OPL TEAM LUNCHEON
December 18, 2015 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Time to Celebrate!
I'm looking forward to our Friday lunch- Jan will have the menu on Wednesday, December 16. Please let her know your selection by the end of the day on Wednesday so we can order the food and have it delivered in time for our get together. Remember your two dozen cookies- one dozen for dessert and one dozen to share.
Chinese Menu- See Jan!
Please make sure you pick your lunch choice from the menu Jan will have tomorrow, Wednesday, December 16!
How is your practice helping you attain your goals?
Keep reflecting on your progress toward goal achievement- individual meetings with me will begin in January.
Five Disciplines
Continue to prepare to discuss your chapter with the rest of the team- identify connections to assessment of practices.
Study: Little Evidence That Executive Function Interventions Boost Student Achievement
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 5, 2015—Despite growing enthusiasm among educators and scholars about the potential of school-based executive function interventions to significantly increase student achievement, a federally funded meta-analysis of 25 years’ worth of research finds no conclusive evidence that developing students’ executive function skills leads to better academic performance, according to a new study published today in Review of Educational Research, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association. http://www.aera.net/Newsroom/RecentAERAResearch/ThePotentialforSchool-BasedInterventionsThatTargetExecutiveFunctiontoImproveAcademicAchievementAReview/tabid/15852/Default.aspx
Office of Professional Learning
Email: greerja@pwcs.edu
Website: http://profdev.departments.pwcs.edu/
Location: KLC
Phone: 703-791-8546
Event Information
Meeting of the PD Minds
Be ready to share ways in which you use technology to deliver, monitor, and assess the professional learning you provide.
When?
Friday, Jan 22, 2016, 01:30 PM
Where?