High School Literacy
End of Year Newsletter
Featured in this month's newsletter
- #PascoSummerReads
- ELA Adoption Information
- ELA and Readin Teacher Perception Survey
- Reading Endorsement
- Current Pasco Literacy Job Openings
- What We're Reading and Watching
- Free Online PD
- Canvas Online Conference
- Barry University Online Information Meeting
- Office Hours
If you have information or a highlight you'd like me to share in an upcoming newsletter (or you're interested in being a guest columnist!), don't hesitate to reach out via email.
THANK YOU!
We appreciate you
#PascoSummerReads
We hope that you enjoy summer vacation and spend some time recharging and relaxing! To celebrate and share great reads throughout the summer, please tweet a picture of yourself reading a great book with the hashtag #PascoSummerReads. Each person who posts a picture with the hashtag will be entered into a raffle drawing with the chance to win some additional great reads from our team.
Thursday, May 28, 2020, 07:00 AM
This is a online event
RSVPs are enabled for this event.
Attention Teachers and Instructional Coaches: A Message from ARM
On Thursday, June 4, and Friday, June 5, 2020, Focus Groups will be conducted providing the opportunity for instructional staff members to share ideas and thoughts related to instructional coaching in PCS.
A process will be used to identify participants from a list of volunteers who want to participate and represent Title I and non-Title I schools. All those invited are encouraged to participate, however taking part in the Focus Group is voluntary.
All information collected during the Focus Group meeting will be confidential and all comments will remain anonymous. Trends will be reported as a peer group.
If you are interested in participating, please indicate by completing this form.
The deadline to complete this form is Thursday, May 28 and those selected to participate will be notified Friday, May 29. Please note the Focus Groups are 45 minutes in length and will be scheduled over those two days (specific times TBD).
Zinc
Narrowing Team Application
Attention Teachers & Instructional Coaches: DEADLINE EXTENDED
The deadline to submit an application for the K-12 ELA Narrowing Team for the upcoming materials review has been extended to Friday, June 5 at 5:00 p.m. Applicants will be notified by email the week of June 8-11, if accepted. Please note that the narrowing team requires a five day commitment for training and review of materials. Those dates will occur at the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year.
ELA & Reading Teacher Perceptions Survey (ACTION REQUIRED)
Teachers & Instructional Coaches:
Share your feedback! The Office of Leading and Learning wants to hear from you! As a district, we would like to get a better understanding of how our current literacy instructional materials have impacted your classroom practices and overall attitudes toward literacy instruction. The following survey will take about 15 minutes to complete. Your answers will be used to help inform future planning, specifically the review of instructional materials for the upcoming K-12 English Language Arts adoption. We have also included questions pertaining your experiences with blended and virtual learning (Canvas/myLearning). None of your responses will be personally identifiable. The survey closes Friday, June 5 at 5:00 p.m. Please be sure your voice is heard!
K12 Reading Subject Area Test Preparation
Reading Endorsement Update
Information was provided by DOE granting an extension to the reading endorsement requirement but ONLY THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2020. This really only provides a 90 day extension and hopefully assists people who have already completed comp 1-4 by summer.
Free Online Professional Development | Effective Online Teaching
The Anchin Center for the Advancement of Teaching at the University of South Florida is proud to launch its online professional development series with Effective Online Teaching. To learn more about this opportunity and reserve your space in the course, visit our registration page.
Online technologies have changed the shape of teaching and learning. Recently, millions of educators were abruptly forced to move courses online where they scrambled to solve the unique challenges of distance learning. Teaching online demands new approaches to facilitate learning and this course is an introduction to those approaches.
Choose from two sessions:
- June 15-29, 2020
- July 6-17, 2020
HOW DO I REGISTER?
To learn more about this opportunity and reserve your space in the course, visit our registration page.
What We're Reading and Watching
Doug Fisher- Implementing Reciprocal Teaching
The Write Idea
Free Canvas Online Conference
The annual conference for Canvas users has shifted to a virtual conference this year. It's FREE, and you can register here:
SEL/Compassionate Schools
It’s hard to believe we are at the end of the school year. So much has happened! Here is a link to an article that gives some great ideas on how to close out your virtual classroom in a way that still makes students feel connected even when they can’t participate in “traditional” end of year activities at school. We hope everyone has a restful and fun summer!
Contact Us
Cassie Hernandez
Literacy 6-8
Email: crhernan@pasco.k12.fl.us
Twitter: @herncas22
Tressa Lima
Literacy 9-12
Email: tlima@pasco.k12.fl.us
Twitter: @TressaLima