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Teacher Resources

The Salem-Keizer School District employs over 5,000 great educators. It is our intent to honor them with the legacies of the great educators who have gone before them.

 

 

The Loving Lense

THE LOVING LENS is a non-profit organization developed by Jill Cannefax as a way to bring non-violent skills and communication into the classroom.  Using digital photography as the platform, students not only learn how to take beautiful portraits of each other, but how to create an atmosphere of respect, trust and safety.

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Moms like Me

Register and meet with other Moms from your area

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The Student Gallery

The Student Gallery is a display of student and classroom projects completed within the Salem-Keizer school district which showcase a variety of subject and content areas, including but not limited to:

• Science    
  
• Math
• Literature    
  
• Art
• Social Studies    
  
• Health
• Service Learning    
  
• And more

Exhibits can be fantastical, practical, high-tech, low-tech, humorous or serious, as long as they showcase education.  Exhibits will rotate monthly beginning on the first Wednesday of each month. Exhibits must be to storefront by 20th of prior month to exhibit being showcased. Must also be able to provide a general write up, including participants names, to be displayed alongside exhibit.

Click Here for more details and sign-up form.

 

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Scholarship Season Begins for Oregon Students: One application for more than 400 Scholarship Programs

 

The Oregon Student Assistance Commission (OSAC) has announced the opening of its scholarship application season. The state agency administers more than 400 private scholarship programs and public grant programs to help students finance their college education. Searching and applying for these scholarships is free, according to Vicki Merkel, Scholarship and Access Program Director at OSAC. Students can search and apply online for all 400 scholarships using OSAC’s electronic application known as the eApp, available at www.GetCollegeFunds.org.

To help students apply online OSAC produced the 2010-11 Oregon Scholarship eApp Workbook and sent copies to all Oregon high schools, colleges, libraries, and employment offices. The workbook and a detailed scholarship catalog are also available online. The workbook also includes a worksheet that mirrors the eApp and is designed to help students prepare information before entering their data online. It helps minimize errors that can lead to applications being rejected and provides an efficient way to transfer information and a list of scholarships to the online application. Last year 99% of students applied online however students without internet access can request a paper application by contacting OSAC at 800-452-8807.

 

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The Chalkboard Project   http://www.chalkboardproject.org

 

Launched in 2004, the Chalkboard Project is a non-profit, non-partisan organization working to unite Oregonians to make our K-12 public schools among the nation’s best. We aim to help create a more informed and engaged public that understands and addresses the tough choices and trade-offs required to build strong schools.

Chalkboard is the first initiative of Foundations for a Better Oregon, a collaboration of six of Oregon’s leading foundations

 

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Reading for All   http://www.reading4all.com/index.asp

The Marion County Children & Families Commission promotes “Reading for All” as a method to support student success, a necessary component for lifelong success. When all students learn to read and see the adults around them reading, they will be more likely to develop the kind of critical thinking that will help them to stay in school, succeed in life, and contribute positively to the community.

 

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Common Sense Media   http://www.handsproject.org

Common Sense Media is dedicated to improving the media and entertainment lives of kids and families.  For more information, visit their site at http://www.commonsensemedia.org

 

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The Hands Project

To educate each person in every community about their moral and legal right to live free of abuse and violence. The Hands & Words Are Not For Hurting Project is an effective tool and a key piece in the puzzle of abuse and violence prevention education.

 

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Grant Evaluation Forms

 

Click the links below to download the Financial and Grant Evaluation Forms

• Financial Accounting Form
• Grant Evaluation

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Who will be the 2009-10 Oregon Teacher of the Year?

 

“The Oregon Teacher of the Year award honors a representative of all the great teachers in Oregon,” Castillo said. “Candidates for Oregon Teacher of the Year should be exceptionally dedicated, knowledgeable, and skilled educators. They should inspire students of all backgrounds and abilities to learn. They should have the respect and admiration of students, parents, and colleagues. Candidates should play an active role in the community as well as in school, and they should be poised and articulate representatives of all Oregon classroom teachers.”

 

A Blue Ribbon Panel consisting of Legislators, former Teachers of the Year, business leaders, and key education organization leaders will select the finalists. The finalists will be interviewed by representatives of the State Superintendent’s office. State Superintendent Susan Castillo will select the Oregon Teacher of the Year. The deadline for nominations is May 1, 2009. The 2009-10 Oregon Teacher of the Year will be announced at the beginning of October.

 

Superintendent Castillo is especially proud that the Oregon Teacher of the Year program is sponsored by Intel Corporation, the state’s largest private employer and a consistent supporter of education programs, particularly in math and science. Intel provides generous support to Oregon's Michael Geisen, the 2008 National Teacher of the Year, by covering his salary and providing him with a laptop computer and Blackberry during the 2008-09 school year, allowing him to fulfill his national and international duties.

 

For more information contact: Regina McLoud, Communications Officer, 503-947-5803, regina.mcloud@state.or.us

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Win a $20,000 Green Grant for Your School

 

Wal-Mart has selected Green Education Foundation to help promote their Green School Earth Month program. Wal-Mart is saluting the greenest schools across the nation with $500 gift card prizes and a chance to win a $20,000 award! They are particularly interested in knowing how schools have incorporated eco-friendly practices into their daily routines. Perhaps your teachers and staff are making double-sided copies to reduce the amount of paper they use. Or, maybe the student body started a recycling program for cans and bottles in the cafeteria. Is the school using CFL bulbs instead of traditional light bulbs to use less energy and save money?

 

If you’re a school administrator, teacher or parent, simply write – in 200 words or less – about the ways in which you’re greening your school. Simply go to: www.nationalgreenweek.com and sign up for National Green Week 2010 and GEF will email you all of the Wal-Mart contest details. To double your chances of winning, submit your essay for a chance to win a $250-$500 GEF Green In-Action Award. The deadline for the Wal-Mart essay submissions is May 1st.

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ING Unsung Heroes

 

Are you an educator with a class project that is short on funding but long on potential? Do you know a teacher looking for grant dollars? ING Unsung Heroes® could help you turn great ideas into reality for students. For more than 10 years, and with $3.0 million in awarded grants, ING Unsung Heroes has proven to be an A+ program with educators. The program’s “alumni” have inspired success in the classroom and impacted countless numbers of students. Each year, 100 educators are selected to receive $2,000 to help fund their innovative class projects. Three of those are chosen to receive the top awards of an additional $5,000, $10,000 and $25,000. Applications for the 2009 awards are now available online . The application deadline is April 30, 2009.

 

 

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TEACHER GRANTS

From its inception, the Foundation has raised money and distributed grants to classroom teachers. As our cornerstone, these teacher grants support innovative projects and programs that are the difference between an adequate and an exceptional education experience.

To view the 2009 Grant Awards, click here.

To view a list of the 2008 Grant Awards, click here.

 

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National Art Education Association

 

http://www.arteducators.org/olc/pub/NAEA/learning/

 

 

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Get smart about Kids and Media!

As educators, your are usually the first ones parents turn to for guidance.  The Commons Sense Schools Parent Media Educatioh Program gies you everything your school needs to help parents.

Log on to www.commonsensemedia.org/schools to get free access to a comprehensive library of materials to use at parent education events, parent-teacher conferences and meetings.

 

 

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Oregon Department of Education Names
Oregon Teacher of the Year
 
West Salem High School's Michael Lampert, a Physics teacher, was designated 2008-09 Teacher of the Year by the Oregon Department of Education.  Lampert recommends the following websites:
 
First Lego Robotics www.usfirst.org
ExploraVision Awards www.exploravision.org
Oregon Academic Decathlon www.orad.us
Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams http://web.mit.edu/inventeams
Earth Watch Institute www.earthwatch.org
High Five Challenge www.high-five.com
National Ocean Sciences Bowl www.oceanleadership.org/link/nosb
BPA Science Bowl www.bpa.gov/corporate/education/sciencebowl/
Murdock Trust Charitable Grants www.murdock-trust.org
Toyota TAPESTRY Grants www.nsta.org/pd/tapestry/
Science in Africa www.armadaproject.org
Science in Antarctica http://tea.armadaproject.org

 

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Poetry Out Loud

The National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation present Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest, in partnership with the Oregon Arts Commission.  Schools are invited to adopt the 2008 - 2009 Poetry Out Loud curriculum, present school-wide contests, and advance to the state competition on Saturday, March 14, 2009 in Salem.  Oregon’s state champion will advance to the National Finals, April 26-28, 2009 in Washington, DC.  Oregon’s 2008 Champion, Sophia Soberon from Brookings-Harbor High, won second place at the national contest, which included a $10,000 scholarship.

An Oregon Poetry Out Loud curriculum guide will be available online by mid-September at www.oregonartscommission.org.  The national Poetry Out Loud website offers details of the contest and suggestions of how to incorporate poetry into the classroom:  www.poetryoutloud.org.  Deadline for school registration has been extended to November 26.

To register, or for more information, contact Deb Vaughn, arts education coordinator, Oregon Arts Commission at deborah.vaughn@state.or.us or 503-986-0085.

 

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Working with Senior Citizens and Veterans through Service-Learning

This resource provides background information on service-learning basics, as well as resources and service-learning project ideas for youth working with senior citizens and/or veterans.

http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=7915

 

 

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A Call for Writing-November 21 Deadline

VSA arts www.vsarts.org, an affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, is accepting short works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for publication in an online literary journal on the theme "At Second Glance." Entries must reach VSA arts on or before Friday, November 21, 2008. The call is open to students with disabilities and students who have connections to people with disabilities. Students must be between the ages of 11 and 18 years. Submissions must relate to the theme "At Second Glance." Prompts are available at the website, including the following: Describe how a second opportunity to experience a sound, smell, sight, event, or personal interaction led you to change your perception or opinion. Writing may be submitted in any language. A total of two entries per student are allowed: one fiction or nonfiction piece and one poem. See www.VSAarts.org for complete guidelines and entry / publishing information. The call for writing is a tool to encourage educators to explore creative writing in their classrooms and learning environments. It is an opportunity to draw out the expressive minds of students of all abilities through the written word, while also addressing education standards in reading and writing. Writing guides are available online at www.vsarts.org under Resources for Educators and Parents.

 

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Rubber Band Contest

The Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS), The Akron Global Polymer Academy, and The University of Akron are hosting the first-ever Rubber Band Contest for Young Inventors to encourage students in grades 5-8 to demonstrate their creativity and ingenuity by creating an invention that incorporates the use of rubber bands. Young Inventors must be students in grades 5 to 8 for the school year 2008-2009, and original inventions must incorporate the use of rubber bands. Deadline for all contest entries is November 14, 2008.

 

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Provide Input to the Oregon Arts Commission

The Oregon Arts Commission will convene the 1st Annual Oregon Arts Education Congress in Portland at The Kennedy School on November 17, 2008, and they need your input to ground the Congress' discussions! An on-line survey is being used to identify priority issues and themes. Please take 10 minutes to complete your survey today and forward to others - as broadly as you want (as long as they are Oregonians!)

The Congress will gather 100 leaders representing a balance of geographical and professional viewpoints - teachers and administrators, artists, arts education providers, government and political leaders, leaders from higher education, business leaders, parent advocates, arts advocates, creative industries spokespeople, elected officials, and liaisons from key statewide associations - for the one day Congress, which will result in a first draft "Bill of Creative Rights" for Oregon's K-12 students.

Click here to access the survey. If you have questions, please contact Deb Vaughn at (503) 986-0085.

 

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SK(m+s+t)i
Salem-Keizer Math, Science, and Technology Initiative


While the SKEF Literacy Initiative has made profound impact on academic achievement, our local school district is faced with the realization that all content areas, particularly those identified in the Federal No Child Left Behind legislation, must be enhanced and supported by every means possible to reach the goals and priorities of our students.

Business and education leaders across the nation identify math, science, and technology skills as crucial for preparing students to compete in the twenty first century.  Currently students in the Untied States score average to below average on international tests of math and science, and in Salem-Keizer, while our elementary students are meeting or exceeding performance standards, our middle and high school students still struggle with meeting them.  The 2007-08 district summary reflects that 68% of our middle school students do not meet, and 48% of our high school students  do not meet Mathematical content performance standards.

National research (National Science Foundation, National Research Council, and the Department of Education) has determined what is needed to provide students with a world-class education in math, science and technology.  Working from this research base, it is concluded that ever student must receive challenging, standards-based instruction utilizing appropriate resources from knowledgeable, well-trained, and well-supported teachers.


The Initiative
The Salem-Keizer Math, Science and Technology Initiative (SKMSTI) exists to to help all students in Grades K-12 develop the math, science, and technology skills necessary for success in postsecondary studies and in the workforce.  SMSTI is designed to significantly raise student achievement by providing local students with a solid background in these core subjects.

The initiative will achieve its goals by supplying two greatly needed services.  SKMSTI will:

• Provide classroom teachers with the materials, equipment, technology, and supplies needed to deliver high-quality activity-based instruction.  Examples of resources include manipulatives, labware, chemicals, graphing calculators.  Resources will be delivered to classroom teachers and/or school departments based on successful application in the prescribed SKEF process.
• Support classroom teacher requests for extensive training linked directly to the resources.  Training must be designed to strengthen the content knowledge of teachers, train them to use proven instructional methods and strategies, and/or help them better engage students and provide relevancy to the coursework.

This initiative will benefit the 41,000 students of Salem-Keizer School District, its 5,000 staff, and the local businesses and employers who seek qualified, motivated employees from its local education system.

The SKEF Initiative Subcommittee will, in partnership with administrators, teachers, and parents of the Salem Keizer School District develop an evaluation plan that will include both measurable outcomes and opinion based and anecdotal information.  Initial outcome goals will include the number and amount of grants awarded to K-12 teachers for math, science and technology projects, and the recorded improvement of test scores in the designated grade levels.

 

To view Subject Initiative grants breakdown, click here.

 

Resources:
 
Office of Science and Technology Policy
http://www.ostp.gov/
 
 
History of Support:
 
 
May, 2006       
                      Support to Secondary Math Curriculum
                             adoption $10,000
                      Awarded by Trust Management Services, LLC
                      $500 to each middle and high school to
                             purchase supplies and materials to
                             support math instruction.                     
                      $750 to Academy for Teaching and Learning to
                             provide professional development and
                             cohort group support to secondary
                             math teachers.
 

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ED HELPER

edHelper is an online subscription service that provides printable worksheets to teachers and homeschooling parents.  edHelper offers a wide range of materials, including math, language arts, reading and writing, social studies, science, and much more!  
SKEF will provide access to any Salem-Keizer educator who wants to access edHelper for free. To request access, click here.

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