New Faculty Orientation
NEW FACULTY ORIENTATION AGENDA
12:00 - 12:15 - Mindy Redline, Human Resources Specialist
12:15 - 12:30 - Stacy Zellner, Business Office Secretary
12:30 - 12:45 - Shelley Keffer, Coordinator of Student Services
12:45 - 1:15 - Melissa Inselmann, Director of Curriculum and Assessment
- 2024-2025 District Calendar
- 2024-2025 Professional Development Calendar
- CASD Health & Safety Plan
- Return to Learn/Important Building Information
- Code of Conduct & Ethical Practices
- Act 13 Training - Educator Effectiveness
- PA Teachers' Desk Reference
- Classroom Management
- Penn State College of Education - New Teacher Webinar Series
- Digital Tools for New Teachers
- EdTech Without the Overwhelm
- Average is Over: Preparing for Innovative Changes in Education
- Taking a Creative Risk: How Educators Move Forward
- Summer Professional Development Menu
- PD Options for Thursday and Friday this week
- Online Teaching Guide
- Frontline - Absence Management & Teacher Supervision/Evaluation Forms (forms not set up for current year yet)
- CPE Tracker
- PDE Act 48/PERMS
- Act 48/PERMS
- Standards Aligned System (SAS)
- English Language Development Program (ELDP)
- Gifted
- CASD Educator in the Workplace
- Social Media
- Facebook - Sheckler, CMS, CHS, and District
- Social Media Hashtags - #GoRoughs # GDTBARR #TEAMCASD #CattyPLC #CattyPride #CASDRocks #TeamCatty
1:15 - 2:15 - Daniel Kotran, Coordinator of Instructional Technology, Federal Programs, Grants & Community Education
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- Basic Troubleshooting Tips
- Apple Classroom App
- Clever Resources
- McGraw Hill- Elementary ELA, History, Physics
- SAVVAS- CMS ELA and Math, History- CMS and CHS
- Imagine Learning and Imagine Math (K-4 and ESL)
- Discovery Education - training
- Nearpod - Nearpod is an interactive classroom tool to engage students by adding interactive activities to your lessons like polls, collaboration boards, and game-based quizzes. Students can interact and submit responses through any mobile device or laptop. Creating Nearpod Lesson, Launching Nearpod
- Remind
- DRC Insight- CDT, PSSA and Keystone testing
- ALL iPads should be updated and fully charged, this is extremely important
- White Screen/ACC Assessment Error troubleshooting
- Go to Settings on the iPad- Scroll on the left to DRC INSIGHT- toggle on Allow Cross Website Tracking (should be green) and try again
- If #1 doesn't fix the problem, delete the DRC app from the iPad desktop, turn off the iPad by holding down the power button, and reinstall the DRC app from Self Service, and enable Allow Cross Website Tracking
- If DRC app is not in Settings, reinstall it from Self Service
- Usernames and passwords are ALWAYS correct, if there are any login issues, please close out the app, retype and try again. Sometimes students enter a space at the end of the login resulting in an error
- Recommend to students to turn off the night before- everyone and everything needs a rest
- Catasauqua Website Resources
- Google Sites