July 15-16, 2014; 8:30 am – 2:30 pm
Location: Puget Sound ESD
Cost: $185 (includes DVD "How to Create Instructional Videos and Flip Your Classroom")

Learn how to use instructional videos to free yourself ...

These free teacher training opportunities are offered this August by the Local Hazardous Waste Management Program in King County. These workshops provide teachers with training and resources to integrate lessons about household hazardous products into ...

Please click here to learn about Torrey Volk's Math Resources.

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Time to Create Unit Plans with Clock Hours

One consistent theme runs throughout the meetings I have hosted at the Archdiocese. Teachers have made the request, “If we just had designated time with some kind of bonus to create the unit plans…if only.” So, I put on my thinking cap, ...

The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) is pleased to announce the Private Schools Annual Summer Conference and the Private Schools Response to Intervention (RtI) Conference. These conferences will offer excellent professional development opportunities to our private school ...

Get ready for "Hands On" and "Minds On" Learning!

Visitation Catholic STEM Academy and the University of Notre Dame’s Center for STEM Education are proud to sponsor a Summer Science and Engineering Camp!

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Standards Based Assessment

On Tuesday, April 29, we hosted Aubrey Scheopner, Ph.D., for an afternoon session on Standards Based Assessment. Two session goals offered us an opportunity to:

• Review of the research on effective grading practices and standards-based grading, including supports that facilitate and change the barriers to implementation
• Explore standards based grading samples
• Hear from a teacher who has been through the implementation process

We invite you to click here for the Prezi presentation and consider using this in a staff meeting to open the discussion with your teachers.

This session was well attended, and the overriding evaluation comment from all participants was, “What are we doing at the Archdiocese to facilitate such a move?” We would like to pull together a small group of principals and teachers to develop the components necessary to eventually develop a standards-based reporting process that can be accessed through PowerSchool, or used as a template for other platforms with the following considerations:

1. As we move to standards within our curricular reviews (Religion in the fall and English Language Arts in the winter), we hope to offer Religion and ELA sections in preparation for implementation in 2014 - 2015.

2. Identifying professional development for our principals and teachers as to best practices in implementing this change and the impact it makes on instruction and communication with our students and parents.

If you are interested in being a part of this cohort group, consider attending our first planning meeting on Monday, May 19 1-3 p.m., Isaac Orr Conference Room, the Chancery to map out the necessary steps needed for a PreK -8 implementation plan and proposed timeline to generate the common standards and a common assessment scale. To register for this initial meeting, please visit this link at: http://www.ocsww.org/web-form/view.php?id=97053

A message from Kristin Dixon! Teachscape Application
Don’t forget! Be a part of Co-Hort One! Be a part of a team who will design an elementary and high school walk-through form for a hand-held device! Click here for the application, due Monday, May 12. Teachscape Application Co-Hort 1