Recent scientific research is illuminating the differences in gender cognitive development. Based on the work of Michael Gurian, Richard Whitmire, Michael Thompson, Cordelia Fine and Leonard Sax, teachers will come to understand that most school practices reinforce how girls learn rather than boys. Consequently, boys make up the majority of our behavior problems, failures, and drop-outs. Practical, hands-on literacy strategies will be presented that promote instruction specifically for males, for females, and for both sexes. Detailed handouts will be provided.
Over the past six years, the National Center for Urban School Transformation has identified, celebrated, and studied many of the nation's highest performing urban schools. In this session, the Center's leaders will describe the nature of teaching and learning in these schools. Specifically, in these high-performing schools, we find eight practices that are used commonly. In contrast, these eight practices are far less common in urban schools that achieve typical academic results. In an interactive style, the presenters will share what instruction looks like in these outstanding schools.
In order to improve student learning, educators must be willing to reflect on and engage in difficult conversations about the true quality of current instruction. Participants will learn how two Title I schools collected data on teacher behavior and used it to develop responsive, ongoing, interactive professional development. Frequent monitoring and conversations characterized by an unrelenting focus on what’s best for students, insistence that educators accept responsibility for student learning, and pressure to change ineffective teaching practices were essential elements in the process.
This workshop will introduce nine resources that are essential for Title 1 advocates in navigating the road to success for your deeply struggling, under-resourced students. A careful examination of the “off ramps” and “on ramps” for student success will be discussed. Strategies to cultivate relational learning in your classroom and checklists for quickly assessing student resources will be shared. Innovation begins when you identify the resources that exist and build from students' strengths.
In 2011, statistics still indicate an extremely high Hispanic dropout rate. This workshop is for school staff who may be challenged to better reach and involve Hispanic parents, especially those who are economically disadvantaged. Key cultural aspects and simple strategies to move beyond the barriers to better engage and serve this community will be discussed. Basic elements of "Shake Up, Wake Up, Move Up!"-a motivational training to empower Hispanic parents to become accountable and take the lead with positive action in the home to increase their children’s success-will also be discussed.
Providing interventions for struggling students in mathematics requires a step-by-step instructional approach and the use of visual models. Visual models bridge the thinking between concrete and abstract. By coupling the visual models with direct, explicit instruction, the nature of intervention instruction is orchestrated. Come explore the complexities of intervention instruction through bridging thinking!
Learn how Napa Valley USD’s highly structured and layered implementation of RtI-including general-special education partnerships and technology-based instruction-dramatically reduced students requiring intensive intervention, and helped to close the achievement gap for ELLs and special needs students. Gain valuable insights into Napa’s success in reaching students with an “all-means-all” approach, layered professional development and accountability structures, and fidelity to its reading intervention program. This session enables you to clarify your goals and address your school/district’s reading gap.
AVID, Advancement Via Individual Determination, is an elementary through post-secondary college readiness system that is designed to increase school-wide learning and performance. Learn about AVID's key program elements: accelerated student learning, research-based methods of effective instruction, and meaningful professional development. See how AVID is helping students succeed in many high poverty Washington state schools.
Deprivatizing practice and sharing our best teachers is key to large scale change. In this presentation, we will show the ongoing work that Seattle is doing to build five model schools across our district that are open to teams of teachers and principals to visit and observe. Seattle's flagship model school is 80% low income, yet 82% of students are meeting state standards in 4th grade. With pictures, video, and discussion, we will show the structures, procedures, and training necessary for participants to build top-notch lab schools in their own districts.
This presentation will focus on the relationship between Shields Middle School and Lennard High School, both from Hillsborough County Public Schools. “Mind the Gap” will focus on Ruskin, a rural community that has a large Hispanic population consisting of many migrant families. Details of different programs and initiatives that have been successful in raising student achievement and an emphasis on professional development will be explored as well as the district's commitment to providing support through their partnership with the CollegeBoard and their success with the SpringBoard curriculum.
Successful schools depend on great leaders for substantial improvement. Superintendents who demonstrate significant growth exhibit specific actions and beliefs that lead to systemic change, but managing instructional change is difficult. Superintendents play a critical role in improving academic outcomes for all children, but that role is often lonely and uncertain. This session will describe the attributes and actions taken by leaders who accomplish system-wide improvement despite challenges and will share how one rural state supports superintendents in their role as instructional leaders.
The biggest category of costs under federal programs is compensation. But federal funds may only be used for employee compensation if appropriate "time and effort" records are maintained. Recently, auditors have questioned millions of dollars in federal funds for salaries that did not have proper support. Know the rules! Who must keep records? How often and in how much detail? How can you establish a compliant reporting system? The presenter will provide strategies for minimizing the burden of time reporting and identify what flexibility is available. Get your questions answered!
To maximize academic success and community involvement, this presentation will examine how the use of Family Learning Nights, and other educational opportunities that involve parents and community stakeholders, increase student learning and engagement. We will provide a format that focuses on creating an “open house” atmosphere that is inviting to both parents and concerned citizens.
We live in a data-driven society and yet, when it comes to family engagement, many are still extremely “old school”—relying on intuition, tradition and convenience to drive decisions. This workshop challenges those traditional beliefs and charts a new course by introducing participants to an assessment process that produces baseline family engagement data critical to implementing impactful strategies that ENABLE, ENGAGE and EMPOWER families to be active partners in ways that support student learning. Fasten your seatbelts, this workshop is sure to be highly engaging and entertaining!
Summer learning loss disproportionately affects children from low-income families and accumulates over time to widen the achievement gap between lower- and higher-income students. This session starts with the research evidence for investing in summer learning. Two leading national providers with key district partners will present their approach to delivering research-based programs that consistently produce positive math and literacy outcomes. Through a moderated discussion, session participants and presenters will explore practical strategies for implementing and financing effective summer programs.
The presentation will feature a description of the Eight Step Process, first used in the MSD of Warren Township and now used in the Indiana Department of Education, Title I, as a school improvement process. Each step will be explained along with the research base for the step, as well as examples of implementation in schools acorss the United States. It is a school improvement process that has been replicated in more than 400 districts. We have statistically significant data demonstrating remarkable improvement in the first cohort of Indiana schools that participated in the training.
A clearly defined Response to Intervention (R.T.I.) system has been critical in ensuring students find success at Tapteal Elementary School in Richland, Washington (Pre-K - 5). Discover how this school established problem-solving teams, creative schedules, and a tiered intervention approach to increase student achievement. Leave with ideas on how to implement a data-driven, multi-tiered prevention and intervention system.
In the fanatically formative K-3 classroom, the teacher gets to know her students so well that she can determine which skills they already know and which they are ready to learn. She carefully observes and assesses crucial skills, designs instruction to meet the group and individual needs of students, monitors progress toward a manageable set of outcomes, and adjusts instruction based on observed growth and development.
In the truly formative classroom there is time for laughter, movement, and play. It is a place where teachers love to teach and students love to learn.
This presentation will follow a whole-part-whole instructional format. We will begin by sharing several of the parent engagement programs that we use. We will then provide a nuts and bolts approach to explain and highlight how each program was initiated and supported by the school district and staff of the district. Next, we will provide attendees time to collaborate about an engagement idea they have. These ideas will be highlighted and compiled for the whole group. We will connect the dots and show how all of the programs support each other and how Title I has supported our programs.
Join us for this highly informative moderated panel discussion featuring representatives from this year's Distinguished Schools conversing on the ways they've worked to improve the culture of their respective schools. Panelists from Kansas, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Washington will share their best practices for creating and nurturing a school culture that is both vibrant and strong. Both the audience and the panelists themselves will come away with wealth of ideas to put to use in their own schools.
Through interactive dialogue, hands-on activities, mini role-playing sets, and reflection, principals, Dr. Cheryl Bowman and Datie Priest will share real-life practices and strategies that range from transforming school cultures via aesthetics to data analysis and ownership of data by students applied daily by teams in their schools. Participants can expect to learn how effective teams collaborate and reflect on collective efficacy to deliver high quality instruction for all learners and take away the foundational tenets vital for leaders to build teams of excellence. . .one brick at a time.
Lesson study is a form of long-term professional development in which teams of teachers collaboratively plan, teach, observe, and analyze lessons as a way to determine how students learn best. This workshop will provide examples of effective models that deepen the interactions of a school’s professional learning community by developing authentic, intentional instruction and by building the habits of self-reflection and critical thinking through collaboration and structured observation of student learning. This model provides administrators the power to transform the life of a school.
Award-winning children's book author, Darleen Bailey Beard, shares two of her most popular hands-on writing workshops which can be adapted for 3rd--12th graders. She'll share step-by-step instructions, example stories and essays, tip sheets, and show YOU how to get students excited about writing! Her workshops are "write on the nose" for teaching expository, descriptive, narrative, and persuasive writing techniques. Students have so much fun, they don't even realize they're learning valuable skills which help them pass required state-wide writing and reading tests.
What is brain plasticity and why is it important to Title I educators? The concept of brain plasticity — the ability of the brain to change itself, at any age — demonstrates that significant change is possible in education. This session will examine how neuroplasticity works, and what it means to students and educators. Participants will explore how the brain learns, and how it can be changed to increase its capacity to learn. Participants will discover the benefits of brain fitness, and how it is just as important to students as physical fitness.
An audit can be stressful & disruptive. With proper preparation the audit process can go smoothly & result in improved program administration. For 30 years, Leigh Manasevit has assisted districts & states in successfully navigating federal audits. This session gives strategies for preparing for an audit and working with the auditors throughout the process. The presenter will review case studies of recent audits. Learn what tricky Title I requirements are most commonly reviewed and how to avoid a costly finding. Includes supplanting, time and effort, unallowable costs, and other complex rules.
Literacy success is critical in the achievement of our students, yet it is the largest stumbling block. Building blocks that truly raise the reading achievement of our students who struggle are 1) Background Knowledge, 2) Oral Language, 3) Fluency, 4) Vocabulary, 5) Comprehension, 6) Motivation, & 7) Interest. Hands-on strategies that will make a difference in our teaching practices will be shared, modeled, & practiced. Participants will be inspired to use the practical, research-based strategies right away, as part of their existing standards-based curriculum. It's time for that ah-ha moment!
Gildo Rey Elementary school has a poverty rate of 80%. Students at Gildo Rey excel in mathematics scoring significantly above the state average. The staff has developed a set of principles for creating highly successful balanced math program. Also included is a prototype for developing an effective curriculum and instructional techniques to teach concept application in problem solving. Participants will garner practical tips for time management, core math instruction, flexible math groups, and review.
Join your colleagues in room 4C-3 to create Emergency Preparedness Kits for 600 low-income families. The assembled starter kits will be delivered to needy families in the Seattle area by the King County Housing Authority. Kits for Kids is a project that partners Washington State's Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) with a highly-regarded manufacturer of emergency kits, American Preparedness. Volunteers will assemble the kits, learn more about disaster readiness, and walk away with lesson plans and instructional materials designed to support learning activities that address this important subject.
Volunteer to help decrease the vulnerability of those in need!
In the spring of 2011, the Colorado Department of Education identified 11 effective Title I schools, based upon each of the school’s academic growth data. Nine of these highly diverse schools participated in a week-long comprehensive review by a team of six experienced educators. The schools’ practices were measured against a rubric organized around nine research-based standards. This same rubric is used with struggling Title I schools on Improvement. From these reviews, critical elements that contributed to the schools’ effectiveness were identified.These and other issues will be presented.
Two years ago these principals who presented and taught the audience that M and M's are not just chocolate candy but stand for Monitoring Instruction and Motivating Staff (with great evaluations), now return to focus on the R's of the principalship, including relationships with staff, students, the community, being a role model, having a reading focus and more. This lively and interactive session demonstrates through high achievement data of 10 years, the importance of principals being effective in all of the required "R" roles. Attendees will leave with useful ideas to immediately implement.
We will share the systematic process used to make double-digit academic gains. The session will focus on: 1) The creation of an Academic Leadership Team. 2) Share Data Driven Decision Making strategies through various pieces of data used to pinpoint struggling students & monitor their progress. 3) Remediation Plan for individual students used to track & monitor academic achievement. 4) Math Coaches disaggregate data to formulate Math Labs focusing on consistently low performing strands from our state assessments. 5) Parent Involvement & community partnerships. 6) Student & Staff Incentives.
Participants in this interactive session will review legal cases involving student and teacher use of social networking, cell phones, and other electronic devices, whether on campus or off. Attorney, Aimee Bissonette, author of "Cyber Law: Maximizing Safety and Minimizing Risk in Classrooms," will lead participants through a variety of effective classroom and policy approaches and will provide sample technology related policy language. The goal of this session is to help school leaders identify strategies for averting disaster should technology related legal issues arise in their schools.
Neuroscience continues to provide us with a better understanding of the brain's neural systems and how they relate to focus, learning, memory, and problem solving. This session will explore applications of neuroscience research to teaching and learning, with an emphasis on students who live in poverty. Participants will experience active learning methods as they learn how to employ brain-friendly strategies to advance student achievement, improve student participation by reducing stress and promoting habits of mind, and examine ways to maximize and maintain student attention and focus.
Reading vocabulary is crucial to the comprehension process of a skilled reader. To increase student achievement, participants of this workshop will learn the use of diverse methods of vocabulary instruction and assessment that will not overwhelm the teacher.
When you leave this workshop, you will have a “patchwork quilt” of ideas for promoting vocabulary literacy which include:
• Word Association
• Context Clues
• Word Categorizing
• Mental Imagery
• Structural Analysis
• Word Consciousness
• Wide Reading
• Reference Materials
• Assessment
This session will focus on the proposals to re-write the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and what the funding outlook will be for the upcoming school year.
Explore a practical approach to using high-impact, low-preparation strategies and activities to successfully manage a differentiated classroom and help all students soar to excellence. Interactively explore how to differentiate content, process and products with assessment-driven instruction to help all students have greater long-term success. Help all students reach excellence with formative assessment and chunked instruction, flexible grouping, tiering, higher order thinking and questioning, vocabulary strategies, learning styles, anchor activities and more.
Understanding the mechanics of a soaring bird can seem overwhelming and even next to impossible! Yet, every day the mechanics all come together-the air flow around the wings is just right and we are privy to witness one the most beautiful events: birds soaring effortlessly. Join us on our journey of integrating Systemic Family Engagement; applying a system through partnerships that allows children to soar effortlessly in times when it seems next to impossible. We will share video from parents, liaisons and administrators, offer budget ideas, and share data regarding student achievement.
Award-winning children's book author, Darleen Bailey Beard, shares two of her most popular hands-on writing workshops which can be adapted for 3rd-12th graders. She'll share step-by-step instructions, example stories and essays, tip sheets, and show YOU how to get students excited about writing! Her workshops are "write on the nose" for teaching expository, descriptive, narrative, and persuasive writing techniques. Students have so much fun, they don't even realize they're learning valuable skills which help them pass required state-wide writing and reading tests.
Explore and identify a tool box of high leverage leadership strategies for central office staff to transform the traditional district office role from primarily management-focused to predominantly instructionally-driven. Each year, an increasing number of districts are faced with externally mandated state and federal improvement plans. Examine lessons learned from a high poverty and high English Learner district in their journey to generate system wide change. Participants will explore effective organizational protocols to lead system-wide implementation of instructional initiatives.
As we move beyond traditional parent involvement to family and community engagement, stakeholders continue to seek new and innovative tools and resources. This presentation will share the Handbook on Family and Community Engagement (Handbook) as a new resource, and highlight key recommendations for States, districts, and schools. The Handbook covers a variety of topics and addresses the needs of diverse communities, including those in poverty, with English learners, with minority students, and on Indian reservations. The presenters will introduce practical tools and resources that are available including, web-based video tutorials for family and community engagement, and a Family Engagement Tool.
For struggling elementary school age readers, the task of reading a chapter book can be arduous and discouraging. However, there are techniques and strategies that can engage students and provide them the skills and support they need to gain confidence as a reader. Straightforward and easy to implement ideas - that have been proven to get results - will be shared by this Title I school that moved from an F to an A and increased reading proficiency from 51% to 82% on state standardized tests.
Join your colleagues in room 4C-3 to create Emergency Preparedness Kits for 600 low-income families. The assembled starter kits will be delivered to needy families in the Seattle area by the King County Housing Authority. Kits for Kids is a project that partners Washington State's Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) with a highly-regarded manufacturer of emergency kits, American Preparedness. Volunteers will assemble the kits, learn more about disaster readiness, and walk away with lesson plans and instructional materials designed to support learning activities that address this important subject.
Volunteer to help decrease the vulnerability of those in need!
In response to how to expend our 20% set-aside after offering Public School Choice at one of our elementary schools, Title I administrators in Shoreline researched, designed, and implemented an extended day kindergarten (EDK) program in 2009-10. The EDK program features a 5:1 ratio of teachers and students, with a curriculum that incorporates research-based practices designed to help kindergarteners develop phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, and oral language, in addition to providing targeted math intervention. In year three, we continue to see great academic gains.
Teaching, leading, and learning in a Title I School requires one to be more neuro-surgeon than educator. We do "brain surgery" from the inside out. Skilled practitioners do three things to save students' brains. 1) Reduce anxiety as poverty triggers high levels of cortisol; thus treating the affect 2) Replace layers of literacy missing in students' schema: treating academics 3) Recognize high impact strategies such as single gender, learning styles, fragile brain, creativity, and pacing preferences to maximize neural plasticity, allowing students to soar above the circumstances of poverty .
This session will focus on the ongoing Congressional debate on funding for the current and next two fiscal years. Specifically, this session will focus on the current continuing resolution and its policy implications, the upcoming budget proposal of the president and the longer-term outlook.
A Saipan Title I Leadership Team will share specific strategies they implemented to build school-wide capacity for using data to improve student learning. Often, thoroughly embedding the use of data throughout all classrooms is the biggest challenge. In this session, participants will not only learn research-based steps, but will have an opportunity to apply their own change initiatives to proven strategies. Kagman Elementary School Leadership Team members will provide a step-by-step process to build capacity for monitoring and adjusting.
The crisis of the black male learner continues to pose a major challenge for educators at all levels. Baruti Kafele contends that this crisis is far greater than deficiencies in test scores as evidenced by a national graduation rate of only 47%. In this high-energy session, Kafele will share proven, replicable strategies he used over his 21 year "mission" as an urban public school teacher and principal which enabled his black male students to consistently soar academically. Strategies for developing a “Young Men’s Empowerment Program” in the school will also be discussed.
Two presenters will showcase the mission, organization and activities of Parents for Public Schools (PPS). PPS equips parents with skills necessary to move from a patronage-model to a partnership-model by engaging in and leading school improvement projects to transform local schools, building coalitions across neighborhoods to work on common problems, and creating a broad vision of quality education for all children in a school district. PPS parents also become knowledgable advocates able to “connect the dots” on how state and federal policy and budget decisions affect local school quality.
The coming adoption of Common Core will present a host of challenges for administrators, teachers, and students. Alan Sitomer, three-time Teacher of the Year and author of 16 different books, will guide attendees through a proven means of 1) nailing the Common Core Standards, 2) delivering solid test scores and 3) avoiding the de-evolution of our classroom curriculum into ‘lowest common denominator’ teaching. Bring rigorous academics to life through exciting, engaging, and cross-curricular instruction.
The fastest period of growth of brain cells is birth to 4 years. This would make a parent the child's first and best teacher. Experience strategies that parents can use to raise children that are physically, mentally, socially, and emotionally healthy! Participants will learn techniques to help parents: develop strong family relationships; increase academic achievement; teach appropriate behaviors; and address chronic behavior challenges. This workshop is called practical, life changing, and extremely engaging.
This presentation shows an innovative approach to math lab that features reading strategies, stage setting literature, open ended problems, discussions, hands-on exploration, and creating representations. When students are given time to exchange ideas, to think, prove, and write about their thinking, they will deepen their math conceptual knowledge. This method develops the flexibility of thinking that builds context and concept connections in math: math to self, math to world, and math to math. Students will become a collaborative community of mathematical thinkers engaged in inquiry.
This session will present strategies that teachers can use to help English learners with learning disabilities acquire academic vocabulary in content-area subjects. Participants will be provided with Tier 1and 2 tools for adapting content-specific curriculum to ensure that students’ cognitive, behavioral, and literacy-related concerns are addressed. The presentation will also address the importance of monitoring the progress of culturally and linguistically diverse students across all content areas.
Producing high-achieving students should be the goal of every lesson created and this session will specifically address how this can be done by changing the projects we ask students to do. This presentation will highlight new directions in technology that personalize student learning and help increase the skills of all educators. Instead of just delivering instruction in print form, use technology to create multimedia their brains crave. The combination of digital images, videos, and music engages students and encourages them to “read” the message delivered through the media.
Idaho has moved from compliance to performance based monitoring realizing that although compliance can be enforced, performance is the primary goal. Idaho developed a process that differentiates the selection of districts to be monitored. Risk factors considered include AYP data, previous monitoring results, and district demographics. Based on an analysis of the risk factors, Idaho uses a tiered approach to monitoring which includes: self-assessment, desk monitoring, or on-site performance-based monitoring. With performance as the goal, compliance will be the servant, not the master.
Over the next three years, our schools will face a series of challenges and opportunities that will have a major impact on students and teachers. Fueled by the transition to the Common Core State Standards and, more importantly, the new assessments tied to these standards, schools must make a fundamental shift in both what is taught and how it will be taught. Focusing on literacy will be critical, as society demands that all individuals read and write at higher levels than in the past. This session will share the most successful practices in moving all students to higher literacy levels.
Join your colleagues in room 4C-3 to create Emergency Preparedness Kits for 600 low-income families. The assembled starter kits will be delivered to needy families in the Seattle area by the King County Housing Authority. Kits for Kids is a project that partners Washington State's Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) with a highly-regarded manufacturer of emergency kits, American Preparedness. Volunteers will assemble the kits, learn more about disaster readiness, and walk away with lesson plans and instructional materials designed to support learning activities that address this important subject.
Volunteer to help decrease the vulnerability of those in need!
This discussion of the recently released book, "Transformative Professional Learning: A System to Enhance Teacher and Student Motivation," focuses on research-based practices that high poverty schools are using to ground teaching and learning in the reality of students' lives. Participants will learn about sustainable and motivating approaches to professional development. Featuring video clips of schools in the Northwest where teachers shadow students, visit families, and study "research lessons," the discussion includes how to implement this system in any high poverty context.
This session is comprised of a panel of five state Title 1 D coordinators with a moderator from the Neglected-Delinquent Technical Assistance Center (NDTAC). Each practitioner will share innovative ideas on how they provide services to both adjudicated and at risk students and how these services are integrated with the Title 1 services in their state. Presentations will be augmented with PowerPoint slides and video clips. Ideas will be offered on how other states can replicate the practices. The session will end with a question and answer period.
Ensuring compliance with Title I requirements requires state and local educational agencies to navigate a complex network of rules and regulations. This presentation will focus on the internal control systems needed to effectively manage Title I programs, and will provide an overview of:
•Core principles for effective grants management
•Internal control standards
•Common audit or monitoring findings
•Practical strategies for strengthening grants management systems and reducing audit or monitoring risks
Can you marry rigor and passion in teaching literacy? Yes, you can! Today’s students, face assessments and Common Core expectations that require them to read various genres of text, synthesize information from non-fiction sources, apply real world comprehension connections, and write in response to reading. Students need personal strategies that help them to soar! This interactive session will model reading process strategies to use tomorrow. Building the literacy community, applying differentiated literacy instruction, connecting reading and writing processes will be modeled. Come soar!
The Livingston Parish Public Schools Title I and IDEA departments have collaborated to braid funds in order to build an effective and cohesive Response to Intervention (RtI) program for students. The RtI program builds consistency in interventions in all schools as well as provides opportunities for collaboration between Title I, IDEA and general education interventionists, contract tutors, teachers, and school administrators to improve academic success in reading, math, and written expression.
The presenters will discuss how rich histories and cultures in African-American, Hispanic, Native American, and other communities can serve as bridges to building a platform for family engagement in schools. Bernadette Anderson, who grew up with her Nez Perce family on a reservation in Idaho and now directs family and community programs in predominantly African-American East St. Louis, Illinois, will emphasize ideas for increasing family involvement. Pamela Sheley, will highlight strategies that are specific to Native American family engagement. Dr. Valerie Todacheene, will discuss her work with Indian families and the Bureau of Indian Education and examples of partnerships that help strengthen family and community engagement.
Family-Community Resource Centers (FCRCs) in Vancouver, Washington, serve nine schools and more than 4,700 students and their families who are highly impacted by poverty. Patterned after the community schools model, FCRCs break down barriers to learning and increase the capacity of families, schools, and neighborhoods to help young people succeed. Through partnerships, FCRCs provide "wrap-around" support, including academic assistance, early learning programs, linkages to health and social services, youth and community development, and opportunities for engagement.
Are you frustrated with your students’ lack of number sense? If you are a Pre-K-2 teacher or lead professional development for Pre-K-2 teachers, there is a proven tool from the Netherlands that is making its way into the United States that you need to know about. This session will focus on using a rekenrek to help teachers facilitate students’ development of number sense. Participants will do activities with a rekenrek that focus on developing the number sense students need in order to move from direct modeling to counting to the derived fact stage.
Join your colleagues in room 4C-3 to create Emergency Preparedness Kits for 600 low-income families. The assembled starter kits will be delivered to needy families in the Seattle area by the King County Housing Authority. Kits for Kids is a project that partners Washington State's Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) with a highly-regarded manufacturer of emergency kits, American Preparedness. Volunteers will assemble the kits, learn more about disaster readiness, and walk away with lesson plans and instructional materials designed to support learning activities that address this important subject.
Volunteer to help decrease the vulnerability of those in need!
Congress authorized the schoolwide program model to help students in high-poverty schools access a better education. While the model promises flexibility so that schools can target funds to address their unique educational needs, confusion over Title I compliance requirements can undermine this federal policy goal. This presentation will examine the purpose of the schoolwide model and propose ways to maximize its potential without running afoul of compliance requirements.
Topics include:
•Complying with supplement not supplant
•Allowable uses of funds
•Reducing administrative burdens
Parent involvement is key in children’s academic achievement. Children whose families are more involved display higher levels of literacy achievement than children whose families are less involved. Likewise, shared parent-child reading in preschool and kindergarten predicts academic achievement in later years.Title I regulations recognize the importance of family engagement by providing guidelines and examples of programs that support literacy achievement.This workshop will feature research driven practices that bond families around reading and creating meaningful connections with the library.
If students don’t learn the way we teach them, then we must teach them the way they learn. Experience twenty brain-compatible strategies that maximize understanding and memory. Explore research that shows why these strategies are preferable to others. Use music, metaphor, and movement to increase academic achievement for all students. Ensure that brains retain key concepts, not only for tests, but for life! This workshop is called both professionally and personally life-changing and lots of fun!
The CCSS for English Language Arts & Literacy describes a literate student as one who "actively seeks to understand others perspectives and cultures through reading and listening, and is able to communicate effectively with people of varied backgrounds." Discover how sharing relevant culturally responsive literature can be use to motivate students and develop great writers. As students write about issues that are meaningful to them, they gain a sense of belonging to classroom and the school community. Help students become literate citizens that communicate effectively in our diverse world.
Join us for a screening of filmmaker Davis Guggenheim's Waiting for Superman which reminds us that education "statistics" have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose stories make up the foundation of this engrossing and provocative film. As he follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, Guggenheim undertakes an exhaustive review of public education, surveying "drop-out factories" and "academic sinkholes," methodically dissecting the system and its seemingly intractable problems.
After the film, Davis will be joined by Kati Haycock, President of The Education Trust in a dialogue about what the problems and solutions are for public education today. The audience will be invited to get involved in this important debate about the fate and future of public education to share what's working and what's not.
