Weld RE-4 School District’s Post

Promoting accessibility and inclusivity for persons of different abilities is a passion of mine. Check out The 2024 Braille Challenge and share! What is the Braille Challenge? The Braille Challenge is the only academic competition of its kind in North America for students who are blind or visually impaired. Braille Institute developed the Braille Challenge to motivate students to practice and hone their braille literacy skills, which are essential to academic and employment success. Any blind or visually impaired student in grades 1 – 12 who can read and write braille is eligible to participate in the Braille Challenge. All Contestants are divided into five categories and tested on fundamental braille skills such as reading comprehension, spelling, speed and accuracy, proofreading, and charts and graphs. https://lnkd.in/gxHJFh_g

How I teach students to open their college essay I ‘promise’ it’s better than yours— The ‘promise’ is a hook that sets the stage, hinting at the insights and reflections to come. It makes the reader invested in what’s going to happen As college counselors, you can help students craft an opening paragraph that sets up the rest of the story. Here’s an example: 1️⃣Opening Sentence: A chill ran down my spine as I stepped into the brightly lit circus tent. 2️⃣Middle Sentence Describing the Fear: The bright colors and exaggerated features of the clown twisted into a nightmarish vision. 3️⃣Final Sentence (The Promise): How did someone with coulrophobia, or the fear of clowns, end up at the circus? Now you can spend the entire essay unraveling the story By teaching students to create that irresistible opening, you empower them to capture admissions officers' attention from the start.

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Through the leadership of our Principal, Roberto Silva, and other instructional leaders at our Carman Buckner Elementary, we want students to understand the importance of social emotional learning. This week's video targets students using self management techniques to prevent bullying or physical altercations. This video focuses on the S.T.E.P process: Say the Problem, Think of the Solution, Explore the Outcome, and Pick a Solution.

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Both individuals and small groups are signing up for our course "Allies, Advocates, Co-Conspirators, Friends, Sisters: A Playbook for Leading, Learning, and Liberation." The combination of personal and intimate self-work and reflection and broader interpersonal conversations is a great tool for building trust and ensuring your efforts in learning to better navigate across difference of race, culture, class, and ethnicity is a supremely good offering. Check it out and learn more: bit.ly/3Lplaybook

TD Bites! Didar Moldazhanov answers the question “What was the most important moment in your teaching career?” How about you… What was the most important moment in YOUR teaching career? Reply/comment and let us know!

Wisdom from a Chevy Dealer: 1. Change your opinions, keep to your principles. Change your leaves, keep to your roots. 2. Train yourself to prefer the sharpest criticism from a single intelligent person to the thoughtless approval of the group. 3. The best teachers are really just adult students in their own classrooms. 4. Laziness is the bad habit of resting before you are tired. 5. There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what is not true. The other is to refuse to believe what is true.