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Issue 3 Volume 28
March 29, 2013

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PARENT TIP
Teach Children to Resolve Conflicts Instead Of Arguing

Your two children both want to be on the computer right now. Instead of jumping in and solving  the problem,
follow these steps:
 
Give the argument a name. Use the word conflict.
Say, "It sounds as though we have a conflict about who gets to use the computer."
1. Remind your children that conflict is how we learn and grow and tell them you are going to work with them to resolve the conflict.
2. Set some rules. Both have to agree to work together to figure out a
solution that's fair. (If they resist, tell them they can work out the problem or they can both do without the computer.) They can't call each other names. They have to tell the truth.
3. Get the facts. Have each child tell his side of the story. Jacob may say he's working on a book report. Simon may say he has to look up facts for a report that's due tomorrow. 

Read more tips by clicking here.

  
Golden Apple winners announced
Congratulations Stefanie Borders and Tenisha Webb on your selection as 2013 Golden Apple Teaching Award winners for Excellence in Teaching. The awards were given at the 2013 Excellence in Education Celebration sponsored by the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and Northern Kentucky Education Council.
  
Golden Apple winners
Tenisha Webb, teacher at Twenhofel Middle, and Stefanie Borders, teacher at Summit View Elementary, were two of 10 teachers selected for the prestigious Golden Apple Award at the 2013 Excellence in Education Celebration on March 28. View more photos of the awards by clicking on this link.  
 

Matt Tarka claims fourth consecutive win in Matt Tarka Kentucky Student Technology Leadership Program competition

Matt won first place in the competitive state Student Technology Leadership Program (STLP) Presenter Category competition on March 28 for the fourth consecutive year.

 

STLP, established in 1994, is a project-based learning program that empowers students in all grade levels to use technology to learn and achieve.

 

Way to go Matt!

Holocaust survivor recounts experience to Turkey  Foot Middle School students
Conrad Weiner said he was substitute teaching at a high school several years ago when a student, recognizing Weiner's European accent, asked him if he ever met Adolph Hitler.
  
Weiner, from Romania, told him no, but that he did spend four years in a concentration camp. "What were you concentrating on?" the student asked. He wasn't kidding.

"He was that ignorant," Weiner said. "He didn't know what the Holocaust was. I decided to start speaking after that."

Weiner, 75, gave a presentation about his life Thursday titled "Never Again" to 350 eighth-grade students at
Turkey Foot Middle School.
  
Continue reading this KY Enquirer article about Mr. Weiner and his visit to Turkey Foot Middle School by clicking here. 
Holocaust survivor
Mr. Conrad Weiner, Holocaust survivor, visited Turkey Foot Middle School students on March 21 as part of the in-depth exploration of the Holocaust using primary sources, video survivor testimony, narratives and Literature Circles developed by Language Arts teachers Melanie Dulaney, Michele Beier, and Susan Noyes. Photo by The Enquirer/Patrick Reddy.
 
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