Two weeks! Just two weeks until that long-anticipated Winter Break you and your students so deserve: Joy to the World! We sincerely hope you’ll have some Silent Nights in store.
Two weeks! Just two weeks until that long-anticipated Winter Break you and your students so deserve: Joy to the World! We sincerely hope you’ll have some Silent Nights in store. Last month, I provided some resources about how to keep students engaged during breaks, and now is the perfect time to review those. We all know that while you’re Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree, you’re really thinking about all that still needs to get done in the new year ahead. So how can OPSRC help?
State testing, teacher evaluations, data analysis, NWEA, professional development, engaging your community through social media, the list goes on and on! Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town in the form of our teams at OPSRC; remember, we are always here to assist you. In fact, the Teaching & Learning staff is looking to make our PD offerings more attuned to your needs, and we need your feedback to make this a reality. While those Chestnuts are Roasting on an Open Fire, please complete this PD Needs Request Survey. Your feedback drives our offerings and is invaluable to us.
This coming year, we will sit down with school leaders for some intentional, strategic planning for next year’s training. We'll dive into data and conduct teacher surveys to help schools create PD that meets the needs of teachers, administrators, students and the communities they serve. If you’d like to begin scheduling your strategic planning sessions with a member of the T&L Team, please email me or call at 405.428.4814.
It has been a pleasure to visit your many school sites, learn alongside you and support you this year. We are looking forward to an even better 2018, where we can visit more schools, expand our online offerings to meet your ever-changing PD needs and work with you to plan strategically for your vision! Until then, Party Like It’s 1999, and we’ll see you in 2018!
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Amid budget cuts—and probably more budget cuts—OPSRC would like to remind you that RIF assistance is available to our member schools. Now that springtime is just around the corner, it’s a good time to begin thinking in terms of whether you need to implement a RIF for the ensuing fiscal year, and if so, what you need to do. Some RIFs are quite complex, requiring a lot of thinking through and strategizing.
A collection of Oklahoma education-related news of the week.
School districts often get caught in the middle of polarizing issues. The matter of transgender students and bathrooms has been one such example, generating a recent spate of lawsuits as opinions clashed and tempers flared.
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