Professional Learning Day (PLD)
Presented by San Leandro Unified School District Educational Services
This March, San Leandro USD will continue our district's journey with anti-racism, equity, and the Universal Design for Learning framework to ensure that every student has the opportunity to engage in rigorous, joyful, and meaningful learning every single day. Either through a workshop or personalized learning plan, we will spend our Professional Learning Day refining our instructional toolkit to support the brilliant scholars in our schools and deepening our understanding of UDL + Equity and antiracism.
About the Day
Similar to last spring, we are offering two options for how you can spend this day.
Option 1: Submit a Proposal
Design your own professional learning experience by submitting a proposal with a team or a partner. This option allows you to focus on a topic that aligns with district instructional priorities and further your own growth as an educator. Please reach out to your instructional coaches with any support you may need.
Click here for a link to the proposal and directions for how to complete it (including sample exemplars).
Timeline for Submitting a Proposal
February 3rd: Proposal Deadline (Share with TLEE at teach-learn-equity@slusd.us)
February 4rd- 28th: Receive feedback on proposal from TLEE team and make revisions
February 28th: Online sign-ups due Indicate if you are participating in an approved proposal, or choosing to attend a TLEE workshop
Option 2: Register for a Workshop
Choose from a menu of workshops designed to deepen your instructional practice. These workshops will be facilitated sessions where you can collaborate with peers and explore key strategies for enhancing your teaching. If you choose to participate in a workshop, you do not need to complete a proposal. Simply sign up online by February 28th for your chosen workshop and attend on March 14th!
Lunch Selection
Schedule
March 14 Professional Learning Day Schedule
7:30am - 8:15am SLHS MAIN GYM | Breakfast Available Travel time built in |
8:30am - 12pm FTK Campus or School Site | Professional Learning Full-Day Workshop or Your Approved Proposal |
12pm - 1pm FTK Quad | Lunch |
1pm - 3:00pm | Professional Learning continued Full-Day Workshop or Your Approved Proposal |
3:00pm - 3:20pm | Submit Evidence of Learning & Reflection Form will be sent at 2:30pm for completion. |
Session Catalog
Click on the dropdown menu next to each session to see a description of the session and to register. All sessions are Full Day Sessions. Deadline for registration is Friday, February 28th. Note that sessions are subject to cancellation based on enrollment, and teachers may be asked to sign up for a different session if maximum capacity has been reached.
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*My Personalized Professional Learning Plan
Audiences: K-12Presenter: none
Room:
Times: All Day
Registrations have closed.
A team of colleagues and I will submit a proposal for a self-designed professional learning plan in alignment with the district focus on Anti-racist practices and Universal Design for Learning. We will share our proposal by February 3rd for approval, with commenting rights to teach-learn-equity@slusd.us
Being a Warm Demander (an aspect of Culturally Responsive Teaching)
Audiences: K-12Presenter: Gaia Pine (TLEE)
Room: FTK 256
Times: All Day
Registrations have closed.
We know that building relationships with students is key. This session will look at the strategies teachers use to super-charge those relationships and leverage them to bolster student academic prowess and chip away at societal inequities. We will utilize real scenarios from your experiences and role play responses so you are ready to roll come Monday!
District Behaviorists Collaboration
Audiences: District BehavioristsPresenter: Colleen Palia
Room: 113
Times: All Day
Registrations have closed.
Behavior Specialists will collaborate on the following topics: Case management processes and procedures; discuss difficult behavior cases; and plan for upcoming CPI (Crisis Prevention) workshops. Behaviorists will also review and update forms and procedures for: FBAs Manifestation Determination Referral procedures Wrap-around teacher/classroom support RBT Supervision
Diverse Ways of Knowing with Nicole Tucker-Smith (Focus: ELA, History, World Language)
Audiences: K-12, ELA, History, World LanguagePresenter: Nicole Tucker-Smith & Sylvia Rodriguez Douglass (Lessoncast)
Room: FTK 355
Times: All Day
Registrations have closed.
In this highly interactive session, you will practice 16 different ways of processing information that align with a diversity of cultural approaches to learning about our world. By expanding our teaching repertoire we can increase engagement, feelings of belonging, and student agency in reaching meaningful goals and standards. This is a content-specific session so that you can walk away with content-specific resources you can use right away!
Diverse Ways of Knowing with Nicole Tucker-Smith (Focus: Math, Science, CTE)
Audiences: K-12, Math, Science, CTEPresenter: Nicole Tucker-Smith & Sylvia Rodriguez Douglass (Lessoncast)
Room: FTK 354
Times: All Day
Registrations have closed.
In this highly interactive session, you will practice 16 different ways of processing information that align with a diversity of cultural approaches to learning about our world. By expanding our teaching repertoire we can increase engagement, feelings of belonging, and student agency in reaching meaningful goals and standards. This is a content-specific session so that you can walk away with content-specific resources you can use right away!
Educationally Related Mental Health Services (ERMHS) Assessment: Examining Your Social-Emotional Data
Audiences: School PsychologistPresenter: Kristin N. Moore, Psy.D., Clinical Psychologist
Room: FTK 257
Times: All Day
Registrations have closed.
Session 1: Presentation by Diagnostic Center North: Educationally Related Mental Health Services (ERMHS) are provided when a student has significant social-emotional and behavioral needs that impede his/her/their ability to benefit from the academic curriculum. In order to gain a better understanding of a student's level of mental health functioning, and the degree to which it is impairing learning, psychologists need to conduct an assessment that examines social, emotional, and behavioral capacities. This training will review common means of assessing and exploring a student's mental health using specific assessment measures. By the end of the presentation, participants will feel more comfortable completing ERMHS assessments and have new tools to gather data and explain results. Session 2: Case Consultation Psychologists will collaborate and consult around urgent high needs cases while considering the influence of multiple factors in pupil achievement. As a team, the psychologists will define presenting difficulties, and develop goals and implementation strategies around complex assessments. Ethical and professional issues will be considered through the peer consultation process in regards to presenting district wide concerns.
Fundamentals of the CA Teaching Pyramid with WestEd (Part 2)
Audiences: TK and PK TeachersPresenter: WestEd
Room: FTK 151
Times: All Day
Registrations have closed.
Participants will expand their learning in: • The tiered framework of the CA Teaching Pyramid and how that can help them in their work with children. • Reflection and reframing around social emotional development and relationships. •The use Positive Descriptive Acknowledgement (PDA) to promote appropriate behavior, build relationships, and improve communication. •Visual strategies and supports with schedules, routines, and expectations.
Gestalt Language Processing
Audiences: SLPs, SLPAsPresenter: Katie Arnold, M.A., CCC-SL
Room: FTK 255
Times: All Day
Registrations have closed.
This presentation reviews echolalia and its role in gestalt language development. We will look at the difference between analytic language development and gestalt language development, as well as, how to identify if a child is a gestalt language processor. The stages of Natural Language Acquisition (NLA) will be outlined. Assessment in terms of language sampling and scoring within the NLA framework will be discussed. Additionally, we will explore some example goals and how to support language with a gestalt language processors at each stage of gestalt language development. 1:00-3:00 Case Study Discussion For the afternoon session the SLPs will break out into two sub-groups to collaborate on grade/age level issues/cases. Group 1: Pre-k and elementary Group 2: Secondary
Introduction to Ethnic Studies
Audiences: K-12 TeachersPresenter: Jenna Hewitt King, Dr. Joya Lopez
Room: FTK 357
Times: All Day
Registrations have closed.
This session will expose teachers to key values and principles of Ethnic Studies, such as: facilitating restorative justice circles, creating a classroom conducive to humanizing students, building cultural empathy, and the Universal Design for Learning principles. This session will also aid in guiding teachers' understanding of the foundational concepts of Ethnic Studies using the model of the “double helix,” which signifies the relationship and interdependence of holistic humanization and critical consciousness
Learning in Physical Education
Audiences: PE TeachersPresenter: Terry Piper
Room: FTK Gym
Times: All Day
Registrations have closed.
An innovative approach to help students develop movement skills and build essential social and emotional competencies while gaining knowledge to be active today and tomorrow. Additionally looking at reading and writing to build literacy skills and how it plays an important role in Physical Education.
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom
Audiences: 3-12Presenter: Teresa Liao (TLEE)
Room: FTK 152
Times: All Day
Registrations have closed.
Artificial Intelligence seems to have taken the world by storm, already becoming an integral part of our daily lives. As educators, not only will we need to help students learn to navigate this technology's strengths and pitfalls, but we ourselves can learn to use AI to save valuable planning time in order to focus on what matters most--our students! Join us in an exploration of how AI can be leveraged by educators and students in ethical ways that can positively impact engagement and learning. We will discuss how to utilize AI to address Universal Design for Learning tenets, how to build student knowledge of ethical AI use, and how to build a set of criteria to make sure that bias and inequity is not introduced through our use of AI.
Student- Centered PBL Routines
Audiences: K-12Presenter: Ari Dolid (PBL Works)
Room: FTK 158
Times: All Day
Registrations have closed.
Set conditions in your classroom so when you begin a project, you are ready with your student routines! Think through practices like Thinking Walls, incorporating feedback and showing work to others beyond your own class(es). Teachers should bring in a lesson you want to design for!
Supporting Multilingual Learners
Audiences: K-12Presenter: Jackie Fix
Room: FTK 258
Times: All Day
Registrations have closed.
Teachers will: - Understand, apply and implement two key strategies that support Multilingual learners, specifically, Translanguaging & Teaching Academic Vocabulary. - Unpack mindsets, skills and areas of growth when supporting Multilingual & Newcomer students in their classrooms - Create and share a student profile they are designing / planning for.
Supporting Transitions (Elementary to-Middle-to High) for Students with IEPs
Audiences: 3-5 MM SDC and Resource TeachersPresenter: Jessica Ortiz, Jillian Smith
Room: FTK 253
Times: All Day
Registrations have closed.
This professional development session is designed to equip case managers with the knowledge, tools, and strategies necessary to support students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) during critical transition periods: from elementary to middle school and from middle school to high school. The session will focus on understanding program requirements, crafting appropriate IEP verbiage, and establishing effective collaboration with parents, case managers, and assistant directors.
Thinking Like an Artist
Audiences: Visual Arts Teachers K-12Presenter: Caren Andrews
Room: FTK 352
Times: All Day
Registrations have closed.
Ideally, art teaching is as much about teaching critical thinking skills as it is about teaching a variety of art making techniques. Ideas deepen the meaning and impact of what is being crafted. When we engage beyond craft and technique, art helps us make sense of the world and ourselves. To illustrate what it means to think like an artist we will draw inspiration from the world we live in and from contemporary artists while engaging in arts-based research that informs the objects we will create that express the maker’s point of view.
Weaving Rigorous Academics with Structured Routines within a Mod/ Severe Classroom
Audiences: SDC Teachers PK-12 Mod SevPresenter: Sarah Dillon (TLEE)
Room: FTK 252
Times: All Day
Registrations have closed.
As a Mod/ Severe SDC teacher you deeply understand that to support your students in learning functional academic and life skills, it is vital to provide your students a classroom with both rigorous academics and structured routines. Join your Mod/ Severe colleagues in weaving together units of study from Unique Learning Systems with responsive and structured routines to support the skills your students need to master!
Deepening Instructional Practice for Spanish Biliteracy (K-5)
Audiences: Elementary Spanish DLI Teachers (K-5)Presenter: Sally Barry (TLEE)
Room: FTK A208
Times: All Day
Registrations have closed.
This session is designed for Elementary Spanish DLI program teachers to build upon the learning and implementation they are doing in grade level teams and with the Center for Teaching for Biliteracy.
LETRS (Cohort 1 )
Audiences: LETRS Cohort 1Presenter: LEXIA
Room: FTK 251
Times: All Day
Registrations have closed.
This session will cover Unit 8: The Reading-Writing Connection. This session will dive into why writing can be challenging for students, how teachers can support them in gaining competence and how it is assessed. Narrative compositions, informational and opinion writing structures will be reviewed.
LETRS (Cohort 2)
Audiences: LETRS Cohort 2Presenter: LEXIA
Room: FTK 153
Times: All Day
Registrations have closed.
This session will cover Unit 3: Teaching Beginning Phonics, Word Recognition, and Spelling. Participants in this session will discuss the predictability of English orthography, how instruction should begin, what kind of practice is necessary, using dictations and decodable texts.
Your 3/15 Professional Learning Plan
FAQ
Where will breakfast and lunch be? Breakfast will be served at the SLHS gym and lunch will be served in the FTK Quad.
How do I sign in for the day? Workshop participants will sign in with your facilitator for the day. Those working on individualized professional learning plans will sign in at your site.
Can I sign up for the personalized learning plan if I did not submit a proposal? If you were not part of a team that submitted a proposal, please sign up for one of the workshops.
How do I know if my proposal was approved? A TLEE team member will be in contact with you regarding any feedback or questions they have about your proposal. In the meantime, if you are part of a team that has submitted a proposal, please sign up for “My Personalized Professional Learning Plan.”