Curriculum and Instruction News
November 20, 2015
On November 6th Fox C-6 faculty engaged in our second full day of professional learning focused around a few common topics.
Amy Zielinski and the District PDC worked hard to ensure that buildings had everything they needed for a useful day of engaging learning. By identifying a few high priority topics across the district we have been able to provide both focus and choice for individual buildings. Principals and teachers can be sure that their choices move the district vision forward while being able to make choices based on their own strengths, interests, and needs. After a year of shared learning about a limited set of topics each building will be able to complete a well-informed needs assessment so we can better design our learning for next year.
The professional development topics for the year were selected to focus on best-practices that connect to the Network for Educator Effectiveness (NEE) evaluation both for the observation indicators and the requirements of the Unit of Instruction. The goal of the C&I department is to ensure that all our PD connects to the work teachers do in PLCs and curriculum development. All the work we do should be based on the same principles and values.
As always, we put great weight on the feedback we get from the PD evaluation surveys that staff completes after each PD day. We will be studying and reporting the feedback to help us redesign the remaining days this year and improve our plans for the future. We will have two more full days of professional development this year: Tuesday, January 19th, and Tuesday March 29th.
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Professional Development Update
On November 6th, we had another great day of professional learning in the Fox C-6 School District. Teachers and staff participated in professional development across the district, over a variety of topics. Many buildings chose to focus on Student Engagement, Assessment for Learning or Google training for their morning learning. We also had a group learning about STEM and how to integrate more STEM into their classrooms. We had over 600 responses to our survey this time around, and almost 95% of the responses stated the day was well prepared, effectively presented and helpful for next steps in the learning process. A link to the district survey results can be found here. Your individual building results will be shared through your building Professional Development Committee.
PD Reminders
- Tuition Reimbursement Forms are due to Kelly Gersh by December 31, 2015. Updated forms can be found online under Staff Resources. Teachers can be reimbursed for one class per school year for up to $800.
- Please remember that once you have received approval for your PD requests, it is your responsibility to call in your sub and register for the conference.
- Please remember to send confirmation of attendance to all PD workshops to foxc6pdrequest@foxc6.org. You can scan a copy of the agenda, a certificate or any other documentation that you may have.
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The Fox District's ELL teachers are hard at work preparing for the new ELL assessment, ACCESS 2.0. Click here for an update on this new assessment, along with information about Title 1 and academic interventions.
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Contact C&I
- Declan FitzPatrick, Executive Director of Curriculum and Instruction: fitzpatrickd@fox.k12.mo.us
- Luke Heitert, Director of Data and Information: heitertl@fox.k12.mo.us
- Amy Zielinski, Director of Professional Development: zielinskia@fox.k12.mo.us
- Angie Baker, Federal Programs Coordinator: bakera@fox.k12.mo.us
- JP Prezzavento, Coordinator of Instructional Technology: prezzavento@fox.k12.mo.us
- Tina Risse, Coordinator of Literacy: risset@fox.k12.mo.us
- Maria Scopino, Coordinator of CCR: scopino@fox.k12.mo.us