakdowns in reading, writing and math using a neurodevelopmental approach. The course will also offer tools to help identify and select effective strengths-based instructional strategies.
Objectives:
- Understand the learning functions of the brain (attention, language, higher order thinking, memory, neuromotor skills, social skills, spatial and sequential ordering) and their impact on learning
- Identify the most common breakdowns for students in the areas of reading, writing and math by analyzing student work
- Begin to link practical strategies to specific underlying breakdowns in reading, writing, math and study skills, leveraging the students' strengths and areas of interest
Instructor: Elizabeth Reed
Dates: November 3 & 4, 2010
Time: 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Location: North Country Education Services, Gorham, NH
Cost: $250 - Checks made payable to NCES
Graduate Credit (optional): One (1) Plymouth State University graduate credit available, $191/in-state; $209/out-of-state +$25 registration fee. Checks made payable to PSU.
Register: Contact NCES at 603-466-5437 or 800-268-5437.
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North Country Health Educators: Promoting Smarter Choices
Free for Health Educators
JoEllen Tarallo-Falk from the Center for Health and Learning will present research-based teaching ideas for health educators. Topics include:
- Effective HIV, STI, and teen pregnancy prevention lessons and activities
- Focus on ways of meeting the needs of high-risk students
For: Middle and high school health educators
Cost: Free (includes refreshments and lunch)
Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Time: 8:30 - 3:30
Location: NCES, Gorham
Register online form, by phone to 603-466-5437 or 800-268-5437 or by email to becky@ncedservices.org.
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Teaching Math Effectively with Interactive Whiteboard Software
Interactive whiteboard/tablet software is an important element in teaching mathematics. The ability to move objects, group, annotate, rotate and problem solve are built into interactive whiteboard software. This program offers an opportunity to own interactive tablet technology, learn how to use it and learn how to specifically teach mathematics with IWB technology. The three session program covers the basics of the interactive software and how your slates run the software, the mathematical tools included in the software and how they work, and actual files made with the software that you will take home with you.
The program is suited for teacher of all grade levels of mathematics. The third session will allow us to break up into grade level groupings to review and create appropriate activities. Topics covered will be:
- Habits of Mind – How do we act intelligently to solve a problem?
- Formative Assessment techniques to identify what concepts students need additional work
- Focusing on solutions instead of answers
- Organizing notes and lesson plans in interactive whiteboard technology
- Math topic covered will be:
- Conceptualizing Time and Money, Addition, Subtraction, Patterns, Counting for Grade K-3
- Place Value, Number lines, fractions, Geometry for grade 4-8
- High School math topics based on make up of workshop attendees
Dates: Wednesday, January 12, 19 & 26, 2011
Time: 4:00 to 7:00 pm (light dinner provided)
Location: NCES
Cost, including one INTERWRITE Mobi Learner tablet:
Registration deadline: December 1, 2010. Payment or purchase order due by registration deadline.
Register: Contact Becky Ring to register at 800-268-5437 or becky@ncedservices.org. Purchase orders can be faxed to 603-466-2907.
Note: The Mobi tablet is used in conjunction with a projector (not provided). Unlike interactive boards that you or the students stand at to write on and operate, a tablet is mobile and can be operated from anywhere in the room.
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Special Plymouth State University (PSU) Online Graduate Course Offer for North Country Educators
The Center for School Success (CSS), in partnership with PSU, offers a graduate program (certificate, Masters, CAGs) in the Neurodevelopmental Approach to Teaching.
CSS has been awarded a grant to pilot one of the courses in the program
online in the winter/spring term 2011 for North Country educators at a reduced rate.
Participants will be introduced to core principles and the newest research findings related to the brain and learning and begin to layer a neurodevelopmental framework with child development theories to understand what a student can be expected to do at a given age (e.g., developmentally appropriate practice-DAP). Participants will focus on the three networks and eight key neurodevelopmental learning functions of the brain and their impact on learning. Through a case study, participants will practice the skill of observing for evidence of student learning strengths and weaknesses and linking them to academic performance.
Cost: $155/credit (2 credit course), plus $25 registration fee
Register or for more information: Email Leslie Williamson at
To learn more about the program visit:
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Response to Intervention
Shannon Harken will be returning to NH on Friday, November 12, 2010 and Monday, April 4, 2011. The conference will be held in Bedford, NH. These follow-ups are open to attendees of the summer conference and those who have basic knowledge or experience with RTI.
Amelia VanName Larson will be returning to NH for two one-day follow-ups on Friday, December 3, 2010 and Monday, March 28, 2011 at Church Landing, Mill Falls in Meredith, NH. These follow-ups are open to attendees of the summer conference with Amelia and those are experienced with the RTI problem solving model.
Larson RTI Brochure: http://www.ncedservices.org/documents/follow_up_rti_larson.pdf
To register: http://www.ncedservices.org/rti_larson.html
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New Materials
The Singing Revolution, DVD; “Most people don’t think about singing when they think about revolutions. But in Estonia song was a weapon of choice when Estonians sought to free themselves from decades of Soviet occupation. Hundreds of thousands of people faced down their oppressor…armed with only hope, truth, and song…and altered the course of recent history. The Singing Revolution is an uplifting story about the power of the human sprit” (2008). Running time 97 minutes, includes instructors guide.
Introduction to Occupational Therapy, book; 2nd Edition has been completely revised and updated to include the latest changes in OT. Written by Barbara Sabonis-Chafee, MS, OTR and Susan M Hussey, MS OTR, this book covers content that introductory OTR and COTA students need to know.
STEP (Systematic Training for Effective Parenting) Parenting Teenagers, book; Parents all over the world have used the STEP method as a guide to parenting. The authors of STEP, Don Dinkmeyer and Gary D Mckay, address the challenges of living with teens in the book.
The Exceptional Child Inclusions in Early Childhood Education, book; this guide will assist you in identifying and planning for educating children with special needs. The book can assist you with combining information about the philosophy of inclusion and help with strategies to implement practices. Authors K Eileen Allen and Ilene S Schwartz.
On Applebee Pond Puppet Kit. This Puppet kit and book are designed for grades K-3. Lesson includes topics such as self-esteem, social skills, drug alcohol and tobacco use, and peacemaking. Kit includes 9 puppets and binder with puppet shows, and activities.
Remember the curriculum resource library items, the North Country Heritage collection and the Professional Development materials are free to use, regardless of membership status.
Search our library online: ncedervices.org, search online catalog, search catalog.
Raina Scarinza
Media Center Coordinator
library@ncedservices.org
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For 40 years it’s been North Country Education Services privilege to provide the area’s schools and communities with a broad array of high quality educational programs and services. During this time, working collaboratively with our region’s schools, we witnessed numerous student successes. I am convinced that it is this “Commitment to Excellence” that has made a difference in the lives of students and their families.
Toward that end, I am pleased to welcome two new members to the NCES Team. School Psychologist, Alaina Maggio has been assigned to the Bartlett, Littleton and Gorham School Districts. Speech Pathologist, Brenda Lynch will be working in SAU 58 schools. While Alaina and Brenda have only been working a little over a month, they have quickly demonstrated the skills, dedication, and commitment to bringing about the highest quality of service to students.
In September’s newsletter, I concluded my Director’s Notes by pointing out that it was you – the educators and support staff that epitomize the spirit and belief that says the way to serve oneself is to serve others – a gift you bring each and every school day to your classrooms, offices, and work stations. This “sprinkling of help” you give that transforms a student’s dreams to wishes and wishes to aspirations and finally his or hers aspirations to reality. Well, a few weeks back I found myself thinking of those words when I was donating a wheelchair to an organization called “Wheels for the World”, an organization that provides chairs to impoverished disabled individuals from third world countries - - where, for that person, the cost of a wheelchair would exceed a year’s salary.
I was told that by the time my chair reaches its final destination, close to two hundred pair of hands – mostly volunteers – would have touched it along its journey. Many of the hands will belong to truckers and shippers, who will pick it up and transport it to a storage facility, where it will wait to be restored and modified. Inmates in a correctional facility will then work diligently and with pride to restore it to sparkling like-new condition. A physical therapist will then adapt it for a special someone waiting patiently overseas. As the chair continues its journey, more hands will touch it until it finds a happy ending in the joyous face of the one who receives it. For the chair also carried with it the precious and enduring gifts of mobility and independence which hopefully will transform its new owner’s dreams of a better life into reality.
Like the many loving hands that touched the chair along its long journey, you the educators and support staff here in the North Country also positively touch the lives of hundreds of students.
On behalf of NCES to each of you – Thank You.
Ray Healey
Executive Director
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ATMNE Fall Conference
The Association of Teachers of Mathematics in New England annual fall conference featuring 100+ sessions and workshops is November 8-9, 2010 at the Radisson Hotel in Nashua, New Hampshire. Featured speakers include Brian Beaudrie, Developing Quantitative Literacy; Steve Yurek, Fabulous Fascinating Fractions; Sue Osberg, Touch it, feel, do it, learn it, hands on Geometry; and James Kearns, Using Standards-Based activities and Technology with At-Risk Students. Further information may be found at http://sites.google.com/site/atmne2010/home
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Exploring Beyond the Animation
For teachers who have used SAM before, we will explore new techniques and expand their knowledge of how to use SAM as an assessment tool. Attendees will leave knowing how to use SAM - including making movies, adding audio, editing, and time lapse features; thinking about how stop-motion animation is particularly good for enhancing classroom activities; how to use student-generated animations as conversations starters; and how animation can be a formative assessment technique. This is a hands-on workshop, and attendees will spend the bulk of the time making movies.
Teachers from K-16 classrooms are welcome - the activities can scale to your particular content area!
Date: Saturday, December 4, 2010 from 9:00 - 4:00
Location: Tufts University, Medford, MA
Register: http://www.icreatetoeducate.com/enroll?id=MTk=
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