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2019 - 2020 District-wide Professional Development Schedule and Sites

Building PD Day Tuesday, 8.13.2019 (Course Number 12522) (Download .pdf here)

Site: Building

  • ILTs submit proposal to applicable Director of School Leadership (Purpose, Agenda, Outcome)
  1. Note: Those participating in Performance Matters will have separate PD this day.

§ New schools implementing Performance Matters Unify will be trained on August 13th. A trainer from Performance Matters will come directly to your building to train teachers and intervention specialists. The training will be three hours (please see Justin Leach for schedule).  Please secure a large room for your training that has a projector and access to a computer. Staff should bring a device to this training.  Focus for training will be on releasing and administering tests on Unify and accessing assessment data reports in Unify. More information about training will come in early August.


District Wide PD Day Wednesday, 8.14.2019 DSS and PSC (Course Number 12522) - Paras Report First Day

Site: West High/ Dater HS 

  • K-6 ELA
  • ELA, Media, Tech, Paras and SLPs
  • Lead: Lisa Voss

Site: Shroder 

  • 7-12 ELA
  • ELA Teachers, Media, Tech and Paras, SLPs 
  • Microsoft
  • Lead: Patty Fong

Site: Woodward 

  • K-12 Math 
  • Teachers and Paras
  • Lead: Leslie Touassi

Site: Walnut 

  • K-12 Science, PE, Health Wellness, and Social Studies
  • Teachers and Paras
  • Lead: Tyler Idoine

Site: Taft HS 

  • K-12 Fine Arts
  • Teachers
  • Lead: Jane Renkiewicz

Site: Aiken All other

  • CTE 
  • Counselors (42)
  • World Language (75)
  • AU/MD ISs
  • Lead: James Roth

Site: Roberts & PRM

  • DSS Paras
  • OT/PT
  • School Psychs
  • Lead: Roberts-Marie Kobayashi / PRM- Chrissy Reeves

Site: Gamble EL

  • PreSchool
  • Teachers, Paras 
  • Preschool Intervention Specialists
  • Lead: Vera Brooks

District Wide PD Day Thursday, 8.15.2019 Curriculum and Instruction (Course Number 12522.17477) Note: If you are an ELA teacher, you must attend ELA training


Site: West High/ Dater HS -

  • K-6 ELA
  • ELA, Media, Tech, Paras, SLPs, PreSchool, Montessori Teachers and Paras
  • Principals and APs
  • Lead: Lucie Collier

Site: Shroder 

  • 7-12 ELA
  • ELA Teachers, Media, Tech, Paras, SLPs
  • Principals and APs
  • Lead: Lanisha Simmons

Site: Woodward 

  • K-12 Math 
  • Teachers and Paras
  • Lead: Dawn Williams

Site: Walnut 
 

  • K-12 Science, PE, Health Wellness, Microsoft, and Social Studies
  • Teachers and Paras
  • Lead: Jenn Williams and Dave Traubert

Site: See below

  • Visual Arts - Taft Museum of Art/ Music at Walnut Hills Music Lyceum 
  • K-12 Fine Arts
  • Teachers
  • Lead: Isi Rudnick

Site: Aiken 

  • All other
  • CTE
  • Counselors
  • World Language
  • AU/MD ISs
  • Lead: Kayla Ritter Rickels, Sarah Morales

Site: Roberts and PRM

  • DSS Paras
  • OT/PT
  • School Psychs
  • Lead: Lead: Roberts-Marie Kobayashi / PRM- Chrissy Reeves

Site: Gamble

  • PreSchool
  • Teachers and Paras
  • Intervention Specialists
  • Non Montessori
  • Lead: Vera Brooks

District Wide PD Day Friday, 8.16.2019 (Course Number 12522)

Site: Building

Educators work collaboratively preparing materials and activities in classrooms.

  • Purpose: To process, create and prepare for the First Day of school according to PD learnings the the last five days
  • Intended Outcome: Make visible the learnings from prior PD in the Learning Environment
  • Sites: Building
  • Audience: All educators
  • Exemption
  • Preschool Paras will be at Gamble Elementary

Learning Teams (Course Number: 12523)



Learning Teams

All 90 minute sessions

  • November 6th  
  • February 5th  
  • March 4th  
  • April 1st 

Content/ Audience

  • CTE - Melissa Sherman -  
  • PE/ Health - Jenn Williams
  • AP STEM and Humanities Teachers - Kraig Hoover (Mayerson)
  • Preschool Disabilities - Lori Rosen-Malott
  • Counselors - Kayla Ritter Rickels (Mayerson)
  • Preschool Teachers collaborate with k-1 Teachers in building - Vera Brooks


  • K-12 ELA adoption - Lucie Collier and Lanisha Simmons (at Buildings)
  • Social Workers - Dr. Carrie Bunger (CCHMC Offices at Vernon Manor)
  • AU, Psychs, STRIDES, Camelot, ESL/SLIFE, OT/PT, VI, Project SEARCH/ICAN- Chrissy Reeves
  • MD/SLP/HI/AuD- report to building
  • All others - TBD based on ILT building (Curriculum Council can support)
  • Other Suggestion, not required:https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pwqayXR4LvhMaSsLD2WZDCSFywaA-NEOIwgbWOE8GxU

Safe Schools will require a certain number of hours that teachers will need to complete in the 2019-2020 school year. Please plan accordingly.


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