Spotlight News at Elmwood
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Watch D.O.G.S.
Watch D.O.G.S. are back! Fathers and father-figures, Watch D.O.G.S. is your opportunity to share time with your student during the school day and be a positive role model in the school environment. Click the headline for details
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Adaptability
• Work effectively in a climate of ambiguity and changing priorities, roles, and situations.
• Demonstrate agility and resilience in thoughts and actions.
• Respond productively to feedback, praise, setbacks, and criticism.
• Understand, negotiate, and balance diverse views and beliefs to reach workable solutions.
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Communication
• Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written, and nonverbal communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts.
• Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values, attitudes, and intentions.
• Use communication for a range of purposes and audiences including to inform, instruct, motivate, and persuade.
• Seek, contribute, and respond to feedback to achieve collective outcomes.
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Critical Thinking
• Understand the bigger picture and propose solutions that consider the effects on the whole system.
• Consistently improve the quality of one's own thinking by skillfully analyzing, assessing, and reconstructing.
• Apply disciplined thinking that is clear, rational, open-minded, and informed by evidence.
• Access, evaluate, and integrate information effectively, using appropriate tools and resources wisely, ethically, and efficiently.
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Learner's Mindset
• Embrace curiosity to experience new ideas, while developing positive attitudes and beliefs about learning.
• Possess the desire to learn, unlearn, and relearn.
• Find and maximize opportunities to actively listen and elicit diverse perspectives from others.
• Adopt a dynamic mindset, embracing flexibility and taking ownership, with intrinsic motivation and an eagerness to evolve.
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Global Citizen
• Demonstrate awareness, sensitivity, concern, and respect to connect with others' feelings, opinions, experiences, and culture.
• Value and embrace diverse cultures and unique perspectives through mutual respect and open dialogue.
• Demonstrate personal, civic, social, local, and global responsibility through ethical and empathetic behaviors.
• Elicit diverse perspectives and contributions.
Upcoming Events
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Today
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM Run Club
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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Young Rembrandts
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Tomorrow
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM Golf School
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Monday
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM Calming Club
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2:30 PM - 3:35 PM Spanish Ladder
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Tuesday
7:00 AM - 7:30 AM Dungeons and Dragons Club
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7:25 AM - 8:00 AM Club FLARE
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December 12, 2024
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM Run Club
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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Young Rembrandts
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December 13, 2024
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM 3rd Grade Boys Only Book Club
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2:30 PM - 3:45 PM Golf School
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December 16, 2024
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM Calming Club