Dear Parents:
I’m so excited to announce that Forest Park students are assigned their own laptop! This is our first step as we migrate towards 21st century learning and meet the learning requirements for all Forest Park students while realizing our school’s vision.
There are many educational benefits that our students will obtain when learning with their laptop, Windows 10, Office 365 applications, and Google Chrome browser:
1. Being assigned your own laptop means that students can take ownership of their learning and create a multitude of artifacts demonstrating their knowledge about a topic.
2. Students will have an email account and their own email address. This means that your child and their teacher can email each other and together they can make progress to reach your child’s academic goals all year long!
3. Windows 10 offers many features that will enable all students to use their laptop even when faced with daily challenges for hearing, vision, and physical reach. No child is left out of learning no matter what their life’s challenges may be! Students will have access to built-in learning tools when using MS-Word, PowerPoint, and One Note:
At Forest Park Middle School, we are dedicated to deliver the most advanced methods of teaching and learning that allows your child to develop and master skills necessary to become competitive in their future!
I invite you to enter a discussion with me regarding 21st century skills and what it means for your child’s future! We want to prepare your child with the necessary knowledge & skills that will enhance your child’s high school learning experiences and prepare them for college and their career!
I look forward to embarking upon this journey with you and discovering your child’s possibilities!
I’m so excited to announce that Forest Park students are assigned their own laptop! This is our first step as we migrate towards 21st century learning and meet the learning requirements for all Forest Park students while realizing our school’s vision.
There are many educational benefits that our students will obtain when learning with their laptop, Windows 10, Office 365 applications, and Google Chrome browser:
1. Being assigned your own laptop means that students can take ownership of their learning and create a multitude of artifacts demonstrating their knowledge about a topic.
2. Students will have an email account and their own email address. This means that your child and their teacher can email each other and together they can make progress to reach your child’s academic goals all year long!
3. Windows 10 offers many features that will enable all students to use their laptop even when faced with daily challenges for hearing, vision, and physical reach. No child is left out of learning no matter what their life’s challenges may be! Students will have access to built-in learning tools when using MS-Word, PowerPoint, and One Note:
- Speak: This is a dictation tool that allows your child to speak what they want to write. Microsoft currently offers 9 languages. Students who have severe vision challenges can use Narrator which is also built in, but the child does need a monitor.
- Text-to-Speech gives your child the ability to play back written text as spoken words.
- Learning Tools: provides help so your child can improve his/her reading skills by assisting your child’s ability to pronounce words correctly, to read quickly, and to understand what was read.
At Forest Park Middle School, we are dedicated to deliver the most advanced methods of teaching and learning that allows your child to develop and master skills necessary to become competitive in their future!
I invite you to enter a discussion with me regarding 21st century skills and what it means for your child’s future! We want to prepare your child with the necessary knowledge & skills that will enhance your child’s high school learning experiences and prepare them for college and their career!
I look forward to embarking upon this journey with you and discovering your child’s possibilities!
Very truly yours,
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Thomas J. Mazza
Principal & Director of School Initiatives
Forest Park Middle School
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Thomas J. Mazza
Principal & Director of School Initiatives
Forest Park Middle School