We're looking forward to meeting with all QBs Wednesday, September 14th! This huddle will be hosted via Zoom and will prepare you for the upcoming Design Studio and Design Excursions. Please see the Outlook calendar invite for joining information.

Our first Design Studio is quickly approaching! Please note, we have adjusted the time to be during the morning only [8:30-12:00 PM] at 9400 North Central Expressway. Principals and Quarterbacks please plan to attend and invite any other leadership team team members you'd like. Workshops will highlight the PL Readiness Continuum, strengthening systems for observation and feedback, PL campus priority benchmarking and a differentiated workshop based on your campus type. So we can plan for space, please submit your attendance for design studio here by Thursday, September 15th.

Design excursions will now kick off during the month of October based on your priority. At the September 14th QB huddle, we will provide more information on submitting your team and selecting your kick off date.  

This is an easy-to-use classroom management tool allows teachers to monitor screens, take over devices through a 'blank screen' feature, limiting web usage during quizzes or tests, and much more! 

Every teacher at a PL campus received an email today (August 29th) with directions on how to access their account. See below for what this email looks like that you can share with staff to help them find the email. Teachers must activate their account within 30 days of receiving the email or their account will not be set up.

Check out the Resource Center here on the LanSchool website for additional resources you can use to train or share with teachers

We are in the process of updating the PL Readiness Continuum to reflect our lessons learned over the past four years and need your feedback as we work to finalize this month. See below for a few different working documents of our progress to date. As you review each document, use the comments feature to ask questions, clarify, or suggest changes.

Working Documents 

• Original draft shared in August PL Lighthouse- this is where our team has captured revisions in comments
• Working final draft- this is where the revisions and changes are reflected (most up to date document)
• Working published draft- this document reflects the changes in organization structure

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During Design Studio all schools will attend a workshop to understand the rationale for change, review the final draft, and provide any last suggestions before we publish on September 30th.

If you have any questions, concerns, feedback or want to talk about any of the changes feel free to register (will receive calendar invite) and join for one of the office hours below.

• Wednesday, September 7th | 9:30-10:00 AM
• Thursday, September 8th | 1:00-1:30 PM

During Homecoming Week, we launched our PL Collaborative Schoology Groups. These groups are grade-band specific and were built to foster relationships for teachers across the cohort. They are a place to share and discuss PL practices specific to their grade-band. We will also be posting the Lite Brite, our teacher-facing newsletter, starting in October, directly to those groups.

Please share the following link (image below) with your staff.  This link will give them steps by step instructions for how to join their respective collaborative groups in schoology.