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Durham Public Schools PL
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.

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Wednesday, August 6
 

8:30am EDT

2025 Summer SPLASH | Reflect, Refine, and Reimagine: Strengthening Standards-Aligned Science Instruction | Facilitated by Curriculum and Instruction | Open District-Wide | Hillside High School Room 105
Wednesday August 6, 2025 8:30am - 11:30am EDT
Hillside High School Room 105
Presenters: Emma Refvem | emma_refvem@dpsnc.net | 6-12 Science Specialist
Location: Hillside High School Room 105
Description: After a full year of implementing North Carolina’s new science standards, this session offers science educators a space to reflect on their teaching experiences, analyze instructional alignment, and collaborate to refine their practice. Through structured reflection, analysis of curriculum resources, and hands-on design time, participants will identify successes and challenges from the past year and co-create materials to better support rigorous, equitable, and student-centered science instruction. This session builds teacher capacity to use Durham Public Schools curriculum resources to plan and deliver differentiated, standards-aligned instruction while fostering curiosity, professional collaboration, and sustained impact into the next school year.
Subject Area(s): Science
Topic(s): Curriculum and Instruction, Student-Centered Learning
Targeted Instructional Grades: 7th Grade, 9th Grade, 11th Grade, 6th Grade, 8th Grade, 10th Grade, 12th Grade
Targeted Roles: Teachers
Wednesday August 6, 2025 8:30am - 11:30am EDT
Hillside High School Room 105
  Curriculum and Instruction, 7th Grade, 9th Grade, 11th Grade, 6th Grade, 8th Grade, 10th Grade, 12th Grade, Teachers |   Student-Centered Learning, 7th Grade, 9th Grade, 11th Grade, 6th Grade, 8th Grade, 10th Grade, 12th Grade, Teachers

1:00pm EDT

2025 Summer SPLASH | Making Thinking Visible-Boosting Student Engagement with High-Impact Strategies. | Facilitated by Curriculum and Instruction | Open District-Wide | Hillside High School Room 105
Wednesday August 6, 2025 1:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Hillside High School Room 105
Presenters: Delphia Daniels | delphia_daniels@dpsnc.net | Literacy Coach; Latoya Johnson | latoya_judd@dpsnc.net | Teaching and Learning Coach
Location: Hillside High School Room 105
Description: This session gives teachers tools to increase student engagement using five of Hattie’s highest-impact strategies. We’ll focus on helping students show their thinking in visible ways—through discussion, feedback, reflection, or peer teaching. Teachers will learn what covert engagement and overt engagement look like, and why both are important in every classroom. We’ll walk through each strategy with real examples, build understanding, and give teachers space to plan lessons using what they’ve learned. Activities like the “Apply It!” planning challenges will help teachers match engagement strategies to their own content. The session also includes a reflection and exit ticket to help teachers decide what to try first and what they might still have questions about. We’ll start by sparking curiosity and making connections to what teachers already do, then build new learning in a way that’s clear and usable. Strategies are modeled, discussed, and practiced with support—and teachers will leave with next steps they can use right away. Teachers will need access to the curriculum materials (HMH, ARC, Eureka2, etc.) for planning purposes.
Subject Area(s): Mathematics, Science, Social Studies
Topic(s): Curriculum and Instruction, Effective Feedback Strategies, Explicit Teaching
Targeted Instructional Grades: 1st Grade, 3rd Grade, 5th Grade, Kindergarten, 2nd Grade, 4th Grade
Targeted Roles: Teachers
Wednesday August 6, 2025 1:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Hillside High School Room 105
  Curriculum and Instruction, 1st Grade, 3rd Grade, 5th Grade, Kindergarten, 2nd Grade, 4th Grade, Teachers |   Effective Feedback Strategies, 1st Grade, 3rd Grade, 5th Grade, Kindergarten, 2nd Grade, 4th Grade, Teachers |   Explicit Teaching, 1st Grade, 3rd Grade, 5th Grade, Kindergarten, 2nd Grade, 4th Grade, Teachers
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Thursday, August 7
 

1:00pm EDT

2025 Summer SPLASH | Using Choice Boards to Build Student Engagement | Facilitated by Riverside High School | Open District-Wide | Hillside High School Room 105
Thursday August 7, 2025 1:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Hillside High School Room 105
Presenters: Kelly Newsome | kelly_newsome@dpsnc.net | Teaching and Learning Coach
Location: Hillside High School Room 105
Description: for high school teachers to learn how to use choice boards in their classrooms as a way to foster student engagement and improve overall achievement.
Subject Area(s): Arts, Global Languages, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, CTE, ELA , Healthful Living
Topic(s): Curriculum and Instruction, Increased Rigor, Differentiation/Scaffolding
Targeted Instructional Grades: 9th Grade, 11th Grade, 10th Grade, 12th Grade
Targeted Roles: Teachers
Thursday August 7, 2025 1:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Hillside High School Room 105
  Curriculum and Instruction, 9th Grade, 11th Grade, 10th Grade, 12th Grade, Teachers |   Increased Rigor, 9th Grade, 11th Grade, 10th Grade, 12th Grade, Teachers |   Differentiation/Scaffolding, 9th Grade, 11th Grade, 10th Grade, 12th Grade, Teachers
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