CSTP's Online National Board Component 1 Support (5 spots available)

Date: January 11, 2021

Cost: $115

CSTP's Online National Board Component 3 Support (2 spots available)

Date: January 27, 2021

Cost: $205

CSTP's WERD Book Study featuring Caste (8 spots remaining)

Date: February 18, 2021

Cost: Free

The National Board has some useful resources on the Score Release page for those waiting on their scores:

Pro-tip: Make sure you know your username and password the weekday prior to score release. The NBCT customer service is closed on the weekends and unable to reset passwords until the next business day.

The Seattle Seahawks selected 2021 Washington Teacher of the Year, Brooke Brown, and 2020 Classified Staff of the Year, Melito Ramirez as the honorary flag raisers for Week 13.

Watch them raise the 12 Flag on the Seahawks website.

"To me, the modern diploma is an economic door opener. As has been said ad nauseam, these are unprecedented times. I cannot, in good conscience, justify denying a student a diploma (particularly if they were already on track toward successful graduation) because of global health and economic conditions that are beyond their control in every conceivable way… most high school seniors aren’t even old enough to vote, after all. It is the grown-ups who have failed."

Silvia Esparza, a 2019 Plan Your Path Video winner and a second-year student at Whitworth University, shares the ups and downs of online learning in her journey to becoming a teacher. 

Are you running a course or book study online and want to offer Washington State clock hours? CSTP is an approved Washington State clock hour provider and can approve your courses for clock hours. It is free for the course instructor to apply for the course with course participants paying a nominal fee for clock hours.

CSTP is offering statewide online component facilitation for National Board candidates in January 2021. Components 1 and 3 kick-off in January, but registration is almost full. Register now to guarantee your spot!

In partnership with OSPI, CSTP is excited to announce the WERD (WA Educators Read and Discuss) Book Study. This opportunity is open to all Washington paraeducators, teachers, principals, administrators and ESAs. Registration is free and 10 clock hours per study will be available.

Our book study will feature Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson and will kick-off on February 18.

Visit our website to learn more and register.

Do you have a question about your Learning Management System? Submit it here, in our Facebook group or to our Twitter accounts.

Here is an innovative way to use breakout rooms with students. Esther Park, a high school English as a New Language teacher in Northern Virginia, has a premade google slide that you can edit to meet your needs. Check it out!

It's report card time in my district. It used to take me 15+ hours to do report card comments. Can you relate? #MicrosoftEdu has Mail Merge in Word that can save you hours. Report cards comments take me an 1 hour now. Check out how!

Discussions and comments are a great way to get your students collaborating and communicating from a distance! Check out this video on tips for moderation in Schoology.

Seesaw has a new Chrome extension that allows students to bring work from any website into Seesaw. Get it here.

Badges and clock hours are available for those completing any of the 16 available asynchronous modules in the Teacher Tech Project. Each completed module is worth one clock hour.

Learn more on the CSTP website.

Happy Hanukkah to all those who are celebrating. Below are a few videos to kick-off the first night.

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