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Dear Teachers,

“Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.” – Marion C. Garretty     This coming Sunday 5/11 is Mother’s Day.  We give our best wishes to all mothers. Happy Mother’s Day.

1. For all teachers, please pick up a little gift for Mother’s Day at the library this Sunday.

2.  ACS Conference Registration

We encourage all Chinese teachers to attend the ACS conference on 5/24 and 5/25 (Memorial Day Weekend) at Burlington Marriott.  This year our school will play a main role in organizing the speech contest and other events. Please see the following link for conference details.  Some teachers may missed the registration date due to spring vacation, you can still register with Xiaoyan Lin.  Please send an email to Xiaoyan (xyc_lin@yahoo.com) as soon as possible.

http://www.acsusa.org/acs2014/Welcome.html

Here are topics that we covered in this week’s newsletter:

1. Fall Registration Dates and Procedure coming out soon

2. Registration Info Session 3:40-4:30pm  room 318

3. Thanks to all volunteers for NewtonServes

4.  Arts show at the cafeteria

Please see the newsletter in this link:

http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/blog/2014/05/08/ncls-weekly-newsletter-8-may-2014/

See you this Sunday!

Guangsong and Ling

Dear Teachers，

Hope you had a nice spring break! Our school will resume this coming Sunday 5/4.  Welcome back!

1. Double check your class student list

Our spring semester has passed half way now.  Please double check your class student list in your teaching system to make sure that the list matches the attendance.  If you have trouble get the list from the system, please let us know.

2. 新英格兰中文学校协会(NEACS) Speech Contest 4/26

This year, our school gave strong support to NEACS in organizing the annual speech contest.  From selecting the judges to volunteering work in the contest, our school has played a major role in this event.  Our student contestants have demonstrated superior skills in the contest and earned many awards (please see this week’s newsletter for contest details).  In the upcoming May ACS conference (5/24 and 5/25), our school will continue to be the host to the speech contest in the conference.  If you plan to join the conference and are willing to do some volunteer work in the speech contest, please let us know.

3. How to read the stipend code on the payment check:   S－工资，A－教师会补贴（包括培训），B－其它补助（包括代课、稿费等）

4.  New England Chinese Language Teacher Conference

The 25^th New England Chinese Language Teacher Conference is Saturday, May 17, 2014 at the University of Massachusetts Boston CAPS Facilities, 150 Mount Vernon Street (near the Doubltree Hotel). Registration is open: http://www.umb.edu/academics/caps/centers/cpc/teachers-network

The focus of the 25th NECLTN Conference is instructional resources and lesson unit models that support teaching and learning in 21st Century Chinese Language classrooms: Designing Thematic Units. And, similar to Fall, we will limit the number of participants to 50 to enable the instructors to work with everyone during the hands-on portion of the day. Registration is a first-come-first serve basis and will close when we reach 50 participants.

There are 2 steps to complete your registration. First, fill out and submit the online form and you will receive an email confirmation with explanation of how to process the $20 payment. Since the payment needs to arrive to complete your registration, online registration (step 1) will close May 9^th by 2pm. Please mail your $20 checks immediately after receiving your confirmation. Renee will send an agenda to the fully registered group on May 17^th with a receipt of payment.

Thank you for your cooperation,

New England Chinese Language Teachers Network Conference

尊敬的汉语教师：

我们将于5月17日在麻州大学波士顿校区举办第25届新英格兰地区中文教师教学研讨会。此次会议的中心议题是专题课程设计的理论与实践（Designing Thematic Units）。全美中小学教师协会的负责人林游岚老师与其他三位麻州大学波士顿分校富布莱特-海斯项目的教师们为与会听众讲解主题设计的理论与要领，并分享他们设计的以不同文化专题为内容的教案。之后，听众们将分成小组研讨如何开展主题设计，并且在大会上分享每个小组的设计方案。

除了这个中心议题之外，麻州大学波士顿分校孔子学院中方教师，《快乐汉语》课本的作者王淑红老师向大家介绍汉语教学资源。与会期间，富布莱特-海斯项目的汉语教师还要向大家介绍他们在中国学习、旅游期间所收集到的各种原始教学资料 （authentic teaching materials）。

为了让每位听众有足够的时间开展主题课程设计，这次大会的听众名额限制在50名以内。对此次教学研讨会有兴趣的老师们，望及早报名，报名费为20美 元。            这次报名分为两个步骤：

第一步，先通过以下网页注册： http://www.umb.edu/academics/caps/centers/cpc/teachers-network

第二步，大会秘书处的Renee Cavolucci会立即同您联系，并且告知您如何交纳费用的程序。

报名截止时间：5月9日下午2点。Renee 在5月17日将会发给您大会日程表以及交费收据。

大会将提供免费的早餐与午餐。

大会地点：150 Mount Vernon Street， Dorchester , MA 02125     (Double Tree 宾馆侧面Corcoran Jennison大楼内)。

到达该地点的路线：

当导航仪将您指引到150 Mount Vernon Street后，开车者可以将您的车辆停放在大楼前面免费的停车场里，然后从该大楼的右侧进入楼内。

乘坐地铁者到 JFK/UMass (Red Line) 地铁站下车，向左穿过地铁站旁边的 Bank of America自动取款机与红绿灯之后就到达了 Mt. Vernon Street, 继续向前步行300米，就可以看到左侧的Corcoran Jennison大楼。请从大楼的右侧进入该大楼。 欢迎各位老师的积极参与！

新英格兰地区中文教师教学研讨会筹备小组

This week’s newsletter covers the following topic:

1.  Fall Semester Registration will start soon

2.  5/4 NewtonServes at Day School – Need volunteers

3.   4/26 NEACS speech contest result

4.   NCLS speech contest digital report

5.    All-American Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Competition Winners List

6.    NCLS 2nd Math Competition Winners List

7.    5/4  Seminar   Money Talks: 退休計劃

8.     Community News – 劍橋合唱團2014年春季音樂會

9.     Community News -Asian Pacific American Heritage Celebration

Please see the newsletter link here: http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/?p=2186

See you this Sunday.

Guangsong and Ling

Dear Teachers

Hope you all enjoy the spring break week.  There is no school this coming Sunday 4/27.  The school will resume on 5/4.  See you then.

School Newsletter here: http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/?p=2180

Guangsong and Ling

Dear Teachers,

We do not have school on 4/20 and 4/27 due to the spring vacation week.  Have a nice break!

1.  推荐优秀学生助教：

Every year we select outstanding student TAs to recognize and encourage their quality work.  If you think your TA is doing a good work, please recommend him(her) for this award.  Here is the recommendation form:

www.newtonchineseschool.org/principal/优秀学生助教推荐表.pdf

You can also get the hard copy of this form at our desk in the library.  Please submit the form to Yi Tian no later than 5/18.  Thanks.

2.  教学意向表：

Please submit this form to Xiaoyan Lin by 5/11.  You can get the form from this link.  We also have hard copy of the form in the library.

http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/teachers/2014/04/11/letter-to-ncls-teachers-on-10-apr-2014/

3.  第四十一届美东中文学校协会年会

We have sent out an email to you couple of days ago regarding the registration.  The ACS annual conference will be held in Boston this year on May 24 and 25.  We encourage all Chinese teachers to sign up for the conference as this is a wonderful training opportunity.  If you would like to go to the conference, please email Xiaoyan Lin at xyc_lin@yahoo.com as soon as possible(before the end of this week). We need to submit the registration form next week.

This year, our school will host four workshops in the conference.  Please see detailed meeting agenda and workshop schedule in this link:
http://www.acsusa.org/acs2014/Welcome.html

Once you sign up, please make every effort to participate.  The school will pay registration fee ($125 including three buffet meals)for you.  This will count in your training budget.  However, if your budget cannot cover this fee, the school will subsidize for you as we treat this as a special event and encourage teachers to join.

Here is this week’s newsletter: http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/?p=2173

Enjoy Good Friday and have a nice weekend!

Guangsong and Ling

Dear Teachers,

This coming Sunday 4/13 will be the last class for the month of April.  We do not have school on 4/20 and 4/27 due to the April vacation week.  We hope you enjoy the break.

Here are couple of notes：

1.  教学意向表：

www.newtonchineseschool.org/principal/2014-2015教学意向表.pdf

In order to well prepare our teaching staff for next school year , we need you to fill out this form and submit to us by 5/11.  Our registration for next school year will start in mid-May.  If you have any questions regarding the teaching for next school year, please feel free to contact us.  If you want a hard copy of this form, please come to our desk in the library.

2. Email address in the teachers’ login page

Recently some teachers noticed that emails sent to students from their teacher’s login page have been returned.  After our research, we found out that recently all major email service providers, Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, etc., have deployed new anti-spam filters which reject any incoming email sent from a server that does not host the sender’s email domain.

To address this issue, we have created a forwarding email address with the school’s email domain for every teacher. It is your teacher login id plus “@newtonchineseschool.org“. We have set up your addresses so that they will forward to your personal email addresses. You will find that when you log into your teacher account to send email to students, the “From” line now is always your school email address and you cannot change it. Please start using this and let us know if you run into any issue.

To help identify any potential forwarding issue, please send an email to yourself with your school email address. You should receive it in your personal email box. Do check SPAM folder in case you don’t get it. If, after checking SPAM folder, you don’t receive, let us know and we will check the address for you.   If you have any questions regarding this issue, please contact us any time.

Here is our newsletter for this week: http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/?p=2168

第二届“星光杯”作文比赛电子特刊: http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/journalWritingContestPanels.php

Guangsong and Ling

Dear Teachers,

Hope all had a restful Sunday last week. We will have class this coming Sunday 4/6.  Welcome back!

This Sunday we will have speech contest for age group 9-11.  The contest will start at 3:30pm sharp in the 2nd floor auditorium.  If you have students participating this contest, please have them come to the auditorium at 3:15pm to get ready.  Since we have a large group of contestants, we moved the starting time to 3:30pm in order to finish it on time.  As always, thanks for your support!

Here is this week’s newsletter: http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/?p=2155

See you on Sunday,

Guangsong and Ling

Dear Teachers,

This coming Sunday 3/30 was designated as Snow Makeup Day.  Since we did not have any snow cancellation this year, we will have this Sunday off.  There will be no school.  Take a break and enjoy the weekend!

Please see our weekly newsletter here: http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/?p=2149

Guangsong and Ling

Dear teachers,

This coming Sunday all Chinese classes (except Ma Liping Chinese) will have spring mid-term exam review.  Here is the review link.  The school will not make copies for the review material.  Therefore, we have asked all parents to print out the review pages and have their kids bring them to the class.

http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/principal/2014年春季一年级期中考试复习题.pdf

http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/principal/2014年春季三年级期中考试复习题.pdf

http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/principal/2014年春季四年级期中考试复习题.pdf

http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/principal/2014年春季五年级期中考试复习题.pdf

http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/principal/2014年春季六年级期中考试复习题.pdf

http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/principal/2014年春季七年级期中考试复习题.pdf

http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/principal/2014年春季八年级期中考试复习题.pdf

http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/principal/2014年春季九年级期中考试复习题.pdf

http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/principal/2014年春季十年级期中考试复习题.pdf

This Sunday at 2nd class period we will have the speech contest for 6-8 age group.  You are welcome to stop by the auditorium to observe the contest.

See you all on Sunday!

Guangsong and Ling

Dear Teachers,

Thanks to all teachers who helped promoting our upcoming speech contest.  We have collected all entry forms and this year we have a significant increase in the participation.  Here is a message from our speech contest organization group:

2014年牛顿中文学校中文演讲比赛的报名工作已全部完成。因今年报名参赛的学生很多，使用的场地又受到时间的限制，为了保证并鼓励所有报名学生都能参赛，经过演讲比赛筹备小组和学校商量，在参考了各组学生报名人数后，我们将比赛由原定的两次改为分三次完成。所有比赛都将在周日下午的第一节课后进行，具体安排是：

• 第一组的比赛定于三月二十三日，参赛的学生是低年级组（6岁到8岁）；
• 第二组比赛定于四月六日，参赛的学生是中年级组（9岁到11岁）；
• 第三组比赛定于四月十三日，参赛的学生为高年级组（12岁以上）。

所有参赛学生的年龄将依照新英格兰中文学会的比赛规则，即学生年龄以2014年5月15日为准。比赛细则不久将会发给所有参赛学生家长。

另外，学校将大力支持并参与今年美东中文学校协会在波士顿举行的年会。我校的演讲比赛筹备会已受邀成为四月新英格兰中校演讲比赛和五月美东中文学校演讲比赛的筹备及组织的主要成员。我们希望各位老师能积极支持和参与这些活动，大家一起共同努力推动社区的中国文化传播。

Here is this week’s newsletter:

http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/blog/2014/03/13/ncls-weekly-newsletter-13-mar-2014/

See you on Sunday!

Guangsong and Ling

Dear teachers:

Here are some reminders and annoucements for this week:

1.  Speech Contest registration form is due this Sunday 3/9 before school end.

2. Please mark your calendar:  第四十一届美东中文学校协会年会    五月二十四 和 二十五日 在Boston Marriott Burlington 举行。 http://www.acsusa.org/MeetingInfo.html

The conference will have different presentations given by experienced teachers.  We encourage you to attend this conference if your schedule allows.  This will be a great opportunity for you to have some trainings as well as meet teachers from other Chinese school in Boston.   The detailed conference planning and registration info will follow soon.

3.  Teachers training on 3/15:    See this link for details: http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/principal/NECLTAWorkshop-2014-3-15.pdf

Here is this week’s newsletter to parents: http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/

See you this Sunday!

Guangsong and Ling