What's Cooking? Fall 2010 - Cooke Center
What's Cooking? Fall 2010 - Cooke Center
What's Cooking? Fall 2010 - Cooke Center
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Focus on Our Faculty:<br />
A Look at Ascension Teacher Christie DiStefano<br />
Each week, a different<br />
student is assigned as<br />
the Morning Meeting<br />
Leader, whose<br />
responsibility is to lead a<br />
class discussion on<br />
topics including the<br />
weather, the day’s<br />
schedule, and news the<br />
students would<br />
like to share.<br />
Ascension Level 3 teacher Christie DiStefano is working on<br />
continued independence with her students. In preparation for<br />
the move to Middle School, she’s giving students many more<br />
responsibilities, such as organizing their work and following their<br />
own schedules. The theme in Level 3 this year is “Exploring.”<br />
Whether the natural world through science class, or their own<br />
interests through daily journaling, Ms. DiStefano’s students are<br />
exploring their individual paths to independence..<br />
Ms. DiStefano is<br />
especially proud<br />
of one of her students,<br />
Jayson, who recently<br />
completed a week of morning leadership. “I have watched<br />
Jayson mature with such a sense of awe. He has grown<br />
tremendously in his ability to think a problem through and find<br />
the right solution – whether it’s a piece of school work or an<br />
interaction with a peer.” She remembers when Jayson was<br />
reluctant to take risks, but says now he pushes himself. “He<br />
writes whole paragraphs in his journal now. And he has<br />
developed the confidence to not only stand up for himself, but<br />
to stick up for his friends and classmates, too.”<br />
Above: Student made mobiles from the Middle School<br />
Alumni Halloween Party<br />
Below are photos from the fun and festive <strong>Cooke</strong> <strong>Center</strong><br />
Alumni Halloween Party held at CCA on October 30th.<br />
Please remember to<br />
give to this year’s<br />
Annual Appeal Fund.<br />
Your donations help<br />
to make all of these<br />
great activities<br />
possible!