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February 17th Pre-break WRAP UP

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 Durfee Music Department receives a $3000.00 donation from the Michael Troy Foundation Heather Pereira's 3D work sits (finished and in progress) on her windowsill at Doran- super cool lesson ideas for younger grades that tap into art history! Erin Erban's Guitar students at Durfee getting "schooled" on how to play the Uke! So much to share this week...  ðŸ’— From Mary Zema :  Mary shared this Ted Talk with me and even though I had seen this one before, I forgot how hard I laughed when I saw it, but more importantly, how TRUE this rings for educators of the arts..  Please check it out (it ties into our last year's text, A Whole New Mind, by Daniel Pink)! https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity?utm_source=tedcomshare&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tedspread Sir Ken Robinson talks about how schools can be "programmed" to kill creativity..  He reflects on how children are NOT AFRAID TO BE WRONG, but h

Post PD BlogBlast! 2/3/17

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Thank you all for being active learners at this past Monday's professional development session..  I would like to share some really great pictures that speak louder than any quote, inspirational phrase or words! Continue to build lessons from what you learned and discussed with colleagues as this type of collaboration is what sets us apart from other districts...  ðŸ’— my team. ON THE AGENDA: Monday:  Kuss CPT- 7:30 Tuesday : CPT Morton 8AM, HLCS 8:30 AM Wednesday:  Formative Evaluations, CPT Durfee team- in individual departments at 10:45 AM ALSO: Durfee has PT Conferences from 5 to 7PM Thursday:  CPT Talbot 1:20,  Career Fair at Durfee Friday:  CPT Doran, Itinerant CPT Durfee Team plan ahead - 14th of Feb is the next Faculty Meeting and the 15th is the Department Meeting! Thank you everyone, and I am keeping it short this week because I want to just celebrate the greatness I saw this week during our professional learning time on Monday! No