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#Grateful

In a school year, that has provided new obstacles, small victories deserve huge celebrations. Kudos to each of you for engaging and supporting student success in quarter 1. Please know that your efforts did not go unnoticed for all the new asks and items put onto your plates. In the month that celebrates gratitude, Erika, Lyndsay, and I could not be more grateful for each of you and what you do for Pasco students day in and day out.

Early Release - Professional Development- Thank You

Thank you to each of you who engaged in our second Early Release Day Uplifting Literacy through DBQs. As a reminder we will be continuing our learning of the DBQ process to elevate our instruction of the required instructional mandates that impact all our content areas.

Instructions - resources - and recordings may be found in this link.

If you did not receive a registration for myPGS for the day 2 session, and you were in attendance, please let us know. Please note that attendance is awarded for attending and participating fully for the duration of the 45 minute session.

Additional professional development credit may be earned for the try and apply task. You will be registered for a separate myPGS course for this opportunity. Our focus for the second session was around the “Background Essay". If you could please plan and deliver a lesson using one of the close reading strategies shared at our session with either the Cesar Chavez DBQ; or a DBQ applicable to a current unit of instruction and submit 3 student samples either via by email or by loading in this folder, by November 2nd.

Next Session - November 10th - You may register for your time slot

Section #30432 | Early Release Day 21-22 Session 3 (12:30-1:15pm)
Section Dates: 11/10/2021 - 11/10/2021
Course #: 4120 Uplifting Literacy with the DBQ Project Grades 6-12

Section #30433 | Early Release Day 21-22 Session 3 (1:30-2:15pm)
Section Dates: 11/10/2021 - 11/10/2021
Course #: 4120 Uplifting Literacy with the DBQ Project Grades 6-12

Native American Heritage Month

Native American history is often underrepresented in historical textbooks. As teachers, it is critical in this time of culturally relevant education that we expose our students to comprehensive, thoughtful and accurate education in Native American history and culture. For many of our history courses, we have dedicated standards that address Native American history. For additional resources please use this link.

Election Rights Education/ Ocoee Election 1920

Highlight the importance of language and semantics, and offer grade level appropriate activities that reflect student development, around the 1920 Ocoee Election Day, which

includes as many sources (primary and secondary) as possible to build a K-12 understanding of this Florida historical event. A K-12 crosswalk for this event along with other resources to help build teacher knowledge on this event may be found here.

Veterans Day

Instruction to promote patriotism and honor veterans is a part of our Social Studies mandates per Florida Statute, 1003.42 which states: “In order to encourage patriotism, the sacrifices of veterans have made in serving our country, and protecting democratic values worldwide. Such instruction must occur on or before Veterans Day and Memorial Day. Members of the instructional staff are encouraged to use the assistance of local veterans when practicable.”

Pasco County Schools will be partnering with Brian Corley, Supervisor of Elections for our 8th annual district wide Veteran's Day event to support Vote in Honor of a Veteran. This year our event will once again be pre-recorded and be 100% virtual so the recording may be shown each period at our secondary level or at set time established by the school.

Additional resources to help with the importance of this day, may be found here. This page will also be updated with a video link to access the Pasco virtual Veterans Day program on Veterans Day.

Holocaust Education Week

The second week in November shall be designated as “Holocaust Education Week” in this state in recognition that November is the anniversary of Kristallnacht, widely recognized as a precipitating event that led to the Holocaust. This is the 2nd year of this instuctional mandate. Resources to help you to meet this instructional mandate may be found here. This is a collection that has been shared by the Florida Holocaust Education Task Force and shared out with school districts to support accurate education on the events of the Holocaust with grade appropriate content.

Curriculum Resource 2021 - High School

In a year where we all are continuing to engage students in multiple platforms, please consider the following activities in conjunction with your current curriculum.

High School World History

Why did Martin Luther challenge the Catholic Church? Have students discover the answer in this SHEG activity.

SHEG Luther Activity PDF Resources

High School United States History

DOCS Teach: In this activity, students will analyze the Zimmermann telegram to determine if the United States should have entered World War I based on the telegram's information and implications.

DOCS Teach: In this activity, students interpret President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points and evaluate the goals and intentions of his plan to end World War I by connecting it the MAIN (Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism) causes of the war.

US Government

New High School Government Lesson Plan:

Contrasting U.S. Founding Principles & Totalitarianism

Why are the founding principles essential for a free society?

In support of the recently passed House Bill 5, FJCC has developed a high school government lesson plan to facilitate instruction and discussion concerning the United States’ founding principles versus totalitarian systems of government.

Economics

The Stock Market Game is a hands on and interactive learning experience which gives students a first hand perspective of how the stock market works.

Assessments

For the 21 -22 school year:

Quarterly Checks will be optional for World History, US Government, and Economic courses for this school year. They are available to use for progress monitoring.
US History will return to required Quarterly Checks this school year for Quarter 1 & 2 - and Quarter 3 for priority schools. If non-priority schools would like to offer the Quarter 3 check it will be available to do so, but not required.
US History Quarterly Check blueprints may be found here.
District finals will remain for the school year - blueprints of assessed standards may be found here.
To access and administer CFAs - please access here Using myProgress to Administer Assessments

The Florida Civic Literacy Exam (FCLE)

The test is run through the same platform and same process as FSA/NGSSS State testing. Although the state window for this test opens in October, the Pasco window will sync with the regular winter EOC window, November 29-December 17, 2021. This timeline provides students the greatest amount of instruction before testing. The FCLE is not an EOC and will not count towards a student’s grade or towards school grade. It is, however, the aligned assessment for these courses and will count as teachers’ SPM score.

Students enrolled in AP, DE, IB, and Cambridge programs should be given the opportunity to participate in the FCLE administration. Students enrolled in AP United States Government and Politics or DE American Federal Government will be offered the opportunity during the semester they are enrolled in the course. IB, AICE, and Cambridge seniors will be offered the opportunity during the May testing window.

For questions, please contact Heather Bell (hbell@pasco.k12.fl.us)

USF Stavros Center Professional Learning Opportunities

FROM APOTHECARIES TO WITCHES: HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND ECONOMIC DECISIONS IN SHAKESPEARE

Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Webinar via Microsoft Teams

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ONCE UPON A TIME WITH TOPS, BOTTOMS, AND PETER RABBIT

Date: Thursday, November 4, 2021
Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Webinar via Microsoft Teams

The first twenty people who register and attend the full webinar will be eligible to receive a copy of the book Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens.

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SUSTAINABILITY SUPERHEROES PRESENTS FROM TRASH TO TREASURE: REDUCING, REUSING, RECYCLING AND REPURPOSING

Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Webinar via Microsoft Teams

The first 20 educators who register and attend the session will be eligible for a $50.00 stipend.

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YUMONOMICS: CONSUMER DECISION-MAKING ABOUT FOOD

Date: Monday, November 15, 2021
Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Webinar via Microsoft Teams

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ONCE UPON A DIME WITH NEW DISNEY FILM CLIPS

Date: Thursday, December 9, 2021
Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Webinar via Microsoft Teams

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Institute for Curriculum Services

History Of European Antisemitism

This session will outline the origins of antisemitism, how it has changed throughout history, and includes primary sources and activities to support instruction and facilitate student understanding.

Workshop Dates
Tuesday, October 26 - 4:30pm PT / 7:30pm ET Register Now »
Thursday, October 28 - 1:30pm PT / 4:30pm ET Register Now »
This workshop supports K-12 educators.

Virtual Teacher Training with The Florida Holocaust Museum

The Florida Holocaust Museum has provided Holocaust education across the state for almost 30 years.

All primary and secondary sources shared by the Museum are free to teachers and students.

We have digital and print content for grades K-12.

Teachers use Centropa and The FHM resources to teach Holocaust history,

Social Studies, ELA, art, foreign language, filmmaking, photography, and civics.

New to Centropa? We have a unique approach to 20th century history and Holocaust education:

students relate to survivor interviews because they get to know survivors from their childhood through older age, and connect to their stories of growing up, overcoming hardship, and resilience;
pedagogy: no boxed curriculum—you decide how our resources work for you and your students;
cross-competency projects: Centropa’s Milton Wolf Prize for Student Advocacy empowers students to learn how to be active citizens, find a passion project, and educate people how to get involved;
international teachers network: Centropa’s Border Jumping Program matches you with teachers in Europe and/or Israel so you can create a global classroom through cross-cultural projects.

Questions? Contact Lauren Granite, Centropa’s US Education Director, at granite@centropa.org,

or The FHM’s Education Department at education@thefhm.org.

REGISTER HERE:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Vc1H_gDEReSqJoWc-szFEA

CENTROPA USA Fall 2021 Professional Development & Gatherings

This Fall, Centropa offers eight online webinars, one in-person workshop in Los Angeles, and two meetings of our social gathering for teachers, Café Centropa: Teachers Edition. Teachers from all over are welcome to join, of course! Topics include: Centropa’s stories of women in the Holocaust, using primary sources to teach about Kristallnacht and the Kindertransport, and teaching critical thinking through Holocaust education. Information and registration links are below and also here, on Centropa USA’s seminar page.

Teaching
Holocaust Herstories:
Mothers, Daughters, Fighters, and Survivors
One topic, many opportunities to learn.

Centropa’s stories of women in the Holocaust will help you teach about love and loss, hardship and resilience, weakness and courage. You will return to class with user-friendly materials for in-class or online assignments, including activities you can use immediately. See below for dates, times, and registration links.

Click on date to register:

November 1, 2021, 5:00-6:30pm EDT, with the School District Palm Beach County.

Creating Critical Thinkers through Holocaust Education

Café Centropa: Teachers Edition
A tradition of bringing people together

Meet up with old friends, or make new ones, as we virtually bring together teachers from the US, Europe, and Israel during a pandemic, alternating Saturdays/Sundays:

Nov 7, Dec 4, Jan 16, Feb 26, April 10
8am PDT, 10am CDT, 11am EDT, 17:00 CET, and 18:00 Israeli time

Click here to registe r for the Nov 7 meeting.
Click here to register for the Dec 4 meeting.

Centropa offers teachers:

a database of spanning the 20th century;
hundreds of interviews, and theme-based websites with ready-to-use excerpts;
award-winning, short multimedia films (between 3 and 30 minutes)—ideal for creating virtual or in-class projects that teach digital literacy, promote critical thinking, increase global awareness—all free of charge;
for meeting standards and teaching themes in history, Holocaust, social studies, ELA, art, foreign language, filmmaking, photography, technology, and civics classes;
an annual summer trip to the great cities of Central Europe with 80 teachers from 15 countries—in 2022 we will be in Berlin.

2021 Bill of Rights Essay Contest

The judges of the United States District Court, Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division, and the lawyers of the Tampa Bay Chapter of the Federal Bar Association are eager to read the students’ essays on the 2021 Bill of Rights essay prompt, honor their work, and award cash prizes to students, teachers, and schools. We are pleased to announce an additional award: the teacher with the most essay submissions can win a $1000 classroom grant.

The deadline for submission of essays to the 2021 High School Essay Contest is November 5th. The following link will take you directly to the contest website where you will find the application and directions for submitting essays.

https://www.flmd.uscourts.gov/2021-high-school-essay-contest-tampa

SEL -Compassionate Schools

We are excited to announce a new mindfulness program that we have purchased for every school called Inner Explorer! Inner Explorer helps preschool through high school students develop and embody self-awareness, self-control, resilience, and compassion. As you know, these are critical skills for success in school and success in life. As a result of participating in this mindfulness based SEL programs, students increase their academic performance, have fewer behavior issues, and experience less anxiety and depressive symptoms, as well as a greater sense of wellbeing. This video does a great job explaining the programdeeper, as well as giving an overview of how easily Inner Explorer can be integrated into your class. The best part? There is no planning neededon your part! You simply log in, push the play button, and you’re ready to go with your daily mindfulness practice! Keep an eye out for instructions for your school so that you can get started with your own class.

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