Thursday, October 20 | 6 to 9 p.m. | Jefferson-Madison Regional Library
The ReinventED Community Convening aims to bring everyone together to connect, catalyze and create change. Anyone interested in improving education is welcome to attend—students (kindergarten through college), entrepreneurs, educators, administrators, innovators, and more. Participants will learn from one another, pitch ideas for projects, and collaboratively design the future of education. Register now for this FREE event!
Again, this year, Albemarle County is hosting Albemarle Against Hunger, a food drive for the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank. Each year, school participation is a vital factor in the success of our food drive! If you would like your school to participate, please communicate with your principal. Your school administrator needs only to contact Jennifer Butler (jabutler@k12albemarle.org) in the Office of Strategic Communications to get started. The event kicks off Monday, October 17! Continue reading
Barnes & Noble Charlottesville invites PK-12 educators to save in store and online during their Educator Appreciation Days, October 8-16. Open the flyer »
Also, Barnes & Noble will host several special events on October 8 at 2 p.m.: Cultural Responsiveness Workshop, Maker-Themed Tech Tool Demos, and a discussion on new and upcoming books for children and teens. Attend all the workshops and be entered to win a book bag of goodies! Connect with this event on Facebook »
The Virginia-School University Partnership (VSUP) has multiple conferences with registration deadlines that are coming up this Friday, September 30:
1. We are excited to announce that we now have a cohort of 39 coaches, administrators, instructional specialists, and teacher leaders registered to participate in our two-part “Instructional Coaching” offering. We can still accommodate a few additional participants, so we will keep registration open through this Friday, September 30. Continue reading
VASCD’s Unit and Assessment Design Series for Teachers includes face-to-face and blended learning opportunities to help teachers modify and design instructional units, assessment tasks, and rubrics. Participants will use their Standards of Learning and existing units as starting points to develop plans and tools that tap into high-level transfer skills, including the 5 Cs. Register for one, two, or all three sessions: Continue reading
Dan Mulligan from Flexible Creativity will be conducting professional learning sessions for Albemarle County teachers on Wednesday, September 28, and Thursday, September 29.
On Wednesday, Dan will present the same workshop he provided for new ACPS teachers in August. The focus will be High Yield Instructional Strategies for Teaching Lifelong-Learner Competencies. He will conduct this session twice, once in the morning and once in the afternoon.
On Thursday, Dan will conduct a full-day workshop on Building Student Academic Knowledge, with an emphasis on how teachers do this work with struggling learners. Continue reading
Join Future Ready Schools® on Tuesday, September 13, to celebrate the three-year anniversary of President Obama’s ConnectED initiative, which set a goal to connect 99% of America’s students to the Internet through high-speed wireless and broadband Internet within five years. When the ConnectED initiative launched, only 30% of school districts had access to high-speed broadband. Today, 20 million more students have access to high-speed broadband in their classrooms and we are on track to have 99% of students with access by 2018. Explore the growing list of events, share with your colleagues, and join Future Ready online for ConnectED Day »
Dozens of museum curators worldwide are taking to Twitter on Wednesday, September 14, with the hashtag #AskaCurator to field as many questions as they can. It’s an opportunity that comes only once a year. Learn more »
Last year, Western Albemarle High School joined the fun. The French teacher had the students write Tweets in French on paper, while another group of students in the library typed them into Twitter. “One of our students, who was in the school production of The Diary of Anne Frank, was thrilled to get an answer from the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam,” recalls Melissa Techman, school librarian at Western Albemarle.
International Dot Day, a global celebration of creativity, courage and collaboration, began on September 15, 2009, when teacher Terry Shay introduced his classroom to Peter H. Reynolds’ book, The Dot, a story of a caring teacher who dares a doubting student to trust in her own abilities. Each year on International Dot Day, the inspiration continues as people of all ages rediscover the power and potential of creativity in all they do.
Join the growing global community of creativity champions using their talents, gifts and energy to move the world to a better place. Sign up now and celebrate Dot Day on or around September 15th-ish! Get started »
Teachers: Interested in pursuing your Culturally Responsive Teaching Certification during the 2016-17 school year? Come to our Open House on September 19, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Woodbrook Elementary. Attend an orientation session; meet our certified practitioners and hear about their experiences; and learn about the journey to enhancing your current practice with culturally-infused instruction. View the event flyer »