Join us for this interactive session as we examine academic and technical skills needed for students pursuing careers in health care. Discuss academic content related to basic calculations, medical terminology, human anatomy, and even dementia care. You will also have an opportunity to practice phlebotomy and blood pressure with arm simulators.
This session will help educators implement a learner-centered approach that focuses on what students must be able to think and do to successfully meet student learning outcomes and goals.
This session provides an overview of the core concepts involved in the work of educational equity and inclusion, a review of implicit bias and microaggressions and identification of tools and interventions to address them. We will review of implicit bias and microaggressions in this session with a focus on power dynamics and understanding the impact of microaggressions by using the social-ecological model for human development.
Learn about the FDIC financial literacy curriculum and how it can be incorporated into middle school instruction. You will also receive information about arranging for representatives from local banks to help lead lessons on financial literacy for your classes.
Learn about the FDIC financial literacy curriculum and how it can be incorporated into high school instruction. You will also receive information about arranging for representatives from local banks to help lead lessons on financial literacy for your classes.
The topic of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) has recently been at the forefront of school safety and reform initiatives. Teachers report, and growing research supports, that social and emotional learning benefits students academically; strengthens school climate; improves behavior; and prepares our youth to be college, career, and life ready. With this increased conversation, it is essential that we raise our awareness and make the connection of SEL to equity practices in education. In this interactive session we will explore the natural interrelationship between SEL and cultural responsiveness. The discussion will cover the following themes: • Social and Emotional Learning and Education Equity defined • MCCSCs Lilly SEL Grant Initiative: The Implementation Phase • Questions for inquiry: an introspective look at equity and SEL in our community • Equity elaborations as they relate to CASELs core competencies • Culturally Relevant Education (CRE): how to integrate Equity, SEL, and academic instruction • Explore MCCSC's universal SEL curriculum through a culturally responsive lens • Looking ahead to transformative SEL
Educators will have the opportunity to receive hands on experience and learn more about the college/career planning and assessment features of the Naviance program.
Restorative practices promotes strong interpersonal relationships and community building and provide students with meaningful opportunities to be accountable for their actions and responsible for helping to make their classroom a safe and nurturing place.
ALL students deserve an equitable education! This fast-paced session will explore the “why” of multiple means of affective, recognition and strategic networks of Universal Design for Learning. Attendees will also leave with immediate implementation of low cost and/or free assistive technology supports for Mac, PC, iOS, Chrome extensions to turn classroom instruction into accessible formats for independent student access.
How can you, as a general educator, meet the individual needs of your students with Autism and still teach your class? Learn the top 10 practices you can put in place tomorrow to help make a difference! What if individual students need even MORE support? How can you effectively follow up on individual behavior charts and token boards while teaching? When can you ask for more help? Let's get started!
Are you a secondary teacher? Have you ever wanted to learn more about computer science? Or perhaps just a fun way to incorporate ideas that will help students understand data and logic with technology into your curriculum? This session will cover introductory concepts related to computational thinking and computer science for 7th-12th grade teachers. Model lessons and ideas will also be provided for various content areas and grade levels. At the end of the session, teachers should leave with potential ideas and options they can incorporate into their classrooms.
New to Canvas? Come get an overview of some essential tools. Whether you want to use Canvas primarily for a homepage and announcements or you hope to use it for student assignments, this is the session for you! Note: This presenter has kindly agreed to demonstrate these Canvas features. Concerns about Canvas should be directed to principals.
New to Canvas? Come get an overview of some essential tools. Whether you want to use Canvas primarily for a homepage and announcements or you hope to use it for student assignments, this is the session for you! Note: This presenter has kindly agreed to demonstrate these Canvas features. Concerns about Canvas should be directed to principals.
This session is meant to help you feel more comfortable on canvas. "Emerging" Canvas users that attend this session will focus on getting comfortable using and exploring Canvas features such as the grade book, quizzes, assignments, and generally setting up Canvas.
Learn about the myriad ways to communicate with students and parents in Canvas. Topics include creating observer (parent) accounts, customizing email and text notifications, messaging students and parents, and parent resources for the Canvas parent app.
New to Canvas? Come get an overview of some essential tools. Whether you want to use Canvas primarily for a homepage and announcements or you hope to use it for student assignments, this is the session for you! Note: This presenter has kindly agreed to demonstrate these Canvas features. Concerns about Canvas should be directed to principals.
New to Canvas? Come get an overview of some essential tools. Whether you want to use Canvas primarily for a homepage and announcements or you hope to use it for student assignments, this is the session for you! Note: This presenter has kindly agreed to demonstrate these Canvas features. Concerns about Canvas should be directed to principals.
This breakout session will help educators begin developing basic assessments like multiple choice tests, matching terms, etc. along with analyzing the data from the assessment. Additionally, this session will help educators develop Modules in their class that will help make the course flow intuitively for students. Finally, we will develop an assignment rubric in Canvas and complete a sample grading of the grading rubric in Canvas. Please make sure you bring your laptop or iPad.
New to Canvas? Come get an overview of some essential tools. Whether you want to use Canvas primarily for a homepage and announcements or you hope to use it for student assignments, this is the session for you! Note: This presenter has kindly agreed to demonstrate these Canvas features. Concerns about Canvas should be directed to principals.
Are you new to Canvas and not sure where to start and how to organize your courses? If so, I will try to help you out! This session will cover fundamentals of using and organizing Canvas courses with emphasis on importing course content, organizing modules, setting up a home page, cross-listing classes and controlling what students can and cannot see or access in your courses.
New to Canvas? Come get an overview of some essential tools. Whether you want to use Canvas primarily for a homepage and announcements or you hope to use it for student assignments, this is the session for you! Note: This presenter has kindly agreed to demonstrate these Canvas features. Concerns about Canvas should be directed to principals.
New to Canvas? Come get an overview of some essential tools. Whether you want to use Canvas primarily for a homepage and announcements or you hope to use it for student assignments, this is the session for you! Note: This presenter has kindly agreed to demonstrate these Canvas features. Concerns about Canvas should be directed to principals.
This class will be discussing the following items: how to copy from one Canvas course to another, how to set up assignments, how to upload materials from external sources to Canvas
New to Canvas? Come get an overview of some essential tools. Whether you want to use Canvas primarily for a homepage and announcements or you hope to use it for student assignments, this is the session for you! Note: This presenter has kindly agreed to demonstrate these Canvas features. Concerns about Canvas should be directed to principals.
New to Canvas? Come get an overview of some essential tools. Whether you want to use Canvas primarily for a homepage and announcements or you hope to use it for student assignments, this is the session for you! Note: This presenter has kindly agreed to demonstrate these Canvas features. Concerns about Canvas should be directed to principals.
New to Canvas? Come get an overview of some essential tools. Whether you want to use Canvas primarily for a homepage and announcements or you hope to use it for student assignments, this is the session for you! Note: This presenter has kindly agreed to demonstrate these Canvas features. Concerns about Canvas should be directed to principals.
New to Canvas? Come get an overview of some essential tools. Whether you want to use Canvas primarily for a homepage and announcements or you hope to use it for student assignments, this is the session for you! Note: This presenter has kindly agreed to demonstrate these Canvas features. Concerns about Canvas should be directed to principals.
New to Canvas? Come get an overview of some essential tools. Whether you want to use Canvas primarily for a homepage and announcements or you hope to use it for student assignments, this is the session for you! Note: This presenter has kindly agreed to demonstrate these Canvas features. Concerns about Canvas should be directed to principals.
Using a Learning Management System like Canvas allows teachers to enhance students’ learning experience of a focus objective, as well as improve students’ understanding of critical 21st Century tech skills. However, using Canvas effectively means teachers need to rethink traditional assignments in order to transform them to a digital medium. This session will provide teachers step-by-step directions that will help teachers transform a traditional paper assignment to a digital assignment/activity within Canvas. Teachers will need to bring an assignment they wish to transform as work time will be provided with guidance to adapting the assignment to a digital activity on Canvas. Teachers will need to have their computers, Canvas login information, and access to or a printout of a traditional assignment they wish to focus upon.
New to Canvas? Come get an overview of some essential tools. Whether you want to use Canvas primarily for a homepage and announcements or you hope to use it for student assignments, this is the session for you! Note: This presenter has kindly agreed to demonstrate these Canvas features. Concerns about Canvas should be directed to principals.
New to Canvas? Come get an overview of some essential tools. Whether you want to use Canvas primarily for a homepage and announcements or you hope to use it for student assignments, this is the session for you! Note: This presenter has kindly agreed to demonstrate these Canvas features. Concerns about Canvas should be directed to principals.
Secondary Special Education teachers will bring two to three IEP's for their peers to review. This is a follow-up to the ISTRC Transition IEP Coaching visit.
The teachers and designers of a new collaborative computer science and art course will be presenting their curriculum development, team teaching strategies, and course roadmap. Participants can expect to receive project ideas, a list of online tools and resources, as well as rubrics that were developed specifically to meet the needs of this integrated course.
Why do we assess students? What can different stakeholders take away from assessment data? This session will explain what it means to be assessment literate and why it is important to be assessment literate especially when it comes to ILEARN. In this session participants will leave with valuable information on resources provided by IDOE to help teachers become more ILEARN assessment literate.
The purpose of the Language! Live session is to provide teachers the opportunity to ask questions and receive answers which will enhance program instruction.
PBL 101 is based on strategies implemented in PBL classrooms. The workshop itself will model the design process and provide participants with information and examples needed to design, assess, and manage standard-based projects. The workshop will also cover a wide-range of project examples, including projects in interdisciplinary courses.
In this session, you will learn the basics of project based learning (PBL). We will explore the differences between projects and PBL and highlight examples of PBL units that have been designed by MCCSC's STEM Fellows. You will walk away with strategies and tips for implementing PBL in your own classroom and have time to brainstorm a driving question for your own PBL unit.
Let’s take this crazy time in education and run with it! Technology, choice, testing, accommodations, all of it. Make it work for you and your students. Create a climate of engagement and empowerment. Design your classroom to work for all...including you. Let’s take a look at the what, whys and hows of learning, today’s tech and educational best practices and find our happy place!
Teachers of AP Lang. and Comp., AP US History, and AP European History are invited to discuss strategies for improving student writing, especially on the Synthesis and DBQ writing prompts. Please bring 1-2 prompts and their corresponding rubrics.
How can we challenge our students who already know the essential learnings and power standards within our classroom of diverse learners? This session will provide strategies and resources (good practices) for meeting the learning needs of high achieving students as well as all diverse learners in a typical classroom, grades K-12. Participants will have the opportunity to share their needs in challenging diverse learners as well as share good practices they use to meet their students' learning needs.
Participants will learn about recognizing someone at risk of suicide, increase their knowledge and skills when responding to someone at risk, and learn about referrals sources and how to refer someone for help. HEA 1430 (IC 20-28-3-6) mandates two hours of evidence-based suicide prevention training every three years for educators working with students in grades 5 - 12, including principals, librarians, counselors, social workers, psychologists and nurses.
This session will help educators implement a learner-centered approach that focuses on what students must be able to think and do to successfully meet student learning outcomes and goals.
Student enter our classrooms with a vast variety of behavioral experiences both positive and negative. This session will focus on work with challenging behaviors in the classroom from a whole picture approach. Environmental factors, rule and procedures, managing ourselves, and trauma informed practices are just a few of the topics that will be discussed. Social Emotional Learning will be the basis our our discussion.
FBA is one of the most feared acronyms in a special education teacher's vocabulary. Participants will learn how to streamline the Functional Behavior Assessment process into 3 easily managed steps. Participants will also learn to simplify the data collection process by learning: (a) what types of data to collect for specific behaviors of concern, and (b) how to collect data efficiently in a school setting.
This session will inform attendees on how to best utilize the Science Resource Center, including what is available, how to know what you need, and guidelines for making a request.
We are diving into the world of reinforcement and effective token economy systems at the Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 level. We hope to empower you to be able to change student behavior within your classrooms!
Did you enjoy Dr. Lori Desautels keynote presentation back in August? Are you interested in ways to incorporate neuroscience in the classroom? Then this session, geared towards the secondary educator, is for you! We will learn about brain alignment and regulation strategies. This includes the natural ways the brain thinks, feels, behaves, and learns as it relates to trauma, attachment, and human connection. This will be an interactive work session for educators to explore the Indiana Department of Education’s Neuroscience Toolkit and one Indiana school’s innovative neuroscience curriculum.
ALL students deserve an equitable education! This fast-paced session will explore the “why” of multiple means of affective, recognition and strategic networks of Universal Design for Learning. Attendees will also leave with immediate implementation of low cost and/or free assistive technology supports for Mac, PC, iOS, Chrome extensions to turn classroom instruction into accessible formats for independent student access.
How can you, as a general educator, meet the individual needs of your students with Autism and still teach your class? Learn the top 10 practices you can put in place tomorrow to help make a difference! What if individual students need even MORE support? How can you effectively follow up on individual behavior charts and token boards while teaching? When can you ask for more help? Let's get started!
This session will be an overview of Zones of Regulation and how it overlaps with Superflex. Participants can expect to learn about the positive impact that Zones of Regulation and Superflex can have on social-emotional learning.
Go a little more in depth with Canvas. Come learn about various assignment types and how to differentiate for students; provide feedback with Speedgrader; initiate online discussions; and embed a Google doc, sheet, or slide presentation into an assignment so each student gets their own copy!
Go a little more in depth with Canvas. Come learn about various assignment types and how to differentiate for students; provide feedback with Speedgrader; initiate online discussions; and embed a Google doc, sheet, or slide presentation into an assignment so each student gets their own copy!
Is it possible to teach all of the ela and math essential learning skills and ILEARN priority standards, use the adopted curriculum, fill in missing gaps, teach science and social studies, develop project based learning activities, AND integrate Canvas daily into an elementary classroom? YES! Canvas will be an amazing addition to your elementary classroom. In this session, you will learn how your Canvas course can provide easy access to tools, resources, and assignments, for reading, writing, and math workshops, social studies, STEAM, and project based learning. You will also learn how to incorporate daily lessons, classroom behavior systems, and more. Not only can your Canvas course be used to enhance students’ daily learning, but it can also serve as an easy and manageable form of communication through the use of a parent information page and the convenient inbox feature.
Teachers will explore tech enhanced questions in Canvas that mirror those found on the ILEARN. Teachers will gain insight into the New Quizzes feature offered in Canvas, which allows teachers to create more tech-enhanced questions and quizzes while putting the text next to the questions on the screen. Teachers will also learn how to create hot text, multiple choice, short answer, drop down, and other tech enhanced questions.
Are you new to Canvas and not sure where to start and how to organize your courses? If so, I will try to help you out! This session will cover fundamentals of using and organizing Canvas courses with emphasis on importing course content, organizing modules, setting up a home page, cross-listing classes and controlling what students can and cannot see or access in your courses.
We're science/special ed teachers who have been working on combining Google Docs and Canvas to built high-leverage information portals for both AP Biology and inclusion Earth/space science. Come see what we've learned about making information management more powerful for ALL learners -- and making our responsibilities as teachers way easier, too! We'll also help you make a plan to incorporate one or more ideas in your current Canvas courses.
Are you prepared to cover the new K-2 computer science standards? Learning foundational ideas related to computer science (CS) at these early grades can be critical to students’ successes and interest in CS later on in life. Most of these K-2 CS activities can (and should) be taught using unplugged lessons to teach fundamental concepts. With the help of three K-2 students, we will model some engaging activities that will excited and engage your students in fundamental ideas of computer science. Teachers will leave with potential ideas and options they can incorporate into their classrooms.
Teachers will learn how the middle school science teachers are incorporating CS into their curriculum. We will discuss successes and struggles of implementing CS with middle school students. Teachers will be given an overview of the SCRATCH coding platform.
Sixth grade teachers will learn about the upcoming programming (app) challenge. This program was piloted at four MCCSC elementary schools last year and will expand to all schools this year. Students will use Scratch, a block based coding program, to create apps that connect to the SEL curriculum. In this session, teachers will learn the timeline of the challenge and how it aligns to the state's computer science standards. Teachers should also sign up for the "Basics of Scratch Coding" session to learn more about the coding software.
Using a Learning Management System like Canvas allows teachers to enhance students’ learning experience of a focus objective, as well as improve students’ understanding of critical 21st Century tech skills. However, using Canvas effectively means teachers need to rethink traditional assignments in order to transform them to a digital medium. This session will provide teachers step-by-step directions that will help teachers transform a traditional paper assignment to a digital assignment/activity within Canvas. Teachers will need to bring an assignment they wish to transform as work time will be provided with guidance to adapting the assignment to a digital activity on Canvas. Teachers will need to have their computers, Canvas login information, and access to or a printout of a traditional assignment they wish to focus upon.
Zoom, Zip, Bim, Bam...that's the plan! Super Hero music teachers will share Best Practice lessons that successfully address our state music standards while making those all important connections. Condensed lessons filled with hands on strategies and possible takeaways that could be modified and applied to most subjects for our MCCSC Super Students!
"When teaching and learning is clear and visible, student achievement increases." ~John Hattie This session will be hands-on and teachers will leave with math learning goals and targets ready to use in their classroom.
Are you looking to spice up your literacy block with hands-on learning? Do you want to include STEM into your daily routine but feel like there’s not enough time? Well, look no further! Our goal is to bring you a variety of ways to incorporate STEM and picture books into your literacy block, making lessons fun and engaging for ALL of your students! Your students will apply problem solving skills driven from a STEM focus all while increasing their comprehension of your favorite picture books you love to teach!
Frame your instruction beautifully using the new IDOE Literacy and Math Frameworks! The IDOE recently released these frameworks that are instructional tools designed to support teachers in their efforts to provide high-quality, ambitious instruction to all students. These living frameworks offer I CAN statements, academic vocabulary, questions stems, previous and future grade level support, supports for English Learners and Special Education students, and digital resources. In this session, you will first discover where to find the frameworks and see how to navigate through the framework sites. Next, you will see an example of how a teacher applied the frameworks to planning her literacy instruction. Finally, you will be given time to explore the frameworks and start using the Literacy and/or Math Frameworks to plan your own lessons. Please come to our session in a planning frame of mind!
Why do we assess students? What can different stakeholders take away from assessment data? This session will explain what it means to be assessment literate and why it is important to be assessment literate especially when it comes to ILEARN. In this session participants will leave with valuable information on resources provided by IDOE to help teachers become more ILEARN assessment literate.
Get your questions answered here about iObservation and Evaluations! New teachers will learn about Marzano's Four Domains, how to navigate the iObservation platform, and what to expect before, during and after an observation.
Teachers from Fairview and Templeton are invited to this session to collaborate about multiage programming. Best practices and strategies utilized in the multiage setting will be shared. Teachers will have the opportunity to learn from multiage teachers in a question and answer format about how multiage classrooms function and the impact multiage classrooms have on climate and culture of the building.
In this session, you will learn the basics of project based learning (PBL). We will explore the differences between projects and PBL and highlight examples of PBL units that have been designed by MCCSC's STEM Fellows. You will walk away with strategies and tips for implementing PBL in your own classroom and have time to brainstorm a driving question for your own PBL unit.
PBL 101 is based on strategies implemented in PBL classrooms. The workshop itself will model the design process and provide participants with information and examples needed to design, assess, and manage standard-based projects. The workshop will also cover a wide-range of project examples, including projects in interdisciplinary courses.
In this session, you will learn the basics of project based learning (PBL). We will explore the differences between projects and PBL and highlight examples of PBL units that have been designed by MCCSC's STEM Fellows. You will walk away with strategies and tips for implementing PBL in your own classroom and have time to brainstorm a driving question for your own PBL unit.
Have you completed to the four day Orton Gillingham training and are currently looking for tips and tricks to improve your implementation? Maybe you were trained a few years ago and are deciding this year you’re really going to put focus on OG in your classroom. Perhaps you attended a training last summer and are looking for a refresher as you continue putting your skills into practice. If any of these describe your current OG situation, this is the session for you! Join us as we walk through the lesson plan, while offering practical advice on how to best implement auditory and blending drills, student response sheets, quick checks, and more. Please bring your basic sound deck with you. (You do not need to bring your blends, rule cards, etc.)
Specially Designed Instruction (SDI) is a new term used in IEPs in the last couple of years. SDI is large part of what makes Special Education "Special." This session will focus on understanding the basics of SDI, how it should be documented in the IEP, and how implementing and monitoring the right SDI is a shared responsibility among many. This session will include time for discussion, Q&A, and problem solving.
Let’s take this crazy time in education and run with it! Technology, choice, testing, accommodations, all of it. Make it work for you and your students. Create a climate of engagement and empowerment. Design your classroom to work for all...including you. Let’s take a look at the what, whys and hows of learning, today’s tech and educational best practices and find our happy place!
Teaching writing is hard work! We have students who hate to write, lack confidence, can't spell, love writing but can't read it back to us. How do we nurture their attempts to write? Growth in writing comes with mentoring, many opportunities to write independently, and the chance to discover useful strategies along the way.
Do you have an English learner in your classroom who is not making progress? Do you wonder if this difficulty is due to a language difference or difficulty learning? Do you wonder what the progress of a typical language learner looks like? Come learn, through concrete case study examples, tools and strategies have resulted in positive outcomes. Discover the resources already available within the corporation and community to support you and your students. Lastly, gain confidence in knowing how to differentiate between typical English learners and those at risk or in need of additional individualized intervention.
How can we challenge our students who already know the essential learnings and power standards within our classroom of diverse learners? This session will provide strategies and resources (good practices) for meeting the learning needs of high achieving students as well as all diverse learners in a typical classroom, grades K-12. Participants will have the opportunity to share their needs in challenging diverse learners as well as share good practices they use to meet their students' learning needs.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS SESSION IS 2 HOURS AND TAKES UP BREAKOUT SESSION #2 and #3. ISPROUT will be utilized for Indiana students receiving services as part of an Individualized Education Program (IEP) to meet the reporting needs of the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). The web or app based instrument is utilized by teachers to rate students based on their ongoing observations of children engaged in typical daily routines and activities. This assessment tool is replacing ISTAR-KR.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS SESSION IS 2 HOURS AND TAKES UP BREAKOUT SESSION 2 and 3. Teachers play a crucial role in helping students talk openly about the historical roots and contemporary manifestations of social inequality and discrimination. Learning how to communicate about such topics as white privilege, police violence, economic inequality, and mass incarceration requires practice, and facilitating difficult conversations demands courage and skill—regardless of who we are, our intentions or how long we’ve been teaching.
In this session we will utilize resources from Teaching Tolerance to identify strategies that will assist teachers to prepare to facilitate difficult conversations about race and racism, and other types of discrimination such as gender bias, ableism, and religious or anti-LGBT persecution.
During this session educators will have the opportunity to complete assessments using the Naviance program and become familiar with the Naviance assessment results and features.
Participants will learn about recognizing someone at risk of suicide, increase their knowledge and skills when responding to someone at risk, and learn about referrals sources and how to refer someone for help. HEA 1430 (IC 20-28-3-6) mandates two hours of evidence-based suicide prevention training every three years for educators working with students in grades 5 - 12, including principals, librarians, counselors, social workers, psychologists and nurses.
Participants will learn about recognizing someone at risk of suicide, increase their knowledge and skills when responding to someone at risk, and learn about referrals sources and how to refer someone for help. HEA 1430 (IC 20-28-3-6) mandates two hours of evidence-based suicide prevention training every three years for educators working with students in grades 5 - 12, including principals, librarians, counselors, social workers, psychologists and nurses.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS SESSION IS 2 HOURS AND TAKES THE TIME OF BREAKOUT SESSIONS 2 & 3. This workshop will provide participants with knowledge, skills, educational strategies, related to sexuality including puberty, relationships, reproductive anatomy, communication, sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy prevention for classrooms, schools, and school corporations. The workshop is open to for anyone to attend who has an interest in sexuality education in the school setting.
Join us for an exploration session of two programs offered at Hoosier Hills Career Center. First, explore what it takes for students to become an executive chef or a restaurant owner and everything in between during an interactive session in the Hoosier Hills Career Center Culinary Arts kitchen. Learn skills and see how they connect to standards that span multiple disciplines. Next teachers will hear about the emergency medical service program – come learn about the world of emergency response and medical interventions. See what it’s like to be in the playground of healthcare national certification training so that you can understand the practical skills and academic skills needed for students to be successful on the path to becoming an EMT.
Student enter our classrooms with a vast variety of behavioral experiences both positive and negative. This session will focus on work with challenging behaviors in the classroom from a whole picture approach. Environmental factors, rule and procedures, managing ourselves, and trauma informed practices are just a few of the topics that will be discussed. Social Emotional Learning will be the basis our our discussion.
FBA is one of the most feared acronyms in a special education teacher's vocabulary. Participants will learn how to streamline the Functional Behavior Assessment process into 3 easily managed steps. Participants will also learn to simplify the data collection process by learning: (a) what types of data to collect for specific behaviors of concern, and (b) how to collect data efficiently in a school setting.
We are diving into the world of reinforcement and effective token economy systems at the Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 level. We hope to empower you to be able to change student behavior within your classrooms!
Test your maker skills to see how well you stack up against your peers in a Maker Challenge! Attendees will hear about basic supplies and tools to have in their classrooms for Maker Challenges, as well as, they will receive a variety of ideas to take back their classrooms.
Are you losing valuable instructional time dealing with minor behaviors in your classroom? Are you out of strategies for blurting out, off task behaviors, transitions that take way too long, and other minor disruptions in the school day? In this session, participants will complete a self-assessment to gauge their current classroom management practices and get a refresher on simple adjustments they can make within their classroom to capitalize on instructional time.
In this session, you will learn the basics of project based learning (PBL). We will explore the differences between projects and PBL and highlight examples of PBL units that have been designed by MCCSC's STEM Fellows. You will walk away with strategies and tips for implementing PBL in your own classroom and have time to brainstorm a driving question for your own PBL unit.
Knowing what we want our students to know and be able to do can be challenging when our classrooms also contain students for whom English is a New Language and for students who receive Special Education services. This session, co-presented by an ENL teacher and a Special Education teacher, will guide general education teachers through strategies and examples of how to present instructional material, notes, assignments, projects, and quizzes in a way that will benefit all students in the classroom. Our goal is to help general education teachers feel more confident in their ability to reach all their students.
Did you enjoy Dr. Lori Desautels keynote presentation back in August? Are you interested in ways to incorporate neuroscience in the classroom? Then this session, geared towards elementary educators, is for you! We will learn about brain alignment and regulation strategies. This includes the natural ways the brain thinks, feels, behaves, and learns as it relates to trauma, attachment, and human connection. This will be an interactive work session for educators to explore the Indiana Department of Education’s Neuroscience Toolkit and one Indiana school’s innovative neuroscience curriculum.
ALL students deserve an equitable education! This fast-paced session will explore the “why” of multiple means of affective, recognition and strategic networks of Universal Design for Learning. Attendees will also leave with immediate implementation of low cost and/or free assistive technology supports for Mac, PC, iOS, Chrome extensions to turn classroom instruction into accessible formats for independent student access.
An in-depth look into CMP3 through the lens of Launch, Explore, and Summarize. Pacing, assessment, and technology within the CMP3 model will be integrated topics.
This session will be an overview of Zones of Regulation and how it overlaps with Superflex. Participants can expect to learn about the positive impact that Zones of Regulation and Superflex can have on social-emotional learning.
Learn the basics of block based coding with Scratch! In this session, we will look at an introductory Scratch curriculum that was piloted by four sixth grade classes in MCCSC last year. The curriculum was created by Indiana University and will be expanded to include all sixth grade classes and some middle school science classes this year. Any teachers interested in learning more about computer science and block based coding using Scratch are welcome to attend! Please bring a charged device to play along!
Are you the sponsor of a school club, organization, or activity? Do you have lots of students and papers to manage and organize? Would you like to have everything accessible for all sponsors, students, and parents in one place? If you answered yes these questions, Canvas for Clubs is the session for you. This session will provide you with ideas about how to use Canvas to get your club organized. You will leave with ideas about setting up membership applications, doing officer elections, posting scholarship applications, and creating modules with important information for students to reference at any time. This session will be applicable for club sponsors with all levels of Canvas experience.
Go a little more in depth with Canvas. Come learn about various assignment types and how to differentiate for students; provide feedback with Speedgrader; initiate online discussions; and embed a Google doc, sheet, or slide presentation into an assignment so each student gets their own copy!
Go a little more in depth with Canvas. Come learn about various assignment types and how to differentiate for students; provide feedback with Speedgrader; initiate online discussions; and embed a Google doc, sheet, or slide presentation into an assignment so each student gets their own copy!
Learn about the myriad ways to communicate with students and parents in Canvas. Topics include creating observer (parent) accounts, customizing email and text notifications, messaging students and parents, and parent resources for the Canvas parent app.
Learn about the myriad ways to communicate with students and parents in Canvas. Topics include creating observer (parent) accounts, customizing email and text notifications, messaging students and parents, and parent resources for the Canvas parent app.
Would you like to know a little about the "basics" of Canvas? This may be the course for you! During this presentation, participants will be able to ask questions and be able to explore how to create announcements, input grades, link a page, etc.
Teachers will explore tech enhanced questions in Canvas that mirror those found on the ILEARN. Teachers will gain insight into the New Quizzes feature offered in Canvas, which allows teachers to create more tech-enhanced questions and quizzes while putting the text next to the questions on the screen. Teachers will also learn how to create hot text, multiple choice, short answer, drop down, and other tech enhanced questions.
This session will be about how to use Exact Path Assignments for a quick and easy check for understanding with built in remediation. The importance of reliable diagnostic results will be discussed and tips to get them, gathered over the past two years of use, will be shared.
We're science/special ed teachers who have been working on combining Google Docs and Canvas to built high-leverage information portals for both AP Biology and inclusion Earth/space science. Come see what we've learned about making information management more powerful for ALL learners -- and making our responsibilities as teachers way easier, too! We'll also help you make a plan to incorporate one or more ideas in your current Canvas courses.
Meet the new features from Mathseeds! Mathseeds has grown over the summer so come and learn what's new. Mathseeds is great for personalized learning but can also support your core curriculum. We will be walking through our new resources and talking about how you can support your math instruction with Mathseeds.
Teachers will learn how to create a mastery gradebook in canvas that tracks students performance on evaluated skills over the course of the year. For those who find multiple choice impractical or incomplete for capturing student learning, this presentation will show how Canvas Outcomes can be used to create meaningful data about how students write, produce, construct, learn or behave beyond what can be captured in multiple choice assessments. Mastery gradebooks are a tremendous resource in communicating with PLC members, administration, teachers of record, and when assessing your own practice/performance.
Participants will learn how to create a “private” Canvas course within their PLC and how to use this as a repository for shared materials (assignments, assessments, labs, resources, rubrics, etc.). The advantage of this model is that common materials are stored in a central location and are available to be copied into individual courses as needed or shared with new PLC members at a later time.
In this session, participants will learn how to set up weekly agendas using Google Slides. Participants will also explore Canvas as a weekly organizational tool for assignments, quizzes, and readings, therefore eliminating the amount of paper generated.
While teachers are working extremely hard, it is time that we work together to share the struggle with how to give students opportunities to grapple with the academic standards at all D.O.K. levels. This PD provides teachers with an understanding of what D.O.K is and what it is not. Participants will be able to identify the D.O.K. levels and types of cognitive processing needed at each level as well as applying this knowledge to their own classroom assessment questions.
What could be more fun than editing and revising? Seriously, we will learn authentic, fun and interesting ways to engage in this part of the writing process! Participants will learn a 3 day plan using and practicing conventions in authentic literature, a fun way to conduct focused edits, and colorful ways to make room for the edits and revisions. Please bring your own writing to practice with, and a student's writing if you wish.
This session will kick off the 2019-2020 Fourth Grade Maker Challenge. This year we are partnering with the City of Bloomington and will focus on sustainability and reducing waste. All fourth grade teachers should attend. We will discuss the timeline for the challenge and ideas for implementation in the classroom. Teachers will receive a picture book to kick off the challenge and teacher resources that can be used throughout the project.
Have you ever struggled to structure your reading block? Have you wondered how to fit in Guided Reading and other small group instruction? This session will take a close look at Guided Reading and small/skill group instruction. It will educate you on the distinct differences of these groups, who should participate in them, and provide resources for planning these groups. Teachers, (time permitting) you will have the opportunity to collaborate on or plan your small group times. Therefore, feel free to bring student reading levels/EL data.
Why do we assess students? What can different stakeholders take away from assessment data? This session will explain what it means to be assessment literate and why it is important to be assessment literate especially when it comes to ILEARN. In this session participants will leave with valuable information on resources provided by IDOE to help teachers become more ILEARN assessment literate.
This session will include practical strategies for using literacy books to teach S.T.E.M. related topics appropriate for K-2. Presenters will provide examples/strategies for several books used in our classrooms.
Are you feeling overwhelmed on how to effectively implement the CMP curriculum in your classroom? This session will highlight do's and don'ts in lesson planning, facilitation of instruction and homework.
Combining English Language Arts and Music, teachers will be provided with lessons that engage and stimulate young minds. Aligned with ELA and Music Standards, activities will address reading fluency and comprehension, steady beat, spacial exploration, story sequences, musical comparatives (loud/soft, high/low, fast/slow), and patterns. All lessons can be taught by any teacher, regardless of musical skill!
Have you completed to the four day Orton Gillingham training and are currently looking for tips and tricks to improve your implementation? Maybe you were trained a few years ago and are deciding this year you’re really going to put focus on OG in your classroom. Perhaps you attended a training last summer and are looking for a refresher as you continue putting your skills into practice. If any of these describe your current OG situation, this is the session for you! Join us as we walk through the lesson plan, while offering practical advice on how to best implement auditory and blending drills, student response sheets, quick checks, and more. Please bring your basic sound deck with you. (You do not need to bring your blends, rule cards, etc.)
Specially Designed Instruction (SDI) is a new term used in IEPs in the last couple of years. SDI is large part of what makes Special Education "Special." This session will focus on understanding the basics of SDI, how it should be documented in the IEP, and how implementing and monitoring the right SDI is a shared responsibility among many. This session will include time for discussion, Q&A, and problem solving.
Let’s take this crazy time in education and run with it! Technology, choice, testing, accommodations, all of it. Make it work for you and your students. Create a climate of engagement and empowerment. Design your classroom to work for all...including you. Let’s take a look at the what, whys and hows of learning, today’s tech and educational best practices and find our happy place!
Are you confused about our evaluation model and how it relates to Marzano and The Art and Science of Teaching (ASOT)? Come to this session to see how everything fits together. We will discuss our evaluation model in iObservation and how it impacts our daily practices. After our discussion we hope to watch a short teaching video and practice our skills at scaled rubric scoring.
Do you have an English learner in your classroom who is not making progress? Do you wonder if this difficulty is due to a language difference or difficulty learning? Do you wonder what the progress of a typical language learner looks like? Come learn, through concrete case study examples, tools and strategies have resulted in positive outcomes. Discover the resources already available within the corporation and community to support you and your students. Lastly, gain confidence in knowing how to differentiate between typical English learners and those at risk or in need of additional individualized intervention.
You may choose to go out to lunch or buy lunch from one of the food trucks that will be on-site at Bloomington North. The following food trucks are scheduled to attend: La Poblana Taco Truck, Carson's BBQ, Big Cheese, Doner Kabob, Swakin Stir Fry, and Top Shotta Jerk Chicken. ***Please note that some food trucks may only accept cash payments.
Tuesday November 5, 2019 11:05am - 12:30pm EST
CafeteriaBHSN, 3901 N Kinser Pike, Bloomington, IN 47404
Third through sixth grade teachers will meet as grade level teams to explore the updated proficiency scales and changes made to the essential learnings as it relates to the ILEARN data. We will discuss how the updated common formative assessments (CFAs), common summative assessments (CSAs), and sample tasks will be used in the classroom to assess learning and inform instruction.
Third through sixth grade teachers will meet as grade level teams to explore the updated proficiency scales and changes made to the essential learnings as it relates to the ILEARN data. We will discuss how the updated common formative assessments (CFAs), common summative assessments (CSAs), and sample tasks will be used in the classroom to assess learning and inform instruction.
Third through sixth grade teachers will meet as grade level teams to explore the updated proficiency scales and changes made to the essential learnings as it relates to the ILEARN data. We will discuss how the updated common formative assessments (CFAs), common summative assessments (CSAs), and sample tasks will be used in the classroom to assess learning and inform instruction.
Third through sixth grade teachers will meet as grade level teams to explore the updated proficiency scales and changes made to the essential learnings as it relates to the ILEARN data. We will discuss how the updated common formative assessments (CFAs), common summative assessments (CSAs), and sample tasks will be used in the classroom to assess learning and inform instruction.
Educators will learn more about the Naviance College, Career and Life Readiness (CCLR) Framework to prepare middle and high school students for success after high school.
