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Tuesday, 07 March 2017 10:59
Corporate Gym Membership Information
Employees,
We continue to work with local gyms to provide membership discounts to our employees. The following gyms have committed to provide a discounted corporate membership to Weber School District employees and family members. Please click on the gym below for more information:
Vasa Fitness
If you are interested in the Vasa Fitness discount please fill out the enrollment form below and email it to in payroll or contact Kellee Snyder for further detail. You must work at least 20 hours a week to qualify for a discount. The Vasa membership is $16.99 a month and is deducted from your paycheck. This membership includes all amenities except daycare and classes (Please visit https://vasafitness.com for further information about inclusions). You can visit any Vasa Fitness location. There is no annual fee.
EOS Fitness
If you are interested in EOS Fitness please email EOS for additional information welness
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Sunday, 12 March 2017 00:00
Global Grey
Global Grey is a growing library of completely free PDFs, EPUBs, and Kindle ebooks to download.
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Saturday, 11 March 2017 00:00
MathPapa Algebra Calculator
Enter an equation into the algebra calculator and see the solution. Graphing is available, and lessons are provided to better understand the material.
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Friday, 10 March 2017 00:00
TakeMeBack.To
Enter a date in TakeMeBack.To and look up what happened on that day. Learn what songs people were listening to, the new movies and popular TV shows that were out, and look up old newspapers and photos from that time.
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Thursday, 09 March 2017 00:00
How to Solve a Rubik's Cube
This is one of those things you always wanted to know but never got around to learning. This handy infographic shows you techniques you can practice for solving the Rubik's Cube.
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Wednesday, 08 March 2017 00:00
Kideos
Kideos features safe, funny, screened videos for kids with all their favorite characters. Videos are hosted on YouTube, but Kideos provides a clean, safe interface for children to browse for hand-picked, approved videos.
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Tuesday, 07 March 2017 00:00
ZinePal
Use Zinepal to create printable PDF magazines and eBooks from online content. You can select stories from blogs, websites and Atom/RSS feeds. Zinepal creates printable PDFs, Kindle/Mobipocket and ePub versions of your zine. Print it, read it on your eBook reader or e-mail it to your friends.
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Sunday, 05 March 2017 00:00
Lingro
Enter a web site URL into Lingro, and the page will open up and make each word clickable. Clicking on any word will show a dictionary definition. Translation options are included, and Lingro remembers all the words you look up, so you can easily review and study them. This is great as a language learning and vocabulary tool.
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Monday, 06 March 2017 00:00
LetterPop
Use LetterPop to create eye-popping newsletters, actionable presentations, irresistible invitations, beautiful product features, sizzling event summaries, informative club updates, lovely picture collages, and a whole lot more.
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Wednesday, 01 March 2017 16:00
Curiosity, Questions, and Relevance
A message from Assistant Superintendent Jane Ann Kammeyer:
As a grandparent, I love when my little ones ask all those why questions. Every parent and teacher knows that young children ask a lot of questions. Young children have more questions than answer and they have an amazing sense of wonder. In the January 2016, ASCD Education Update, Kathy Checkley wrote about Oakland Elementary School in Inman, South Carolina. In the first grade at Oakland Elementary, the students have many questions and they know where to go for the answers. They could ask their teacher, but more often than not, students will write down their questions and post them on the “Wonder Wall” located in the main hallway of the school. Fourth grade students are responsible for selecting a question, researching the topic, and then posting their answers for the entire school to see.
This activity supports many learning goals: the younger students learn that asking questions is encouraged and they recognize that their teachers and other students can be reliable sources of information. Fourth Grade students research answers to the questions and share what they have learned. When we give students time and space to wonder and follow their curiosity, students extend their learning far beyond expectations.
We can create classrooms that are not merely academic but also intellectual if we will explicitly invite students to ask probing questions. “The desire to know something has to be protected at all costs,” states Wendy Ostroff, a cognitive science and developmental psychology professor. “Preserving and cultivating curiosity in the classroom has to be our number one priority.”
Asking subject-matter questions is important, but the process of encouraging kids to come up with the questions that matter to them is even better. In the September 2015 issue of Educational Leadership, Alfie Kohn states, “Deep questions help kids stay curious and grow increasingly resourceful at figuring things out, and become active meaning makers.” Subject-matter relevance comes, as students become active meaning makers through their questions.
With technology, we have answers to just about any question we can think of right at our fingertips. In today’s world, again through technology, we find ourselves increasingly surrounded by new and unfamiliar information; we are experiencing something like being a young child, with our many questions, all over again. Everywhere we look; there is something to wonder about and investigate.
To help our students be successful in school and add relevance to their learning, as grandparents, parents and teachers, one of our most important jobs is to foster student’s curiosity and teach them to ask good questions.
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