Aug. 8 is the deadline to apply for the St. Croix Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 1826, day and a half of professional training on Aug. 15-16. All teachers assigned to kindergarten through sixth grade classes and paraprofessionals may register by calling the federation office at 778-4414 or Sharon Jackson at the V.I. Education Department's Curriculum Center at 778-1600 by Friday, Aug. 8.
The training sessions will focus on research about how children learn mathematics and how the research findings can be applied in the classroom, said a release.
