4/1/2014
As you communicate with parents about timely topics, you may find that a series of short articles available here will serve as useful handouts for topics such as the Third Grade Reading Guarantee and the spring field tests for Next Generation Assessments.
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4/1/2014
If you became a credentialed evaluator during the past two years for the Ohio Teacher Evaluation System, you will be able to renew your designation beginning in May by successfully completing training and a test conducted by the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching (NIET).To ensure that you will have online access and will receive electronic communications from NIET, you should take steps now to ensure you can login to the NIET website.
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4/1/2014
The Ohio Committee for Severe Weather Awareness is sponsoring a poster contest for students in Grades 1-6. April 16 is the deadline for submitting your school’s first-place posters (per grade) to its regional National Weather Service office.
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1/30/2014
Ohio drug deaths, including those caused by abusing prescription drugs, have increased 440 percent from 1999-2011, with prescription drugs driving much of that increase. Many kids are first using drugs as early as 11 and 12 years old. What can teachers do? Because children who talk with their parents and other authority figures about drugs are 50 percent less likely to use them, the new statewide initiative titled Start Talking! is providing teachers and parents with communication tools through the Know! program to help with these short but important conversations.
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1/30/2014
Wednesday, Feb. 5, is Digital Learning Day 2014, a national campaign to spotlight successful instructional practice and effective use of technology. Teachers and students are encouraged to register to participate in statewide Digital Learning Day events that are all scheduled for Feb. 5, and also to take advantage of resources that will be available that day for future use.
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1/30/2014
INFOhio is presenting a free webinar on Thursday, Feb. 6 titled Literature Connections to the Common Core: Creating Book Backdrops. Judy Bee, associate director of teaching with primary sources at Illinois State University, will explore how using primary sources known as Book Backdrops can bring books alive by developing and curating historical background.
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1/30/2014
Schools now have until Feb. 27 (rather than the original Feb. 1 deadline) to submit state-level entries to the National Missing Children’s Day poster contest for fifth-grade students. Each school should submit their best poster to the Missing Children’s Clearinghouse of the Ohio Attorney General’s office, which will select a state winner to send to the national sponsor, the U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ).
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