Calendar October 08:
Calendar Listing
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October is Texas Archaeology Month Texas National Guard archaeologists will be available to give archaeology presenations in local schools for free. To Schedule, email marie.archambeault@us.army.mil |
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WHAT'S ON PBS THIS MONTH?
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Sept 30 - Oct 1 |
DL Institute [for participating High Schools] |
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 Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs opens, Dallas Museum of Art. Runs through May, 2009. |
T-W: 7-8 |
T.C.I. Academy - Level 2 for Secondary Social Studies; Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center; 8:30 - 4:00 Contact our office to register. |
Th: 9 |
HS Late Start Day Information Session for Economics Teachers: Foolproof Demonstration; A+FCU; 5-6pm |
M-M: 20-24 |
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| W: 22 | E.S.C. Region XIII Workshop, 9:00am - 4:00 pm TAKS Boot Camp for English Language Learners: ELA and Social Studies [FA0812559] During this session, participants will explore a new approach to TAKSpreparation that takes into account an ELL's need for more linguistic and cognitive test-taking strategies. Teachers will walk through the design of a five-session preparation program that gives students the opportunity to review and prepare for TEKS/TAKS content while subsequently allowing them to develop key test taking skills that address their language needs. Participants will experience how the bootcamp process builds confidence through a concrete strategy approach. |
Th: 23 |
E.S.C. Region XIII Workshop, "Building Vocabulary & Background Knowledge" - Teaching the abstract concepts and myriad details of social studies courses proves difficult in today's diverse classroom that includes students of varying backgrounds and vocabulary proficiency. Gary McKenzie, professor-emeritus from UT, presents his methods and strategies to help teachers provide background knowledge. Workshop attendees can be a part of a related Region XIII project using the strategies and receive a stipend for their work! Workshop Fee $80. Course #FA0814216 |
24-26 |
TCSS Conference; San Antonio TX |
| 27-28 | Prejudice Awareness Summit - The Jewish Women International (JWI) has organized the PAS in Austin for over the past ten years. This year, JWI and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) are working together to host the first combined Prejudice Awareness Summit: No Place for Hate. Middle Schoolers attend one of the two days with a total of 50 regional public and private schools being served. The location for the Summit is the Marriott Hotel, IH-35 south of Ben White. |
W: 29 |
HS Department Chair Mtg.; 1 -4 pm |
Th: 30 |
LATE START DAY [HS] |
Th: 30 |
National Student / Parent Mock Election Results announced from Google's Headquarters |
Th: 30 |
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Austin ISD Mock Election Window
The Bill of Rights Institute's Constitutional ConferenceHeading to Dallas to see the Tut exhibit?
Why not stop into CowTown while you're there and catch a little culture at the Kimball as well,
check out:
This Month in History
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25 Years Ago |
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50 Ago |
 Charge It : Dr. Ake Senning performs the first cardiac pacemaker implantation in a person in Stockholm, Sweden, October 8, 1958. External pacemakers, used to regulate heart rhythms since 1950, limited patient movement and provoked infection. Senning and engineer Rune Elmquist, at work on an implantable model, are urged by the wife of patient Arne Larsson, 43, to try it in her husband. The first implant lasts eight hours, the next, a few weeks. Before his death at 86 in 2001, Larsson will have more than 20 pacemakers. Senning dies in 2000, age 85. |
70 Years Ago |
 We Interrupt Our Program : Orson Welles, 23, and the Mercury Theatre inspire panic October 30, 1938, when thousands mistake their radio version of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds for news of a Martian attack on New Jersey. Listeners across the country, perhaps tense over impending war in Europe, phone for help - Newark police report 2,000 calls. Says Welles: “I'm really quite shocked.” |
100 Years Ago |
 America's Top Model :It isn't his first car and won't be his last, but the Model T, which Henry Ford introduces in October 1908, secures his place in automobile history. The first car to be mass-produced with standardized parts, the four-cylinder, 20-horsepower vehicle sells initially for $850. The assembly line - new in 1913 - turns out a Model T every 71 seconds, and by production's end in 1927 more than 15 million "Tin Lizzies" are sold, fulfilling Ford's dream of "a motor car for the great multitude." |
125 Years Ago |
 Putting On Arias :
The curtain rises on the first performance of New York City's Metropolitan Opera on October 22, 1883. Founded by "new money" millionaires snubbed by the old guard at the Academy of Music, the Opera opens with Gounod's Faust - sung in Italian, as are all the first season's works. Critics note the lavish "exhibition of the audience" and pan the acoustics, but by 1910 the Met has become America's premier opera company. It moves to Lincoln Center in 1966; today more than 800,000 people attend some 200 performances each year. |
 This Month in History, written by Alison McLean, comes from the October 2008 issue of Smithsonian Magazine. |
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