GISD Education and Learning

Welcome to ’s Career Connection Center — your link to career planning resources!

Designed for high school seniors and recent grads, the Career Connection Center is here to help with career planning through a dedicated helpdesk, resources, and expert guidance.

🔗 Visit the Career Planning tab at www.beyondgrad.org
to learn more and get started!

Even though most celebrate today with a piece of pie, today is really an educational day! Pi is a very cool relationship that exists inside all circles in the world. Check out this fun experiment to find that relationship! https://www.youcubed.org/tasks/finding-pi/

Finding Pi - YouCubed Many students in the US think of Pi as a number they should memorize, when the most important idea for students to learn is that Pi is a very cool […]

Good news, the FAFSA is now open! Students and families can now complete the application for the 2024-2025 school year. Submit yours as soon as you can to ensure you receive all eligible funding. Get started at www.FAFSA.gov.

Thank you to all the school districts and PSA's that participated in this year's challenge! We can't wait to do it again next summer. Remember - Keep Reading!

The final results are in! Congratulations to the top three schools - Lake Fenton Community Schools, Grand Blanc Community Schools, and Kearsley Community Schools. We want to thank the 19 school districts and 5 PSAs for participating in this year's Read to A Million Challenge and to all the students who read a total of 667,323 pages. Fantastic job!

We are mid-way thru the summer with a total of 483,278 pages read! Help us get to a million pages by August 31, 2023. Accept the challenge and start logging your pages here: https://bit.ly/Read2AMillion.

Congratulations to Grand Blanc Community Schools for taking the lead with a total of 165,895 pages read. The student with the most pages read, 7,982, is going into 6th grade and also from . Great job everyone, keep reading!

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Hot off the press!
Check out the Family Flyer for Summer 2022

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Literacy T.I.D.B.I.T.S for the summer!

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Please share this month's Family Flyer with your families.

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From the Essential Instructional Practices in Early Literacy ( #4)
Activities that involve segmenting sounds in words help children to build phonemic awareness.
Watch the video to see how this can look in the classroom

K-3 Essential 4, Bullet 3: Sound Boxes Sample Video Activities that involve segmenting sounds in words, such as Elkonin boxes, help children to build phonemic awareness.

From the Essential Instructional Practices in Early Literacy ( #4)

Teachers promote phonological awareness development, particularly phonemic awareness development, through explicit explanation, demonstration, play with sounds in words, and engaged study of words.

Watch the video to see how this can look in the classroom
https://youtu.be/aOsyblydngE

https://youtu.be/aOsyblydngE

K-3 Essential 4, Bullet 2: Sorting Pictures by Sound Sample Video Sorting pictures, objects, and written words by their sounds, helps to promote children's phonemic awareness.