Wildcat Weekly
Week of February 5
THE BIG 4: Targets for 2017-2018
- Instructional Technology
- Personalized Learning
- Progress Monitoring
- Making Connections
Thank a couselor!!
IB Info Night
Department Chair Meeting Week
We are making our list and checking it twice from Dec and Jan!!!
Brown, Broome, Brundage, Drevets, Eastman, Justice, McKamy, Phillips, Schauder, Shirley, K Smith, Soules, Spadorcia, Wallace, Whitmire
Please click HERE to complete a form if you were missed and have earned 5 or more points in December and January (Remember, it is combined)
Classroom Code Reminders
Woodmont High 2017-2018- b37wmwr
CATapult- z3sr1tThis is for new teachers who have not signed on.
Why did I lose my Connections kid if I'm supposed to be CONNECTING?
NO CONNECTIONS THIS WEEK
Important Dates This Week:
Department Chair Meeting This Week
2/5- - All other Dpts enters recommendations in the MC at 7:45 or 4:00
2/5- AED drill (Time not announced)
2/5- Exchange forms due
2/6- 10th Grade IGPs start
2/6- Backward by Design PD during planning- No session 1st period
2/6- Seat Time Recovery 4-7
2/7-Dpt Chair Meeting 7:45 (email will go out about location since we have Backward by Design training)
2/7- Second date option for mandatory Windows 10 training
2/8- Hosting the DLC in the Media Center
2/8- Seat Time Recovery 4-7
Important Dates Next Week:
Bucket Session Week
2/13- Bucket Session during all plannings in C109. 4th will be at 12:00
2/14- Connections Schedule
2/14- 7:45 Google Calendar Training with Mr. Horn in his room
2/14- Donaldson will present to 9th graders in the auditorium during Connections
2/15- Fostering Resilency PD with Mrs. Jenkins and Mrs. Taylor
2/15- Fire Drill 2nd
2/16- Exchange Day
IC UPDATE- sent via email 2/2
The portal has been updated for the February PD offerings. Make sure you check the CATapult calendar to see what you can earn credits for and sign up in the portal! Don’t forget that Backwards by Design is next Tuesday during all planning periods (except 1st) and Wednesday at 7:45. Sign up in the portal by clicking here!
Q3 Progress Reports are due on February 14th by 4:00. I sent directions in a separate e-mail, but here they are again just in case.
Summer Academy will be July 23-26 at Mauldin High School. They are accepting presenter proposals now: https://goo.gl/VQx8BU . Proposals are due by February 23rd.
I received information from SCVirtual regarding spring online offerings. I have copied the information below:
Spring session registration will begin on February 20, 2018 and end on March 12, 2018 at 4:00 P.M. Spring session courses will start on April 02, 2018 and end on May 21, 2018.
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VirtualSC PD Courses Available for Spring 2018:
40 Renewal Credit Courses
1. Today’s Classroom: The Co-Teaching Approach
2. Using Google for the 21st Century Classroom
Need renewal credits right away? Try one of our Self-Paced courses for Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel or Open Education Resources (20-40 renewal credits).
60 Renewal Credits Courses - Read to Succeed
1. R2S: Assessment of Reading
2. R2S: Content Area Reading and Writing for Administrators and Non-Instructional Staff
3. R2S: Content Area Reading and Writing for Career and Technology (CATE) Teachers
4. R2S: Content Area Reading and Writing for Early Childhood and Elementary Teachers
5. R2S: Content Area Reading and Writing for Fine Arts Teachers
6. R2S: Content Area Reading and Writing for Media Specialists
7. R2S: Content Area Reading and Writing for Middle and High School Teachers
8. R2S: Content Area Reading and Writing for School Counselors, School Psychologists, and Speech Language Pathologists
9. R2S: Foundations of Reading
10. R2S: Instructional Practices
11. R2S: Instructional Practices – Understanding Dyslexia and to Support Struggling Learners - (new)
Graduate Courses – Early Registration will begin on February 12, 2018
1. 21st Century Teacher: Authentic Assessment
2. Children of Poverty: The Implications for Learning and Teaching
3. Collaboration in the Digital Classroom
4. Differentiated Instruction: Enhancing Student Learning Outcomes
5. Facilitating Learning in an Online Environment
6. Online Awareness: Internet Safety and Digital Citizenship
Working on a Masters +30? Our graduate credit courses are for you! Remember if you do not have a Master’s degree, 60 credits need to be graduate credit to renew your teaching certificate.
Interested in starting or continuing work on the Online Teaching Endorsement to add to your certificate?
Online Teaching Endorsement Courses
1. Differentiated Instruction: Enhancing Student Learning Outcomes - (Elective)
2. Facilitating Learning in an Online Environment - (Required)
3. Online Awareness: Internet Safety and Digital Citizenship - (Elective)
If you are new to our program you will need to apply for an account before you can register for a course. Please visit our tutorial page for detailed application and registration directions.
Potential course offering for spring 2018: Interested in ESOL? We may have a new course! ESOL: Introduction to Teaching English Learners. Check our course offerings page here during the spring registration period to see when it is available!
For more information you may visit our course costs page here and for registration and course dates please click here.
Have any questions? Please contact us!
Name Title Phone Number Email Address Customer ServiceCustomer Service(803) 734-8988VirtualSCPD@ed.sc.gov Sharee BurnsCustomer Service/Support - Password Recovery and Graduate Course Questions(803) 734-8988sburns@ed.sc.gov Kathleen WhittleProgram Coordinator - Cohort Assistance(803) 734-3738kwhittle@ed.sc.gov Bonnie McMurrayInstructional Trainer/ Coordinator 1(803) 941-3984BMcMurra@ed.sc.gov Catherine MusgroveInstructional Trainer/ Coordinator 1(843) 654-4356cmusgrove@ed.sc.gov Tammy HeglerTeam Leader(803) 734-8030tthegler@ed.sc.gov
If you need your initial technology proficiency certification, make sure you check out the district’s technology proficiency website! They have new course offerings for ALIVE and Intel II; registration is in the portal. FYI, these classes fill up fast!
Remember that in order to receive credit for participating in your PLC, you must register on the portal every month and your PLC must submit a Data Driven Decisions form. Here is the link for February PLC’s.
If you have been an instructor of a PD session this year, follow this procedure to get your 1.5 hours of credit:
In the new portal, to receive credit for instructing a class, the instructor needs to use the Out of District Option for Instruction ~ Option #5.
This will allow the instructor to apply for 1.5 hours of credit for every hour taught.
The new system does not allow for instructor credit because you cannot make it more than the number of hours in a session so we are using the ODO for every instructor wishing to get credit.
Woodmont High School
Mission
Woodmont International Baccalaureate High School is a comprehensive high school which strives to promote a climate of respect, knowledge, and caring while creating active, productive, lifelong learners who understand the multicultural world in which we live.
Beliefs
"Woodmont High is committed to providing educational experiences that prepare its students to be productive citizens of the 21st Century. Our school motto-Scientia est Potentia (Knowledge is Power)-serves as a constant reminder of our mission to prepare students for the challenges of adulthood."
Website: https://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/wdmonth/index.asp
Location: Woodmont High School, West Georgia Road, Piedmont, SC, United States
Phone: 864-355-8600