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Tuesday, January 22, 2019
1/22 EdConnection: Understanding Each Child, Our Future - Excellent Educators and Instructional Practices
Founded in 1901, Ohio PTA is the oldest and largest volunteer organization in the State of Ohio focusing on the health, welfare, safety, and education of children and youth.
Saturday, January 19, 2019
1/14 EdConnection: Understanding Each Child, Our Future - 10 Priority Strategies
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Founded in 1901, Ohio PTA is the oldest and largest volunteer organization in the State of Ohio focusing on the health, welfare, safety, and education of children and youth.
Friday, January 18, 2019
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Founded in 1901, Ohio PTA is the oldest and largest volunteer organization in the State of Ohio focusing on the health, welfare, safety, and education of children and youth.
Monday, January 14, 2019
Understanding Each Child, Our Future: Four Learning Domains | Ohio Department of Education
source: Ohio Department of Education
Each Child, Our Future is Ohio’s five-year strategic plan to ensure each student enjoys a bright future thanks to an excellent preK-12 education experience. More than 150 Ohio-based partners helped develop Each Child, Our Future, with feedback from 1,200 Ohio parents, caregivers, preK-12 and postsecondary educators, employers, business leaders, community members, state legislators and students.
This is the fifth in a 11-part series that walks EdConnection readers through the plan. Last week, we covered the plan’s vision and one goal. Now, we explore the four equal learning domains, or the four areas in which we want each Ohio student to develop knowledge and skills for success beyond high school. Find the four equal learning domains on pages 12-13 of the plan, which is available in its entirety by clicking here.
Foundational Skills and Knowledge
For our students to be successful in a rapidly changing economy, we must equip them with foundational knowledge and skills that support lifelong learning. Each child must know how to read and write critically (literacy), work with numbers (numeracy) and use technology to take the best advantage of future learning experiences.
Well-rounded Content
Beyond foundational literacy, numeracy and technology skills, students need exposure to a broad range of subjects and disciplines to help them pinpoint their passions and become lifelong learners. These include social studies, science, world languages, arts, health, physical education and career-technical education fields, among others.
Leadership and Reasoning Skills
Success depends on more than academic knowledge. Students must be able to show leadership skills. Among other things, these include learning from mistakes and improving for the future, listening to others and working to achieve a common goal, and giving and receiving feedback. Success through reasoning skills means students know how to draw on many disciplines to synthesize information, develop creative solutions and generate new ideas. These reasoning skills include critical thinking, problem-solving, design and computational thinking, information evaluation and data analytics.
Social-emotional Learning
Research shows that being part of a community improves life satisfaction and health. Doing this successfully means understanding the importance of social interaction and personal feelings. Social-emotional learning includes skills like self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, collaboration, empathy, relationship skills and responsible decision-making. Social-emotional learning gives children the tools to become resilient and persistent in life.
Next week’s EdConnection will feature an overview of the 10 strategies for achieving the vision and goal outlined in Each Child, Our Future.
Each Child, Our Future is Ohio’s five-year strategic plan to ensure each student enjoys a bright future thanks to an excellent preK-12 education experience. More than 150 Ohio-based partners helped develop Each Child, Our Future, with feedback from 1,200 Ohio parents, caregivers, preK-12 and postsecondary educators, employers, business leaders, community members, state legislators and students.
This is the fifth in a 11-part series that walks EdConnection readers through the plan. Last week, we covered the plan’s vision and one goal. Now, we explore the four equal learning domains, or the four areas in which we want each Ohio student to develop knowledge and skills for success beyond high school. Find the four equal learning domains on pages 12-13 of the plan, which is available in its entirety by clicking here.
Foundational Skills and Knowledge
For our students to be successful in a rapidly changing economy, we must equip them with foundational knowledge and skills that support lifelong learning. Each child must know how to read and write critically (literacy), work with numbers (numeracy) and use technology to take the best advantage of future learning experiences.
Well-rounded Content
Beyond foundational literacy, numeracy and technology skills, students need exposure to a broad range of subjects and disciplines to help them pinpoint their passions and become lifelong learners. These include social studies, science, world languages, arts, health, physical education and career-technical education fields, among others.
Leadership and Reasoning Skills
Success depends on more than academic knowledge. Students must be able to show leadership skills. Among other things, these include learning from mistakes and improving for the future, listening to others and working to achieve a common goal, and giving and receiving feedback. Success through reasoning skills means students know how to draw on many disciplines to synthesize information, develop creative solutions and generate new ideas. These reasoning skills include critical thinking, problem-solving, design and computational thinking, information evaluation and data analytics.
Social-emotional Learning
Research shows that being part of a community improves life satisfaction and health. Doing this successfully means understanding the importance of social interaction and personal feelings. Social-emotional learning includes skills like self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, collaboration, empathy, relationship skills and responsible decision-making. Social-emotional learning gives children the tools to become resilient and persistent in life.
Next week’s EdConnection will feature an overview of the 10 strategies for achieving the vision and goal outlined in Each Child, Our Future.
Founded in 1901, Ohio PTA is the oldest and largest volunteer organization in the State of Ohio focusing on the health, welfare, safety, and education of children and youth.
Sunday, January 13, 2019
Growing Our Membership Every Month
Source: National PTA / IVELISSE CASTRO
Membership is a year-round effort. It never ends. As PTA ambassadors, leaders are to constantly promote the value of PTA, and with it, ignite interest in our mission for people to join in. Our PTA voice is more powerful, and our PTA advocacy is stronger the more members we have.
The new year is full of additional opportunities to invite everyone to join PTA this second half of the National PTA membership year (7/1-6/30.) What are those opportunities?
- To begin with, all of your remaining meetings and activities in your PTA calendar for this year.
- To continue, all National PTA programs and activities to celebrate Take Your Family to School Week (TYFTSW). Choose one of the National PTA program categories (Health & Safety, Literacy, Digital Learning, STEM) to plan your event and create a theme for your week. On February 17, 2018, PTA celebrates 122 years of existence advocating to improve the education and well-being of all children. At your Take Your Family to School Week activities, enthusiastically and confidently invite everyone in your community to “Be part of our PTA history and join our PTA.”
- In March, take advantage of our PTA Family Reading Experience resources available at PTA.org/FRE to celebrate National Reading Month. This is a great opportunity to work with your local librarians to get families (adults and children) to visit their local public libraries, encourage them to sign up to obtain their library cards and borrow books to read at home. In the process, don’t forget to invite all families and community members to support similar PTA efforts by joining your PTA.
- Our PTA Diversity and Inclusion Toolkit and the PTAKit.org guide for organizing a PTA Program are great resources to help you plan and celebrate national awareness on issues such as:
- In March: National Nutrition Month, Women’s History Month, Youth Art Month, National Music in Our Schools Month, National Poison Prevention Month
- In April: Autism Awareness Month, Earth Month, Month of the Military Child, Financial Literacy Month, National Child Abuse Prevention Month, National Volunteer Month, National Youth Sports Safety Month
- In May, National PTA Teacher Appreciation Week, Mental Health Awareness Month, National Bike Month, National Foster Care Month, National Skin Cancer Awareness Month, Clean Air Month, Healthy Vision Month, National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month, Haitian Heritage Month,
- Jewish American Heritage Month In June: National Safety Month, African-American Music Appreciation Month
These are only possible ideas for which multiple resources are already available. In the end, all will depend on what the needs of your students and school community are, as PTA you want to be relevant. If your families need to be empowered to help their children with test taking, that should be your focus at that time; look at our PTA resources on assessment and coordinate with your school administrators. Making our PTA mission relevant to your students and your community by responding to their needs should be the north that guides the focus of your work.
Just remember to always have a way of inviting all to support our PTA work with their PTA membership. And then, share your work with your state congress PTA. They have multiple ways to recognize your membership and mission advancement efforts. So, reach out to them, and share and celebrate your accomplishments with all of us for the benefit of all children.
Thank you for all you do to grow membership “To make every child’s potential a reality by engaging and empowering families and communities to advocate for all children.”
Founded in 1901, Ohio PTA is the oldest and largest volunteer organization in the State of Ohio focusing on the health, welfare, safety, and education of children and youth.
Thursday, January 10, 2019
National PTA Resources
January 24th 2019 at 7:30 EST
Advocate for Health: Immunization and HPV - Why is it All Necessary?
February 28th 2019 at 7:30 EST
Prescription Opioid Epidemic: Know the Facts
March 28th 2019 at 7:30 EST
Healthy Lifestyles and the Importance of SHACs
May 23rd 2019 at 7:30 EST
Strategically Planning for a Mission Focused Year
Founded in 1901, Ohio PTA is the oldest and largest volunteer organization in the State of Ohio focusing on the health, welfare, safety, and education of children and youth.
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