Caldwell, Idaho Destination Education, 3 Sep 2022

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From YouTube: Destination Education: 9/3/22

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In this week's Destination Education Episode, we highlight the #EveryDayMatters Attendance Campaign along with developing mathematical thinking training for our elementary teachers.

Please email jwatts@caldwellschools.org if you have any fun and exciting news stories you might think would be a good addition to this series.

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Hello and welcome back to another destination education episode where the students and staff are the stars.

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As we start a new month here in the caldwell school district, we are launching a new attendance campaign september is attendance awareness month, so we want to ensure our students, staff, families and community are aware that every day matters, the campaign's purpose is to bring a district-wide approach to promoting good attendance setting attendance expectations and how we can support our students and families in ensuring they are coming to school, ready to learn every day.

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We know for a majority of our kids who are considered chronically absent. It really is not something that's within their control of getting to school and for the most part, it's a lot of really different factors, and so we really want to be able to make sure that we're aware, why are kids not coming to school, and what can we do as schools to help support our families.

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Missing just two days a month over the course of the school year can affect a student's academic success too many absences, not only in just one school year, but throughout their entire education can have a huge impact on them socially emotionally and on their future. Success.

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If we're able to build strong attendance habits and we're able to support our kids at a very young age and continue to see that support as they go through middle school and high school they'll see a return in the way that they perform in the workforce or the way they perform in their adult life.

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Now our goal is to see every student walk across the stage and receive their diploma at the end of the year, because we know every day matters now. This week, elementary school teachers participated in dmt, also known as developing mathematical thinking.

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This provides teachers with an approach for the way they think about their mathematical practices and how to really build those practices in the classroom.

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This gives teachers resources, including virtual seminars, worksheets a video tutorial library that is consistently growing parent activities and much more.

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Processes go through kind of an idea of very concrete to more abstract thinking and so there's a lot of strategies where you're using tools a bar model to really help provide a visual of a mathematical problem and then really to think systematically through that problem and arrive at an answer.

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Because of this training, there was a 30 average increase in achievement per year over the last four years at van buren, elementary school surpassing state scores. We are so grateful for our staff here in the caldwell school district, for going above and beyond for our students, your hard work does not go unnoticed.

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As a reminder, there will be no school on monday september 5th for the labor day holiday now make sure to tune in next week to see where the highlights will take me. Thank you for watching and have a great week.