Month: September 2023

Two new Secondary Activities

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Student-Led Peer Tutoring – As it’s always so fun to study with friends, come join peer tutoring. It is a place where you can study with your peers on a specific subject that you find hard to deal with. If you are not sure what this is, just come to Mr Shane’s classroom on Mondays after school. Remember how fun Mr Shane is so just come.

Student-Led Gunpla – Join a group of students who are to building Gunpla models and create a Gunpla scene to participate in the Gunpla Builders World Cup *inland China zone* (GBWC). Friday after school, we meet in Mr Baksh’s room.

Volunteers needed.

  • Author By annayuen
  • Publication date September 22, 2023
  • Categories: Staff

Sign up for your volunteering experience on SchoolsBuddy:

  • MUN Conference Volunteer
  • Yangshan Park Run Volunteer
  • Saturday Soccer Volunteer
  • Rollerblading Volunteer
  • Early Years After School Program Volunteer

 

 

Justice at NIS

Justice at NIS

At NIS, we believe the following about justice:

Definition: Every community member is treated with dignity.  

Action: Equitable systems, principles and practices shall ensure

safety and security for all through the fostering of acceptance,

belonging, and accountability. 

Learning for Justice

Learning for Justice is a US based organisation dedicated to working with educators, students, caregivers and communities to advance the human rights of all people. In their anti-bias education framework they use the following learning standards for the domain of justice:

How do our classroom spaces and practices work towards this:

Read this:

https://www.facinghistory.org/ideas-week/5-ways-ground-your-teaching-equity-justice

More from Learning for Justice:

https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/spring-2020/digging-deep-into-the-social-justice-standards-justice

Global Citizenship Certificate… for Adults!

ISS is offering a new Inspire Citizens Global Citizen Certificate program for educators. It has great reviews and is regarded as a solid credential and great opportunity to meet like-minded educators and build your network within this important area.

  • There are 3 separate courses and the first one starts this Saturday (there’s still time to register).
  • You don’t have to take all three courses. They can be taken separately and in any order.
  • It’s about 4 hours per week of work (asynchronous) and there are optional opportunities for live engagement via Zoom.

The cost of the full certificate is $1350 USD and is PLA eligible. If keen, please see Kasson soon. Thanks!

Skateboard Volunteer Opportunity

Ms. Moen needs two student volunteers from Grades 8-11 to help with a primary Skateboarding and Roller Blading activity after school on Thursdays from 3:00 – 4:15. You do not need to have any experience roller blading or skateboarding. You will help the primary school students to put on their roller blades and safety gear and assist the beginners as they learn to skate. This volunteering will last for 3 weeks from Sept. 21 – Oct. 19. Contact Ms. Moen via email: cherylmoen@nanjing-school.com or her classroom, D242.

Secondary MAP Testing Wrap-Up Friday

Secondary students in need of MAP testing wrap-up should head to the MAIN BUILDING LGR on Friday at 2:00pm. These students have received an email from Mr. Bratton as well. See you then!

Accreditation Reports and Actions

Please find our 2022-2023 self study report linked here along with a summary of the planned actions from that report. The self-study and evidence submitted by our committees last June will greatly inform the lines of inquiry our 13 peer evaluators will take during the upcoming October accreditation visit (October 7-13).

Please take a look and be reminded of our collective, reflective efforts and marvel at the efforts already underway on behalf of our students. More detail can always be found in the Accreditation folder on the digital hub. Please see Kasson with any questions or feedback. Thanks to all!

Student Council Notice

Thanks to all students who attended the meeting yesterday. It was great to see such strong interest and support

Please remember to complete the formal application ( Nicole will email you this today if you didn’t get it yesterday)

Also please come to the meeting next  monday at lunch where you can sign up for the 1st event, the Autumn festival!

Thanks very much

Any questions see Hesh, Nicole, or Ms Philip

Higher Education Visit: The University of Exter & the University of York

Following the USA and Canadian university visits this week, we are pleased to share that the UK universities, the University of Exeter and the University of York, will be visiting to provide information session about their universities. If you are interested in universities in the UK, please come and join the College Counselling event.

Venue: Boardroom, 3rd floor at Center

Date : Tuesday, 09. 19th, 2023

Time: 12:00 – 12:50 (Please bring your lunch box)

Participants: Upper Secondary Students and parents (Grade 9-12)

Introduction to the University of Exeter:

The University of Exeter is a member of the UK Russell Group and is ranked among the top 150 universities in the world according to THE rankings. The Business School is proud to have gained Triple Crown accreditation from the three largest and most influential business school accreditation organizations worldwide. The university has over 30,000 students from 150 countries and four campuses: Streatham and St Luke’s (both located in Exeter), and Truro and Penryn (both located in Cornwall). The majority of students are based at the Streatham Campus, which is considered one of the most beautiful campuses in the UK.

Introduction to the University of York:

The University of York, UK is a member of the prestigious Russell Group of universities. We are ranked 17th in the UK and 10th for graduate earning potential. We were voted number 1 in the Russell Group for academic support and learning opportunities for students. With international students making up over 10% of the city’s population, York is a friendly city that is regularly voted one of the best places to live in the UK due to its great quality of life. Popular courses for Chinese students include Media, Law, and Management, among many others.

Tech Tip 8:   More Handy Keyboard Shortcuts on your MAC

  • Author By kenbrady
  • Publication date September 18, 2023
  • Categories: Staff

Todays Tech Tip is a list of some more helpful keyboard shortcuts to help save time.  Most of these shortcuts rely on you pressing a combination of keys together, and most of the time you will be starting by pressing and holding the Command Key (or Cmd) ⌘ followed by another key, then letting both of them go.

Zooming in and out on your browser

(to make something easier for students to see on the projector)

  • Command + sign: Zooms in
  • Command – sign: Zooms out

Copying / Moving a file

(eg Copying or Moving from Downloads to your OneDrive)

  • Command key while dragging the file: Move the dragged item to the other volume, instead of copying it.
  • Option key while dragging the file: Copy the dragged item. Note that your cursor changes while you drag the item.

Screenshots, Screen Snips and screen recording

(This is a good one if you want your students to be recording or capturing something from their screen)

  • Shift Command 3: Whole Screen screen-shot
  • Shift Command 4: Brings up a cursor allowing you to select a section of the screen to take a screen snip
  • Shift Command 5: Opens a tool bar allowing you to take a screen shot, screen snip or make a screen recording.

OK, they were the ones I use every day.  Now for a few less common but equally useful ones.

  • Command-Tab: Bring up a tab that you can use to select from the most commonly used programs.  This is most helpful if you have your Apps maximized and so can’t see your Dock.
  • Command Option ESC: If you see the spinning rainbow of death, this opens the Force Quit window so that you can shut down an Application that has stopped working.

Remember, this tip, along with all previously published Tuesday Tech Tips including a list of other commonly used MAC Shortcuts can be found here.  Tech How To Guides

That’s it for today’s Tech Tip.

Tech Coach Ken

Creative writing video series with author Stuart Gibbs (free)

Stuart Gibbs has created six creative writing videos to give advice to young authors. Tailored for middle grades (earliest would be grade 3 up to maybe grade 9?), the videos include the introduction, setting the scene, characters, revision, telling a story, and writerly advice. Stuart Gibbs is the New York Times bestselling author of the Charlie Thorne series, FunJungle series, Moon Base Alpha series, Once Upon a Tim series, and Spy School series. He has written screenplays, worked on a whole bunch of animated films, developed TV shows, been a newspaper columnist, and researched capybaras (the world’s largest rodents).