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The Book Club
Last month's book:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
-By Rebecca Skloot
From a single, abbreviated life grew a seemingly immortal line of cells that made some of the most crucial innovations in modern science possible. And from that same life, and those cells, Rebecca Skloot has fashioned in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks a fascinating and moving story of medicine and family, of how life is sustained in laboratories and in memory. Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore, a poor African American migrant from the tobacco farms of Virginia, who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30 in 1951. A sample of her cancerous tissue, taken without her knowledge or consent, as was the custom then, turned out to provide one of the holy grails of mid-century biology: human cells that could survive--even thrive--in the lab. Known as HeLa cells, their stunning potency gave scientists a building block for countless breakthroughs, beginning with the cure for polio. Meanwhile, Henrietta's family continued to live in poverty and frequently poor health, and their discovery decades later of her unknowing contribution--and her cells' strange survival--left them full of pride, anger, and suspicion. For a decade, Skloot doggedly but compassionately gathered the threads of these stories, slowly gaining the trust of the family while helping them learn the truth about Henrietta, and with their aid she tells a rich and haunting story that asks the questions, Who owns our bodies? And who carries our memories?
This month's book:
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education.
-By Diane Ravitch
As an education historian and former assistant secretary of education, Ravitch has witnessed the trends in public education over the past 40 years and has herself swung from public-school advocate to market-driven accountability and choice supporter back to public-school advocate. With passion and insight, she analyzes research and draws on interviews with educators, philanthropists, and business executives to question the current direction of reform of public education. In the mid-1990s, the movement to boost educational standards failed on political concerns; next came the emphasis on accountability with its reliance on standardized testing. Now educators are worried that the No Child Left Behind mandate that all students meet proficiency standards by 2014 will result in the dismantling of public schools across the nation. Ravitch analyzes the impact of choice on public schools, attempts to quantify quality teaching, and describes the data wars with advocates for charter and traditional public schools. Ravitch also critiques the continued reliance on a corporate model for school reform and the continued failure of such efforts to emphasize curriculum. Conceding that there is no single solution, Ravitch concludes by advocating for strong educational values and revival of strong neighborhood public schools. For readers on all sides of the school-reform debate, this is a very important book.
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Student Instructional Logs: STUDENTINSTRUCTIONALLOG06062011.doc
Pacing Calandars: PacingCalendars.docx
Stop Bullying Now!
http://www.stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov/kids/
The Common Core Standards:
http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards
Resource Disk Information:
High School:
GRADUATIONREQUIREMENTSCareerTechnicalEducationStudents20082010.pdf
GRADUATIONREQUIREMENTSGeneralEducationStudents20082010.pdf
GRADUATIONREQUIREMENTSStudentswithDisabilities20082010.pdf
ProceduresforHighSchoolStudents081110.pdf
RequestforHighSchoolCourseCodes090710.pdf
Home Instruction:
HIPAAENGLISH2010.pdf
HIPAASPANISH2010.pdf
HomeInstructionOfficesREV090710.pdf
HomeInstructionPhysicianRequest2010.pdf
HomeInstructionReferralForm2010.pdf
RASAGRADES78REV090710.pdf
RASAGRADES912REV090710.pdf
RASAGRADESK6REV090710.pdf
ResourceGuideforHomeDistrictsREV090710.pdf
STUDENTINSTRUCTIONALLOGREV090710.pdf
PBIS:
PBISBronzeMedalCertificate090710.pdf
PBISGoldMedalCertificate090710.pdf
PBISINCIDENTFORMREV090710.pdf
PBISSilverMedalCertificate090710.pdf
PBISStudentPerformanceSummaryREV090710.pdf
PBISDailyChartfor4PeriodsREV090710.pdf
PBISDailyChartfor5PeriodsREV090710.pdf
PBISDailyChartfor7PeriodsREV090710.pdf
Pupil Accounting:
AgeGradeLevels20102011REV090710.pdf
DailyMonthlySummaryStudentLog.pdf
HospitalSchoolsInformalRegisterREV090710.pdf
HospitalSchoolsMonthlyAttendanceReportREV090710.pdf
LegendforRegistersREV090710.pdf
NONDOEIntakeStudentLogREV090710.pdf
Special Needs:
504SchoolYear201011.pdf
RequestforIEPandCourseCodes090710.pdf
Student Accountability:
RASAGRADES78REV090710.pdf
RASAGRADES912REV090710.pdf
RASAGRADESK6REV090710.pdf
STUDENTINSTRUCTIONALLOGREV090710.pdf
Support:
CoachRequestForm090710.pdf
RequestforaProfessionalDevelopment090710.pdf
RequesttoAttendaWorkshop090710.pdf
Teacher parent Correspondence:
ENGLISHCONSENTTOPHOTOGRAPHFILMORVIDEOTAPEASTUDENTFORNONPROFITUSE.pdf
EnglishSpanishDeclinationFormREV090710.pdf
HSParentLetterREV090710.pdf
InterestInventoryforStudentsREV090710.pdf
SPANISHCONSENTTOPHOTOGRAPHFILMORVIDEOTAPEASTUDENTFORNONPROFITUSE.pdf
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wageworksaccessaride.pdf
wageworksparknride.pdf
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