Welcome back, All!
I hope that you had a fun and relaxing vacation. We've spent the summer making important updates to curriculum documents and getting ready for the PD activities this week. The three days that we have together this week (8/29, 8/30, 8/31) represent the most varied and complex schedule of activities that Ansonia has had in quite some time. I hope that you will view this complexity as our effort to provide you with development activities that are relevant and directly tied to your work. Each district administrator has played a contributory role in the development of these offerings and most will also be serving as presenters at some point during the three days.An important change from past practice, you will be signing in within the rooms where you will have your workshops...not in the AHS lobby. Workshops will begin promptly at 8:00, so please be sure to report to your rooms by 7:55 for sign-in. If you wish to partake in Coffee &..., it will be available from 7:30 to 7:55. All faculty will start each day at AHS.
By now, you've already received a communication from Superintendent Merlone regarding our activities on Wednesday, 8/29. The following details pertain to 8/30 and 8/31.
Please note
that several faculty members will be attending sessions organized by Kathie
Gabrielson or Bridget Calabrese. Please
refer to communications you've received directly from them for more detail. If, by chance, you were accidentally included
on a district-wide activity and also one from either Kathie or Bridget, please
follow the instructions issued to you by one of them rather than the
district-wide option. Thank you.
The grid found at this LINK gives you a general overview of the activities for this week.
The following details are most pertinent for Thursday and Friday for faculty members in Grades 6-12 who have not received specific directions from Kathie or Bridget.
You will start your day in one of five rooms; the same room on both Thursday and Friday. Room assignments will be posted in the AHS lobby, but can also be viewed HERE.
On Thursday, our topic will be Looking Deeply at the Core Standards, Looking Deeply at Instruction. This is a continuation of the "adult curriculum" found one post lower on this blog. And on Friday the topic will be Understanding the Kim Marshall Rubrics for Teacher Observation. One both mornings, you will have five short workshops through which you will rotate. In each workshop you will work with colleagues and videos showing real teachers in real classrooms. Administrators will be your facilitators.
For those who would like to preview the activities and/or have the handouts with them on a mobile device, the handouts can be downloaded below. You will also receive hard copies of these documents.
Thursday's activity packet: Looking Deeply at the Core Standards
Friday's activity packet: Understanding the Kim Marshall Rubrics for Teacher Observation
Important resources for both days:
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