We are Thankful For GISD TEACHERS November 2014 STEM Academy Student-Created Paper Slide Video contest Winner! Imelda Pacheco 5 th grade Bilingual at Weaver Elementary http://youtu.be/Y5RY6GK9ARo Teachers Ignite Their Teaching & Learning CURRI CULUM & INSTRUCTI ON Roughly 200 teachers attended the Elementary STEM Academy Connecting the Dots! Teachers challenged their thinking about the beliefs of STEM, and created products of their learning. Check out the Paper Slide Video below! Click to Play http://youtu.be/_4CYpY1Lvvg
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We are Thankful For GISD TEACHERS
November 2014
STEM Academy Student-Created Paper Slide Video contest Winner!Imelda Pacheco
5th grade Bilingual at Weaver Elementary
http://youtu.be/Y5RY6GK9ARo
Teachers Ignite Their Teaching & Learning
C U R R I C U L U M & I N S T R U C T I O N
Roughly 200 teachers attended the Elementary STEM Academy Connecting the Dots! Teachers challenged their thinking about the beliefs of STEM, and created products of their learning. Check out the
Eleven campuses, both middle and high school, participated in a Mock Legislation at Naaman Forest High School November 1, 2014.
The Mock Legislature event allows students an opportunity to experience a very important part of our democracy in action. Students create and present mock legislative bills and argue for and against these bills based upon their impact on people's lives.
~Caleb Tolleson
The Ron Clark Academy was an amazing learning experience: engagement, passion, rigor, empowerment, it was all present and at the forefront of the conversations with 115 GISD runners. The impact throughout GISD campuses and classrooms is becoming more palpable and it will continue to be as we move towards transforming our instruction for the benefit, advancement and enjoyment of our students and faculty. If you want to see a glimpse of the learning that took place during the journey, search for the hashtag #gisdrca14.
Gye Kraemer, a 6th grade teacher at Hudson, is offering workshops for the new VEX teams across the district. He had already held an informational meeting and has invited all teams to attend his after school and Saturday sessions. I am thankful for teachers like Gye who are willing to go the extra mile for the students of GISD.
~Laurel Dingrando
Corey Bankston is an experienced VEX Sponsor and he is pictured here with his championship team. Today he is sharing his experience and expertise to the new VEX robotic team sponsors. Garland ISD is very fortunate to have teachers of this caliber helping our students and other teachers.
VEX Robotics
Throughout the next year many GISD teachers from all content areas and grade levels will have the opportunity to participate in various
Abydos learning sessions. In all sessions, presenters take participants through teaching and learning experiences with a minimum of
telling and a maximum of showing!
Here are a few of GISD's first 50 educators who experienced
Abydos in October at our first-ever Literacy
Symposium!
Myra Crump & Lori Elliott
“Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.”
-John Dewey
The purpose behind the TNT Institutes are to provide GISD beginning teachers with tools to prepare them for a successful year.
Special thanks to everyone who came out to experience the Discovery Education Community Night!! The nights were filled with hands-on, minds-on engagement. Check out the Science Music and Movement Videos starring our members of our community!
“I attended Monday with my kindergarten grandson. He had a blast and is "pumped up" for science. He is looking forward to some fun activities in his classroom.”
Unit Assessment Previews for units throughout the year will be posted no later than the first day
of the unit. These Unit Assessment Previews are available with the rest of the curricular materials (e.g.,
Online Curriculum Planner, GEO, etc.), and will include the item stems (i.e., questions) and standard(s); answer choices and/or passages will
not be provided in the previews. Unit Assessment Previews are provided to teachers as an opportunity to review the instructional content of the items and determine the level of rigor at which instruction will be assessed. They are intended for teacher use only.
Additional timeline information regarding Unit Assessments has been provided on the intranet site
Unit Assessments are loaded in the Online Curriculum Planner, GEO, etc… in the Unit Assessment Folder for each course one week prior to the assessment window.
Great News! When teachers log into SchoolNet, on the very first page, they will see active assessments! Don’t forget all assessment keys are loaded
in Schoolnet.
The efficiency of SchoolNet is really coming together!!