The District is now accepting applications for the following position at the High School for the 2010 -2011 School Year.

ISS AIDE AT BONNER SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL for the 2010-2011 School Year. This is a 9 month position from August 17, 2010 through May 25, 2011 for the days students are in attendance.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT Joe Hornback.

MIDDLE SCHOOL SECRETARY/HEALTH AIDE for the 2010-2011 School Year. CNA certification or health care experience is preferred. This is a 10 month position beginning in August.

TWO SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHING POSITIONS AT CLARK MIDDLE SCHOOL for the 2010-2011 School Year. A valid Kansas Special Education License is required for K-12 in the areas of adaptive and/or functional special education.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT Steve Cook. 

SECRETARY AT DELAWARE RIDGE ELEMENTARY. This is a full-time, 10 month position beginning in August.

The qualified candidate will have initiative, who is patient, friendly, organized, detail oriented with strong verbal and written communication skills. They will have experience with bookkeeping and possess good computer skills, be familiar with Microsoft programs (word, excel, outlook, publisher) and has a knowledge of web-based programs. Experience with PowerSchool, PowerGrade and KIDS is a plus.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT Cindy Kapeller.

For high school teachers of career and technical education, math, science, engineering, gifted, etc. programs.

Thanks,

Dr. Bob

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REAL WORLD DESIGN CHALLENGE

Start your plans for next year now!

Registration is now open for the 2010-2011 Challenge (Click to register)
    

Training videos and software installation guides are at Getting Started 
 

This year a team from Baldwin HS won the National Challenge - to see a picture of the team receiving their trophies at Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC, go to KSDE's webpage at http://www.ksde.org/Default.aspx?tabid=3780    

The challenge is not for the faint-of-heart - It requires real fortitude! - However, the rewards are great.

We want to urge you to enter a team for the 2010-2011 Challenge for next year. You can even do it now. (You can add or drop team members as circumstances dictate next year.)

The Challenge provides over $900,000 worth of free software. The key software provided is Pro/ENGINEER. This software is very powerful and is used by many engineering companies, including those in the aerospace industry. The only way for your students to really learn the software is for them to actually use it. We suggest either you register a team now or the first of the 2010-11 school year and have the students practice on the 2009-2010 Challenge. (We understand the 2010-2011 Challenge will also be in the aerospace field.) The free on-line training for coaches/teachers will remain available (at http://www.realworlddesignchallenge.org/Teachers.html ) so you can make yourself familiar with the software this summer.

The Challenge is like a working on a real engineering project. Students said that working on the Challenge brought real meaning to what they were learning in school. As with a real engineering project, the team will need to include more than students who can run CAD programs. In addition to students who can run the CAD program your team will need to include a student who is the project manager, one or more with expertise in math, others who will do research on aerospace design, and one who can prepare a professional presentation (a key element of the National Challenge) using PowerPoint or other software.

If you have questions or would like suggestions, please contact us.

Also, see the National RWDC page at http://www.realworlddesignchallenge.org/  

Kansas RWDC Coordinators:

Sidney A. Cooley, Ph.D.

Education Program Consultant

Mathematics

Standards & Assessment Services

Kansas State Department of Education

120 S.E. 10th Avenue
Topeka, KS 66612-1182

Ph: 785-296-1978

FAX: 785-296-3523

TTY: 785-296-6338

Web Page:  www.ksde.org
E-mail:  scooley@ksde.org     

RJ Dake

Technology Education Program Consultant

Career Pathways: Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics (STEM),

Information Technology (IT), Arts-AV/Communications (AV)

High Schools That Work

Project Lead the Way

Kansas State Department of Education

120 SE 10th Ave. Topeka, KS  66612

(785) 296-7285

(785) 296-2294 Fax "attn: RJ Dake"

E-mail: rjdake@ksde.org

Please note that all certified staff were sent an email regarding summer payments and address changes -- please complete and return to Renee Stanley at the Central Office no later than TODAY, Friday, May 14, 2010.

If you do not return your form by the deadline, your payments will continue to be bi-weekly. If you have any questions, please contact Renee Stanley.

The BSHS Football Team is selling hot dog meal deals at Price Chopper's Tent Sale this Friday and Saturday. You get a hot dog or Brat, chips and a drink for $2.00. All the money raised goes to the football team.

Bonner Springs High School SADD is getting mad about distracted driving.  So we have decided to do something about it.  And we need your help. 

Log onto http://www.actoutloud.org and watch the Bonner Springs HS SADD video, and vote.  Each person is allowed one vote EACH DAY.  So vote every day through May 21. 

The neat thing about this is Bonner Springs High School is the only school in the State of Kansas involved in this project. Together we can help make Kansas roadways safer for ALL Kansans.  Did we mention that this project has the potential to bring financial resources to USD 204, but the main benefit is that Kansas roadways will be safer.

Big Thinkers on Education
Some of the world's most brilliant minds -- from Howard Gardner to Jane Goodall to Martin Scorsese -- share their ideas for improving education.
edutopia.org

Change starts with an idea. That was true of the American Revolution and the microchip. It's equally true of the big changes that the American public education system is just starting to make. And despite the headlines, some of the most exciting minds are focusing their attention on the world of education. Take a look at some of the most innovative, surprising, intriguing, and inspiring ideas from some of the biggest thinkers Edutopia has featured.

Read more...

Mr. Teacher
Why the teaching profession - and our students - need more male educators.
Samantha Cleaver, Scholastic.com  

After 26 years teaching elementary school, Tom White, a third-grade teacher at Lynnwood Elementary School in Lynnwood, Washington, doesn't give too much thought to the gender imbalance in the teacher's lounge-even though he is one of only five male teachers. What are the differences? Not surprisingly, says White, he is assigned more students who might be in need of a male role model.

Read more...

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An unexpected, often unpleasant sequel to a matter that had been considered closed.

The afterclap of the rebellion struck down Abraham Lincoln. The first peal from the clouds of checked dictatorship, that had been flashing less vividly, and rumbling less loudly and at longer intervals for weeks,-like the chain lightning, and the ripping, tearing, striking thunder-laid low James Abram Garfield.
-- James Seymour Hoyt, The death of President Garfield: a sermon preached at Prospect Street Church

Many Norwegian fishermen who then voted for the present system of limited prohibition are now bewailing its afterclap in the depression of their industry.
-- "", Norway's Prohibition Dilemma, New York Times Current history, Volume 15

Although it is the combination of two common English words, afterclap mostly found use in a literary context until early American writers made the term more popular.

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