Welcome to the Durham Public Schools Professional Learning Schedule of Professional Learning! Here you will find a comprehensive list of PL sessions occurring throughout our district.
This session is REQUIRED for all K-5 arts teachers. K-5 arts teachers will meet their lead teachers, learn about NC Arts Education, DPS District Arts Events, and have the opportunity to dive deeper into content based on their needs.
This session is REQUIRED for all 9-12 arts teachers. 9-12 arts teachers will meet their lead teachers, learn about NC Arts Education, DPS District Arts Events, and have the opportunity to dive deeper into content based on their needs. Visual Art - Art Room 1; Chorus - Chorus Room; Theatre - Theatre ; Dance - Dance Room; Orchestra - Art Room 2; Band - Band Room
This session is REQUIRED for all 6-12 arts teachers. We will have DPS Arts Education overview as well as community partners presenting during this time.
This session is REQUIRED for all 6-8 arts teachers. 6-8 arts teachers will meet their lead teachers, learn about NC Arts Education, DPS District Arts Events, and have the opportunity to dive deeper into content based on their needs. Visual Art - Art Room 1; Chorus - Chorus Room; Theatre - Theatre ; Dance - Dance Room; Orchestra - Art Room 2; Band - Band Room
This session covers oppoirtunities for blending art into the community. Covers how to provide opportunities for advocating for Arts Education, using the language of art to make acaedemic arts connections.
Due to different schedules, we met at different dates/times to best accomodate K-5 and 6-12.Now that we have had a few weeks back in the classroom, we discussed things that had been working so far and things that need to be changed.We focused on procedures or lessons that we have implemented differently for this school year, as well as procedures that have worked through the years at our individual schools.
Monday September 25, 2023 3:30pm - 5:00pm EDT
Online
We all have performances in some capacity at our individual schools, so we dicsussed how our schools excute those events.We shared how our schools involve each of us in the planning process, how often we have them, and what was in the works for this school specifically.We problem solved with each other in how to make them the most effective and creative performances they could be, which allowed for collaborative planning.
Wednesday October 11, 2023 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Panera
This is a reminder that we will be hosting a zoom PLC meeting on Wednesday October 11that at 4:30. This month's topic is saxophone tips and tricks!With guest Ms. Roberta Melton. We hope that you will be able to join us for this great event!
Wednesday October 11, 2023 4:30pm - 5:30pm EDT
Online
We have our first district-wide event coming up entitled Stargaze at Hillside High School. We will make sure everyone is ready for tha event and knows all the details they need to before we get to the week of the event.This is also the first meeting we will all be together at, so we will be doing a check-in with each other, as well to make sure we are all being supported this school year!
Wednesday November 1, 2023 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Panera
This session covers oppoirtunities for blending art into the community. Covers how to provide opportunities for advocating for Arts Education, using the language of art to make acaedemic arts connections.
Myra, Adrienne, and I, your helpful leaders will be glad to meet you all and begin touching on topics that address all variety of things we give attention as teachers.
Monday November 6, 2023 4:30pm - 5:30pm EST
Online
Kristin and Monique will lead the group in a reflection on Stage Center. Kristin will give space for anyone interested in ITS to do registration for the event or ask questions about regionals.
Tuesday November 7, 2023 10:00am - 12:00pm EST
Online
Any of you who attended the workshop on 25 September, let me know if you have further developed and questions and/or curriculum that includes Art21 artists and/or if you have actually implemented anything in the classroom (lessons, units, video viewings, etc.). It would be great to have you share with the group what you have done. I have used a video in a unit and can share that, but other voices would be great.
This session covers oppoirtunities for blending art into the community. Covers how to provide opportunities for advocating for Arts Education, using the language of art to make acaedemic arts connections.
This session covers oppoirtunities for blending art into the community. Covers how to provide opportunities for advocating for Arts Education, using the language of art to make acaedemic arts connections.
This session covers oppoirtunities for blending art into the community. Covers how to provide opportunities for advocating for Arts Education, using the language of art to make acaedemic arts connections.
We can always find things that we wish went better or in general be hard on ourselves, so we want to set aside some time to celebrate all the hard work we put into our classes.We will use this time to be positve and share successes so far in the school year.It is important to our self-care that we give ourselves time to feel proud about our work and celebrate with each other.We can feel like a group of islands throughout the school year because we all work at different schools (and teach different grades), but it is good to be reminded that we are in this together and can lean on one another, when we need it!
This session covers oppoirtunities for blending art into the community. Covers how to provide opportunities for advocating for Arts Education, using the language of art to make acaedemic arts connections.
It is always good practice to take some reflection in January as to how you want the rest of your school year to go.We all seem to get into a very busy time of the year after Spring Break, so it's helpful to set goals and a plan to meet those goals now.We will talk about standards, events/performances, and anything else we want to make happen in the next couple of months.We will plan together how to make all that we list happen and how we can help each other along the way.
Tuesday January 16, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm EST
Online
It is always good practice to take some reflection in January as to how you want the rest of your school year to go.We all seem to get into a very busy time of the year after Spring Break, so it's helpful to set goals and a plan to meet those goals now.We will talk about standards, events/performances, and anything else we want to make happen in the next couple of months.We will plan together how to make all that we list happen and how we can help each other along the way.
Tuesday January 16, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm EST
Panera Bread
Presentation regarding documentary photography focusing on eye surgery in Sudan. (tentative) 10-15 min project presentation. Chris Hildreth of Media Rooster
K-5: We each will bring in two lessons; one with cross-curicular connections and one focused on technique.We will each share how we structure our classes (warm-up, lesson focus, closing, etc) and the specific lesson topic of each type.Hopefully, this is a way for us to learn how each of us teaches the same ideas in different ways.We all can get very stuck in our ways and sometimes our students need us to teach the concept in a new way for it to click.We will discuss how we introduce the lesson focus, how many lessons we use to teach it, and how we use assessments to verify the students retained the information.K-5 1:00-2:30pm, 6-12 3:30-4:30pm
Friday February 16, 2024 1:00pm - 4:30pm EST
Panera
We will be going through our standardized list of required equipment and needs for the start of next school year in the focus of phase 1 of the Growing Together plan.
Friday February 16, 2024 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Online
Evening to Shine will be held on Feb. 20th and this meeting will serve as a final check in for all secondary teachers who are interested in getting final information prior to the event.This will be to connect faces for the event and to offer additional answers to any logistics questions.
Friday February 16, 2024 2:30pm - 3:30pm EST
Online
K-5: We each will bring in two lessons; one with cross-curicular connections and one focused on technique.We will each share how we structure our classes (warm-up, lesson focus, closing, etc) and the specific lesson topic of each type.Hopefully, this is a way for us to learn how each of us teaches the same ideas in different ways.We all can get very stuck in our ways and sometimes our students need us to teach the concept in a new way for it to click.We will discuss how we introduce the lesson focus, how many lessons we use to teach it, and how we use assessments to verify the students retained the information.
Friday February 16, 2024 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Panera
Teachers will share activities to prep 4th grade students for their field to see the NC Symphony Orchestra. They will hear from the composer-in-residence with the NC Symphony.
This session covers oppoirtunities for blending art into the community. Covers how to provide opportunities for advocating for Arts Education, using the language of art to make acaedemic arts connections.
We will be preparing for our district-wide field trip event.We will make sure all teachers have all the details they need and have submited all that they need to for their students to paricipate.We will make sure field trip permission slips have been handed out and are being turned in on time.As well as, field trip bus requests and all eating requirements met (snack, water bottles, and lunch).We will talk through the schedule for the day including the classes being offered.Hopefully, everyone leaves the meeting feeling prepared and ready to make Destination Dance a success!
This session covers oppoirtunities for blending art into the community. Covers how to provide opportunities for advocating for Arts Education, using the language of art to make acaedemic arts connections.
This session covers oppoirtunities for blending art into the community. Covers how to provide opportunities for advocating for Arts Education, using the language of art to make acaedemic arts connections.
This session covers oppoirtunities for blending art into the community. Covers how to provide opportunities for advocating for Arts Education, using the language of art to make acaedemic arts connections.
This session covers oppoirtunities for blending art into the community. Covers how to provide opportunities for advocating for Arts Education, using the language of art to make acaedemic arts connections.
This session covers oppoirtunities for blending art into the community. Covers how to provide opportunities for advocating for Arts Education, using the language of art to make acaedemic arts connections.
We will check in with one another to make sure we all have what we need to make it through the busy end of the year season.We will uplift and encourage each other to stay on top of all the events to make them a success.Lastly, we will share self care tips that helps each of us get through this high demanding time of the school year.
This session covers oppoirtunities for blending art into the community. Covers how to provide opportunities for advocating for Arts Education, using the language of art to make acaedemic arts connections.
At the end of the school year, it is helpful to look back on lessons, events, meetings, and performances to help make the next school year even better.We will take turns sharing one new thing we implemented this year that we want to continue and one thing we want to do differently.We we collaborate on how the things we want to be better can be done differently to plan for more success next year.We will also reflect on how our meetings have been this school year and talk about any items we might want to add to next year's meetings.