The Brain Is a Muscle

"The Brain is a muscle; that the more you use it the more it grows. Research has found that neural connections form and deepen most when we make mistakes doing difficult tasks rather than repeatedly having success with easy ones. 

This means our intelligence is not fixed: and the best way that we can grow our intelligence is to embrace tasks where we might struggle or even fail." This is a growth mindset. 

Fixed mindsets believe people are either smart or  not,  and that intelligence is fixed by genes. Fix mindset believers spend much of their time on tasks they know they can succeed at. Whereas, people with growth mindsets embrace challenges and understand that tenacity and perseverance can change their learning outcomes. 

Wouldn't it be interesting to  start praising people not on their high marks  but the perseverance it took to complete the task. We praise them for growing their minds.

I  read this article this weekend," The Learning Myth: Why I'll Never Tell My Son He's Smart by Sal Khan. He explain more about this concept. Very interesting and challenging to me. 




Staffing

Eva is out this Friday. Guys will hold down the fort. 

Anne 

Monday 10:00 meeting Reconciliation at the friendship center. Will land in La Crete at about 12:30

Tuesday am digital citizenship session- - High Level-
PM  Meeting about Locally developed courses at 1:00 at the Learning Store. 

Wednesday- Zama 

Thursday- Fort Vermilion AM/PM- Going to get diplomas.

Friday-  High Level- 



Thanks So Much To You

Thanks to Eva who attended the Grad meeting in La crete. We are going to be on the ball for this year. 

Thanks to Bonnie for the cool idea about the website contest. Chat with her and see if you can get it going in your area. 

Thanks to Eric and Paul who took part in our first IPp meeting this year. Eric rocked the new sped assit program!

Thanks so much to Julie for giving us a months notice before departing. We appreciate that timing so much. Is that how long it takes to create a clone???

Thanks to Mark Pelley for completing miles and miles and miles of paperwork to have two of his kids tested. It really was tons!

Thanks to you all for giving me lots of time to cover your absences. If we know months ahead I can get someone. 

Thanks to Bonnie for getting us thinking about our Christmas Party. What would we like to do?

Things Going On in Our Busy Schools

High Level is having a movie on Friday at 1:00.

Zama is having a Halloween party on Friday. 

High level has a grad meeting Wed night.

Rainbow is closed Monday and Tuesday.

We are all preparing for diplomas next week. Are there kids wanting to write digitally. If so we need to know Monday for sure. Great time to go over who exactly is writing. Send the names of those wanting to write digitally to me  please. Anyone who requires accommodations should have already had paperwork sent in. 

Our district Programs go in front of the school board trustees on November 30th??? Roger said just bring them data. We will do more than that forsure. Any ideas would be fantastic. 

Budgets are done. I have  a few  questions that need answering then I will submit. All schools including Zama are doing just fine. 

Report cards go home November 18th. They need to be handed in to me on Monday November 14th.  Please be sure your marking is caught up. There are no surprises here. Reports cards are due soon!!!

Results review is due this week. This is where we accumulate all the data from last year and present to admin and other trustees on November 14th. This data relates directly to our ed plans. 

Wow I'm getting tired just think of all that stuff to do. But it always just gets done. No use fretting - it a l w a y s gets done. Done on time is fantastic. 





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Make it a brain tingling sort of week!!!