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Co-Teaching Training – for Principals, Instructional Coaches, General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Related Service Providers
Better Business Bureau Student Video Contest – for All Principals
Website Information for Your Department – for All Department Administrators
School Supply Lists, Highlights/Report Cards, and Uniform Policies – for All Principals
Convocation Pennant Parade – for All Principals
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Co-Teaching Training
From Jennifer Martin
Initial Co-teaching Training provided through TASN is the first part of a professional learning and coaching system. Materials and a working lunch are provided. In this training event, participants will:
- Define what co-teaching is and what co-teaching is not
- Consider benefits as well as legal and research-based rationales for co-teaching
- Identify similarities, unique features, advantages and disadvantages across co-teaching approaches
- Explore tools for collaboration and communication.
Who: This event is intended for teachers, administrators, and instructional support personnel.
When: August 29, 2018 8:30 to 3:00
Where: Kansas City, Kansas Central Office and Training Center, room 132-133
Register on the TASN website: https://ksdetasn.org/events/GaFLNg
Better Business Bureau Student Video Contest
From Jennifer McGlothen
The Better Business Bureau Student Video Contest is coming soon to the Kansas City metropolitan area! This is an interactive contest designed to engage your students and encourage the creation of high quality, usergenerated video content. We???re reaching out to see if your school would be interested in joining the contest!
How Does the BBB Student Video Contest Work?
Teams of individual students from select schools will create videos that represent the BBB???s chosen theme. Students will compete based on quality of video production, delivery of the theme and key messages, and promotion and marketing of the videos. Once the students submit the videos, initial entries will be judged on their ability to follow the contest guidelines. Then, students will be judged on their ability to market and increase votes on their video. BBB will score the top videos and select judges/professionals and a winner will be chosen.
The contest takes 4-6 weeks and is supervised by teachers. It???s a quick, turnkey curriculum that ensures teachers won???t have to spend excessive time apart from their already busy schedules to supervise students. The teachers are there to offer guidance, but are not required to move the curriculum forward.
This contest is a great way to give students who are interested in video production and advertising a chance to strengthen and improve their skills. The BBB Student Video Contest gives them real life experience in communication and marketing, while also being a great extracurricular feature on college applications. After the contest complete and judges have made a decision, prizes will go out to those who finish in the Top 4. The majority of winnings will go toward equipment donation to winning schools. The remainder will be cash prizes for contest winners. The prizes are as follows:
- First Place: $2,000 – Donation of equipment of school???s choice; $500 cash/gift cards to the winning video
- Second Place: $1,000 – Donation of equipment of school???s choice; $250 cash/gift cards to 2nd place video
- Third Place: $750 – Donation of equipment of school???s choice
- Fourth Place: $500 – Donation of equipment of school???s choice
For more information on the BBB Student Video Contest, and to watch example videos from previous years, please visit the website at https://www.bbbvideocontest.org/kansas-city/
To register your school, go to https://www.bbbvideocontest.org/kansas-city/student-schools/
If you have any questions or would like further information on the BBB Student Video Contest, please contact me. We look forward to hearing from you!
Website Information for Your Department
From Mike Keener
Please take a moment and look up your departmental page on the Staff Intranet (staff.kckps.org) and any area you might have information on the main district website (kckps.org). Take note of anything that is out of date (be it forms, contact information, introductory text, etc.), and contact Mike Keener??with any changes, additions, or subtractions you might have, or, for that matter, if you have no edits to your page. Please contact him by August 6; if we do not hear back from you (with or without edits) by August 6, your departmental page will be deactivated until we hear from you.
School Supply Lists, Highlights/Report Cards, and Uniform Policies
From Mike Keener
We need to post school supply lists for parents on the main district website.?? The following are the schools we have received lists for thus far:
Banneker Elementary School
Bertram Caruthers Elementary School
Bethel Elementary School
Claude Huyck Elementary School
Emerson Elementary School
Eugene Ware Elementary School
Frances Willard Elementary School
Frank Rushton Elementary School
Hazel Grove Elementary School
John Fiske Elementary School
JFK Elementary School
Lindbergh Elementary School
Mark Twain Elementary School
M. E. Pearson Elementary School
New Chelsea Elementary School
Noble Prentis Elementary School
Parker Elementary School
Quindaro Elementary School
Stony Point North Elementary School
Stony Point South Elementary School
T. A. Edison Elementary School
Argentine Middle School
Arrowhead Middle School
Central Middle School
Coronado Middle School
Eisenhower Middle School
Northwest Middle School
West Middle School
Washington High School
We also need to post school highlights/report cards for the 2017-18 school year on the main district website.?? The following are the schools we have received lists for thus far:
Banneker Elementary
Bertram Caruthers Elementary
Bethel Elementary
Claude Huyck Elementary
Emerson Elementary
Eugene Ware
Grant Elementary
John Fiske Elementary
JFK Elementary
Lindbergh Elementary
Mark Twain Elementary
Noble Prentis Elementary
Quindaro Elementary
Silver City Elementary
Stony Point South Elementary
T. A. Edison Elementary
Whittier Elementary
William A. White Elementary
Arrowhead Middle
Central Middle
Coronado Middle
Eisenhower Middle
West Middle
Washington High
Wyandotte High
If you haven???t yet sent these items in, please send them via email to Mike Keener as soon as possible.
Additionally, if you have any changes to the posted uniform policies of your schools (if applicable), please send them to Mike Keener as well.
Convocation Pennant Parade
From Susan Westfahl
Convocation will be held on Wednesday, August 8 at 9:00 a.m.
at Memorial Hall. Again this year, we will have a parade of school pennants. Please choose an individual to proudly carry your school???s pennant, and forward that name to Susan Westfahl at susan.westfahl@kckps.org.
School reps will need to report to the concession stand area in the hallway outside of the auditorium at 8:30 a.m. They will pick up their pennant and line-up to be ready to march in at the beginning of Convocation.
I would also encourage you to invite your team to dress in school spirit wear and sit together. We look forward to seeing you at Convocation on August 8!