Author: Barbara Casanova

The Distance Learning Playbook Virtual Workshop with Doug Fisher

 Aug. 29, online
As our transition from crisis teaching to distance learning comes to fruition, it is more critical than ever to organize virtual instruction with a clear set of learning intentions, success criteria, and instructional guidelines. Utilizing what educators everywhere have learned over the course of pandemic teaching, we can now improve our overall strategy to adapt to any and every environment and promote effective distance learning.  There is a fee to register for this course. 

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GEAR UP Math Institute

Series includes 4 sessions between Sept. 10, 2020, and April 27, 2021, online and in Phoenix
Middle school and high school math teachers looking to enhance and strengthen their pre-algebra or algebra tools and instruction will want to check out this math series. The four days of learning correlate with each of the following topics: Coherence Maps and Content; Best Practices and Pedagogy; Assessment; and Reflection and Next Steps.  There is a fee to register for this series of classes.

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Meg Gebert (TUSD STEM) and our very own PESI Volunteers have been very busy getting ready for “Back to School” by prepping brand new science kits for TUSD K-5 teachers and students.  The new science kits offer exciting science themes that connect with and enhance the current TUSD science curriculum.  We are so excited about TUSD’s supurb new science kit additions!

The Kindergarten Animals 2×2 and the 4th grade Water & Climate kits are completed!  Work began on 5th grade Environments last week. 

Additional volunteers are needed!

There are 179 boxes to go.  Kit prep includes inventory,  cleaning, sorting, labeling and packing.  All volunteer teams  practice social distancing. 

Please contact pesitucson@gmail.com if you can lend a hand.

Thank you volunteers!

365 boxes for the new FOSS modules have been completed.

Cori Dolan from the Department of Forestry and Fire Management (DFFM) sends teachers “Back to School” best wishes with another great science resource!  It is the Tree People organization based in California.  They post a lot of learn at home lesson plans in the following different science categories:

• Trees
• Water
• Soil
• Earth Week
• Community Forests
• Recycling
• Plants

The content looks good for classroom, informal education, or that after-school science club you said you’d organize.  Thanks Cori and good luck to everyone as you start the new school year. 

https://www.treepeople.org/learnathome

From Cori Dolan

Program Manager

Urban and Community Forestry,

Forest Health and Invasive Plants

Department of Forestry and Fire Management