Academic Discourse through Socratic Seminars

The Socratic method of teaching is a student-centered approach that challenges learners to develop their critical thinking skills and engage in analytic discussion. The Socratic method can be used at any grade level and with all subject areas, and lessons can be adapted to fit a changing society. Come participate in a session that will provide teachers a method to ask students open-ended questions about texts and encourage students to use textual evidence to support their opinions and answers. Engage your students in intellectual discourse!

BlendELA: Activate Common Core ELA standards through Learning A-Z, Spelling City, NewsELA, and Scholastic News

Get started with our amazing online resources to activate learning in English Language Arts and address our Common Core Standards and 21st century learning. These blended learning platforms support personalized learning for our students through leveled reading, current events, nonfiction, and differentiated spelling activities. Teachers can create personalized pathways for students and monitor student progress. Bring your class lists and let’s jump right in!

Participants will:

• Understand how the ELA Common Core Standards and 21st century learning will be addressed through the blended learning platforms
• Learn how to navigate the different learning platforms
• Get prepared to engage your students in active learning using these platforms

Center for the Collaborative Classroom: Being a Writer

The Being a Writer program provides a writing-process approach to teaching writing that interweaves academic and social-emotional learning for K–5 students. Come learn how to get started using this new supplemental ELA resource.

Co-Teaching 101

This session is specially designed for certificated staff working in the beginning stages of the Co-Teaching model. Participants will learn about basics of the Co-Teaching model and will be able to build upon foundational knowledge of Co-Teaching. Teachers and specialists will work side by side to learn instructional strategies and techniques to support their Co-Teaching practice within their classrooms.

Participants will:

• Learn and build upon the foundations of the Co-Teaching model
• Work with Co-Teaching partners to learn strategies and techniques to further Co-Teaching practice
• Learn skills to support all learners within the Co-Taught
classroom.

Code San Leandro!

(Participants leave with Coding Curriculum)
Want to learn more about coding and computer science? CodeHS' PD workshop will explore how teachers can leverage our blended online learning tools and curriculum to confidently lead a computer science course, STEM or NGSS unit, or class, even if they've never coded before themselves. Come join us!

Create with Paper

In this hands-on workshop, participants will discover the fun of playing with paper, learn & explore basic techniques, and create their own original 3-D constructions. This workshop will provide opportunities to learn ways to integrate the techniques in their own classroom curriculum to invite creative thinking and writing.

Participants will:

• Fold, cut and glue paper!
• Create 3-D constructions!
• Learn how these techniques and forms can help your students play with materials & techniques, explore & express ideas & knowledge, and feel the joy and excitement of creating 3D forms from paper.

Creating a Captivating Teacher Webpage

In this workshop, you will engage in applying the essential basics to building an interactive teacher webpage. Workshops will be tailored to participant’s experience

Developing Your Students’ Mathematical Minds
(Exploring the 8 Standards for Mathematical Practices in Common Core Math)

The 8 Standards for Mathematical Practice describe the expertise that mathematics educators at all levels should seek to develop in students. These standards are the heart and soul of the Common Core Standards for Mathematics.

Participant Outcomes:

• Determine the difference between the 8 Standards for Mathematical Practice and your grade level Common Core Math Content Standards.
• Identify the key elements of each of the 8 Standards for Mathematical Practice.
• Explore hands-on lessons and activities to leverage the 8 Standards for Mathematical Practice in your teaching.

Google Classroom 101 and Student Google Accounts

Now that SLUSD students are getting Google accounts, you must be wondering how you'll organize, grade and annotate the incoming deluge of assignments in your new blended learning classroom. Google Classroom seamlessly ties together Google's familiar suite of apps to streamline students' assignment workflow and enhance communication. In this workshop you will learn the basics of Google Classroom platform, how to assign and grade work, and how to create an interactive online learning community that will save you time and save your sanity so that you can spend more time providing guidance for your wonderful students.

Google Docs for Classroom Writing

Writing is going digital! From blogging to the SBAC, collaborating on reports and developing presentations, students need to develop the capacity to use online writing platforms to develop ideas, edit, and publish work. Experience best practices in the digital writing process and see how using Google Docs can make student thinking visible, support ELA and ELD standards, address a variety of learner styles, and facilitate student writing across the curriculum.

Introduction to Autism Spectrum Disorders

This session will provide an overview of the prevalence rats and diagnostic criteria for ASD as defined in the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual). An emphasis is placed on understanding the characteristics and early signs of autism. Finally, the presentation will highlight evidence based practices for the treatment and education of people with ASD.

Let’s Talk: Everyday Argumentation

Students talk in class; let's get them to talk and reason in support of an idea or point of view. This workshop will help you guide students through academic discourse to support opinions with reasons, organize their thoughts effectively and develop the language to link their ideas together. The strategies you will learn will help support literacy development across content areas, address a variety of learner styles, and will help students prepare for opinion and argumentative writing in later grades.

Math Pathways & Pitfalls: Founded on Core Principles on How Children Learn Mathematics

Math Pathways & Pitfalls intervention curriculum helps students tackle stubborn pitfalls head-on and transform them into pathways for learning key standards. This session will address the need for providing improved instruction of key mathematical standards and academic language in the math classroom. Teachers will receive a Math Pathways & Pitfalls curriculum book and CD for attending this session that also includes:

• 20+ student lessons and teaching guides (download free samples)
• DVD with footage of Math Pathways & Pitfalls in action
• CD with black line masters and classroom quizzes with answer keys
• Discussion Builders poster

MIND MATTERS--
Using Neuroscience to Help Increase Growth Mindset and Grit

The more we understand how our brain works, the more we can use it to strengthen our mind, body, and spirit. Participants will learn about the neuroscience that anchors the key components of Social Emotional Learning: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, positive relationships, and decision making. They will learn about the research on Mindset-- as a critical component impacting their teaching as well as an essential tool in their work with students. Participants will engage in lessons that they can replicate in the classroom. We will examine the research on neuroplasticity, growth mindset and grit and how shifting perspectives of both staff and students will turn frustration, learned helplessness, and apathy into engagement, perseverance and hope.

Music Games and Singing in the Classroom for TK-2nd Grade!

In this session we will sing and play together! Learn songs and singing games on how to encourage healthy singing in young students in your classroom.

Science is a Verb -
An Introduction to Scientific Inquiry

Do you find that your students have many questions about the world around them? Do you want to encourage their curiosity and nurture their investigative & problem solving skills? Learn how to get started using Science & Engineering Practices from the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) to foster engaging student centered learning.

Participants will:

• Become familiar with the Science & Engineering Practices in NGSS.
• Use observations and inferences to generate investigable questions.
• Gain a foundation for incorporating inquiry into your classroom.

Study Energy Usage In San Leandro City Hall to progress STEM Education

Ever wonder what it would be like to understand the energy usage of a building in detail? Working with OSIsoft based in San Leandro, the San Leandro City Hall Energy Usage can be explored in real time and historically through our curriculum. This session will review the pilot program completed with SLHS last year and discuss options for classroom exploration this year. Come learn a way to integrate STEM projects in your classroom.

Strengthening SEL Skills through Kindness, Empathy, and Compassion

This informative, interactive and highly-engaging workshop explores the research that supports the importance of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) practices in educators’ personal and professional development. Participants will receive an overview of SEL research and strategies and learn how to specifically integrate the important skills of kindness, empathy, and compassion both into the school site climate and classroom culture. These key components of emotional intelligence prepare students to be successful in school, college, career, and life. The facilitator, Joelle Hood, will lead participants in discussion and hands-on activities that they can replicate in their classroom to boost student communication and collaboration. Using empathy as the foundation, she will also teach participants how to problem-solve, connect, and redirect students' disruptive behavior in a positive and productive way.

To Know is Not Enough: An Exploration of the 8 Science & Engineering Practices

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) recognize that the practices scientists use are just as important as the facts they know and the big ideas they understand. This workshop will explore how to foster independent life-long scientific thinking through each of those identified practices and how they interconnect.

Participants will:

• Gain great understanding of the 8 Science & Engineering practices and how they interconnect.
• Learn the main shifts in teaching and learning brought by the Next Generation Science Standards.

Using SEIS to Write IEPs

Special Education Teacher Session to Learn Using SEIS to Write IEPs: 1. What pages should be included in every IEP 2. Writing new goals 3. Updating and writing progress on current/old goals 4. Transition Plans 5. How to affirm and attest the new IEP 6. How to write an amendment.

Working with Renaissance Learning and Understanding Data and Reports to guide Instruction

In this session learn how to generate individual, group, and class report on Renaissance Learning. By utilizing the instructional planning tool, learn to make informed, targeted instructional decisions that will impact student learning. Finally, explore goal setting and progress monitoring with STAR assessments.

Words Their Way: Getting Started

Words Their Way (called Palabras a Su Paso in bilingual classrooms) is a differentiated spelling and word work program designed to help students move through the developmental stages at their own pace. Come learn how to get started using this new resource!

Using Performance Based Assessments

Professional Development for using performance based assessments in your classroom.

Co-Teaching 101

This session is specially designed for certificated staff working in the beginning stages of the Co-Teaching model. Participants will learn about basics of the Co-Teaching model and will be able to build upon foundational knowledge of Co-Teaching. Teachers and specialists will work side by side to learn instructional strategies and techniques to support their Co-Teaching practice within their classrooms.

Participants will:

• Learn and build upon the foundations of the Co-Teaching model
• Work with Co-Teaching partners to learn strategies and techniques to further Co-Teaching practice
• Learn skills to support all learners within the Co-Taught
classroom.

Google Next Steps

In this hands-on session, participants will:

• Learn more about Google Calendar, such as creating Appointment Slots
• Creating Google Sheets and Forms
• Gain intermediate skills in Google Sheets

Introduction to Autism Spectrum Disorders

This session will provide an overview of the prevalence rats and diagnostic criteria for ASD as defined in the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual). An emphasis is placed on understanding the characteristics and early signs of autism. Finally, the presentation will highlight evidence based practices for the treatment and education of people with ASD.

Medical Training with District Nurses

District nurses will discuss EpiPens, seizures, asthma, and head injuries in the school setting. There will also be time for a question and answer session to address emerging health issues, so bring your questions!

SPED 101: Exploring the History of Special Education

In this session we will identify major laws and court rulings that have helped shape special education services, including an overview of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). We will describe how beliefs about people with disabilities are related to life experiences. In addition, we will identify categories of disability according to state and national laws.

Strategies for Supporting Instruction

Come learn strategies for supporting instruction for all students. Participants will learn to:

• Understand district’s co-teaching service delivery model
• Preparation for supporting instruction