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- Making Magic in the Inclusive Classroom
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Facing the daily challenges of today's diverse classrooms can seem daunting. This interactive workshop will provide teachers with strategies essential for meeting the learning needs of all students while creating positive, inclusive environments that are nurturing and success-oriented for students. Learn how to create classrooms that are sensitive to diverse colors, cultures, languages, learning styles and ability levels. Discover dozens of successful strategies that work with academically diverse students. Learn how to improve cooperative learning groups, encourage motivation and set high standards for achievement.
- Engaging Classroom Assessments
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Teachers need the tools to inspire student learning that results in improved achievement. Standards-based assessment is an effective means to improve student performance in the classroom and on high stakes standardized tests. In this seminar, you will create a standards-based assessment for immediate use in the classroom.
Participants will:- Understand the critical content and skills in the academic content standards
- Discover clarity of what students must know and be able to do to
- More effectively plan instruction and assessments
- Learn strategies for aligning instruction and assessment to standards
- Designing Common Formative Assessments
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Common Formative Assessments are periodic or interim assessments, collaboratively designed by grade-level or course teams of teachers, and administered to all students in a grade level or course several times during the quarter, semester, trimester, or entire school year. Designed as matching pre- and post-assessments to ensure same-assessment to same-assessment comparisons, they are similar in design and format to district and state assessments. Common formative assessment items are intentionally aligned to essential standards only and reflect a blend of item types, including selected-response (multiple choice, true/false, matching) and constructed-response (short- or extended). Participating teachers analyze student assessment results in Data Teams to plan and differentiate instruction. Such results provide predictive value as to how students are likely to do on each succeeding assessment (school, district, and state) in time for teachers to make instructional modifications.
- Developing a Framework for 21st Century Learning
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Attending this workshop will provide teachers and administrators with a toolkit of resources to enhance curriculum and instruction programs by integrating 21st century skills into every aspect of teaching, learning and administration. Participants will explore research-based strategies to restructure their instruction, assessment, and administrative program so that students develop as inquisitive and disciplined thinkers.
- Is RTI Just One More Acronym?
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Learn how to incorporate practical strategies into your RtI Action Plan. Find ways to accommodate different learning styles and modalities. Understand how to use pre-assessments to determine individual student strengths and weaknesses. Discover the benefits of formative assessments to assess and monitor the effect of each strategy on individual achievement. Educators leave armed with strategies, interventions and easy-to-use Progress Monitoring Forms they can use immediately.
- Literacy is NOT a Spectator Sport!
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Many students enter the Language Arts block as passive learners waiting for the teacher to do all of the work. This interactive session provides instructional strategies and tools to wake up those reluctant learners! Experience practical strategies to make informational and fictional text come alive for students. Learn effective comprehension strategies that empower and excite readers. Ways to motivate struggling readers will be shared. Don't miss out!
- Math Is Moving Up
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Are you concerned about the increased expectations and rigor for students in mathematics? This workshop will provide teachers with the tools they need to enhance instruction and ensure that every student exceeds all mathematics standards! Teachers will leave this workshop with instructional strategies that inspire student learning and reach even the most challenging learners.
- The New Three R’s
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The growing enthusiasm for the new three R’s is a result of wide recognition that a commitment to rigor, relevance, and relationships, is an effective approach to school improvement that fosters student engagement, and challenges students to stretch their learning and develop lifelong skills. Our custom designed workshops will describe the leadership skills and approaches necessary to develop a school culture that embraces rigor and relevance, as well as strong relationships between students and adults and among students.
- Building Student Academic Knowledge
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Everyone knows that students from disadvantaged backgrounds, who are not well prepared for school, have the toughest time making the grade. But what hasn’t been so clear is what schools can do about it … until now. This workshop spells out how to overcome the deficiencies that hamper the achievement of so many students. Learn why insufficient background knowledge is a chronic cause of low achievement, and discover how a carefully structured combination of two approaches – sustained silent reading and instruction in subject-specific vocabulary – can help rescue low achievers and boost the academic performance of all students.
- Designing Assessments that Energize & Inspire Students and Teachers
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Assessments are often the last part of the teaching cycle. This informative workshop will prove the value of “beginning with the end in mind.” Teachers will focus on state standards and design assessment items aligned to the essential skills, knowledge and processes outlined in the Virginia Standards of Learning Curriculum Framework.
- Differentiating Instruction
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This highly interactive session will provide educators with tools to improve the achievement of ALL learners. Research-based strategies will be shared and modeled.
- Mining for Diamonds in the Rough
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This high energy workshop will provide participants with research-based instructional strategies that will reach and teach the most challenging students. This is a must see!
- What’s Data Have to Do With It?
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This interactive session will demonstrate the power of using data to inform instruction. Participants will receive practical information and knowledge in helping them move from “teach, test, and hope for the best” to using data to inform instruction.
