APS Weekly Newsletter
October 21st, 2022
🌟October 25: PSAT/NMSQT Alt Testing Day
🌟October 26: LETRS Phase 3 Cohort Training 12:15-3:15pm
🌟October 26: Boardworks Gold Series PD (virtual) from 3-4pm
🌟November 2-4: 1st-8th CFA #2
🌟November 11: Veteran’s Day Holiday
🌟November 16: Licensure Cohort Meeting - AHS Library @ 4:15pm
🌟November 16: LETRS Phase 3 Cohort Training 12:15-3:15pm
🌟November 16: LETRS Phase 6 Cohort Training 1:15-3:15pm
🌟November 16: Board Meeting 6:00pm
🌟November 17: Mentor Meeting 5-6pm
🌟November 18: iMSSA MOY Accommodation Due (site STCs)
🌟November 21-25: Fall Break/Thanksgiving Holiday
🌟December 1: 80th Day
🌟December 6-9: AHS CFA #2
🌟December 12-16: iMSSA MOY
🌟December 14: LETRS Phase 3 Cohort Training 12:15-3:15pm
🌟December 14: LETRS Phase 6 Cohort Training 1:15-3:15pm
Attention Middle School Health, Social Studies, Science and English Language Arts Teachers! Apply TODAY!!
Application deadline is Friday, October 21st for public middle school Health, Social Studies, Science and English Language Arts teachers to embed media literacy education into their teaching. Only 60 selected middle school teachers from across the state will participate in the 2022-2023 program and teachers can still apply until this Friday, 11:59pm. It can help you develop the diverse toolbox you need to help students engage with the content and develop habits of inquiry, reflection, creation and participation with different forms of communication in the classroom.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:
- $1100 stipends
- Travel scholarships up to $300
- Training, Coaching & Support
- Comprehensive Media Literacy
- Statewide Connections & Community
Notifications by: October 24, 2022
Program Duration: November 2022-May 2023
Wrap Up Digital Citizenship Week!
Matt from "Ditch that Text book" has new resources!
Don't do the work if you don't have to.
Our Google Slides, Drawings, PowerPoint and Jamboard templates get your students to work quickly.
Download or make a copy. Adjust as necessary. Assign to your students. Yep, that easy.
Here are some of the new templates:
🌟 Apple app store review template
🌟 Jeopardy! game template
🌟 Two Truths and a Lie game template
🌟 Interactive map template
🌟 Booksnaps template
🌟 Pixar story structure template
🌟 6 new lesson planning templates
🌟 6 new newsletter templates
🌟 More templates, including feedback, exit tickets, etc.
You can find all of those templates you can download for free right here.
Click on a template.
Download or copy it.
Open the blog post to see how to use it.
So many ideas ready for class tomorrow!
CFA Resource Folder
⭐CFAs will drive instruction. You have other ways for your team to formally and informally assess standards along the way, including:
- 3-8 Cognia sets
- Exit tickets
- Illuminate Cluster quizzes
- Performance Tasks (self created or Illuminate also has some)
- Curriculum based embedded assessments
🛑CFA’s may not cover EVERY standard in order to be reasonable in length. We need to make sure we are tracking the standards that we know are priority and heavily weighed. Using all of our data points to check for that mastery, or lack thereof, makes our data even more valuable.
Please note: Using the CFA to prepare can be good practice when used in combination with other resources. The CFA only shows ONE way that the standard may be addressed. Do not only prepare your students for the way the CFA is presented. Stay focused on the standard and use Illuminate as well as other resources to prepare your students to be successful on the standards.