Professional Learning Day (PLD)

First Aid & CPR/AED

Audiences:
Presenter: American Red Cross
Room: FTK Gym
Times: 8:30am - 3pm

Registrations have closed.

First Aid and CPR/AED trains you to respond to breathing and cardiac emergencies, injuries and sudden illness. CPR/AED trains you to respond to cardiac and breathing emergencies. First Aid trains you to identify and respond to common sudden illnesses such as seizures, strokes, allergic reactions, poisoning and diabetic emergencies. All training classes include 2-year certifications, free digital training material and free digital certificates for each participant.

Academic Counselors and the English Learner Master Plan: Pathways to Support SLUSD’s English Language Learners’ Multilingual Success in College and Careers!

Audiences:
Presenter: Doris Castillo, Assistant Director of Teaching, Learning & Educational Equity
Room: SLHS College and Career Center
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

In this engaging and interactive session, secondary academic counselors will learn and understand the role of the English Learner Master Plan and what an EL student and family experience from enrollment to graduation in SLUSD.

Accelerate Language Acquisition Using the UDL Guidelines

Audiences:
Presenter: Rita Pope, ACOE
Room: 155
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

Explore ways to accelerate language acquisition during designated ELD through the engagement, representation, and action/expression guidelines of UDL. Focusing on a sequence of a lesson, we will explore multiple ways for increased access to learning and language production for all ELLs.

Collaborative Strategies to Support Multilingual Scholars in the Content Classrooms 6-12th

Audiences:
Presenter: Sarah Ansari (EL specialist)
Room: 355
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

Participants will engage with colleagues in collaborative strategies that simultaneously develop content knowledge and language, and express their learning in multimodal ways.

Cooperative Math Centers to Support ELs

Audiences:
Presenter: Edward Garnica & Lauren Quock (Intervention Specialists)
Room: 258
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

Creating a UC Honors Designation for Career Technical Education Courses

Audiences:
Presenter: Michelle Stephens, Pathway Coordinator, Eden Area Regional Occupational Program
Room: 157
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

In this session, CTE Teachers will learn and understand the process for their CTE course to receive a UC Honors designation that supports students' college and career aspirations.

Effective AAC Implementation

Audiences:
Presenter: Mollie Mindel MS,CCC-SLP
Room: 151
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

Explore the Wonders of Wonders/Maravillas!

Audiences:
Presenter: Rachel Vatannia (Ed Services Coordinator)
Room: 152
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

Participants in this session will explore the adopted K-5 ELA/ELD/SLA curriculum to understand the various components and enhance their ability to design learning experiences that invite and support all students. This will include building knowledge of the components used by teachers and students, basic understanding of the digital teacher and student center, and overview of the instructional path. Please have your TE unit 1, Reading writing companion book and Literature anthology available for review during the presentation.

Exploring the Intersections of Social-Emotional Learning and Social Justice Education

Audiences:
Presenter: Jenna King (SLHS Teacher)
Room: 253
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

In this session, we will explore the bridge between social-emotional learning and social justice education as tools for engagement. We will look at and explore specific strategies that can be implemented into any lesson, as well as discuss the importance of equipping young people with the agency they need to become changemakers in the world.

Game On: Turn Lessons into Engaging Class Games

Audiences:
Presenter: Jonathan Fall & Kristina Chan (SLHS Teachers)
Room: 358
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

Are you looking to add a little more excitement to your classes? Research shows that interest and joy is key to long term learning! In this workshop, we will share strategies to turn class activities you already do into fun and engaging games, with rigor and integrity. Come have fun with us as we learn how to gamify our classrooms!

Healthy Mind and Body: The SLUSD TK-12 Music Department

Audiences:
Presenter: Susan Dent (Music Department Chair)
Room: SLHS Band Room
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

Hope is Not a Strategy: Strengthening Core Instruction with a UDL Lens

Audiences:
Presenter: Mari Ullrich and Joan Bonsey (Intervention Specialists)
Room: 259
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

In this workshop, you will peruse and practice a plethora of Tier 1 supports, with the goal of implementing new classroom strategies the very next day! With the principles of UDL (Universal Design for Learning) as the overarching road map, you will discover how re-design of curriculum and Tier 1 supports can level the playing field so that ALL students have equitable access to instruction.

Intermediate Google Workspace, Aeries and ParentSquare

Audiences:
Presenter: Alfonso Corona, David Mellons
Room: 351
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

Let's Write That Behavior Plan!

Audiences:
Presenter: Michelle Turbin (Behavior Specialist)
Room: 357
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

Does writing a behavior intervention plan seem daunting? Do you struggle with the when and the how? In this seminar, we will learn how to evaluate the function of challenging student behavior, establish measurable goals, and identify the when, how and why of the BIP process. The intended audience holds an Education Specialist or adjacent credential and works in the SDC, CEC or RSP settings.

Let’s Get Students Talking About Math!

Audiences:
Presenter: Sara Green, ACOE
Room: 153
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

In this session we will discuss the numerous benefits of engaging students in math discourse and explore a variety of instructional strategies that can be embedded into your Eureka curriculum.

Making Learning Visible through the Arts: an introduction

Audiences:
Presenter: Teryn Kravitz (SLHS Teacher)
Room: 354
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

The field of arts integration has developed many ways to make student thinking and understanding more visible. Using the languages of the arts can deepen intellectual engagement with a topic throughout a unit, reveal subtleties of understanding, and provide modalities that are more accessible for some students. This workshop will provide an introduction to the principles and practices of making thinking and learning visible through the arts.

Making Vocab Sticky for our ELs and LTELs

Audiences:
Presenter: Chris Lopez Cepero (SLHS teacher)
Room: 353
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

For our English Learners especially, academic vocabulary can be a key that unlocks opportunity for growth and success across content areas--but, in the wider scope, all our students are ELs when it comes to academic English. This session will focus on engaging, research-based, and ready-to-use classroom strategies for building academic vocabulary for secondary students. We'll also cover practice strategies for how to make academic vocab "sticky" for your learners.

Meeting the sensory needs of students

Audiences:
Presenter: Trisha Park and Emily Deven (Occupational Therapists)
Room: 352
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

Are you interested in meeting the engagement needs of your students by incorproating fidgets, flexible seating options, and other sensory strategies in your room, but wondering how to incorporate them productively? In this session you will learn what sensory processing is, how sensory processing differences can look in students, and strategies for how to address these differences in your classroom.

Mental Health Services Overview for Students in Special Education

Audiences:
Presenter:
Room: BLC Staff Lounge
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

Psychologists will review School Based Mental Health Services, Educationally Related Mental Health Services assessments and ERMHS as a related service. Fundamentals of ERMHS assessments will be discussed, including indicators of Marked Degree, Extended Period of Time, and consideration of Least Restrictive Environment. Referral statements, referral questions and basics of what must be included in an ERMHS report will be covered. Psychologists will develop a list of indicators to consider when determining whether or not ERMHS assessment is warranted at the time of an initial, tri, or interim evaluation.

PE and UDL! Using Heart Monitors in your Secondary PE Classroom to Implement all three guidelines of UDL

Audiences:
Presenter: Lois M. Mauch, M.S. Ed., Director of Education, Interactive Health Technologies, LLC
Room: 362
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

Heart rate monitors are an excellent way a teacher can measure effort and exercise intensity with students. In this session, secondary PE teachers will learn ways to incorporate this curriculum in their program. The heart monitor curriculum and program supports teachers options to provide engagement, representation and action & expression for all students.

Planning for UDL and Students with Special Needs (6- 12)

Audiences:
Presenter: Fawnya Neff (SLHS Teacher)
Room: 156
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

This PD will begin with a brief overview of UDL, and then dive deeper into some tech tools that can support students with different learning needs. Participants should bring a lesson plan idea that they would like to begin crafting in the UDL style and their charged laptop to practice with the tech tools.

Powerful Math Learning and Discourse

Audiences:
Presenter: Harold Asturias (Director, Bay Area Math Project)
Room: 154
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

What does it take to create cultures, conditions, and competencies for academic discourse in secondary math classes? How do we foster deep mathematical learning? Leave with tools to support all students in engaging in math conversations that connect concepts, language, and agency.

Proactive Planning for Behavior in all Classrooms

Audiences:
Presenter: Eva Caraher (Behavior Specialist)
Room: 359
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

How do you like being in your classroom? Is it Fun? Quiet? Busy? Productive? Needs some tweaking? General education teachers can benefit from knowing more about positive behavior support and classroom management. There is not only one way to set up a class for a productive environment, but there are some commonalities that can help! Time to discuss and share your ideas with the group included. (This is not a "PBIS" session)

Read & Write: a UDL Literacy Support Tool (TextHelp)

Audiences:
Presenter: Cori Brooks (Read&Write Staff)
Room: 159
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

Seizure Training for School Nurses

Audiences:
Presenter:
Room: BLC - Nurse office
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

Seizure Training for School Nurses: Caring for Students is a program designed to provide the school nurse with information, strategies, and resources that will enable him/her to better manage the student with seizures by supporting positive treatment outcomes, maximizing educational and developmental opportunities, and ensuring a safe and supportive environment. The program consists of seven modules to assist the school nurse in learning to effectively manage seizures in a school environment.

Small Group Tier 1 Reading Supports, (K-2)

Audiences:
Presenter: Amanda Lang & Eun-Sook Park (Intervention Specialists)
Room: 257
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

We will focus on some specific supports that you can use in your small reading groups: supports that teach phonics, blending & segmenting, and shared reading.

Strategies for student self assessment & agency

Audiences:
Presenter: Gaia Pine (Instructional Coach)
Room: 356
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

Supporting Multilingual Learners in Early Learning Classrooms Through a UDL Framework

Audiences:
Presenter: Angela Cabrera, ACOE
Room: 256
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

In this session we will discuss who are Multilingual Learners, the reason why it is important to understand how Multilingual Learners learn and develop, and we will identify strategies that have been proven effective to ensure multiple means of representation, engagement and multiple means of action and expression are embedded in daily classroom experiences and activities.

The Knotty Triangle: Scarborough's Reading Rope and Tiered Instruction

Audiences:
Presenter: Dave Stevenson, CEO, Reading Futures
Room: 158
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

Learning to read is incredibly complex. Scarborough's Reading Rope helps us think about the "strands" of interconnected skills that comprise reading, across both word recognition and language comprehension. Children come to the classroom from very different places, with very different needs. Recent research suggests that children learn best when we unravel the strands and organize instruction around those needs. Easy to say and hard to do! Join us for a discussion of some typical "clusters" of student needs, ideas on how to teach to them, and thoughts on how this work does and doesn't fit into "tiered" instructional models.

TK-12 PE Content Best Practices in Understanding Physical Education Equipment Library

Audiences:
Presenter: Manny Acosta (Physical Education Teacher)
Room: SLHS Gym
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

This hands-on workshop supports upgrades of physical education, coaching and health programs through presentations of trends and exemplary teaching techniques. Participants will learn the latest innovations in physical education, coaching and health. Common Core and California Physical Education Standards are integrated into the curriculum of traditional and non-traditional games that support active programs in elementary through high school levels.

TK-5 History Social Studies Curriculum Introduction

Audiences:
Presenter: Katy Felsinger (Halkin Teacher) Elaine Yee (Monroe Teacher)
Room: 360
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

UDL-ifying your Lessons!

Audiences:
Presenter: Sarah Dillon (Instructional Coach)
Room: 252
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

For secondary teachers looking to put their knowledge of UDL to work immediately! In this session you will be presented with ideas and strategies for reframing your lesson- planning lens to plan for our marginal students while meeting the needs of the whole class. Start the session looking at example lesson plans from various secondary grade levels and content areas to identify UDL examples of Engagement, Action/ Expression and Representation, and end your learning Session with time to work on broadening your lens to incorporate these strategies into your own lessons to use the next day!

Universal Design for Learning Framework Foundations

Audiences:
Presenter: Sally Barry (Instructional Coach)
Room: A208
Times: Session 1

Registrations have closed.

Participants in this session will explore the UDL framework and start to make connections between the 3 Principles of Engagement, Representation, and Action/Expression and their own practice.

Collaborative UDL Strategies to Support SLVA Students Tk-12

Audiences:
Presenter: Monica Guzman, Principal on Special Assignment
Room: SLVA Classroom
Times: Session 1 and 2

Registrations have closed.

In these sessions, San Leandro Virtual Academy (SLVA) teachers will focus on strategies and technology platforms that will support teachers and students in online and virtual settings and ways UDL comes alive in zoom!

Unique Learning Systems

Audiences:
Presenter: Unique Learning Systems
Room: 255
Times: Session 1 and 2

Registrations have closed.

Equity-focused Campus Supervision

Audiences:
Presenter: Jenji and Franklin Hysten (Blaze Consulting)
Room: Barbara Lee Center
Times: 9am - 1pm

Registrations have closed.

We have partnered with BLAZE Consulting Group, led by Jenjii and Franklin Hysten, who will be training our staff to support the implementation of our District's Strategic Action Plan Goal #3 Equity-Centered Effective Employee Engagement. Specifically, the training will be focused on operationalizing the key initiative of cultivating support for employees to deliver gold standard customer service that reflects our commitment to equity and inclusion.

Accelerate Language Acquisition Using the UDL Guidelines

Audiences:
Presenter: Rita Pope, ACOE
Room: 155
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

Explore ways to accelerate language acquisition during designated ELD through the engagement, representation, and action/expression guidelines of UDL. Focusing on a sequence of a lesson, we will explore multiple ways for increased access to learning and language production for all ELLs.

Attendance Processes and Independent Study Contracts

Audiences:
Presenter: Carole MacKenzie
Room: 351
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

Collaborative Strategies to Support Multilingual Scholars in the Content Classrooms 6-12th

Audiences:
Presenter: Sarah Ansari (EL specialist)
Room: 355
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

Participants will engage with colleagues in collaborative strategies that simultaneously develop content knowledge and language, and express their learning in multimodal ways.

Cultural & Linguistic Diversity (CLD) Considerations in The Schools: What New SLPs Need to Know

Audiences:
Presenter: Maret Wilson MA CCC-SLP
Room: 151
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

Especially given the diversity that characterizes California, SLPs need to appropriately account for the diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds of the students they serve. To help new SLPs navigate the treacherous legal and ethical intricacies of school-based practice, this training provides an overview of the dangers of disproportionality and bias, important cultural and linguistic considerations, and key legal responsibilities for serving CLD students in the public schools.

ELD Strategies for Dynamic Learning

Audiences:
Presenter: Mia Kleven, Carissa Lynds (Intervention Specialists)
Room: 258
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

We will focus on 3 high leverage strategies: KWL Charts, Interactive Word Walls and Stronger, Clearer Each Time

Engaging all Elementary Learners through Pickleball!

Audiences:
Presenter: Lynette Watkins & Rommel Gatus, Elementary PE Specialists
Room: SLHS Gym
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

Pickleball was a sport created for all ages and skill levels. It combines elements of tennis, badminton, and ping-pong into a fun court game that is easy for beginners to learn and challenging enough for competitive play. In this interactive session, Elementary PE Specialists will learn ways to engage their entire class with unique strategies and tips.

Enhance Academic Discourse Through Partner & Group Interactions

Audiences:
Presenter: Cybele Camberos (EL specialist) and Houghton Mifflin
Room: 156
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

Participants will examine the Partner & Group Interactions essential routines and explore English 3D resources, which will include the online platform, to support implementation in the classroom. Resources and demo accounts will be provided for this session. Resources can be used to structure protocols to enhance students' engagement and academic discourse during Designated and Integrated ELD instruction and content area classrooms. Students in World Language classroom can also benefit from these protocols. English 3D curriculum is not required to participate.

Equity Practices in Early Learning Classrooms

Audiences:
Presenter: Angela Cabrera, ACOE
Room: 256
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

This session is an invitation to reflect as teachers on identity, context and practice in anti-bias education. We will be hearing from the voices and actions of teachers that have committed to making equity and diversity part of their daily work.

Exploring the Intersections of Social-Emotional Learning and Social Justice Education

Audiences:
Presenter: Jenna King (SLHS Teacher)
Room: 253
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

In this session, we will explore the bridge between social-emotional learning and social justice education as tools for engagement. We will look at and explore specific strategies that can be implemented into any lesson, as well as discuss the importance of equipping young people with the agency they need to become changemakers in the world.

Game On: Turn Lessons into Engaging Class Games

Audiences:
Presenter: Jonathan Fall & Kristina Chan (SLHS Teachers)
Room: 358
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

Are you looking to add a little more excitement to your classes? Research shows that interest and joy is key to long term learning! In this workshop, we will share strategies to turn class activities you already do into fun and engaging games, with rigor and integrity. Come have fun with us as we learn how to gamify our classrooms!

Grading for Equity Practices in Physical Education Classes

Audiences:
Presenter: Dylan Charrin, Muir Assistant Principal
Room: 357
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

With support from Crescendo Education Group, PE teachers will explore how several grading for equity practices could be implemented in the context of Physical Education. Teachers will explore the idea of standards based grading, share ideas and consider possible common practices.

Let's Write That Behavior Plan!

Audiences:
Presenter: Michelle Turbin (Behavior Specialist)
Room: A119 (in FTK Main Office)
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

Does writing a behavior intervention plan seem daunting? Do you struggle with the when and the how? In this seminar, we will learn how to evaluate the function of challenging student behavior, establish measurable goals, and identify the when, how and why of the BIP process. The intended audience holds an Education Specialist or adjacent credential and works in the SDC, CEC or RSP settings.

Let’s Get Students Talking About Math!

Audiences:
Presenter: Sara Green, ACOE
Room: 153
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

In this session we will discuss the numerous benefits of engaging students in math discourse and explore a variety of instructional strategies that can be embedded into your Eureka curriculum.

Leveraging Zearn Math: Developing Purposeful, Resourceful and Strategic Learners

Audiences:
Presenter: Lexie Nimick (Zearn staff)
Room: 157
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

Making Learning Visible through the Arts: an introduction

Audiences:
Presenter: Teryn Kravitz (SLHS Teacher)
Room: 354
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

The field of arts integration has developed many ways to make student thinking and understanding more visible. Using the languages of the arts can deepen intellectual engagement with a topic throughout a unit, reveal subtleties of understanding, and provide modalities that are more accessible for some students. This workshop will provide an introduction to the principles and practices of making thinking and learning visible through the arts.

Making Vocab Sticky for our ELs and LTELs

Audiences:
Presenter: Chris Lopez Cepero (SLHS teacher)
Room: 353
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

For our English Learners especially, academic vocabulary can be a key that unlocks opportunity for growth and success across content areas--but, in the wider scope, all our students are ELs when it comes to academic English. This session will focus on engaging, research-based, and ready-to-use classroom strategies for building academic vocabulary for secondary students. We'll also cover practice strategies for how to make academic vocab "sticky" for your learners.

Meeting the sensory needs of students

Audiences:
Presenter: Trisha Park and Emily Deven (Occupational Therapists)
Room: 352
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

Are you interested in meeting the engagement needs of your students by incorproating fidgets, flexible seating options, and other sensory strategies in your room, but wondering how to incorporate them productively? In this session you will learn what sensory processing is, how sensory processing differences can look in students, and strategies for how to address these differences in your classroom.

Planning for UDL and Students with Special Needs (K- 5)

Audiences:
Presenter: Jennifer Fischer (McKinley Teacher)
Room: 251
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

When designing our instruction with a lens of Universal Design for Learning, teachers ensure they are planning for students of all learning types. Join this session to learn about the three most common learning differences in the classroom: ADHD, Auditory Processing Delay and Visual Processing Delays (including Dyslexia). Explore how these learning differences may show up in your TK-5 classrooms, and leave with functional strategies you can begin incorporating into your lessons tomorrow!

Proactive Planning for Behavior in all Classrooms

Audiences:
Presenter: Eva Caraher (Behavior Specialist)
Room: 359
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

How do you like being in your classroom? Is it Fun? Quiet? Busy? Productive? Needs some tweaking? General education teachers can benefit from knowing more about positive behavior support and classroom management. There is not only one way to set up a class for a productive environment, but there are some commonalities that can help! Time to discuss and share your ideas with the group included. (This is not a "PBIS" session)

Public Learning: Leveraging Curiosity to Improve Teaching

Audiences:
Presenter: Halkin Elementary Leadership Team members with Lead by Learning
Room: 362
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

This session introduces participants to the practice of public learning, a tested inquiry strategy that supports teachers to dig into dilemmas of practice that arise in real time in order to activate curiosity and improve instruction. Participants will receive support from colleagues to gain clarity and identify a next step and reflect on how they might continue the practice of public learning with their site colleagues.

Read & Write: a UDL Literacy Support Tool (TextHelp)

Audiences:
Presenter: Cori Brooks (Read&Write Staff)
Room: 159
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

School Emergency Triage Training (SETT)

Audiences:
Presenter:
Room: BLC - Nurse office
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

Teaches effective management of school emergencies where there are mass casualties requiring careful planning preparation, and training of maximize effectiveness under less optimal conditions. School nurses will learn how to coordinate the collection of information from a variety of resources to develop emergency disaster response plans which requires coordination with school administrators, staff, health care providers, and other community first responders.

Secondary Mathematics: Increasing Access for Deeper Learning (UDL, Thinking Classrooms, and Routines for Reasoning )

Audiences:
Presenter: Michelle Lau, ACOE
Room: 154
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

Creating thinking spaces for our 6-12 grade students means we need to support student engagement, representation, and expression into our Mathematics classrooms. During this session, we will learn ways to increase student discourse to deepen understanding and open access to rich learning.

Small Group Math Instruction

Audiences:
Presenter: Cynthia Epps & Demetria Frazier (Intervention Specialists)
Room: 259
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

This workshop focuses on implementing Tier 1 strategies to support students when learning and practicing math concepts through small group instruction.

Small Group Tier 1 Reading Supports, (K-2)

Audiences:
Presenter: Amanda Lang & Eun-Sook Park (Intervention Specialists)
Room: 257
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

We will focus on some specific supports that you can use in your small reading groups: supports that teach phonics, blending & segmenting, and shared reading.

Strategies for student self assessment & agency

Audiences:
Presenter: Gaia Pine (Instructional Coach)
Room: 356
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

The Knotty Triangle: Scarborough's Reading Rope and Tiered Instruction

Audiences:
Presenter: Dave Stevenson, CEO, Reading Futures
Room: 158
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

Learning to read is incredibly complex. Scarborough's Reading Rope helps us think about the "strands" of interconnected skills that comprise reading, across both word recognition and language comprehension. Children come to the classroom from very different places, with very different needs. Recent research suggests that children learn best when we unravel the strands and organize instruction around those needs. Easy to say and hard to do! Join us for a discussion of some typical "clusters" of student needs, ideas on how to teach to them, and thoughts on how this work does and doesn't fit into "tiered" instructional models.

TK-5 History Social Studies Curriculum Introduction

Audiences:
Presenter: Katy Felsinger (Halkin Teacher) Elaine Yee (Monroe Teacher)
Room: 360
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

UDL for arts and music specialists: connections, strategies and practices

Audiences:
Presenter: Trena Noval, California College of the Arts
Room: 152
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

We will build collective understanding and capacity for integrating UDL into arts classes. Follow up will include creation of a ritual, routine or lesson based on practices learned that teachers could use in classroom immediately.

UDL-ifying your Lessons!

Audiences:
Presenter: Sarah Dillon (Instructional Coach)
Room: 252
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

For secondary teachers looking to put their knowledge of UDL to work immediately! In this session you will be presented with ideas and strategies for reframing your lesson- planning lens to plan for our marginal students while meeting the needs of the whole class. Start the session looking at example lesson plans from various secondary grade levels and content areas to identify UDL examples of Engagement, Action/ Expression and Representation, and end your learning Session with time to work on broadening your lens to incorporate these strategies into your own lessons to use the next day!

Understanding the Manifestation Determination Process

Audiences:
Presenter:
Room: BLC Staff Lounge
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

Psychologists will review the Manifestation Determination process. This will include when a MD is required, when an MD requires a psycho educational report, timelines for MD IEP meetings and paperwork required for an MD IEP. If an MD psycho educational report is required, basics of writing an MD report will be addressed, including whether or not eligibility for special education should be re-evaluated and what should be included in a manifestation determination psychoeducational review. Psychologists will discuss when a BIP and/or FBA is required following an MD, and what happens if the team determines that there is no manifestation of disability.

Union Construction Apprenticeship & Pathways in San Leandro and the Bay Area

Audiences:
Presenter: Megan Nazareno, Elizabet Wendt, CTWI (Construction Trades Workforce Initiative)
Room: SLHS College and Career Center
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

Secondary Counselors will learn ways to connect students interested in high paying union construction careers located here in San Leandro and the Bay Area through Union Apprenticeship programs. Participants will understand the union construction industry and how to directly connect students to programs located right here in our area!

Universal Design for Learning Framework Foundations

Audiences:
Presenter: Sally Barry (Instructional Coach)
Room: A208
Times: Session 2

Registrations have closed.

Participants in this session will explore the UDL framework and start to make connections between the 3 Principles of Engagement, Representation, and Action/Expression and their own practice.

Self-Care Strategies:Building Emotional Resilience for Moderate/Severe Educators

Audiences:
Presenter: Ashley West (SLHS Teacher)
Room: 121 (Main Campus)
Times: Afternoon job-alike

Registrations have closed.

If you are a Moderate/ Severe SD teacher, this session is for you. Teacher burn-out is real, especially for the SD teaching community. This third session is tailored specifically for teachers of Moderate/ Severe classrooms, and will be a space to explore and practice actionable self- care strategies to foster teacher resilience in the classroom. You will explore how to modify these activities and skills to support student engagement through developing personal coping skills and strategies while also honoring and taking care of yourself. Time will be built in to allow for participants to incorporate the day's learned skills, strategies and platforms into the upcoming week's lesson plans. This is a job-alike session that takes place after lunch.