NEWS
Letter from the President
March 1, 2025
Dear PACT Members,
I am very excited to welcome back a legendary PACT presenter for our spring professional development day, Jacky Howell. Jacky will be revisiting a topic she first shared with us many years ago and has been revising and updating since: Creating Experiential Curriculum. If you are like me, you are probably constantly trying to balance the push for boxed curricula with the need for a curriculum that is responsive to the children that you have in your classroom today, that allows them to learn in ways that are truly best for early learners.
I am also excited to be bringing an in-person PACT workshop back to Virginia at a new location, the Providence Presbyterian Church, which is home to one of our member schools.
Lastly, please take a moment to reflect on whether the current PACT format of a virtual fall session with time options of 3-5pm or 7-9pm and an in-person spring session from 9am-1pm works for you, or you have a suggestion for something different. There will be questions in the workshop evaluation to help us to gather feedback.
I look forward to seeing you at our spring workshop on March 27th!
Scott Mitchell
PACT president
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