In an effort to streamline and improve our home-school communication we will soon be launching a new platform to simplify life for our families and meet the varying needs. We will no longer have our lengthy monthly Chat. Instead, we'll have specialist "spotlights" and programmatic highlights spread throughout the month. We live in an age of mass communication, and our sincere hope is to reduce, refine, and distribute information more efficiently in order to enhance accessibility for our families. I'd like to thank our team for helping coordinate these changes- Director of Communications for BVSD, Randy Barber, Leah Sylvan, Kathryn Wolf, Samantha MacMillan, Dilek Eccles, and Trish Ortega.


As a school, we continue to use brain research to inform teaching and learning practices. One of these areas is supporting our students with their developing pre-frontal cortex, which is responsible for executive functioning/a.k.a organizational skills. During this week's leadership team meeting, we discussed the similarities and differences of how this looks at different grade levels. For primary grades, it may be "chunking" information and having students kinesthetically involved to retain learning. For intermediate grades, it may include completing their daily planner and explaining short-term and long-term assignments. As parents, you can support your child with these skills as well by discussing what they've written in their planner and breaking down larger tasks into shorter manageable pieces. Visual schedules and list making at home can also support students with executive functioning skills. A simple step by step list of what they need to be ready each morning for school or a weekly/monthly calendar can help as well.
I'm happy to discuss this topic as well as others during our upcoming Principal Coffees. This is an open forum for us to come together as a community, ask questions, learn more about the school and support one another in our most important work- raising our children.
I am so grateful for our amazing Jogathon committee who made this year's Jogathon such a success- we couldn't have done it without you! Proceeds from the Jogathon provide a variety of educational experiences for our kids that truly make a difference for our Fireside Falcons. Thank you for your financial support and participation in this one-time fundraising event.
Your partner in education,
Christa Keppler
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