If you have any room organization ideas, let me know. Great job Joe!
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Transportation requests for testing
Kim is leaving a transportation request form in mailboxes this week.
A copy will also be in the guidance office. The only kids that should be signing up in the Guidance Office are kids who are retaking exams. If an entire class is taking a test, the kids should be signing up with that teacher for transportation.
Weather notes for testing: It looks like another warm spell is coming next week. Not great for my cross country skiing habit, but chances are we won't have a snow day on ELA Regents day!
BOCES needs assessment
Please consider completing the short survey from Barry Derfel:
If you have already taken a few minutes to give us at TST BOCES your input on our winter and spring needs assessment survey, thank you. If not, I would greatly appreciate your help in completing this brief survey.
Like the classroom visit data we are collecting, this survey focuses on what you notice students doing as they learn. Your input will help us plan Professional Development that is timely, relevant, and responsive.
We currently have 46 responses from across the region, and our goal is to collect 200. This will make us confident that we have received enough input to make valid decisions about the best ways to support the region this winter and fall. Again, thank you for your help.
Barry
Lightspeed Systems
About a week ago, a rep from Lightspeed Systems spoke with me.
You can see the presentation along with our conversation here.
Lightspeed makes audio systems for classrooms. Depending on the room, there are always a few rooms where hearing can be a challenge. Feel free to check it out. Their website is linked in the title. Please let me know if you would have any interest in a system.
Here are some data sheets from 2 of their popular products:
Redcat data sheet
Activate data sheet
Linguistics Olympiad
This is pretty late notice, but if anyone is interested in this, I would try to help organize it.
The Department of Linguistics at Cornell is hosting the Linguistics Olympiad (North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad NACLO http://www.nacloweb.org/) January 25 and will offer an information training session on Saturday January 13, 11am-12:30 (local info http://linguistics.cornell.edu/outreach. We will also be offering an info session at IHS, Tuesday, January 16, 3:45, K17 hosted by Suzanne Nussbaum.
NACLO is a pencil and paper contest in which students use analytical skills to solve puzzles in languages that they do not know. Through solving the puzzles, students learn something about the structure of human languages and how computers can process them. The contest introduces students to possible careers in linguistics, languages, and computer science. The target audience for NACLO is high schoolers (9-12th grades), but middle schoolers (6-8th grades) are also welcome to participate. NACLO has no prerequisites and no registration fee.
The NACLO open round is on January 25, 9:30am-1pm. Details can be found on the web site. (This is followed by an invitational round on March 8 and the International Linguistics Olympiad in Prague, Czech Republic in July.)
Registration is now open at http://www.nacloweb.org/. Select Cornell University as contest location.
To Prepare for NACLO: Students can practice with past exams from the NACLO web site and are encouraged to attend an info training session.
We'd be happy to answer any questions (linguisticsOutreach@cornell.edu)
Abby Cohn & Miloje Despic, NACLO @ Cornell co-chairs
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Abigail C. Cohn, Professor, acc4@cornell.edu
Abigail C. Cohn, Professor, acc4@cornell.edu
Miloje Despic, Assistant Professor, md682@cornell.edu
Department of Linguistics, Morrill Hall, Cornell University
Save a Life Tour - Date change
There is a new date for the Save a Life tour - Monday April 23. I will be working on an assembly schedule for that day.
School safety notes:
We recently had a couple of chronically truant kids show up to school through a side door. As a result, it was tough to track them. For the majority of instances (emergencies excluded), please help to make sure that students enter the building at the main entrance. Thanks.
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