Tuesday August 13th, 2013

This is the latest information from Mr. Popplewell on the August/Summer Training:

August 26th
Solution Tree’s Geri Parscale will share with us the best plan to follow in incorporating The Idaho Core Standards on Monday, August 26^th. We will also learn instructional strategies, unit planning strategies, and ideas for formative assessments as we move through the more rigorous common core standards this year. The training will take place at Canyon Crest Dining and Event Center. The schedule for the day looks like this:
            8:30 to 11:30 A.M. – Morning Training Session
            11:30 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. – Lunch on your own
            1:00 to 4:00 P.M. – Afternoon Training session
We will take a fifteen break in both the morning and afternoon sessions. I have ordered some light snacks for the morning and afternoon. I always start events at the designated time, so be seated and ready to go at 8:30 A.M. Please sit with your grade level from your school. Specialist teachers should sit with others who teach the same subject, music with music, P.E with P.E., and fifth block teachers together. Title I teachers will select a grade level from their school to work with during the training. Special education teachers have their own training for both days. 

August 27^th
Individual grade levels will meet together at various buildings including Kindergarten at Morningside, First Grade at Sawtooth, Second Grade at Harrison, Third Grade at Lincoln, Fourth Grade at Perrine, Fifth Grade at Bickel, and Specialists at Oregon Trail. Title I teachers will be attending their own training on this day. Activities at each school will be on reviewing the old standards with the new common core standards, unit planning, and formative assessment development.

Participants will have the chance to register for one credit offered by NNU. Teachers taking the course for credit will need to make sure they sign-in for all morning and afternoon sessions on both days. They will also need to implement the Idaho Core Standards in a unit based lesson and then analyze, review, and submit a reflection paper on the unit.