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CNMT Weekly Update – 5/20/13
Dear CNMT Community,
In the 11 years I have been at Roosevelt, I have seen many changes in structure and leadership. Students have come in as Freshmen, made their mark and moved on to bigger and better things. Teachers have come and gone too, but the core of our faculty has been at Roosevelt for a number of years. We have endured budget cuts and reduced enrollment, and now it is rare to have a teacher whose been with us for fewer than seven years.
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CNMT Weekly Update – 5/13/13
A future Rough Rider celebrated an early Mother’s Day with her mom on Saturday at the CNMT LTEL parent workshop.
Dear CNMT Community,
This weekend CNMT celebrated Mother’s Day with a workshop targeted to parents of Long Term English Learners. Organized by Dr. Ibarra, Jantre, Nelson and our TAs Michelle and Lydia, the workshop focused on reclassification to Fluent English Proficient.
Ms. Alva recorded a message to EL parents to help them understand reclassification.
To start us out, Ms. Alva delivered a recorded message that she created on her laptop in which she gave parents some ideas about how they can support their child in learning English and improving their reading and writing skills. Parents commented that they found the presentation to be very helpful. A nice touch with that Ms. Alva shared information about her own daughter’s scores and how she was able to improve her own achievement on the CST and go to college.
CNMT Weekly Update – 5/6/13
CNMT iPad Specialist candidates enjoyed pizza and conversation with TA extraordinaire, Christian Jimenez, in the RHS Student Union during lunch on May 2.
I am truly excited about a new initiative we are starting that was inspired by a conversation with Marco Torres from Apple Computer. On Tuesday we will be training our first group of candidates to be CNMT iPad Student Specialists, also known as CNMT “Geniuses”.
On Thursday we held our orientation for students who were nominated by teachers or self-nominated, and I was happy to see about 30 students show up to the Student Union at lunch. These students are from all four grade levels and cover the range from straight As to straight Fs, but they share in common a love and talent for working with technology.
This program will help Roosevelt High School to build a solid 1:1 program over the coming year. This last month is just a start. From what I have heard, the Schools for the Future program will expand at least to all the approximately 2,000 students in the consolidated Roosevelt next year, and perhaps to Magnet and ESP as well. Although the school has budgeted for a half time Microcomputer Support Technician, one person can not provide technical advise and assistance to that many students and their teachers in 2 1/2 days a week. Continue reading
CNMT Weekly Update – 4/29/13
Dear CNMT Community,
State testing is almost over! We have just over one month left of school, one month before graduation and summer vacation.
This month is an opportunity for students to do their best to bring up their grades and finish their adult school classes in APEX classes so that they can graduate or be on track to graduate if they’re not seniors. It’s also the month for AP testing and for juniors to take the SAT for the first time.
For teachers, this month is also an opportunity to take more chances with integrating new concepts like the teaching and learning framework comment that Common Core State Standards, and the iPads. Tomorrow morning, our students will have their last chance to get an iPad. If they have a parent signature on the contract, they can come at 8 AM to Room R-211 and we will be distributing the iPads and setting them up there. Continue reading
CNMT Weekly Update – 4/22/13
Dear CNMT Community,
This Monday is Earth Day, a perfect opportunity to discuss the paperless classroom. Although environmental protection is not on the list of justifications for the Common Core Technology Project, let’s think about the potential benefits of going paperless. My essential question is whether iPads have a net environmental benefit.
If you just think about books then it would take a while for an iPad to really have any environmental benefit over books. In fact, studies have shown that when you take into account the manufacturing process and all of the resources used, and iPad equals about 30 to 40 books in environmental impact. So it’s not so clear-cut.