The 2015 program provides grants for innovative, creative leadership team building within elementary schools. Apply by June 22, 2015, for the opportunity to receive a grant for building your school’s creative capacity. Each grant-winning school (up to 20 grants awarded) receives $2,500 and Crayola products valued at $1,000. Find out how to get started »
Category Archives: Teachers – Elementary
Ways of Making Thinking & Learning Visible
So much of students’ learning happens within the privacy of their own minds, at one specific moment in time. What are some ways of making that thinking and learning visible, both in the immediate and over time?
Check out this “tip sheet” from Brilliant or Insane that highlights six ways to make student learning visible, including the use of photos, audio, video, and sketchbooks to document moments of learning. Additionally, the site Show What You Know with Media highlights 12 different media resources that students could use as products of their learning, including definitions, workflows and examples.
A Week of Thanks … for Our Teachers, School Nurses, & School Nutrition Employees
This week, our nation honors the contribution of teachers, school nurses, and school nutrition employees: May 4-8 marks Teacher Appreciation Week and School Nutrition Employee Week, and May 6 is School Nurse Day!
During this annual recognition week, please join me in celebrating our school nurses and teachers, who every day make fit our learning environment to extraordinary purpose. Thank you for making our county more welcoming, more safe, more uplifting, and more rewarding for those we serve. Read the Superintendent’s message of thanks »
This week also honors school nutrition employees across the nation for their daily work to provide healthy meals and a positive welcome to children dining in our school cafeterias. Continue reading
We are Piloting a Change to the Vertical Team Stipend for 2015-16
We will be piloting a change to the traditional vertical team stipend we have grown used to over the past several years. This change will be a trial run for 2015-16, and the overall goal is to differentiate stipends to support the different kinds of work we have for vertical team members. Rather than stipending the vertical team member to be a “Jack of all trades,” we will stipend the “trades.” Continue reading
Consolidation of Google Domains
Albemarle County Public Schools currently maintains two Google domains, one for staff (@k12albemarle.org) and one for students (@student.k12albemarle.org). Over the course of this year, DART will consolidate these into a single domain. The current staff domain (@k12albemarle.org) will become the only one in use.
All ACPS staff using Google Apps for Education (GAFE) will be affected by this consolidation. Students and staff (.g accounts) currently using the student domain (@student.k12albemarle.org) will need to move content and function from their current Google location. Continue reading
Library of Congress Offers Teacher Resources
Teachers: Senator Mark Warner wants to bring to your attention an important resource that is currently available to all teachers across Virginia. As you may know, the Library of Congress, located in Washington, D.C., is accessible worldwide through its website and offers an amazing array of educational resources for teachers and students. Continue reading
Chesapeake Bay Trust Mini Grants (up to $5,000) – Apply by June 12
The Chesapeake Bay Trust Mini Grant Program was established to provide accessible funds to schools, organizations and agencies to educate students about their local watersheds and how they can become environmental stewards and make a difference in watershed health. To accomplish this goal, the program supports meaningful outdoor learning experiences around a watershed issue investigation, including field trips, fieldwork, student-led action projects and schoolyard habitat projects, as well as building teacher capacity to implement environmental education, including professional development trainings and programs to advance environmental literacy in the Chesapeake Bay region. The deadline is June 12 at 5 p.m. Get the scoop»
Free Office Supplies!
The Reusable Office Supply Exchange (ROSE) Program collects gently or never-used office supplies from departments throughout the University of Virginia and makes them available to the community. Teachers: Visit the Recycling Office Warehouse and take whatever supplies you like! The ROSE Program is located in the Recycling building at the end of Leake Drive (map below), and is open Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Typical materials are pictured below, and additional materials are expected after May 11. If accessing the facility during operating hours is an issue for an interested teacher, contact Lindsay Snoddy (lcsnoddy@k12albemarle.org) with request details. Continue reading
Writing Workshop: A Secondary Pilot
Writing workshop provides an authentic writing experience for students, while allowing teachers to create a method of organizing classroom time that fosters differentiation in composition and feedback. However, it poses several organizational challenges that are not manifest in the more traditional ‘prompt’ model of delivering writing instruction. Several of us at the secondary level undertook to pilot the implementation of an Atwell workshop in varying degrees to wrestle with these challenges, with the hope of raising the efficacy of our writing instruction. Here’s what happened: Continue reading
6 Grants for Putting More Technology in Your Classroom
Each month, eSchool News compiles a list of new education grant opportunities. This month’s grants focus on improving access to technology for students, teachers, and schools. Included are grants for eco-tech, adding more computers, classroom makeovers, attending tech conferences, and more: Continue reading