Welcome to the Inspire ’16 Professional Development Day Website.
This Teacher-Driven PD Day has a wide variety of options for educators both within the Mendon-Upton Regional School District and outside of the district to participate, collaborate and learn.
Register for Sessions:
Please view the schedule options and click on the sessions you would like to attend to register and to build your day’s schedule.
This can be changed at any time leading up to the day.
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Logistics:
The day will begin at 8:00, with the keynote presentation, starting promptly at 8:15 in the Nipmuc HS Auditorium.
Once sessions are approaching capacity, registration maybe closed if we can’t find a larger venue.
Some rooms may be changed between now and the day of the event.
Some details of sessions may be adapted as well.
We still welcome session proposals by emailing Maureen Cohen at mcohen@mursd.org
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Want to know who is attending various sessions? Click on the session and the attendees will be listed on the session page.
Important Note:
Please read the session information carefully. Some of the sessions are open to all participants, and others are closed sessions for only MURSD participants.
The fourth grade team will continue our work around assessment. We will parse our day to address a variety of assessment related topics. The following questions will be addressed: 1) What specific formative assessments are we using with fourth graders across the curriculum? Are there common, formative assessments being used? How are we/can we capitalize on the collection of data from such assessments? 2) What common, summative assessments are we using across all disciplines? What are our priorities when it comes to designing/adopting new assessments? 3) How should we handle math end-of-term benchmark assessments as our curriculum will be changing (even if we go with Investigations)? 4) How will MCAS 2.0 challenge our students? We will look at samples available online and pinpoint specific areas of our instruction in both Math and ELA that may need to be adjusted so that our students can meet the demands of this new test. 5) What DDM can we design/adopt to best illustrate our students' growth? We will discuss our options for a fourth grade DDM and ideally, decide on a DDM that will work for our students and team. OBJECTIVES: The fourth grade teachers will have five common formative assessments that they can add to their practice and a will develop a plan for data analysis and responding to the data. The fourth grade team will gather and list the current, common, summative assessments. The team will develop a list of priorities that will guide future assessment development efforts. The fourth grade team will decide how to handle the end-of-the-year, math benchmark assessment. The fourth grade team will develop an action plan in response to information released from the state and MCAS 2.0 samples. The fourth grade team will decide on tentative DDMs for the 2016-17 school year.
(This is a closed session for MURSD 4th grade teachers).
Kindergarten teachers will review and explore new apps on our ipads and ipods. We will review Gold Strategy dimensions and collaborate on wonders assessments. Participants should bring an ipad and/or ipod, gold strategy manual and current wonders performance data. Please feel free to bring anything else you would like to discuss with the team. This is an EdCamp Style facilitated discussion.
(This is a closed session for MURSD Kindergarten teachers and staff).
