Students at Furneaux Elementary are using specialized language when they come home from school as they learn the elements of depth and complexity. There are icons associated with the different elements of depth and complexity that serve as visual prompts for students. These visual prompts are designed to help students go beyond a surface-level understanding of a concept and enhance their ability to think critically. These critical thinking tools help students dig deeper into a concept (depth) and understand that concept with greater complexity.
For a student to truly understand a topic of study, they must speak the language specific to that topic. Through the different elements of depth and complexity, students study the language of the discipline, details, patterns, rules, big ideas, ethical issues, and trends of a topic. They are able to find unanswered questions, view multiple perspectives, look how things/ideas change over time, and how things/ideas are connected through different disciplines.
In lieu of “learning to read,” these Furneaux students are “reading to learn.”
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Ranchview High School’s African American Alliance will host their first Homecoming “CarnivAAAl” in the RHS north parking lot. The event will be held Sep. 20, 5:30 – 7:30 PM. Admission is $2 for adults, $1 for CFB students with student IDs. All proceeds will benefit RHS clubs and organizations.
SAT School Day allows seniors and juniors to take the SAT at school and at no charge. For the fall, SAT School Day will be held on Oct. 10, 2018. There will be a second opportunity to improve the SAT score in the Spring, on Mar. 6, 2019. Taking the SAT at school removes barriers to some students who either cannot afford the test and/or are unable to arrange weekend transportation to the test that is typically administered on Saturdays. Super-scoring allows students to use the best score they make on each section of the SAT to submit to colleges. If a student does well on one portion of the test the first time they take it, but do better on another section the second time around, the best scores from the sections will be what is submitted to colleges students apply to. Additionally, studies have shown that taking the test in a familiar environment such as the student’s regular campus, greatly reduces anxiety and can lead to higher scores. Seniors will be automatically enrolled to that the SAT on Oct. 10, but students may opt out by filling out an online form by Sep. 5. Juniors interested in taking the test will need to fill out an opt-in form by Sep. 5.