
Administrator Updates: ATH RIC
April and May 2024
Administrator Newsletter
Summer Professional Learning Newsletter AVAILABLE NOW!
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Region 2 Request Links
Remember, If you have specific professional learning needs please use the PD Request Form or if you need to reserve a learning space at the Regional Inservice Center or on the Athens State Campus, please use the Facility Reservations form.
Remember Teacher Appreciation Week: May 6 - 10
Alabama Principal Leadership Development System
In the spring of 2023, the Alabama Legislature passed the School Principal Leadership Mentoring Act. The purpose of this law was to create a new leadership program designed for Alabama principals and assistant principals. The new program currently being developed is called the Alabama Principal Leadership Development System (APLDS). The new system will go into effect Fall 2024. Please review the resources below for more information.
Principal Act Overview - July 1 Session At Athens RIC
- Athens RIC at 1115-A Hwy 31. Athens, AL 35611
- Monday, July 1: 9:00 - 11:00 am
- Register HERE!
APLDS Timeline
APLDS Stipends Requirements
Administrator PLU
Administrator Professional Learning
Alabama Best Practices Center - Peer Coaching 2024-2025
Building Collective Efficacy through Peer Coaching June 25 in Athens
Alabama Veterans Museum & Archives 114 West Pryor Street
The Alabama Best Practices Center is launching a new cohort of the Instructional Partners Network (IPN) with a special focus on Peer Coaching. Peer coaching is a non-evaluative reciprocal process in which teachers are paired to discuss and share a strategy, observe each other, and provide mutual support (Hodges Simons, 2006).
Funding Summer Learning
- Braiding Funds to Maximize Student Outcomes in Summer Programs.
- Video from Dr. Molly Killingsworth
ARI Updates
- All Literacy Act reporting requirements must be entered into Unified Insights by September 16, 2024.
- Neuhaus Structured Literacy Modules for PreK, K-12, and Higher Education COMING SOON!
- ARI Quick Links
ESSA TSI and ATSI Schools Video: March 2024
Office of School Improvement Updates
Math Nation - Algebra 1 Research Study
- Opportunity to utilize Math Nation curriculum materials.
- Platform Resources include: Study Expert videos (including Spanish-language), digital assessment tool, and intervention tool.
- Research Study is High School Algebra 1 ONLY.
- Schools join the study, not individual teachers.
- Participating teachers will get up to $1700 stipend.
- 2 Days of Mandatory PD, 4 additional optional PD days.
- For more information, contact Becca Phillips at Becca@MathNation.com
Emergency Certification Resources
PREP - Emergency Certificates, Long-Term Subs, and New Teacher On-Demand Training.
New Teacher Workshop - Thursday, July 25
- PD provided by Region 2 ARI, OMI, AMSTI, MTSS, ATIM, and EL,
- Open to brand new teachers and teachers with provisional certificates.
CLAS Summer Conference: June 9 - 12 in Mobile
- Convention Theme: All Roads LEAD to Learning
- Mobile Convention Center
- Register HERE!
AETC Summer Conference: June 19 - 21
- June 19 - 21, 2024 - Mobile Convention Center
- Early Bird Registration: $140 through April 15
- April 16 - May 31: $150
- Late Registration after May 31: $175
- Register Here
MEGA Conference 2024
- July 8-12, 2024 • Mobile Convention Center •
- Pre-registration (through March 15th) $180 •
- Registration (through June 1st) $200 •
- Late Registration (June 2nd until conference) $215
- REGISTER HERE
Alabama CTE Summer Professional Development Conference. July 24 - 26, 2024
- July 24 - 26 - Mobile Convention Center
- Register HERE!
Counselors and PowerSchool SIS Staff
ALSDE Department Websites and Region 2 Specialists Contacts
Region 2 - RIC
AMSTI
Assistant Director - Emily Byrd
Science in Motion
Assistant Director - Emily Byrd
ATIM
ARI
Ken Kirby - Regional Literacy Leadership Specialist (RLLS)
Kimberly Hargett - RLLS: Limestone, Hartselle, & Morgan.
Kim Goodwin - RLSS: Blount, Cullman City & Co. & Oneonta
Melissa Penley - RLSS: Athens City & Lawrence Co.
Tracie Howard - RLSS
Angela Richardson - RLSS
OMI
Christy Lockhart - Region 2 Math Specialist
OSL
ABPC
- Dr. Brad Lewis - RIC Director (256) 233-6574 Brad.Lewis@athens.edu
- Deepa Manandhar - Program & Financial Assistant (256) 233-6576 Deepa.Manandhar@athens.edu
- Physical Location: 1115-A Hwy 31 Athens, AL