Harnessing the Power of MTSS to Provide Academic and SEL Supports While Accelerating Learning

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GRADES:

K-12

MTSS: Instruction, Intervention, and Implementation Part 3

Part 3 "Sustaining Your MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Supports) Process with Grace and Grit” The power and promise of this process is dependent on strong collaboration and shared leadership focused on the MTSS process. This webinar will assist school leaders and others in their efforts to sustain a strong system of supports for students. Participants will consider identifying Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions as well as building a viable schedule including regular intervention times. Through selecting key data team personnel, schools will be able to increase educator capacity that will improve teaching and learning.

GRADES:

K-12

Integrating Social and Emotional Learning with Reading and Writing to Support Students in Expressing Themselves

Addressing the needs of students is most effectively accomplished when educators integrate social emotional learning with academic content.

GRADES:

K-8

Realign: Working Smarter Not Harder

Based on what you already know to be the foundations for high-quality instruction, join a discussion on how to streamline your efforts in order to work smarter, not harder. Educators will be encouraged to engage in a mindset shift that will benefit themselves and their students. Explore a framework to help each learner recover lost ground and make academic progress for the upcoming school year.

GRADES:

K-12

Becoming More Sensitive in your Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices

Culturally Responsive teaching and gender justice connects students' cultures, languages, and life experiences with what they learn in school. This workshop explores culture and gender justice in order to help educators focus on the best practices and relationship building needed to make learning relevant for all students.

GRADES:

K-12

Becoming More Sensitive in Your Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices

Culturally Responsive teaching and gender justice connects students' cultures, languages, and life experiences with what they learn in school. This workshop explores culture and gender justice in order to help educators focus on the best practices and relationship building needed to make learning relevant for all students.

GRADES:

6-12

Look Fors in a Math Class - Standards for Mathematical Practice

Develop a mathematical eye for observing a math class, regardless of the course level or advanced mathematical content. Are your students active mathematicians in math class? Are your students using the Mathematical Practice Standards to access the content standards, such as explicitly justifying their solution strategies? Explore the practice standards; understand their importance for exploring mathematical relationships; and assess instruction based on what students are doing during their math class using a specific walk-through tool; align these observations with your district selected evaluation tool, such as Danielson. Take away a walk-through tool created using Google Forms for observing a math class which will provide evidence to guide future professional development with your teachers.

GRADES:

K-8

Getting Started with Guided Math Workshop

Develop an instructional framework for your math block which uses quick readiness assessments to provide small group instruction. Differentiated instruction is the ‘bread and butter’ of this instructional model and supports all students in the classroom, regardless of a background or ability.

GRADES:

K-8

Enhancing Instructional Strategies to Meet The Needs of ALL Students

Discover specific instructional strategies that address the needs of all learners, regardless of varying levels. Included in the discussion will be strategies specific to subject, classroom configuration and its effect on differentiation, and what teachers can do to better address each student's needs. Strategies that will be explored include: Utilizing real-world problems as an instructional tool to reach all students as well as conferencing with an individual student on writing and reading, and the extraordinary benefits of this time with them.

GRADES:

3-12

The Socratic Method: Using Meaningful Conversations in the Classroom

Discussion, now more than ever, is a valuable inquiry based practice allowing students to make meaning from their learning. This collaborative practice yields higher level thinking, increases student engagement, and reinforces powerful social-emotional skills. As teachers, we build safe classroom cultures cultivated in curiosity through the Socratic method. Rich classroom discussions doesn't just happen. They develop when teachers utilize the strategies found in the Socratic method.

GRADES:

3-8

Utilizing Formative Assessments in STEM Classrooms

During this interactive workshop participants will learn various methods of formative assessment strategies to check for understanding and provide students with effective feedback.

GRADES:

6-12

Developing Learning Targets and Success Criteria for Science Classrooms

During this workshop participants will learn how to create learning targets for students to take ownership of their learning as well as indicators for success to develop student agency and self-directed learners.

GRADES:

6-12

Classroom Strategies to Increase Student Engagement

During this workshop participants will learn new techniques and strategies to increase student participation in the classroom. The goal of this workshop is to allow participants to develop and design lessons that will include techniques to have students do as much of the cognitive work as possible during instruction.

GRADES:

6-12

Refine: Transforming Your Instruction from Good to Great

Educators are responsible for empowering students to be autonomous. Students gain confidence in taking risks when they visibly see their own learning and are provided authentic feedback in real time. While educators are challenged to find ways to now make learning visible at any time and from any location, it is difficult to find a balance between how to hold students accountable in a digital arena, that can often feel isolating, with ensuring students are prepared with the ability to succeed in a social and collaborative 21st century. Educators will explore the connection between formative assessments and strong learning targets, in addition to participating in example assessments that can be used to make learning visible anytime, anywhere. Furthermore, participants will leave with a skeleton for effective feedback that can be transferred and used by students to benefit their peers.

GRADES:

K-12

Making Learning Visual Anytime, Anywhere

Educators are responsible for empowering students to be autonomous. Students gain confidence in taking risks when they visibly see their own learning and are provided authentic feedback in real time. While educators are challenged to find ways to now make learning visible at anytime and from any location, it is difficult to find a balance between how to hold students accountable in a digital arena, that can often feel isolating, with ensuring students are prepared with the ability to succeed in a social and collaborative 21st century. Educators will explore the connection between formative assessments and strong learning targets, in addition to participating in example assessments that can be used to make learning visible anytime, anywhere. Furthermore, participants will leave with a skeleton for effective feedback that can be transferred and used by students to benefit their peers.

GRADES:

4-8

Special Education Engagement and Success

Engagement is key to learning success for all students. Creativity can help bring fun and success into the classroom, improving engagement and outcomes for all students. In this webinar, we will explore

GRADES:

K-8

K-8 Special Ed Teachers, Administrators, Paraprofessionals

Engagement is key to learning success for all students. Creativity can help bring fun and success into the classroom, improving engagement and outcomes for all students. In this webinar, we will explore various techniques to engage students so that they experience success while making meaning of concepts and practicing essential skills.

GRADES:

K-8

Positively Mindful Social Emotional Learning for School Leaders

Ensuring that teachers understand and actively practice their own self-care strategies is a critical component in safeguarding and developing the social emotional competencies of their students. While there has been considerable research and attention focused on the positive impact of social-emotional learning (SEL) skills for students, equal consideration must be given to the social-emotional development of the educators responsible for teaching and modeling these skills.

Educators who develop their own individual social emotional skills not only improve their own well-being, but also demonstrate the ability to cultivate strong relationships, manage stress more effectively, and improve the academic growth of their students.

GRADES:

K-5,

7-12

Ten Tools for Making Thinking Visible

Giving students opportunities to think by questioning, challenging, exploring, and solving problems is an essential life skill. It also helps students understand content more deeply and make connections. Visible Thinking Routines, developed by Harvard’s Project Zero researchers, give us ways we can teach our students how to make their thinking visible.

GRADES:

K-12

Let’s Co-Teach- Developing Effective Practices to Support ALL Students

How can we best meet all our students’ learning needs in a co-teaching model? In this workshop general and special education teacher will explore the key factors and models of successful co-teaching. Through engaging activities around effective practices and tools of collaboration, participants will shift their thinking in the most formidable way!

GRADES:

K-12

Curating Your "Just in Time" Early Literacy Toolkit

How do we recover from learning loss in our earliest grades this past school year? Here is a solution!

GRADES:

K-3

Increase Your Students’ Success on Math Assessments

How do you as an educator take the next steps to move from overwhelming data and standards-based instruction to meaningful, appropriate, do-able assessments?

How can in-class quizzes and tests help students grow from success with traditional, familiar tasks, to success with the rigor and format of state assessments?

In these workshops you will experience NJSLS/PARCC-like assessments, investigate a wealth of resources, and learn how to coordinate tests that will assess students as you help them move comfortably from the traditional to master “newer” expectations.

GRADES:

K-12

Lifting the Level of Student Reading/Writing Proficiency through Powerful Conferring

If we want to make a significant impact on our students’ reading and writing lives- conferring is where the rubber meets the road. It is at the core of differentiating instruction and that is vital for all students. Conferring with students, providing formative feedback and leaning in with a teaching move are powerfully effective and essential ways to bring about quality reading and writing proficiency in a individualized manner.

GRADES:

K-8

Differentiate Instruction In Math: “It’s Not As Hard As You Think!”

In many districts students and parents are now permitted to select the course-level of their choice, even if it is not the student’s recommended placement. Teachers are faced with new challenges. How can we, as caring, dedicated professional educators, teach students at different levels of understanding and backgrounds at the same time? Can we realistically meet the needs of each student?

In these workshops, we will review the latest research with appropriate course level content. Teachers will experience a range of effective instructional and learning strategies and specific activities to keep ALL students motivated, engaged, learning and succeeding. Yes, we can meet their needs.

GRADES:

3-12

Implementing an Instructional Rounds Framework to Enhance Teacher Practice Interaction and Self-Reflection

In this full day workshop, participants obtain a thorough understanding of the principles, protocols and processes of instructional round as developed by Dr. Richard Filmore and his team at Harvard University. Participants will learn how to initiate collaborative inquiry with all stakeholders in identifying the “Problem of Practice” and implement an instructional rounds framework that has a direct impact on teacher effectiveness and student learning.

GRADES:

K-12

Increasing Student Engagement for All Students by Integrating the Eight Standards for Mathematical Practices

Increase student engagement in your math class by explicitly using the Standards for Mathematical Practices to develop your students’ daily habits of mind to become active mathematicians. Explore the eight practice standards and research-based engagement strategies which work in any math class; integrate these process standards into your daily instruction and empower students to self assess their own progress.

GRADES:

K-12

State Mandated Dyslexia Workshop for K-2 Educators

Learn everything about what dyslexia is and is not to understanding the NJ regulations and requirements of dyslexia as well as identifying the “look for’ , recognizing dyslexic behaviors and having a toolkit of interventions at the core instructional level will be thoroughly discussed

GRADES:

K-2

Mindful Literacy

Mindful literacy is a simple concept with profound implications for literacy, learning and life. It is the application and use of mindful strategies to improve attention, focus and self-regulation to improve a reader's engagement with text and the application of reading and writing strategies. Mindful literacy supports a more immersive, present moment experience, deeper reading comprehension, and more authentic, creative, and thoughtful writing.

One of the most fundamental aspects of learning is the ability to focus and be present. This is, of course, true for all content areas, however, critically important in the areas of reading and writing. The simple act of slowing down alone changes the experience for the reader. This is a process of quiet reflection that requires mindful attentiveness, a skill that can be taught, practiced, and developed. This allows the reader to be fully present with the text. The simple act of slowing down alone changes the experience for the reader. This allows the reader to be fully present with the text.

We have found that this allows the reader to have a calm awareness, creating a more immersive experience, deeper reading and comprehension and more authentic, creative, and thoughtful writing. When students are taught the art of attention, they build executive functioning to maintain focus on the task at hand. Research indicates that mindfulness and social emotional learning are significant factors in academic success. A 2013 study found that mindfulness practice helped students raise their reading comprehension scores 16 percent, as well as build working memory and limiting distracting thoughts. (Mrazek et al., 2013)

GRADES:

K-12

Mindfulness for You and Your Students

Mindfulness is the ability to pay attention, on purpose, non-judgmentally, in the present moment. Mindfulness is a powerful tool that supports children in calming themselves, focusing their attention, and interacting effectively with others, all critical skills for functioning well in school and in life. Incorporating mindfulness into education has been linked to improving academic and social and emotional learning. Also, mindfulness strengthens some underlying development processes, such as focus, resilience, and attention that will help students in the long run.

GRADES:

K-12

Music and Well-Being

Music is all around us and is an integral part of our lives. When you hear your favorite song how does it make you feel? Teacher well-being is of paramount importance in helping them be at their very best for their students.

Music has the ability to inspire and motivate, lower stress, energize, activate memory, boost cognition, improve mood, and enhance performance.

GRADES:

K-12

Rethinking and Redesigning Science Teaching and Learning

New Jersey’s new science standards, based on the Next Generation Science Standards, calls for a three-dimensional approach to science teaching and learning with a focus on Science and Engineering Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Disciplinary Core Ideas.

The conceptual and instructional shifts identified in the new Standards will be discussed. A major segment of the workshop will focus on the Nature of Science, facilitating the NGSS practice of students asking their own questions, and integrating engineering into the science curriculum.

GRADES:

6-12

It’s All About Connection: Strategies and Resources for Paraprofessionals

Now more than ever, paraprofessionals are key components in meeting the needs of our students. Knowing students perform better if they are feeling understood, valued and cared for by the adults in the classroom, connection is a critical cornerstone in building safe and effective learning environments, even in the remote setting.

GRADES:

K-12

MTSS: Instruction, Intervention, and Implementation Part 2

Part 2 "Building the Instructional Core Using the MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Supports) Lens" This webinar will help you chart the course and navigate the MTSS process by applying principles outlined in the DOE Fidelity Implementation Rubric. Participants will focus on selecting assessments and universal screening tools, establishing data and leadership teams , examining data to determine students’ needs and curricular gaps and strengthening and fortifying the core and interventions in tier 2 and 3.

GRADES:

K-12

MTSS: Instruction, Intervention, and Implementation Part 1

Part 1 "Getting Started with MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Supports) in our New Learning Environment" This webinar will guide school districts as they develop and implement MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Supports) in the current learning environment. Participants will be introduced to the three tiers of an MTSS framework for academic and behavioral interventions. Participants will explore the key components and helpful tools of MTSS. They will learn how to examine your core instruction as well as identify current assessments and ways data is used to guide instructional practices.

GRADES:

K-12

Strengthening Student Relationships through Literacy Data Collection

Participants will explore the connection between reading and writing data and its ability to strengthen human connections. Educators will take a look at literacy sample data and discover ways to empower students to take risks and gain self-confidence

GRADES:

K-8

Positively Mindful Social Emotional Learning for Students

Positively Mindful Social Emotional Learning for Students actively introduces and explores developmentally appropriate social emotional competencies, mindfulness practices, positive psychology principles and concepts, and self-care strategies to enhance student well-being and support their academic learning and growth.

Mindfulness is the ability to pay attention, on purpose, non-judgmentally, in the present moment. It is a powerful tool that supports children in calming themselves, focusing their attention, and interacting effectively with others; all critical skills for functioning well in school and in life.

GRADES:

K-2/ 3-5/ 6-8/ 9-12 Programs

The ABCs of PBL: Authentic, Broaden, Construct

Project/Problem/Place-Based Learning has proven to be an engaging way for students to learn important life skills, content standards, and key concepts. What is PBL? How do you teach content standards through PBL? How do you assess students? What are some ways to make learning more authentic?

GRADES:

K-8

Text Evidence: The Root of Effective Writing

Reluctant middle school writers have been trending for decades. Many adolescents today enter middle school lacking the confidence of how to construct a strong paragraph, let alone a five-paragraph essay. In this workshop, educators will explore anchor lessons needed for your students to understand the purpose of their writing and develop their individual craft. Educators will take away best practices for how to encourage writing risks, increase writing stamina, and ensure student written responses are rooted in textual evidence.

GRADES:

6-8

Full S.T.E.A.M. Ahead : Integrating STEAM in the Hybrid Classroom

STEAM is an educational approach that uses Science, Technology, Engineering , the Arts, and Mathematics to guide student inquiry dialogue and thinking . This workshop will allow participants an opportunity to systematically plan hybrid, cross-curricular lessons that allow students to think through real worl problems and figure out the best solutions

GRADES:

K-8

Why are H.O.T.S so Hot for Teachers?
Higher Order Thinking/Questioning Skills

Shifting our thinking about the types of questions you want to ask your students will increase higher order thinking skills and make visible learning evident. In this workshop, learn how to model high quality questions, ask different types of questions (DOK Depths of Knowledge), that engages all learners, seek ways to foster questioning from your students, and practice developing high quality throughout your instruction

GRADES:

K-12