Professional Learning

August 2025 Secondary Division-wide Professional Learning Schedule

Newport News Public Schools welcomes all our teachers for the 2025-2026 school year!

This website contains important information about our preservice timeframe, which runs August 4-22. Select any date below to learn more about the division-wide expectations for that day.

August 4-13: New and Lead Teachers

Thursday, August 14

Welcome back! All instructional staff report to their assigned schools today.

Friday, August 15

TBD

Monday, August 18

Time	Topic	Audience	Details
8:00 AM-3:15 PM	Cultivating Growth: Sowing Seeds for Success	MS English Teachers, Read 180 Teachers, and MS English Special Education Teachers (GENERAL CURRICULUM ONLY)	Passage MS
8:00 AM-3:15 PM	Starting Strong: Leveraging Data, Ensuring Compliance, and Enhancing Instructional Strategies for EL Success	MS ESL Teachers and Instructional Assistants	Passage MS Auditorium
8:00 AM-3:15 PM	Leveling Up Using SDBQs and Performance Level Descriptors	MS Mathematics Teachers	Ella Fitzgerald MS
8:00 AM-3:15 PM	Leveling Up Using SDBQs and Performance Level Descriptors	MS Math Special Education Teachers for Grades 6-7 (GENERAL CURRICULUM ONLY)	See location above Only applies to those teachers who support grades 6-7; disregard if you teach grade 8
8:00 AM-3:15 PM	Building Team Skills to Support School Science Success	MS Science Teachers	Crittenden MS
8:00 AM-3:15 PM	Best Practices for Implementing the 2023 Social Studies Standards	MS Social Studies Teachers	Hines MS
8:00 AM-3:15 PM	Best Practices in Special Education Evaluation and Eligibility	Social Workers and School Psychologists	Police Station, Jefferson Ave.
8:00 AM-10:30 AM	Universal Supports for Classroom Management	Special Education Instructional Assistants	Heritage HS Auditorium
8:00 AM-3:15 PM	Crisis Prevention Intervention Training	Secondary Special Education Teachers: ED/Behavior Support Caseloads *(by invitation only)*	Heritage HS Café

Tuesday, August 19

Time	Topic	Audience	Details
8:00 AM-3:15 PM	Cultivating Growth: Sowing Seeds for Success	HS English Teachers	Menchville HS
8:00 AM-12:00 PM	Cultivating Growth: Sowing Seeds for Success	HS Special Education English Teachers (GENERAL CURRICULUM ONLY)	Please join the AM portion at Menchville HS listed above
8:00 AM-3:15 PM	Starting Strong: Leveraging Data, Ensuring Compliance, and Enhancing Instructional Strategies for EL Success	HS ESL Teachers and Instructional Assistants	City Center Waterworks Building: Warwick Room
8:00 AM-3:15 PM	Leveling Up Using SDBQs and Performance Level Descriptors	HS Mathematics Teachers	Heritage HS
8:00 AM-3:15 PM	Building Team Skills to Support School Science Success	HS Science Teachers	Denbigh HS Auditorium and Science Rooms
8:00 AM-3:15 PM	Best Practices for Implementing the 2023 Social Studies Standards	HS Social Studies Teachers	Warwick HS
8:00 AM-3:15 PM	Tools of the Trade: Back to the CTE Blueprint	MS & HS CTE Teachers	Denbigh HS Cafeteria
8:00 AM-3:15 PM	Becoming a Distinguished Health & Physical Educator	MS & HS Health & PE Teachers	Warwick HS
8:00 AM-3:15 PM	Strengthening the Written and Taught iSTEM Curriculum: Formally Integrating YES Units and Community Partnerships	MS iSTEM Teachers	Peninsula Workforce Development Center, 600 Butler Farm Rd.
8:00 AM-3:15 PM	Rooted in Purpose: Leading Libraries, Empowering Readers	MS & HS Library Media Specialists	Denbigh HS Library
12:30 PM-3:15 PM	Wildly Consistent Compliance & Instructional Excellence for SWD	MS & HS Special Education Teachers	Heritage HS Auditorium
8:00 AM-3:15 PM	Performance: Implementing Rubrics & Performance-Based Grading Studio: Curriculum Review & Skills-Based Projects	MS & HS Visual and Performing Arts Teachers	Passage MS
8:00 AM-3:15 PM	Jungle Vibes & Language Tribes: Wildly Consistent Teaching in World Languages	MS & HS World Language Teachers	Menchville HS Café 2 and WL Hall
8:00 AM-3:15 PM	Toolkit for Counselors	All School Counselors and College & Career Specialists	The Mariners’ Museum
8:00 AM-10:00 AM	Wildly Consistent, Fully Compliant	Speech Pathologists	Heritage HS, Room 108
8:00 AM-10:00 AM	Start Smart: Compliance, Clarity, and Classroom Impact	New Special Education Teachers: Adapted Curriculum (by invitation only)	Heritage HS, Room 105
8:00 AM-3:15 PM	Crisis Prevention Intervention Training	Secondary Special Education Teachers: ED/Behavior Support Caseloads *(by invitation only)*	Heritage HS Café

Wednesday, August 20

Time	Topic	Audience	Details
8:00 AM-11:00 AM	Foundations for Success: Supporting, Collaborating, and Thriving in the Library	Library Media Assistants	Campus for Student Success at South Morrison, 746 Adams Dr.
9:00 AM-12:30 PM	High-Quality Instructional Materials and Evidence-Based Intervention	New Special Education Teachers: General Curriculum *(by invitation only)*	Administration Building

Thursday, August 21

Time	Topic	Audience	Details
Times Vary	High Leverage Practices for Deaf Education Part 1	Teachers of the Deaf (TOD) and New Interpreters	South Morrison Activity Center, 746 Adams Dr. Please follow the schedule below: All TODs and IA: 8:30-12:00 New TODs: 8:30-3:00 New Interpreters: 1:00-3:00
8:30 AM-3:30 PM	CPS Protocols, Crisis Response, Suicide Prevention and Direct Service Provision and Tracking	Mental Health Therapists and Student Support Specialists	TBD
8:30 AM-3:15 PM	Crisis Prevention Intervention Training	Secondary Special Education Teachers: ED/Behavior Support Caseloads *(by invitation only)*	Heritage HS Café

Friday, August 22

Times Vary	High Leverage Practices for Deaf Education Part 2	Teachers of the Deaf (TOD), Instructional Assistant, and Interpreters	South Morrison Activity Center, 746 Adams Dr. Please follow the schedule below: All Interpreters: 8:30-12:00 All TODS and IA: 10:30-12:00 New Interpreters: 8:30-3:00 New TODs: 10:30-3:00

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August 2025 Secondary Division-wide Professional Learning Schedule