A National Blue Ribbon, A school TIDINGS from TAYLOR A monthly newsletter brought to you by PFTSTA Publications. August - September 2013 Upcoming Dates: September 5 Building Dedication Ceremony 10 a.m. September 6 High School Back to School Dance 7 p.m. – 10 p.m. September 9 Author Visit - Susan Cooper (6 th and 7 th grades) 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a. m. September 11 Interim Reports Issued September 19 Author Visit – Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian (10 th and 11 th grades) 9 a.m. – 10 a.m. College Visit Tulane University 12:30 p.m. Co-op Meeting 6:30 p. m. – 7:30 p. m. September 27 College Visit Villanova University 12:30 p.m. – 1:10 p.m. September 29 NO AIDS Walk Audubon Park 9 a.m. From the Principal’s Pen by Mrs. Jaime Zapico I would like to take this opportunity to welcome back all of our returning Taylor students, parents, faculty and staff and, further, all of those new to the Taylor family! I know the summer flew by for many of our students, but we are anxious to get to work and hit the ground running in our new state of the art facility! I can’t thank enough all of the staff, parents, and students for the time and effort they gave this summer to get us moved and settled into the building on Churchill Parkway. Also, I want to thank all of the parents and guardians of our Taylor Tigers for being so patient with us during this process. It seems like every day something comes into place, and it’s beginning to feel like home. I know there is still a lot of work to be done, but we have come a long way over the past couple of weeks. I am looking forward to the school dedication ceremony on Thursday, September 5 at 10:00. I can’t wait to see Mrs. Taylor interact with the students. The last time she saw the school was in mid-July, and she was overwhelmed even then. We will have many elected officials and members of the business community attending the ceremony. Please look for pictures on our Facebook page and on our website in the upcoming days. All of you are welcome to attend, but please remember that there is limited seating. As you can imagine, we have had many people calling about our annual Open House for prospective students. It is scheduled for Thursday, October 10 from 5:30 – 7:30. Flyers will be going home, and we will be offering yard signs to any of our Taylor families and extended families that would like to help us advertise this special event. Believe it or not, we are almost halfway through the first quarter of the school year. Interim reports will be going home with the students on September 11. Remember that you can always check the status of your child’s progress at Taylor twenty-four hours a day by accessing ECHO at http://echo.newtechnetwork.org. As always, if you have questions or need assistance, please do not hesitate to call or email me. I look forward to building relationships with all of you and having a productive and fulfilling school year!
17
Embed
TIDINGS from TAYLOR - Patrick F. Taylor Science & Technology
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
Transcript
A National Blue Ribbon, A school
TIDINGS
from TAYLOR A monthly newsletter brought
to you by PFTSTA Publications.
August - September 2013
Upcoming Dates:
September 5
Building Dedication Ceremony
10 a.m.
September 6
High School Back to School
Dance
7 p.m. – 10 p.m.
September 9
Author Visit - Susan Cooper
(6th and 7th grades)
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a. m.
September 11
Interim Reports Issued
September 19
Author Visit – Jenny Han and
Siobhan Vivian
(10th and 11th grades)
9 a.m. – 10 a.m.
College Visit
Tulane University
12:30 p.m.
Co-op Meeting
6:30 p. m. – 7:30 p. m.
September 27
College Visit
Villanova University
12:30 p.m. – 1:10 p.m.
September 29
NO AIDS Walk
Audubon Park
9 a.m.
From the Principal’s Pen
by Mrs. Jaime Zapico
I would like to take this opportunity to welcome back all of our returning Taylor students, parents, faculty and staff and, further, all of those new to the Taylor family! I know the summer flew by for many of our students, but we are anxious to get to work and hit the ground running in our new state of the art facility! I can’t thank enough all of the staff, parents, and students for the time and effort they gave this summer to get us moved and settled into the building on Churchill
Parkway. Also, I want to thank all of the parents and guardians of our Taylor Tigers for being so patient with us during this process. It seems like every day something comes into place, and it’s beginning to feel like home. I know there is still a lot of work to be done, but we have come a long way over the past couple of weeks.
I am looking forward to the school dedication ceremony on Thursday, September 5 at 10:00. I can’t wait to see Mrs. Taylor interact with the students. The last time she saw the school was in mid-July, and she was overwhelmed even then. We will have many elected officials and members of the business community attending the ceremony. Please look for pictures on our Facebook page and on our website in the upcoming days. All of you are welcome to attend, but please remember that there is limited seating.
As you can imagine, we have had many people calling about our annual Open House for prospective students. It is scheduled for Thursday, October 10 from 5:30 – 7:30. Flyers will be going home, and we will be offering yard signs to any of our Taylor families and extended families that would like to help us advertise this special event.
Believe it or not, we are almost halfway through the first quarter of the school year. Interim reports will be going home with the students on September 11. Remember that you can always check the status of your child’s progress at Taylor twenty-four hours a day by accessing ECHO at http://echo.newtechnetwork.org.
As always, if you have questions or need assistance, please do not hesitate to call or email me. I look forward to building relationships with all of you and having a productive and fulfilling school year!
With funds from the Brown Foundation, sixth and seventh graders will extend what
they learn in their English classrooms to the community as they serve others.
Last year’s sixth and seventh graders worked with their English teachers to design
two service learning projects. The first is rooted in seventh graders’ yearly study of
the novel Ninth Ward by Jewel Parker Rhodes. Rhodes has been a frequent guest
speaker at Patrick F. Taylor, and she has developed a rapport with students and
Elizabeth Kahn.
For the past two years, students have visited the Ninth Ward to walk in the
footsteps of the book’s main character. One spot on the itinerary is Martin Luther
King, Jr., Elementary School and library. This year, seventh graders will do more
than just visit; they will become book buddies with children at the school and even
help the children write books of their own. Look for seventh graders and NJHS
holding collections for children’s books and other supplies that will get packed along
to take on the visits to the school.
Sixth graders will have a project of their own. As they read Flush, a novel about
water pollution, they will test local water for pollutants and learn about how water
pollution data is gathered from seniors in the Environmental Science class. In
addition, their project will have them research water pollutants and create an
annotated bibliography. From there, they will create presentations to show to fifth
grade students who will visit our campus.
Some lucky seventh graders will join Jaime Zapico and Cheryl Bordelon at a service
learning celebration on September 10, 2013. They will be served lunch as the school
receives checks for the grant funds.
ELA teachers are especially thankful for the help of Jaime Zapico, Lisa Valence,
Janell Simpson, Katie Higgins, and Elizabeth Kahn.
Spotlight on Science
by Dr. Janell Simpson
Sophomore chemistry students review the law of conservation of mass with the help
of a whiteboard illustration by Kirolos Abdelmalek (pictured).
AP Environmental Science students surveyed the area around the school as part of
their unit on ecosystem health. Ms. Dinah Maygarden of Pontchartrain Institute of
Environmental Education led the class on a hike to identify species of wetland plants
in our new neighborhood. Saraya Sibley is planning a project to identify the species
of trees around the perimeter of the school and compare those species with
undisturbed areas. Destiny Burnett will use spectroradiometry to quantify vegetation
health as part of a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Senior Project students are excited about working with mentors in the community for 20 hours while they
investigate a question about a career field. Pictured from left to right standing: Thomas Sostarics, Mary
Beth Oliver, Paris Evans, Kaylynn Tran, Stephen Torry; seated: Darla Nguyen, Jasmyn Hall, Imani Bell,
Micquel Downs.
Tidings from TechBytes by Ms. Kelly Maher
Online videos are a great resource for teaching and learning. They make lessons available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and allow students to fast forward and rewind material at their convenience. Now you can use Video Note to takes notes, while you are watching your videos.
Video Notes: http://www.videonot.es/
Video Notes allows you to load any YouTube video on the left side of your screen and take notes on the right. What makes it even more fantastic is that your notes are synced to your Google Drive, which allows you to collaborate with others and
also access them from multiple devices. Below are just a few examples of educational videos that are hosted on YouTube.