May 23

Prepping for the infamous Grand March. 

Thanks for sharing your levels of comfort under the umbrella of PBL. This is hard work and the more we dig the more questions arise. For me, one of the reasons we are transforming into a PBL system, one that increases personalizing the experience for students, is to help students know what they want in life and to guide them to find a path toward this want. The spirit of the PLP is to help create this very path for a student. I believe that when students (humans) truly know what they want they work really hard to get it. Thus, as the year winds down and students finish projects, please look hard for those moments when you see a student start to learn or express what it is they want. Where does this happen? Why does this happen? Capture these moments and save them. It is from these moments that we can build more insight, inspiration, understanding and direction toward designing our PBL system. 

And a link to go with this idea: “I don’t know about you, but I’m really bad at being self-disciplined about things I don’t care about.”  David Brooks in “Putting Grit In ItsPlace” in The NY Times 5/10/16       http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/10/opinion/putting-grit-in-its-place.html?_r=0

French Class out for a sunrise hike last week. 

Upcoming Events: 

Track Team on their way home from one of the many long meets. 

5/23 - Best Practice PBL
5/27 - Memorial Day Observance
5/27-28 - Spring Drama Production
5/31- 8ths graders visit TA - PLP sharing
6/10 - FINAL BEST PRACTICE
6/11 - Finals Begin
6/14 - PAML Last Chapel - 8th grade parent meeting
6/15 - Last Chapel
6.16 - GRADUATION
6/20-23 - Curriculum Camp
8/22-26 - Pre-School In-service 
8/29 - 1st day of school 2016-17

Co-Curricular Calendar




TRAFFIC WARNING:

Next Tuesday the portion of Bridge St. from Brooklyn Street to the truck route will be closed to through traffic for approximately 2 months to replace the waterlines, pave the roadway and add new sidewalks. 



Another Link: More Brain-based implications for the classroom




Schoolwide happenings:

The new lunchtime craze. 

Coming soon to a wall near you.....

Creative Writing finding inspiration at Thompson's Flour Shop. 

Celebrations: 

Thanks to Rebecca, Mary, Kascinda, Bill C, Karen P, and Katelyn Breau for chaperoning Prom. It was another great one!

Nick Drolet (PA '08) pictured with family after his graduation from Purdue  as a Dr of Vet Medicine

Barb Brody retirement celebrations on Tuesday @ 4pm!