It’s Professional Development Day! See What’s Coming Down the Pike

Professional Development Highlights
- Professional Development

We hope that you are all geared up and ready to dive into today’s professional development day!

Take a look that the courses that will be offered in coming weeks. To sign up, please log into the PLMS website.

This week’s highlighted courses:

Teaching Across Cultures—Reaching and Teaching Black and Brown Students
To what extent can instructional strategies help close the achievement gap? Madeline Hafner, Executive Director of the Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN) will lead a highly interactive session where participants will learn four research-based strategies proven to be effective with students of color. Each strategy can be used immediately to foster student success. Participants will be introduced to strategies that enhance student engagement and the acquisition of knowledge. This is the third section in the Teaching Across Cultures Series. #14757

New to ACPS Special Education Teacher Training
What are the ACPS procedures and guidelines for special education? Learn how to schedule and organize your school year to meet all IEP and eligibility timelines. Learn the process to determine Extended School Year eligibility in accordance with Virginia Department of Education guidelines. #14968

Reading and Writing Workshop Twitter Sessions
How can we refine our implementation of Reading and Writing Workshop to better support our learners? How can we learn from colleagues who are implementing Reading and Writing Workshop? During these sessions, ACPS teachers will engage in professional discourse about how to use a workshop approach to teach students to increase their reading and writing proficiency. The Twitter chats are facilitated by staff developers from Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. Teachers across the country will engage in the discussion. By the end of the session, all participants will be able to create or claim one new strategy to help them in reaching students as they implement Reading and Writing Workshop. This is an online workshop (no in-person meeting). #15070

Building a Canvas Homepage
How can I use Canvas, the new ACPS learning management system to support student learning, access ACPS curriculum content, collaborate with teachers and communicate with parents? In this session, participants will explore how to create a homepage for their course that is informative for students and families. Come prepared with a charged laptop or Chromebook! #15182

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