Cheltenham Elementary teachers Holly Charles, Laura Luscinski and Elisabeth Watkins met with their third- and fourth-grade students during a past home visit.
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Step Out of the Classroom and into Home Visits!
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Dear Educators,
With the 2019-20 school year underway, we hope you and your students are all beginning to get to know each other and build relationships, which we know are such an important part of helping our students thrive. As we look ahead, we wanted to share an exciting opportunity to help nurture the connections between our students and educators – through the parent teacher
Fall Home Visit Kickoff
. Now in its fourth year, this DPS tradition brings teachers out of the classroom and into students’ homes, to talk to families about their hopes and dreams for their children so that teachers can in turn help bring those to life through learning.
Please encourage your students’ families to sign up for a home visit. The kickoff is happening
Aug. 30-Sept. 4
, and you can find more information and resources on the
Fall Home Visit Kickoff page
on The Commons or by calling the Office of Family and Community Engagement at 720-423-3054. And if would like training, visit the
Parent Teacher Home Visit page
to register for an upcoming, paid training.
We hope both you and your students find the benefits of building strong connections outside of the classroom, to help our students succeed not only in school but throughout life.
Many thanks,
Tamara and Mike
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This Week's Top 5 Things to Know
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Join Susana's Teacher Advisory Council
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Applications to join the 2019-20 Teacher Advisory Council are open through
Aug. 30
. The Advisory Council creates regular opportunities for teachers to engage and collaborate with Superintendent Susana Cordova, as well as provide ongoing, candid feedback. Please consider submitting your application for the opportunity to participate in monthly meetings throughout the school year to share your perspectives and address challenges to make things better for our educators and students.
Click here
to apply, and email questions to
Laney_Shaler@dpsk12.org
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New PDU Guidelines and Opportunities Available
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The new PDU guidelines and resources are available on the
DPS Professional Learning website
.
ALL PDUs must go through the application process to be eligible for credit. If you are planning a PDU to start this fall and missed the Aug. 23 deadline, contact
PDU Specialist
.
Seeking Peer Reviewers
In order to maintain and enhance quality across PDUs, all PDUs undergo a review process by experienced leaders with relevant content expertise. Peer Reviewers provide constructive feedback and support for PDU leaders throughout the application and implementation process. We are still looking for Peer Reviewers in the following content areas:
- Secondary Mathematics
- Secondary Literacy
- World Languages
- Physical Education
- Visual Arts
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Review Redesigned DPS Capstone Graduation Options
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The DPS Capstone graduation options (literacy, math, career and transition) are available as graduation competency demonstrations to students in the class of 2021 and beyond. Each of the capstone graduation options have been redesigned going into school year 2019-20. The redesign reflects a need to: make capstone a part of the everyday secondary classroom experience, streamline implementation, reduce the burden on teachers and students, and maintain rigorous competency demonstrations. The
DPS Capstone, 2019-20
slide deck describes each capstone option.
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Gale Research Databases Now In Your Schoology Courses
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Are you ready to make your instruction easier and more powerful than ever? DPS has integrated our GALE research databases for
student research
right into Schoology for ease of use by everyone! Gale resources provide several helpful features, such as read-aloud, machine translation to over 20 languages, built-in citations in MLA and APA styles, and one-click integration with Google Drive. Students can also highlight and annotate text inside the database. Teach your students to use reliable, authoritative, scholarly resources from Educational Technology and Library Services! Questions? Email
libraryhelpdesk@dpsk12.org
. Click on
this link
to learn more.
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2019-20 Edgenuity Training Modules Available
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The new
Edgenuity Implementation training modules
for the 2019-20 school year are now available. Edgenuity programming has proven to be successful in many of our schools and has been a very consistent resource to many of our students. The training modules have been developed to help you focus on the specific tasks and actions most commonly used by Edgenuity educators across the district.
In addition to the Edgenuity tool training portion, training modules have been created that focus on the High School Procedures Guide and the Edgenuity Companion. These documents are vital to effective Edgenuity Implementation that is focused on positively impacting student achievement and growth, while supporting district mandated policies and expectations.
Access the courses
here.
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Additional Resources and Information
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Click here
to learn more about these resources and opportunities:
- Apply for A to Z Fund Classroom Grant to Receive up to $2,000
- ELD Teachers: Register for EL Achieve Certification Course by Sept. 5
- ELD Teachers: SLO Process Updates for 2019-20
- K-2 Literacy Teachers: New Benchmark Enhanced Units Available
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Myth Busters: Answering Your Questions about DPS
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We know you have questions -- whether it's about new curriculum, district resources or how you can get more supports as an educator. We want to hear them!
In living our Shared Core Values of Integrity and Accountability, we will collect questions from our educators about anything that's on their mind. From there, we'll track down the right DPS team member to answer the question, and we'll publish the findings in Teacher Weekly.
What's your wondering? Share a DPS question at
newsletters@dpsk12.org
and it may be featured in an upcoming edition.
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