CCCSD Office of Instruction
March 1, 2024
Instructional Highlights
It is hard to believe March is here! Since our Superintendent's Conference Day in January, our members of our instructional staff have participated in a number of different offerings. A number of elementary classroom teachers added to their knowledge of phonics and word study instruction during our "Enhanced Word Study" professional learning. Teachers were immersed in multi-sensory approaches for reinforcing phonics instruction during the word work portion of their literacy blocks. Our facilitators provided teachers with time to analyze their student data and create instructional pathways for small group instruction. Our STEM/Enrichment coaches developed professional learning to prepare fifth grade teachers to implement the new Grade 5 Elementary Science Investigations (ESI). These are new hands-on inquiries that support the conceptual understandings of the New York State Science Learning Standards and build background knowledge for students to successfully complete the new grade 5 NYS Science Assessment, which will take place in May 2024 for the first time.
Our Future Ready Committee came together in late February to review our progress on our three-year Technology Plan and to discuss how we are doing with the implementation of the New York State Computer Science and Digital Fluency Standards. Our curriculum writers have thoughtfully embedded technology standards into our content area studies. The enriched activities help our students to use and apply skills like computational thinking when they are building models, collecting data and representing it visually, or even tabulating data from surveys. These are just a few of the skills our students are building to prepare them for the world.
On a related note, our instructional technology coach is working with intermediate students to develop problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills. "Robot Who Dunnit Mystery" engages students in a digital journey to apply inferential thinking and analyze different sources of information to solve a mystery. Reach out to Mike Neumire for more information if you are interested.
Churchville-Chili Professional Learning Catalog
Don't forget to review our professional learning offerings on Wincap. We have a variety of in-person and asynchronous options to meet your needs. Please check Wincap regularly for new offerings.
Date: Thursday, March 14, 2024
Celebrate Pi Day with our math coaches! At this PD, teachers will review the 8 Mathematical Practices and engage in different tasks that can build their students’ “Habits of Mind” to nurture and develop critical thinking and problem solving in mathematics.
Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Canva is a premier and easy-to-use graphic design studio. Use it to create visually stunning things like videos, slide decks, websites, flyers, and more! If you need something to pop and catch your audience’s attention, Canva is the place to do it. In this full-day workshop, you will get hands-on with Canva and learn the basics while creating something(s) you can use right away!
Coding But Not Really With Gimkit Creative (Asynchronous)
Date: Through June 2, 2024
Get creative with Gimkit's latest experience: an immersive game design platform that reinforces the principles of coding without requiring any coding knowledge. Use the same tools that the Gimkit team uses to build their game modes. Gimkit stands above its peers with this deeply creative and fun dimension of its platform. This self-paced PD will be housed on Google classroom. You can access this classroom by using the following code: iffmyph
CCCSD Action Steps
The Office of Instruction is continuing our literacy review through the month of March to study how our curriculum and instruction support the "Big 6" literacy skills and competencies of oral language, phonological awareness, phonics, comprehension, fluency, and vocabulary, with the goal of cultivating reading, writing, and communication skills that lay the foundation for lifelong literacy. Our teaching staff has uploaded many different examples of how they are building literacy skills across the content areas in grades UPK-12.
Planning for summer curriculum projects is underway. Our instructional lead teachers and coaches have identified priority areas for development and revision in the summer. We are looking forward to a busy summer.
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