Performing Arts Workshop Series
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*FACE-TO-FACE*
Various dates Jan 16 - Apr 17 must attend 15 hours to earn credit Instructors: Various |
This series of classes offers teachers the opportunity to create a credit of professional learning by choosing from the topics that they are most interested in. Select 15 hours of class from the list in PD PRo.
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PERFORMING ARTS WORKSHOP SERIES
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*FACE-TO-FACE*
Various dates Jan 16 - Apr 17 must attend 7.5 hours to earn credit Instructors: Various |
This series of classes offers teachers the opportunity to create a credit of professional learning by choosing from the topics that they are most interested in. Select 7.5 hours of class from the list in PD PRo.
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Challenging behaviors: what do i do?
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*FACE-TO-FACE*
Jan 23 - Apr 30 Instructors: Jen Zapanta & Liz Nardini |
Are you struggling to ensure students have access to a high quality education due to challenging behaviors disrupting the learning environment? Then, this course is for you! This course will explore strategies and solutions to create a safe learning environment for all learners. This course is designed for general education classroom teachers K-12 who are seeking solutions when working with students with challenging behaviors. Many aspects of the Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) curriculum will be taught (although not for CPI certification), along with principles of behavior analysis. It will be taught in 5 classes; attendance at all classes plus 15 hours of outside class work is required for course credit.
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getting started with project based learning
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*ONLINE*
Jan 13 - Feb 21 Instructors: Keli Kinsella |
This course is part of The Skillful Teacher Series. Just what is Project-Based Learning? Is it just old-school thematic teaching? What about standards? "Project-Based Learning is a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging and complex question, problem, or challenge." - The Buck Institute for Education. In this online course you will develop project-based learning opportunities for your students.
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culturally responsive pedagogy
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*ONLINE*
Jan 21 - May 10 Instructor: Michelle Allen |
This online course "Culturally Responsive Pedagogy" is designed for teachers who have limited experience with culturally responsive teaching. This course is designed to introduce students to terminology, ideology, and pedagogy. This course offers students an opportunity to privately self- examine how race and culture intersect, and how that intersection manifest in the classroom.
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DISRUPTING IMPLICIT BIAS IN SCHOOLS
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*FACE-to-FACE*
Jan 22, Jan 29, Feb 5, and Feb 12 Instructor: Kinette Richards Marla Bonds |
Participants will explore the ways in which biases show up in their everyday lives, even in the classroom (i.e. expectations, instruction, classroom management). We will explore how unconscious biases impact our relationships with students and their families. Through this training, participants will uncover and reflect on their own hidden biases and identify strategies to interrupt them.
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Mix it up with blended learning
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*ONLINE*
Jan 30 - Mar 2 Instructor: Amber Paynter |
Join us as we cook up new ideas and methods to support teaching and learning in the modern classroom. Mix It Up with Blended Learning is a self-paced online course filled with interactive activities and engaging learning experiences that could be used at all grade levels. Blended learning is the instructional practice in which the student learns at least in part through online learning, with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace. With that framework, participants will design a blended learning experience including essential ingredients needed for effective learning in face-to-face and digital learning environments, taste testing what works, and sharing recipes with others.
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FIXER UPPER SCHOOLOGY STYLE
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*BLENDED*
Jan 15 - April 8 Instructor: Kris Edwards Jay Vean |
Take some time and get two credits this semester to transform, upgrade, and/or build your Schoology course(s) into the most dynamic course(s) in the district, where students learn and thrive in new, innovative learning environments. Following Chip and Joanna Gaines’ workflow, get ready to demolish your current course, start with a fresh redesign to organize your content, and build in a variety of interactive elements. We’ll meet once at the beginning of the course, Face to Face, to build your blueprints, and then again at the end of the course for your Big Reveal to show off your Fixer-Upper. The rest of the course time will be on your own, but if you need support, we’ll be there with our hard-hats on to help you through your journey. Meeting times TBD.
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INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES AND ASSESSMENT FOR CLD STUDENTS
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*FACE-to-FACE*
Jan 7, 14, 21 & 28 Instructors: Julie Ignacz & Tricia MacRae Meeting the Needs of ELs or an equivalent FOUNDATIONS AND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION must be completed prior to Literacy Development for CLD Students and/or Instructional Strategies and Assessment for CLD students. |
This 1 credit (15 hours) course partially fulfills the 3 course (45 hours) Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education requirements for licensure with the Colorado Department of Education for educators endorsed in elementary, science, social studies or English seeking renewal of their professional license.
Participants will develop an understanding of how to implement effective, research-based instructional strategies that are culturally responsive and differentiated for a diverse range of CLD students. 5.15 Quality Standard IV: Educators are knowledgable in the teaching strategies including methods, materials, and assessment for CLD students. |
Cooperative learning, now what?
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*ONLINE*
Jan 7 - Apr 30 Instructor: Angela Legg |
As a follow up to Cooperative Learning, teachers can earn another credit by gaining deeper knowledge on cooperative learning strategies and why they effective in the classroom, practicing the implementation of strategies in their content with students, reflecting on the implementation, providing feedback to colleagues, and sharing new learning with their collaborative teams.
Prerequisite for this course includes either: - documented completion of Cooperative Learning OR - a history of implementing Cooperative Learning Structures in the classroom (approved by the instructor) |
SUpr 2: classroom connections
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*FACE-TO-FACE*
Jan 27 - May 4 Instructor: Katy Rohrig |
This class is intended for teachers who have completed the SuPR class (Success in Primary Reading). Teachers will review the SuPR lesson format and design small group reading instruction that mirrors a SuPR lesson. Topics discussed include reading familiar texts with purpose, letter/word work in a group setting, analyzing running records, designing instruction based on individual student needs, and appropriate prompts/language for individual students.
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Planning for Thinking: A Math Workshop
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*FACE-TO-FACE*
Jan 11 - Feb 13 Instructor: Heather Palumbo |
Participants will understand the components of a workshop structure and be able to apply that in the context of best math instruction. Participants will learn about workshop structures by participating in math workshops, learning from experts through professional texts, and reflecting on their own practices across the course.
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Challenging Behaviors: What do I do?
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*FACE-TO-FACE*
Jan 23 - April 30 Instructor: Liz Nardini & Jen Zapanta |
Are you struggling to ensure students have access to a high quality education due to challenging behaviors disrupting the learning environment? Then, this course is for you! This course will explore strategies and solutions to create a safe learning environment for all learners. This course is designed for general education classroom teachers K-12 who are seeking solutions for working with students with challenging behaviors. Many aspects of the Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) curriculum will be taught along with principles of behavior analysis.
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Maximizing the Workshop Model With IRLA in Mind
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*FACE-TO-FACE*
Jan 23 - Feb 20 Instructor: Katie Kachelries & Tammy French |
This course will give teachers the opportunity to build on their understanding of IRLA and how it maximizes reading instruction during the workshop model. Teachers will participate in a workshop model to enhance their learning on the following components: mini-lesson, small group structures, conferring, and independent reading. Throughout this course, we will examine best instructional practices for teaching and progress monitoring student power goals in School Pace. Teachers will also be given many opportunities to converse and problem solve around the successes and challenges of implementing the workshop model while attending to grade level standards and individual power goals.
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National Board Certification Support
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Jan 11, Apr 4 Instructors: Katrese Wheeler & Marisa Ronyak |
This course is to facilitate awarding credit for participants who have participated in "Getting Started with the National Board Certification Process Workshops". Participants must attend a minimum of 15 hours of workshops (course 11185) to earn credit.
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VISUAL ARTS WORKSHOPS
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*FACE-TO-FACE*
Jan 13 - Apr 20 Instructor: Lisa Adams |
To create an opportunity for CCSD K-12 Visual Arts teachers, leaders and community to educate, collaborate, develop and participate in valid instructional and meaningful workshops that specifically tailor to Visual Arts pedagogy, needs and target, professional, student and personal growth. Visual Arts is an important and impacting area of education but it is a smaller group that contains within it unique and special needs and circumstances. In targeting specific subject area instructional classes, we empower all K-12 teachers with valid appropriations for the classroom. This in turn allows them to keep up with the current technological trends, find better ways to serve their unique populations of students and community, and continue to develop their material expertise. In addition, we are creating professional and leadership opportunities for colleagues to learn from each other as well as experts in the field.
Participants seeking 1 credit will need to attend 5 workshop sessions. |
Idea Accelerator for Education (X Lab)
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*FACE-TO-FACE*
Jan 21 - March 24 Prerequisite - 11294 Instructor: Adrian Neibauer & Jon Pierce |
The X Lab will be a half-day experience for teachers and administrators. We will meet 3 times per year (limited seats available) giving participants a place to solve real problems they are facing in their classrooms and buildings. Using design-based problem solving, teachers and administrators will work to create impact design solutions and build a culture of innovation in their building. The X Lab is completely opt-in, collaborative, and impactful.
Participants commit to regular meetings as a Design Team and are coached on their ideas. The Design Lab guides participants through an iterative process that involves gathering information, developing possibilities and evolving them into viable solutions. We learn together, from each other, and through new insights. |
How to generate and use data in AP Classroom #11488 |
*FACE-TO-FACE*
Jan 7 - May 20 Instructor: Lisa Rodgers |
Participants will familiarize themselves with College Board's AP Classroom, including how to use Personal Progress Checks, Topic Questions, and the test bank. Then, we will use student-generated data to monitor progress and develop personalized review programs for AP students. Participants must be current teachers of an AP course and have access to AP Classroom through College Board.
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COGNITIVE COACHING IN PRACTICE DAYS 1-4
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*ONLINE*
Jan 13 - May 1 Instructor: Lauren Thornberry |
This course will review and practice content learned in the Cognitive Coaching Foundations Training Days 1-4. Participants will:
- Internalize the Planning conversation map (Planning conversation sections) -Internalize the Reflecting conversation map (Reflecting conversation sections) - Refine skills and repertoire of coaching tools (Both Planning and Reflecting conversation sections) |