Prep & Professional Development Portal

See: Faculty & Staff Meeting Agenda

• Welcome-Matt Haney

• Talk/Story led by Basil Steele

• Anti-Racism: Report out of work to date and upcoming work

• Preview PD Sessions (My PD Sessions Survey / WebEx Install)

• Safety Protocols-Ian Braun

  • Staff At Home Health Screening Tool

Pull up and take delivery on the tech tools that we have to help teachers with the unique needs for remote and hybrid teaching and learning. Check in with Anne Swann and Mark Arnold to make sure you have received items we have ordered.

You can also arrange to do this as you find available time throughout the week. We would like to prioritize this time for anyone that still needs to pick-up their iPad and iPad accessories (case, stand, pen, cords) for the afternoon iPad Basics session.

Learn about how easy it is to use the digital resources the library has to support distance learning including databases (Gale, JSTOR, Academic Search Complete and MORE!), e-books (Salem Press as well as Sora), and audiobooks. Also, learn about how I can help support you!

Talking about Emotions:

Tools and language to talk with students and faculty as we try to heal in 2020

Based on the work of the Founding Director of the Yale Center of Emotional intelligence, Dr. Marc Brackett, his book Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves and Our Society to Thrive, and a national Emotional Intelligence conference, I want to offer a few tools and a common language in this next transition. Not only will this help us cope with actually being in the physical space of school, but it can easily be applied to our classes to lessen the stress and anxiety in our students. As Dr. Shawn Ginwright tells us: let’s pivot from work, work, busy, rush, and frenzy to FLOW. There is also an app for your phone: the Mood Meter.

Use this time to check-in with each, refine your Learning Maps, share tech support, remind each other that this is a process and not everything has to be perfect before the start, and do whatever else your small team needs to do.

Freshman Team members will discuss how to open school with freshman and time permitting, will begin to review students and supports.

This time can be used by Learning Area teams to plan and coordinate for the start of school.

Mark Arnold will meet with (PE / VPA / CTE / WL) departments to go through a demonstration of classroom technology to engage students remotely. A follow-up session on hybrid-synchronous class technology should be scheduled during this meeting.

This time will be used to help answer initial questions that teachers have about basic Parlay features and consider ways that Parlay could be used to support teaching and learning. It is not intended to be a "How-to" session. If you have had trouble setting up your Parlay account, we will make sure to take care of this during the follow-up session.

Using Talk/Story with Students

This will follow up our faculty meeting Talk/Story experience and explore how to "bring the animal into the room" with our students and mitigate stress and anxiety in our learning environment. We will also explore co-regulation.

Use this time to check-in with each, refine your Learning Maps, share tech support, remind each other that this is a process and not everything has to be perfect before the start, and do whatever else your small team needs to do.

This time will be used to help answer initial questions that teachers have about basic Explain Everything features and consider ways that Explain Everything could be used to support teaching and learning. It is not intended to be a "How-to" session. If you have had trouble setting up your Explain Everything account or accessing the Explain Everything iPad App, we will make sure to take care of this during the follow-up session.

This time can be used by Learning Area teams to plan and coordinate for the start of school.

Mark Arnold will meet with (SOCIAL STUDIES) department to go through a demonstration of classroom technology to engage students remotely. A follow-up session on hybrid-synchronous class technology should be scheduled during this meeting.

This time will be used to help answer initial questions that teachers have about basic EdPuzzle features and consider ways that EdPuzzle could be used to support teaching and learning. It is not intended to be a "How-to" session. If you have had trouble setting up your EdPuzzle account or accessing the EdPuzzle iPad App, we will make sure to take care of this during the follow-up session.

A Conversation about Racial Equity in Schools:

Based on the School Reform Initiative national conference, whose mission is promoting racial equity in schools, I invite you to come to this space to start discussing racial equity in our schools. We will discuss how we can show up in these conversations, watch a short video, and begin to brainstorm how to start this work. Lean in to the discomfort to make the world better. Engage that this endeavor is going to be difficult. We are not alone, but together. This work is about LOVE.

Use this time to check-in with each, refine your Learning Maps, share tech support, remind each other that this is a process and not everything has to be perfect before the start, and do whatever else your small team needs to do.

This time will be used to help answer initial questions that teachers have about basic Pear Deck features and consider ways that Pear Deck could be used to support teaching and learning. It is not intended to be a "How-to" session. If you have had trouble setting up your Pear Deck account or accessing the Pear Deck iPad App, we will make sure to take care of this during the follow-up session.

This time can be used by Learning Area teams to plan and coordinate for the start of school.

Mark Arnold will meet with (ELA) department to go through a demonstration of classroom technology to engage students remotely. A follow-up session on hybrid-synchronous class technology should be scheduled during this meeting.

This time will be used to help answer initial questions that teachers have about basic Screencastify features and consider ways that it could be used to support teaching and learning. It is not intended to be a "How-to" session. If you have had trouble setting up your Screencastify account, we will make sure to take care of this during the follow-up session.

• Acknowledgement of the challenges and stresses inherent to providing education during the social isolation.

• Tips and modeling of self-care for yourself and students

• Managing challenging interactions and conversations with students virtually,

• Tools to support safety and a student's connection during isolation,

• Resources adapted to Covid Isolation.

Use this time to check-in with each, refine your Learning Maps, share tech support, remind each other that this is a process and not everything has to be perfect before the start, and do whatever else your small team needs to do.

This time will be used to help answer initial questions that teachers have about basic EduFlow features and consider ways that it could be used to support teaching and learning. It is not intended to be a "How-to" session. If you have had trouble setting up your EduFlow account, we will make sure to take care of this during the follow-up session.

This time can be used by Learning Area teams to plan and coordinate for the start of school.

Mark Arnold will meet with (SCIENCE) department to go through a demonstration of classroom technology to engage students remotely. A follow-up session on hybrid-synchronous class technology should be scheduled during this meeting.

Guide: Irene Greene Murphy LCSW

During this time of COVID Irene Greene Murphy will be offering weekly support for MDIHS educators. This first informational session will offer staff an opportunity to meet Irene and learn about how weekly group sessions work. You do not need to attend this first session to join, but this group will influence the times for the weekly group meeting moving forward.

This time will be used to help answer questions that teachers have about basic Google Classroom and Google Meet features and consider ways that they could be used to support teaching and learning. It is not intended to be a "How-to" session.

Learn about how easy it is to use the digital resources the library has to support distance learning including databases (Gale, JSTOR, Academic Search Complete and MORE!), e-books (Salem Press as well as Sora), and audiobooks. Also, learn about how I can help support you!

Use this time to check-in with each, refine your Learning Maps, share tech support, remind each other that this is a process and not everything has to be perfect before the start, and do whatever else your small team needs to do.

During this session, Mark Arnold will field questions that anyone might have about the technology that we have available for our classrooms this year.

During this session, Mark Arnold will demonstrate how you can use your technology devices to conduct class (synchronously with remote students) when you are outside the building.

This time can be used by Learning Area teams to plan and coordinate for the start of school.

Mark Arnold will meet with (MATH) department to go through a demonstration of classroom technology to engage students remotely. A follow-up session on hybrid-synchronous class technology should be scheduled during this meeting.

Shout Outs & Celebrations, Advisory, Remote Phase Schedule, Logistics Follow-up

This will be a meeting to discuss how we intend to implement Touchstones in our various courses.

Clear Mental Health Sailing during the COVID 19 Pandemic w/Jeff McCarthy