Fund-a-Need

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You can help send our amazing teachers to summer school!

At Aurora, we are proud lifetime learners, and you can help fund attendance to some very special educational opportunities for our teachers. These professional development events help our teachers grow as educators, leaders, and learners. We are grateful that our kiddos directly benefit when our teachers return to Aurora to share their increased understanding, new learning strategies, and enthusiasm with our community. 

 

You can help send Nicole to Responsive Classroom Course for Elementary Educators

The Responsive Classroom approach to teaching emphasizes academic, social, and emotional growth in a strong school community. We believe that how children learn is as important as what they learn, and that academic success is inextricably tied to building social-emotional competencies. In four interactive days, you’ll learn to use these core Responsive Classroom practices to:

• Examine how the Responsive Classroom proactive approach to discipline can establish a calm, orderly, safe, and engaging environment for learning
• Create a developmentally appropriate learning environment, acknowledging and planning for the strengths and challenges of each age group
• Participate in interactive learning structures and energizers you can use with your class to engage students academically
• Establish rules with your students and provide positive structures to support success
• Practice teacher language that promotes respectful, kind, and positive classroom communities by reinforcing, reminding, and redirecting student behavior
• Respond to misbehavior with clear, consistent expectations and logical consequences
• Teach students how to complete academic tasks, interact with classmates, and maintain routines with Interactive Modeling
• Give students choices in what they learn and/or how they learn to promote greater academic engagement and achievement
• Begin and end the day positively with Morning Meeting and Closing Circles

Item Special Note

36 contributors needed @ $20 for a total of $720.  (You may buy all or some of this item.) 

 

Note that your generous purchase of Fund-a-Need items is a tax deductible contribution as allowed by law.  Aurora School’s Federal Tax ID Number is 94-3080476.