Happy Halloweek!

And just like that, we have two months of school under our belts! MDHS was the place to be this week
with all of our Halloweek dress-up opportunities. We also had our first intermediate dance and all of the
ghosts and goblins came to play! 

With both classes embarking on collaborative efforts to envision what learning will look like in schools of
the future, we started the week learning about what it means to be a good collaborator. We discussed
that this is one of the soft skills that are so important to possess that will serve them well for the rest of
their lives.  One aspect of being a good collaborator is having a solid awareness of who you are as a
learner and what you bring to the table when you are working with others. To help get a better
understanding of who they are, the students took a student aptitude test to gain insights into their
personalities using www.studentaptitude.com.

As part of a global deep learning task, we will be taking part in a Twitter chat with students from New

Zealand, Australia, Denmark, Finland, Uruguay, and the United States on November 11th and 12th.
Students will be sharing their responses to the prompt: What should learning look like in the schools of
the future?  I’m very excited about the opportunity to collaborate with students from across the world who
are also part of the deep learning community. 

This week we were in the routine of sharing novel responses, independently reading while I hold student

conferences followed by quickwrites where we read a mentor text to inspires us, write for 5 minutes,
revise our work and then share. We co-created the success criteria for our Future Schools collaborative
work and then the students worked to follow our action plan.