Learning opportunities keep teachers busy this summer
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While many people assume that teachers get the summers off to relax, the reality is that they are busy getting ready for the new school year, often times spending hours upon hours in training. In true form of practicing what you preach - or in this case, teach - Douglas County School District professional development participants get to interact in a dynamic and World-Class setting that might involve solar cars and even "geeks."
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District prepares for launch of InspirED Innovation
DCSD principals will have an opportunity to try out a new system that will soon help teachers to build World-Class units. The system, which is named InspirED Innovation is based on Backward Design, allowing teachers to manage the entire unit-building process from a single tool - defining the outcomes they hope to achieve in class, coordin ating the learning activities needed to reach the objective and finally outlining the assessments they'll use to determine whether the students have achieved the goal. Superintendent Dr. Liz Fagen says, until now, there hasn't been a system able to help teachers through this process efficiently.
"We knew that our teachers and our leaders deserved something better," Fagen explained. "So, we've gone down this pathway of actually creating this system that will be a supporter to our teachers and our leaders, eventually to our parents and our students."
Teachers will be able to use the system beginning next week. Learn more about the innovative effort in today's Board Briefing.
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 Douglas County School District awarded for transparency
The Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) awarded a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting to Douglas County School District for its comprehensive financial report (CAFR). An impartial panel judged the CAFR and determined that it met the "high standards of the program including demonstrating a constructive 'spirit of full disclosure' to clearly communicate its financial story and motivate potential users and use groups to read the CAFR." Read more
"This award underscores our continued effort to keep the District transparent so that our parents, students and teachers can be involved as much as possible."
- DCSD Board of Education member Doug Benevento
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DCSD launches
InspirED Innovation
Guests:
Laura Hillstrom-Interim Director,
Information Technology Chris Lawson-Project Manager Keely Vaughan- Teacher, Sage Canyon Elementary
Hosted by Superintendent Elizabeth Fagen, this live Internet radio show broadcasts every Wednesday at 3 p.m. on CastleRockRadio.com. |
Board Briefing
July 15 Board meeting summary
The next Board of Education meeting will held on Tuesday, August 6, 2013 at the DCSD Administration Building, 620 Wilcox Street, in Castle Rock. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m.
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School supply donation stations will be set up at these free concerts
July 17 and 31 * 5-8:30 p.m.
Butterfield Park in Castle Rock
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