TAPCo. Times #31
April 24, 2017

Birthdays of the Week

Deborah Sklar 4/30

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:
 
All schools

• Crayola Champion Creatively Alive Children 2017 Grant Program

Professional Development Opportunity for Parent Coordinators

​Summer in the City Family and Community Engagement Overview: This event will take place at the New York Public Library (476 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan) on May 10. It will include opening remarks from Chancellor Carmen Fariña and Executive Superintendent Yolanda Torres, as well as an exhibition that includes groups and organizations that have committed to providing free community engagement workshops and activities over the summer. In addition, parent coordinators (PC) will learn about available resources including supports for families to prevent summer learning loss. You are encouraged to share this link with your parent coordinators. PCs were notified in April 11 edition of PC Connection.
 
For additional information and to register, see here. If your PC has any questions, email Dery Rodriguez.

Pic Of The Week
"The Running Club"

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 May 5: Special Workshop at N-YHS: Black Panthers to Black Lives Matter with Yohuru Williams
• Register by May 5: Attend the FREE Eagle Institute 2017 Professional Development Conference
• Apply by May 8: Accepting Applications for New York City Writing Project Invitational Leadership Institute
• Register by May 9: Host a Screening of 50/50 Gender Equity Film
• Register by May 11: Pizza & PD at N-YHS: Learning History with Paintings
• Register by May 12: An Evening for Educators at the American Museum of Natural History: Mapping Global Climate Change
• Register by May 15: Student Driven Introduction to Transformational Technology Infusion
• Register by May 16: Making Black Lives Matter: Tracing the Role of Women in the Black Radical Tradition–Free Educator Evening
• Register by May 16: Pizza & PD at N-YHS: Women in the Industrial Age
• Ongoing: Bring Your Class to FDR Four Freedoms Park

 
​Elementary and Middle Schools:

• Register by May 10: Teacher Training Workshop: Project Learning Tree

 
Middle and High Schools:

• Register by May 5: Facing History Workshop – Helping Schools Confront Islamophobia
• Register by May 10: Technology Infused Formative Assessment: GPS for the Classroom
• Apply by May 15: Brain Insight Teacher-Scholar Program

 
High Schools:

• Apply by May 1: Young Women in Grade 10 Can Apply to NYC Great!
• Register by May 16: Youth Arts New York presents: SPEAK OUT! Women and Incarceration