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| February 5, 2007 |
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weekly newsletter highlights educational programming and events
of the Journeys School. For more information please call the Journeys
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Parent Survey Now Open
Each year, parents are asked to give opinions and feedback to the Journeys School using an online survey. We hope that every parent can complete this survey by Friday, February 16 by accessing the following link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=488473209892 . We appreciate the time you spend to help make our school a better place.
The State of the Journeys School: Current Status, Future Goals, and Addressing Challenges
All Journeys School parents are strongly encouraged to attend an informational meeting and discussion with the leadership of Journeys School and Teton Science Schools to learn more about the current “state of the school” and the future challenges associated with providing an engaging, innovative and challenging curriculum to a diverse student body by an expert and dedicated faculty and staff. Please join us on one of the following dates:
- Monday, February 5, 2007, 1:30 – 2:30 pm, Jackson Campus, Education Center
- Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 6:00 – 7:00 pm at the home of Margot and Tim Watters (Idaho)
- Monday, February 12, 2007, 6:00- 7:00 pm at the home of Sambo and Megan Lewis
Meeting Details:
- Please RSVP to Laurel Wyckoff at 733-1313 x 1313 or laurel.wyckoff@tetonscience.org
- Childcare will be provided – please indicate childcare needs in your RSVP message.
- Meetings will be casual and informal.
- Light refreshments will be served.
- In case of severely inclement weather, evening meetings may be cancelled. Please call 733-1313 x 1313
after 3:00 pm for a message about cancellations due to weather.
- Please call Nate McClennen, Jack Shea, or Heather Marks with any questions.
Congratulations on College Acceptances!
Journeys School seniors are beginning to hear about college acceptances. JC Hockett was accepted to Dickinson College and Anastasia Andreas was accepted to Lewis and Clark College. Congratulations to these two seniors, both Journeys School students since the beginning in 2001.
Re-Enrollment Cards Due Back February 15
Re-enrollment postcards will be sent out this week by mail for middle and upper school students and in folders or mailboxes for PreK and elementary students. You may return just one card for multiple students and please have them returned by February 15. These cards help us manage enrollment as we begin planning for the 2007/08 school year.
Open House, Thursday, February 8
Journeys School is hosting an open house from 9:00 am until noon this Thursday. Applications for new students are accepted through February 15, with the first round of admissions decisions being made March 1. If you know of interested friends or community members please encourage them to attend the open house and to submit applications immediately.
Looking for Drums...
US/MS looking for anyone that is interested in loaning out a drum set for the rest of the school year. Please contact Dennis Sanders at ex 1139.
February Lunch Menu
February 9th
- Organic Beef Stew.
- With onions, carrots, potatoes & peas.
- Homemade corn bread.
- Organic Oranges
- White chocolate chip brownies
- Organic Milk
All lunches include organic & hormone-free 2% Milk.
Kelly-Tyler Lewis: " The Lost Men"
Thursday February 22, 7- 8 p.m. @ the Teton County Library
Shackleton's survival story is legendary, but few know the astonishing story of the Ross Sea party, the support crew he dispatched to the opposite side of Antarctica. Cambridge historian and author of " The Lost Men, " Kelly Tyler-Lewis tells of the 10-man party's plight after becoming stranded on the world's most inhospitable continent while sledging 1,700 miles across Antarctica to supply Shackleton's aborted mission.
Perspectives on motorized recreation and wildlife
Wednesday, February 21, 6:30-9:30 p.m. @ Dining Lodge, Jackson Campus of Teton Science Schools
The Bridger-Teton National Forest is hosting a public Panel Forum entitled, PERSPECTIVES ON MOTORIZED RECREATION AND WILDLIFE—Trends, Opportunities, and Effects.This event is open to the public and will include time for questions from the audience and the evening will conclude with an opportunity to Meet and Greet the Panelists. This important event is part of the Travel Plan Revision process regarding the development of a Designated Motorized Road and Trail system for the North Zone of the Bridger-Teton National Forest. For additional information please call David Wilkinson—BTNF Travel Plan Coordinator 739-5544.
Organic Coffee
Support the Journeys School Annual fund by ordering Journeys School Organic Coffee. Call (307) 733-8046 or visit online: www.FreshOrganicCoffee.com/journeys.html
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Announcements
Thanks
Many thanks to Gary Silberberg, Joann Honigman, and the Graduate students for helping assist the Pre-K team during admissions week. Gary showed a slide show of his trip to Antarctica, Joann led a pretzel baking activity and the Graduate Students facilitated outdoor play.
Thanks to parent volunteers, Nancy Lee and Jackie Baxa. Nancy helped clean our classroom. Jackie joined the Tuesday/Thursday group on a sleigh ride journey to Helena’s House and catalogued books in the Pre-K Library.
Thanks to Cathy Kehr for donating fabric to the Pre-K; we will use it for costumes and props to enhance our dramatic play area.
Thanks to the Tozzi Family, Meghan, Johnny and Sophia, for donating new red painting smocks to the studio. The new smocks offer fuller coverage and students are able to put them by themselves.
Admissions Week
Last week and this coming week are admission weeks. Up to three new children will visit the classroom on any given day to experience our morning meeting, focused exploration and gathering. It is an important opportunity for the Pre-K team to get to know prospective students and their parents. During these times our scheduled F.E. time is cut a little short to make time for meetings with prospective parents and as a Pre-K team. We greatly appreciate that so many of you have signed up to assist in transitions and with activities at these times.
Parent Zone
The February Volunteer Calendar is now up in the Parent Zone, come check it out. Currently, there is one journey scheduled to the Teton County Library for story hour on Thursday, February 8th.
Curricular Updates
A New Face in Pre-K
Conner Fields, a 5th grader will be coming down to the Pre-K three afternoons a week to read books and play literacy related games with a small group of our older students. It is a great opportunity to build relationships across grade levels and strengthen literacy skills.
Here Ye, Here Ye! The Castle Market was a Success!
Our students paraded around in their tall fancy hats to sell goods to Pre-K parents and K-2 visitors. Thanks to parents, we collected a large amount of dog food, cat litter and rawhide bones to donate to the animal shelter. We are sure they will be quite enthusiastic when we drop it all off. Click here to access your royal family portrait.
Voting Has Commenced!
The loft is bare and empty without the castle to occupy it. On Tuesday of last week we began a conversation about the loft and generated ideas for a new play space. Our students thought of many creative ideas: a birthday cake, a boat, a rocket ship, a jungle, a forest, a doll house, a tree house, a haunted house, and even a race car. On Thursday and Friday of last week we began the voting process. Each student voted by way of a ballot and then cast their votes into the box. The forms required students to write their name at the top and then identify and circle their favorite choice. On Friday afternoon we counted the votes and narrowed the options to the top four choices; a birthday cake, a boat, a tree house, and a rocket ship. More conversations will be had this week to make the final decision and then construction will begin.
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| Kindergarten - Grade 2 |
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Announcements
Thank Yous
Thank you to Rosa Perez for coming in last week to clean the K-2 bathrooms! It was greatly needed and appreciated.
Reading Celebration!
On Friday, K-2 students and teachers held a reading celebration during literacy time. This marked the end of our first month of work together in our new literacy groups and celebrated the progress that has been made each and every day. During the month of January we focused on: reading goals, expectations, reading with a partner, choosing books that are ‘just right’, and tools we can use to read. Students spent time reading to one another and sharing newly learned reading skills with other literacy groups. We also enjoyed a special celebratory snack!
Last Winter Sports Day
This Wednesday, February 7th will be the final day of winter sports and skiing. Please remember to arrive on time Wednesday (whether at school or if you meet us at the Village), so that the bus can leave promptly at 8:30 am and students can get to their lessons.
February Absences
Please let us know in advance if you will be out of town either before or after the February break so that we can make any necessary preparations.
Curricular Updates
The Marmot Reading and Writing Workshop Group with Hatilie
The marmots are not hibernating this winter; they are munching up books instead! I have heard many hoots and hollers from marmot readers about the new literacy time. Over the past two weeks, we have been taking advantage of the dogsled theme to teach important literacy concepts. We started off every lesson with a read aloud of Stone Fox. In order to encourage the idea of ‘talking about books,’ students wrote questions they had from the story on strips of paper. Together, we would go around and ask our questions. Many questions triggered interesting discussions not just about the book, but how the story relates to our own lives. Literacy mini-lessons follow read aloud. After our mini-lessons, students read independently or with partners to practice their new skills. During this time, I go around and conference individually with each reader and give him or her a “star” and a “wish.” Their “star” is what they do very well and their “wish” is something they can work on. Next, students move on to writing workshop. The marmots wrote sequels to Stone Fox. Currently, they are typing their final drafts on computers and illustrating. Their writing mini-lessons this week were: Good writers use the word wall and words around the room to correct spelling and Good writers read their stories again to correct words or sentences that don’t make sense. Finally, students also engage in word study for 10-25 minutes a day. They are working with the many sounds of “ou” and “ow” words. Our non-hibernating marmots are hard workers and excited readers!
Spanish
In K-2 Spanish, we have continued our exploration of animals and colors by looking at the book The Mitten in Spanish. We have been talking about directions and prepositions and have used the story line of The Mitten with animals going in and out, over and under, right and left, near and far. ‘Donde esta el oso?’ (Where is the bear?). ‘Que color es el zorro? (What color is the fox?). We read the book Forastero en el bosque, or Stranger in the Wood. We learned some new words as the animals of the forest discovered and explored a snow man. Stay tuned for new vocabulary as we learn the names of common school objects and places.
Pre-K Interactions
The Kindergartners enjoyed sharing their new knowledge of dogsled navigation with Pre-K buddies this week. Using teamwork, a sense of direction and the right commands, teams of “dogs” and “mushers” navigated a simple obstacle course while pulling or riding on sleds. It was a great activity to do with Pre-K that took brain and muscle power. We all got to howl, use our alert dog ears to listen, shout the commands, “Gee”, “Haw” and “Mush”, and enjoy each other’s company.
Navigation
During theme time this week, K-2 students began to explore magnets as well as the compass rose. We learned about how a compass works and how people can use a compass to orient themselves and navigate from one place to another. Students also experimented with what types of materials are magnetic. We also explored some interesting educational videos and question & answer interactive games on the website www.BrainPop.com. Next week, we will begin to learn about the night sky and talk about how stars are used in navigation.
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| Grades 3-5 |
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Announcements
Graduate Student Sarah Varick
The Grades 3-5 community is pleased to welcome Sarah Varick, a graduate student from the Kelly Campus, into our classroom this month. Please read more about Sarah below, and feel free to introduce yourself if you see her around school.
Sarah Varick will be in Grades 3-5 for the next few weeks teaching Reading and Writing Workshop and Social Studies. Teaching at Journeys this winter is part of a new program for graduate students. So far it has been a wonderful experience and she has enjoyed working with the 3-5 students. She recently graduated from Carleton College with a degree in biology. Through Carleton she studied abroad in many places, including Madagascar. She hopes to share her experiences with the Grades 3-5 students as part of the “Pathways in our World” unit.
Thank You
Thank you to all of the parents who helped with our fourth ski day last Wednesday. Thank you to all of the families who attended the “State of the School” and Grades 3-5 Parent Council meetings last week. Thanks are also owed to Arturo Peralta-Ramos, who visited the Grades 3-5 classroom to teach a social studies class about his family’s fascinating history. Tim Dykema also deserves thanks, as he visited science class last week to teach about his experiences as an internet service provider. Many thanks, Arturo and Tim!
Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is always full of excitement in Grades 3-5. On this special day, students may choose to bring Valentines to school. If your child would like to bring Valentines, he/she is expected to bring enough cards for the entire class (44 children total). Please do not send candy to school on Valentine’s Day. We will have a small Valentine’s celebration on the afternoon of the 14th. If you would like to provide a healthy Valentine’s Day snack for the celebration, please contact Kristen at extension 1128.
February Break Absences
If your child will miss school because of February Break travel, please notify his/her advisor as soon as possible. Advance notice of planned absences helps the teachers stay organized. This matter is especially pressing if your child will be absent on February 15, the date of the Freedom Bound performance. Thank you.
Ski and Ride Program
The Journeys School Ski and Ride Program will conclude this Wednesday, February 7. Once again, Grades 3-5 students will meet down by the Welcome Center in the morning. Students will put their school backpacks in the Education Center, and depart for the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort at 8:20 a.m. We will return to school around noon and continue with a regular day of school. Please send your child to school with a regular lunch and his/her folder on ski days. Children are required to wear a helmet if they downhill ski or snowboard. Also, please label every piece of your child’s gear with his/her full name. Please contact Ryan Bolton at extension 1138 with questions about the Ski and Ride Program.
Curricular Updates
Science/Computers
Our theme for the winter trimester in Grades 3-5 is “Pathways in our World.” As we investigate this theme in-depth, we have focused on communication and transportation. Last week during science class, special guest and parent Tim Dykema visited our classroom to speak about his work with computers. Tim owned an internet service provider and also worked for Amway in Michigan. Tim began his lesson by asking students, “What is a geek?” Students responded with a variety of answers including big glasses, high pants, and liking to do homework. A self-proclaimed “geek,” Tim explained that he considers geeks creative thinkers who pay attention to detail and are often hyper-focused on one area of study. Tim shared his passions for computers and business by teaching the history of computers, the internet and email. He also shared many stories from his junior high, high school, and college days. Students were fascinated that Tim used to rewrite code for the computer game “Hustle” in order to advance to higher levels during his lunchtime free period in Middle School. We also learned that the original version of Windows had 27,000 lines of code and the new Windows Vista has around 50 million. Thank you to Tim for visiting our classroom, sharing his knowledge, and showing us that it’s not so bad to be a geek.
Grades 3-5 Musical: Freedom Bound
The Grades 3-5 community is working hard to prepare for our upcoming performance of Freedom Bound. During reading and writing workshop, we have been blocking the musical scene by scene. During music, children have been working hard to learn the harmonies of the musical’s many songs. Art class has become a flurry of activity as students design and create backdrops, costumes, and props.
Students brainstormed ideas for their costumes last week. We do not expect families to purchase costumes for this production; we emphasized with the students that this is an excellent opportunity to recycle, improvise, or borrow costume items. We expect students to bring their entire costume to school by Monday, February 12. Please put your child’s costume in a bag and label it clearly with his/her name.
Dress rehearsals for Freedom Bound will take place during school on Tuesday, February 13 and Wednesday, February 14. The children will put on an in-school performance of the musical on Thursday, February 15. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, students will begin their day in the Dining Lodge. The final performance of Freedom Bound will take place on Thursday, February 15 in the Dining Lodge from 5:00-6:00 p.m. Grades 3-5 students are expected to stay after school on the 15th to prepare for the performance. Families and friends are encouraged to attend the evening performance, and may begin arriving in the Dining Lodge at 4:45. All are welcome!
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Announcements
Attention WU SHU Club Members & Romeo and Juliet Cast
(This is for fight scene cast only.) Tuesday meetings will be held in the Main Room of the Education Center (across from the Dining Lodge) effective immediately through March 6.
Rehearsals 3:00 - 4:30pm
Club meeting 4:30 – 5:00pm
Pick-up students at the bus circle.
February 7th, 7-8pm Curriculum Night
The next middle school curriculum night will be this Wednesday from 7-8 pm. Karl Van Sycle and Charles Grayson will facilitate this meeting. Planned topics to discuss are: winter journeys to Kelly Campus and Washington D.C.; a curricular update; and an introduction to our culminating projects. Parents, please come prepared with questions about the middle school. Eighth grade parents are especially encouraged to attend, as we will be discussing the journey to Washington, D.C. next month.
While You Are at the Curriculum Night…
The National Museum of Wildlife Art proudly hosts a special evening event, “Polar Bears and Our Arctic Realm,” on Wednesday, February 7. Doors open at 6:00 pm; the program begins at 7:00 pm. Admission is free for Museum members and $7 for non-members. However, the museum stated, “This program is a fabulous opportunity for students, so we are willing to waive the admission fee for any student who identifies him/herself at the door as Middle School or High School Science students.”
Volunteers Needed!
"Two households both alike in dignity, In fair Wyoming where we lay our scene…”
The Middle School has been preparing all trimester for their culminating performance of Romeo and Juliet, March 9. The students have adapted the play to fit our place (Heart Mountain, WY, Japanese internment camp) and the time period being studied (WW II era) during our “Forces in Opposition” winter trimester. We are looking for volunteers and expertise in many areas to help with the play.
A list of jobs follows:
• prop gatherers—students have generated prop lists (below).
• costume helpers—to gather or make costumes—if you have kimonos (11) or gees (9) we need them for the performance. Cynda Peralto-Ramos and Pam Terkovich are on the lookout!
• video/digital photographer—someone to film the play; in addition, if possible, someone to help document the process (behind the scenes footage, final preparations during the last week before the performance, etc)
• cast party—who would like to help Pam Terkovich, our party organizer, celebrate the students’ performance after the play on March 9th?
• make-up artist and extra make-up
• stage manager (prop coordinator/help kids move set, etc.)
• carpenters—to help Dennis Sanders with building sets; Jana Roice is sewing sheets for our back drop
• post performance helpers—clean up
• pianist—to accompany the actors, or run the music and sound
• backstage and rehearsal supervision (lots of parents)
• Robin, Julie, Ryan and Randy Elledge and the Wu Shu Club are teaching Marshall Arts forms to our thesbians in the fight scenes of the play. Thank you!
Current prop list:
6 Scarves—long, sheer and colorful
Bench w/ blanket or comforter for bed
3x3ft wooden box or crate, weight bearing
2 large flashlights
Serving tray with glasses (plastic)
Saki cups and carafe
A vial for
Three small tables and a small lamp
Large Buddha—icon for the Shinto shrine
Please contact our director, Jill Wright, 733-4567, if you are interested in helping in any way. As you can see, this is a real community effort! Thanks for your help!
Thank you:
Thank you to Jay Tomich for his donation to the MUPS library of two Robert Jordan books, The Eye of the World and The Great Hunt, which are books 1 and 2 in The Wheel of Time series. The MUPS library is always grateful for donations of quality books in good condition.
Thank you to Roger Smith and his amazing raptors for sharing the magic of bird flight.
Curricular Updates
Ski Program
After ripping up the slopes and touring some of the most beautiful parts of our valley the past four weeks, we will be meeting for the final time this week to finish off this winter’s ski unit. Despite some cold weather days, students have tackled the local terrain with vigor and tenacity, picking up skills along the way. This final week will entail graduation from lesson groups and a chance to show off newfound skills to teachers and fellow students.
Social Science
Students in social science are now studying World War II. Last week, students learned the causes of the war, both in Europe and in the Pacific. The focus of this unit will be on the human impact of the war and the societal changes it brought to America. Topics studied will include Japanese-American internment, the Holocaust and the changing role of women during and after the war.
Spanish
During the past two weeks in Spanish class, students completed their study of the Spanish civil war as they watched a movie from the Guernica Museum of Peace. A discussion ensued about the different forms of peace in the world, including internal peace, agreed peace, and planet peace. With this understanding, students wrote letters where they asked questions and described their hopes for peace. Some students wrote letters to themselves, while others wrote to political leaders from around the world, requesting an end to conflicts, wars, terrorism, and nuclear threats. With a better understanding of conflicts and peace, students began to describe their families. To begin, students used the family tree of the Spanish royal family to see connections between King Juan Carlos I and the original king and queen of Spain, Ferdinand and Isabela. Students then created their own family trees and wrote descriptions of their relatives, which they presented to the class. They will continue to talk about interests and hobbies in the coming weeks. This ability to discuss conflict, peace, family, and self will help students on their upcoming test on Thursday, February 15th.
Science
The magnificence of flight! Having spent the beginning of the term absorbing concepts of forces and motion and work though simple machines, students are now moving into an application of these simple forces on the complex challenge of flight. Following the intellectual path of the Wright Brothers, we examined the properties of air pressure as defined by Boyle’s Law, Charles’s Law and the Bernoulli Principle. (Ask your child to do a demonstration of these amazing gas properties with simple props from around the house!)
From there, we observed the most ingenious flight designs that exist in the world as students looked on with awe at three live raptors brought in by Roger Smith. (We were even able to watch Buddy, a young Red-tailed Hawk, fly back and forth across our classroom!) Humbled by their natural design, Jay then guided the classes through the history of human attempts to artificially replicate that which birds mastered over years of evolution. This week students will be adding concepts of lift, drag and thrust to modify their design of a paper airplane.
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Announcements
Congratulations
Congratulations to JC Hockett (12th grade) on his 2nd place finish in the last Speech and Debate Tournament. He joins a number of other upper school students participating on the Jackson Hole High School speech and debate team.
Congratulations to Omar Nova (9th grade) and Irwing Bernal (11th grade) for their performances in the community play “Night of the Iguana”. Their hard work was impressive.
Study Hall
Beginning Wednesday, January 17, there will be an after school study hall in the Upper School, from 3:15 to 4:30 pm. Upper school faculty will be available for help with homework. All are welcome to attend.
Winter Journey
The winter journey will take place February 14-16. We will travel to Dubois and stay at the new Teton Valley Ranch Camp. The curriculum is currently being planned by upper school faculty. Much of the journey will take place outdoors; an equipment list will be mailed home closer to the departure date. It will be helpful if students can supply their own cross country ski gear, though Journeys has some gear available. The cost for the journey is $20/student. Please make checks payable to Journeys School. For more information about the journey please contact Drew Overholser or Dennis Sanders.
Excused Absences
We have found at Journeys School that upper school students are most involved with extracurricular activities during the winter. We greatly support student involvement in extracurricular activities for many reasons. We also support students in missing the school time necessary to participate in competitions and meets. Advisors work with students to arrange assignments that will be missed when absent, yet it always remains the student’s responsibility to check in with each teacher about upcoming assignments prior to missing a class. Please urge your child to check in with a teacher before any absence. We appreciate your help with this important student responsibility.
Curricular Updates
Math 7: Calculus
Calculus students have now finished their survey of the foundations of calculus and are going into more complicated applications. The class will first investigate differentiation and integration of exponential and logarithmic functions in order to apply these skills to growth and decay problems. The class will then take a brief detour and collaborate with the Advanced Social Studies class to investigate sustainability indicators. Calculus students will be looking specifically at national and global economic indicators as way to understand the global marketplace. Various projects and presentations will encourage students to explain and defend their results.
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| Editorial |
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“A Team Approach to Literacy: Going Beyond “Sounding It Out”
by Betsy Trowbridge
As I look back on my few years of teaching at Journeys School, I am reminded of all the growth and change we have experienced. Not only have we grown in the number of students and faculty, but also in our own teaching. Teaching on a team naturally means that ideas that might traditionally stay with only one teacher are instead thrown on the table to be developed further with a collection of minds.
Recently, the K-2 team decided to overhaul our literacy program and make it even better. I have always been fascinated by the pathways students take in learning to read. I quickly learned that teaching reading is similar to playing any game. A strategy that may work against one player, may not work against the next. This is also true in literacy development. A strategy that may lead to a break through in reading for one student may simply send another into the fog. Many of us grew up encouraged to “sound it out”. At a conference this summer, a presenter shared this interesting fact with me. 84% of words are phonetically correct (easy to sound out), however, the 16% of words that are not phonetically correct make up 80% of the words found in literature. While I do not know the research behind these figures, I do know that there are many twists in the English language that keep “sounding it out” from being the most effective strategy for many students. While “sounding it out” works for some, others hear the story and can get lost in the individual sounds of words. As a team, we decided we needed to change our program to support all the different pathways that our students might take.
Last summer, I read the book Growing Readers by Kathy Collins and thought about our literacy program in the K-2. Kathy Collins is an instructor at the Summer Institute on Teaching of Reading at Teachers College, Columbia University. Using Growing Readers as a model, we changed our 60 minute literacy block into a 90 minute block for reading and writing workshops. Our program was strong and it was effective. But we wanted it to be stronger and more individualized. As a team, we decided to alter our entire literacy program over winter break. This change was intimidating—we were leaving behind a successful program to try something new. We realized how lucky we were to be in a place where we could collectively decide that we needed to change something, and collectively work toward making our program even stronger. Many of the strengths of the old program carried naturally into our new program. We feel we are now able to individualize our literacy instruction even more and teach students as individuals rather than members of a group. As Kathy Collis writes, "We need to teach children how to read, but we also need to teach them how to fall in love with reading. We need to teach children the skills and strategies that strong readers use, but we also need to teach them the reading habits that they will keep long after they leave our classroom." Our goal was to create a learning environment that would support all students in building good reading habits, using strategies to figure out words and thinking and talking about books together. Our goal was also to support young writers in conveying their wonderful ideas in print and in a way that will allow others to enjoy their creative ideas.
Our students have been participating in new reading and writing workshops for about a month now, and without exception the teachers on the K-2 team feel that it has been a great success. This could not have happened without teachers who are open to new ideas, open to sharing questions and concerns, open to changing our comfortable ways, and open to working hard. I am lucky to be a member of that team.
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