• English Education Collaborative Save-the-Date @ CALU - March 27, 2019 - See flyer below

• Day of Innovation @ Inventionland - January 23, 2019

• Opioid Training Requirements for 2018-2019 - https://www.education.pa.gov/K-12/Safe%20Schools/Pages/Act55Opioid.aspx 

• Remake Learning Days - May 9-19, 2019

• Why Should Educators Embrace eSports?

• Khan Academy SAT practice - FREE Individualized Personalized Learning  

• The PA Career Ready Skills: An Introduction  - (Template below)

• Hour of Code - December 3-9, 2018 - activities and how-to on website!

• PDE Data Summit - March 24-27 in Hershey;  STEM and CS focus

  • • Register for the Data Summit!

• Act 158 - Enacted immediately!  Affects PBA policies immediately as there is now law stating that you cannot mandate PBAs as a graduation requirement or mandate supplemental instruction

• PCCD Grant Update - Part A Awarded; Part B may be awarded after the holidays

• PA Smart Grants - Targeted December 14; Advanced December 28

• • Fab Lab Professional Development

  • Fab Lab Teacher/Manager Quarterly Meetings

    • • December 7 - Waynesburg Fab Lab

      • February 1 - Colonial Fab Lab

      • April 12 - Waynesburg Fab Lab 

  • Mobile Lab Openings for 2018-2019

    • • $1500 per school per week inside IU1

      • Follow us @IU1FabLab

• http://sciences.pa-gov-schools.org/ 

Space Balloon Launch

• • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVm43dLbTaw

Day of Innovation with IU1 at Inventionland

• • Wednesday, January 23, 2019

  • FREE event at Inventionland for all educators.  Registrants will have an opportunity to tour the Inventionland facility, engage in innovative team challenges to take back to their classrooms, and participate in discussions regarding innovating practices in the classroom.  

  • Register here: https://goo.gl/forms/qd9g74BcoAyE4Y0P2

  • Next day of Innovation: Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Hour of Code

• • December 3-9, 2018

  • This year's theme: Creativity

    • https://csedweek.org/

Special Guests: 

• On Hand Schools

• ALMA