From Stress to Resilience: Play, Sensory Integration, and the Development of Agency explores how play and sensory integration foster resilience and agency, particularly for individuals navigating autism, anxiety, ADHD, and trauma—challenges that can impact emotional regulation and self-efficacy.
Jump in and let’s explore how to make the 95 Core Phonics program shine in your classroom! You've had some time to try it out with your students, and now’s the perfect moment to dive deeper, tackle your questions, and discover tips and tricks to make implementation even smoother. Let’s make phonics fun and effective together!
This professional development session equips educators with practical strategies to integrate Orton-Gillingham (OG) methods into their literacy instruction while aligning with the 95% Phonics Core Curriculum. Participants will review key OG principles, explore their application in phonics instruction, and examine how these multisensory, sequential techniques support diverse learners. Additionally, the session will address frequently asked questions about OG procedures, providing clarity and actionable insights to enhance instructional effectiveness. Educators will leave with a deeper understanding of how to combine these research-based approaches to foster student success in foundational literacy skills.
Embrace, Engage, and Empower: Gamification inspires educators to adopt innovative, student-centered approaches that foster creativity, collaboration, and inclusivity. It captivates students by making learning interactive and fun, transforming them into active participants through challenges and rewards. By empowering students with control over their learning, gamification builds confidence, critical thinking, and real-world skills. My personal experience is in the secondary English classroom, but gamification can be appropriate and successful in all grades.
Teaching phonics is a necessary first step,but it is not the only step. Children need to be empowered to read real text, text that is meaningful, even at the youngest grades. Children engage with real text. Language learners make sense of their reading because it is real, text about themselves and others.
In this 2 hour Session: 7 Steps to Building a Language-Rich Interactive Classroom, is designed to empower educators with strategies to create an engaging, inclusive, and interactive learning environment where all students thrive. Anchored in our school district's motto, Embrace, Engage, Empower, the session fosters a sense of belonging for students of all language proficiencies.
This session will begin with an overview of TK-6 Collaborative Curriculum Design (CCD) Units of Study, our district-adopted, standards-based elementary curriculum. With the newly redesigned website as our guide, we’ll then take a deeper dive into the design elements and common instructional strategies intended to spark student curiosity, engagement, and agency. The session will conclude with hands-on planning time for your next unit of study.
Jump in and let’s explore how to make the 95 Core Phonics program shine in your classroom! You've had some time to try it out with your students, and now’s the perfect moment to dive deeper, tackle your questions, and discover tips and tricks to make implementation even smoother. Let’s make phonics fun and effective together!
This presentation will embrace the multicultural learners in all of our classrooms. It will empower our teachers with engaging strategies to use in their own classroom classrooms.
This professional development session equips educators with practical strategies to integrate Orton-Gillingham (OG) methods into their literacy instruction while aligning with the 95% Phonics Core Curriculum. Participants will review key OG principles, explore their application in phonics instruction, and examine how these multisensory, sequential techniques support diverse learners. Additionally, the session will address frequently asked questions about OG procedures, providing clarity and actionable insights to enhance instructional effectiveness. Educators will leave with a deeper understanding of how to combine these research-based approaches to foster student success in foundational literacy skills.
Participants will be taken through upper elementary Math Modeling tasks with real world relevance designed so that students can draw on family knowledge and community knowledge to solve problems. Participants will be taken through the Modeling Cycle, leveraging inquiry and connections to prior knowledge to support math reasoning and problem solving. Resources will be shared including Math Modeling tasks and examples for grades 2nd-6th. Connections will be made to the New California Math Framework including the Three Dimensions of Systemic Change (an asset approach to instruction, active engagement, and personal relevance) and the 5 Components of Equitable and Engaging Teaching for all students. Math Modeling embraces student background knowledge to increase engagement in support of solving real world problems in a manner that empowers students.
Teaching phonics is a necessary first step,but it is not the only step. Children need to be empowered to read real text, text that is meaningful, even at the youngest grades. Children engage with real text. Language learners make sense of their reading because it is real, text about themselves and others.
Bookwidgets is a web application that allows teachers to create a variety of learning activities to support the classroom. In this workshop you will learn how to turn your current worksheets into dynamic activities that provide instant feedback for students; use data collection within the program to help inform your teaching; and how to minimize bias when assessing.
This workshop will equip attendees with practical strategies and engaging activities to foster a supportive and inclusive classroom environment. Learn how to cultivate empathy in your students and teach them how to build strong relationships. Address challenging behaviors, build emotional intelligence and vocabulary skills to help students resolve conflicts. Leave with actionable plans to enhance your students' social-emotional well-being and academic success.
Teachers will get to experience the Counting Collections routine. Then together we will look into how to adapt the routine to students of different grades. This routine is very simple to implement by teachers and very engaging for students. It has a low floor, high ceiling for students. Students have agency over which collections they want to count, what they want to count and how they want to count and represent their counting.
This presentation will embrace the multicultural learners in all of our classrooms. It will empower our teachers with engaging strategies to use in their own classroom classrooms.
Participants will be taken through tasks that support increased student sense making and engagement using thin slicing, inductive and deductive reasoning in a manner that helps students’ build on prior knowledge. Upper Elementary and Secondary examples will be provided using The AFTL (Ask First, Teach Later) Method of instruction including steps for Guided Sense Making and a 3-2-1 Notice and Conjecture protocol that can be used to support deeper learning of math content by shifting the workload so that students are doing the heavy lifting making connections to prior knowledge, and patterns.
Teachers will be actively reviewing currently available music curricula with a focus on what could help our multilingual students in language acquisition and music learning
Bookwidgets is a web application that allows teachers to create a variety of learning activities to support the classroom. In this workshop you will learn how to turn your current worksheets into dynamic activities that provide instant feedback for students; use data collection within the program to help inform your teaching; and how to minimize bias when assessing.
This workshop will equip attendees with practical strategies and engaging activities to foster a supportive and inclusive classroom environment. Learn how to cultivate empathy in your students and teach them how to build strong relationships. Address challenging behaviors, build emotional intelligence and vocabulary skills to help students resolve conflicts. Leave with actionable plans to enhance your students' social-emotional well-being and academic success.
Teachers will get to experience the Counting Collections routine. Then together we will look into how to adapt the routine to students of different elementary grades. This routine is very simple to implement by teachers and very engaging for students. It has a low floor, high ceiling for students. Students have agency over which collections they want to count, what they want to count and how they want to count and represent their counting.
Reimagining elementary music involves creating engaging, inclusive, and culturally diverse learning experiences that inspire creativity and a lifelong love for music. By integrating modern technology, interactive instruments, and collaborative projects, students can explore music in innovative and meaningful ways. This fresh approach fosters not only musical skills but also critical thinking, teamwork, and an appreciation for global artistic traditions.
delving deeper into a Data dive for i-Ready, as well as the most current Phonics Screener. Teams will be provided time to work on creating instructional plans on increasing students performance based on the data.
Hidden Valley staff members will first review and discuss data from CAASPP scores and then meet with their colleagues from the grade level below and above them.
We will be focused on analyzing the Panorama and Dashboard data. We will work in small, heterogeneous groups to identify celebrations and areas of growth as an outcome of data analysis. Additionally, we will discuss action steps that will support maintenance of celebrations, and identify and agree upon action items that will target our areas of growth.
