SUHSD PD Day

September 17th, 2018

SUHSD Fall Professional Development Day

We are excited to offer a variety of excellent professional learning options for the morning and afternoon of our staff PD day. The sessions are aligned to our district-wide instructional goal:

To provide rigorous, engaging, standards-aligned instruction with embedded language supports and meaningful technology integration.

Event Information

Hosted by Menlo-Atherton High School

Parking can be accessed on Oak Grove or Ringwood. We recommend carpooling. To avoid ticketing, please do not park on surrounding streets.

Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Please bring your own water bottle.

When?

Monday, Sep 17, 2018, 08:00 AM

Where?

555 Middlefield Rd, Atherton, CA 94027

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Agenda

This year's fall all-staff PD day will consist of two sessions. Participants will select their sessions using their KickUp account (link below). The schedule is as follows:

8:00 - 9:00 Prep/Optional Breakfast

9:00 - 11:30 Morning Session

11:30 - 12:15 Lunch

12:15 - 2:45 Afternoon Session

Many Options...with One Goal at the Center

Choice sessions for this professional development day were designed by your colleagues with the goals of increasing rigor, engagement, language support, and technology in our instruction. Here are some examples of sessions:

Do you want to challenge and support students to think critically in your class? Try these sessions:

Assignments Matter
Got Rigor? Ramping up DOK on your assignments
Connecting the Physical & Life Sciences Through NGSS/Deep Dive into the NGSS
Writing in the History Classroom: Developing coherent arguments based on historical thinking & analysis

Do you want to move beyond engagement strategies alone towards true student buy-in and agency? Try these sessions:

Desmos 101 & 102
Never Say Anything a Kid Can Say: Rich talk in the math classroom
EQ Schools: Reaching the human core

Do you want to support students to express content understanding in a more sophisticated and precise way and to build academic language for all content areas? Try these sessions:

Structured Student Talk 2.0
Just Chunk It: Interactive reading and note making in all content areas
Backwards Planning: Looking back into the future

Would you like to learn about powerful technology for instruction or assessment? Try these sessions:

ELLevation
School City -- beginning, intermediate and advanced sessions
Technology Cliffs Notes: Integrating technology in your English Class
Random Acts of Research

Register for Sessions on KickUp

Browse the session descriptions and register for your selections using your KickUp account. Before signing up using this link, you must have accepted the Kick Up invitation sent in a separate email.

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Searching for a Session and Signing Up

If you are a full-time staff member, please make sure that you sign up for both a morning and afternoon session, or one all-day session. Please make sure to note the date of the sessions you are signing up for; they should be on September 17th.

You can also apply filters to help you search. Choose "District PD Day" under Event Type. You can also filter for morning/afternoon sessions, content areas, or instructional strategies.

Please remember that sessions have limited capacities. Sign up early to secure a spot in your first choice sessions! Please select and register for your sessions by September 10th.