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Monroe Educator Insider June 2015 Volume 2, Number 2 In This Mill Lake Lights It Up Blue For Autism! Read to Retell: Remarkable Readers at Barclay Brook Brookside is “Flipping the Classroom” Vision Statement The Monroe Township Board of Education commits itself to all children by preparing them to reach their full potential and to function in a global society through a preeminent education. Mission Statement The Monroe Public Schools in collaboration with the members of the community shall Welcome to the June edition of our professional development / best practices newsletter! Now that you are preparing for summer and thinking about next year, what resources are available to you as you plan for next year? A good place to start is . There are an abundance of resources available to you to increase the rigor in your lessons including sample lessons, student writing examples, and tools for planning. Remember to take a look at the model curriculum and anchor standards. Some other resources that may be of interest to you and are free: Newsela.com – a website of news articles. You can adjust the Lexile of articles to meet your students’ needs. Readworks.org - provides research-based units, lessons, and authentic, leveled non-fiction and literary passages directly to educators online. - a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to that appear more frequently in the source text. Here is an example of a wordle of our district vision statement, mission statement, and goals. And don’t forget to take some time for you this summer! When you are rejuvenated, it will show in your classroom and, ultimately, we all benefit. Have a wonderful summer vacation! Written by: Dr. Dori Alvich, Assistant Superintendent of Schools
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