Session Assignments and Announcements
Please click on the links below to find your session pre-work and announcements. Assignments will usually be uploaded a week in advance, and you will receive a reminder email 48 hours in advance of the session. Please complete all assignments at least 24 hours before the session begins.
Q 3 (2016-2017) session folders (see specific folders for session info)
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Past Offerings
- Quarter 4 (2015-2016) session folders (see specific folders for session info):
- Quarter 3 (2015-2016) session folders (see specific folders for session info):
- Quarter 2 (2015-2016)
- All Quarter 2 Sessions and Resources can be found in the following folders:
- Enrichment Sessions:
- Quarter 1 (2015-2016)
- All Quarter 1 Sessions and Resources can be found in the following folders:
- Induction, Institute, and Kick-Off 2015
- Quarter 4 (2014-2015)
- Humanities: Extravaganza 3 (May 2nd – SAVE THE DATE!)
- Humanities: Voices of Social Justice: Unit Initiative in the Humanities
- Humanities: Planning for Next Year: Vision and Curriculum in the Humanities (for 2014 CMs)
- Humanities: Working Towards an End: Using Your Summative to Plan
- Humanities: Celebrating Progress in the Humanities with your Students
- Humanities: Book Club: The New Jim Crow and Humanities Instruction
- brief application required – click to access!
- Humanities: Culture and the Humanities: Planning for Rigor and Joy in the Humanities
- Humanities: Helping Other Contents: Meaningful Test Prep
- Humanities: Investing Students and Stakeholders in Humanities Goals and Data
- Music: Field Day
- World Languages: Personal Questions and Answers
- Quarter 3 (2014-2015):
- Humanities: Extravaganza 2
- Humanities: Summatives Workshop
- Humanities: Making Goals Matter
- Humanities: Planning Meaningful Units – Understanding by Design 1-3
- Humanities: Peer Video Coaching Follow-Up
- Art: Who Are They? Individuality in the Art Classroom
- Art: Peer Video Coaching
- Art: Field Day
- Fine Arts: Artist and Performance Statements
- Music/Dance: Making Performance Assessments Fun
- Music/Dance: Peer Video Coaching
- Social Studies: Literacy Strategies for Students
- Social Studies: Writing Strategies for Students
- Social Studies: Field Day
- Social Studies: Peer Video Coaching
- World Languages: Increasing Speaking Output in TPRS
- World Languages: Increasing Writing Output in TPRS
- World Languages: Pop-Up Grammar
- World Languages: Novel Studies
- World Languages: Field Day
- World Languages: Peer Video Coaching
- Quarter 2 (2014-2015):
- Humanities: Extravaganza
- Humanities: Questions That Matter – Bringing Social Justice Questions into the Humanities Classroom
- Humanities: Knowing Where You Are Going – Summatives in the Humanities Classroom
- Humanities: Making Goals Matter
- Humanities: Analyzing Images, Texts, and Artifacts
- Humanities: Planning Meaningful Units (Understanding by Design 1-3)
- World Languages: Blaine Ray’s TPRS Workshop
- World Languages: Planning Culture Units and Lessons
- Art: Choice-Based Art 201
- Music: Bringing It All Together
- Social Studies: Teaching DBQs
- Quarter 1 (2014-2015):
- Humanities: Workshopping Unit Assessments
- Humanities: Collaborative Learning
- Humanities: Understanding by Design 1-3
- Humanities: Long-Term Planning
- Humanities: Introduction to Inquiry
- Art: Choice-Based Art 101
- Art: Norming on Art Creation Rubrics
- Music and Dance: Structuring Rehearsal Time
- Music and Dance: Norming on Performance Rubrics
- Social Studies: Building Writing Skills
- Social Studies: Norming on DBQ Rubrics
- World Languages: TPRS and Unit 1
- World Languages: Unit Planning
- World Languages: Circling in TPRS
- World Languages: Norming on Speaking and Writing Rubrics
- Summer Programming (2014):
- Humanities: This is your Vision on CRT
- Humanities: There will be (Good! Exciting!) Unit Assessments
- Humanities: To the Objectives, and Beyond (Long Term Plans and Essential Questions)
- Humanities: We Didn’t Start the Fire (Vision)
- Social Studies: Analyze This! (DBQs)
- Quarter 4 (2013-2014):
- Humanities: Introduction to Culturally Relevant Teaching (Building a Focus Group in the Humanities)
- Humanities: Building Critical Consciousness In Students
- Humanities: Making Goals Matter: Sharing Success with Students, Parents, and Stakeholders
- Humanities: Reflecting on Summative Results
- Humanities: Planning for the New Year: What Should It Look Like, Academically?
- Humanities: Analyzing Primary Sources
- Humanities: Working Together: Student-Student and Teacher-Student Collaborative Learning, Every Day
- Humanities: Self-Guided Observations
- Humanities: Revisiting Vision: Reflecting on this Year to Plan the Next
- Cross-Content: Book Study: The New Jim Crow
- World Languages: Bringing ELA into the World Language Classroom
- World Languages: Differentiating the World Language Classroom
- Quarter 3 (2013-2014):
- Humanities: Understanding by Design 1 (repeat)
- Humanities: Understanding By Design 2 (repeat)
- Humanities: Understanding by Design 3
- Humanities: Writing in the Humanities Classroom 2
- Humanities: Cultural Justice: Buidling Relationships
- Humanities: Appealing to Innate Curiosity
- Humanities: Summatives Workshop
- Humanities: Measuring Progress Towards Excellence
- Humanities: Innovation Fair
- Humanities: Self-Guided Observations Protocol
- Dance and Music: Play Tests and Data
- Fine Arts: Artist and Musician Statements
- Visual Art: Design Thinking
- Visual Art: Choice-Based Art 2
- Foreign Language: Speaking
- Foreign Language: Writing
- Foreign Language: Pop-Up Grammar
- Foreign Language: Novel Studies
- Foreign Language: Using FL Films Effectively
- Quarter 2 (2013-2014):
- Fine Arts: A Day in the Fine Arts
- Fine Arts: No Secrets Teaching
- Visual Art: Choice-Based Arts
- Humanities: Understanding by Design 1 (repeat)
- Humanities: Understanding By Design 2
- Humanities: Writing in the Humanities Classroom
- Humanities: Reading/Interpreting Artifacts as Texts (collaboration with ELA!)
- Humanities: Measuring Progress Towards Excellence: Summatives in the Humanities
- Humanities: Conferencing with Students
- Foreign Language: A Day in Foreign Language
- Foreign Language: Workshopping Personal Questions and Answers (PQA)
- Foreign Language: Planning Culture Lessons in the FL Classroom
- Social Studies: Norming on the DBQ Rubric
- Quarter 1 (2013-2014):
- Introduction to Inquiry in the Humanities (repeat)
- Planning Workshops in the Fine Arts
- Understanding by Design 1.0
- Cultural Justice in the Humanities Classroom 1.0
- Planning and Teaching Document-Based Questions (DBQs)
- Workshopping “Circling” in Foreign Language
- Norming on Writing and Speaking Rubrics in Foreign Language
- Unit Planning in Foreign Language
- Norming on Rubrics in the Fine Arts
- Introduction to Inquiry in the Humanities
- Loving Rubrics, Loving Data
- Workshopping Procedures in the Humanities
- Introduction to TPRS and to Unit 1 and the VIDEO of Claire Wandro leading the session!
- First Nine Weeks Kick Off (2013-2014):
- First Nine Weeks Kick Off – Our materials for our F9WKO are all grouped by Content –> Day —> Session. Enjoy!
External Professional Development
While we aren’t providing credits for attending these (yet!), we encourage you to seek as much development as you need!
- Greenville Arts Council Workshops – Visiting Artists lead workshops that provide lesson plans and CEUs!
- Advanced Placement Summer Institute – Get AP certified!
- The National TPRS Conference – Takes place annually in Dallas, and features many of the nation’s master TPRS teachers!
- The Mississippi Foreign Language Association Conference – Takes place in November!
- The Mississippi Council for Social Studies Conference – Taking place in Natchez this year, the MCSS conference will be held in October.
- The Mississippi Music Education Conference – This conference takes place in April!
- The Mississippi Arts Education Conference – In November, Mississippi art teachers gather in Jackson at the Mississippi Museum of Art!
- The National Association of Music Education Conference – In October, this awesome conference takes place every year in Nashville.
- The Art of Education – This website includes online conferences and courses, all of which can be taken for credits. While expensive, these come highly recommended and range over a variety of salient topics for art teachers.
- Coursera.org – Provides free online classes in everything from Art & Inquiry to Graphic Novels to Integrating the Common Core literacy standards in every classroom. Wonderful!
- The Whole Schools Initiative Summer Institute – The WSI Summer Institute utilizes diverse educational strategies that reflect research findings regarding the value of verbal, kinesthetic, visual, musical, analytical, and emotional avenues for engaging the student’s head, heart, and hands in learning.
- The Mississippi Blues Trail Curriculum (aligned to Common Core Standards!): Excellent for any and all Humanities teachers in Mississippi. Starts in September!
