Secondary Summer Professional Development (Printable Version)
Secondary Summer PD is scheduled for July 14th & 15th at DMS from 8:00-3:00 each day. It has been organized to reflect your survey input as well as instructional needs of the district. The sessions are self-select with some required sessions.
Please read below for important directions and details:
July 14th - Day 1 has an emphasis on self-care, SEL, and student ownership
July 15th - Day 2 will focus on content and instructional best practices
Related Arts, Fine Arts, Health/PE, Foreign Language teachers will receive specific expectations and directions from lead teachers or Amber Potter -do not select sessions for 7/15.
All high school content teachers should only register for the third session. Content coordinators will be sharing information regarding content work on the 15th as well as specific expectations and directions.
All CTE teachers will not register for this day - you will be meeting July 22nd.
All middle school literacy teachers need to select Middle School Literacy - Amplify & UPG Work for session 3.
How to register:
Registration will be open May 9 - May 25th
Go to the Dickson County School District website by clicking this link or by searching dcstn.org
Go to the Faculty & Staff heading and select Professional Development Information
Scroll down and click blue button that says “Click Here to Register for Secondary Summer PD”
Select one session option for each of the 3 session rotations per day - *please refer back to the notes above regarding required sessions
Session descriptions can be found by clicking the blue titles from the table. In order to register, you will need to click on the blue session link and put in the PIN/ACCESS Code included in the email you received with these instructions. The PIN/ACCESS Code will be the same for every session. After you put in your name and email and click continue, make sure you hit "Confirm & Continue" on the next page to complete registration.
Once you register for a session, you will receive an email confirmation for that session. Then, you will need to repeat the process to sign up for your next session.