APS Weekly Newsletter
February 23rd, 2024
🗓️Save the Date🗓️
🗽February 21-23: CFA 3
🗽February 28: 6th Annual Alamo Educate and Innovate
☘️March 5: The "Write" Stuff-Single Paragraph 4:30-5:30pm (Register below!)
☘️March 7: Licensure Cohort 4:30pm @AHS
☘️March 13: AHS ASR Test Day
☘️March 13: Gold Series-Escape Rooms with Whitney Anderson
☘️March 16: District Science Fair (POC: Catherine Diaz)
🌷March 19: The "Write" Stuff Multi-Paragraph 4:30-5:30pm (Register below!)
🌷March 20: AHS SAT Day
🌷March 25-29: SPRING BREAK
🌷March 29: Professional Development Dossier and OPAL Submission deadline
🌷April 12: 24-25 Registration Opens
💜April 25: Purple Up Day
🌷April 26: Snow Day - NO School
6th Annual Alamo Educate and Innovate
See your email for all the details!!!
🤔Professional Development🤔
Register for the Recording!
Join Emmy award-winning television host and STEM educator Steve Spangler for an edWebinar filled with hands-on experiments, STEM challenges, and inquiry-based lessons guaranteed to get ooohs and ahhhs! Steve is well known for his high-energy teaching style filled with the tools, ideas, and teaching strategies you need to make science even more fun and meaningful in your classroom.
In his never-ending search to find the most creative ways to make STEM fun, Steve uncovered a unique but easy-to-find writing tool that will challenge your students’ inquisitive nature and help them use the scientific method to conduct their own experiments. That’s right—it’s the combination of science and creative writing with a magical twist that will have your kids screaming for more.
You’ll receive FREE downloadable lessons appropriate for Pre-K through eighth-grade classrooms you can put to use the very next day. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to increase engagement and amaze your students at the same time by spending a few minutes learning and laughing with Steve Spangler.
This edWebinar is perfect for early childhood, elementary, and middle school teachers who are looking for creative ways to engage their students at the highest level. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation. Learn more.
Join a NEW Professional Learning Community!
Join Emmy award-winning television host and STEM educator Steve Spangler and his guests for hands-on experiments, STEM challenges, and inquiry-based lessons! Join the community for invitations to free edWebinars with live chats and CE certificates, access to a resource library, and online discussion forums. Join the community.
Gold Series!
📑ASSESSMENT ALLEY📑
✅CFA #3 this week and make ups through next week✅
Next week will be CFA (Common Formative Assessment) #3.
- As stated in the district testing calendar, this district common assessment will be given next week February 21-23. Check district testing calendar for clarification.
- This test is given in our ILLUMINATE platform.
- The assessments will populate on your grade level tiles by end of today, this will give you Tuesday on your prep to assign, and then administration is Wednesday-Friday.
🛑Please use the button below for guidance on assigning the checkpoints.
🛑Please use the button below for guidance on administration.
🛑CFAs do not show up for any student automatically. They have to be assigned by their content teacher. If your students get text to speech for math according to their IEP, 504, or AIP....you must assign the CFA to that group and turn it on. THEN assign the rest of the group the CFA as well. All directions outlined below.