Day 2 - Teachers Teaching Teachers - Deb Dressler - Memorial School Principal

Last week, before students returned, 

teachers were busy participating in professional development.

Three of the forty sessions offered at BPSCon 

were led by five teachers from Memorial School!

Ms. Jacki McLaughlin led an informative session on integrating 

social studies into nonfiction writing units.

Mrs. Guttenplan and Mrs. Moussa presented a dynamic session

 on cultural diversity in our school community. 

Mrs. Panagiotopoulos and Mrs. Burnham lead a creative session

 on Restructuring Homework: Making homework more meaningful!

We are so fortunate to have such a talented group of educators at Memorial School!

We are ready?

Are you?

September 6th for grades 1-5 

(school day 7:55-2:15)

September 12th for kindergarten

(school day 7:55-12:40)

Day 4 - Supporting Transgender Students - Mr. Mistler - BHS Art Dept.

This post originally appeared on Mr. Mistler's Blog

Thanks to BPSCon 2015, Burlington's three day pre-academic year professional development, I was able to present to colleagues how to support transgender students. Thanks to the success of the presentation and the support of many faculty members, I am posting the presentation for anyone that could not make it. Please ask me if you have any questions. Welcome back! 

Day 1 - Art Time @BPSCON 2015 - Christina Chang - BHS Art Department

This post first appeared on Ms. Chang's Blog

It was great to be a part of the 2015 BPS Conference. For the first time I presented at the conference and was impressed with the enthusiasm of my colleagues and willingness to participate in some art making!

I think many of them even wanted to stay and DRAW all day!

Here are the links to the workshops:

Observational Drawing
Advanced Web Design
Visual Narrative: Storyboards
Intro to Web Design