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  • Orientation 26
    • Day 1 - Mon, 6/8/26
    • Day 2 - Tues, 6/9/26
    • Day 3 - Wed, 6/11/25
    • Day 4 - Thurs, 6/11/26
    • Day 5 - Fri, 6/12/26
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Day 2 - Tuesday, 6/9/26

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Lesson Plan Meetings
7:00-8:00am

  • 7:00-7:30am
  • 7:30-8:00am
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Monday Reflection
8:00 - 8:15

  • Something you learned yesterday (pedagogy or about a fellow staff member)
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Lesson Planning
New Teachers
8:15 - 11:00

Basic Structure (40 mins)
  • We will do some talking to the text in this part of the lesson.​

Breaking Down Adult Processing (15 mins)
  • Knowing where to start
  • Strong handouts
 
Writing Sound/Effective Objectives
  • Goals vs. Objectives (10 mins)​
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  • Writing Objectives (30 mins) (break as needed while you work)

Warm Ups and Wrap Ups (40)

Lesson Plan Revision Time (30) (breaks as needed)
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Returners
8:15 - 11:00

  • Lesson plan meetings with Tarik
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  • Work time
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  • Supplies from storage (if you need anything or have time check in with Jarred)
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Lesson Planning
Activities
11:00 - 12:15

Activities in Action/Purposeful Movement (75)
  • Criteria and Rubric (15)
  • Collaborative Placemats (15)
  • Words and Numbers (15)
  • Categories (15)
  • Divide and Conquer (15)
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Lunch
​12:15 - 1:15

Core Team working lunch

Steph will come around and show you some Mac tips
  • Maximizing screens and scrolling between screens
  • F1 and F2 - screen brightness
  • F3 Moving screens around using
  • F4 - dictate - talk to text
  • F10-12 - volume
  • Opening and closing apps
  • Icons dock
  • Drag and drop
  • Screenshot - shift, command, 4
  • Track pad
  • Keyboard short cuts
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Walking Through a Middle School Social Studies Lesson
​1:15 - 2:15

Observations, Inferences, Conclusions Lesson (43)
  • You are my middle school class

  • We will be doing a basic social studies

Reflection (17)
  • We will reflect on the pedagogy after the lesson
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Lesson Planning:
Scaffolding & Department Activity
​2:15 - 3:15

  • Let's look at the basics of scaffolding.
  • In departments, first, each of you make your lesson opening slide.
  • Then, decide which item to complete
    • A. Select a topic useful in all of your classes and scaffold how you can teach it OR
    • B. Create an item that will be useful in all classes, like an instructive bookmark or a lab sheet.
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Wrap Up
3:15 - 3:30

  • What did we learn today and how can we apply it

  • Acknowledgements

  • Social Studies Homework
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Individual Meetings

  • 3:30 - 4:00 - TBA
  • 4:00 - 4:30 - TBA
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Stephanie Palmieri
Last Updated - May 2026
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