{"id":2706,"date":"2017-03-10T15:54:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T20:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/?p=2706"},"modified":"2017-03-10T15:54:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T20:54:39","slug":"professional-development-highlights-family-life-education-equity-conversations-and-special-education-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/professional-development-highlights-family-life-education-equity-conversations-and-special-education-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional Development Highlights: Family Life Education, Equity Conversations and Special Education Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are this week\u2019s professional development offerings. To view all professional development offerings or to sign up for courses, please log in to the <a href=\"https:\/\/acps.truenorthlogic.com\/U\/P\/Channel\/-\/ExternalChannel?Path=%2Fia%2Fapp%2Fcal%2FmonthTeaserV2%3Fmonth%3D9%26year%3D2016\">PLMS website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>This week\u2019s highlighted courses:<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Family Life Education Teacher Certification Course: Human Sexuality<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">ACPS teachers who will be delivering Family Life Education (FLE) content to their students are required to take the Human Sexuality for Educators course. This course offering will take a closer look at FLE materials and resources available to teachers and will build participant confidence and knowledge-base in delivering this sensitive and meaningful content.\u00a0<strong>#14239\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Equity Conversations for Administrators 2016-2017<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Department of Student Services, Alternative Programs and Equity is offering Equity Conversations for Administrators. The sessions are designed for staff who attended the August Leadership Academy. Each session will be ninety minutes long and will focus on topics that prepare participants to design and support opportunities for staff, students and the community using an equity-focused lens.\u00a0<strong>#14640\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">New Special Education Teacher Institute<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Special Education teachers new to ACPS are invited to learn the ACPS procedures and practices in order to remain in compliance with federal, state and local standards.<strong>\u00a0#14594\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow the Professional Development team on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/TeachACPS\">@TeachACPS\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow and contribute to the conversation with hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?f=tweets&amp;vertical=default&amp;q=%23TeachACPS&amp;src=typd\">#TeachACPS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACPS offers hundreds of courses for staff. This week, ACPS focuses on the selection offered for Professional Development Day on March 10. This week\u2019s edition includes a host of math course options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professional-development"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 12:07:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2707,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706\/revisions\/2707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}