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Chris Lehman
Pathways to the ELA Common Core: Accelerating Achievement
September 17, 2013
Registration begins at 8:00 a.m.
Seminar is from 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Chris Lehman is an author, speaker, and a Senior Staff
Developer with Teacher College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University. He is the author of Energizing Research Reading and Writing, A Quick Guide to Reviving Disengaged Writers, and co-author with Lucy Calkins and Mary Ehrenworth of Pathways to the Common Core: Accelerating Achievement.
During this seminar, Chris will help you see how your current literacy practices align to the expectations of the Common Core State Standards and guide you to see steps you can take to revise your literacy curriculum so that it supports the new dimensions of learning called for in the standards. Participants will learn how to understand what the standards say and what they don't say, and learn to recognize the guiding principles that underpin the reading and writing standards.
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Karin Hess
Transition to the Common Core: Increasing Rigor in Curriculum & Assessment
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Registration begins at 8:00 a.m.
Seminar is from 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
What do fewer, clearer, and higher standards look like?
During this seminar, Dr. Karin Hess will discuss the rigor expectations in the Common Core State Standards and explore effective approaches to assist with the transition. She will define cognitive rigor and present a matrix that integrates strategies for analyzing lesson plans, instruction, and assessments.
Karin, Senior Associate at the National Center for Assessment since 2002, has over 30 years experience in curriculum, instruction and assessment. She has authored and co-authored numerous books and articles related to instructional practices, alignment, cognitive rigor, and assessment. You don't want to miss this informative seminar.
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Jo Anne Vasquez
STEM Teaching, Moving Beyond the Acronym
Friday, January 24, 2014
Registration begins at 8:00 a.m.
Seminar is from 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Do you want to know how to implement authentic STEM
teaching and learning into the classroom? During this seminar, Jo Anne will provide you with tools and strategies for designing integrated, interdisciplinary STEM lessons and units that are relevant and exciting to your students. With ideas that are practical and achievable in any classroom, this seminar will give you confidence and knowledge to weave engineering and technology concepts into math and science curriculum.
Jo Anne Vasquez is vice president and program director of the STEM Initiatives at the Helios Education Foundation. Her distinguished service and extraordinary contributions to the advancement of science education at the local, state and national levels have won her numerous awards, including National Science Teachers' Robert Carlton Award, their highest award in Science Teaching. Sign up now for this fantastic seminar.
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Lisa Foster
Using i-Pads Effectively in the Classroom
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Registration begins at 8:00 a.m.
Seminar is from 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Lisa Foster, a full-time consultant with the Educational
Resources Group, specializes in classroom technology integration. She has been a successful teacher, assistant principal, principal, and district administrator, including serving as the Director of Instruction for Lexington School District Two. Lisa led Lexington Two, home of South Carolina's only Apple Distinguished School, with the implementation of mobile devices for a variety of instructional support modes for kindergarten through high school, special education, ESOL, and Gifted and Talented students.
Lisa's seminar will focus on the iPad as both a teacher's tool and a resource for students. Specific ideas, projects, apps, and educational planning sites for the iPad will be shared. Register today to hear this outstanding speaker.
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