http://www.muellercharterschool.org/Blog Our Children Will Change the World! Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:05:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mind if I share some thoughts with you guys? When listening to Obama's State of the Union address last night I couldn't help but hear the similarities between what he sees as necessary change in our country and what we see as necessary change in El Milagro. If we read a ... http://www.muellercharterschool.org/Blog/?p=225 Joanne Jacobs wrote in a recent blog post: In a Washington Post op-ed, cognitive scientist Dan Willingham critiques the standards for assuming students can understand what they read without background knowledge. Teaching “strategies” doesn’t lead to comprehension. Remarkably, if you take kids who score poorly on a reading test and ask them ... http://www.muellercharterschool.org/Blog/?p=213 Room 806 would like to thank Dr. Riley for taking time out of his day to come and inspire us to start writing. Thank you for showing us a great tool to use as we become authors this year. We can't wait to have you back in our class to ... http://www.muellercharterschool.org/Blog/?p=207 Our third article, "Pearls Before Breakfast", was very different from the first two.  At first glance, it seems to have nothing to do with education.  But it has everything to do with "balance", with paying attention to things that matter, with finding beauty in surprising places. Instead of guiding questions today... ... http://www.muellercharterschool.org/Blog/?p=198 The American Indian Public Charter School in Oakland serves a population that is similar to Mueller's... but they get much different results.  They are widely praised for achieving an amazing API of 967, one of the highest scores in the entire state! Last night we read an LA Times article about ... http://www.muellercharterschool.org/Blog/?p=188 "School Connectedness - Strategies for Increasing Protective Factors Among Youth," emphasizes the tremendous capacity that that schools have in facilitating school connectedness.  This publication asserts there if students feel more connected and engaged in schools, then they are more likely to have positive educational and health outcomes. Below are some prompts ... http://www.muellercharterschool.org/Blog/?p=170             On Friday, May 1, the staff at MCS received their required training on the administration of the CST.  In the spirit of unity and mutual support, Coach Ron performed the following poem.  It was a great start to the weekend and to the beginning of our two weeks of testing.     Sooo… this ... http://www.muellercharterschool.org/Blog/?p=160 As some of you may or may not know, our first graders have been working on understanding the many different types of habitats that people and/or animals live in. We have been working on knowing our 7 continents and viewing many videos and pictures of them in class. We have ... http://www.muellercharterschool.org/Blog/?p=127 Dear Mueller Familia, We are reaching the end of Day 2 during this year's Los Angeles College Week (LACW) and we are "pleasantly exhausted" (Mr. Knox's words). Thus far our students have been nothing short of amazing and have done an incredible job of representing themselves, their families, friends, and our ... http://www.muellercharterschool.org/Blog/?p=109 On Wednesday, March 25th,  we invited our 4th grade parents to attend a CST Workshop.  Our goal was to provide support and promote awareness for the upcoming CST.  Our workshop focused on test taking strategies, specific ways parents can support their child at home and the correlation between MAPs/RIT scores ... http://www.muellercharterschool.org/Blog/?p=107