MACHIAS – Third graders at Rose M. Gaffney Elementary School recently sampled cow tongue, made hand-dipped candles and fashioned a game using paper cups, pencils, string and wooden balls.
They worked with their art teacher to create silhouettes of themselves and dress them in pioneer-era styles.
It was all part of a hands-on unit designed to teach students a bit about the life of the American pioneer.
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The Department of Education is on the lookout for educators new to the profession who inspire their students and have strong leadership potential.
Those teachers and building principals are eligible for membership in the Maine Educator Talent Pool, but the Department needs nominations from the field before they can join.
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The House and Senate are still debating the two-year budget that will determine once and for all the amount of state funding headed for your districts for the 2011-12 year. On top of that, the fate of legislation dealing with school district reorganization, a standards-based diploma and charter schools is in the hands of the same lawmakers. For now, we sit tight to see what comes out of the legislative process.
While we wait, there’s plenty going on outside of the State House.
Today, for example, we have the chance to see more than 1,000 middle- and high-school students actively engaged in learning the way many of them learn best — digitally — at the eighth annual Maine Learning Technology Initiative student conference. I stopped there on my way back from Washington County and was blown away by the quality of the student presentations.
And in this week’s Commissioner’s Update, we bring you a streamlined Calendar of Reporting Requirements that, hopefully, makes it easier to keep track of some of your administrative work. Please let us know what you think.
May 23, 2011
Dear Superintendents and Assistant Superintendents of Schools:
I’m pleased to invite you to the 100th Annual School Superintendents’ and Assistant Superintendents’ Conference on June 27-28, 2011 at the Senator Inn in Augusta, Maine.
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By Rich Barratt
ROCKLAND — I teach a curriculum that’s deep in math.
From basic operations to geometry to trigonometry, math plays a big part in the machine tool industry. But as a precision machine technology instructor at Mid-Coast School of Technology, I’ve never had the proper training I need to teach the math that’s such a crucial part of the trade.
That’s where the Math-in-CTE program comes in.
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