Tuesday, November 7th will be no school for students and a full PD day for staff. This PD day is based at schools unless educators have requested and been approved to be elsewhere. It is a day filled with many exciting ideas and will certainly build on our theme of MURSD in CONCERT - This will be a day when you can truly CONnect, Collaborate, Explore and Re-image Together. with your colleagues.
Schedule for the day
All schools will follow the schedule 8:00-2:30
Coffee and breakfast treats will be provided at each school
Lunch will be on your own
Those who have not submitted proposals should submit them right away, or choose from some of the proposals that have been designed with open enrollment. See below.
Registration on TeachPoint Below we have provided descriptions of workshops organized by school level and district-wide for some of our student support providers. As usual, you will use TeachPoint to register the workshop you will attend. TeachPoint will be up and ready for registration at the end of the day on November 6th. We ask that you register before the end of the day on November 7th.
On November 7th, as always you will need to sign-in to the PD in Teach Point. The sign in code for the PD sessions will be 11/07/23. Here is a link to the sign-in instructions. If you run into trouble here is a troubleshooting document that may be helpful. Always feel free to reach out to Kim Lowther ([email protected]) for assistance, as well.
Open enrollment workshops
Tech Tools at the Elementary Level- Join educators who are passionate about leveraging technology to create dynamic and enriching learning environments for their elementary students. We will explore FLIP, Seesaw, Chatterpix, and Lumio to name a few. Bring your own to share and explore. Time 12:00-2:30 @ Clough, Reach out to Jen Hall is interested.
WIDA virtual workshop Engaging Multilingual Learners in Science: Making Sense of Phenomena. Identify strategies to facilitate multilingual learners' contributions to scientific sense-making and instructional strategies that expand language repertoires through sense-making. Bonnie Nieves has registered for this free course and is on module 3 & 4. Reach out to her or Debby Coyle if you are interested in learning how to get registered. There are other free WIDA workshops available and most of them count towards licensure requirements.
Going Deeper with Data Inquiry - There are several teams at the high School and Middle School who will be working together. Here are some data inquiry resources if you are interested, as well. Data Use in MURSD - Data Inquiry slides and protocols.