The love and pride that our Nina, Durfee student feels about school is infectious, as is her smile!
In the Blog This Week:
Scholastic Art and Writing Awards are announced! This year, we have three award winners!
- Caitlyn Borges- Painting, In the Mills- Honorable Mention
- Kiara Raposa- Painting, The Blue Period, Self Portrait- Honorable Mention
- Nolin Freitas- Painting, Durfee Union Mills- Gold Key
Congratulations to all, and to Mark Carvalho for his mentoring of these young painters!
Also, Congratulations to Reece Ashley, Durfee Band Student, for being accepted to participate in the Massachusetts Music Educators Association (MMEA) All State Conference playing Tuba! Reece auditioned on November 18, 2017 and was accepted for the Southeastern District Music Festival held on January 6-7, 2018. After receiving a score in top 50% in the state on his instrument Reece was then was eligible to audition on January 20 with the other five districts in Massachusetts for the All State Festival held on March 1-3, 2018 in Boston, MA. YESSA!!!!!
At the All State Festival all students who successfully auditioned to be part of the Concert Band, Symphony Orchestra, Mixed Chorus, and Jazz Band rehearse over two and a half days and perform on stage in Symphony Hall in Boston.
Here is the summary of Friday's Professional Development Plan:
Morning Sessions
Art- Choose ONE of the first two courses, and then all will attend the third
Time/Location
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Task- Alignment to DIP
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Description
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8-9:30
Silvia- Art
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Mini Lesson Tutorial- How To on the How To’s (Blended Learning)
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Frank Farias and Steph Pereira will be facilitating how art teachers can prepare their lessons, video-taping them, adding specific content vocabulary. A demonstration lesson will be completed, and uploaded to the site used to store and modify videos. Teachers will then load the video to the blendspace for the lesson.
Website is:
This strategy allows for the teacher to flip the classroom during instruction, and is able to rotate through the room, facilitating through hand over hand modeling if needed (students with special needs..) or simply pausing the video to chunk content, or revisit for reteaching.
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8-9:30
Morton- Art
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Work Period: Accountable Talk Sessions - Pop Art Style Roles for Notetaker, Materials, Focuser (collaborative group work)
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Jenn Mattei and Christine Mandeville will host teachers as they model how to plan a task that digs into the Historical Connections Frameworks, as they ask students in a collaborative group to synthesize the style of an artist.
Breakout Group Session - Artist Triptych Lesson - “Artist Buckets” - The following are contents of the “Bucket”:
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K-12- ALL
10:00-11:30
Durfee
Art Room 85
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Staying Current in Art Education Trends/Media
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Carolyn Jane, Dick Blick Representative from the Providence Store will be with us to demonstrate how to work with a few interesting art supplies- teachers will be able to use these media to experiment with specific tasks, and may choose to incorporate these into their maps.
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Music/Performing Arts
- Choose ONE of the first two courses, and then all will attend the third
Time/Location
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Task- Alignment to DIP
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Description
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8-9:30
Letourneau- Music
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Engaging and Rigorous Group Learning in Music (collaborative group work)
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Rebecca Jontos will lead teachers in interactive learning structures (such as numbered heads, maitre d', jigsaw, gallery walk, etc) and vocabulary strategies (from an SEI point of view), as well as how to plan tasks for students in groups that align to standards of musicianship, while making them fun and engaging, while still using that content specific vocabulary. Use of blended learning strategies (tech), movement and close reads of text will be included.
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8-9:30
Durfee- Music Audio Tech Lab
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Optional- NAfME Professional Development
Webinars
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If interested in subscribing, this webinar professional development platform will engage you in video tutorials with a short assessment afterward. The NAfME organization will send you a professional development certificate for each course (1 hour per course) in the following areas:
Band | Strings | Choral | Teaching, Philosophy and Career Development | General Music | Inclusion in the Music Classroom | Beyond the Classroom | Performing Ensembles
The webinars are offered to NAfME members/teachers for a fee of $20. Please forward to me the receipt if you choose to do this PD and I will reimburse.
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K-12 ALL
10:00-11:30 AM
Durfee
Band Room
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Dance/Movement in General Music- Engaging students through movement
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These Guest Dance Teachers will discuss movement and dance in music, and teachers will be able to implement new dance and movement strategies to experiment with specific tasks, and may choose to incorporate these into their maps. The task will be fun, and we will connect dance standards to music standards as we interpret dance and music through tempo, rhythm, mood.. We should also be able to add new dance vocabulary to our maps!
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Monthly Department Meetings for K-8 Teachers:
- We will meet after this PD for their monthly meeting. (art will continue to use this time for EXPO prep). K-5 music will be with Becky Jontos in the music wing, and 6-8 music will be with me in my office.
On the Calendar:
Saturday
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1.27.18
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Math AP Saturday Session- DHS
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Thursday
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2.1.18
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End of Term II- DHS
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Friday
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2.2.18
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Professional Development Day
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Monday
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2.5.18
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Biology MCAS Retest Day 1- DHS
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Tuesday
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2.6.18
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Biology MCAS Retest Day 2- DHS
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Tuesday
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2.13.18
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Faculty Meeting- DHS
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Friday
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2.16.18
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Winter Break begins at end of day!
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Wednesday
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2.28.18
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Department Meeting- DHS
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Wednesday
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2.28.18
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Day 1 ELA MCAS Retest Long Comp- DHS
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Thursday
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3.1.18
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FRPS Release Time Day
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Thursday
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3.1.18
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Day 2 ELA MCAS Retest- DHS
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Friday
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3.2.18
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Day 3 ELA MCAS Retest-DHS
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Monday
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3.5.18
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Day 1 Math MCAS Retest- DHS
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Tuesday
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3.6.18
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Day 2 Math MCAS Retest-DHS
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Have a wonderful weekend,
Jackie
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