Please join us at our 7th annual Innovation Showcase on Tuesday, February 28th from 5:15-7:00 PM at Conrad High School. This celebration and showcase is designed to recognize Dallas ISD's Innovation in Teaching, School Retool, and iDesign Central Fellows for the 2022-2023 school year. 

Learn more and register at www.thepltoolbox.com/showcase. Please feel free to pass this along to other colleagues and community members as you see fit. We kindly ask that all attendees register to ensure we order enough appetizers for guests. Click here for the recognition rosters for all fellowships.

Agenda 
5:15 | Welcome & Keynote
5:30 | Fellow Recognition | Innovation in Teaching 
5:35 | Panel # 1, Leading Change with Empathy  
5:45 | Fellow Recognitions | School Retool 
5:50 | Panel # 2, Bringing Ideas to Life with Prototyping and Hacking 
6:00 | Fellow Recognitions | iDesign Central 
6:10 | Exhibition Orientation 
6:15-7:00 | Exhibition Showcase 
Light appetizers provided 

Schedule your RBL Mid-year campus support meeting 
WHO: RBL grant campus quarterbacks and principals
WHAT: The PL/RBL team will meet with each Raising Blended Learners grant campus. During this meeting, we will discuss implementation progress being made, review data submissions and goal reflections, capture feedback around supports needed, and more.
WHERE: ZOOM
WHEN: February 21st- March 10th
HOW: To schedule your RBL campus support meeting, use Brittny’s calendly link HERE to find the time that works best for the RBL QB and principal to attend.  

MAP MOY Data Reporting 
The due date for your MOY SMART Goal data submission is Friday, February 3rd.  For step by step video instructions please review the instructional video to help you with submission. You may also access the slide deck at bit.ly/RBLMAP2223. If you have any questions, please contact Brittny, [email protected]  

Pilot Teacher [Optional] Office Hours
A calendar invite was sent to all pilot teachers for February 15th from 4:00-5:00 PM. During this time the central RBL team will be available to brainstorm and answer any questions around blended learning implementation and all things student agency.  Teachers may come and go during this time, but please encourage them to attend! 

The Operational QB Huddle date is now Wednesday, January 25th from 1:00-2:30 PM. The calendar invite has been updated and this will be held virtually. At this huddle we will be prepping Quarterbacks for the upcoming Design Studio in February.

Our second Design Studio of the year is quickly approaching! This time we'll be meeting at Dallas Hybrid Preparatory [3801 Herschel Ave, Dallas, TX 75219]. Principals and Quarterbacks, please plan to attend and invite any other leadership team team members you'd like. Time will be spent digging into your mid-year campus snapshot (Blended Learning observations, ACP, and MAP), PL campus priority benchmarking, Design Excursion Exhibition, and differentiated Blended Learning workshops. So we can plan for space, please submit your attendance for design studio here by Thursday, January 26th.

Thursday, January 12th, your Design Excursion coach will email out final details on how your team will present their learning. Below are a few key changes:

• Each team will create a slide-deck and record a 5-minute video that will be posted to the Design Excursion site.
• The Design Excursion site will be revealed at Design Studio on February 8th. QBs, and any other design team members present, will gather feedback and answer questions about their presentations.  Note, your design excursion team does not need to be fully present at Design Studio for the site reveal.
• Full Design Excursion teams will have one follow-up meeting with their Design Excursion coach to review feedback from the Design Studio exhibition. 

Applications are open until January 31st to apply to attend a PL Transformation School! 

Please consider helping our PL Transformation Schools advertise by sharing their upcoming open houses in your campus newsletters and/or via Social Media. 

• PL Prep Open House | Thursday, January 19th 5:00-6:00 PM at 2827 Throckmorton St, Dallas, TX 75219
• IGNITE Zoom Information Session | Thursday, January 19th 2:00-3:00 PM, Elementary QBs, Please connect with your 5th grade teachers to sign up for the IGNITE Informational Session for 5th grade students. This session will be geared towards learning more about IGNITE Middle School. Note, while this session is designed for 5th graders, feel free to share the invite with 3rd and 4th grade teachers too. To register and receive the Zoom link, please click here.
• IDEA Open House | Thursday, January 12th 5:00-6:00 PM and Thursday, January 26th from 5:30-7:00 PM at 4800 Ross Ave, Dallas, TX 75204

Thursday, January 19th from 12:00-3:00 PM | Our third Texas Tech Workshop 3 for RBL Quarterbacks in person at 9400 North Central Expressway, Suite 205. There is no pre-work and we look forward to seeing you all there!
Friday, January 20th | Texas Tech coaching visits at your campus! A calendar invite will be sent from Lily with the specific time your Texas Tech visitor and either Nicolette or Lily will be visiting. The pre-work for this coaching visit will be discussed during the afternoon of January 19th.
Monday, January 30th | Hold this date for NWEA MAP Training! Details and calendar invite are coming soon. 

If you haven't registered to attend a PL Educator Tour this month, don't miss your chance. The following campuses will be hosting in January:

• Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff | Thursday, January 26th, 8:30-11:30 PM
• CityLab High School | Friday, January 27th, 9:30-11:00 AM
• PL Preparatory at Sam Houston | Tuesday, January 31st, 8:30-11:30 AM (Currently full)