In this workshop, participants will learn effective tools and strategies for implementing a high-performing co-teaching classroom. Co-teachers can maintain rigor and support the needs of all learners for access and meaningful growth. Topics include: 1) planning; 2) understanding student needs and learning styles: 3) working collaboratively; 4) instructional delivery; 5) assessment. This session will provide co-teachers with tools to use in their classes, and lay the groundwork for future training in effective co-teaching.
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.
Description: In this session, we will come to a more accurate understanding of PLCs and the process involved, as well as how the PLC can help us work smarter through this time of uncertainty. We will consider how participation in a PLC/PLT can lead to greater teacher job satisfaction and increased student academic achievement. Using classroom-ready strategies, we will explore the three big ideas and four questions of PLCs in order to reflect, collaborate, and build knowledge together. Outcome: Participants will learn what a PLC is and what it is not in order to achieve better results for the students they serve.
The presentation is multifaceted. First, the presentation will cover the basic tenets and philosophies of work-based learning utilizing the Santa Rosa City Schools continuum of experiences previously developed in partnership with industry experts. Generally, when students participate in work-based learning, they often experience feelings of embracement due to the relevance of the real-world application, engagement as they actively participate in tasks with practical outcomes, and empowerment by taking ownership of their learning and developing valuable skills that build confidence in their future career paths. The second aspect of the presentation is to reinforce an interactive and collaborative approach to curricular design, allowing educators to workshop common themes for the ongoing development of experiences contributing to high–quality CTE pathways across school sites in the district.
Come and check out two newly renovated classrooms! We'd love to hear your thoughts, comments, and feedback. These classrooms are part of a pilot project aimed at modernizing all classrooms as outlined in our facilities master and implementation plans.
The architect has created two unique designs: a "warm classroom" and a "cool classroom," both featuring innovative layouts and new furniture. Your input is essential as we consider applying these designs across the District.
Our goal is to use your feedback to refine classroom designs and turn your insights into meaningful innovations for future learning spaces.
Come and check out two newly renovated classrooms! We'd love to hear your thoughts, comments, and feedback. These classrooms are part of a pilot project aimed at modernizing all classrooms as outlined in our facilities master and implementation plans.
The architect has created two unique designs: a "warm classroom" and a "cool classroom," both featuring innovative layouts and new furniture. Your input is essential as we consider applying these designs across the District.
Our goal is to use your feedback to refine classroom designs and turn your insights into meaningful innovations for future learning spaces.
More and more our personal and work lives are impacted by conflict. The ability to recognize and deal with conflict successfully is an important skill for all of us. In this workshop, you will have a chance to learn about your style of dealing with conflict, how conflict can be productive, and some practical techniques for defusing or redirecting conflict. There will also be a chance to learn helpful and non-helpful responses in difficult situations.
Come and all our district's required process for all thing contracts, MOU's and agreements. You will have an opportunity to ask questions and learn best practices.
These product demo sessions were agreed upon with SRTA. They aim to inform our community about the Emergency Management Systems under consideration for implementation, designed to enhance campus safety across the district.
Establishing adult nervous system capacity by building awareness and mindfulness practices in order to support pro-social behavior in students through co-regulation.
Engaging with your students through positive relationships. This session is presented by RESIG staff and will focus on the importance and legal aspects of appropriate boundaries between students and staff.
Empower staff with knowledge of how to support student academics. In this session, learn how to use Title I to create a classroom or office that supports student academics. How to use Title I to your advantage. We will focus on allowability and wording to get the best out of Title I for your classrooms and sites. Some other topics may include Homeless Ed., Migrant Ed, and Native Education.
I am a California native. I was born in San Francisco and raised in the South Bay - San Jose. I have traveled to Mexico, Aruba, Canada, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. I lived and worked In New York City/Tri-state area for three years and Houston for 7 years before moving back to... Read More →
Friday January 31, 2025 8:30am - 9:30am PST
Main 2211235 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95401
How does a school site set up their multi-tiered systems of support, tier two team to support students social emotional and academic success. Certificated and classified staff members collaborate to support teachers, identify strategies, collect data, and meet with parents in order to advocate for the students' success. Learn how Cesar Chavez Language Academy a TK-8 dual language (Spanish-English) school site identifies, supports and communicates with students, staff, parents and community members.
10K Degrees will provide an introduction to Financial Aid for Classified Staff such as FEFs and Front Office Staff and other key staff members that interface with families. This session will provide basic information about the types of aid and resources available for students and families.
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!
The presentation will elevate "embrace" as it will embrace the board adopted curriculum as well as our Multilingual Learners and where they are at in their language acquisition journey. It will elevate "engage" as it will focus on collaboration between teachers as well as lesson design and how to make the curriculum more engaging for our MLs. It will elevate "empower" as this presentation will give collaborative time for teachers to plan how to support students in their development of their speaking, reading, writing, and listening skills.
CCGI is California’s FREE official college and career planning platform. Through CaliforniaColleges.edu, students and staff have access to college, career and financial aid planning information, curricula, and tools. From exploring potential career paths to launching and tracking college and financial aid applications, CaliforniaColleges.edu helps students discover their college and career goals, make plans for how to achieve them and launch into fulfilling futures.
Creating a collaborative space for math teachers to discuss standards across grade levels is essential for a unified approach to student success. By sharing insights on how to prepare students for the next grade level, we ensure a smoother transition between classes, reinforce key skills, and build continuity in their learning journey. This collaboration aligns with the "embrace, engage, empower" goal by enabling teachers to embrace a team-oriented approach that values each educator’s unique perspective, engage in meaningful conversations about curriculum alignment and readiness, and ultimately empower students with the confidence and skills they need to excel in math. When students experience a cohesive and supportive learning path, they are better prepared, motivated, and empowered to tackle new challenges.
I’m Megan Covey, a 7th-grade math teacher at Slater Middle School, where I’ve had the privilege of teaching for the past five years. I love helping students tackle the challenges of math because it’s a great way to show that not everything in life is easy—and that’s okay... Read More →
Friday January 31, 2025 9:40am - 10:40am PST
Main 2211235 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95401
Counselor on the Move (COTM) is a counseling curriculum designed and offered for free by SCOE for high schools to engage with students through frequent, brief classroom lessons. This approach builds stronger connections with students through increased counselor visibility on campus, and supports more equitable access to high school academic and post-secondary (college/career) information. This session would provide support personalizing this curriculum for individual campuses. This session would be presented in partnership with Laura Corriveau, School Counseling Project Coordinator, Sonoma County Office of Education.
The aim and purpose of this presentation is to shed some light on what steps should be taken when the IEP team determines that it should consider including the most appropriate accommodations for a Dually-Identified English Learner taking the Summative ELPAC.
This presentation will introduce basic ethnic studies curriculum components as well as techniques and resources that every classroom teacher can utilize in any course, not just English or History. When students see themselves in what they are studying, they are more inclined to "buy-in" to what they are learning, as well as become better informed about social issues across various demographics other than their own.
I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. In 1987, I began my teaching career in a middle school in Harlem. After 6 years I found myself at Murry Bergtraum High School where I taught for 9 years. Little did I know that the events of 9/11 would change the course of my life. I have... Read More →
Friday January 31, 2025 9:40am - 10:40am PST
D2011235 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95401
Ellevation: leverage Ellevation to support your multilingual learners. Ellevation provides you with real-time student data to support students and instruction. Attendees will learn how to use: filters to better access student data, reporting options, student groups, personalize dashboards, as well as differentiate instruction to meet the needs of students. We will be working in the Ellevation platform during this session, giving you a chance to increase your familiarity with the platform features and general navigation.
Teacher on Special Assignment, Santa Rosa City School
I have been teaching middle school science for 25 years. These past couple of years have seen huge changes in my approach to teaching. With the new science standards and my district moving forward with current technology, I have been able to make the jump and enter the 21st century... Read More →
Teachers from different departments, who teach Ethnic Studies, will meet to work towards a collaborative and cumulative project that displays student learning over the course of the year, and serves as the "action" component of the Ethnic Studies tenets. The project would be a group effort to engage students across disciplines and to empower them to use critical thinking when learning about the past and planning for the future.
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.
Participants will actively participate in a Talk strategy and have a chance to brainstorm how they can adapt the strategy to their classroom. Participants will receive digital copies of the organizers used in the session to use in their own classes.
I have been a secondary science teacher in the Santa Rosa City Schools district for the past 14 years. I have been teaching at the middle school level since 2013, and I fell in love with the curiosity of our science students! My philosophy as a science educator is to create science... Read More →
Friday January 31, 2025 9:40am - 10:40am PST
D1041235 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95401
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.
This presentation will empower teachers to make relatively minor adjustments to their grade books and use challenge assignments to differentiate the curriculum to meet more learners where they are while maintaining rigor.
If it ain’t fresh, I don’t wanna rock it!You feel me? You better just deal me in.Like Texas Hold’em.They know I’m the bomb ‘cause I already told’em! Throw your hands in the airAnd complain to the teacher that it’s just not fair.People be hating but I just don’t care.My... Read More →
Friday January 31, 2025 9:40am - 10:40am PST
D2031235 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95401
Come and check out two newly renovated classrooms! We'd love to hear your thoughts, comments, and feedback. These classrooms are part of a pilot project aimed at modernizing all classrooms as outlined in our facilities master and implementation plans.
The architect has created two unique designs: a "warm classroom" and a "cool classroom," both featuring innovative layouts and new furniture. Your input is essential as we consider applying these designs across the District.
Our goal is to use your feedback to refine classroom designs and turn your insights into meaningful innovations for future learning spaces.
Come and check out two newly renovated classrooms! We'd love to hear your thoughts, comments, and feedback. These classrooms are part of a pilot project aimed at modernizing all classrooms as outlined in our facilities master and implementation plans.
The architect has created two unique designs: a "warm classroom" and a "cool classroom," both featuring innovative layouts and new furniture. Your input is essential as we consider applying these designs across the District.
Our goal is to use your feedback to refine classroom designs and turn your insights into meaningful innovations for future learning spaces.
For many of us, our day-to-day jobs are not only physically exhausting, but also mentally exhausting. The class will guide you through what compassion fatigue is, the signs and symptoms and real-life strategies to combat the exhaustion in our everyday lives.
More and more our personal and work lives are impacted by conflict. The ability to recognize and deal with conflict successfully is an important skill for all of us. In this workshop, you will have a chance to learn about your style of dealing with conflict, how conflict can be productive, and some practical techniques for defusing or redirecting conflict. There will also be a chance to learn helpful and non-helpful responses in difficult situations.
The experience will empower teachers with more knowledge and empathy for struggling students and students with dyslexia, as well as provide resources for continued learning.
The ELPAC Test chat is a powerful tool intended to be used during a one-on-one conversation between educators and students. Using extensive feedback from the Multilingual Learner Collaborative, the tool has been refined and the updated version will be shared.
Rocio Miscio was born and raised biculturally and bilingually as the daughter of immigrant parents from Mexico. Based on her personal experiences navigating the public school system as a multilingual student and those of her family, she decided to dedicate her professional expertise... Read More →
Specialist - Multilingual Learner, Sonoma County Office of Education
Jenn Guerrero is the English Learner Coordinator at the Sonoma County Office of Education. She had her passion for working with English Learners (ELs) and their families first ignited when she began her career in education as a teacher in the Oakland Unified School District. She then... Read More →
Friday January 31, 2025 9:40am - 10:40am PST
D2041235 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95401
These product demo sessions were agreed upon with SRTA. They aim to inform our community about the Emergency Management Systems under consideration for implementation, designed to enhance campus safety across the district.
This presentation examines the current gang trends in Sonoma County, exploring their roots, influence, and impact on the community. It highlights community-led efforts to prevent gang involvement and promote positive alternatives for at-risk individuals. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of the challenges and solutions surrounding gang activity, emphasizing collaboration and resilience in building safer schools.
Engaging with your students through positive relationships. This session is presented by RESIG staff and will focus on the importance and legal aspects of appropriate boundaries between students and staff.
In this session we will review accommodations and designated supports available to students on State tests. New SEIS to TOMS integration will be presented. This session includes time for open Q&A.
An overview of the stages of a fight, and an introduction to considerations for preventing and responding to student fights, including a discussion around staff roles and common pitfalls to avoid.
Workshop will explore best practices for afterschool professionals, as well as provide participants with several engaging, participatory activities and related materials.
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 is aimed for the team of teachers that have been working on the development of the Math 2 Modeling course. Join us for dedicated time to continue developing units, creating projects, designing careering relevance of units, and aligning with curriculum.
PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System) is an augmentative and alternative communication method that uses pictures to teach individuals with communication difficulties how to express their needs and thoughts effectively. Participants will get a brief overview of PECS. We will practice Phase I and Phase II/III if time permits. Participants will identify times in their day when they can embed PECS instruction.
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.
Art integration is standards-based VAPA curriculum paired with content specific curriculum to provide hands-on project-based learning using art materials, songs, poetry, plays, dance, and so much more. Using these techniques support students learn in ways that connect to prior knowledge and make their learning relevant to their lives through engagement. Note: This workshop focuses on Visual Fine Arts Integration and will provide hands-on activities and custom curriculum resources.
In this 2 hour session we will empower employees to manage their emails to be more efficient. Learn tips, tricks and habits to keep your inbox under control. **Bring your fully charged laptop
Understanding and excavating bias. What are our biases? Where do biases come from? How do our early experiences lead to our own biases and biases held by others? What can we do to work through our biases? How can we interrupt and redirect?
Identify the unique characteristics of long term English learners and explore research-based practices to enage and support them. Use an equity lense to focus on oral language discourse and reading complex, grade level textx to promote acdemic achievement for long term English learners.
Dr. LuzElena Perez is Santa Rosa City School's Educational Services Secondary Executive Director. She has been an educator for over 26 years. Her focus and research have been on Long Term English Learners. LuzElena has lived a dual cultural and linguistic life between Colombia and... Read More →
We will focus on topics such as triage training for disasters, helping students with eating disorders, diabetes, seizures, and other common childhood conditions.
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!
The presentation will elevate "embrace" as it will embrace the board adopted curriculum as well as our Multilingual Learners and where they are at in their language acquisition journey. It will elevate "engage" as it will focus on collaboration between teachers as well as lesson design and how to make the curriculum more engaging for our MLs. It will elevate "empower" as this presentation will give collaborative time for teachers to plan how to support students in their development of their speaking, reading, writing, and listening skills.
CCGI is California’s FREE official college and career planning platform. Through CaliforniaColleges.edu, students and staff have access to college, career and financial aid planning information, curricula, and tools. From exploring potential career paths to launching and tracking college and financial aid applications, CaliforniaColleges.edu helps students discover their college and career goals, make plans for how to achieve them and launch into fulfilling futures.
In this workshop, participants will learn effective tools and strategies for implementing a high-performing co-teaching classroom. Co-teachers can maintain rigor and support the needs of all learners for access and meaningful growth. Topics include: 1) planning; 2) understanding student needs and learning styles: 3) working collaboratively; 4) instructional delivery; 5) assessment. This session will provide co-teachers with tools to use in their classes, and lay the groundwork for future training in effective co-teaching.
Creating a collaborative space for math teachers to discuss standards across grade levels is essential for a unified approach to student success. By sharing insights on how to prepare students for the next grade level, we ensure a smoother transition between classes, reinforce key skills, and build continuity in their learning journey. This collaboration aligns with the "embrace, engage, empower" goal by enabling teachers to embrace a team-oriented approach that values each educator’s unique perspective, engage in meaningful conversations about curriculum alignment and readiness, and ultimately empower students with the confidence and skills they need to excel in math. When students experience a cohesive and supportive learning path, they are better prepared, motivated, and empowered to tackle new challenges.
I’m Megan Covey, a 7th-grade math teacher at Slater Middle School, where I’ve had the privilege of teaching for the past five years. I love helping students tackle the challenges of math because it’s a great way to show that not everything in life is easy—and that’s okay... Read More →
Friday January 31, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm PST
Main 2211235 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95401
Counselor on the Move (COTM) is a counseling curriculum designed and offered for free by SCOE for high schools to engage with students through frequent, brief classroom lessons. This approach builds stronger connections with students through increased counselor visibility on campus, and supports more equitable access to high school academic and post-secondary (college/career) information. This session would provide support personalizing this curriculum for individual campuses. This session would be presented in partnership with Laura Corriveau, School Counseling Project Coordinator, Sonoma County Office of Education.
The aim and purpose of this presentation is to shed some light on what steps should be taken when the IEP team determines that it should consider including the most appropriate accommodations for a Dually-Identified English Learner taking the Summative ELPAC.
This presentation will introduce basic ethnic studies curriculum components as well as techniques and resources that every classroom teacher can utilize in any course, not just English or History. When students see themselves in what they are studying, they are more inclined to "buy-in" to what they are learning, as well as become better informed about social issues across various demographics other than their own.
I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. In 1987, I began my teaching career in a middle school in Harlem. After 6 years I found myself at Murry Bergtraum High School where I taught for 9 years. Little did I know that the events of 9/11 would change the course of my life. I have... Read More →
Friday January 31, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm PST
D2011235 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95401
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.
Empowers staff to run IEP meetings more efficiently and in a legally defensible way, and encourages engagement of parents and other stakeholders in the meeting
Teachers from different departments, who teach Ethnic Studies, will meet to work towards a collaborative and cumulative project that displays student learning over the course of the year, and serves as the "action" component of the Ethnic Studies tenets. The project would be a group effort to engage students across disciplines and to empower them to use critical thinking when learning about the past and planning for the future.
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.
Participants will actively participate in a Talk strategy and have a chance to brainstorm how they can adapt the strategy to their classroom. Participants will receive digital copies of the organizers used in the session to use in their own classes.
I have been a secondary science teacher in the Santa Rosa City Schools district for the past 14 years. I have been teaching at the middle school level since 2013, and I fell in love with the curiosity of our science students! My philosophy as a science educator is to create science... Read More →
Friday January 31, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm PST
D1041235 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95401
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.
This presentation will empower teachers to make relatively minor adjustments to their grade books and use challenge assignments to differentiate the curriculum to meet more learners where they are while maintaining rigor.
If it ain’t fresh, I don’t wanna rock it!You feel me? You better just deal me in.Like Texas Hold’em.They know I’m the bomb ‘cause I already told’em! Throw your hands in the airAnd complain to the teacher that it’s just not fair.People be hating but I just don’t care.My... Read More →
Friday January 31, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm PST
D2031235 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95401
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.
An overview of the purpose of behavior and the behavior escalation cycle, where staff will gain insights and tools for identifying triggers, and offering alternatives to effectively redirect students and avoid larger behavior outbursts. This elevates embracing of all students, including those with challenging behavior. Staff can support empowering students in using safe and acceptable behaviors to get their needs met.
Come and check out two newly renovated classrooms! We'd love to hear your thoughts, comments, and feedback. These classrooms are part of a pilot project aimed at modernizing all classrooms as outlined in our facilities master and implementation plans.
The architect has created two unique designs: a "warm classroom" and a "cool classroom," both featuring innovative layouts and new furniture. Your input is essential as we consider applying these designs across the District.
Our goal is to use your feedback to refine classroom designs and turn your insights into meaningful innovations for future learning spaces.
Come and check out two newly renovated classrooms! We'd love to hear your thoughts, comments, and feedback. These classrooms are part of a pilot project aimed at modernizing all classrooms as outlined in our facilities master and implementation plans.
The architect has created two unique designs: a "warm classroom" and a "cool classroom," both featuring innovative layouts and new furniture. Your input is essential as we consider applying these designs across the District.
Our goal is to use your feedback to refine classroom designs and turn your insights into meaningful innovations for future learning spaces.
More and more our personal and work lives are impacted by conflict. The ability to recognize and deal with conflict successfully is an important skill for all of us. In this workshop, you will have a chance to learn about your style of dealing with conflict, how conflict can be productive, and some practical techniques for defusing or redirecting conflict. There will also be a chance to learn helpful and non-helpful responses in difficult situations.
Come and all our district's required process for all thing contracts, MOU's and agreements. You will have an opportunity to ask questions and learn best practices.
These product demo sessions were agreed upon with SRTA. They aim to inform our community about the Emergency Management Systems under consideration for implementation, designed to enhance campus safety across the district.
This presentation examines the current gang trends in Sonoma County, exploring their roots, influence, and impact on the community. It highlights community-led efforts to prevent gang involvement and promote positive alternatives for at-risk individuals. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of the challenges and solutions surrounding gang activity, emphasizing collaboration and resilience in building safer schools.
For staff to be able to pull data based on their job needs and how to put into a google sheet for either analysts or distribution to other staff or groups. This will allow them to support other departments and make their job easier.
Please bring a laptop. This will be a hands-on session.
When you are feeling overwhelmed by the pressures of everyday work and home life, then this is the workshop for you. The focus will help you bring your life back into balance.
Engaging with your students through positive relationships. This session is presented by RESIG staff and will focus on the importance and legal aspects of appropriate boundaries between students and staff.
The 5 Dimensions of Self-Care This workshop explores self-care across five dimensions: physical health through exercise, nutrition and adequate sleep, intellectual growth through continuous learning, social connection through relationships, spiritual well-being through personal values and emotional resilience through stress management. Participants will gain practical tips for a balanced and holistic approach to self-care.
Workshop will explore best practices for afterschool professionals, as well as provide participants with several engaging, participatory activities and related materials.
Please join Dr. Rhianna Casesa and Dr. Ed Lyon from Sonoma State University to hear about SSU's Teacher residency programs. This session is for all interested staff in learning about grant funded programs to support you in being a teacher.
Please register for this ONLY if you were identified by human resources as needing this training. Participants will receive a CPR / 1st Aid certificate upon completion. The session is 3 hrs. Your lunch time will remain 12:00 - 12:45.
Audience: Site and district admin and their support safety staff (certificated and classified: e.g. campus supervisors, APs, VPs) Materials to bring: SRCS provided Laptops and iPhones Description: Campus Security IT Tools Workshop. Learn how to use the Campus Security IT Tools more efficiently. Emergency and custom announcements over PA, Security Cameras access from inside and outside our network, Security Cameras PC Avigilon client features , iPhone Apps you should , Tech help will be available to troubleshoot some of your issues and get you on track with your devices.
Please join Dr. Ed Lyon from Sonoma State University author of Planning Science Instruction for Multilingual Learners in presenting on assessment for multilingual learners.
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.
This presentation will offer counselors more in-depth practice with using reporting and tracking tools within the CCGI (Californiacolleges.edu). The reporting and tracking tools in CCGI allow counselors to monitor student progress on a-g completion, college eligibility, college applications, financial aid, and more to better identify students for further intervention. A primary goal of these tools is to support student engagement in post-secondary planning and empower counselors with the data and information to best support students.
This presentation explores the impact of childhood trauma and how mental health and behavioral symptoms affect academic engagement and success. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of how mental health issues manifest in the classroom and learn practical Tier 1 and Tier 2 trauma-informed strategies to promote resilience and safety, and equipping educators to create inclusive and supportive environments where all students can thrive.
Providing differentiation for advanced learners is often overlooked in our trainings; we know how to scaffold down, but what do we do with students who come to us already able to meet our standards? How do we keep from ignoring the 'middle-child' who is on track but working at a slightly different pace from their peers?
While this sounds like creating three different lesson plans, the reality is that we can take the same lesson and think about what comes next for our students, which is directly related to the 'why do we need to know this?' question we so often field. Once we reframe our questions, we can easily provide students the tools and supports they need to engage with material and understand how it applies outside of the four walls of our classrooms.
Classroom management and student engagement strategies through web based widgets including polls, randomizer sound level monitors, images, scoreboards and much much more.By using this website/app classes will engage students more making them more confident and empowered embracing a variety of different learning techniques!
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.
Program Coordinator | Equitable Grading and Assessment, Sonoma County Office of Education
Christin taught high school science for 18 years, 14 of those years were in Sonoma County. She used Standards-Based Grading/Equitable Grading practices in her classroom for over 8 years and has used that experience to coach teachers in their own implementation. Christin's areas of... Read More →
This session will provide an introduction to Sora, a district-provided digital reading app where students can discover age-appropriate ebooks, audiobooks, and use a variety of embedded tools to improve their comprehension. Join us to learn about this little-known resource and how it can benefit all students, including specialized font settings for easier reading, highlighting, note-taking, read-alouds, language options, simplified access to SoCo Public Library resources, and more.
In this session, CTE teachers will bring high-impact practices to share with other CTE teachers in the following areas (which are aligned with the High-Quality Elements of a CTE Program): CTSOs (FFA, HOSA, DECA, SkillsUSA), Industry Engagement, Recruitment and Retention, and Classroom Instruction/Strategies.
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.
This presentation aims to empower both staff and students with the necessary information to help students with trauma and to make our campuses a safer and more supportive learning environment for all students- especially those with trauma.
Participants will gain knowledge and skills through the International Baccalaureate philosophy, subject specific objectives, and global learning outcomes. Participants will develop lessons that foster engagement, critical thinking, and inquiry based learning.
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
Calling all CTE teachers - bring a core content area teacher friend! This one-hour workshop will explore the benefits of integrating Career Technical Education (CTE) and core content courses. Participants will learn practical strategies for aligning curricula, developing engaging lesson plans, and assessing student learning in integrated settings. By fostering collaboration between CTE and core content teachers, this workshop aims to empower educators to create innovative learning experiences that prepare students for both academic success and career readiness.
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 would be part 2 and targeted for Admin Aeries users (non teacher). In this session we would show how to use data reports from different sources, loaded into google sheets, and how to compare data for analysts.
Please bring a laptop. This will be a hands-on session.
In response to student crisis behaviors, staff will learn to identify the dangerousness of the behavior and implement crisis communication to effectively to support quick and safe student de-escalation. This elevates embracing of all students, including those with the most challenging behavior. Staff can support empowering students in using safe and acceptable behaviors to get their needs met.
Come and check out two newly renovated classrooms! We'd love to hear your thoughts, comments, and feedback. These classrooms are part of a pilot project aimed at modernizing all classrooms as outlined in our facilities master and implementation plans.
The architect has created two unique designs: a "warm classroom" and a "cool classroom," both featuring innovative layouts and new furniture. Your input is essential as we consider applying these designs across the District.
Our goal is to use your feedback to refine classroom designs and turn your insights into meaningful innovations for future learning spaces.
Come and check out two newly renovated classrooms! We'd love to hear your thoughts, comments, and feedback. These classrooms are part of a pilot project aimed at modernizing all classrooms as outlined in our facilities master and implementation plans.
The architect has created two unique designs: a "warm classroom" and a "cool classroom," both featuring innovative layouts and new furniture. Your input is essential as we consider applying these designs across the District.
Our goal is to use your feedback to refine classroom designs and turn your insights into meaningful innovations for future learning spaces.
More and more our personal and work lives are impacted by conflict. The ability to recognize and deal with conflict successfully is an important skill for all of us. In this workshop, you will have a chance to learn about your style of dealing with conflict, how conflict can be productive, and some practical techniques for defusing or redirecting conflict. There will also be a chance to learn helpful and non-helpful responses in difficult situations.
Collaboration with ESN teachers for speech therapy that allows ESN students to actively participate in their communication journey. Providing positive reinforcement for progress, making therapy fun and engaging through games and activities, and celebrating achievements with the student.
This presentation examines the current gang trends in Sonoma County, exploring their roots, influence, and impact on the community. It highlights community-led efforts to prevent gang involvement and promote positive alternatives for at-risk individuals. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of the challenges and solutions surrounding gang activity, emphasizing collaboration and resilience in building safer schools.
The pandemic is behind us but was it all bad? In this workshop we'll explore four habits from the pandemic to keep including being attuned to our physical health, being mindful of our mental and emotional health, the power and value of connection and the importance of selfcare.
A PowerPoint showing some traditional dance, a student community panel sharing experiences and addressing questions from educators. Decolonizing our campus’ by listening to our students and former students.
Engaging with your students through positive relationships. This session is presented by RESIG staff and will focus on the importance and legal aspects of appropriate boundaries between students and staff.
Downsizing, or rightsizing, is happening rapidly everywhere - from one day to another, from one minute to the next. The major purpose of this workshop is to help move you to action.
Understanding and excavating bias. What are our biases? Where do biases come from? How do our early experiences lead to our own biases and biases held by others? What can we do to work through our biases? How can we interrupt and redirect?
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.
Teacher on Special Assignment, Santa Rosa City School
I have been teaching middle school science for 25 years. These past couple of years have seen huge changes in my approach to teaching. With the new science standards and my district moving forward with current technology, I have been able to make the jump and enter the 21st century... Read More →
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.
Providing differentiation for advanced learners is often overlooked in our trainings; we know how to scaffold down, but what do we do with students who come to us already able to meet our standards? How do we keep from ignoring the 'middle-child' who is on track but working at a slightly different pace from their peers?
While this sounds like creating three different lesson plans, the reality is that we can take the same lesson and think about what comes next for our students, which is directly related to the 'why do we need to know this?' question we so often field. Once we reframe our questions, we can easily provide students the tools and supports they need to engage with material and understand how it applies outside of the four walls of our classrooms.
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.
Student review doesn't have to be boring. With the use of games through Gimkit and Quizlet (Yes I do know it's blocked by the district but will still cover it as it can be converted easily and is more accessible by students at home) we can help engage more students making them feel more empowered with their learning and embrace different learning styles!
Program Coordinator | Equitable Grading and Assessment, Sonoma County Office of Education
Christin taught high school science for 18 years, 14 of those years were in Sonoma County. She used Standards-Based Grading/Equitable Grading practices in her classroom for over 8 years and has used that experience to coach teachers in their own implementation. Christin's areas of... Read More →
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.
This presentation will explore practical strategies to help psychologists embrace the chaos. Psych's will learn different strategies to organize their cases, manage their caseloads, streamline administrative tasks, and maintain compliance with SPED laws. By implementing these strategies, psychologists can take control of their responsibilities, proactively managing their workload. The goal is to provide a framework and strategies that empowers psychologists to effectively navigate the growing volume of special education requests with confidence and efficiency.
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.
This will teach program classroom staff how to engage with the students during unstructured times to build rapport, teaching the students social skills so students can engage with each other and with their general education peers on their own, fostering independence by fading prompts which will empower the students to do things on their own and reduce reliance on staff/adult assistance, and teaching staff how to help students embrace the themselves for who they are and advocate for their needs to others
This will teach program classroom staff how to engage with the students during unstructured times to build rapport, teaching the students social skills so students can engage with each other and with their general education peers on their own, fostering independence by fading prompts which will empower the students to do things on their own and reduce reliance on staff/adult assistance, and teaching staff how to help students embrace the themselves for who they are and advocate for their needs to others
This interactive seminar helps participants build an effective career development plan by taking a strategic look at self- awareness, career options and current job skills. This workshop will help participants identify their true passions, learn how to incorporate those passions into their individual career action plan and develop strategies for implementation.
The world is interconnected. Whether at work, at home, at school or simply through communicating with friends and family, we come together online by the devices and the apps we use every day. With increased connectivity comes increased risk. Whether it’s our data, finances or identities, there are those who wish to do us harm and disrupt our lives through attacks on services we rely on, from health care and our schools; to the small businesses and nonprofits that are part of our communities; to our personal information and that of friends and family.
CISA’s cybersecurity awareness program, Secure Our World, is an enduring effort to educate individuals, small & medium-sized businesses, and other organizations on the actionable steps we can each take to stay more safe and secure online. It is a collective effort to reduce the risks we face from online criminals looking for easy targets. If we take four steps: 1. Recognize and report phishing, 2. Use strong passwords, 3. Turn on multi factor authentication, 4. Update software —we won't be as vulnerable to deceptive tactics, and it will be much harder to scam us or steal our information.
Come and check out two newly renovated classrooms! We'd love to hear your thoughts, comments, and feedback. These classrooms are part of a pilot project aimed at modernizing all classrooms as outlined in our facilities master and implementation plans.
The architect has created two unique designs: a "warm classroom" and a "cool classroom," both featuring innovative layouts and new furniture. Your input is essential as we consider applying these designs across the District.
Our goal is to use your feedback to refine classroom designs and turn your insights into meaningful innovations for future learning spaces.
Come and check out two newly renovated classrooms! We'd love to hear your thoughts, comments, and feedback. These classrooms are part of a pilot project aimed at modernizing all classrooms as outlined in our facilities master and implementation plans.
The architect has created two unique designs: a "warm classroom" and a "cool classroom," both featuring innovative layouts and new furniture. Your input is essential as we consider applying these designs across the District.
Our goal is to use your feedback to refine classroom designs and turn your insights into meaningful innovations for future learning spaces.
Our training on compassion fatigue and Vicarious hope/trauma would focus on equipping professionals in caregiving roles with tools to recognize and address the emotional and psychological impact of their work. It would include education on the symptoms and causes of compassion fatigue, such as chronic exposure to others' suffering, and strategies for building resilience and self-care routines. The training would also explore vicarious trauma and hope, emphasizing the balance between empathetic engagement and maintaining emotional boundaries.
More and more our personal and work lives are impacted by conflict. The ability to recognize and deal with conflict successfully is an important skill for all of us. In this workshop, you will have a chance to learn about your style of dealing with conflict, how conflict can be productive, and some practical techniques for defusing or redirecting conflict. There will also be a chance to learn helpful and non-helpful responses in difficult situations.
Collaboration with ESN teachers for speech therapy that allows ESN students to actively participate in their communication journey. Providing positive reinforcement for progress, making therapy fun and engaging through games and activities, and celebrating achievements with the student.
Engaging with your students through positive relationships. This session is presented by RESIG staff and will focus on the importance and legal aspects of appropriate boundaries between students and staff.
