Issue 27 - March 17, 2024

The Cove School Guiding Principles 

Experiential Learning, Social Emotional Growth,

• March 18 | Fiscal Advisory Committee, 3:30 - 4:30pm, Hall Middle School

• March 19 | Superintendent Coffee Chat at Cove, 8:30a - 9:30am, Cove Gallery

• March 20 | Tinker Day 

• March 21 | Health & Wellness Meeting, 3:45 - 4:30pm, Hall Room #401

• March 28 | Hall Middle School Prospective Family Tours, 9-10am (sign-up)

• April 1 | District Advisory Panel, 3:30 - 4:30pm, Hall Middle School

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Cove’s Annual Tinker Day- Wednesday

Cove has 4 Guiding Principles- Hands on Learning, Social Emotional Growth, Creativity and Community. Tinker Day brings all four of them together! Students explore freely to expand creativity and learn STEAM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Art and Music) in a hands-on way. They persist through challenges, work on some projects alone and others as a group, and learn about themselves (all social emotional learning) along the way. Tinker Day is only possible through the support of our fabulous Cove community!

Here’s how you can help:

• Sign up here to run a station or volunteer to help our Tinkers at Work.

• Please begin collecting items to contribute: cardboard boxes, tape (scotch and electric) and crafty items for our Construction Station and old electronics (all shapes and sizes!) for the Take-Apart Station. We ask that you bring them into the gallery on March 19 or the morning of Tinker Day, March 20.

• Tinker Day Questions? Email Jessica Swanson at jessica.louise.garrett@gmail.com

AI for Educators

Anastasia Robbins (Cove 5th grade teacher) and I have been involved in a cutting edge cohort of educators exploring the use of AI in education. Facilitated by Transcend, funded by Silicon Schools Fund and educated by aiEDU, this cohort learned about AI through exploration, and then developed and carried out research projects to share at a “demo day” last week at the Google community space in San Francisco. While we are not quite ready to introduce student facing AI tools (other than some adaptive online assessments), teachers are starting to explore tools to allow for more differentiation, curriculum development and efficiency. Whether we like it or not, our world is filled with AI, and we must learn to harness it and begin to think about how we can teach our children this new form of literacy in an age appropriate way—so that they are empowered by it rather than victims of it. Congratulations to Ms. Robbins for completing this cohort and presenting her project about scoring student writing!

Sincerely,

Michelle Walker, Principal

Coffee Chat with Dr. Brett Geithman Come join us for a Coffee Chat with Dr. Brett Geithman at Cove Gallery on Tuesday March 19th at 8:30am. Coffee chats are a great venue for parents to learn more about our schools and ask a range of questions. Some of these are topic-based and some are open-ended. All district parents are encouraged to attend. 

Lost and Found Walk Thru Wednesday April 3rd and Sale/Donation on Friday April 5th, 2024