{"id":2027,"date":"2022-11-27T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2022-12-12T10:15:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T17:15:47","slug":"curriculum-connections-november-27th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/2022\/11\/curriculum-connections-november-27th\/","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum Connections – November 27th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Welcome to our Curriculum Connections! This is your weekly periscope into classes across campus \u2013 we\u2019ll share new learning, challenges, accomplishments, and commentary from students in Lower and Middle School. Enjoy!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything Counts in JK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week\u2019s activities in Junior Kindergarten revolved around celebration and giving thanks! In math, students counted a set of balloon and heart drawings in a message for a classmate\u2019s birthday. They shared and discussed three different strategies for counting a set of objects that are randomly arranged and found that marking as they counted generated the most reliable and accurate total. Students considered what their teachers are most thankful for and generated their own list. Our youngest students are thankful for their families, for books, for going on the swings, for unicorns, and for garbage trucks, among others! Conversations about gratitude created opportunities to share that not all people have access to the water, food, homes, and favorite toys that we do. We were warmed by students\u2019 sharing of what matters to them and their noticing that it\u2019s not fair that some people lack access to these same treasures and basic needs. We read a book about a sea turtle\u2019s adventures donated by a JK student from last year. We reflected on the sea turtle\u2019s life cycle and how it\u2019s similar to and different from the monarchs we have been studying, which also come from eggs and are also endangered animals worth wondering about! We wished everyone a safe and restful break and reflected on ways our families and home plans are both different and, at their heart, the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upper School Candidates Making Amazing Waves in 8th Grade Classrooms<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before the break, eighth graders hosted several Upper School Expanding Faculty candidates, in Math, Science, English, History, Spanish, and Design, as guest teachers in their classes and as interviewees over lunch. These positions will bring the next six key people, from around the country and the Bay Area, to Hillbrook: to build out our ninth grade program over spring & summer, to design ways we will use San Jos\u00e9 as our classroom, and to lay a curricular arc to 12th grade graduation, both within and across their disciplines. Candidates before break, and in this coming week, bring an incredible wealth of experience and expertise–they have worked in industry and academia as designers, architects, archaeologists, researchers, college lecturers, and engineering fabricators for television sets. They hail from schools near and far, like Menlo School, Phillips Academy Andover, Sacred Heart Preparatory Atheron, Nueva School, Notre Dame, Woodside Priory, Khan Lab School, MIT\u2019s NuVuX, and San Jos\u00e9 State University. They\u2019ve developed and taught high school courses like, \u201cReligions of Los Angeles,\u201d \u201cEconomics, Big Data, and Income Inequality,\u201d \u201cLiterature of Witness,\u201d \u201cAdvanced Topics in Mathematics,\u201d \u201cIT Careers and Cyberethics,\u201d \u201cEngineering and Ecology,\u201d and many more. They have worked in Jordan, Ukraine, Israel, San Jose, Oakland, San Francisco, New York City, Cambridge, and beyond. In demo lessons with them, our students: analyzed how area, volume and length scale differently, teamed up for design challenges, reflected on belonging, analyzed poems, used the EPA\u2019s database of water health measures to map our local creeks, made sauerkraut, and more. These visitors are traveling to Hillbrook in hopes of becoming our first cohort of high school educators because they are drawn to the school\u2019s mission, our commitment to authentic, purpose-driven education that centers students, and because they can\u2019t wait to build a program in San Jos\u00e9 that continues students\u2019 Hillbrook journey to learn about what matters to them and to build the skills to do even more about it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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