Weekly Teacher Download for October 9

ALL TEACHERS

Deadline extended for compliance courses: The deadline for all district employees to complete mandatory courses for compliance purposes has been extended to Tuesday, Oct. 31, in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. Teachers who attended August pre-service training on their individual campus may have already completed most of the courses. However, several additional mandatory online trainings have been added. They include:

• Suicide Prevention
• Dyslexia – Overview and Responsibilities
• Intervention Assistance Team
• Foundations of Special Education – Overview and Responsibilities

Teachers can view their compliance course completions in their OneSourceMe “Learning History” tile. Courses that have yet to be completed will appear on OneSourceMe Learning “My Learning Assignments” list. All employees must successfully complete the quiz for each online course to receive completion credit.

Ed Tech PD Catalog: ​The EdTech Department has launched their 2017-2018 Professional Development Catalog to promote and support teachers utilizing technology with students. Topics include Adobe software, Apple and iPad apps, audio and video creation, tools for Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), Discovery Education, district tools, Google, SMART, social media, Windows/Office, and Universal Design for Learning (UDL).  Teachers can register for courses through OneSource. Visit http://www.houstonisd.org/edtechpd to learn more about the course offerings.

NEW TEACHERS

Oct 11 TADS Open Lab: New teachers are invited to attend an open lab on Oct. 11 from 4-6 p.m. at Hattie Mae White to get hands-on support working within the TADS Tool. Teachers will have the opportunity to work on various Teacher Appraisal and Development System deadlines. Whether you are still completing your IPDP or you are ready to begin working on your Goal Setting and Results Worksheets in the TADS tool, we are here to help. Click here to register.

ELEMENTARY

New date for Literacy by 3 sessions: The Literacy by 3, day 3 sessions for teachers in grades K-1 and 2-3 has been rescheduled. The original date was Oct. 17. The new date is Oct. 26. The change has been made in OneSource, so those who registered prior to Oct. 4 will receive a notification of the change. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. If you have any questions, please contact Tammy Wall at twall@houstonisd.org.

SECONDARY

Literacy Empowered Digital Resources: To complement the classroom libraries in high schools for Literacy Empowered, there are many digital resources now available to high school students this fall. Teachers can access guides and supporting documents for the below resources through this link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0By9_HR7CULo8cUJ0bFJmdFdtY28?usp=sharing

• Achieve 3000
• Discovery Science and Popular Science Resources
• Houston Public Library Resources
• com
• MackinVia Digital Books (including audio books and books in Spanish)

Two additional training sessions have been scheduled for middle and high school teachers who still need to be trained on Achieve 3000. Both sessions will be held at the Ryan Professional Development Center on Monday, Oct. 16. The first will be 8:30-11:30 a.m. and the second from 1-4 p.m. To register, use OneSource course #762001