ASD World Language News

Salette Dominguez-Gonzalez (Class of 2024), helped to plan the first ever Latino Student Summit in conjunction with United Way of Delaware and other students across the state. As National Hispanic Heritage Month was beginning, she and Sra. Rump attended the summit, which took place on September 16th at Hodgson VoTech High School. There, they enjoyed a day of culture and connection with students, teachers, and community members while uplifting and empowering Latino Voices. Highlights of the day included keynote speakers, vendors, performances, workshops, and food!

What are support visits? Each month, Jen will visit your classroom. Sometimes your AP likes to tag along, sometimes our Instructional Tech friends like to come see how they can support technology in our classes, and sometimes it's just Jen! These non evaluative visits are meant to identify trends in the department, provide positive feedback to teachers, and provide your administrator with a different lens when it comes to supporting the DTGSS framework. You will receive feedback from Jen or your administrator, but feel free to always ask questions, add comments or voice your own concerns.

How do I know when the visits are? The Outlook calendar invite system is used anytime Jen plans a visit. This allows you to look at your plans and reply with any specific needs you have for the visit. You don't have to do anything different at all, but this is a great opportunity to utilize an extra teacher in the classroom for stations, assessment help, coteaching, anything!

If you have any questions about support visits, please reach out to Jen!

PLC groups have been planned for the first semester, and calendar invites have been set. Please check your calendar invites so you don't miss this important time! This semester, true PLC time has been carved out for secondary teachers to meet during their plan time. There are a few of you whose PLC time is during a class; your principal has agreed to have someone cover your classroom so you can head to the teachers' lounge and Zoom in. Middle school and high school PLCs are separate, but if there is an opportunity for a middle school teacher to attend a level 1 PLC, the invite has been sent. Please note, you only have to attend one PLC a month, but you may have been invited to multiples. Elementary folks, we have embedded PLC time into our PL dates for October and November while we wait to find out the plan going forward.

If anyone has any individual concerns with their assigned PLC, or would like to be invited to an additional PLC, please reach out to Jen.

The professional learning plan for October is finalized! While most of our PL days have been designated for district-specific initiatives at the secondary level, we are so excited that we are finally able to host a World Language specific Kagan training for all teachers of another language! Please see below for specific information and register for October 13 ASAP!

October 9

Elementary

• register on DSC through the PL app - click the link, or find it on your Classlink page
• 830-330 at SLE room #317

Secondary

• 8:30-10:00 Learning Intentions session
• 10:30-12:00 Sexual Harrassment training
• locations, DSC codes, all will be provided by schools

October 13

All World Language Educators K-12 Kagan Training

• register on DSC through the PL app - click the link, or find it on your Classlink page

• 8:30-3:30 (check in begins at 8:15)

Some great lessons were observed during the month of September. It seems like not only are our new teachers acclimating well, they are killing it in the classroom! Here are some examples: