October 22 - It's getting Spooky around here.....

  

Thank you in advance to everyone helping out this weekend with the Haunted High. This is a big undertaking, during a busy time of year, and requires lots of effort and planning. It's going to be awesome! I hope you can make it. Otherwise, enjoy your weekend. 

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This Week's Link(s):

and....Quote of the Week: 

“For many students, for many reasons, much of their active working memory may be taken up with things not related to the topic of your class.”   -  “How to Reduce the Cognitive Load on Students During Lessons” by Ian Kelleher in Edutopia, September 16, 2022

'If teachers overload students’ working memory, “learning is hard or impossible.” Students may seem to be understanding during a lesson, but if there’s cognitive overload, very little will make it into long-term memory.'

' “If you want to play music in class,” says Kelleher, “deliberately choose when, knowing that for some students it will add significant cognitive load.” The bottom line: music should reduce stress and improve attention. It’s also helpful to avoid visual clutter in the classroom. “Everything there should have a purpose,” says Kelleher. “Design, don’t decorate. Have less on show at once, and rotate it as the year goes on.”'

There are many great points, strategies, and ideas in this article.

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Updates: 

Grading & Reporting will be the focus of our Best Practice
meeting on Monday. *FYI - we are MEETING IN JESS GRAHAM's ROOM on MONDAY 10/24

Scholarly Habits (SH): Scholarly Habits will be on the Q1 mastery report. We will talk about SH at our 10/17 Best Practice (among other things). You will need to report on ONLY 1 SH for Q1 and you can decide which one. You may report on more than one. 

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Calendar

10/22 - Haunted High

10/24 Best Practice   3pm JESS GRAHAM's Room

10/25 - Community Meeting 11:15am

10/28 - Early Release (GRADING)

10/31 - Best Practice   3pm Library

11/11 - In-Service @ PA (with LSUU)

11/23-25 - Thanksgiving Break

LSUU Professional Development Calendar

Athletic Calendar

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TA (Teacher Advisory) 

Links to activities and scripts for TA this week: 

Tuesday (10/25):   Community Meeting - meet with TA, sit together in the Aud, Seniors can sit up front. 

Friday (10/28): No TA - Early Release

Tuesday 11/1 - Wellness Activity #4 - Anxiety 101B

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Schoolwide Happenings: 

Lots of great One on One instruction and discussion going on all over the building....(see below)

The Paparazzi was out for Senior Day

Van had a busy week

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Celebrations: 

Paley, pictured in the center with The PA Stage Company

Nick Paley , Hollywood screenwriter, visited PA Thursday afternoon & evening. Paley, a graduate of Mount Mansfield Union HS in Jericho, was here on a research mission. He was recently signed by HULU to write the screenplay for a show set in a Vermont High School. He interviewed students and staff to collect the 'real story' about life in Vermont high schools these days. He, 'wants to get it right', so why not talk to the best....PA students. 

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Congrats to Adele Ramirez-Valcour and Anna Isselhardt who, along with UP for Learning, have been invited to present at the Vermont Superintendents and School Boards Association Annual Conference on October 21st. The presentation involves youth and adults from Winooski School District, Lamoille South Unified Union, Lamoille North Supervisory Union and Harwood Union HS, who will share their experience with authentic youth-adult partnership in governance  with VT’s school leaders.  

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Happy Birthday

Moira Donovan  Oct. 25

Van Carr  Oct. 28

Carrie Felice  Oct. 31

Lindsey Yablonowski  Nov. 6