Montessori Institute of Texas presents...

Presented in partnership with

with Dr. Steven J. Hughes

 School 2.

March 5, 2012 - 7:00-9:00 p.m. 

At: Clark Conference Center, University of Texas at Dallas 800 W. Campbell Road, Richardson, TX \

Admission: $20 per person ($15 for students with ID) Tickets with Parking Pass must be purchased in advance Space is limited - Buy your ticket today!  with Dr. Steven J. HughesPresident, American Academy arch Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone over 100 years ago, yet would have recognized any telephone in use for most of the 20th century. It was only a few years ago that ‘Telephone 1.0’ was replaced by mobile phones and Bluetooth gadgets–the world of ‘Telephone 2.0’. For all our technical progress, education throughout the world predominantly follows a ‘School 1.0’ model. Indeed, the basic features of Teacher, Learner, and Curriculum would all be familiar to Plato or Socrates were they to reappear today. However, life and work in the 21st century have placed increasing pressure on the School 1.0 model. What should young people be learning (or learning to do) to experience successful, happy–indeed interesting–lives in the 21st century? Can traditional school give young people what they need, or is it time to rethink education–to consider ‘School 2.0’? What does neuroscience tell us? Will the role of teachers change? What will students do? Will School 2.0 be as unrecognizable to us now as a Bluetooth earpiece would be to Bell? This presentation explores the challenges faced by educators in the 21st century, and considers some promising approaches that are setting the stage for School 2.0., 20

http://www.montessori-mit.org/pages/events.php12for    7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Clark Conference Center

University of Texas at Dallas

800 W. Campbell Road, Richardson, TX 75080

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone over 100 years ago, yet would have recognized any telephone in use for most of the 20th century. It was only a few years ago that ‘Telephone 1.0’ was replaced by mobile phones and bluetooth gadgets–the world of ‘Telephone 2.0’. For all our technical progress, education throughout the world predominantly follows a ‘School 1.0’ model. Indeed, the basic features of Teacher, Learner, and Curriculum would all be familiar to Plato or Socrates were they to reappear today. However, life and work in the 21st century have placed increasing pressure on the School 1.0 model. What should young people be learning (or learning to do) to experience successful, happy–indeed interesting–lives in the 21st century? Can traditional school give young people what they need, or is it time to rethink education–to consider ‘School 2.0’? What does neuroscience tell us? Will the role of teachers change? What will students do? Will School 2.0 be as unrecognisable to us now as a bluetooth earpiece would be to Bell? This presentation explores the challenges faced by educators in the 21st century, and considers some promising approaches that are setting the stage for School 2.0.  

Admission $20 per person.   Students $15 with I.D.        

Tickets must be purchased in advance.  A parking pass is required in order to park on the UTD campus, and will be provided with your online registration. After March 2nd, guests may still purchase admission tickets online and will need to stop at the UTD visitor center to obtain a parking pass.

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Upcoming Bake Sale...Yummy!

Why Bake Sales are Still A Good Bet for School Fundraising

Posted by Jim Berigan on 10 Mar 2011 in: Bake Sale, Volunteerism

When I accepted the job of a school administrator and principal, one of the first things I did was to put out a survey to parents, asking them to tell me what kinds of events they’d be willing to volunteer for.

Hands down, the most popular response I got was “Bake Sales”. At first, I was surprised the reaction was so strong in that particular direction. But, as I started to think about it, the reasons behind the response became clearer.

Now, maybe, I just happened to work at a school with a lot of moms who loved to bake. However, I don’t think so. Rather, I think that volunteering to bake something has many things going for it over other forms of fundraising volunteer gigs.

First of all, I think that most parents have some vague sense of obligation to volunteer for their kid’s school. Unfortunately, most of the volunteer jobs either take too long or are too hard to fit into the family’s hectic schedule.

However, if the school asks a parent to just bake a pie or a couple dozen cookies, that is a much easier undertaking. Most people have stuff at home to whip something up, and it can be done after the kids go to bed. If they don’t have all the needed ingredients, it’s still pretty easy to stop by the store, since they probably need other stuff anyway. Therefore, the parent can finally say “yes” to helping the school, because it is on his or her own terms.

I think another reason why bake sales are so popular is that many moms and some dads see cooking and baking as a competitive sport. They fancy themselves a bit of a whiz in the kitchen, and they don’t mind other people knowing they are, either. So, they take no small amount of pride in their award-winning banana cream pie or their triple chocolate fudge meltdown brownies. Therefore, when I issued the order to go bake something, I was like the starter at the Indy 500, telling them to start their engines.

We had many bake sales in my time at the school, and never once did I have to worry about recruiting enough people to bake.

Our bake sales were always held at local grocery stores on busy Saturday mornings, usually scheduled right before a big college football or basketball game was on television later that afternoon. I think the lowest amount we ever sold was $500. With an army of bakers at the ready, we could have four or five of these throughout the year and do pretty well for ourselves.

I know that bake sales as a fundraiser can seem very old-fashioned, but let me tell you, they do work.

The following event looks to be like a wonderful and informative time for all parents.  Typically, these montessori workshops have not included parents--so this is very special one.  Please visit http://amiusa.org/5250-2 to read up on the keynote address and the accomplished lecturer, Paola Trabalzini.  The event takes place over the weekend of February 17th in Fort Worth.  Besides the keynote address which is open to the public on Friday the 17th., there is also a schedule for a Parents Workshop listed below.  For further thoughts or information, please contact Tom Lowe.

intelligent

Saturday, February 18

Parents Workshop Schedule

9:00 - noon

Lecture Session

Noon - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 - 4:30 p.m.

Lecture Session

4:45 - 5:45 p.m.

Open Meeting With the AMI/USA Board

parents’

Workshop

Lyin’, Cheatin’ and Stealin’

Why We Don’t Even Allow Our- selves to Think About Our Own Children’s Behavior in Those Terms

Donna Bryant Goertz

It takes time for children to realize that they cannot make something become so simply because they say it is so. After all, children hear adults say all manner of outlandish things. It must seem to children that those nearly unimaginable things are true simply because the adult has said so. Donna Bryant Goertz’s presentation discusses these urgent, delicate, and complex issues for parents.

Beyond Bullies and Victims

Eliminating Those Destructive Roles and Labels

Donna Bryant Goertz

Temperaments and personalities, and therefore behaviors and rela- tionships, vary dramatically from child to child. Donna Bryant Goertz explores how we can build a family and a community that refuses to cast children in roles or to define their behavior and relationships destructively.

Donna Bryant Goertz

is the author of

Children Who Are Not Yet Peaceful: Prevent- ing Exclusion in the Early Elementary Classroom.

Hope to see you there!

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Let's not cause an accident...
Please follow the guidelines for carpool pickup.
 It's all about being safe and efficient and to a large extent, courteous.

* At 3:20 signs will go up at Tenison Memorial and Lindsley directing our carpool traffic to go around the block and approach the school from Shadyside.

* Traffic cones will not block access to the street, because the DART bus is scheduled to arrive at 3:25.

* Enter our driveway ONLY by left-turn after approaching from Shadyside and the East Grand access road.

* Exit ONLY by right turn (until traffic cones are removed), and proceed to Shadyside and the East Grand access road.

A fresh year and some fresh goal setting with your kids! What a great opportunity to set some exciting goals for yourself and show your children how to do the same.  Children learn by example...

Some things to bear in mind when helping your children set goals include:

1)        Be careful when suggesting deadlines or time limits. When we get to the age where the months seem to fly by, it's easy to forget what time feels like to a child. Remember when two weeks seemed like an impossibly long time? Be sensitive to the age of your child when talking with him about time frames.

2)        Have your children write their goals down – or help them with that if they are too young. Write down not only the goal itself, but also WHY it's important and what it will LOOK LIKE when it's achieved.

3)        As much as possible, let your children be the ones to come up with the ideas for their own goals. If you need to make suggestions, be as sensitive as you can to their age and interests. Be especially sensitive about the "size of the goal". Children need to have big goals broken down into mini-goals so that they can see progress quickly, preferably on a daily basis. A goal to learn to spell five new words a week is better to focus on than winning the national Spelling Bee!

4)        Work on the goal with your child – but don't take over! Make sure that your child can sense your interest and support but be careful she doesn't think that you want to do it for her.

5)        Set a good example by having written goals of your own and let your children see you working towards them regularly.

Good Luck and Happy New Year!!!!

The First LPCS Holiday Concert

The first LPCS Holiday Concert was FANTASTIC!

If you missed it or would like to re-live all the beautiful happiness again and again, here's your chance.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you WAY INTO MUSIC! What a gift you've given our kids! If you can make a donation to Way Into Music please do!

The warm up

Jump Up and The Candy Man

Feliz Navidad and Oh Hanukkah

Let It Be

The Lindsley Park Community School Holiday Song
Original lyrics and music by the LPCS kids and Amy and Marc from Way Into Music

United Way Holiday eCards

Some of our very own kiddos at LPCS had their art selected by United Way of Dallas.  Check it out!

http://my.unitedwaydallas.org/page/content/holiday2011/?utm_source=email1&utm_medium=email&utm_content=text_link&utm_campaign=Holiday%2BeCard%2B2011

Goodbye Little Chicks

Ms. Sandhya's class had the fun and educational experience of caring for 21 eggs.  They were able to watch those strong enough break out of their shells slowly and start their little lives.  Farmer Jeff continually looked in and supervised the chicks for the weeks that they stayed in the classroom.  There were three thriving little chicks who eventually needed to return to the farm.  The above video was shot on the last day before the chicks left...

Way Into Music at LPCS

Ever wondered about the creative talent behind our childrens' chorus at school?  My kiddos adore their music teacher and are constantly humming and singing the songs she is teaching them.  Recently, they have begun to learn a song that Ms. Amy and Mr. Marc co wrote just for the Lindsley Park School!!!!  The words are simply beautiful and fun.  The program that allows for music to be in the school, at no cost, is "Way Into Music."  As a school, we are so lucky to have been the recipients of such amazing and gifted musicians especially at a time when so many arts programs are being cut out completely.

Way Into Music

In 2005, local musicians & teachers, Marc Solomon & Mary Armstrong  expanded Marc’s already thriving teaching business to become partners in the founding of Zounds Sounds School of Music and Studios. The school quickly became a popular fixture in the Dallas music, and arts community, garnering a Best of Dallas nod in both the Dallas Observer as well as D Magazine. Employing 20 of the city’s most talented musicians as teachers, Zounds Sounds’ combination of private lessons and the “Band Program” of exciting live performances, has made it the “rock ‘n roll” model of music education in Dallas TX.

Having watched their students thrive, Marc and Mary want to share the benefits of Zounds style of music education with kids who cannot presently afford lessons, not to mention instruments on which to practice. With Dallas public schools struggling to provide music education in the curriculum, Way Into Music is dedicated to keeping music alive in children’s lives.

Way Into Music’s fund is supported by caring individual donors, various fundraising projects, as well as concerts and the sale of original music created by talented and generous Zounds Sounds staff members and students.

"Helping children develop a concept of true self worth is the greatest gift we can give to them and to our collective future."--(Mission statement of Way Into Music.")

Amy Curnow

Our Amy hails from an incredibly musical family. Her father James, a noted composer of symphonic, wind & brass music, and her mother, an accomplished artist, encouraged Amy from an early age (family legend has it at 18 months!) in her singing, and her piano playing. Born in Lexington, Kentucky, Amy was extremely active in various church & school choirs, as well as performing in many musicals. She went on to earn her BA in Vocal Performance at Asbury College, while working with legendary producers Charlie Peacock & Dave Barrack. She then went on to earn her Masters of Music in Vocal Performance at the University of Kentucky.

After graduating, Amy moved to Little Rock, Arkansas to teach for a year at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Community School of the Arts, and to perform with the Arkansas Repertory Theatre. She also recorded commercial jingles, and put together an early professional demo. It was this demo that garnered her a national McDonald’s radio ad after she moved to Dallas in 2001. (Go ahead; ask her to sing it…) She was the lead singer of cult fave, Shanghai 5 (winner Best Jazz Band by the Dallas Observer Music Award in 2007), and was nominated Best Female Vocalist in both 2007 & 2008. During her four years in Shanghai 5, Amy worked with such production luminaries as Matt Pence, Tim O’Hare (Frank Black & Franz Ferdinand) Todd & Toby Pipes & Earl Harvin. Amy is currently pursuing acting & modeling, in addition to voice over work. She is currently singing in a band with Zounds’ Marc Solomon & Gerald Iragorri, and has been doing recording session work with Trey Johnson, Danny Balis, PPT & Stuart Sikes.

Amy enjoys teaching her students to find their own individual voices. As a yoga practitioner, she believes in exploring the breath as a support system for not only singing, but for life.

December 8, 2011 @ 1:30 will be our first 

Elementary Childrens' Chorus Concert.  

Please support our kiddos!

If you cut it---it will grow...

Our Garden is in need of clippings, rain barrels and just a few helping hands.  Please if you have time and or plants/flowers that we could use at the school---You Would Be Loved Even More!

http://www.happynews.com/living/gardening/cuttings-plants-trees.htm

Dana Schumm is working hard to make the garden beautiful but needs our help.  I am totally new to the whole cutting of plants/flowers but I have been told it's so easy.  We just stick it in the garden and it will grow.  Contact Dana if you would like to help out by sharing some clippings or gardening hours.

Fourth Grade Options

Fourth Grade Options:

Choices for your Child After Lindsley Park....

The choices for your children when they leave Lindsley Park after third grade are numerous. But admission to many public schools, like charter schools or Vanguard schools within the Dallas Independent School District, requires planning, submission of evaluations, and – sometimes – testing. The procedures are much like admission to private schools. Now is the time to plan for this important transition in your child’s school life. This program is especially for parents of third grade children at Lindsley Park and East Dallas, but all parents are welcome.

When: Wednesday, November 9th, 6:30 PM 

Where: Mary Loew’s elementary classroom, LPCS

CHILDCARE PROVIDED FOR CHILDREN 3 AND OLDER!

Flu Season is Here...Sore Throat, Fever, Chills, Cough--Yuck!

Let's help keep our children healthy this flu season:  

Wash Hands, Sleep Well, Get Fresh Air, Exercise

"Ain't nobody here but us chickens..."

Ms. Sandya's class had a wonderful experience over the past few weeks...they watched chicks hatch out of their eggs and thrive into these three little ones.  The children said goodbye to them today, most held them in their hands and wished them luck in their new home.  What a great experience for them all.

Pumpkin Patch---Soooo much fun!

Children and the need for sleep....

Children desperately need sleep--not eight hours like adults should be striving for but at least 11 hours of solid rest.  Which makes eight o'clock the bewitching hour.  Understanding the power of sleep may compel us to strive to get our kiddos in bed early. 

Just as exercise and nutrition are essential for our optimal health and happiness, so is sleep.  The quality of our sleep directly affects mental sharpness, productivity, emotional balance, creativity and even weight.  Apparently, no other activity delivers so many benefits with so little effort.

I always told my kids that they grew in their sleep--tacitly implying that if they didn't sleep for as long as I expected, they just might not ever get taller.  This tactic has worked for many years.  Everyone wants to grow...right?  

Hopefully, as parents we will remember that we need to have excellent rest as well.  Setting this example might be one of our most important responsibilities with our children.

Listed below are a few myths and facts about sleep:

Myths and Facts about Sleep

Myth 1: Getting just 1 hour less sleep per night won’t affect your daytime functioning. You may not be noticeably sleepy during the day. But even slightly less sleep can affect your ability to think properly and respond quickly, and compromise your cardiovascular health, energy balance, and ability to fight infections.

Myth 2: Your body adjusts quickly to different sleep schedules. Most people can reset their biological clock, but only by appropriately timed cues—and even then, by 1–2 hours per day at best. Consequently, it can take more than a week to adjust after traveling across several time zones or switching to the night shift.

Myth 3: Extra sleep at night can cure you of problems with excessive daytime fatigue. Not only is the quantity of sleep important but also the quality of sleep. Some people sleep 8 or 9 hours a night but don’t feel well rested when they wake up because the quality of their sleep is poor.

Myth 4: You can make up for lost sleep during the week by sleeping more on the weekends.Although this sleeping pattern will help relieve part of a sleep debt, it will not completely make up for the lack of sleep. Furthermore, sleeping later on the weekends can affect your sleep-wake cycle so that it is much harder to go to sleep at the right time on Sunday nights and get up early on Monday mornings.

Adapted from: Your Guide to Healthy Sleep (PDF) The National Institutes of Health

Check out the article "How to Get Kids to Sleep More" for more advice:

http://nymag.com/news/features/38979/

"I love sleep.  My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

--Ernest Hemmingway

LPCS Pumpkin Patch

October 31 @ 3:00

Come decorate a pumpkin!!!! 

If you weren't there...you missed out!

Friday the 21st

Soccer anyone????

Let's show our support as parents of children at LPCS and

engage in a seriously fun game of soccer.  It will be held

right before the potluck dinner at Lindsley Park at 5:30.

The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this:

If it moves, kick it.  If it doesn't move, kick it until it does!

(Phil Woosnam)

2012 Refresher Course and Workshops

Every year the national Montessori group offers what they call a 'refresher course' for teachers over the Presidents' Day weekend in February.  This year, they are offering workshops for parents as well. The event will be held in Fort Worth and the parent workshop will be given by Donna Goertz.  Mr. Loew and many others at LPCS are very familiar with Ms. Goertz and her work.  Ms. Goertz is the author of the book Children Who Are Not Yet Peaceful.  She comes highly recommended!  

Mark your calendars and perhaps visit www.amiusa.org or email annenbailey@gmail.com to learn more about this event.  We will keep you updated on this event and remind you about it in the months to come.

Don't forget the GARAGE SALE

Save the Date--October 15

Please remember to ask your family, friends and neighbors for

items to sell at the LPCS Garage Sale.  All proceeds go to the

Parent Organization for the school and anything not sold

will be donated to the Salvation Army.  Please drop your
items off at LPCS and/or contact
Vicky Salazar at 972-485-5143

Thanks for your help!!!!!!!