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NewsletterOctober 2020 Volume 3 Issue 10
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Welcome to the 2020-2021 school year!
We are so excited to be back at school and working with our TAGOS scholars and their families. We are grateful for the opportunity to ignite a spark in your children that encourages them to mix their interests/passions with their academics as they develop their projects. There will be a total of six projects due this year, three each semester. Please continue to check in with your child’s advisor and look at the Headrush account to ensure that project(s) are on track and course expectations are met. We want students to move forward with the credits they need to advance to the next grade level and/or graduate with their cohort.
What is new at TAGOS this year? The structure has changed a little bit to allow for more personalized learning plans and guidance from our staff. This new approach should increase flexibility and allow our students greater success with their project process and their math and English classes. In addition, we have a new English teacher. Her name is Michelle Lange, and she has been teaching for over 25 years, some of which were at Parker High School. She desires to help our students develop their reading and writing skills. Finally, Marianne McGuire and Kim Helgestad have been hired to serve as our Deans of Students. Both of them are passionate about serving students, inspiring passion in learning, and maintaining high expectations. You can find out more information about the TAGOS staff here.
We are so excited to be back at school and working with our TAGOS scholars and their families. We are grateful for the opportunity to ignite a spark in your children that encourages them to mix their interests/passions with their academics as they develop their projects. There will be a total of six projects due this year, three each semester. Please continue to check in with your child’s advisor and look at the Headrush account to ensure that project(s) are on track and course expectations are met. We want students to move forward with the credits they need to advance to the next grade level and/or graduate with their cohort.
What is new at TAGOS this year? The structure has changed a little bit to allow for more personalized learning plans and guidance from our staff. This new approach should increase flexibility and allow our students greater success with their project process and their math and English classes. In addition, we have a new English teacher. Her name is Michelle Lange, and she has been teaching for over 25 years, some of which were at Parker High School. She desires to help our students develop their reading and writing skills. Finally, Marianne McGuire and Kim Helgestad have been hired to serve as our Deans of Students. Both of them are passionate about serving students, inspiring passion in learning, and maintaining high expectations. You can find out more information about the TAGOS staff here.
Michelle Lange, English teacher
We want you!
Parents and community members are encouraged to participate and become involved at our school. Currently we are actively recruiting board members. Please reach out to me if you are interested in being on the TAGOS board. We are looking for people who have the following:
public relations
strategic planning
fundraising experience.
Being on the board is a great way to get involved and make a difference in the lives of all students and staff at TAGOS.
Our main goal at TAGOS Leadership Academy is to provide the highest quality education possible in a safe and nurturing learning environment. I am positive that together, we can make TAGOS a school of excellence where your child will flourish. My door is always open to you. Educating students through project-based learning is our business and our passion. Your child is important to us, and we are dedicated to showing up every day and giving them our best. Please call, text, or email me if you have any questions or concerns. Be sure to check your E-mail, TAGOS and district websites, and social media pages regularly.
Serving you,
Patricia Hernandez
Principal of TAGOS Leadership Academy
Parents and community members are encouraged to participate and become involved at our school. Currently we are actively recruiting board members. Please reach out to me if you are interested in being on the TAGOS board. We are looking for people who have the following:
public relations
strategic planning
fundraising experience.
Being on the board is a great way to get involved and make a difference in the lives of all students and staff at TAGOS.
Our main goal at TAGOS Leadership Academy is to provide the highest quality education possible in a safe and nurturing learning environment. I am positive that together, we can make TAGOS a school of excellence where your child will flourish. My door is always open to you. Educating students through project-based learning is our business and our passion. Your child is important to us, and we are dedicated to showing up every day and giving them our best. Please call, text, or email me if you have any questions or concerns. Be sure to check your E-mail, TAGOS and district websites, and social media pages regularly.
Serving you,
Patricia Hernandez
Principal of TAGOS Leadership Academy
The Deans’ Note
By Kim Helgestad and Marianne McGuire
The 2020-2021 school year is off to a great start! We are very proud of our TAGOS students, their positive attitudes, and their willingness to keep safe. We couldn’t ask for a better group of students! We are in the 3rd week of our personal projects. Students have chosen topics such as: The History of Medicine, Code-Switching, Gender Identity and Healthcare, Population Control, Neurological Disorders, and Factory Pollution. With the implementation of our new Afterschool Homework Club, students have been able to stay caught up on their work and are conducting deeper levels of research.
By Kim Helgestad and Marianne McGuire
The 2020-2021 school year is off to a great start! We are very proud of our TAGOS students, their positive attitudes, and their willingness to keep safe. We couldn’t ask for a better group of students! We are in the 3rd week of our personal projects. Students have chosen topics such as: The History of Medicine, Code-Switching, Gender Identity and Healthcare, Population Control, Neurological Disorders, and Factory Pollution. With the implementation of our new Afterschool Homework Club, students have been able to stay caught up on their work and are conducting deeper levels of research.
Organization is a skill learned through ongoing practice. Students who are more organized are more likely to have a higher self-esteem, do better in school, and have less frustration and stress. With Project Based Learning, organization is even more important because students need to be organized in order to carry out their research projects. The following article offers 7 tips on how to help students become more organized:
ORGANIZATION TIPS FOR SCHOOL—HOW TO GET YOUR CHILD ORGANIZED
Suggested Skills
By Marianne McGuire
By Marianne McGuire
A Math Moment
from Eric Skrzypchak
from Eric Skrzypchak
Math for 2020-2021. We will again have math classes for math, but we will continue to implement a new program to help increase our students' discourse about math. This new program is Discovery Education Math Techbook, and we will increase our discourse as a whole group and talk about math more consistently. I will model this with our students through my seminars. Our middle school students will use the same curriculum as in the other middle schools, which is Open Up. Grades again will be posted in Infinite Campus, and if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me. Please ask your students how they like their math classes and what they are doing in their classes. Ask them if they are being invited to talk about math more frequently.