Is your school doing a community service project for MLK Day? Memphis City Beautiful has FREE resources available for your school beautification project.
New semester = new classroom grants, aka: FREE MONEY!
Welcome back from winter break! A new semester brings new opportunities to earn money and resources for your classroom! Check out the latest
classroom grants list to find the grant or program that's right for you and your students.
STEM teachers, here's a special grant for you! The Tennessee Valley Authority is offering
mini-grants for STEM learning projects in TN schools. Check out the details and application here. Act fast! The application deadline is
THIS Friday, January 11.
Gear up for spring semester intervention assessments.
The Achieve 3000 Smarty Ants Back to School assessment is scheduled to begin on
January 22, 2019. Please
review the flyer for more details on which students need to complete the assessment, steps to review data and a tutorial for using the Smarty Ants’ Teacher Dashboard.
Don't forget other upcoming intervention dates:
K-12 Easy CBM Benchmarking: Jan. 7-19
9-12 Written Expression Benchmarking: Jan. 7-19
Celebrate diversity in the 901 at the University of Memphis World Language Fair.
The University of Memphis will host its annual
World Language Fair on
Saturday, March 30, to celebrate world languages in education. The fair is an opportunity for high school students to create, perform and learn about the languages they study in school. Activities and competitions, including knowledge bowl, vocabulary quizzes, costume design and more. Languages, including Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Latin, Russian and Spanish, will also be spotlighted during the event. For more info or to register your class, visit
https://www.memphis.edu/fair/.
NWEA and Achieve 3000 are teaming up to help you in the classroom!
Teachers, did you know that you can use Achieve 3000 and NWEA MAP assessments to
create differentiated instruction in your classroom? Students' latest NEWA MAP scores are now imported into your Achieve 3000 class level report and can be used to tailor classroom instruction and intervention to best fit your students' needs. Check out more information about the new NWEA-Achieve 3000 partnership
here.
Take your talents beyond the classroom! Become a leader for the next wave of great SCS teachers.
If you're a rockstar educator in our District, consider taking your talents beyond the walls of your classroom! Apply for a teacher leader role or program to help develop the next wave of high-quality teachers in our community. We're seeking
ELA Fellows to help conduct District-level professional development, offer feedback regarding curriculum, model high-quality instruction for other teachers and share best practices in the area of literacy.
Click here to apply.
Not an ELA teacher? Check out more District, state and national teacher leader opportunities on the SCS
Teacher Leadership website. You can also consider applying for the
Scholars II Program to begin your journey to principalship.
