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Here is the schedule of the IPAD trainings that will occur for Portsmouth Public School Teachers during the winter months!

The following Training schedule was published by our assistant superintendent, Steve Zadravec:

Thank you for your interest in the iPad training. We have spent some time revamping our initial plan in order to accommodate the large numbers of you who have signed up. There is some great enthusiasm for how we can leverage this technology to impact professional growth and student learning. We want to be proactive in planning for success in both of those areas. To that end, we have arranged for a series of dates to target the training to particular schools. By doing this, participants can become more familiar with apps they may find most helpful for their area. The dates will no longer be November 16th and 17th. The dates below will be at each building for the staff there. For buildings that have multiple training dates, we will schedule participants for each session and send a confirmation email so you know which date you are signed up for. If there is a personal conflict with a date, please contact me.

Training will be approximately 3 hrs after school. The dates are below: PMS December 6th PMS December 8th PHS December 13th PHS/Lister Academy December 15th PHS December 16th PEEP(at PHS AT 2:30) December 20th New Franklin December 22nd Dondero January 5th Little Harbour January 10th

Please remember to fill out a PD approval form and have your building principal approve it. Also, there have been questions around some of the logistics around sharing these devices for student use. We will work through those issues with the goal of having a clear and direct impact on student learning. I am copying the agreement below that you saw when you signed up for the workshop. We will plan for some part of the training being devoted to these questions, but in the meantime if you have any, please let me know.

Technology Equipment Related to Professional Development

Technology purchased through teacher course reimbursement funds is intended to support the professional learning of the participant as well as student learning in the classroom. To allow for both of these purposes, the teacher will maintain ownership of the equipment with the clear expectation that the use of such equipment be tied to classroom instruction. It is expected, for example, that individual pieces of equipment (i.e. [|iPads], iTouches, digital cameras, etc) will be pooled together when necessary for classroom sets of technology for the purposes of student use in integrated technology lessons and projects.