This document provides an update on curriculum and professional development activities. It outlines what has already been done, including in-services on various technology topics and Common Core strategies. Current efforts include K-4 and 5-8 articulation and reading/writing workshop pilots. Upcoming plans include introducing Chromebooks, field testing PARCC and DLM assessments, and a spring teacher academy. Further goals involve expanding reading/writing workshops, redesigning the STEM program, developing social media, and continuing articulation work and PARCC readiness.

1. Curriculum and
Professional
Development Update
2.19.14

2. What We’ve Done... What We are Doing...
What’s on the What’s Farther Away...
Horizon…

3. What We’ve
Done...

4. Language Arts
and BSI

5. In-Services:
1, 2, 3.

6. iPads in the Primary Grades
iPads in the Elementary Grades
iPads in the Middle School
Create your Teacher Website with Google Sites
Excel 101
Excel 102
SMARTBoard: Tips and Tricks
SMART Notebook
Safe Student Social Networking with Edmodo
YouTube for Teachers
Understanding by Design, an Introduction
PARCC Sample Explorations
Discussion Strategies in the Classroom
iPads in the Middle School Classroom
SMART Notebook
Building a Website with Google Sites
Dyslexia in the Elementary Grades

7. Conquer Math

8. “Best Professional Development
we’ve had here.”
“I come back feeling really prepared
for the changes in the Common
Core”
“Nancy is great. Can we go to
more?”

9. What We are Doing...

10. Articulation: K-4,
5-8

11. K-4

12. 5-8

13. Reading and Writing
Workshop Pilots:
5, 7, 8

14. “My Students are writing
more, and for longer
stretches of time than I’ve
ever seen.” -pilot teacher

18. Video

19. What’s on the Horizon…

20. Chromebooks and
Blended Learning

22. PARCC and DLM Field
Tests

23. Spring Teacher Academy

24. What’s Farther Away...

25. Full Scale Reading and
Writing Workshop, Grades
3-8

26. Reimagining of the SMS
STEM Program

27. Create a District Social
Media Presence

28. Continued Articulation

29. PARCC Readiness