DPSCD- Curriculum & Instruction

New Media Center alert! Today Mason Academy hosted the ribbon cutting for their media center makeover. Scholastic sponsored the makeover in partnership with the Council of Great City Schools. Mason received over 60,000 new books as a result!

Happy First day of School everyone! Wishing everyone a most excellent school year!

Yesterday, the Curriculum and Instuction team welcomed teachers to PD sessions at various locations across the city. While there were several highlights a big one was having author Jessica Nabongo welcome Social Studies teachers who will be using her book to teach Geography!

Thank you @birdiesbkmobile for joining us today at the Teacher Leaders Academy and allowing teachers to select books to add to supplement their classroom libraries at no charge! What a great partner! 🥳😍

The Office of Academics is excited to to welcome back over 200, K-12 Math and ELA Teacher Leaders. Today Teacher Leaders will dive into strategies to best support teachers in different aspects of the Instructional cycle. 🥳🥳🥳

Our Executive Director of Social Studies and Science was live on WDET for an interview about the District’s social studies work today at 11:20am!

Our DPSCD Summer Arts Academy is finishing strong today! Congrats to all of the instructors and participants on a great summer!

The WL dept is hosting their 2nd annual World Languages in the D in collaboration with the Michigan World Language Association. The day is geared towards all southeastern Michigan WL teachers to learn with and from DPSCD WL educators on cutting edge language instruction.

Happy Father’s Day! Today we’re at the Juneteenth Jubilee, hanging out with our local authors!

We hosted Montessori guides at Asbury Park today - They got to choose 10-20 books for their classroom libraries, a couple of PD books for summer reading, enjoyed light refreshments, and gathered ideas for next year’s Peace Education lessons. @Detroitk12 @DPSCDCurriculum

Live from Belle Isle! DPSCD FIELD DAY!!!! Today 100 DOSCD middle school students are participating in 8 physical activity and health stations.

Congrats to all of the students who were honored during the 2024 DPSCD STEM Awards! Great work! 👩🏾‍🔬♟️🤖 🥳

This morning an students in Economics class at The School at Marygrove shared their personal and community stories about the impact of redlining in Detroit and advocating for real solutions to repair the injustices of the past. It was phenomenal!

In just 2️⃣ days, more than 200 middle and high school fine and performing arts students will showcase their immense talent during @Detroitk12's An Evening of Fine Arts at #TheFox! ✨ Reserve your free tickets here: bit.ly/3wDvUM1

As we round out Teacher’s Appreciation week, The entire C&I team wants to say thank you again to all the wonderful @Detroitk12 Teachers across the District. We truly appreciate and respect all that you do and contribute. 👩🏽‍🏫🍎🤩

The Office of Curriculum and Instruction wishes every @Detroitk12 teacher a very Happy Teacher’s Appreciation Week! Thank you Teachers for all that you do we truly appreciate you!

Our @Detroitk12 students represent us everywhere. Thank you for visiting @VP. Excellent performance @CTFIREDUP Marching Band! detroitnews.com/picture-galler…

Just a little Math D on a nice sunny, spring day. #DPSCDProud

Math in the D x 3! The third year of an amazing event. Congrats to Department of Mathematics!

Building PreK home libraries and a love of reading: Literacy kits and take home books were picked up for each PreK student at today’s office hours!