TAPCo. Times #8
October 24, 2016

Birthdays of the Week 

Melissa Skidelsky 10/26
Carol Johnson 10/30
Mark Schaudt 10/30

Grant Opportunities

Grant opportunities are posted on the Grants website (you can visit the page on any computer using this link). This week’s highlights include:
 

• NEA’s Read Across America Library Grant Application
• Extended Deadline – Studio in a School – Grant Opportunity for Title I Schools Grades Pre-K - Kindergarten

Professional Development for School Secretaries

As in previous years, your school secretaries are invited to attend citywide professional development (PD) sessions on Election Day, November 8. Secretaries, who choose to attend the PD session, must attend a session in their school's borough. Secretaries in District 75 and in the Affinity Field Support Center (AFSA), who choose to attend the PD session, must attend a session in the FSC of their school district. Please share this link with your secretaries and encourage them to register by November 1. Note that there are multiple registration links for each FSC that will host professional development workshops.
 
For questions, contact your FSC director for finance and human resources.

 Pic Of The Week
Hamilton Trip

Professional Development and Student Opportunities

Professional development and student opportunities are posted on the PD and Student Opportunities page. This week’s highlights include:
 
All Schools:

• Register by November 8: Assistive and Instructional Technology and Accessible Educational Material Inquiry-to-Action Team at Teachers College Inclusive Classrooms Project (TCICP)
• Register by November 8: Crossing the Avenues: Harlem’s Artistic and Social History - Professional Learning with the Apollo Theater and the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute
• Register by November 8: Election Day Professional Development – American Museum of Natural History
• Register by November 8: Elections and Improving Media Literacy: Election Day Professional Development Conference
• Register by November 14: Tech Tools to Engage Your Parent Community
• Register by November 14: Turning It Up with Flipped Classroom
• Register by November 17: Think & Drink at N-YHS: Teachers and the Civil Rights Movement with Clarence Taylor
• Register by November 17: 17th Annual Language Series - Keynote Speaker Dr. Ofelia Garcia
• Ongoing: Workshops to Educate Students about Guns and Violence Prevention
• Ongoing: Free Contemporary Art Gallery Tours at BRIC

  
Middle and High Schools:

• Register by November 8: Literacy in the Inclusive Classroom Inquiry to Action Team at Teachers College Inclusive Classrooms Project (TCICP)
• Register by November 19: Join Us at Mouse Maker Day
• Ongoing: Remembering the Holocaust

 
High Schools:

• Register by November 13: Nominations for ChickTech's FREE Kickoff Tech Event
• Register by November 15: Participate in the Quality of Life INNOVATIONS Program
• Register by November 18: Curriculum Design Teams at Teachers College Inclusive Classrooms Project (TCICP)