Welcome back to another school year We hope it is off to a good start. The start of a new year is both exciting and stressful for students, teachers and administrators. We are here to help teacher’s reduce stress and transform student learning by providing resources such as new Google Chromebooks, colored printers, several laminators, and hundreds of AccuCut dies. You can browse the dies we have avialable on our website listed below. Click on the Teacher Production Center Information Here button on the right side.

The TPC is a make and take facility that is available to all VBCPS staff members. We will also reduce your out-of-pocket expenditures by providing free resources that include colored paper, cardstock, and construction paper. The IRC staff is also responsible for maintaining and updating the video content on our streaming platform, The Stream. As a reminder, The Stream is available to all VBCPS employees 24/7. You can access at http://www.irc.vbschools.com or through the VBCPS Intranet. We add new material every day. Please consider taking time to request or recommend new titles. You can email them toirc@vbschools.com. We are also happy to take requests or recommendations for digital videos.

The Instructional Resource Center (IRC) and the Teacher Production Center (TPC) are here to help you BE AMAZING this year.

Instructional Resource Center (Plaza Annex, Rooms 28-35) 641 Carriage Hill Rd. Virginia Beach, VA 23452 (757) 263-6850 Office (757) 473-5143 Fax

Instructional Resource Center641 Carriage Hill Rd.

Virginia Beach, VA 23452(757) 263-6850 Office

(757) 473-5143 Fax

www.irc.vbschools.com

Instructional Resource Center(IRC) Hours:

Monday - Friday7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Teacher Production Center(TPC) Hours:

Monday - Thursday2 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Friday 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. (Unless otherwise posted.)

Central Library Processing (CLP) Hours

Monday - Friday7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

In this issue:TPC Information 2 New Media 3-5

FALL 2017The Instructional Resource Center Newsletter - Connecting the curriculum to improve student achievement.

IRC Connections

Back to school deliveries start August 28th

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*Please be advised: In an effort to minimize wasteful and excessive printing the TPC Tech will distribute white cardstock. LaTonya Butts, TPC Technician

Teacher Production Center (TPC) HOURS Monday - Thursday 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Friday 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.(unless otherwise posted on our website, www.irc.vbschools.com)

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LIVE

Broadcast and Streaming Event Schedule

2015-2016

What’s New at the IRC?

The Stream titles are for viewing; no physical media will be delivered to you.

Newly Acquired Content on The StreamDigital rights have been acquired for the following titles and they are now accessible from The Stream.

Here are the titles by subject area, titles are linked to content.

CAREER EDUCATIONAMERICAN GRADUATE CAREER SPOTLIGHT (WNET 2016) (H): Geophysicist, Molecular Biologist, and Paleontologist & Field Researcher.

KQED CAREER SPOTLIGHT (2015) (H): Explore STEM careers through real-world examples. Segments include: Environmental Health Engineer, Industrial Engineer, The Planet-Searching Physicist, Research Scientist & Mechanical Engineer, Robotics Engineer, Software Engineer, Spatial Interaction Engineer, and others.

FINE ARTSTREASURES OF NEW YORK: THE DRAMA LEAGUE (WNET 2017) (MH): Learn about one of the nation’s great champions of theater and performing arts. Segments include: Advice for Pursuing a Career in Theater, The Importance of Mentors in Theater, and Support-ing the Theater Then and Now.

MATHGEOMETRY (WHRO 2017) (MH): This course covers the Virginia Standards of Learning for Geometry. Modules 10-14 have been added and include titles

such as Finding the Lengths of Intersecting Chords, Calculating the Length of an Arc, Identifying Points That Lie on a Circle, Introduction to Constructions, Calculating the Surface Area & Volume of a Cylinder, and many others.

GOOD TO KNOW (PBS 2016) (P): New titles in-clude: Fractions, Units of Measure, Partial Products, Making Sense of Money, Rounding to the Nearest -10 or -100, and others.

SCIENCEDEEP LOOK (KQED 2016) (MH): See the unseen at the very edge of our visible world and get a new perspective on our place in the universe. Titles include: Crazy Cute Baby Turtles Want Their Lake Back, Na-ture’s Mood Rings: How Chameleons Really Change Colors, How Mosquitoes Use Six Needles to Suck Your Blood, What Makes Owls So Quiet & So Dead-ly?, Where Are the Ants Carrying All Those Leaves?, and many others. DPTV DIGITAL ADVENTURES (DPTV 2016) (MH): Learn the science of art conservation behind the scenes at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Segments include: Learning from a Sculpture of St. Francis, Using The Last Judgment to Explore Research Tools, What is Infrared Reflectography?, and Why Do Mu-seums Study Art?

DRAGONFLY TV (TPT 2007) (IM): An Emmy-Award winning science education series with a “real kids, real science” approach. NANO segments include: Bone Regrowth, Gecko Feet, Nanosilver, Nasturtium Leaves, Water Clean Up, What’s Nano?, plus others. GPS segments include: Alligator Habi-tat, Biodiversity, Bogs, Earthquakes, Garbology, Geysers, Temperate Rainforest, Wetlands, and many others.

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ENGINEERING FOR GOOD (KQED 2017) (MH): The Reality of Plastic: Plastic -- it's super useful but it's also a big problem for the environment. Enough plastic is thrown away every year to circle the earth four times! The Engineering Design Process: A Taco Party: When engineers set out to solve a real world problem, they go through an engineering design process-- in much the same way you would throw an impromptu taco party. Learn all about it in this animated video.

GENIOUS by STEPHEN HAWK-ING (BIGGER BANG 2016) (MH): Professor Stephen Hawking challenges a selection of volunteers to think like the greatest geniuses in history to solve some of hu-manity’s most enduring questions. New segments include: Can We Time Travel?, What Are We?, Where Are We?, Where Did the Universe Come From?, and Why Are We Here?

IN THE GRASS, ON THE REEF (WFSU 2012) (MH): Dr. David Kimbro & Dr. Randall Hughes study coastal ecosystems such as salt marshes and

oyster reefs. These systems provide many services: sheltering commercially important crabs and fish, cleaning the water, preventing erosion, and ulti-mately aiding in keeping marine habitats healthy. Segments include: Biodiversity in the Salt Marsh, Consumptive & Nonconsumptive Predator Effects, Introduction to Intertidal Systems & Their Services, Oyster Reef, and Seagrass Bed.

NATURE WORKS EVERYWHERE (Nature Conservan-cy 2016) (H): See how all types of environments, plants, and animals play crucial roles in maintain-ing our global ecosystem and how we can help build a more sustainable future. New titles include: Coastal Resilience, Fishing for a Future, Nature’s First Defenders, Recording the Rainforest, and Sustainable Cities: Nature-Based Solutions in Urban Design.

PBS NEWSHOUR: Rising Ocean Temperatures Threaten World’s Coral Reefs (2017) (MH): Rising ocean temperatures resulting from climate change are killing coral reefs across the planet. Scientists say over 70 percent of the world’s coral reefs have been exposed to the high temperatures that cause bleaching.

VALLEY’S GOLD (PBS 2016) (P): Education through agriculture -- to foster awareness and understand-ing of agriculture in our everyday lives. New titles include: Apples, Artichokes, Busy Bees, Carrots, Cotton, and Meet Your Beef.

SCIENCE U (WPSU 2017) (PI): Science U is a summer camp at Penn State University exploring every inch of the universe. Titles include: Can Something Be Both a Solid & a Liquid?, Can You Cook a S’more With-out Fire or Electricity?, How Does a Soda Geyser Work?, How Fast Does Your Brain Send Message To Your Body?, Is a Bubble Always Round?, plus others.

SECRET LIFE OF SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS (NOVA 2016) (MH): Learn about cutting-edge science and engineering, the amazing people who do that work, and the things they do when the lab coats come off. New segments include: Cheri Blau-wet, Cynthia Erenas, Chris Hadfield, Janet Iwasa, Danica McKellar, Dame Stephanie Shirley, and Simon Singh.

SOCIAL STUDIES1913 SEEDS OF CONFLICT (PBS 2014) (H): Looks at the moment of transforma-tion when Ottoman rule in Palestine was still strong, the identities of Jerusalemites were fluid and few could imagine the conflict that would dominate the region for the next century. Segments include: A Larger Vision At Work, An Ottoman Region, Revolution Comes to Palestine, and Sowing Seeds of Conflict.

BIRTH OF A MOVEMENT (Independent Lens 2016) (H): In 1915, Boston-based African Ameri-can newspaper editor & activist William M. Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith’s technically groundbreaking, but notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly “The Birth of a Nation”, unleashing a fight that still rages today about race relations, media representation, and the power & influence of Hol-lywood. Segments include: 1895: A Turning Point in Black History, Birth of a Nation: A Complicated Legacy, Birth of a Nation: Film as Propaganda, and Birth of a Nation: Projecting Jim Crow.

Dr. Aaron Spence, SuperintendentDr. Amy Cashwell, Chief Academic Officer Department of Teaching & Learning

William L. Johnsen, Director Instructional Technology

Instructional Resource CenterKelly Miller, Coordinator Library Services

Jackie Brown, Newsletter

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FRONTLINE: PRISON STATE (2015) (H): Takes you to the epicenter of the raging debate about prison reform. Seg-ments include: Christel’s Story,

Kentucky’s Prison Overhaul, Release & Re-incarcer-ation, and School to Prison Pipeline.

HOMELAND: (Nine Network 2011) (H): A documentary series that explores one of the most polarizing issues facing America today. Segments include: A Broader Perspective on Immigration, A Decade of the DREAM Act, Assimilating in America, Getting a Visa in a Post 9-11 World, H-1B: Public Perception & Economic Realities, I Hereby Declare an Oath, Refugee 101, Rights of Immigrants, and many oth-ers.

IN THEIR OWN WORDS (PBS 2015) (MH): A unique and stylish new biography series that explores an elite few of the 20th century’s greatest figures. Each chapter is inspired and marked by some of the most memorable words spoken by these world icons.

MUHAMMAD ALI: Champion, The Vietnam War, Nation of Islam, and others. QUEEN ELIZABETH II: Lady Di-ana, Northern Ireland & South America, The Windsors, World War II, and others.

JOHN LEWIS: GET IN THE WAY (GPB 2017) (MH): Follow the journey of civil rights hero, congressman, and human rights champion John Lewis. Segments include: Activist as Politician, Equal Rights for Everyone, The Healthcare Bill, The Nashville Sit-Ins, The March on Washington, The Right to Vote, and others.

PBS NEWSHOUR (2017) (MH): Donald Trump Sworn in as 45th President of the United States, How Betsy DeVos Could Reshape National Educa-tion Policy, Remembering Japanese Internment, 75 Years Later, Tech Giants Call for Tighter Limits on Government Surveillance, Women’s March Draws Support Around the World, and others.

SOUTHERN CAMPAIGN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLU-TION (SCETV 2017) (IMH): The Southern Campaign was critical in determining the outcome of the American Revolutionary War, yet the South’s importance has been downplayed in most historical accounts to date. Segments include: Camden: Defeat & Destruction, Guilford Court-house: Costly Victory, Waxhaws: Blood in the Back Country, and others.

UNIQUELY NEW YORK (WSKG 2015) (PIM): Meet some interesting characters on New York’s path through history including a slave who bought his freedom, a woman who dressed as a man to fight in the Civil War, the first female space shuttle com-mander, and the architect who designed the Burr Truss Arch Bridge. Titles include: Alice McLean, Amelita Galli-Curci, Bob Wyer, Clara Cook, Corporal Margaret Hastings, Eileen Collins, Glenn Curtiss, Gowongo Mohawk, Lewis W. Hine, Peter Webb, Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, plus many others.

Vel Phillips: Dream Big Dreams (WPT 2015) (H): The story of a remarkable woman and the struggles she undertook to build a better community, and the parallel story of one American community and its struggles and responses to the national civil rights movement of the 1960s.

Instructional Resource Center (IRC) Central Library Processing (CLP) Monday - Friday, 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Teacher Production Center (TPC)

Monday - Thursday, 2 p.m. - 6 p.m.; Friday 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. (unless otherwise posted)

641 Carriage Hill Rd. Virginia Beach, VA 23452

Plaza Annex, Rooms 28-29, 33-35 Office (757) 263-6850 Fax (757) 473-5143

www.irc.vbschools.com Click here for map & directions