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The Good News: Highlights from the Conference for Assistant Heads and Division Heads
January 30 – February 1, 2008

Community
We have a tradition in the fall on the first day called the hand shake ceremony, where each teacher, staff member and student K through 12 lines up in one huge line that strings out the buildings and throughout the campus to shake hands. Every child and every adult looks each other in the eye, says hello and shakes hands.
 
We held a Civil Rights Symposium with speakers from all over and created a civil rights timeline that wrapped around the whole building.
 
We began the year taking students off campus for a day of bonding activities by grade so that they would begin on a positive note with each other.
 
We have a weekly Lower School meeting that starts off with a song and focuses on quality of life issues.
 
We begin our day with morning meeting focusing on issues of patience, character and confidence. We emphasize the positive things happening in the school. 
 
We have a daily 10-minute meeting before school with the faculty. We run fall outdoor programs.  Seeing the kids bond as they doing orienteering, and noticing how far they’ve come is so satisfying.
 
We made the 8th grade and 5th grade buddies. The 8th graders  mentor 5th graders and introduce them to MS activities

Resources  from the NYSAIS 2007 Information Technology Conference can be found at  http://neit.wikispaces.com/

 

If you could not attend, or are even curious about what went on, be sure to browse this excellent wiki, created in advance of the conference and by participants while attending. Conference attendees are still contributing to it. There are session notes, 249 photos, recordings,  and more. You won't want to miss another conference once you visit this wiki, a model of collaboration! Thanks to all contributors. And here is a podcast of a conversation between Alex Ragone, Arvind Grover, Barbara Swanson and Matt Lipstein about the unconference on EdTechTalk.    http://www.edtechtalk.com/21st_Century_Learning_57 

 

                        


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August 21, 2008
Summer Program in Classroom Management for New Teachers
Thursday, August 21, - Sunday, August 24, 2008
Rich Eyster & Christine Martin, Packer Collegiate Institute
Trinity Pawling School
700 Route 22
Pawling, NY 12564
September 23, 2008
Trustee Governance Workshop

Grace Church School
86 Fourth Avenue
New York, NY 10003

October 15, 2008
Beginning Teachers Institute 1
Wednesday, October 15 - Friday, October 17

Rensselaerville Conference Center

63 Huyck Road
Rensselaerville, NY 12147
Toll-free: 1-800-682-9857 - Telephone: 1-518-797-5100

October 21, 2008
Administration, Faculty, Parents: Productively Navigating the Bermuda Triangle of School Communication

Speaker: Michael Thompson
Facilitators: Andrew McLaren, Barbara Swanson, Dane Peters, Marcy Mann
Allen Stevenson School
132 East 78th Street
New York, NY 10075
All Grades

October 22, 2008
Beginning Teachers Institute 2
Wednesday, October 22- Friday, October 24

Rensselaerville Conference Center

63 Huyck Road
Rensselaerville, NY 12147
Toll-free: 1-800-682-9857 - Telephone: 1-518-797-5100

November 04, 2008
Digital Divides, Digital Opportunities: the Challenges of Teaching a Generation of Digital Natives

Speaker: John Palfrey
Poughkeepsie Day School
260 Boardman Road

Poughkeepsie, NY 12603
All Grades

November 05, 2008
NYSAIS Annual Conference for Heads of School

Speakers: TBA
Wednesday, November 5 - Friday November 7, 2008

Mohonk Mountain House
New Paltz, NY
Phone 845-255-1000

Banana Splits in Your School: Starting a Group for Children with Divorced/Deceased Parents

Speaker: Valerie Raymond
Friends Seminary
222 East 16th Street
New York, NY 10003
Phone: 212-979-5030
K-12

November 06, 2008
Workshop Series for New Division Heads: "Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire"

a 3-Part Series on Nov. 6, Jan 28, April 21
Leaders: George Swain and Marcy Mann
Professional Children's School
132 West 60th Street
New York, NY 10023

All grades

November 12, 2008
NYSAIS Educational Information Technology Conference

Wednesday, November 12 - Friday November 14, 2008
Leaders: TBA

Mohonk Mountain House
New Paltz, NY
Phone 845-255-1000


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