THE STOOP SCOOP
22 April 2015 Volume 1, Issue 22 Colo r ve onlin rsion e! DSST: BYERS CALENDAR THE STOOP SCOOP 150 S. Pearl St. 4/22—Wednesday—New Family Orientation #2, 5:30-7:00pm 4/25—Saturday—Boys and Girls DSST Soccer Cup, 8am-1pm 4/25—Saturday—Boys and Girls Tennis Match vs. Ricardo Flores, 11am @ DSST: Cole 4/25—Saturday—Destination Imagination State Tourney, 1:15pm @ Auraria Campus 5/1—Friday—Staff Professional Learning—No School for Students 5/1—Friday—Slice of Pi Fundraiser (Stapleton Campus), 6-8:30pm 5/4—5/8—Teacher Appreciation Week 5/6—5/7—Wednesday & Thursday—PARCC Testing (morning) 5/7—Thursday—SPRING CONCERT, 3-5pm 5/16—Saturday—Falcons Without Borders Multicultural Night, 5-7pm @ DSST: Byers 303.524.6350 [email protected] FRIDAY, MAY 1ST, 6:00PM at DSST: Stapleton High School (2000 Valentia St.) Interested in attending the fundraiser? Please contact Denise Queen at 303-524-6395. As a reminder, there is NO school-wide advisory get together for Trimester 3 since many advisories are planning special events or parties to celebrate the upcoming end of the school year. Please contact your Advisory Parent with questions about your students end of year get together. UNIFORM UPDATE FOR 2015-2016 For the 2015-16 school year, we’re going to be adding an additional color option for uniform pants. In additional to khaki dress pants, students will also be allowed to wear navy dress pants. To the left, you’ll find a guide for pants that are OK and will m eet th e un iform expectations, and styles of pants that will earn students a Refocus (NO WAY). All khaki or navy pants should be mid calf or longer, and may NOT be denim material. To clarify, khakis are the only pant option for the remainder of the 14-15 school year. Questions regarding the new uniform bottoms? Please contact Mr. Boyd. RESPECT . RESPONSIBILITY . COURAGE . CURIOSITY . INTEGRITY . DOING YOUR BEST A Note from Mr. Lang SPRING CONCERT Thursday, May 7th DSST: Byers Gymatorium 3:00—5:00pm The vision and mission of music at Byers is first and foremost to further the vision and mission of DSST. DSST exists to create college bound, values driven students, and helps students realize their full potential. Music at Byers aids toward this end in extraordinary ways. In addition to providing a strong creative outlet for our students in our highly structured middle school environment, music helps foster the kind of well rounded, liberal arts educated people that STEM seeks to provide. Mike Lang, Music STEM education at its heart seeks to provide students with the ability to apply high quality critical and creative solutions to thinking and problem solving in our world. In our study of music at Byers our students are constantly critically and creatively thinking to analyze, sing, improvise, and solve music questions and problems. This creative outlet helps foster the love for a creative and critical approach to art, music, and life. Music at Byers will also open a myriad of scholarship opportunities and doors to universities and colleges for our students that their non-music-taking counterparts might not otherwise have available to them. At its core, music is a performance art and a performance is central, in many ways, to every music class. It is here that students get an opportunity to showcase their creativity and performance skills that are so highly transferable to the rest of their adult/career lives. There are days when we just aren’t “feeling it” or frankly have had a terrible day/week/month/season of life. Yet to remain a professional and still accomplish what we are responsible for (work, marriage, parenting, family, etc.) we depend on our ability to adapt, improvise and act when needed. These are the skills we seek to demonstrate and eventually master throughout our tenure of music at DSST: Byers. Come ready to see, perhaps through tear filled eyes, the age old wonder that is live music performance. Each homeroom will sing their own song and a demonstration of each grade level music conceptual mastery will follow the performance. 6th graders will demonstrate their ability to read, understand, analyze, and sight music for the first time. A select group of 7th graders from each class will give you a crash course and demonstration in keyboarding and improvisation skills. In an effort to keep a high bar of musical excellence in our concerts, we wanted to make you aware of the criteria that is required to perform in our concert. Please bear in mind that every student is fully capable of meeting these criteria and we encourage you to discuss this with your student at home. If, at any point, it is determined that a particular student is not meeting this criteria he/she will lose the immense privilege of performing at the annual spring concert. A consistent and proven track record of performing in a supportive way during song rehearsal in class Physical movements, hand gestures, and facial expressions that are engaging and supportive of the overall performance Demonstration of a solid memorization of the lyrics of the song being sung Regular participant in class, or has shown that he/she is fully capable of being an engaging and supportive performer Demonstration of commitment to the class and to the art throughout the year. As a final note this is a PA (performance assessment) for all students who are in music class and has the same weight as a summative test for the course. RESPECT . RESPONSIBILITY . COURAGE . CURIOSITY . INTEGRITY . DOING YOUR BEST
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