Afternoon Professional Development

Join us this fall for fantastic professional learning! We are offering a variety of topics on instructional technology, culture and climate, instruction, and assessment. All sessions are designed to be immediately relevant to your classroom practice.

Afternoon PD sessions can be used to fulfill TIPS requirements or as credit towards a unit on the district salary schedule according to Article XI, Section 3.6 of the SDTA Agreement.

Details for the sessions listed here are included in the Kick Up event registration page linked below.

9/4 & 10/18: Make Your Canvas Life Easier: Rubrics and Speedgrader
9/6 & 11/6: Make Your Assignments Grade Themselves With Canvas Quizzes!
9/11 & 10/23: Organized Living: Modules & Collaboration in Canvas

8/29: Routines and Procedures, Rules and Consistent Enforcement, Community Building
10/3: Creating and Maintaining an Optimal Learning Environment

9/25: What I Always Wanted to Ask About Special Ed, but Was Too Afraid to Ask!
9/27: Research-based engagement and structured student interaction strategies
10/11: Frequent Formative Comprehension Checks

9/13: Give Students a Voice: Increase Student Talk With FlipGrid
9/25: Spark Creativity with Adobe Spark | Enhance Presentations, Writing, and Images
10/4: Interactive, Equitable Student Response With Padlet
10/9: Google Slides Can Do Whaaat?

10/25: Intro to School City
11/9: Increasing Fairness, Timeliness, and Clarity of Assessment Feedback
12/14: School City- Part 2

10/17: How to Save Your Voice in Teaching