Author, Julia Cook Will Visit FPS On Monday, October 17, 2016

Julia Cook is a former teacher and school guidance counselor.  She has become one of America’s most recognized authors of guidance storybooks for children.  She writes practical, easy to use stories that not only make a positive difference, but are fun to read.  Julia has the innate ability to enter the world view of a child through storybooks, giving both children the “what to say” and the “how to say it.”  Cook’s ultimate goal:  make a positive difference in the lives of people both young and old by teaching lifelong problem-solving skills.

Visit her website @ http://www.juliacookonline.com

Book order forms will be sent home the week prior to her visit and will be due Wednesday, October 26th. Please make checks payable to JULIA COOK.

FPS Students and Staff Attend Digital Citizenship Symposium

Several teachers, students and administrators attended the Digital Citizenship Symposium in Kearney on Tuesday.

Featured Speakers were Karen Haase, Education Attorney, KSB School Law, Lincoln, Nebraska, Craig Badura, Technology Integration Specialist, Aurora Public Schools, Stephanie Bernthal, Instructional Technology Trainer, Educational Service Unit #17, and Hunter Radenslaben, @AthleteNationCo, Waverly High School, Waverly, Nebraska.

The purpose of the symposium titled “Be The Key” was to share information and educational resources on the topic of digital citizenship.

School personnel and students created a poster of the “Key” takeaways of the day.

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Fairbury High School Receives $20,000 Grant From Educationquest

 

EXCITING COLLEGE EXPOSURE OPPORTUNITIES FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Fairbury Jr-Sr High School was awarded the EducationQuest College Access grant for the next 4 years.  Each year for the next 4 years, we will receive $5000 to be used towards college access activities for all 9-12th grade students.  Such activities include, college visits for every student 9-12, providing ACT Test Prep sessions for students preparing to take the ACT, financial aid presentationś by EducationQuest personnel, college fair, and countless other opportunities for exposure.  Important dates and information for the month of October are listed below:

10/4:  College Fair-SCC Beatrice-all juniors and seniors

10/5:  College visit to UNL-all seniors

10/10:  Financial Aid Meeting for all seniors and their parents-11:50 a.m. at the HS

           How to fill out the FAFSA and create FSA IDś

10/19:  Apply2College Campaign-all seniors will apply to a college of their choice

Important information that seniors will need to know to create their FSA IDś are their social security numbers and a personal email.  For the Apply2College Campaign students will need to have some form of payment for the colleges that have an application fee.  If you have any questions, please call Taylor Biehl at 729-6116.

Football Team Visits Central School

The Fairbury football team had a blast Thursday morning greeting the students at Central Elementary. They were there to give high fives, get them excited for the school day, and talk a little bit about the homecoming game this Friday. It was an awesome opportunity to spread Jeff Pride throughout our community and schools. The Jeffs will take on Lincoln Christian this Friday @ 7:00p.m. GO JEFFS!

SCC Construction Career Days

Students attended SCC Construction Career Days in Milford, NE.  There they learned about many different programs at SCC.  Students got to participate in hands on activities such as bricklaying, heavy equipment operation, diesel mechanics, computer-aided drafting, construction, electrical lineman work, concrete work, brick laying, nondestructive testing and automotive technology. They even ran into some former students from FHS!   It was a productive day. Adam Montague and Brett Sutton both won $100 scholarships.

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Students learned about highway maintenance heavy equipment operators.
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Ethan Novotny runs a small bucket trencher.

 

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Blake Bauer built a block wall!!

Brain Dissection

The Dual-Credit Intro. to Psychology Course dissected sheep brains at the conclusion of their chapter about the parts of the brain.  Students were able to see some of the various parts that they discussed in class.

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TeamMates Raffle

The TeamMates Program is raffling off two tickets to the Nebraska/Iowa VB game on November 7.  Drawing will be held at halftime at the last home football game on October 14th. The tickets benefit TeamMates -Fairbury Chapter.  Tickets are $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00.

Dr. Jerold & Mrs. Sharon Ebke have very generously donated these for us.

Contact Karen Janssen or Patty Swartz for tickets.

Teacher’s Working to Improve Their Craft – Professional Development Fridays!

Ahhhh, the dismissal bell tolls early on this sunny, bright fall Friday. “What will I do on such a beautiful afternoon,” asks a Fairbury Public School teacher? This is a new question being asked these days in Fairbury, as this is the initial year of our “early outs” on Friday afternoons. Starting this year, we dismiss each Friday at 1:35pm to allow us the opportunity for staff development time for our faculty.

What is being accomplished during this time? As a k-12 staff, we are learning and working to improve our craft…the art of teaching! Teaching is not easy, teaching is not exact and teaching is definitely not for the “faint of heart!” We are working through Charlotte Danielson’s A Framework for Teaching. It is important to recognize that great teaching is what we want for all of our students and that great teaching is a very complex endeavor.

We are focusing our learning on the “Essential 8” components of great teaching:

  • Setting Instructional Outcomes
  • Designing Coherent Instruction
  • Establishing a Culture for Learning
  • Managing Student Behavior
  • Using Questioning and Discussion Techniques
  • Engaging Students in Learning
  • Reflecting on Teaching
  • Communicating with Families

In addition to learning and working on these components, we are using our Professional Development time to look at our assessment data to improve our focus for instruction and the development of Student Learning Objectives (SLO’s). Too often educators do not use the data that we have available to help inform our instruction. We want change that notion and use the different forms of data (MAP testing, NeSA testing, ACT results, classroom data, etc.) to guide us on where we need to spend our time instructing.

So, as you can see, we are very busy on Friday afternoons!

Remembering 9/11

Ms. Engle´s 8th Grade American History class participated in a live online webinar sponsored by the 9/11 Memorial and Museum.  The students got the opportunity to listen to a principal in a school two blocks away from the World Trade Center and what happened that day.  The webinar reached all 50 states and students were able to participate by asking questions through an online chat feature.  We also had an opportunity to have a class discussion asking questions to better understand what happened this day, since this group of 8th graders were not even alive when 9/11 happened.

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