KSDE Recharge Learning
Finding Your Focus Summer Academies 2022
The Kansas Department of Education (KSDE) and the Kansas Association of Education Service Agencies (KAESA) are collaborating to bring the most innovative and updated information to our workshops.
Each workshop will focus on content-specific standards and innovative instructional practices to help with learning loss, including: high leverage teaching practice, personalized learning, real-world application (competencies), and leading change. Participants will choose a workshop to spend two days of rigorous professional development for teachers and administrators of ALL levels.
1.0 hour of Graduate College Credit will be available through MidAmerica Nazarene University. More information will be available at the event.
If you register for a virtual session you will receive a zoom link via email from the presenter before the day of the workshop.
By Location
Manhattan – June 7-8, 2022
CTE
Do you need a crash course on CTE? Day 1 will include a comprehensive CTE 101. Topics include CTE framework, developing quality pathways, Career and Technical Student Organizations (CTSO), partnerships, CTE Pathway data, Perkins, fiscal auditing, policy and combining CTE courses. Day 2 will focus on Individual Plans of Study (IPS) and Work-Based Learning (WBL).
Early Childhood
Day 1:
9:40am-12:00pm – Giving Centers a Purpose in a Pre-K Classroom
Every preschool classroom has centers for children to explore. This session will address how to intentionally plan those centers to maximize student learning. Participants will leave with strategies to assist them in the immediate implementation of such careers
1:00pm-4:00pm – Understanding Tough Behaviors in Early Childhood
We will discuss some of the brain science behind tough behaviors and the best ways for teachers to support their classrooms with these tough behaviors in them.
Day 2:
9:00am-12:00pm – Building Early Language and Literacy
Learn how to provide intentional activities, instruction, supports, and play to develop early language and literacy in your early childhood programs.
1:00pm-3:00pm – Early Childhood Needs STEM Too!
Explore developmentally appropriate, learning-through-play ways to explore STEM in early childhood.
ELA/Dyslexia
Grades K-3
Day 1
Title: Developing Strong Readers: Start with Language! (Melissa Brunner & Jeri Powers)
Description: Students entering school with strong oral language skills tend to learn how to read and write more easily than those with lower vocabulary and language. However, language development is frequently omitted from instructional practices, causing students to not achieve their full potential. This session will address critical information regarding developmental milestones in language, its connection to literacy and dyslexia, along with practical and powerful learning activities you can implement in your classroom.
Session 2:
Title: Literacy Assessments: How Can I Make them Meaningful in My Classroom? (Jeri Powers & Melissa Brunner)
Description: Screeners, Diagnostics, Progress Monitoring…so many types of assessments! How can you create a meaningful assessment system in your classroom that guides your instruction by monitoring student progress? This session explains the purpose of various assessments and how you can use them wisely and efficiently. You will leave with a clearer idea of what you need, why you need it, and how to get it done!
Day 2
– Gaming Grammar: How to Transfer Grammar to Student Writing
– Building Text Sets to Impact Background Knowledge
– All Tiered Up: Explicit Vocabulary Instruction
Grades 4-12
Day 1
– Tackling Complex Text
– Structured Literacy in the Tier 1 Classroom
– Using Ourselves As Sources
Day 2
– Gaming Grammar: How to Transfer Grammar into Student Writing
– The Reading-Writing Connection: Strategies that Develop Critical Thought and the Written Message
– Let’s Smackdown! Using Critical Thought with Academic Language
– Using Ourselves As Sources
K-3 – Register Here | 4-12 – Register Here
English Learners
- Day 1
- – Families as Partners: Teaching and Engaging Our Culturally and Linguistically Diverse
- – Teaching English Learners across Content Areas: Strategies & Instructional Practices
- – Cooperative Learning Strategies: Total Participation Techniques
- Day 2
- – Boosting Achievement with SLIFE
- – Let Them Talk: Developing Academic Language through Structured Conversations
- – Explicit Vocabulary Instruction
Fine Arts
These sessions will cover a variety of topics within the visual art and music realms. These may include virtual teaching and resources, multi-disciplinary instruction, and STEM as it relates to the arts.
Leadership
The purpose of this two-day session is to build capacity among participants in the areas of:
-Culture and climate development
-Instructional leadership
-Using data for goal setting
-Stakeholder communication and engagement strategies
Participants will have access to template-style resources and activities for further customization and implementation.
Math
Five Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions for supporting Mathematical Mindsets
School Counseling
How to implement a comprehensive school counseling program, both at the elementary and secondary levels. Resources and tools addressing the career, academic, and social-emotional domains will be featured.
Goddard – June 21-22, 2022
CTE
Do you need a crash course on CTE? Day 1 will include a comprehensive CTE 101. Topics include CTE framework, developing quality pathways, Career and Technical Student Organizations (CTSO), partnerships, CTE Pathway data, Perkins, fiscal auditing, policy and combining CTE courses. Day 2 will focus on Individual Plans of Study (IPS) and Work-Based Learning (WBL).
Early Childhood
Day 1:
9:40am-12:00pm – Giving Centers a Purpose in a Pre-K Classroom
Every preschool classroom has centers for children to explore. This session will address how to intentionally plan those centers to maximize student learning. Participants will leave with strategies to assist them in the immediate implementation of such careers
1:00pm-4:00pm – Understanding Tough Behaviors in Early Childhood
We will discuss some of the brain science behind tough behaviors and the best ways for teachers to support their classrooms with these tough behaviors in them.
Day 2:
9:00am-12:00pm – Building Early Language and Literacy
Learn how to provide intentional activities, instruction, supports, and play to develop early language and literacy in your early childhood programs.
1:00pm-3:00pm – Early Childhood Needs STEM Too!
Explore developmentally appropriate, learning-through-play ways to explore STEM in early childhood.
ELA/Dyslexia
Grades K-3
Title: Developing Strong Readers: Start with Language! (Melissa Brunner & Jeri Powers)
Description: Students entering school with strong oral language skills tend to learn how to read and write more easily than those with lower vocabulary and language. However, language development is frequently omitted from instructional practices, causing students to not achieve their full potential. This session will address critical information regarding developmental milestones in language, its connection to literacy and dyslexia, along with practical and powerful learning activities you can implement in your classroom.
Session 2:
Title: Literacy Assessments: How Can I Make them Meaningful in My Classroom? (Jeri Powers & Melissa Brunner)
Description: Screeners, Diagnostics, Progress Monitoring…so many types of assessments! How can you create a meaningful assessment system in your classroom that guides your instruction by monitoring student progress? This session explains the purpose of various assessments and how you can use them wisely and efficiently. You will leave with a clearer idea of what you need, why you need it, and how to get it done!
Day 2
– Gaming Grammar: How to Transfer Grammar into Student Writing
– Building Text Sets to Impact Background Knowledge
– All Tiered Up: Explicit Vocabulary Instruction
Grades 4-12
Day 1
– Tackling Complex Text
– Structured Literacy in the Tier 1 Classroom
– Using Ourselves As Sources
Day 2
– Gaming Grammar: How to Transfer Grammar into Student Writing
– The Reading-Writing Connection: Strategies that Develop Critical Thought and the Written Message
– Let’s Smackdown! Using Critical Thought with Academic Language
– Using Ourselves As Sources
K-3 – Register Here | 4-12 – Register Here
English Learners
- Day 1
- – Families as Partners: Teaching and Engaging Our Culturally and Linguistically Diverse
- – Teaching English Learners across Content Areas: Strategies & Instructional Practices
- – Cooperative Learning Strategies: Total Participation Techniques
- Day 2
- – Boosting Achievement with SLIFE
- – Let Them Talk: Developing Academic Language through Structured Conversations
- – Explicit Vocabulary Instruction
Fine Arts
These sessions will cover a variety of topics within the visual art and music realms. These may include virtual teaching and resources, multi-disciplinary instruction, and STEM as it relates to the arts.
Health & PE
Physical Education teaching methods and activities – standards-based and competency-focused for all grade levels. The sessions will be very interactive and focus on implementation-ready strategies.
HGSS
Day 1: Content and Pedagogical Resources and Best Practices
Day 2: Engaging students through meaningful activities, Lesson Buffet and Networking, and the CBA
Math
Five Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions for supporting Mathematical Mindsets
School Counseling
How to implement a comprehensive school counseling program, both at the elementary and secondary levels. Resources and tools addressing the career, academic, and social-emotional domains will be featured.
Science
Science Sense – Making Storylines as a Sequence for the Standards
Social Emotional
How to implement evidence-based SEL in both the elementary and secondary levels. Current trends, statutory requirements and evidence-based climate and culture resources and tools will be shared.
Special Education
Meeting the Standards through Differentiated Instruction
In this professional learning opportunity, both general educators and special education providers will learn what differentiation is and is not. Through case study analysis, participants will practice a retrofit approach to differentiation by identifying mismatches and barriers based on a learner’s strengths, background knowledge, cultural experiences, interests, learning preferences and needs. You will see examples of how to proactively differentiate content and materials, products and assessments, and processes of learning.
You will make connections to the Universal Design for Learning framework and have an opportunity to complete a culminating task that will be co-designed with the session facilitator. Shonda Anderson, Lead State Trainer and Coaching Coordinator for Kansas TASN Co-Teaching Project will facilitate on both days.
Session Learning Targets:
· Develop a personal rationale for providing differentiated instruction through the lenses of equity, diversity and inclusion,
· Analyze the design elements involved in two approaches to differentiation,
· Practice both a Retrofit and a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) approach to differentiation, and
· Practice using design elements to integrate whole class, group, and individualized instructional strategies to meet the needs of diverse learners.
World Languages
“Focus on Communication” – The communication standard is the hub of the five standards. When teachers focus on providing opportunities for students to communicate in the three modes, the other four standards of interdisciplinary connections, community, culture, and comparisons integrate themselves naturally into lessons and units. Teachers will learn how to use discussion strategies, reading strategies, and writing strategies in the world language classroom to encourage target language production and make communicative language teaching happen.
Garden City – July 12-13, 2022
CTE
Do you need a crash course on CTE? Day 1 will include a comprehensive CTE 101. Topics include CTE framework, developing quality pathways, Career and Technical Student Organizations (CTSO), partnerships, CTE Pathway data, Perkins, fiscal auditing, policy and combining CTE courses. Day 2 will focus on Individual Plans of Study (IPS) and Work-Based Learning (WBL).
Early Childhood
Day 1:
9:40am-12:00pm – Giving Centers a Purpose in a Pre-K Classroom
Every preschool classroom has centers for children to explore. This session will address how to intentionally plan those centers to maximize student learning. Participants will leave with strategies to assist them in the immediate implementation of such careers
1:00pm-4:00pm – Understanding Tough Behaviors in Early Childhood
We will discuss some of the brain science behind tough behaviors and the best ways for teachers to support their classrooms with these tough behaviors in them.
Day 2:
9:00am-12:00pm – Building Early Language and Literacy
Learn how to provide intentional activities, instruction, supports, and play to develop early language and literacy in your early childhood programs.
1:00pm-3:00pm – Early Childhood Needs STEM Too!
Explore developmentally appropriate, learning-through-play ways to explore STEM in early childhood.
ELA/Dyslexia
Grades K-3
Title: Developing Strong Readers: Start with Language! (Melissa Brunner & Jeri Powers)
Description: Students entering school with strong oral language skills tend to learn how to read and write more easily than those with lower vocabulary and language. However, language development is frequently omitted from instructional practices, causing students to not achieve their full potential. This session will address critical information regarding developmental milestones in language, its connection to literacy and dyslexia, along with practical and powerful learning activities you can implement in your classroom.
Session 2:
Title: Literacy Assessments: How Can I Make them Meaningful in My Classroom? (Jeri Powers & Melissa Brunner)
Description: Screeners, Diagnostics, Progress Monitoring…so many types of assessments! How can you create a meaningful assessment system in your classroom that guides your instruction by monitoring student progress? This session explains the purpose of various assessments and how you can use them wisely and efficiently. You will leave with a clearer idea of what you need, why you need it, and how to get it done!
Day 2
– Gaming Grammar: How to Transfer Grammar into Student Writing
– Building Text Sets to Impact Background Knowledge
– All Tiered Up: Explicit Vocabulary Instruction
Grades 4-12
Day 1
– Tackling Complex Text
– Structured Literacy in the Tier 1 Classroom
– Using Ourselves As Sources
Day 2
– Gaming Grammar: How to Transfer Grammar into Student Writing
– The Reading-Writing Connection: Strategies that Develop Critical Thought and the Written Message
– Let’s Smackdown! Using Critical Thought with Academic Language
– Using Ourselves As Sources
K-3 – Register Here | 4-12 – Register Here
English Learners
- Day 1
- – Families as Partners: Teaching and Engaging Our Culturally and Linguistically Diverse
- – Teaching English Learners across Content Areas: Strategies & Instructional Practices
- – Cooperative Learning Strategies: Total Participation Techniques
- Day 2
- – Boosting Achievement with SLIFE
- – Let Them Talk: Developing Academic Language through Structured Conversations
- – Explicit Vocabulary Instruction
Fine Arts
These sessions will cover a variety of topics within the visual art and music realms. These may include virtual teaching and resources, multi-disciplinary instruction, and STEM as it relates to the arts.
Health & PE
Physical Education teaching methods and activities – standards-based and competency-focused for all grade levels. The sessions will be very interactive and focus on implementation-ready strategies.
HGSS
Day 1: Content and Pedagogical Resources and Best Practices
Day 2: Engaging students through meaningful activities, Lesson Buffet and Networking, and the CBA
Math
Five Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions for supporting Mathematical Mindsets
School Counseling
How to implement a comprehensive school counseling program, both at the elementary and secondary levels. Resources and tools addressing the career, academic, and social-emotional domains will be featured.
Science
Science Sense – Making Storylines as a Sequence for the Standards
Social Emotional
How to implement evidence-based SEL in both the elementary and secondary levels. Current trends, statutory requirements and evidence-based climate and culture resources and tools will be shared.
Special Education
Meeting the Standards through Differentiated Instruction
In this professional learning opportunity, both general educators and special education providers will learn what differentiation is and is not. Through case study analysis, participants will practice a retrofit approach to differentiation by identifying mismatches and barriers based on a learner’s strengths, background knowledge, cultural experiences, interests, learning preferences and needs. You will see examples of how to proactively differentiate content and materials, products and assessments, and processes of learning.
You will make connections to the Universal Design for Learning framework and have an opportunity to complete a culminating task that will be co-designed with the session facilitator. Shonda Anderson, Lead State Trainer and Coaching Coordinator for Kansas TASN Co-Teaching Project will facilitate on both days.
Session Learning Targets:
· Develop a personal rationale for providing differentiated instruction through the lenses of equity, diversity and inclusion,
· Analyze the design elements involved in two approaches to differentiation,
· Practice both a Retrofit and a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) approach to differentiation, and
· Practice using design elements to integrate whole class, group, and individualized instructional strategies to meet the needs of diverse learners.
World Languages
“Focus on Communication” – The communication standard is the hub of the five standards. When teachers focus on providing opportunities for students to communicate in the three modes, the other four standards of interdisciplinary connections, community, culture, and comparisons integrate themselves naturally into lessons and units. Teachers will learn how to use discussion strategies, reading strategies, and writing strategies in the world language classroom to encourage target language production and make communicative language teaching happen.
Online – July 19-20, 2022
CTE
Do you need a crash course on CTE? Day 1 will include a comprehensive CTE 101. Topics include CTE framework, developing quality pathways, Career and Technical Student Organizations (CTSO), partnerships, CTE Pathway data, Perkins, fiscal auditing, policy and combining CTE courses. Day 2 will focus on Individual Plans of Study (IPS) and Work-Based Learning (WBL).
Early Childhood
Day 1:
9:40am-12:00pm – Giving Centers a Purpose in a Pre-K Classroom
Every preschool classroom has centers for children to explore. This session will address how to intentionally plan those centers to maximize student learning. Participants will leave with strategies to assist them in the immediate implementation of such careers
1:00pm-4:00pm – Understanding Tough Behaviors in Early Childhood
We will discuss some of the brain science behind tough behaviors and the best ways for teachers to support their classrooms with these tough behaviors in them.
Day 2:
9:00am-12:00pm – Building Early Language and Literacy
Learn how to provide intentional activities, instruction, supports, and play to develop early language and literacy in your early childhood programs.
1:00pm-3:00pm – Early Childhood Needs STEM Too!
Explore developmentally appropriate, learning-through-play ways to explore STEM in early childhood.
ELA/Dyslexia
Grades K-3
Title: Developing Strong Readers: Start with Language! (Melissa Brunner & Jeri Powers)
Description: Students entering school with strong oral language skills tend to learn how to read and write more easily than those with lower vocabulary and language. However, language development is frequently omitted from instructional practices, causing students to not achieve their full potential. This session will address critical information regarding developmental milestones in language, its connection to literacy and dyslexia, along with practical and powerful learning activities you can implement in your classroom.
Session 2:
Title: Literacy Assessments: How Can I Make them Meaningful in My Classroom? (Jeri Powers & Melissa Brunner)
Description: Screeners, Diagnostics, Progress Monitoring…so many types of assessments! How can you create a meaningful assessment system in your classroom that guides your instruction by monitoring student progress? This session explains the purpose of various assessments and how you can use them wisely and efficiently. You will leave with a clearer idea of what you need, why you need it, and how to get it done!
Day 2
– Gaming Grammar: How to Transfer Grammar into Student Writing
– Building Text Sets to Impact Background Knowledge
– All Tiered Up: Explicit Vocabulary Instruction
Grades 4-12
Day 1
– Tackling Complex Text
– Structured Literacy in the Tier 1 Classroom
– Using Ourselves As Sources
Day 2
– Gaming Grammar: How to Transfer Grammar into Student Writing
– The Reading-Writing Connection: Strategies that Develop Critical Thought and the Written Message
– Let’s Smackdown! Using Critical Thought with Academic Language
– Using Ourselves As Sources
K-3 – Register Here | 4-12 – Register Here
English Learners
- Day 1
- – Families as Partners: Teaching and Engaging Our Culturally and Linguistically Diverse
- – Teaching English Learners across Content Areas: Strategies & Instructional Practices
- – Cooperative Learning Strategies: Total Participation Techniques
- Day 2
- – Boosting Achievement with SLIFE
- – Let Them Talk: Developing Academic Language through Structured Conversations
- – Explicit Vocabulary Instruction
Fine Arts
These sessions will cover a variety of topics within the visual art and music realms. These may include virtual teaching and resources, multi-disciplinary instruction, and STEM as it relates to the arts.
Health & PE
Physical Education teaching methods and activities – standards-based and competency-focused for all grade levels. The sessions will be very interactive and focus on implementation-ready strategies.
HGSS
Day 1: Content and Pedagogical Resources and Best Practices
Day 2: Engaging students through meaningful activities, Lesson Buffet and Networking, and the CBA
Leadership
The purpose of this 2-day session is to build capacity among participants in the areas of:
-Culture and climate development
- -Instructional leadership
- -Using data for goal setting
- -Stakeholder communication and engagement strategies
Participants will have access to template-style resources and activities for further customization and implementation.
Math
Five Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions for supporting Mathematical Mindsets
School Counseling
How to implement a comprehensive school counseling program, both at the elementary and secondary levels. Resources and tools addressing the career, academic, and social-emotional domains will be featured.
Science
Science Sense – Making Storylines as a Sequence for the Standards
Social Emotional
How to implement evidence-based SEL in both the elementary and secondary levels. Current trends, statutory requirements and evidence-based climate and culture resources and tools will be shared.
Special Education
Meeting the Standards through Differentiated Instruction
In this professional learning opportunity, both general educators and special education providers will learn what differentiation is and is not. Through case study analysis, participants will practice a retrofit approach to differentiation by identifying mismatches and barriers based on a learner’s strengths, background knowledge, cultural experiences, interests, learning preferences and needs. You will see examples of how to proactively differentiate content and materials, products and assessments, and processes of learning.
You will make connections to the Universal Design for Learning framework and have an opportunity to complete a culminating task that will be co-designed with the session facilitator. Shonda Anderson, Lead State Trainer and Coaching Coordinator for Kansas TASN Co-Teaching Project will facilitate on both days.
Session Learning Targets:
· Develop a personal rationale for providing differentiated instruction through the lenses of equity, diversity and inclusion,
· Analyze the design elements involved in two approaches to differentiation,
· Practice both a Retrofit and a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) approach to differentiation, and
· Practice using design elements to integrate whole class, group, and individualized instructional strategies to meet the needs of diverse learners.
World Languages
“Focus on Communication” – The communication standard is the hub of the five standards. When teachers focus on providing opportunities for students to communicate in the three modes, the other four standards of interdisciplinary connections, community, culture, and comparisons integrate themselves naturally into lessons and units. Teachers will learn how to use discussion strategies, reading strategies, and writing strategies in the world language classroom to encourage target language production and make communicative language teaching happen.
By Topic
CTE
Do you need a crash course on CTE? Day 1 will include a comprehensive CTE 101. Topics include CTE framework, developing quality pathways, Career and Technical Student Organizations (CTSO), partnerships, CTE Pathway data, Perkins, fiscal auditing, policy and combining CTE courses. Day 2 will focus on Individual Plans of Study (IPS) and Work-Based Learning (WBL).
Garden City | Goddard | Manhattan | Online
Early Childhood
Day 1:
9:40am-12:00pm – Giving Centers a Purpose in a Pre-K Classroom
Every preschool classroom has centers for children to explore. This session will address how to intentionally plan those centers to maximize student learning. Participants will leave with strategies to assist them in the immediate implementation of such careers
1:00pm-4:00pm – Understanding Tough Behaviors in Early Childhood
We will discuss some of the brain science behind tough behaviors and the best ways for teachers to support their classrooms with these tough behaviors in them.
Day 2:
9:00am-12:00pm – Building Early Language and Literacy
Learn how to provide intentional activities, instruction, supports, and play to develop early language and literacy in your early childhood programs.
1:00pm-3:00pm – Early Childhood Needs STEM Too!
Explore developmentally appropriate, learning-through-play ways to explore STEM in early childhood.
Garden City | Goddard | Manhattan | Online
ELA/Dyslexia
Grades K-3
Title: Developing Strong Readers: Start with Language! (Melissa Brunner & Jeri Powers)
Description: Students entering school with strong oral language skills tend to learn how to read and write more easily than those with lower vocabulary and language. However, language development is frequently omitted from instructional practices, causing students to not achieve their full potential. This session will address critical information regarding developmental milestones in language, its connection to literacy and dyslexia, along with practical and powerful learning activities you can implement in your classroom.
Session 2:
Title: Literacy Assessments: How Can I Make them Meaningful in My Classroom? (Jeri Powers & Melissa Brunner)
Description: Screeners, Diagnostics, Progress Monitoring…so many types of assessments! How can you create a meaningful assessment system in your classroom that guides your instruction by monitoring student progress? This session explains the purpose of various assessments and how you can use them wisely and efficiently. You will leave with a clearer idea of what you need, why you need it, and how to get it done!
Day 2
– Gaming Grammar: How to Transfer Grammar into Student Writing
– Building Text Sets to Impact Background Knowledge
– All Tiered Up: Explicit Vocabulary Instruction
Grades 4-12
Day 1
– Tackling Complex Text
– Structured Literacy in the Tier 1 Classroom
– Using Ourselves As Sources
Day 2
– Gaming Grammar: How to Transfer Grammar into Student Writing
– The Reading-Writing Connection: Strategies that Develop Critical Thought and the Written Message
– Let’s Smackdown! Using Critical Thought with Academic Language
– Using Ourselves As Sources
Garden City
Goddard
Manhattan
Online
English Learners
- Day 1
- – Families as Partners: Teaching and Engaging Our Culturally and Linguistically Diverse
- – Teaching English Learners across Content Areas: Strategies & Instructional Practices
- – Cooperative Learning Strategies: Total Participation Techniques
- Day 2
- – Boosting Achievement with SLIFE
- – Let Them Talk: Developing Academic Language through Structured Conversations
- – Explicit Vocabulary Instruction
Garden City | Goddard | Manhattan | Online
Fine Arts
Visual Arts & Music: These sessions will cover a variety of topics within the visual art and music realms. These may include virtual
teaching and resources, multi-disciplinary instruction, and STEM as it relates to the arts.
Garden City | Goddard | Manhattan | Online
Health & PE
Physical Education teaching methods and activities – standards-based & competency-focused for all grade levels. The sessions will be very interactive and focus on implementation-ready strategies.
Garden City | Goddard | Online
HGSS
Day 1: Content and Pedagogical Resources and Best Practices
Day 2: Engaging students through meaningful activities, Lesson Buffet and Networking, and the CBA
Garden City | Goddard | Online
Leadership
The purpose of this 2-day session is to build capacity among participants in the areas of:
-Culture and climate development
- -Instructional leadership
- -Using data for goal setting
- -Stakeholder communication and engagement strategies
Participants will have access to template-style resources and activities for further customization and implementation.
Math
5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions for supporting Mathematical Mindsets
School Counseling
How to implement a comprehensive school counseling program, both at the elementary and secondary levels. Resources and tools addressing the career, academic, and social-emotional domains will be featured.
Garden City | Goddard | Manhattan | Online
Science
Social Emotional
How to implement evidenced-based SEL in both the elementary and secondary levels. Current trends, statutory requirements and evidenced-based climate and culture resources and tools will be shared.
Garden City | Goddard | Online
World Languages
“Focus on Communication” – The communication standard is the hub of the five standards. When teachers focus on providing opportunities for students to communicate in the three modes, the other four standards of interdisciplinary connections, community, culture, and comparisons integrate themselves naturally into lessons and units. Teachers will learn how to use discussion strategies, reading strategies, and writing strategies in the world language classroom to encourage target language production and make communicative language.
Garden City | Goddard | Online
Special Education
Meeting the Standards through Differentiated Instruction
In this professional learning opportunity, both general educators and special education providers will learn what differentiation is and is not. Through case study analysis, participants will practice a retrofit approach to differentiation by identifying mismatches and barriers based on a learner’s strengths, background knowledge, cultural experiences, interests, learning preferences and needs. You will see examples of how to proactively differentiate content and materials, products and assessments, and processes of learning.
You will make connections to the Universal Design for Learning framework and have an opportunity to complete a culminating task that will be co-designed with the session facilitator. Shonda Anderson, Lead State Trainer and Coaching Coordinator for Kansas TASN Co-Teaching Project will facilitate on both days.
Session Learning Targets:
· Develop a personal rationale for providing differentiated instruction through the lenses of equity, diversity and inclusion,
· Analyze the design elements involved in two approaches to differentiation,
· Practice both a Retrofit and a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) approach to differentiation, and
· Practice using design elements to integrate whole class, group, and individualized instructional strategies to meet the needs of diverse learners.
Garden City | Goddard | Online