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5th Grade – Immigration – Recording an Interview

March 13, 2023March 13, 2023ccasal5th Grade / TutorialLeave a comment

Recording an interview is alway a good idea. It allows you to review the interview at a later date, and as often as you’d like focus on listening in the moment instead of taking notes you can take notes on the recording later allows you to review the feelings, inflection, and tone in the voice…

5th Grade – Immigration – Gathering Resources

February 16, 2023March 13, 2023ccasal5th Grade / TutorialLeave a comment

5th graders, As we talked about today, your Adobe Creative Cloud project on Immigration does not start with Adobe, it starts with gathering resources. What we did in class: In your Social Studies folder, we made a new folder called Immigration your interview questions, resources, and script will live eventually in this folder In the Immigration folder…

Parent Coffee: What to Do When Your Child Asks You For Help With Homework

November 25, 2022November 23, 2022ccasalParent Coffee / ParentsLeave a comment

On Friday November 18, 2022 Heathcote hosted the second Parent Coffee of the 2022-20223 school year. The November event was entitled “What to Do When Your Child Asks You For Help With Homework” and was presented by Heathcote’s Learning Resource Center (LRC) teachers Megan Matthews and Francesca Ross. You can find their presentation below. There…

Parent Coffee – Technology @HeathcoteSchool

October 31, 2022ccasalParent Coffee / Parents / TechnologyLeave a comment

On October 28, 2022 we had the first Parent Coffee of the 2022-20223 school year, it was also the first such event back in-person since the start of Covid. The event was an overview of “Technology @HeathcoteSchool” which essential means I covered the Scarsdale School’s technology vision and then how it manifests itself here at…

Digital Citizenship Resources for Parents – K-2

October 24, 2022October 24, 2022ccasalInternet Safety / Parents / TechnologyLeave a comment

October 24-28 is Digital Citizenship Week. At Heathcote we talk about digital citizenship, and digital leadership, across all lessons and projects. We discuss such things as keeping passwords private, limiting identifiable information, making thoughtful decisions online, being purposeful about looking for the good (and not the garbage) and much more. We weave all these concepts…

Digital Citizenship Resources for Parents – 3-5

October 24, 2022October 24, 2022ccasalInternet Safety / Parents / TechnologyLeave a comment

Student headphones: an overview and some recommendations – 2022-2023 edition

September 23, 2022September 23, 2022ccasalParents / TechnologyLeave a comment

I often get asked about headphones for students. It’s a difficult question to answer on many fronts. Price is one concern, but so is durability. A microphone is an important consideration since students use apps like Seesaw to record their learning and record voice overs for movies using apps like WeVideo and Adobe Creative cloud.…

Responsible Use Policy – All Students Grades K-5- 2022

September 9, 2022ccasal1st Grade / 2nd Grade / 3rd Grade / 4th Grade / 5th Grade / Kindergarten / ParentsLeave a comment

Students and Parents, We have begun to roll out devices to students. As of 9/9/2022 all 3rd, 4th and 5th graders have had the Responsible Use Policy lesson. All of 4th, 5th, and half of 3rd grade have also had an initial Chromebook login lesson. During the week of 9/12 the rest of 3rd grade…