April Menu
Redesigning schools has built a network of teachers learning from each other as we dream, research, and implement. Meadowlark Elementary visited SGS on Friday. Our Tiger Ambassadors are an important piece of each visit! #TigerPride271
We continue our monthly birth-six year old read aloud sessions. Last Monday Mrs. Fleck read "Just Me and My Friend". The children each received a book, made a friendship bracelet and enjoy a friendship snack. We hope to see you on April 15 for our next reading celebration!
Thank you to Solutions North Bank for the donation to purchase a CNC Router & Laser engraver. Pictured are Solutions North President Dale Winklepleck with Industrial Arts Teacher Justin Basart & High School Principal Gary McCown.
We had a bus-deer accident east of Stockton this morning, close to Woodston. There were NO students on the bus and the driver is fine but the bus is not drivable. Another bus and driver have been sent to cover the route.
Stockton Grade School Students Looking for Work! See post below:
When you respond by email, please let us know your address and what supplies we will need to bring
Time is running out! Get your 2018-2019 Stockton Schools Yearbook. The yearbook is a Pre-K through Senior book this year. Get yours while they are still available
Join the SHS Band and Choir for a circus themed concert featuring songs from "The Greatest Showman". The concert will be on Monday, March 25 @ 7:00PM in the SHS gym.
Concessions will be available as a fundraiser for the music department.
USD 271-Stockton Schools
Community Redesign Meeting
7pm-8pm at Stockton Grade School -Tiger Conference Room
Who are our students? Together...how might we____?
USD 271 Reads
0-6 Read Aloud with Activity and Snack
Monday, March 18
6:30pm in the SGS Library
Enjoy the book, "Just My Friend and Me" by Mercer Mayer
We hope to see you there!
Redesign Spotlight
K-7 Personalized Learning
Personalized learning allows all children to receive a customized learning experience. Students learn at their own pace with structure and support in challenging areas. Learning aligns with interests, needs and skills, and takes place in an engaging environment where students gain a better understanding of their strengths. ( National Center for Students with Learning Disabilities, Personalized Learning: Meeting the Needs of Students with Disabilities)
Our Kindergarten through 3rd grade classes take part in mixed-age guided reading groups. K-5 is using Lexia Core5 for personalized English/Language Arts instruction and DreamBox for Math instruction. This allows them to complete grade-level materials at their own pace. Lexia provides teachers with a recommended amount of units for each student to complete each week to stay on-target for grade-level success. The Junior High is using Power Up and Reading Plus as a personalized English/Language Arts platform. Several classrooms are using playlists for students to track their personal goals each week. This provides students with choice, accountability, and specific things they need to focus on. In the classrooms, teachers are utilizing small group instruction to deliver instruction geared toward different skills that students are working on as well as delivering the same materials at different levels.
It's time for another reading challenge! We hope you build reading into your spring break plans! If you get a BINGO, please return the form to the SGS office or Mrs. Bennett when you return from break. #TigerPride271
Before the staff stepped away for a much deserved Spring Break, they came together as a full pk-12 staff to focus on our “why” and “How might we-?” design thinking. It’s becoming less redesign and more -now design! #kstothemoon @ksredesign #TigerPride271
Amazing Adaptations! Our Pk-7 students and staff learned how animals use adaptations to thrive in their environment. Zoo To You by Rolling Hills Zoo and the Dane G. Hansen foundation.
Congratulations to Quinn, Trenton, Rylan, Addie and Jalen for placing 1st, 2nd, and 3rd at the Rooks County Youth Entrepreneur Challenge. Quinn and Trenton also won the Technology Award. In all these SHS students are bringing home $1,100 in prize money! Way to go!
Our Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge students did an excellent job presenting today! So proud of their work!
Redesign Spotlight:
8-12 grade communities
Relationships are key at USD #271 Stockton, and we are starting and ending each day with this in mind. Research conducted by Harvard University, the Carnegie Foundation and Stanford Research Center has all concluded that 85% of job success comes from having well-developed soft skills and people skills and only 15% of job success comes from technical and knowledge (hard skills).
At SHS students in grades 8-12 meet for the first ten minutes of school and the final 20 minutes of the day with their teacher advisor. These students will continue with the same group throughout their high school years. There are 14 community groups, consisting of 8-10 students ranging from 8-12 grades. Students form long-lasting relationships that benefit from a consistent daily presence.
In the a.m. meeting, students begin their day by writing in their journals: reflecting on one thing they are thankful for, a goal for the day or week and identifying which Zone of Regulation they are in. This is an opportunity for students to begin on a positive note, set goals and be aware of their emotional state. Students can also take advantage of the grab and go breakfast offered in the hallway as they enter.
The p.m. meeting consists of students and advisors working together on character development through discussion and reflection on our Tiger Touchstones and developing habits for success with the 16 Habits of Mind. Students are also developing their Individual Plans of Study, which includes exploring career interests and skills through the Career Cruising program, developing their Vision Board and sharing with parents, and planning their future course of study for high school and beyond. Advisor teachers serve as mentors to guide their students through this process.
The National Honor Society is organizing this year's Collect for Cures Program at SHS. This is the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's effort to help those affected by blood cancers. SHS's online giving webpage at https://events.lls.org/pages/mid/StocktonHighSchool-2019 Ends 3/18.
Due to the dangerous wind chill being forecast for the morning hours, there will be no school in Stockton tomorrow, 3.4.19. The JH Scholars Bowl has been cancelled and will not be made up.
The SHS staff hosted staff from Lyons High School today. The on-site visits give schools an opportunity to learn about the redesign process. #TigerPride271 @ksderesign
