Wednesday, October 14, 2020

October 16th Professional Development

We are looking forward to our day of professional learning this Friday, October 16th.  All district learning sessions will be virtual, and the Zoom links are included on the schedule below.



Elementary Schedule


8:00 AM - 11:00 AM Building Professional Development

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Lunch

12:00 PM - 3:30 PM District Professional Development


Secondary Schedule


8:00 AM - 11:30 AM District Professional Development

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Lunch

12:30 PM - 3:30 PM Building Professional Development




Secondary District Professional Development


8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Overview (All Teachers)

ZOOM LINK


(Teachers choose a breakout option for each session)

8: 30 AM - 9:20 AM Session 1 

9:30 AM - 10:20 AM Session 2

10: 30 AM - 11:20 AM Session 3


Breakout Session Options

  • Pear Deck

  • Building Student Ownership of Learning with Tiered Task Cards

  • Classroom Strategies for Helping Students Cope with Stress and Anxiety

  • Xello (3 options)

  • Mastery Connect

  • Authentic Learning with Newsela




Elementary District Professional Development


12:00 PM - 12:15 PM Overview (All Teachers)

ZOOM LINK


12:15 PM - 1:25 PM Grade Level Collaboration (All Teachers)


(Teachers choose a breakout option for each session)


1:30 PM - 2:20 PM Session 1

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM Session 2


Breakout Session Options

  • Pear Deck

  • Building Student Ownership of Learning with Tiered Task Cards

  • Classroom Strategies for Helping Students Cope with Stress and Anxiety

  • Mastery Connect

  • Authentic Learning with Newsela




Breakout Sessions

Descriptions and Links


Pear Deck

  • Join in to learn the basics of Pear Deck - an interactive presentation.  You will learn ins and outs of Pear Deck along with learning how to utilize it with Google Slides.  We will also explore both teacher and student views to get familiar with both sides of the application.  

Zoom Link   

Presentation Link

 

Building Student Ownership of Learning with Tiered Task Cards

  • Participants will understand that tasks can be designed to support student learning as they move from the online to the onsite setting.

  • Language Goal: Participants will design a Tiered Task card using the learning progressions from proficiency scales. 

ZOOM LINK

 

 

Classroom Strategies for Helping Students Cope with Stress and Anxiety

  • Participants will recognize common and less obvious signs of anxiety in students.

  • Participants will take away three strategies to support students in persisting through discomfort in the classroom or remote learning environment.

ZOOM LINK

 

Introduction to MasteryConnect

  • Participants will learn the basic skills needed to use MasteryConnect as an assessment tool to help guide instruction in their classrooms.

Topics covered will include:

  • Navigation

  • Creating a Tracker

  • Tracker Basics

  • Adding a Community Assessment to Your Tracker

  • Delivering an Online Assessment

  • Performance Grader

  • Reports

For teachers who aren't able to attend on the 16th, all of these topics and more are covered in the MasteryConnect - Introduction module of MC online PD.  

ZOOM LINK

 

 

Getting Started With Xello (1 hour)

Audience  - All HS, JH & SC Counselors & JH TAG

 

Set yourself up for success with a recorded training to help you confidently use Xello with your students.

See how Xello's tools help educators support student success. The session will cover:

  • Accessing student profiles

  • Creating and managing student groups

  • Customizing students' dashboard

  • Running reports on student progress, work, and engagement.

ZOOM LINK

 

 

Xello - Course Planner Training (50 minutes)

Audience  - All HS, JH Counselors, 8th Grade TAG

 

Set yourself up for success with a recorded training webinar to help you confidently use Xello with your students.

Everything you need to know about Xello's incredibly powerful 4-year Course Planner. This session will cover:

  • Adding and removing courses

  • Course rules

  • Graduation and specialization tracking

  • Submitting course requests

  • Exemptions and educator overrides

  • Reporting

ZOOM LINK

 

 

 

Xello - All About Lessons (1 hour)

Audience - HS Counselors, 9th Career Seminar Teachers, SC/JH Counselors, JH TAG

 

Xello's lessons are interactive, engaging, future-readiness activities designed to arm students with the tools necessary to address life transitions and decisions with a critical eye. They can be woven into curriculum plans, assigned as self-paced activities, and used as milestones of progress. In this session you'll learn:

  • What Xello's lessons are and how they work

  • Tracking lesson completion and viewing student work

  • Strategies to help your students get the most out of lessons

ZOOM LINK

 


Authentic Learning with Newsela

  • Participants will understand that Newsela is a tool to support authentic learning across all content areas and across all levels of learning.

  • Participants will demonstrate their learning by identifying ways to use Newsela to strengthen student learning.

ZOOM LINK

 


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