Tomorrow is Safer Internet Day 2017! Taking place on Tuesday, February 7, 2017, with a theme of “Be the change: Unite for a better internet,” we call upon all stakeholders to join together to make the internet a safer and better place for all, and especially children and young people. Find out how your school can participate »
Category Archives: Teachers – Elementary
Piedmont Master Gardener Association Offering Education Horticulture Grants – Apply by Feb. 28
The Piedmont Master Gardener (PMG) Association, a volunteer organization within the Virginia Cooperative Extension, is offering grants dedicated exclusively to youth education related to horticulture and/or gardening. Any public or private K-12 educator within Albemarle County or Charlottesville City is eligible to apply for a 2017 grant. Grant applications must be submitted by February 28, 2017. Continue reading
Black History Month: Learning Resources (2017)
Dear Educators,
I recently attended the unveiling of a historical marker commemorating the importance of a Rosenwald School in Albemarle’s rural Cobham community. Over 5,000 Rosenwald schools were built in the early 20th century by the first president of Sears, Julius Rosenwald, who along with community members built these schools to support the education of African American students across the South. Continue reading
Environmental Education and Stewardship Grants – Apply by March 1
The Dominion Foundation is accepting applications for their competitive environmental education and stewardship grants program through March 1. Eligible organizations include nonprofits and public and private K-12 schools in communities served by Dominion companies. The Dominion Foundation considers K-12 grant requests up to $5,000 for projects that support one or more of the following priorities: Continue reading
ACPS Explores Micro-Credentialing for Contemporary Professional Learning – Organizational Meeting on Feb. 15
Digital Promise has built an innovative system of micro-credentials to help educators not only build specific professional skills, but also recognition for proficiency in those skills. The ACPS Professional Development team wants your help in evaluating the potential impact of this system on our professional learning programming. Learn more about the Digital Promise approach »
Teachers interested in piloting a few of these modules in order to provide feedback are invited to RSVP to an organizational meeting on Wednesday, February 15, 2017, 4:30 to 6 p.m., location TBD. A light dinner will be served. Please RSVP no later than Monday, February 13. Continue reading
Weigh in on the New Language Arts Standards: Public Hearing TONIGHT, Dec. 14
New language arts standards are coming …
The proposed English Standards of Learning went before the Board of Education for first review on October 27. A series of public hearings are being held around the commonwealth. Locally, there is a public hearing TONIGHT, December 14, 7 p.m. at Albemarle High School. Registration of speakers will begin at 6:30. Speakers will have three minutes to speak and should bring copies of their comments for the Board of Education. Continue reading
Educational Leadership Program: Informational Meeting on Dec. 14
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 | 4 to 5 p.m. | Stone-Robinson Elementary School Library
Learn more about the Educational Leadership Master’s & Certificate Program through James Madison University! How? Attend an informational meeting at 4 p.m. this Wednesday, December 14, at Stone-Robinson Elementary School. Continue reading
Analyzing Student Work: Using Peer Feedback to Improve Instruction
The Professional Learning Community (PLC) model is intended to use student information—formative and summative assessments—to analyze and figure out with peers what support is needed by individual students to address learning gaps before they grow too large. This Edutopia video captures a PLC’s focus on analysis of student work samples and peer feedback. While it’s an elementary PLC, the model applies to all levels.
Spanish Immersion Experience in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala – Info Sessions on Nov. 21 & 29
Interested in improving your Spanish-speaking skills? ACPS teachers and administrators are invited to partake in an authentic language and cultural experience, June 18 – July 9, 2017.*
Groups of teachers and students from Albemarle County Public Schools have been attending this program for over 12 years! Check out this video »
Continue reading
Instruction Projects for 2016-17 – Interested? Let Us Know by Nov. 22!
Teachers: This fall, the Content Advisory Teams identified projects that we will develop in order to help move the curriculum, assessment and instruction of the school division forward. These projects are in response to the suggestions that both the Content Advisory Teams and some of you made to the Department of Instruction in the last six months. These projects range from curating digital resources to curriculum development to assessment item vetting, with a little bit of everything in between.
We are looking for teachers across every discipline and every school to work in Product Development Teams on these projects: Continue reading