Welcome back! As you welcome your new staff, do your onboarding, and begin to strengthen your culture, we too on the Teaching & Learning team are doing the same!
Welcome back! As you welcome your new staff, do your onboarding, and begin to strengthen your culture, we too on the Teaching & Learning team are doing the same!
We are pleased to welcome three new regional directors to our statewide PD staff. Kendra Schenk will be working with our southern members, Monica Hardbarger will be servicing southeastern Oklahoma members and Linda Marshall will be working with the Oklahoma City metro area schools.
Additionally, beginning their second year of fun with the OPSRC statewide regional professional development team are Valerie Johnson, working with our northwest members and Faye Garrison who will be visiting with our northeast Oklahoma members.
You, our member schools, will always be our priority, and we want you to feel the value for your membership, whether that be a monthly visit from a regional developer, attending one of the five regional state wide PD days, coming to one of the scheduled trainings at our facility or scheduling our team to train on a subject of your choosing at your site.
We encourage you to take advantage of these free services, and lest we forget, there are many online courses available for you and your staff to complete hosted within the members-only section of our website. Many of these courses were created to fulfill the requirements for the SDE-mandated PD trainings, but we will continue to add, along with other departments, courses you can take at your convenience. And if there is a particular topic you would like us to add, just let us know!
Please let us know if there is anything we can do to make your school opening go as smoothly as possible. Email me if you have any questions or to schedule a training.
Look forward to hearing from you.
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In my mind, this time of the year always brings some reflection. As you wind down and then start a fresh calendar year, there are always items you find you will never repeat as well as those you want to introduce.
Happy New Year to you all! I hope your holidays were filled with peace and joy. With 2017 now underway, schools face some changes with ESSA compliance, as well as a U.S. Supreme Court ruling anticipated to issue a final determination on the U.S. Department of Education’s stance on Title IX’s applicability to gender identity.
House Bill 1023 of the Oklahoma Legislature's 2nd Extraordinary Session gives us several considerations to take into account in the early preparation of budgets. The biggest consideration will be working within the currently passed law.
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