Regional Education Labs (REL) Appalachia will offer several free professional development opportunities for middle school teachers and administrators. Register today, or for further information, please contact Aimee Evan, REL Appalachia Virginia Middle School Research Alliance Lead, by email or phone at 703-655-3695. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: July 2015
School Performance Report Card Survey
The Virginia Department of Education is asking parents and other members of the public to complete a 16-item online survey on improving annual School Performance Report Cards for schools, school divisions, and the commonwealth. The survey takes 15-20 minutes and will remain active until Friday, August 14. Responses are anonymous. Take the survey »
Edutopia: The Big List of Educational Grants and Resources
Edutopia publishes a roundup of educational grants, contests, awards, free toolkits, and classroom guides aimed at helping students, classrooms, schools, and communities. Visit Edutopia’s Grants and Resources page weekly to get the latest updates!
Revision in License Renewal Requirements
The 2015 General Assembly passed House Bill 1320 that amended requirements for license renewal as follows:
Every person seeking renewal of a license shall complete all renewal requirements, including professional development in a manner prescribed by the Board, except that no person seeking renewal of a license shall be required to satisfy any such requirement by completing coursework and earning credit at an institution of higher education. Continue reading
Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday: August 7-9
Mark your calendar! Virginia’s Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday returns August 7-9! Each school supply must cost under $20, and each item of clothing and pair of shoes must cost less than $100. See the full list of qualifying items »
New Competencies for Classified Employees
Since February, a committee composed of classified employees from the school division and local government has been working to review and revise the performance competency and appraisal model for classified staff. As a result of their analysis, including employee feedback, new competencies used to recruit, hire, train and evaluate classified employees have been established. View the new competencies for classified staff »
Tech-Girls Events
Tech-Girls, a Charlottesville-based organization founded in 2012, is all about empowering girls to imagine and achieve their future dreams in our tech-savvy world. Tune into their Events page for details about live, local events for women of all ages.
What’s happening now? Continue reading
2015 VTEEA Conference, July 29-31: Get Registered for FREE!
Attention, teachers! ACPS is hosting the Virginia Technology Education and Engineering Association (VTEEA) 2015 Summer Conference, “Making Engineering Everything,” July 29-31. This event connects educators, administrators, artists, professionals, and more through a hands-on experience into making, engineering, electronics, programming, and research!
Good news! ACPS teachers can register for FREE using this Google form. (Hint: In order to open the form, you first may need to log in to your k12albemarle Google account.)
Questions? Contact Stephanie Passman at spassman@k12albemarle.org.
Chesapeake Bay Trust Mini Grants (up to $5,000) – Apply by August 7
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 August 7 at 5 p.m. Get the scoop»