6-12 Math PD Opportunity

We are offering a series of collaborative professional development meetings to help 6-12 math teachers research, create, pilot and assess a performance task for their specific content area or grade level.  Resources created during this PD will be shared out as district resources.

• Teachers will meet five times over the course of the school year (Nov. 12, Dec. 10, Jan. 7, Feb 25, and Mar 10)

• Meetings will be at the BESC from 4:30-6:00pm and teachers will be paid for extended time.

• Teachers must sign up on the Learning Campus and be willing to commit to all five meetings.

• Questions? Please contact Amy Slaughter,  Secondary Math TOSA at aslaught@pps.net x65382.

Solve for Tomorrow Contest

The Solve for Tomorrow contest offers $2M in technology products for public schools across the US. They're currently taking applications from teachers in grades 6-12 who have an idea for a STEM projects they want to implement with their students to help improve their community. 

Apply for a chance to win $120,000 out of the $2M in technology products offered by Samsung for their school. The deadline to apply is Friday, October 30th. You can apply at http://www.samsung.com/us/solvefortomorrow/home.html

6-12 Language Arts Adoption Pilot Updates

We’re excited to announce that all PPS teachers and students now have access to NewselaPro until January 22 (the end of the 6-12 Language Arts Adoption Pilot) as part of the 6-12 LA Adoption Pilot agreement that was just finalized last week.

During PPS's Newsela experience, you will have access to a variety of live and recorded training options. We encourage you to read this information to help answer some of your initial questions.

Some additional learning opportunities include the following:

1.     Get started with signing up for an account.

2.     Sign up for a live webinar.

3.     Explore additional training materials and resources.

4.     Join the Newsela community by following them on Facebook and Twitter.

Please send any technical support requests directly to Newsela by submitting a support request ticket after you've signed up for and logged into your NewselaPro account. 

Thanks so much for all you do everyday for our staff, students, and community - have a wonderful week!

Opportunity to Propose Novels to 6-12 LA/ELL CMAAC

As part of the work of the 6-12 LA/ELL Curriculum Materials Adoption Advisory Committee, a novel committee has been formed to select two new novels to propose for the Core Works for each of grades 6-12.

These literature sets are housed in the multimedia library for teachers to borrow for whole class instruction. These are the current lists of Core Works for grades 6-8  and High School

New novels should promote equity, engage readers, and facilitate our instruction of grade level standards, particularly the Priority Standards for Reading Literature in each grade which have been carefully aligned.

Linked below are documents to which you can add your very best proposals for consideration by the committee. Responses will be most helpful if submitted by 9/18. You must sign into google apps4pps in order to collaborate on these documents.

Grade 6	Grade 9
Grade 7	Grade 10
Grade 8	Grade 11
	Grade 12

The committee looks forward to your participation in making these important decisions!