As a team of 150 learners charged with a responsibility of developing and maintaining a learning community for ourselves and the 640 children that we love and care for, how do we learn and grow when we are apart? We workshop, plan, play, rest, and read to name just a few of our actions and strategies.  How do we model learner choice? We know student-learners need and deserve differentiated learning opportunities.  Don’t all learners?

There is so much to learn, practice, prototype, and consider.  How do we learn and share? What if we divide, conquer, and share to learn?

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From: Jill Gough
Date: Friday, April 11, 2014 12:13 PM
To: All Trinity
Subject: Summer Reading 2014

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Hi,

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Summer reading for our community offers choices again this year.  We offer three themes from which to choose.  You may want to continue with the Art of Questioning, or you may want to explore Creativity or Social-Emotional as an interest.  Each theme offers three choices, and if available, you may choose to read using a traditional book, a Kindle book, or an audio book.

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A quick note and thank you: Last year Laurel Martin asked me why the books weren’t hyperlinked to Amazon so that we could quickly read reviews.  Great idea! (Hmm…I didn’t know how to hyperlink an image using Pages…but I do now. Thank you Laurel for pushing me to learn!) So, thanks to Laurel, if you want to read reviews, just click on a book in the flyer.

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We will use the 4As protocol to debrief during Pre-Planning.  We are also going to schedule a Wednesday afternoon so that our community can hear and share the big ideas from every book.

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Please see the attached flyer for information and links to additional information and a form to request your book.  Would you please select a book by Friday, April 25 so that we can have it for you before we leave in May?

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Thank you,

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Jill

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Here’s our flyer:

And, our version of the 4 As protocol worksheet: