{"id":34,"date":"2015-11-25T06:10:32","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T06:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/?p=34"},"modified":"2015-12-01T16:50:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T16:50:28","slug":"11-20-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/2015\/11\/25\/11-20-15\/","title":{"rendered":"11-20-15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This and That:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/a\/gapps.bend.k12.or.us\/file\/d\/0BwH82Aoi_UKTWGJkVnBMcEM0eGc\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a> is\u00a0an email to you with the subject heading: \u201cBuy a Tree. Save a Life.\u201d \u00a0Some of our schools were involved last year, but I didn\u2019t want to have each of you called regarding this so I asked that it go through me. \u00a0If you would like to be involved this year please feel free to give Crystal a call.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">New Information:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s2\">District and BEA leadership has been in conversations and trainings (remember Patrick Dolan speaking to us at the Riverhouse on Oct. 1?) around building a more collaborative approach of guiding our district called \u201cLeading Together.\u201d \u00a0This is an example of something being done fairly well, but where growth can still happen. \u00a0You will hear more about the broad context of this at our December Leadership, but I did want to let you know that I will begin sharing these weekly email communications with Don Stearns, as well as inviting him to attend our bi-monthly Horizontal meetings. \u00a0When we think about \u201cteam vs. tribe\u201d I believe we can only get better if we do our work with transparency and honesty with those we work with \u2013 whether this is middle school to middle school or management and union.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s2\">A recent NY Times article takes a stand regarding the work you are doing within your building, and we are in the district as a whole, around\u00a0<i>Student BLP<\/i>. \u00a0This article, entitled: <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/a\/gapps.bend.k12.or.us\/file\/d\/0BwH82Aoi_UKTZkNFQlF1SmViNXc\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\">Why What You Learned in Preschool is Critical at Work<\/a>, posits that social skills are as equally important in today\u2019s work force as academic\/technical skills are. \u00a0I have attached the entire article for you, but thought I\u2019d get your curiosity engaged with these excerpts:<\/span>\n<ul class=\"ul2\">\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\">For all the jobs that machines can now do \u2014 whether performing surgery, driving cars or serving food \u2014 they still lack one distinctly human trait. They have no social skills.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\">Some economists and technologists see this trend as cause for optimism: Even as technology eliminates some jobs, it generally creates others. Yet to prepare students for the change in the way we work, the skills that schools teach may need to change. Social skills are rarely emphasized in traditional education.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\">Preschool classrooms, Mr. Deming (associate professor of education and economics at Harvard Univ.) said, look a lot like the modern work world. Children move from art projects to science experiments to the playground in small groups, and their most important skills are sharing and negotiating with others. But that soon ends, replaced by lecture-style teaching of hard skills, with less peer interaction.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\">James Heckman, a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/science\/topics\/nobel_prizes\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\"><span class=\"s4\">Nobel Prize<\/span><\/a>-winning economist, did groundbreaking work\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w12006\"><span class=\"s4\">concluding that noncognitive skills<\/span><\/a>\u00a0like character, dependability and perseverance are as important as cognitive achievement. They can be taught, he said,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/heckmanequation.org\/content\/resource\/lacking-character-american-education-fails-test\"><span class=\"s4\">yet American schools<\/span><\/a>\u00a0don\u2019t necessarily do so.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\">The extent to which jobs required social skills grew 24 percent between 1980 and 2012, he found, while jobs requiring repetitive tasks, like garbage collecting, and analytical tasks that don\u2019t necessarily involve teamwork, like engineering, declined.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">You are all well-deserving of the days ahead. \u00a0I truly hope you enjoy them. \u00a0As\u00a0I consider the many things\u00a0I am thankful for, know that\u00a0I am definitely blessed to have the opportunity to work with all of you. \u00a0Looking forward to reconnecting with you after this break!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Jim<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This and That: Here is\u00a0an email to you with the subject heading: \u201cBuy a Tree. Save a Life.\u201d \u00a0Some of our schools were involved last year, but I didn\u2019t want to have each of you called regarding this so I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/2015\/11\/25\/11-20-15\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3852],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}