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Our world ‒ and the future we are preparing students for ‒ is changing at an exponential rate. In such a rapidly changing world, is what we teach, how we teach, and what we assess students on today best preparing our graduates for their futures tomorrow? Our Portrait of a Graduate process will help answer that question, and in doing so, better prepare all Monomoy students for the future.

Monomoy's Portrait of a Graduate is a collection of skills, attributes, and characteristics that we are committed to developing in each of our students from preschool through to graduation.

Thank you Ms. Jordan, MRSD Community Outreach and Engagement Coordinator, for all your work on the new website!

The Department's Office of Language Acquisition is offering a set of WIDA Self-Paced Workshops to Massachusetts educators at no cost. The workshops can be mixed and matched to suit individual educator needs or teams of educators in professional learning communities. Educators are also invited to explore the menu of facilitated WIDA workshops. These workshops have limited enrollment that opens about a month before each workshop. WIDA certificates can be applied toward licensure renewal professional development points (PDPs) for English as a Second Language or Sheltered English Immersion. A WIDA Secure Portal Account is required for enrollment in any WIDA workshop and may be obtained from educators' district WIDA account coordinator (Robin Millen, rmillen@monomoy.edu). The following titles are just a few of the available, free options.

Develop the specialized knowledge required to accelerate language and literacy proficiency for English Learners in any program model with immediate instructional applications with AIM's newest modules created in collaboration with literacy researcher Dr. Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan.

Each module in the Specialized Reading Knowledge Bundle: English Learners includes asynchronous online course instruction with exclusive content recorded by Dr. Cárdenas-Hagan, and a wealth of assessment resources, implementation tools, and printables to support immediate use in the classroom. Each module is paired with a 1-hour synchronous community of practice session (VCoP) with an expert AIM facilitator.

Modules include:

• Introduction to English Learners: Language & Literacy Development (2 Hours, 1 hour VCOP)

• Word Recognition Among English Learners (4 hours, 1 hour VCOP)

• Language Comprehension Among English Learners (4 hours, 1 hour VCOP)

AIM is excited to provide these unique, comprehensive and evidence-based learning modules as a complement to AIM Pathways training to support education partners who are looking for training, tools and resources to support English learners as they implement evidence-based structured literacy instruction in the classroom.

Read Course Syllabus Here

Special Events

Friday, October 13, 6 – 7:30 PM Join members of MLK Action Team for a Gallery Reception with punch & light deserts to view the Family Diversity Project’s photographic exhibit, “Of Many Colors, Portraits of Multiracial Families”. At First Parish Brewster Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse, on Route 6A (1969 Main Street) in Brewster. Parking across the street at the Brewster Thrift Store, behind the Brewster Chowder House, or down Cottonwood Rd. to the large “Parking” sign. (Held in cooperation with Nauset Interfaith Association, Family Diversity Project and First Parish UU Meetinghouse).

The MLK Action Team in partnership with Wellfleet Historical Society and advised by Aquinnah Wampanoag educator, Linda Coombs, have created a schedule of events to bring the history, contemporary stories and culture of the Wampanoag Tribes to members of the Lower and Outer Cape communities. The following two events are the last two of this year long series:

– October 20, Guided Tour of the Wampanoag Museum in Mashpee with Aquinnah Wampanoag elder, Linda Coombs. Tour begins at 1 pm

– November, Holistic Healing:Indigeneous Voices. A roundtable discussion about Institutional and Systemic Disparities in the Health Care System. Panel discussion led by Leo Blandford. Time and Venue TBD

This series was supported by a grant from MA Humanities with funding from the MASS Cultural Council.

Opening Friday, November 3: 6-7:30 PM “Love Makes a Family’ Portraits of LGBTQ People and Their Families.
First Parish Brewster Unitarian Universalist Church, 1969 Main Street, Brewster

For more events, please visit: https://nausetinterfaith.org/mlk-action/