Regardless of how you feel about it, winter weather is in our not-so-distant future. Are you “in the know” about our inclement weather practices and procedures? Check out the Closings & Delays web page for all the details, including helpful info for staff:
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.
Albemarle County Public Schools maintains over 600 policies. Our policies are locally developed through our work with the Virginia School Boards Association and they are tied to Virginia Code. Several are locally developed. Our policies translate our core values of excellence, young people, community and respect into the backbone of our daily operations and aspirations for students. You can stay up-to-date on policy revisions, additions and deletions through the ACPS website! View the August – November 2016 policy updates (ACPS login required).
Dear Colleagues:
As we enter the Thanksgiving holiday break, I am reminded to slow down and take the time to express gratitude for family, friends and colleagues. I also am grateful for the privilege of having a career in the service of young people. I value Thanksgiving as an opportunity to bring together families, friends, neighbors, colleagues, those known well to us, and some who may be new to our neighborhoods and workplaces. Such gatherings matter, because when we break bread together, we become closer to one another. Continue reading
Saturday, December 3, 2016 | 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. | PVCC
The Piedmont Regional Education Program/Parent Resource Center (PREP/PRC) invites you to attend Live and Learn, their FREE information and resource fair, on Saturday, December 3, at PVCC, located at 501 College Drive in Charlottesville. Continue reading
Dear Staff:
This school year we have made a transition to a new content filter. Please know that we are required by the federal government to filter certain types of Internet sites: most notably sites considered to be obscene, sites that contain pornography, and any sites deemed harmful to minors. Each of the terms mentioned are legal items and are defined via case law. Our new content filter, as do all filtering solutions, places web sites into categories and the school division determines which categories to block or not to block. Continue reading
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 »
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ACPS Employees: You are invited to participate in our annual Community Outreach Survey. Your feedback will help us determine how to allocate our financial resources to best support the success of our students. The survey will close at 11:59 p.m. on November 21.
Learn more about the survey and connect to the 2017-18 budget development process »
Dear Colleagues:
News outlets across our nation continue to carry reports of people who have strong feelings about the presidential election and what it may portend for their future and the future of our country. Presidential elections often generate an inward focus because they usually signal change.
Our own school community is not immune to such personal concerns. Continue reading
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