“Cool Curriculum”
Come check out the fantastic new curriculum that has been ordered for our learning centers! You will have the chance to preview Harcourt and Scott Foresman elementary science, Harcourt Reflections for elementary history, Glencoe high school history and middle school science and history, Holt middle school language arts, and more…. Program resources will also be on display that will be held on our new reserve shelves.
“Middle School Holt”
All new middle school students are now being provided Holt’s student edition package that includes the Literature & Language Arts anthology and the Holt Handbook. In this workshop we will preview these texts and discuss how to use the study-guide that has been created to go along with it. We will also talk about the middle school Interactive Readers and how they can be used by students who may be working at a lower level.
“Working
with high school students…a-g updates, online options, the lab science dilemma,
and more!!!”
In this workshop, we will discuss UC’s new online vendor policy that is expected to take effect Fall 2008 and our plan for addressing the online vendor issue for this school year. We will address the lab science issue and begin brainstorming ways to handle this in the years to come so that we can accommodate our growing population of college prep high school students. We will share ideas that will help you assist your students in developing a 4 year plan(and beyond) that includes personal goals, academic goals, testing, club participation, leadership opportunities, and volunteer work.
Elluminate 101:
Teachers will receive a review of fundamental use of the platform infused with best practices learned from VA teachers
Objectives: This lesson will introduce teachers to Elluminate, show them the basic features, and explain some of the options.
-Starting an Elluminate session
-K12 Online Expectations
-Basic features - Screen layout, participant window, direct messaging, audio, white board, white board tools
-Emoticons
-Polling
-Breakout Rooms
-Elluminate examples
Elluminate 102:
will take teachers deeper into the features & how they assist online teaching.
We will cover the following features in Elluminate 102:
-Intermediate Elluminate Features
-Loading PowerPoint
-Application Sharing
-Web tour
-Breakout Room Review
-Graphing Calculator
-Quiz Manager
-Using Application Share to Show Multiple Applications
-Recording Your Sessions
-Training examples - Fun uses of Elluminate
-Using Application Share to show multiple documents
-Study hall/study buddies/peer tutoring
-School news broadcast
-Theme nights
Step Up to Writing: Terry Souza, Language Arts Specialists, will be presenting an overview of Step Up To Writing. The session will cover briefly the philosophy of Step Up to Writing, Strategies used in Step Up to Writing, Model practice in teaching Step Up to Writing, and Scoring of writing using a rubric. The session will also cover briefly how to use the rubric to drive your instruction or where do I go next?
High School:
Aflac: Celita
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Personnel/Benefits:
Cary Sharp will have information for:
* Open Enrollment dates.
* 2008 Health Plan Benefit Updates.
* Health Benefit Plan Information.
* Information on the new website information from CalPers. "MyCalPERS" at http://my.calpers.ca.gov.
This is a secure site that requires logging in. This site has details about health plans that are available in a specific area by zip code. She will have rate sheets and a summary to hand out explaining the new Health Plan Products for 2008.
Ronda Melendez (12:15-12:45) Ronda Melendez
will introduce a new format for The Homeschool Files. This new formatting
could allow a consistent format for communications between ES's, the HQT staff
and parents. Discussion of the benefits of the software for each of the groups
aforementioned and a brief description on its use.