Try to avoid questions that assume a cultural knowledge that the ELL/English B students are unlikely to have. A mathematics question about the batting average of a baseball player may cause unnecessary difficulties to a student who has never seen the game played and knows nothing about its rules.
Wednesday: Green Team Vegetable Sale
The PYP/MYP green team will be having our first garden sale of the year. It is a small one but a good one!
We will have packages of fresh organic veggies grown by our PYP and MYP students for sale in the Center Foyer at 4:00 PM on Wednesday. Don’t miss it!
Plastic Water Bottles
Hi Everyone!
I’m Sonja and I am collecting water bottles for my DP art project in which I’m going to build a lamp.
If you have empty water bottles and you don’t know what to do with them, you would help me a lot if you could bring them to the Design Centre and leave them in the big blue bag that is on one of the tables in the art area.
Thanks 
Grade 12 – Optimal Living Class – starts today
Finally, a class on how to rock it.
Isn’t it a bit odd that we went from Science to Math to History but somehow missed the class on how to live? For some wacky reason “Optimal Living 101” didn’t make the schedule…
But imagine if that class did exist—and the teachers included everyone from the old school philosophers like Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Emerson, Nietzsche and the Buddha to modern gurus like Joseph Campbell, Dan Millman, Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle and Wayne Dyer plus the world’s leading positive psychologists like Sonja Lyubomirsky, Tal Ben-Shahar and Martin Seligman who are *scientifically* establishing how we can live with more happiness, meaning and mojo.
Think of Optimal Living 101 as that class we never had.
Grade 12s, you are invited to the optional Optimal Living Course. I hope to see you in my classroom in block 2 today.
EARCOS Weekend Workshops
Below is the updated list of November – January EARCOS weekend workshops. If you are interested, please check the website, and you can apply through the PD committee. Thanks! (http://earcos.org/ww_approved_1516.php)
NOVEMBER
Date: Nov 6-7 (REGISTRATION CLOSED)
School: Taipei American School
Title: Tech-Integrated Libraries: Building the Future One Service at a Time
Consultant: Dr. Candace Aiani
Coordinator: Peter Kimball, kimballp@tas.edu.tw
Credit: SUNY
Date: Nov 7-8
School: Jakarta Intercultural School
Title: Structured Word Inquiry: Developing literacy and critical thinking through scientific inquiry about how English spelling works, research and practice
Consultant: Pete Bowers
Coordinator: Murray Hodgson, mhodgson@jisedu.or.id
Credit: SUNY
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Date: Nov 7-8
School: Shanghai Community International School -ECE
Title: Early Years Literacy
Consultant: Matthew Glover
Coordinator: Heather Knight, hknight@scischina.org
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Date: Nov 13-14
School: Taipei American School
Title: Using Technology to Effective Reach Every Learner
Consultant: Greg O’Connor
Coordinator: Peter Kimball, kimballp@tas.edu.tw
Credit: SUNY
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Date: Nov 14-15
School: Ruamrudee International School
Title: Foundations in Math: Developing Mathematical Thinking and Conceptual Understanding in Grades Kg-2
Consultant: Sara Garrett
Coordinator: Madeleine Bystrom, madeleineb@rism.ac.th
Credit: SDSU
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Date: Nov 21-22
School: UWCSEA
Title: Education for a Sustainable Future
Consultant: Mike Johnston
Coordinator: Caroline Meek, centre@uwcsea.edu.sg
Credit: SUNY
Date: Nov 21-22
School: NIST International School
Title: Service Projects from Needs Analysis to Completion
Consultant: Andy Dorn, Rick Hannah, Graham Harper
Coordinator: Maija Ruokanen, mruokanen@nist.ac.th
Date: Nov 21-22
School: Thai-Chinese International School
Title: Elementary innovation: transforming every lesson with digital media
Consultant: Sean Thompson and Brady Cline
Coordinator: Yi-Ling Chu, yiling@tcis.ac.th
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Date: Nov 28-29
School: Suzhou Singapore International School
Title: Giving Effective Feedback to your Students
Consultant: Richard Bruford
Coordinator: Renee Rehfeldt, reneerehfeldt@ssis-suzhou.net
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JANUARY 2016
Date: Jan 16-17
School: Yokohama International School
Title: Using Maker Spaces to Build a Culture of Design Thinking
Consultant: John Rinker
Coordinator: Leanne Erickson, ericksonl@yis.ac.jp
Credit: SUNY
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Date: Jan 16-17
School: Shanghai American School
Title: Flourishing in Schools: Utilizing groundbreaking research and tools from positive psychology to improve student’s wellbeing.
Consultant: Shaun McElroy
Coordinator: Janet Claassen, janet.claassen@saschina.org
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Date: Jan 16-17
School: International School of Kuala Lumpur
Title: Service Learning
Consultant: Cathryn Berger Kaye
Coordinator: Rami Madani, rmadani@iskl.edu.my
Credit: SUNY
Date: Jan 16-17
School: Brent International School Manila
Title: Elementary Assessment
Coordinator: Reverend Charles W. Mock, jmock@brent.edu.ph
Consultant: Faye Brownlie
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Date: Jan 16-17
School: Thai – Chinese International School
Title: Leveraging technology and Innovative strategies in the Math Classroom
Consultant: Wesley Przybylski
Coordinator: Yi-Ling Chu, yiling@tcis.ac.th
Date: Jan 16-17
School: Shekou International School
Title: Inquiry and Assessment for Learning, Pre-K through 2
Consultant: Holly Reardon
Coordinator: Carlene Hamley, chamley@sis.org.cn
Date: Jan 22-23
School: American International School of Guangzhou
Title: Mobile Learning. Mobile Devices
Consultant: Dana Watts
Coordinator: Jill Watson, jwatson@aisgz.org
Credit: SUNY
Date: Jan 23-24
School: International School of Beijing
Title: Making Thinking Visible
Consultant: Mark Church
Coordinator: Stacy Stephens, SStephens@isb.bj.edu.cn
Credit: SUNY
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Date: Jan 23-24
School: Brent International School Manila
Title: Assessment in Middle School and Upper School
Consultant: Faye Brownlie
Coordinator: Reverend Charles W. Mock, jmock@brent.edu.ph
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Date: Jan 23-24
School: International School of Bangkok
Title: Gifted education and reaching highly able learners
Consultant: Bronwyn MacLeod
Coordinator: Bronwyn Weale, bronwynw@isb.ac.th
Credit: SUNY
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Date: Jan 23-24
School: Singapore American School
Title: Integrating Service Learning Into Curriculum
Consultant: Cathy Berger Kaye
Coordinator: Treena Casey, tcasey@sas.edu.sg
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Date: Jan 30-31
School: International School Manila
Title: Writing Workshops and Close Reading in the Inquiry Classroom
Consultant: Kathy Collins
Coordinator: Sam Cook, cooks@ismanila.org
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