“Innovative” has bee a word used a lot to describe Mineola lately. We seem to be continuously getting awards for ‘innovation.’ The latest was to Vincent Interrante, who is a master trainer for Microsoft, and was recognized as a global leader in using technology to increase productivity and transform education for students. He was selected as a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert for 2015 for his excellence in using technology to help students learn and achieve more, and ultimately succeed in a mobile-first, cloud-first world. We are very lucky to have him.
He will be featured for receiving this award in Newsday’s Winners Column on January 5. Keep an eye out!
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Fifth-grade Family and Consumer Science students decorated tote bags for dialysis patients at Winthrop University. A representative from Winthrop visited the school to collect the tote bags yesterday and made a small presentation about dialysis and the importance of service learning. The kids decorated over 200 bags for the patients, which is really amazing. 
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In an effort to entice more students to read a wider variety of books, Hampton Street’s library media specialist Diane Nodell created an interactive recommendation station for students to explore potential new book selections through QR codes. Second-graders were selected to write a “book talk summary” on their favorite book, describing why they love it and why someone else should read it. Using the district-issued iPads, students then took the summaries and converted them into short video descriptions where they “sold” the book to other students and created a QR code for others to access the video. What a great way to incorporate technology and reading; all while keeping the kids engaged.
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