TAP into Learning - A day of Professional Development

This year, the Le Jardin Academy "Schools of the Future" Committee is hosting a full day of professional development for our staff on February 15th, 2013.  Our "Tap into Learning" day is split into three distinct parts that will allow the faculty and staff to invest precious time into learning and growing in a number of areas.  TAP, or Teachers as Professionals, is an ongoing program designed to provide in-house professional development opportunities spaced out throughout the year.

The first sessions of the day revolve around learning centers in the lower and junior school, while the middle and high school teachers will be focusing in on Google Apps for Education.  With the high school preparing to move to a BYOD one-to-one program next year (with the middle school following the year after), it is imperative that the faculty become more comfortable with using Google Apps in the classroom.

After lunch, teachers will spend time using a selected protocol to discuss a strand of videos hosted by the school's online professional development software program, PD360.  This session will be a launching party for the web based service for faculty and staff.

The last sessions of the day will bring our day of learning to a close with a set of provided R&R activities that will include yoga, coil clay pot throwing, team based sports, Zumba, garden time, hiking and some friendly corn-hole action.  The last event of the day is a hosted ice cream social where we'll raffle off a $100 dollar cash prize.

This is the second straight year the "Schools of the Future" Committee has planned such a day.  Last year staff celebrated a similar day entitled "LJA Express."

Time	What	Where
7:30-7:55	Coffee **Bring your coffee mug** Raffle tickets to those in the Wang at 7:55	Wang
8:00-8:30	Introduction	Wang
8:30-8:45	Break/set-up time
8:45-10:00	Session 1	See JS/LS and MS/HS Session Room Guides
10:00-10:15	Break
10:15-11:30	Session 2
11:30-12:25	Lunch (provided!) Raffle tickets to those in Wang at 12:25!	Wang
12:30-12:45	PD360 Introduction	Wang
1:00-1:55	Session 3 Video Protocol Discussions	JS/LS- Dahl MS/HS- See Video Session Descriptions  (*tba)
2:00-3:00	R&R Activities Raffle tickets to participants!	See R&R Session Guide
3:00	Ice-Cream Social (provided!) Raffle Drawing!  Grand Prize $100 Cash  5 $10 Gift Certificates to the LJA Concession Stand (Must be present to win!)	Tree Stage in MS area

Image Credits:

• The Golden Water Tap by TF28, Creative Commons Licensed on Flickr
• Box of Apps by Google