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Weeks Act: Centennial Anniversary
Did you know that March 1, 2011 marks the 100th anniversary of the Weeks Act? The Weeks Act, named for its floor manager Rep. John Weeks (R-MA), and which President William Howard Taft signed into law on March 1, 1911, gave the federal government the authority to create national forests across the east, changing the face of New England through the establishment of the White and Green Mountains national forests.
There are numerous interdisciplinary opportunities for incorporating the Centennial of the Weeks Act into your curriculum. The Arts Alliance of Northern NH has invited North Country schools to join environmental, conservation and cultural organizations; museums, historical societies and libraries; artists, businesses and others in exploring the meaning of the Act. If you would like to participate in any way, or if you have ideas or questions, please contact Debra Cottrell, Arts Alliance Weeks coordinator, at 323-5030 or email Debra at weeks@aannh.org.
Learn more about the Weeks Act at http://www.weekslegacy.org/
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IPEVO to Go!
Webcam, Document Camera, Animations & More!
This workshop includes an IPEVO Point 2 View USB Camera. You'll learn how to use this USB camera as an effective teaching tool and easy to use capture device. This camera will let you capture images and video easily to your computer or send it out through your projector. It can be used to set up time lapse imaging and to create animations and multimedia stories.
Examples of ways to utilize this type of camera in classrooms include:
- Show handwriting skills, rulers, and simple math manipulatives in elementary classrooms.
- Zoom in on objects and take a picture or video in science classrooms.
- Art teachers can use it to show students skills without everyone crowding around.
- High school math teachers can use it to project work or a textbook problem onto a screen.
The IPEVO USB camera (for MAC or PC) will be yours to keep!
Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2011 from 4:00 to 7:00
Cost: Member School Staff $125, Associate Members $135, Others $150.
Registration: Payment or purchase order must be received by March 22, 2011 to reserve your seat. Contact Lisa Blais to register at lisa@ncedservices.org or 800-268-5437 or 603-466-5437. Purchase orders may be faxed to 603-466-2907. Credit card or check/money orders are accepted. Sorry, no refunds for cancellations after the March 22nd deadline (substitutions allowed).
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Boosting Respect and Healthy Student Outcomes
This session aims to build the capacity of school personnel and student leaders to foster resilience and promote healthy outcomes for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) students. This session builds on the previous sessions for Preventing Health Risks and Promoting Healthy Outcomes for LGBTQ Students. Newcomers are welcome. The focus will be on factors that foster resilience in LGBTQ students and on concrete strategies for creating a safe and supportive school environment, including building and sustaining a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) or Diversity Club.
This workshop is intended for educators, guidance counselors, SAPs, SRPs, nurses, administrators and other school professional working in a capacity to foster a culture of respect where all students are free to express themselves and able to reach their full potential. Student leaders in a school Gay-Straight Alliance/Respect/Diversity Club or other student leaders interested in supporting their peers are also welcome. Optimally schools will send teacher/student teams with 2 teachers and 3 students per school. Smaller teams and individuals are also welcome.
Presenter: Jeff Perrotti
Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Time: 9:00 - 3:30 changed to 8:30 - 2:30
Location: NCES, Gorham, NH
Cost: Free for NH educators, light lunch provided
Registration: Register online or by calling NCES at 800-268-5437 or 603-466-5437.
Note: Participants will be asked to complete a pre-session survey and invited to attend a post-session webinar.
About Jeff Perrotti: Jeff Perrotti is the founding director of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education's Safe Schools Program for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Students. He is the co-author of the book, When the Drama Club is not Enough: Lessons from the Safe Schools Program for Gay and Lesbian Students. Jeff has conducted numerous workshops on sexual orientation, bullying and school climate for school administrators, counselors, nurses, coaches, teachers, parents and students. For several years Jeff has taught and advised students at Harvard University, where he has received several awards for excellence in teaching. Jeff is a trainer for the American Psychological Association’s Healthy Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Students Project and a consultant for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. He has worked extensively with New Hampshire educators, nurses and students and the New Hampshire Department of Education.
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Puberty: The Wonder Years
In last month's newsletter, Puberty: The Wonder Years was listed as an upcoming training. This program will NOT be offered at NCES at this time. It will be offered on 4/4/11 in Keene, 4/11 in Exeter and 4/12 in Manchester. Visit lescn.org to check for an announcement with additional details.
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Apps & Tips to Make the Most of Your iPad
This users' forum will include a refresher on the basics covered in the February iPad class, some new tips and assistance with any questions you have about your iPad. There will be an opportunity for users to share their favorite apps.
Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2011 Due to Town Meeting date conflict, rescheduled to Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Time: 4:00 - 7:00 (light supper provided)
Cost: Free to paid participants of the Feb 8th class. Member school staff $15, associate members $20, others $25.
Registration: Contact Lisa Blais to register at lisa@ncedservices.org or 800-268-5437 or 603-466-5437. Purchase orders may be faxed to 603-466-2907.
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iPad Basics
We've had several inquiries about repeating the iPad workshop. We intend to do so. The buzz in the tech blogs is that the new version of the device will be released in the coming weeks. We're holding out for the next generation to set the date and cost. If you'd like us to notify you when we set the date, please drop an email to lisa@ncedservices.org.
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Military Culture 201 for Educators
The NH Department of Education and the Educational Outreach Committee of the National Guard are offering a series of FREE workshops that will allow educators who may not have had a personal experience of having a deployed family member gain some perspective about what it feels like. Bring your questions, many resources are available.
Target Audience: school administrators, teachers, guidance counselors, school nurses, and support staff.
Prerequisite: Must have attended a Military 101 course
Cost: Free
Date: May 4, 2011
Time: 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM.
Location: NCES, Gorham, NH
Register online
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NEWS, UPDATES & OTHER TIDBITS
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FREE Library Materials
The NCES Media Center is removing some older and/or under-utilized materials from its collection. If you are interested in any of the items below and wish to check if they are still available, contact Raina Scarinza at library@ncedservices.org or by calling 603-466-5437. These free materials must be picked up at NCES. Items distributed on a first come, first serve basis.
-Lots of empty VHS containers
-Survival vocabulary (Drivers license, credit, sign, medical, supermarket, banking ect)
-Sky Science kit (some materials missing)
-Money Big Box
-IDM Fundamentals of addition and subtractions
-IDM Fundamentals of multiplication and division
-Christmas Is In the Air (unbound books) 40 +/-
-June 30, 2008 NH Rules for the Education of Children with Disabilities
-National Center For Education Statistics TIMSS Stigler Math
-Side by Side activity workbook
-New American Streamline Connections (workbook A,B, Teachers book, cassettes)
-Box of cards “colored inch cube designs”
-NH Manual for the General Court 2009
-Intel Teach Program Leadership Forum
-Book/VHS When Friends Mean Trouble
-Book/VHS Suppose That Was Me
-VHS How Computers Work
-VHS My Only Me
Computer Games/Software on CD (some are only small screen and some are not compatible with Windows XP)
King Arthur’s Magic Castle
Putt Putt Enters the Race
US Presidents
Lessons in American History
Landmark Documents in American History
Arthurs Reading Games
Monarch Notes on CD ROM
Putt Putt Goes to the Moon
Elmo Pre School
Curious George Early Learning Adventure
Planetary Taxi
Time Table of History
Oceans Below
My First Amazing History Explorer
Putt Putt Travels Through Time
20th Century Video Almanac
Capital Hill
Great Wonders of the World
Butterflies of North America
Sesame Street Lets Make a Word
Katie’s Farm
NC Wyeth’s Illustrated Classics (Treasure Island,Yearling, Kidnapped, Robinson Crusoe)
Time Scales
and many more………
Books and CD’s
Richard Scary Busy Town
Mario Teaches Typing
Career Planet Launch Pad
Ruff’s Bone
Just me and my dad
The lost mind of Dr Brain
Sim City
The Tortoise and the Hare
Earth Quest
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing
Magic School Bus Explores the Human Body
Animal Antics
Sheila Rae the brave
The Bererstain Bears In the Dark
Me Myself and I
Job Search Skills for the 21st Century
Math Splash
Large Box of MAC only CD’s
Oceans Below
Capitol Hill
Civil War
Prehistoria
Encyclopedia of Nature
History of the World
Word Tales
Disney animated storybook
Counting on Frank Math Adventure game
America Alive
Small Blue Planet
National Geographic
How things work
Adam the inside story
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Measuring Up: The New Hampshire Arts Education Data Project
Administrators, arts educators, school board members, parents and all those interested in the role of arts education in our public schools and communities are invited to the North Country rollout of Measuring Up: The New Hampshire Arts Education Data Project on Thursday, March 10, 2011 from 2:30 - 4:00 at North Country Education Services, 300 Gorham Hill Rd., Gorham.
"Measuring Up" is a collaborative project of the New Hampshire Department of Education, the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, and the Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire.
The report includes findings from the 2008-09 school-by-school arts education survey, with results used to assess New Hampshire public school students' access to arts education opportunities and to make recommendations to support arts education statewide. The North Country rollout, which will include music by Patrick Ross and his apprentice Dalton Binette, will also be video streamed. It's a chance to hear about the statewide research and to plan to increase North Country participation in future data gathering.
To learn more about the project, go to www.aannh.org/measuringup. To RSVP for one of two rollouts (the first is March 9, 3 pm, at the Currier Museum of Art), go to http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e3fzpsu0c7e876af&llr=g5vgzlbab
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Sea to Lake, Summit to Sky
A group of New Hampshire’s leading informal science education organizations have come together and formed a collaborative educational program; an innovative curriculum built to address the needs of middle school science teachers in the classroom and drawing on the strength and diversity of New Hampshire’s non-profit education community. This new program -- Sea to Lake, Summit to Sky -- will leverage the combined resources, reputations, and distinct (but complimentary) programmatic themes of the Seacoast Science Center, the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center, the Mount Washington Observatory, and the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center.
The Sea to Lake, Summit to Sky project will address the concept of change, specifically environmental change, as outlined in the state science education frameworks. Natural science content unique to each partner organization will be utilized to illustrate numerous real world instances of environmental change as witnessed right here in New Hampshire. Lessons will be offered in a series, presented from the unique astronomical, climatological, geographical and ecological perspectives afforded by the partner organizations across the state. The project partners will offer the Sea to Lake, Summit to Sky curriculum as a series of integrated lessons delivered through outreach programs to the schools, interactive video-conference presentations into the classrooms, and off-site field trips to convenient partner sites or to locations of highest interest to a particular class.
Registration for this program will start on March 8. To find out more about how New Hampshire middle schools can become part of this project, contact Beth Moore after March 8 at the 603-968-7194 x18 or beth.moore@nhnature.org.
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Educating the 21st Century Learner
Featured Speaker: Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.
Date: Friday, April 8, 2011
Location: Church Landing at Mill Falls, Meredith, NH.
Sponsored by: Local Education Support Center Network
Learn more at lescn.org.
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Learning Forward in the Digital Age
Speaker: Marilee Sprenger, an international educational neuroscience consultant and author of Brain-Based Teaching in the Digital Age.
Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Location: SNHU, Manchester, NH
Sponsored by: Learning Forward NH (formerly NH Staff Development Council) Learn more at learningforwardnh.org
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Apply to the Learning School Alliance
Learning Forward is seeking schools, particularly middle and high schools, to join the next round of the Learning School Alliance. Visit learningforward.org for more information.
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Arts Alliance of Northern NH Upcoming Programs
Donald Knacck, "the Junkman"
March 14-18, 2011
Environmental awareness and community buidling through music.
Prek-12 and beyond.
Aaron Larget-Caplan
March 28 through April 1
Spanish/World culture programs and community concerts
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"The Many Faces of Facebook": Cyberbullying and Internet Safety
Presenter: Investigator Jennifer Frank, Plymouth State University Police Dept.
For: School staffs, parents, community members
Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Berlin Jr. High Auditorium
Free, no registration required.
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NHCSS Call for Proposals
The New Hampshire Council for Social Studies is currently accepting workshop proposals for their conference to be held on October 27th in Manchester, NH. The conference theme is The Role of Social Studies in the 21st Century. For more information see the events section of nhcss.org.
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Judges Needed for National History Day
National History Day will be hosted at Plymouth State University on April 2, 2011. If you are interested in being a judge for this competition, contact John Kruechkeberg, Professor of History, PSU at jkrueckeberg@plymouth.edu.
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