csi 2015 program

Current as of July 27, 2015

Pi t t County Schoo ls

Curr icu lum Summer Ins t i tute

2015

Sess ion Of fer ings

August 11-‐13, 2015

EB Aycock Middle School

Greenville, North Carolina

Table of Contents Welcome .............................................................................................................................................. 4

Tuesday, August 11, 2014 ..................................................................................................................... 5 Full Day Sessions: 9:00-‐4:00 ...................................................................................................................... 6 Half-‐Day Sessions 9:00-‐12:00 .................................................................................................................... 7 Break Out Sessions: 9:00-‐10:15 ................................................................................................................ 9 Break Out Session: 10:30-‐11:45 .............................................................................................................. 10 Half-‐Day Sessions: 1:00-‐4:00 ................................................................................................................... 11 Break Out Sessions: 1:00-‐2:15 ................................................................................................................ 12 Break Out Sessions: 2:30-‐3:45 ................................................................................................................ 13

Wednesday, August 12, 2014 .............................................................................................................. 14 Full Day Sessions: 9:00-‐4:00 .................................................................................................................... 15 Half-‐Day Sessions: 9:00-‐12:00 ................................................................................................................. 16 Break Out Sessions: 9:00-‐10:15 .............................................................................................................. 16 Break Out Sessions: 10:30-‐11:45 ............................................................................................................ 18 Half-‐Day Sessions: 1:00-‐4:00 ................................................................................................................... 19 Break Out Sessions: 1:00-‐2:15 ................................................................................................................ 20 Break Out Sessions: 2:30-‐3:45 ................................................................................................................ 21

Thursday, August 13, 2014 .................................................................................................................. 22 Full Day Sessions: 9:00-‐4:00 .................................................................................................................... 23 Half-‐Day Sessions: 1:00-‐4:00 ................................................................................................................... 25 Break Out Sessions: 9:00-‐10:15 .............................................................................................................. 26 Break Out Sessions: 10:30-‐11:45 ............................................................................................................ 27 Half-‐Day Sessions: 1:00-‐4:00 ................................................................................................................... 27 Break Out Sessions: 1:00-‐2:15 ................................................................................................................ 28 Break Out Sessions: 2:30-‐3:45 ................................................................................................................ 28

Session Planning Matrix ...................................................................................................................... 30

Welcome to the Curriculum Summer Institute 2015 session offering catalog! We are excited to offer a different program this year for CSI to our teachers. This year’s conference will be hosted at EB Aycock Middle school and will focus on empowering participants to engage more deeply with content rather than trying to provide broad over-‐views of many things.

EB Aycock Middle School will be the new host of CSI this year on August 11-‐13. While this document offers an overview of all sessions scheduled as of the date on the first page, as new sessions are added and current sessions updated the most current version of this document will be available at http://www.successforeverychild.com. The most up-‐to-‐date session information can be found by logging into My Learning Plan after May 26, 2015.

In addition to a change in location, a couple of other important changes have been made in an attempt to better meet the needs and desires of our staff. First, as a result of the change in location to a more centrally located school, lunch will not be provided this year; we will break every day from 11:45-‐1:00 to allow participants to take lunch off campus at one of the local eateries nearby. Second, in an effort to comply with State Board of Education Policy, CEUs will not be automatically awarded for attendance. Instead, a new form will be created in MLP where participants can submit a list of sessions they attend to request CEUs upon completion of the conference; please note that in order to receive CEUs attendees must attend at least 10 hours of sessions and submit this form (it will be available at the conclusion of the conference). For participants that register for multi-‐day trainings, CEUs will automatically be awarded, but for all other sessions participants must request CEUs

Registration for all sessions will open on Tuesday, May 26, 2015 for teachers in Pitt County Schools. Registration for teachers outside of Pitt County Schools will open on Tuesday, June 16, 2015.

Attendance at CSI 2014 is voluntary; for employees of Pitt County Schools, the $30 per session registration fee will be waived; teachers and administrators outside Pitt County will be charged $30.00 per session. Additionally, PCS schools will be charged the registration fee for any no-‐shows. To register for sessions teachers must use My Learning Plan. An alternative registration format will be available for new teachers to the county who do not have MLP accounts and for anyone outside the county via by a link published on http://www.successforeverychild.com

Planning for this year’s institute began many months ago, and the people listed below each had a part in the development of CSI 2015; without their support this event could not take place.

Preston Bowers, High School Academic Innovation Coordinator Thomas Feller, Professional Learning Coordinator

Bill Frazier, 9-‐12 Director Melissa Mitchell, K-‐8 Program Secretary Sandra Morris, Federal Programs Director

Cheryl Olmsted, Assistant Superintendent for EPS Lisa Tate, K-‐5 Director

Chris Wheeler, Administrative Assistant to Cheryl Olmsted Shannon Wainright, 6-‐8 Director

Robin Wright, EC Director

A special thank-‐you to Janarde Cannon, the Principal at EB Aycock Middle School, and his staff for hosting us again this year.

We look forward to seeing you in August!

Tuesday , August 1 1 , 20 15

Tuesday Sessions 6

Full Day Sessions: Tuesday 9:00-‐4:00

Language! Initial Training

Provides initial training to implement Language! program. This is a two day training and participants should attend both days. Participants should bring the following Language! materials to the training: Language! Teacher Resource Guide; Language! Teacher Guide Level A or C -‐ Volume 1 only; Language! Teacher's Placement and Assessment Guide; Student Interactive Text; Student Hardback Text. If participant does not have access to these materials, please notify Vanessa Tripp ([email protected]). Participants should bring a laptop if possible. Audience: K-‐12 Language! Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30 Youth Mental Health First Aid Youth Mental Health First Aid USA is a full day public education program which introduces participants to the unique risk factors and warning signs of mental health problems in adolescents, builds understanding of the importance of early intervention, and teaches individuals how to help an adolescent in crisis or experiencing a mental health challenge. Mental Health First Aid uses role-‐playing and simulations to demonstrate how to assess a mental health crisis; select interventions and provide initial help; and connect young people to professional, peer, social, and self-‐help care. Audience: Teachers, Administrators Enrollment Maximum: 30

Thinking Maps Training for New Teachers

Visualizing our thinking allows us to have a concrete image of our abstract thoughts. Visual representations enhance the brain's natural ability to detect and construct meaningful patterns. Thinking Maps reduce anxiety by providing familiar visual patterns for thinking and working with complex ideas and situations. This session, designed for new teachers to PCS, will train them in the basics of using Thinking Maps in their classroom. Thinking Maps training is required for all new teachers in PCS; participants must bring the manual assigned by their school. Audience: New K-‐5 Teachers in PCS Enrollment Maximum: 30

Tuesday Sessions 7

Building Instructional Excellence Through Instructional Strategies

This interactive session is designed to demonstrate how to move K-‐8 mathematics instruction toward high rigor and relevance using research-‐based instructional strategies. Educators will participate first-‐hand in a professional learning situation that models effective instruction around strategies that can be applied directly in their classrooms. These instructional strategies are designed to help teachers create and implement an effective, engaging learner environment in Pitt County Schools. Audience: K-‐8 Math Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30

Presenter: Marlene Robinson, Consultant

Half-‐Day Sessions: Tuesday 9:00-‐12:00 It's Alive! -‐ Professional Development in Life Sciences Education for K-‐5

This high-‐energy, hands-‐on, science laboratory experience will leave you amazed, inspired, and ready to teach effective, goal-‐specific lessons that you and your students will love! Children are naturally curious about the world around them -‐ they want to talk about, read about, write about and DO science. This makes nature one of our most valuable instructional tools. Join us and learn how to use the things that grow and live right outside your classroom to develop high level thinking skills, observational skills, communication skills and essential vocabulary.

Audience: K-‐5 Science Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30 Presenter: Samantha Chauncey, Pitt Community College

Realize Math I, II, and III

Pearson Realize is the online resource of several PCS High School Math courses including Math 1, 2, & 3. With rich and engaging content, embedded assessment with instant data, and flexible classroom management tools, Realize gives you the power to raise interest and achievement for every student.

Audience: 8-‐12 Math Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30

Teaching with Urgency and Rigor to Improve K-‐2 Reading Comprehension

Tuesday Sessions 8

Improving reading comprehension through direct explicit comprehension strategy instruction and supporting students as they express their text reading comprehension orally and in writing with text based evidence, all the while building and revisiting their background knowledge about the world around them.

Audience: K-‐2 Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30

Presenter: Jennifer Jones, Consultant

Sprucing Up Math EOG Review

In this session the presenter will discuss fun and easy ways to make Math EOG review fun, exciting and meaningful for the students and teacher. I will show ways in which teachers with all levels of resources can review for the EOG and keep students active and engaged.

Audience: K-‐5, 6-‐8 Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30 Presenters: Heidi Criswell, Beth Madigan, and Lydia O’Rear

21st Century Instructional Tools: SchoolNet

Learn how to use SchoolNet to generate test and practice questions, how to analyze data to inform instruction, and how to track student mastery towards learning objectives.

Audience: Teachers, Administrators Enrollment Maximum: 30 Presenter: Amber Bass-‐Godfrey, DPI Envisions Math K-‐2

In this session teachers will learn to use the new Envisions math resource for their students; participants will need a laptop.

Audience: K-‐2 Teachers, Coaches Enrollment Maximum: 30 Presenter: Pearson

Tuesday Sessions 9

Break Out Sessions: Tuesday 9:00-‐10:15 "WORD UP!" Fun Ways to Engage Students with Vocabulary

Do you find that your students are getting "stumped" with vocabulary? Would they think that statement had something to do with a tree? Then come find some engaging ways to help your students improve their vocabulary without needing to merely copy definitions.

Audience: K-‐5 Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30 Presenter: Denise Owens, Eastern Elementary

21st Century Instructional Tools: Canvas

Beginning in 2015-‐16, Pitt County Schools will utilize Canvas by Instructure as the official district LMS. A Learning Management System is a way to connect all the digital tools that teachers use in one place. This presentation will offer a brief overview of features, capabilities, login information, and further training options. For a preview of Canvas, go to http://www.canvaslms.com/

Audience: Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30

Effective Thinking and Writing in EVERY AP class

Every AP course -‐ regardless of content area -‐ requires students to effectively communicate their understanding of important ideas in a written format. Thinking and writing are critical to success in AP courses. This session will look at strategies for successful writing on AP exams based on my experience as an AP Reader in European History and a teacher of AP European History and AP US History.

Audience: 9-‐12 AP Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30 Presenter: Nicki Griffin, South Central HS

Tuesday Sessions 10

We ALL Academic English as a Second Language!

This training is the first of a four part series, with parts 2-‐4 offered during the school year on district professional learning days. In part 1, entitled Expediting Comprehension for ELLs and their English-‐speaking Peers, participants will learn new strategies from the current state-‐led initiative, ExC-‐ELL, a research-‐based approach to expediting comprehension in our diverse classrooms. These strategies provide students with the tools they need to master the academic language that drives our curriculum. The ExC-‐ELL approach provides teachers with a variety of ways to include ELL students in the activities of the regular classroom. It is modification through inclusion, and any student that struggles with using top-‐tier academic language will benefit from the ExC-‐ELL approach to learning. Join us for an interactive session where you will learn strategies to use with all of your students as they build academic vocabulary and apply it to their reading and writing skills. Your students will begin to make academic English their own as they acquire vocabulary in a 7-‐step process, negotiate the meaning of new words through paired reading, and demonstrate comprehension through collaborative writing activities.

Audience: K-‐5, 6-‐8 Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30

Presenters: Amanda Brewington & Hannah Butler

Break Out Sessions: Tuesday 10:30-‐11:45 Diving Into Data

In this session you will learn how to utilize data to develop intrinsic motivation in your class. You will learn how to use and display data including STAR data, benchmarks, CFA's and classroom tests.

Audience: Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30 Presenter: Donna Steele & Allison Christman, AG Cox

Tuesday Sessions 11

My Access -‐ Because Writing Matters

MY Access! School Edition is the award-‐winning, cloud based writing development solution that utilizes artificial intelligence and linguistic technologies to bring wide-‐scale differentiated instruction to the writing process. Educators can make timely, data-‐driven decisions for successful differentiated instruction and motivate students to write more frequently by providing them with immediate feedback. This digital resource will be used exclusively at each high school for English 1 students. This session is a precursor to more formal training on 8/18/15. Audience: 9-‐12 Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30

21st Century Instructional Tools: Canvas (repeated session)

See page 9 for description


Half-‐Day Sessions: Tuesday 1:00-‐4:00

Magic Science! -‐ Professional Development in Physical Science Education

Can we teach chemistry and physics in K-‐5? Of course-‐-‐and we must! Join us for a fun filled laboratory session that demonstrates the marvel and magic of science. Learn how to use science to motivate and inspire your students to utilize and develop high-‐level thinking, communication, and comprehension skills. Make potions that miraculously change colors, use water as glue and more as we show you how to teach fundamentals of chemistry and physical science with research-‐based, best teaching practices in inquiry instruction.

Audience: K-‐5 Science Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30 Presenter: Samantha Chauncey, Pitt Community College

Tuesday Sessions 12

Teaching with Urgency and Rigor to Improve 3-‐5 Reading Comprehension

Building student vocabulary, both expressive and receptive, through direct and indirect vocabulary instruction. Teachers will learn strategies for teaching Tier 2 vocabulary through Text Talk lessons and the 6-‐step process for teaching Tier 3 words.

Audience: 3-‐5 Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30 Presenter: Jennifer Jones, Consultant 21st Century Instructional Tools: SchoolNet (repeat session)


Audience: Teachers, Administrators Enrollment Maximum: 30 Envisions Math 3-‐5

In this session teachers will learn to use the new Envisions math resource for their students; participants will need a laptop.

Audience: 3-‐5 Teachers, Coaches Enrollment Maximum: 30 Presenter: Pearson

Break Out Sessions: Tuesday 1:00-‐2:15




Tuesday Sessions 13

Break Out Sessions: Tuesday 2:30-‐3:45




Work Session

This session will allow teachers to collaborate and network to design new lesson plans and/or assessments aligned with the new standards. Registration is NOT required to participate in this session and CEUs will not be awarded for participation. Location: Media Center Audience: Teachers Enrollment Maximum: Unlimited

Wednesday , August 12 , 2015

Wednesday Sessions 15

Full Day Sessions: Wednesday 9:00-‐4:00 Language! Initial Training (Day 2)

This is day 2 of the Language! Initial Training; participants must register for both days Audience: K-‐12 Language! Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30

Transmath Initial Training

Provides initial training to implement Transmath program. Participants should bring the followin Transmath materials to the training: Teacher Edition; Teacher Edition Placement Guide; Teacher Resource Guide. If participants do not have access to these Transmath materials, contact Vanessa Tripp ([email protected]). Participants should bring a laptop if possible. Audience: 6-‐8 Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30

The Big 7 & Classroom Management for Challenging Students

A lively interactive presentation provides descriptions of the Big Seven, daily Instruction techniques: Class-‐Yes, the Five Classroom Rules, Teach-‐Okay, the Scoreboard, Hands & Eyes, Mirror, and Switch. You'll marvel at the easy classroom management system: Scoreboard, Practice Cards, Guff Counter, Independents, Bull’s-‐eye Game, and Agreement Bridge. Explore the wonders of WBT student leadership training used to transform your most unruly, challenging students! Audience: K-‐5, 6-‐8 Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 50

Presenter: Jasselle Cirino, Consultant


PBIS Module I

Schools interested in implementing PBIS Module I can attend this two-‐day training to begin the program; note that attendance at this session must be pre-‐approved by Thomas Feller and the entire 5-‐7 member team, including an administrator, must attend both days of training. Audience: School PBIS Teams Enrollment Maximum: 30

Presenters: Osmond Lister, DPI and Thomas Feller

Half-‐Day Sessions: Wednesday 9:00-‐12:00

Envisions Math 3-‐5 (repeated session)


Break Out Sessions: Wednesday 9:00-‐10:15 The ELA Standards Unpacked (K-‐2)

This session will provide K-‐2 teachers with “unpacked” ELA standards. The resources provided will identify what mastery of the ELA standards looks like from a student. The information that is shared with K-‐2 teachers will breakdown exactly what the teacher does, what the student does, and the academic vocabulary associated with each standard.


Presenter: Alan Becker


Grades. Their Power. The Law. Are You in Violation?

Assignments and grades have certain parameters, but all too often, what is in a teacher's grade book is in violation of board policy. This could mean big trouble if that teacher ever had to defend himself before the board or in a court of law. During this workshop, participants will learn the rules, measure their own grading practices and prepare to enter the new school year with a redefined outlook on grading practice.

Audience: 6-‐8 Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30 Presenter: Kim Lucas

Thinking with ""

Your students will create a visual presentation on any topic you choose. It will include audio, visual and textual presentations. Students will create stunning presentations using this extension. This extension is appropriate for math, language arts, science or social studies teachers. Please bring a device so you can create a thinklink assignment.

Audience: K-‐5, 6-‐8, 9-‐12 Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30

Presenters: Donna Steele and Chuck Branch, AGC Cox Middle School

NBPTS: Gear Up for Renewal

NBCTs in year 8 or 9 can begin the renewal process before the application process opens in September. Certificates expiring 2016 or 2017 need attention now. Renewal focuses on Personal Growth Experiences and the impact on learners. This will be an informational/first step renewal session to learn about cost, process, formats, and electronic submission.


Presenters: Donna Mathews, South Central HS




Break Out Sessions: Wednesday 10:30-‐11:45 The ELA Standards Unpacked (3-‐5)

This session will provide 3-‐5 teachers with “unpacked” ELA standards. The resources provided will identify what mastery of the ELA standards looks like from a student. The information that is shared with 3-‐5 teachers will breakdown exactly what the teacher does, what the student does, and the academic vocabulary associated with each standard.

Audience: 3-‐5 Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30


Using Guided Reading & Writing to Prepare Students for TRC (Written & Oral Comprehension)

This session will be geared toward preparing students for the TRC portion of READ 3D benchmark assessments. We will discuss how to group students for guided reading by digging deeper into the benchmark data. We will also focus on choosing target goals for each reading group and how to prepare each group for oral and written comprehension according to their expected testing level. We will use leveled text to practice creating TRC written and oral comprehension question stems. You will leave this session with a stronger understanding of how to prepare your students to succeed on the TRC benchmark assessments.


Presenter: Lindsay Pahe, Katie Reynolds, and Stephanie Phelps, South Greenville Elementary

NBPTS: Discover National Board Certification

Join over 20,000 teachers in North Carolina by becoming one of the next National Board Certified Teachers. This session will cover what it means to be board certified, what the 25 certification areas include, and what four areas will be evaluated through the new process. We will review the two modules introduced in Fall 2014 and discuss the newest module and its release date. Cost and loan information will be available.


Presenter: Donna Matthews, South Central HS




Half-‐Day Sessions: Wednesday 1:00-‐4:00 Middle School & Struggling Readers

All too often, students enter middle school not reading on grade level. So, what's a teacher to do? This course is designed to help teachers understand the brain when it comes to reading, identify why and where the students are struggling and prepare an explicit and direct approach to closing gaps.

Audience: 6-‐8 Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30

Presenter: Kimberly Lucas

Purposeful Literacy Centers for the K-‐5 Classroom

Having a purposeful literacy center in the classroom is all about student engagement and rigorous learning activities when the teacher is conducting small group instruction. This session will provide teachers with an eye opening view of what a purposeful literacy center looks like in an elementary classroom. Teachers will learn how to set up a center that lends itself to zero interruptions while conducting a teacher led small group. Teachers will also learn how to provide rigorous learning activities, using a simple rubric, for all of your centers. Centers are all about student engagement and the teachers will be engaged as well as they determine the grade level and analyze six different purposeful literacy centers that can be used in a K-‐5 classroom. Audience: K-‐5 Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30


Envisions Math K-‐2 (repeated session)



Break Out Sessions: Wednesday 1:00-‐2:15

Probing for Understanding -‐ Formative Assessment in Science K-‐8

Determining student understanding in the sciences can be difficult not only because the content can be confusing at times but because in science, student preconceptions and misconceptions are so powerful. Using formative assessment probes, teachers will examine and expand their toolbox for assessing what students actually know in science and leave this session with research-‐based, state sanctioned methods to formatively assess their students' knowledge of the science essential standards.

Audience: K-‐8 Science Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30

Presenter: Fritz Robinett

Creating Critical Thinkers

This session will focus on what Project Based Learning looks like in a sixth grade science/ math classroom. Come learn how to get your students to think and incorporate 21st Century skills in all discipline areas. You will begin to develop your own PBL in your content area and share ideas with fellow teachers.


Presenter: Donna Steele, AG Cox Middle School





Break Out Sessions: Wednesday 2:30-‐3:45 21st Century Instructional Tools: Canvas (repeated session)



Work Session


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Thursday Sessions 23

Full Day Sessions: Thursday 9:00-‐4:00 Language! Refresher Training

Provides refresher training related to implementation of the Language! program. In order to participate in this refresher training, participants must have previously completed Language! Initial Training. This is a one day training. Participants should bring the following Language! materials to the training: Language! Teacher Resource Guide; Language! Teacher Guide Level A or C -‐ Volume 1 only; Language! Teacher's Placement and Assessment Guide; Student Interactive Text; Student Hardback Text. Participants should bring a laptop if possible. Audience: Language! Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30

Vmath Initial Training

Provides initial training to implement the Vmath (Voyager Math) program. This is a one day training. Participants should bring a Vmath Teacher's Kit to the training. If participants do not have access to Vmath Teacher's Kit, contact Vanessa Tripp ([email protected]). Participants should bring a laptop if possible. Audience: K-‐5, 6-‐8 Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30

Lesson Design & Delivery

Discover WBT’s simple, powerful Five Step Lesson Template for structuring lessons. At every step of the template, you'll learn how to incorporate WBT's signature elements: whole brain instruction, deep student engagement and magnetic learning fun. The Five Step Lesson Template is perfect for teaching everything from the most complex core standards to the simplest classroom procedures ... and every lesson develops powerful higher order thinking skills (HOTS!). Audience: K-‐5, 6-‐8 Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 50

Presenter: Jasselle Cirino, Consultant


Write From the Beginning for New PCS Teachers (Day 1)

Write from the Beginning is a PCS’ district initiative; this two-‐day training is designed for new teachers in the district to learn the program and begin implementing it the very first day of school. Teachers must bring the manual assigned them from their school; day two of the training will take place on October 26, a district professional learning day, and participants must attend both days of training. Teachers should register for the appropriate grade span (the training is offered for K-‐1, 2-‐3, 4-‐5, and 6-‐8); this is a required training for teachers new to PCS. Audience: New K-‐1 , 2-‐3, and 4-‐5Teachers to PCS Enrollment Maximum: 30

Write From the Beginning: for New 6-‐8 PCS Teachers (Day 1)

Argumentative Training for 6-‐8 teachers; participants must have completed WFTB training prior to attending and should bring their manual assigned to them by the school. Day 2 will be on October 26, 2015, a district professional learning day. Audience: New 6-‐8 Teachers to PCS Enrollment Maximum: 30

Reading 3D

Reading 3D is a district and state initiative, and training is required for all teachers new to PCS in grades K-‐3. Please note that this training will take place at Sadie Saulter, and all BT’s will be automatically registered for it, so only new experienced teachers need register. This is a 1.5 day training, with the second part of the training delivered on August 18, a district professional learning day. This is a required training for all new K-‐3 teachers to Pitt County Schools. Audience: New K-‐3 Teachers to PCS Enrollment Maximum: 30

PBIS Module I

Day 2 of PBIS Module I training; participants must attend both days. Audience: School PBIS Teams nrollment Maximum: 30


Youth Mental Health First Aid (repeat session) See page 6 for session details. Audience: Teachers, Administrators Enrollment Maximum: 30

Half-‐Day Sessions: Thursday 9:00-‐12:00 Reading Comprehension in K-‐2

How do I get my students to grow? How can we get students to accelerate in written comprehension? Teachers will learn how to teach their children to make their thinking "visible" and apply to text in both written and oral comprehension. Teachers will have the opportunity to build a bank of ideas for fiction and non fiction guided reading lessons for K-‐2 students. Audience: K-‐2 Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30 Presenter: Krista Bunting and Ashley Smith, Wintergreen Primary School

Literature Circles with Intermediate Students: Choice + Constructive Talk = Comprehension

When you finish a good book, what do you do? Chances are you want to TALK with someone about it, not take a multiple choice quiz. The same is true for our students, too! This half-‐day presentation will help teachers understand the many benefits of literature circles for intermediate readers. We'll talk about the general structure and main ideas of literature circles, thinking especially about how research supports student choice and constructive talk to deepen students' comprehension of the texts they read. We'll also watch videos and get to try some literature circles of our own and see how our understanding of this activity changes when we engage deeply as readers with high-‐quality texts. Come ready to read, talk, think, and enjoy books with one another. Audience: K-‐5 Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30 Presenter: Dr. Caitlyn Ryan, East Carolina University


Break Out Sessions: Thursday 9:00-‐10:15

What's In Your Wallet

This session will highlight various Positive Behavior Support Programs that can be easily implemented in both the general and adaptive EC classrooms. The students in my K-‐5 classroom currently have “wallets” where velcroed pennies are earned for working hard. These pennies are cashed in daily at the “Candy Store” with extras going to their “savings account.” That is where the title of my presentation What’s In Your Wallet comes from. Sample materials will be brought in and shown as well as classroom pictures and videos throughout the presentation. Resource guides with internet resources including the “Whole Brain Teaching” techniques will also be shared. All these resources will be used to illustrate a variety of programs that the participants can easily put into place upon returning to their classrooms. All the techniques spotlighted have been field tested by the author in various settings throughout the continuum of services for exceptional children, as well as various grade levels. Many anecdotal stories will be shared regarding the students’ and parents’ investments in these programs. Participants will have a notes handout from the PowerPoint. There will also be several opportunities for the participants to share programs they use as well as ask questions regarding particularly challenging behaviors they may be facing. The targeted audience would be anyone seeking some tips and easy behavioral reward programs that support positive behavior in the classroom. Audience: K-‐5 Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30 Presenter: Wesley Trump, Sam D Bundy Elementary School Using Picture Books to Teach Literacy Skills

This workshop will focus on improving students’ reading comprehension by using picture books to teach literacy skills (ex. mood, plot, theme). We will explore well-‐known picture books and which skills they fit best into. Teachers will receive/create ready-‐to-‐teach lesson plans for implementing picture books in their classrooms.

Audience: K-‐5, 6-‐8 Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30 Presenter: Kim Russell, Ayden Middle School






We ALL Speak Academic English as a Second Language! (repeat session)

See page 10 for session description

Audience: K-‐5, 6-‐8 Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30 21st Century Instructional Tools: Canvas (repeated session)



Half-‐Day Sessions: Thursday 1:00-‐4:00

Literature Circles with Intermediate Students: Choice + Constructive Talk = Comprehension (repeat session)

See page 25 for session description Audience: K-‐5 Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30



K-‐2 Comprehension: Making Thinking Visible

This study involves the direct teaching of comprehension strategies through concrete experiences with first grade students. The purpose of this research is to develop authentic rigorous instruction on comprehension to support students’ ability to respond to higher order questioning with supporting details in both oral and written form. Data taken from standardized testing shows students are stagnating in growth because of an inability to respond to oral and written response questions after reading benchmark texts. This innovation involves directly teaching 6 components of comprehension with an emphasis on hands on experience and “making thinking visible”. Students were also supported by interactive journals as physical representations of their learning. Upon completion of the project 100% of students showed growth with a minimum of 3 levels and a maximum of 11 levels. I was also able to show that this new learning was being applied across the curriculum. Audience: K-‐2 Teachers Enrollment Maximum: 30 Presenter: Ashley Smith, Wintergreen Primary School 21st Century Instructional Tools: Canvas (repeated session)



Break-‐Out Sessions: Thursday 2:30-‐3:45 21st Century Instructional Tools: Canvas (repeated session)




Work Session


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Session Planning Matrix Use the matrix below to outline the sessions for which you want to register. Registration will open on May 27 for all teachers. Except for specific sessions notated in this guide, registration does not require the approval of principals or

district-‐level administrators to participate. Tuesday, August 11, 2015 Session Name

9:00-‐10:15 10:30-‐11:45 11:50-‐1:00 Lunch (off campus) 1:00-‐2:15 2:30-‐3:45

Wednesday, August 12, 2015 Session Name

9:00-‐10:15 10:30-‐11:45 11:50-‐1:00 Lunch (off campus) 1:00-‐2:15 2:30-‐3:45

Thursday, August 13, 2015 Session Name

9:00-‐10:15 10:30-‐11:45 11:50-‐1:00 Lunch (off campus) 1:00-‐2:15 2:30-‐3:45

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