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Professional Development Day

Curriculum Learning
Objectives:

Understanding by Design

To understand the main

components of the
Understanding by Design
curriculum mapping model

Ferreira from The Center for Secondary School Redesign.

The UbD backwards design model for curriculum is a framework for

designing curriculum units, performance assessments, and instruction
that lead your students to deep understanding of the content you
teach. (Wiggins and McTighe).

To connect the 6 keys to

curriculum mapping to our
work in MURSD

To define what college and

career ready means for our
work

To review the Common Core

standards

To begin mapping of our

curriculum to the standards

All of the district will meet in the Nipmuc auditorium to start the day
at 8am for a presentation of Understanding by Design by Tony

Instead of starting curriculum planning with activities and textbooks,

backwards design begins with identifying classroom goals and
planning towards that goal. In backward design, the teacher starts with
classroom outcomes and then plans the curriculum, choosing activities
and materials that help determine student ability and foster student
learning.

Overview of Topics
8:00-9:00
Understanding By
Design

9:15-10:00
6 Keys to
Curriculum
Mapping
College and
Career Ready

10:00-11:00
Vertical
Meetings
Alignment
to the
Common
Core

11:00-12:00

12:00-2:30

Lunch on
your own.

Horizontal and Grade

Level Collaboration
on Common Core
Standards

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Mapping to the Common Core Standards

Elementary

Middle School

8:00-9:00

UbD Overview (Nipmuc Auditorium)

8:00-9:00

UbD Overview (Nipmuc Auditorium)

9:15-10:00

Big Ideas of Mapping

9:15-10:00

Big Ideas of Mapping

College and Career Readiness

College and Career Readiness

(Memorial Library)

(Teachers Room)

10:00-11:00

Vertical Meeting (5 In/5 Out)

11:00-12:00

Lunch

Math

(431)

12:00-2:30

Mapping to the Common Corecontent/skills/standards (ELA)

ELA

(218)

Science

(234)

Soc. Stud.

(233)

PreK

(104)---social thinking

Kindergarten

(106)Lou Boutiette

Grades 1+2

(307)David Niguidula

Grades 3 +4

(213)Deb Moriarty

10:00-11:00

High School
8:00-9:00

UbD Overview (Nipmuc Auditorium)

9:15-10:00

Big Ideas of Mapping

College and Career Readiness
(Eng, WL, Hist, Sci) -----------(PDC)

10:00-11:00

Dept Meetings (5 In/5 Out)

11:00-12:00

Lunch

12:00-2:30

Mapping to the Common Corecontent/skills/standards

English

(G220)

History

(B333)

Math

(G314)

Science

(G121)
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Vertical Meetings (5 In/5 Out)

11:00-12:00

Lunch

12:00-2:30

Mapping to the Common Corecontent/skills/standards (ELA/Math)

Grade 5

(303)

Grade 6

(409)

Grade 7

(435)

Grade 8

(232)

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Specialists
Specialists must register online for the BVCC
events with the following link:
https://sites.google.com/a/uxbridge.k12.ma.us
/blackstone-valley-curriculum-collaborative/

Music
Title: Understanding the New Teacher Evaluation
System, and Developing Assessment Tools and
Strategies
Presenters: Dr. Sandra Doneski, Gordon College
Description: The seminar will be directed towards music
educators across all disciplines, K-12, general music, band,
chorus, music technology
Time: 7:30-2:30
Location: Tantasqua Regional High School
OR

Physical Education
Title: CrossFit for Kids
Presenter: Ashley Vellante
Description: CrossFit Kids is strength and
conditioning program that is specifically designed
for kids and teenagers and helps them develop a
lifelong love of fitness. In a group setting, children
and teens participate in fun and engaging
workouts that deliver measurable results and
prepare them to be well-rounded athletes. With a
network of over 2000 CrossFit Kids Trainers,
CrossFit Kids is being implemented in preschools
to high schools with before-and-after school
programs and integration into Physical Education
curriculum. CrossFitKids.com contains thousands
of archived workouts, video demonstrations and
informative articles that provide interested parents
or teachers with a foundation for understanding
how the CrossFit Kids program can be
implemented at home or at school.
BE DRESSED TO PARTICIPATE
Time: 10:30-12:00
Location: CrossFit Tri-County, 260 Maple St.,
Bellingham, MA. 508-657-1494 http://crossfittricounty.com/
Note: PE Teachers will participate in the opening
session 8-9 at Nipmuc

Selected Special Education Staff

Restraint Training Miscoe Hill
8:00-2:30

(LSDO) Creating an Artistic Spirit

8:00 8:20 Check in, Registration
8:20 8:30 Welcome and Introductions
8:30-8:45: Welcome Music Educators- Supt. Debra Spinelli,
Foxborough Public Schools
8:45 9:45 Panel Discussion with Dr. Harris and Clinicians:
Developing Personal Creativity and Nurturing it in Your
Students
9:45 10:00 Break (Coffee and light refreshments provided)
10:00-11:10 Breakout Sessions (choose one):
Techniques to Develop Your Powers of Imagination- Harris
Improvisation: From the First Note and Beyond - Hagarty,
Murphy
**Audience participation encouraged, please bring your
instruments!**
Creative Ownership: The Power of Chamber Music Lauber and Tedoldi
Sight Reading Development in the Choral RehearsalDriscoll
11:15 12:15 Luncheon Round table Discussions (lunch
provided in FHS Cafeteria)
12:15 2:15 Breakout Session II: (choose one):
Orchestral Rehearsal Techniques and the Silent GestureLauber
Featuring the FHS String Orchestra
The Jr. Jazz Band: Murphy and Hagarty
Music Technology: Noteflight

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School Psychologists/Adjustment Counselors/Guidance Counselors

Location: Uxbridge High School
Title: Our successes, our needs: Mental Health supports in the
schools
Facilitator: Alison Dwyer
Time: 8:00-11:00
Description: School counselors and psychologists, are invited to join
us for a round table discussion of the increasing number and severity
of student mental health issues in the schools, and how we are
responding to them. Based on feedback from prior BVCC trainings,
folks wanted more time for professional collaboration. What are the
difficulties you're seeing, and how do you work with students,
families, and outside agencies to provide effective support? What are
the resources you are accessing? Any special programs you have
targeting this population? What services are needed? How do you
form partnerships with others to gain more support? This session is
designed to allow inter-school teams to share and discuss strategies
they have found to be successful and brainstorm solutions to
difficulties they are encountering. Participants are asked to bring 3 to
4 areas where they have found success, and 3 to 4 areas where they
need help. Please bring forms, policies, mission statements, project
goals, behavior plans, case examples, etc that you would like to
share with others.

OT/PT
Location: Milford High School, 31
West Fountain Street, Milford,
MA
Title: Job alike sharing: Common
Issues and Challenges
Presenter: Paula Murphey
Description: Common issues and
challenges facing OTs and PTs

Librarians
Location: Memorial
Title: Follett Destiny Training
Webinar
Follett Shelf
ebooks

Location: Uxbridge High School Media Center

Title: So what about us? providing social skill supports in a High
School setting.
Presenter: Alison Dwyer
Time: 12:00-3:00
Description: The Uxbridge High School will present the development
of their social skill support services. We will provide an overview on
how we are using the The Social Thinking program by Michelle
Garcia Winner and briefly share with you the services offered across
our district. The session will focus on High School supports, but even
if you work with little ones, this will still be relevant, as you will see
what these students can become as they grow up. High-school
students are often a challenging population as many of them are quite
intelligent and dont necessarily qualify for traditional academic
services, and many of them have learned coping skills along the way
so they seem to get by. Yet, in looking at the complexity of the social
world and especially what is expected of them post graduation, we
know they require direct social instruction.even if they are currently
getting an A in Chemistry. This session will explore the development
of our services, professional training we received to create a program,
and students reactions to this support. From an initial lunch bunch
group of 4 students, to now 6 weekly social skill instruction groups,
weve come a long way! Although still a work in progress, we have
seen amazing student success with this support. The best part, students
will be at the session to tell you themselves! We will have a panel
discussion with youth, parents and community resources.
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Speech and Language

FALL 2016

Nurses

Time: 8:00-11:00
Host: Millbury
Location: Elmwood Street School - Community Room
Title: SLP Service Delivery Models: Scheduling
Solutions
Presenter: Meredith Harold, Ph.D., CCC - SLP
through SpeechPathology.com
Description: This lecture will help SLPs to solve
questions about treatment session length, frequency, and
duration for preschool and school-aged children. Clinical
and research evidence indicate that different scheduling
methods may work best for different clinical populations
and clinicians; various models are presented.
Participants are asked to bring schedule ideas. This may
be problems they are experiencing and any solutions that
have worked. Following the lecture, participants will
discuss methods that have worked in their schools.

Time: 12:00-3:00
Host: Millbury
Location: Elmwood Street School - Community Room
Title: Collaboration
Presenter: Pat Siimes and Carol Cooney
Description: Participants are asked to bring tests or tools
that they are using for purposes of sharing with the
group. They will review and discuss best practices for
caseload management, evaluations, and templates that
may assist in data collection. Participants will create an
email listserv so that they can continue to share ideas
throughout the school year.

LSDO Presents: A Professional Day for

School Nurses
Instructor: Stefanie Porter and Staff,
Community Education Initiative,
Boston Childrens Hospital
Date:
Friday, October 11, 2013
Location: Bellingham High School, 60
Blackstone Street, Bellingham
Time:
8:00am 3:00pm (1 hour
break for lunch)
PDPs:
6 pdps
Topics Will Include:
Traumatic Brain Injury
Epilepsy and Seizures in the School
Setting
Sports/Playground Injuries
Other Topics (if time allows)

Spanish Immersion
8:00-9:00 UbD Presentation
9:15-10:15 Elementary Presentation
10:15-11:00 Spanish Immersion
Curriculum Meeting
11:00-12:00 Lunch
12:00-2:30 Spanish Immersion
Curriculum Meeting (Room 203)

Technology Teachers
8:00-9:00 UbD overview
9:15-2:30 Curriculum Mapping(Miscoe Comp Lab 113)

Art

Title: Mid 20th Century in three themes: The Persistence of Abstraction, Revivals of
Figuration and Portraiture, and Cultural Signs.
Description: This presentation chronicles the past seven decades as still-evolving chapters that
illustrate how artists across disciplines, generations, and geographies
respond to the experiences of their time by revising the visual
languages and genres they have inherited.
The integration of all media offers an encounter that foregrounds
how materials are often signifiers of meaning, demonstrating how
an artist's choice of medium can be a critical conceptual strategy in
the art-making process.
Time: 8:00-11:00
Location: Worcester Art Museum
12:00-2:30 Curriculum Mapping Meeting #206
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MURSD--Instructional Excellence
We will provide a rigorous curriculum, a
model of effective teaching that engages all
students and methods of student
assessment that use multiple measures.

Enduring Understandings
Curriculum mapping process is collaborative
College and career readiness preparation is the responsibility of every
grade level
Curriculum design begins with defining student outcomes
Common Core standards need to be analyzed both vertically and
horizontally
Curriculum work begins with unpacking the standards