{"id":5096,"date":"2018-06-10T20:04:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T00:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/?p=5096"},"modified":"2018-06-08T14:23:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T18:23:12","slug":"professional-development-highlights-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/professional-development-highlights-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional Development Highlights This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is our last post of professional development offerings for the school year, so we\u2019re taking the opportunity to highlight your options to keep the learning alive this summer. Get details and register in PLMS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Project GLAD Tier I Training –\u00a0<\/span>Part 1: June 25 and 26, Part 2: July 17 to 20<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

To what extent can we scaffold our instruction to provide access to academic language and grade-level content vocabulary to all our learners?<\/p>\n

Project GLAD is a set of strategies that are geared toward the language learner. It focuses on ensuring that all students have access to high academic language and content vocabulary\u00a0while creating a positive classroom environment where students are encouraged to take risks. The training takes place over six 6 days that are broken up into two days of research and theory and four days of classroom demonstration with time for creating materials\/planning #14958 <\/b><\/p>\n

Teachers Write! Online Writing Workshop July 9 to August 3<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

How do writers improve? To what extent does engaging in weekly writing support educators as teachers of writing?<\/p>\n

During this 10-hour asynchronous course, educators will engage in an online writing workshop hosted by published children’s book authors. By the end of the session, participants will have drafted a children’s book and have shared their reflections on better meeting the needs of their students during Writing Workshop. #15396 <\/b><\/p>\n

ACPS Blended Learning Camp 2018 – August 9<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

How can I utilize blended learning to enhance and personalize a deep and meaningful curriculum?<\/p>\n

Blended Learning Camp offers a choice of sessions regarding best practices for blended learning and student-centered instruction. Attendees will participate in \u201chow-to\u201d sessions that cover ACPS digital tools and instructional materials. The camp offers workshops about how to structure blended learning in your classrooms, will model blended learning use in various subject areas and provide opportunities to share successful strategies and challenges for using technology in the classroom. #15358 <\/b><\/p>\n

Customized Learning Summit \/ Teaching and Learning Unconference – August 10<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

How can I collaborate and network with colleagues to address specific needs of my classroom through a free exchange of strategies and ideas?<\/p>\n

The ACPS Customized Learning Summit is an unconventional \u201cunconference\u201d model in which participants identify topics, break into smaller groups and discuss and share ideas, issues, strategies and resources in an informal and community-driven forum. Participants can expect to be the drivers of their own learning. They decide the topics, guide the discussion, and share their own expertise while learning with and from others. Participants are encouraged to stay for as much or as little of the sessions as they want and join others that interest them. #15395 <\/b><\/p>\n

ACPS PLC Model – August 14 and 15<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

How can ACPS use Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) to meet the needs of all students?<\/p>\n

These sessions will provide an opportunity to revisit our foundational work around PLCs by refocusing and recommitting to the work of collaboration between teachers. Participants will learn more about how to launch, sustain, grow, and celebrate the professional learning happening in our schools. This session will be led by Dr. Deborah Childs-Bowen of Learning Forward.\u00a0#14895 <\/b><\/p>\n

Special Note<\/b><\/h3>\n

Interested in pursuing a math specialist degree and endorsement?<\/b><\/p>\n

Region IV divisions in Virginia are working together to begin a cohort for educators interested in completing a master’s degree program to earn a math specialist K-8 degree and endorsement through George Mason University. The program model is designed to be extremely flexible. If you are interested in learning more about this opportunity, please complete this survey<\/span><\/a> by June 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we do with our students, we’re encouraging you to keep the learning alive this summer. Several immersive, multi-day learning opportunities are available. Take a look!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professional-development"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 10:16:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5096"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5125,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096\/revisions\/5125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}