Do Your Part To Promote A Drug-Free Lifestyle

                      

                         In Every Math Class, Of Every Grade Level, In Every School 

                         Serving 6th-12th Graders In Our District, Teachers Will Be Teaching 

                         The Exact Same Question To Students In All Courses!!!

 

                         (Stay Tuned For Next Week's Memo For A Full Explanation 

                         About MODELING MONDAY And How It Went Overall!)

 

                         Bob Grubb Will Train All New Teachers In Room 29 from 8:30-2:30

 

                         School Starts @ 8:37am For Students 

                         Common Core Collaboration Day For Teachers

 

THUR. (10/30)  LOS AL LIVE --- Comedy Improv Show

                          Showtimes are at 3:30pm and 7pm In The Black Box Theatre

                          The Show Is Hilarious, And Tickets Will Sell Out!!!

 

Many of us can remember coming home from school as children and having our parent(s) monitor, supervise, and even assist us with our homework from time to time.  After all, it seems silly to have to wait 24 hours to find out if the Math problem you worked on for homework is correct, or if your essay sounds decent.  Parents can be phenomenal editors and wonderful homework helpers... but what about when the content starts to go deep and the rigor of a course's demands aren't optimally designed for outside support?

When the going gets academically tough, one of the keys for high school teachers to maintain rigorous learning standards is to keep students motivated enough to struggle and fail throughout a semester.  Literally fail --- as in attempt to apply a new concept and be unsuccessful at it.  Throughout this application phase, teachers can lower the stakes for learning, alleviate the pressure to be immediately successful, and provide feedback for students that will be beneficial towards having their learning sink deeper on the way to mastery.

That's "productive struggle."  Struggle for the sake of learning.  And when the content goes beyond the scope of traditional support mechanisms, changing the stakes and focusing on motivation are key strategies to get the most from our kids :)

Celebrated annually on October 23 from 6:02 a.m. to 6:02 p.m., Mole Day commem-orates Avogadro's Number (6.02 x 1023), which is a basic measuring unit in chem-istry. Mole Day was created as a way to foster interest in chemistry. Schools throughout the United States and around the world celebrate Mole Day with various activities related to chemistry and/or moles.

For a given molecule, one mole is a mass (in grams) whose number is equal to the molar mass of the molecule. For example, the water molecule has an molar mass of 18, therefore one mole of water weighs 18 grams. Similarly, a mole of neon has a molar mass of 20 grams. In general, one mole of any substance contains Avogadro's Number of molecules or atoms of that substance. This relationship was first discovered by Amadeo Avogadro (1776-1858) and he received credit for this after his death.