Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Spotlight: Prep Principal Honored
Tindley Prep Principal Mr. Jones was recently honored by School on Wheels as the Education Champion of 2013. He was honored for his service to the Tindley Community and previous service in California and Nashville. See the video above of Mr. Jones being introduced by Peyton Manning.
To learn more about School on Wheels and their mission to help educate children , visit http://www.indyschoolonwheels.org/
Testimonial from Cooking Club
A Parent Testimony:
J’Kai, probably like most boys his age, often really struggles to complete tasks independently. He needs many redirections and a lot of support to finish a complex task independently. In the past, when he’s tried to cook independently it has been a disaster. Since cooking club started, he’s been talking about it non-stop. I decided that we should give him a spotlight to showcase his new recipes when we went to a friend’s house for dinner recently. I had no idea what the recipe involved. J’Kai and I went to the grocery store, and from memory, he purchased all of the ingredients. Later that day he actually remembered that he was in charge of making the appetizer and asked if it was OK to start. I had mentally prepared to have to help him through this with a large amount of patience. However, I was in the middle of something and told him he could get started, planning to join him shortly to give him support. I checked in a few minutes later and he reported that he was doing fine, and then a little while later I started to smell something. When I asked what he was doing he said he was in the final stages of making his appetizer. When I went downstairs, my son had not only chopped all of the vegetables, but had them in the pan cooking, and was cleaning up his mess! Miracle of all miracles! He recreated the recipe completely independently after watching the recipe be cooked only once in cooking club and it was delicious! I’ve never seen him do anything like this before!
J’Kai, probably like most boys his age, often really struggles to complete tasks independently. He needs many redirections and a lot of support to finish a complex task independently. In the past, when he’s tried to cook independently it has been a disaster. Since cooking club started, he’s been talking about it non-stop. I decided that we should give him a spotlight to showcase his new recipes when we went to a friend’s house for dinner recently. I had no idea what the recipe involved. J’Kai and I went to the grocery store, and from memory, he purchased all of the ingredients. Later that day he actually remembered that he was in charge of making the appetizer and asked if it was OK to start. I had mentally prepared to have to help him through this with a large amount of patience. However, I was in the middle of something and told him he could get started, planning to join him shortly to give him support. I checked in a few minutes later and he reported that he was doing fine, and then a little while later I started to smell something. When I asked what he was doing he said he was in the final stages of making his appetizer. When I went downstairs, my son had not only chopped all of the vegetables, but had them in the pan cooking, and was cleaning up his mess! Miracle of all miracles! He recreated the recipe completely independently after watching the recipe be cooked only once in cooking club and it was delicious! I’ve never seen him do anything like this before!
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Spotlight: Chef's Society
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