Texas Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Texas ASCD is committed to being the premier source for information and resources for Texas educators, specifically about teaching, learning, and leadership topics.
Texas ASCD provides its members with quality professional learning throughout the year, including two statewide conferences.
We offer multi-day academies and one-day institutes in a variety of topics. To register by purchase order or check, download a registration form (PDF) or call 1-800-717-2723.
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Topic
Type
Curriculum
One-day Institute
Presenter: Jeanne Tribuzzi
Establishing the components of an effective literacy program is a structural cornerstone for improving student performance across the grades and subject areas. Jeanne Tribuzzi will facilitate hands- on experiences as participants view models of best-practice curriculum and instruction, focusing on the foundational levels of literacy, literacy across all levels and disciplines, and skills needed to be critical consumers and creators of media.
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512-477-8200
Workshop Time
9 am - 4 pm
Registration Time
8:30 am
Curriculum
Multi-day Academy
Presenter: Jeanne Tribuzzi
Establishing the components of an effective literacy program is a structural cornerstone for improving student performance across the grades and subject areas. Jeanne Tribuzzi will facilitate hands- on experiences as participants view models of best-practice curriculum and instruction, focusing on the foundational levels of literacy, literacy across all levels and disciplines, and skills needed to be critical consumers and creators of media.
Schedule Today
512-477-8200
Workshop Time
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration Time
8:30 am
Mathematics
One-day Institute
This session is designed to provide teachers with specific assessment strategies to support lesson planning that is aligned to the rigor of the TEKS Readiness and Supporting Standards and the EOC. The uses of diagnostic, formative and summative assessment strategies will be targeted in this session. These strategies include: use of graphic organizers before, during and after instruction; and, appropriate strategies that facilitate the use of writing in mathematics to foster student meta-cognition and reflective thought processes.
Schedule Today
512-477-8200
Workshop Time
9 AM - 4 PM
Registration Time
8:30 AM
Mathematics
Multi-day Academy
This session is designed to provide teachers with specific assessment strategies to support lesson planning that is aligned to the rigor of the TEKS Readiness and Supporting Standards and the EOC. The uses of diagnostic, formative and summative assessment strategies will be targeted in this session. These strategies include: use of graphic organizers before, during and after instruction; and, appropriate strategies that facilitate the use of writing in mathematics to foster student meta-cognition and reflective thought processes.
Schedule Today
512-477-8200
Workshop Time
9 AM - 4 PM
Registration Time
8:30 AM
Differentiated Instruction / Brain Research
One-day Institute
This engaging seminar provides valuable information about three key elements of Brain Compatible Teaching and Learning. Recent research about how student’s brains grow, develop and respond to the environment should influence our classroom practices. Understanding some “brain basics” can give educators guidelines that will help them design truly brain-compatible classrooms and school environments. Participants will gain specific practical strategies to help reduce student stress, discover systems and procedures for effective classroom management, orchestrate opportunities for differentiated instruction and learn a variety of strategies for grouping students. Discover how to create a brain and body compatible environment that will bring the JOY of learning into their classrooms! Creating a climate and environment that is conducive for learning is the foundation for success.
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512-477-8200
Who Should Attend
Classroom Teachers, ESL, Instructional Support Staff, GATE Teachers, Specialists, Student Teachers and Administrators!
Workshop Time
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration Time
8:30 am
Differentiated Instruction / Brain Research
Multi-day Academy
This engaging seminar provides valuable information about three key elements of Brain Compatible Teaching and Learning. Recent research about how student’s brains grow, develop and respond to the environment should influence our classroom practices. Understanding some “brain basics” can give educators guidelines that will help them design truly brain-compatible classrooms and school environments. Participants will gain specific practical strategies to help reduce student stress, discover systems and procedures for effective classroom management, orchestrate opportunities for differentiated instruction and learn a variety of strategies for grouping students. Discover how to create a brain and body compatible environment that will bring the JOY of learning into their classrooms! Creating a climate and environment that is conducive for learning is the foundation for success.
Schedule Today
512-477-8200
Who Should Attend
Classroom Teachers, ESL, Instructional Support Staff, GATE Teachers, Specialists, Student Teachers and Administrators!
Workshop Time
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration Time
8:30 am
Leadership
One-day Institute
Every year bright, energetic young teachers enter their classrooms armed with lesson plans and a sincere desire to improve the lives of their students. Unfortunately, an alarming percentage of these teachers quit the profession after the first year because they cannot get the kids to behave.
In this workshop, we will talk briefly about the behavior problems teachers face in a typical classroom, but we will spend far more time discussing why these students act this way-in other words, what does the student gain by disrupting a class and disrespecting a teacher? We will work together to create a few simple, yet all-inclusive classroom rules, focusing on clear and effective consequences and rewards. We will also take a look at the theory of Transactional Analysis to clarify the motivations behind negative behaviors, so that teachers can learn to handle disruptive students without inadvertently creating even more problems. Each teacher will leave with an individualized plan for implementing an effective behavior management program in his or her own classroom.
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512-477-8200
Who Should Attend
Administrators, Principals and Classroom teachers
Workshop Time
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration Time
8:30 am
Curriculum
Multi-day Academy
No matter the size of your district, each must address the same curriculum challenges. For both central office personnel and teachers, each district needs staff members trained to answer the following challenges:
• How does the district ensure that teachers are provided a guaranteed and viable curriculum?
• How does the district ensure that curriculum writers are adequately trained to design and evaluate the district’s curriculum?
This academy will provide your team with a deeper understanding of curriculum design and the ability to determine the essential components of a quality curriculum.
During the two-day academy, participants will learn from highly experienced leaders who have developed curriculum and have lead curriculum departments for years:
• How to organize and manage curriculum design teams;
• How to design curriculum documents and clarification documents that are aligned to standards; and,
• How to develop a district plan to address both the scope and quality of curriculum design work while using guiding examples.
In addition to the curriculum design learning, teams will begin their work on budgets, schedules, and training plans to take back to their districts. From the basics to advanced topics, attendees will gain experience and a greater understanding of the benefits of a quality district curriculum.
Schedule Today
512-477-8200
Who Should Attend
Curriculum and instruction specialists, curriculum leaders, administrators
Workshop Time
8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Registration Time
7:30 a.m.
Curriculum Leadership Academy
Multi-day Academy
Are you leading school improvement, curriculum development, or working to transform learning for the digital student? If so, Texas ASCD’s Curriculum Leadership Academy is for you!
Curriculum
Multi-day Academy
“Education is serious, but that doesn’t mean it has to be grim.” “I don’t think we’re in Kansas any more.” “Schools are killing creativity.” These quotes by William Glasser, Dorothy (Wizard of Oz) and Sir Ken Robinson illustrate the philosophy of 21st Century Schools which is incorporated into all our professional development and curriculum design. The way we are educating children worldwide must change, and this is why:
Schedule Today
512-477-8200
Workshop Time
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration Time
8:30 am
Learning
Multi-day Academy
Day One: Leading a Culture of Learning in a Digital Age
Day Two: Leveraging Digital Tools: Community Building and Professional Learning
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512-477-8200
Early Childhood
One-day Institute
With the rapidly expanding increase of knowledge about how the brain grows and develops, early childhood educators can align developmentally appropriate lessons with critical periods. The development of vision, language, emotions, and intelligence are explored.
The human brain is biologically organized for speaking not for reading. Using new findings from neuroscience, educators can support young developing brains to become reading brains. Strategies that have been substantiated by neurological studies will be shared. A brief, non-technical overview of early brain development will be included. The foundation for reading begins at birth!
Schedule Today
512.565.4755
Workshop Time
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Early Childhood
One-day Institute
Snap, Clap, Wiggle and Giggle to the power of language. Light a fire in the imagination of children using simple, easy-to-do activities. Literacy and language become a daily activity when you find the resources you need. Connect standards as you jazz up your curriculum. You will capture ways to find a storytelling and literacy connection in every activity you present to the children. Learn how to make books, introduce poems and finger plays and sing catchy never to forget songs. Join the fun and experience activities that connect the classroom and the child’s family.
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512-477-8200
Who Should Attend
Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten and 1st grade Teachers.
Workshop Time
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration Time
8:30 am
Mathematics
Multi-day Academy
Presenter: Beatrice Luchin
This 5-day academy is designed to provide participants with instructional and assessment strategies that target struggling students in the content area of mathematics. The academy will focus on the strategic use of graphic organizers (both teacher-directed and student-directed arrangements) and assessment strategies that can be used to complement existing programs and curriculum already in place. Participants will be provided planning time to develop plans that incorporate the use of Graphic Organizers and STAAR Assessment Strategies for current and upcoming topics of instruction during each session.
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512-477-8200
Who Should Attend
Elementary, Secondary Math Teachers, Mathematics coaches, Lead Teachers, and Administrators.
Workshop Time
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Learning
Multi-day Academy
Instructional Rounds is an instructional improvement practice. Networks of professionals – principals, teachers, central office personnel – from across a district come together to observe in classrooms and engage in deep dialogue about instruction.
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512-477-8200
Differentiated Instruction / Brain Research
One-day Institute
A whole day of practical strategies teachers can use in their classrooms right away! Already convinced that differentiated instruction is necessary in today’s diverse classrooms? Come fill up your “teaching tackle box” with dozens of ideas to help you modify, adapt and extend your basic lessons. Learn dozens of ways to integrate clever, engaging activities to help your struggling learners, as well as strategies to provide enrichment for your highly-capable students. Expand your knowledge of the Multiple Intelligences and discover how you can ‘hook’ every learner. Be ready to actively participate, network with other teachers, and go home motivated with ideas you can use on Monday morning!
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512-477-8200
Who Should Attend
K-8 classroom teachers, specialists, GT and resource teachers
Workshop Time
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration Time
8:30 am
Differentiated Instruction / Brain Research
Multi-day Academy
A whole day of practical strategies teachers can use in their classrooms right away! Already convinced that differentiated instruction is necessary in today’s diverse classrooms? Come fill up your “teaching tackle box” with dozens of ideas to help you modify, adapt and extend your basic lessons. Learn dozens of ways to integrate clever, engaging activities to help your struggling learners, as well as strategies to provide enrichment for your highly-capable students. Expand your knowledge of the Multiple Intelligences and discover how you can ‘hook’ every learner. Be ready to actively participate, network with other teachers, and go home motivated with ideas you can use on Monday morning!
Schedule Today
512-477-8200
Who Should Attend
K-8 classroom teachers, specialists, GT and resource teachers
Workshop Time
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration Time
8:30 am
Assessment
One-day Institute
This workshop focuses on what district and campus instructional leaders need to know to effectively lead the transition to STAAR in each of the content areas. Structured as a typical school day (with each period devoted to a different subject area), this workshop is designed to provide school leaders with the most up-to-date information about STAAR.
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512-477-8200
Early Childhood
Multi-day Academy
Learn the importance of creating connections student to student and teacher to student to enhance literacy instruction in your classroom. In this workshop participants will learn how to use their literature block in ways that promote both school family and literacy.
Schedule Today
512.565.4755
Who Should Attend
Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten and 1st grade Teachers.
Workshop Time
9:00 am - 4:00 pm (Both Days)
Registration Time
8:30 am
Mathematics
One-day Institute
EVERY test is a reading test. Learn effective literacy strategies for mathematics that will support the TEKS Readiness and Supporting Standards that will support STAAR and EOC. Reading strategies that are specifically designed for attacking math application problems will be shared. Students not only need to read words, but tables, graphs, charts and a variety of pictures as well. We will explore how specific language arts and reading strategies may be adapted for use in the mathematics classroom. We will use math examples throughout the day!
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512-477-8200
Who Should Attend
Middle School, High School, Mathematics coaches, and Summer School math and English teachers and administrators working with students who struggle to pass various standardized assessments.
Workshop Time
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration Time
8:30 am
Leadership
Multi-day Academy
Students come to school with different levels of background knowledge that impact their academic success. Knowing what to do to support those students who do not have the background knowledge to be successful in school has not always been clear.until now. Attend this workshop, based on Robert J. Marzano’s Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement: Research on What Works in Schools, to discover how to help students to become more confident and successful learners by building the background knowledge they may have missed in earlier years. A variety of strategies for building background knowledge that can be implemented, K-12, will be explored, modeled, and practiced, with special emphasis on the Six-Step Process for Teaching Academic Vocabulary in each discipline.
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512-477-8200
Who Should Attend
Principals, Teachers, Curriculum administrators, Curriculum designers and Professional developers.
Workshop Time
9:00 am - 4:00 pm (Two Day)
Registration Time
8:30 am
Curriculum
One-day Institute
Curriculum Alignment is a process that ensures the written, taught, and tested curricula are nested, coherent, and research-based. This session will explore the essential steps of curriculum alignment within grade levels and content areas of the TEKS, while also uncovering “points of integration” that are aligned between content areas. Participants will experience the steps of alignment as well as explore a plan to create systems in districts and schools to support this process through focused professional development experiences, the development of leadership layers, and data analysis.
Schedule Today
512-477-8200
Who Should Attend
Administrators, Principals and Classroom teachers
Workshop Time
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration Time
8:30 am
Early Childhood
One-day Institute
Enter the imaginary world of puppets. Learn the simplest techniques for using puppets in your classroom. Meet the Peeper puppets and learn how they become a magical connection for all children and adults. Bring along your imagination and create a puppet to take back to your classroom. Puppets are playful but educational to help you meet the state educational standards for young children. You will captivate your children with the whimsy activity of a favorite puppet pal.
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512-477-8200
Who Should Attend
Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten and 1st grade Teachers.
Workshop Time
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration Time
8:30 am
Differentiated Instruction / Brain Research
One-day Institute
Response to Intervention is uniquely implemented in each district. This session is designed to enable the participant to examine the philosophy of RTI development and implementation that best matches their local practices. Participants will be asked to share the guidelines and process of RTI in their district and to identify challenges of RTI implementation. Time to develop a problem solving approach to the challenges will be included.
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512-477-8200
Who Should Attend
Administrators, Principals, Directors of Assessment and those involved in tiered instruction.
Workshop Time
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration Time
8:30 am
Reading
One-day Institute
This institute will provide fresh ideas for integrating reading instruction into any content area, especially when the text is complex and challenging. No longer is it okay for students to read a text at the surface level; they must read deeper. The state standards (TEKS) and assessment system (STAAR) call for a close analysis of texts that demonstrates critical thinking skills. Through interactive learning, participants will acquire new strategies that can be implemented to meet state standards, encourage student engagement, and make STAAR manageable for teachers to foster student success in real reading.
Schedule Today
512-477-8200
Who Should Attend
Educators and Administrators of Grades 3-8
Workshop Time
8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Registration Time
8:00 am
Reading
Multi-day Academy
This institute will provide fresh ideas for integrating reading instruction into any content area, especially when the text is complex and challenging. No longer is it okay for students to read a text at the surface level; they must read deeper. The state standards (TEKS) and assessment system (STAAR) call for a close analysis of texts that demonstrates critical thinking skills. Through interactive learning, participants will acquire new strategies that can be implemented to meet state standards, encourage student engagement, and make STAAR manageable for teachers to foster student success in real reading.
Schedule Today
512-477-8200
Who Should Attend
Educators and Administrators of Grades 3-8
Workshop Time
8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Registration Time
8:00 am
Reading
One-day Institute
Literacy coaching has swept the nation, and for good reason. Literacy coaching can dramatically increase student success by enhancing teacher decision-making and instruction. However, some literacy coaching does not produce lasting success; in these programs, teachers go through the motions of making superficial changes and then quickly revert to less-successful practices and perspectives. This workshop will help you ensure that coaching in your school or district has lasting effects by providing practical strategies, supported by current research and theory, for coaching that zeroes in on teachers’ concerns, creates partnerships with teachers, makes use of data, and gauges success.
Schedule Today
512-477-8200
Who Should Attend
New and experienced literacy coaches, Principals with literacy coaches in their schools, Program and curriculum leaders who work with literacy coaches
Workshop Time
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration Time
8:30 am
Reading
Multi-day Academy
Literacy coaching has swept the nation, and for good reason. Literacy coaching can dramatically increase student success by enhancing teacher decision-making and instruction. However, some literacy coaching does not produce lasting success; in these programs, teachers go through the motions of making superficial changes and then quickly revert to less-successful practices and perspectives. This workshop will help you ensure that coaching in your school or district has lasting effects by providing practical strategies, supported by current research and theory, for coaching that zeroes in on teachers’ concerns, creates partnerships with teachers, makes use of data, and gauges success.
Schedule Today
512-477-8200
Who Should Attend
New and experienced literacy coaches, Principals with literacy coaches in their schools, Program and curriculum leaders who work with literacy coaches
Workshop Time
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration Time
8:30 am
Science
One-day Institute
This one-day session will take participants through an examination of what hands-on, minds-on science should look like, and sound like, and what this can do for students, Grade 4-8th, using standard based strategies to connect across all contents. Participants will develop an overall understanding of what you, as the expert, want your students to come away with at the end of the lesson. These inquiry based lessons will guide participants in determining what student to know and be able to do. This structure will guide student in investigation and question strategies to get the most out of every lesson. This session will feature performance expectations, graphics, and other metacognitive aids that can be used by teachers and students alike to guide and assess growth in the use of language through science activities. Through the Connection of literacy we will show how teachers can use practical classroom techniques for combining science and language literacy at different grade levels.
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512-477-8200
Who Should Attend
Grades 4-8 Science Teachers, Science Coordinators, Instructional Specialists & Administrators
Workshop Time
8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Registration Time
8:00 am
Reading
One-day Institute
Every day secondary English/Language Arts teachers face students with different independent and instructional reading levels within the same classroom. In today’s climate of high-stakes testing, they consequently confront a seemingly impossible task: facilitating student mastery of the TEKS SEs when many students read below grade level and need differentiated instruction in order to develop the metacognitive skills necessary for “reading to learn.” The first step in addressing this challenge is providing middle and high school teachers with the tools they need to integrate direct instruction in reading into their lessons. This session addresses ways to do this without sacrificing the teaching of rigorous content and the attainment of high standards by all students.
Schedule Today
512-477-8200
Who Should Attend
Educators and Administrators of secondary English/Language Arts Learners
Workshop Time
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration Time
8:30 am
Science
One-day Institute
The Chemistry End of Course Exam is here!
This spring, students will take the end of course chemistry exam. Success on this exam is required for graduation. Stakes are high for students, teachers and schools. More rigorous student expectations will be assessed multiple times and in multiple ways.
Join us for a hands-on, lively workshop designed to address the urgent and critical needs of high school chemistry teachers and students. Teachers will return to their classrooms better equipped to support student learning and achievement.
Utilizing the 5E instructional model and cooperative learning strategies, teachers will practice and receive lab-based activities designed to address TEA Chemistry STAAR performance descriptors. Opportunities for extension and remediation will be included for each activity.
Don’t miss this opportunity to develop a deep understanding of the Chemistry STAAR test, and the skills students will need to be successful!
Schedule Today
512-477-8200
Who Should Attend
Science Supervisors, High School Chemistry Teachers and Administrators
Workshop Time
8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Registration Time
8:00 am
Science
Multi-day Academy
The Chemistry End of Course Exam is here!
This spring, students will take the end of course chemistry exam. Success on this exam is required for graduation. Stakes are high for students, teachers and schools. More rigorous student expectations will be assessed multiple times and in multiple ways.
Join us for a hands-on, lively workshop designed to address the urgent and critical needs of high school chemistry teachers and students. Teachers will return to their classrooms better equipped to support student learning and achievement.
Utilizing the 5E instructional model and cooperative learning strategies, teachers will practice and receive lab-based activities designed to address TEA Chemistry STAAR performance descriptors. Opportunities for extension and remediation will be included for each activity.
Don’t miss this opportunity to develop a deep understanding of the Chemistry STAAR test, and the skills students will need to be successful!
Schedule Today
512-477-8200
Who Should Attend
Science Supervisors, High School Chemistry Teachers and Administrators
Workshop Time
8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Registration Time
8:00 am
Science
One-day Institute
The STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) inititive and focus in education is gaining ever-increasing interest from educators. STEM programs and resources abound for middle and high school levels, but what about STEM for our earliest learners in kindergarten through grade 5?
This one-day session will take participants through a day of examination of what STEM is, looks like, sounds like and can do for students in K-5. District and campus leaders and teachers interested in getting started in STEM will have opportunites to define and refine their understanding of STEM and learn about current programs and practices at the elementary level. Participants will also explore connections and resources that link STEM and 21st century skills essential for student success.
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1-800-717-2723
Who Should Attend
Principals, Curriculum/Program Leaders, K-5 classroom teachers
Workshop Time
8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Registration Time
8:00 am
Mathematics
Multi-day Academy
Students must learn mathematics with understanding, actively building new knowledge from experiences and prior knowledge. Participants will evaluate the reasonableness of solutions to application problems focusing on Measurement, Geometry and Spatial Reasoning, and data. They will explore estimation and accuracy, and formulas in perimeter and area.
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512-477-8200
Who Should Attend
Classroom Mathematics instructors - Grades 5-8
Workshop Time
8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Registration Time
8:00 am
Leadership
One-day Institute
In this workshop, we will discuss how to be professional with our students and with our colleagues. This program covers the essentials (major and minor) for new teachers, such as getting organized and keeping up with the required paperwork, dressing in an appropriate way for the job, dealing with stress and frustration, communicating with parents, and learning to respect the power that is given to us as educators.
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512-477-8200
Who Should Attend
Administrators, Principals and Classroom teachers
Workshop Time
9 am - 4pm
Registration Time
8:30 am
Reading
One-day Institute
Reading involves lifting meaning from the printed page. Comprehension occurs when skilled readers interact with the text and self-question, infer, make connections, summarize, synthesize and relate. As STAAR requires close reading and an ability to provide text evidence, participants in this session will explore approaches for teaching these important skills.
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512-477-8200
Who Should Attend
Administrators, Principals and Classroom teachers
Workshop Time
8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Registration Time
8:00 am
Leadership
One-day Institute
All great leaders are able to inspire others to take positive action. Principals will participate in a book study with emphasis on discussion on modeling effective instructional behavior and learning/relearning leadership skills. The principal is the key to success in any school and so it is important that he/she understands this role and is able to communicate just what is to be undertaken.
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512-477-8200
Workshop Time
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration Time
8:30 am
Leadership
Multi-day Academy
The principal is expected to be able to handle any problems with parents, teachers and students, manage the facility, enable teachers to teach, and to know the latest information on curricular issues. This seminar will address Texas and national standards, challenges with regard to creation of learning communities, and possible curricular trends for the 21st century.
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512-477-8200
Workshop Time
9:00 am - 4:00 pm (Two-Days)
Learning
One-day Institute
The science of learning tells us that addressing the needs of “the whole child” is what will raise test scores. How do we incorporate soft skills into the curriculum? into the classroom? With the emphasis on STAAR, is there a way to meet the requirements of social and emotional learning? There is, and this Institute is a way to begin to design this work.
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512-477-8200
Who Should Attend
Classroom teachers, Principals and campus administrators
Workshop Time
8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Registration Time
8:00 am
Differentiated Instruction / Brain Research
One-day Institute
Successful teachers keep the brain’s natural learning abilities in mind. Expand your understanding of brain-friendly teaching strategies with an enthusiastic veteran “neuroeducator.” Learn how stress and perceived threat, lack of inclusion, and chaos in the classroom can minimize learning. Discover how multi-sensory experiences in an enriched environment can promote brain growth and development. Build up your repertoire of differentiated instructional strategies to help students actively process new learning to assure long-term retention. Learn new techniques to engage your students as the presenter models the strategies. No matter what grade level or subject you teach – you will gain tons of ideas from this popular presenter.
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512-477-8200
Leadership
Are you a principal with three or more years experience? If so, the Transformative Principal Leadership Academy is for you! This Academy’s purpose is to cultivate and strengthen the expertise of principals throughout the state and lead transformational work in teaching and learning. Gain the tools necessary to support school transformation through rigorous and engaging learning for all students, and receive innovative real-world examples from exemplary practitioners leading school transformation. Learn more here.
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512-477-8200
Who Should Attend
Principals with 3+ years experience
Mathematics
One-day Institute
Today’s assessments – EOC, STAAR, SAT, PSAT, AP and district benchmarks – require that teachers have the ability to create and pose questions to students in order to engage them and elicit deeper-level thinking about the subject under discussion Skillful us of the art of questioning is one of the basic skills of good teaching. Increased student achievement has directly linked to teachers use of effective questioning strategies. This seminar will focus on how instructors can use the art of thoughtful questioning to extract not only factual information, but aid learners in connecting concepts, making inferences, increasing awareness, encouraging creative and imaginative thought, aiding critical thinking processes, and generally helping learners explore deeper levels of knowing, thinking, and understanding.
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512-477-8200
Workshop Time
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration Time
8:30 am
Writing
Multi-day Academy
How ofter do teachers hear, “I don’t know what to write!”? Teachers of writing know that developing students as writers is not a clean, linear process. Writing instruction and development of students as writers is multi-faceted and challenging.
This two day, multi-level, academy focuses on research based strategies to improve student writing ability and engagement.
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512-477-8200
Who Should Attend
Secondary School Teachers and Administrators
Workshop Time
8:30 am - 3:30 pm
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