Sawdust News December 2022
A Message from Mike
Grateful. This year more than ever, we are grateful for teachers, administrators, camp staff, and community leaders nationwide who have helped their youth grow hands-on learning, collaboration, and exploring future careers.
As a thank you to all the brave teachers, we are making donations to Donors Choose to give back to the classroom.
We doubled in size this year and for some fun highlights (how many tool chests did we ship?) please see our 2022 year in review.
Kind regards,
Mike
We are thrilled to share that Maplewoodshop has been named a finalist in the 2022 Excellence in Equity Awards, Best Career Readiness Solution! We are honored to be recognized as a company “helping schools achieve equity everywhere.” Learn more about our program on our website.
Teachers! Need a coffee boost to help get you to your holiday break?
Maplewoodshop is excited to hear about successes in your classroom, and as a way to say thank you we will send a $10 e-gift card for Starbucks to the first ten teachers who share in our community forum!
To receive a gift card do the following:
Access the “Maplewoodshop for Schools Community” from your Thinkific dashboard.
Respond to our post for a short story about a success in your classroom using Maplewoodshop on our Thinkific Community Page.
If you are one of the first ten to post, an e-gift card will be emailed to you!
“We were looking to add a more hands-on class for students who are more tactile learners and woodworking fit perfectly. It was important for us to listen to students about what they wanted to learn and also provide more opportunities for career-based learning.”
Melissa Jones, Ed.D
Assistant Superintendent at Carteret Public Schools
““We were looking to add a more hands-on class for students who are more tactile learners and woodworking fit perfectly. It was important for us to listen to students about what they wanted to learn and also provide more opportunities for career-based learning.” ”
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The Orange Pencil Award
Congratulations General Sherman Junior High School!
The December recipient of the Orange Pencil award is General Sherman Junior High School! Located in Lancaster, OH, 7th and 8th Grade students at General Sherman participate in woodworking as one of their elective classes. General Sherman utilizes Maplewoodshop to target academic needs, social emotional skills, and build community in their school. They have removed stigmas and stereotypes by creating learning opportunities for all students, from all interests to engage collaboratively in woodworking. Congratulations to General Sherman for their amazing work!
Welcome to the Family
A new addition to our family is always worth celebrating, so get your party hats and let’s celebrate all the schools and camps that have joined Maplewoodshop. We are glad to add you to our family!
Viewpoint
Maplewoodshop: Carteret Public Schools Case Study
Carteret Public Schools in NJ initially partnered with Maplewoodshop to offer woodworking at its afterschool program at the middle school. It then added a woodworking elective course at its junior high school. With the positive impact the district was seeing at the middle and junior high school levels, and the district’s interest in providing different types of learning at the high school level, it expanded its partnership with Maplewoodshop and the Eastern Atlantic States Carpenters Funds to introduce carpentry to students at Carteret High School.
Upcoming events
Tri-State CAMP Conference 2023
March 14-16, 2023
Atlantic City Convention Center
https://www.acacamps.org/events-education/event/tri-state-camp-conference-2023
NYCMSPA
March 4, 2023
TWA Hotel and Conference Center at JFK Airport
We'd love to chat in person. Come meet us at a trade show.
Other Info
Hosting a webinar? Presenting at an upcoming state or regional conference? If so, please email lauretta@maplewoodshop.com. We’d love to attend and offer our support from providing the most up-to-date information on CTE and woodworking, to sharing your upcoming session on our social media outlets, etc.
Write for us! One of the best ways to earn recognition for the work you do is to write about it. Email lauretta@maplewoodshop.com about opportunities to write for the Maplewoodshop blog. We feature articles by educators every month and are interested in submissions about implementing CTE in the classroom, experiences with project-based learning, teaching insights, and any new trends you’re spotting.
Contact us today to bring woodworking to your school this year.