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The Harlem Wizards, one of the greatest basketball show-team organizations to ever “lace it up and let’em fly”, will play our own Sullivan Rockets. This will be an entertaining night for kids of all ages (and adults too)!
The Benjamin Franklin Classical Charter Public School will hold its admission lottery for grades K-8 on Wednesday, Feb. 24, at 1 p.m., in the school library, 201 Main St.
New this year, the lottery will be shown live on www.ustream.tv. To see this site, visit the school's Web site www.bfccps.org for further instructions.
Applicants do not have to be present at the lottery. Letters to all applicants will be mailed on Feb. 28, indicating whether students have been accepted or wait-listed.
Benjamin Franklin Classical Charter Public School was founded in 1995 and currently enrolls 415 kindergarten through eighth-grade students. The school is offers a challenging core knowledge curriculum with French in K-8 and Latin in grades 3-8, a strong fine arts program, and physical education twice per week.
Jeff Roy had posted some education blogs worth reviewing a couple of week ago on the Franklin School Committee blog. In the spirit of traveling amongst good education sites this week, I have some of my favorite education sites to add to his listing. (Note: the order listed is simply following down the subscription listing in my RSS Reader and not any other scientific weighting or ranking.)
1 - David Warlick, a well traveled speaker and noted educational blogger. That his website is called 2 Cents helped catch my attention but he has mode than made it worthwhile to continue subscribing to it. His post on Monday referenced QR Code which coincidentally I had written about last week.
2 - Dr Scott McLeod is one of the authors of the "Did You Know" series of videos that has circulated amongst the web highlighting the problems with education. I have quoted from him frequently, and shared many of his posts. He actually has new post where he announces adding three blogs to his CASTLE collection. They are likely ones I add here but are so new to me at this time, we'll hold that off until later. (What is CASTLE? It is the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE), the nation's only academic center dedicated to the technology needs of school administrators.)
3 - Robert F. Bruner, Dean, Darden School of Business of the Univ of Virginia, writes at Dean's Blog. He doesn't post frequently but does post good thoughtful pieces. A recent piece on the recession has a graphic that is quite telling depicting the job losses from this period compared to all other recessions/depressions. It is a sobering graph!
4 - Free Technology for Teachers publishes frequently with lots of really good resources. I have shared many here but there are so many, I don't try to do them all. It would be overwhelming. 'Nuf said.
7 - Will Richardson, is an author and educational speaker. He writes at Webblogg-ed. He used to teach at Hunterdon Central High School, in Flemington, NJ. Had I not taken the opportunity to move to Franklin many years ago, the girls would likely have gone to this high school. As mentioned above, Will was interviewed on Personal Learning Networks and that video can be seen here:
These are just a few of the good educational resources available today. Have you found one to share?
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At first, the silence in the room was deafening. Then, gasps and questions came flying out. “Hey, Jason’s typing on MY screen.” Then, “Whoa. There’s a chat box. Are we ALLOWED to use that?!?!” After the first five minutes, the students figured out that they were supposed to work together to answer the question that I provided. I was amazed. I had not provided the students with a single verbal prompt or redirection, and they were using the tool to write a response together. Before I knew it, they had drafted a coherent answer to the question together. Their single response was much better than anything they had written individually all year.
How did this occur?
Etherpad is a free tool that allows users to collaborate in real real time. There’s no need to refresh your screen with Etherpad, it automatically updates every .5 seconds!
Franklin conducted a budget workshop on Monday, Jan 25, 2010. This is part nine and the last segment of the recording. Jeff Nutting provides some closing remarks, Scott Mason thanks Bob Richer (?), citizen at large, for participating. Bob provides some good feedback on the session.
Franklin conducted a budget workshop on Monday, Jan 25, 2010. This is part nine and the last segment of the recording. Jeff Nutting provides some closing remarks, Scott Mason thanks Bob Richer, citizen at large for participating. Bob provides some good feedback on the session.
I do pick up from the quote by Beth Fitzmaurice that I ended with in part 8:
"Special ed is not in fact a sentence, it is an opportunity to provide some specialized education but there is a mechanism in the law to re-evaluate the child every three years, and to do a full battery of evaluation, to re-determine eligibility."
I thought it quite appropriate to repeat this statement and then get into Jeff's closing, etc.
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This completes the three hour budget workshop recording. If you do have additional questions, please reach out as Jeff Nutting indicated.
If you have questions or comments you can reach me directly at shersteve @ gmail dot com
The music for the intro and exit was provided by Michael Clark and the group "East of Shirley". The piece is titled "Ernesto, manana" c. Michael Clark & Tintype Tunes, 2008 and used with their permission
I hope you enjoy!
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This is Part 8 of the Budget Workshop held in Franklin, MA on Jan 25th. This segment covers Beth Fitzmaurice, Director of Special Education, continuing to provide the details of Special Education for the Schools budget.
Franklin held conducted a budget workshop on Monday, Jan 25, 2010. This is part eight of the session recording. Beth Fitzmaurice, Director of Special Education, covers the details of providing Special Education for the students in the Franklin School District picking up from the transportation costs from the prior segment to cover the variables of budgetary impact including the circuit breaker reimbursement process and ending with a great statement:
"Special ed is not in fact a sentence, it is an opportunity to provide some specialized education but there is a mechanism in the law to re-evaluate the child every three years, and to do a full battery of evaluation, to re-determine eligibility."
Documents associated with this recording
FPS Understanding the Budget 1/25/2010 (Page 22 through 29 (end))
If you have questions or comments you can reach me directly at shersteve @ gmail dot com
The music for the intro and exit was provided by Michael Clark and the group "East of Shirley". The piece is titled "Ernesto, manana" c. Michael Clark & Tintype Tunes, 2008 and used with their permission
I hope you enjoy!
Note: email subscribers will need to click through to the website to listen to the audio version.
