Professional Learning Day (PLD)

*My Personalized Professional Learning Plan

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I will submit a proposal for my own professional learning plan for the day. One person on my team will share our proposal document with commenting rights to Teach-learn-equity@slusd.us for feedback and approval.

Arts Integration: Movement, music, and more!

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This interactive session explores how to use movement and music as a unique vehicle for self-expression and learning through practical, fun activities that can connect to science, math, history and language arts. Take a deep dive into how movement and music can inspire and engage any age. Bring the core standards to life with live demos, partner activities, and in-depth discussions!

Culturally Responsive Teaching: Warm Demander in Action

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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!

Designing for Diversity with an Anti-Racist + Equity UDL Lens

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Use this day of learning to continue to examine & refine your practice using Universal Design for Learning mindsets and the Troubleshooting Approach. Set clear goals, and question those goals. Anticipate barriers, and understand that bias is one of those barriers. Consider variability, and remember that identity is part of variabilty. Design options, and include different perspectives.

Do Your Lessons Love Your Students? Arts Integration for Social Change

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This workshop utilizes visual art making, writing, artful thinking routines, theatre and storytelling to practice breaking patterns of internalized bias and begin to build new neural pathways. You will also be introduced to a lesson planning framework that integrates culturally responsive teaching, brain science and arts integration toward fostering cultures of thinking your students are delighted to engage with.

Getting Evidence of Student Learning: Expand your Project or Assignments with Ari Dolid

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Does this scenario feel familiar? You've designed a project, activity, or assignment that you know should produce amazing learning outcomes, but the student work you're getting just doesn't match your expectations. How can you better ensure that what you design for students results in high quality learning outcomes? In this workshop, we'll explore how you can design and sequence activities that give you confidence that students are learning. In the morning, we'll dig into performance-based learning, explore sample activity designs, and examine an activity or assignment that you want to do in the next few weeks. In the afternoon, you'll put concepts into practice, making modifications to your activity and getting feedback from peers. You'll walk away from the session with a redesigned activity you can test immediately, and with knowledge you can apply repeatedly in your classroom practice. Any activity or assignment will work, and this is a great opportunity to come with your grade- or course/department level teams and refine your PBL plans.

Grading for Equity: Deepening Implementation

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Have you already been part of a Grading for Equity cohort and want to deepen your practices? Spend this session with colleagues as we reflect on what has worked well so far, review what we have learned about equitable grading practices, and explore how to implement additional practices that can make our grading more bias-proof. Participants must have completed a Grading for Equity cohort training in order to join this session.

Help Me Learn! with Ramya Krishna and Polly Yu for PK-1st grade

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This full day session with Ramya Krishna and Polly Yu will provide two related sessions. In the morning you will engage in Learning through Movement: This interactive training will show you fun ways to help little bodies move and explore with purpose! Learn why it's important for children to have access to movement throughout their day and explore how to provide and facilitate indoor/outdoor movement opportunites. In the afternoon you will engage in the Help Me Learn! Embedded Instruction (Building Blocks framework). This session will introduce tools and strategies to support embedded instruction in early childhood settings. Examine sample documentation and tips to promote effective lesson planning that addresses chidlren's goals (including IEP goals) and explore a variety of ways to develop lesson plans that successfully support every child's development.

Highlighting Opportunities for Success in Elementary Designated ELD

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How to Support Students' Self-awareness, Social-emotional Competence, and Autonomous Learning Skills through Sensory Perception, Movement, and Collaborative Play (PE, SpEd, SEL)

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Experience new, hands-on, movement-based approaches to exploring, understanding, and implementing UDL Guidelines (Engagement, Representation, Action & Expression) in shared environments (cafeteria, gym, auditorium), special education, and physical education class settings. In the morning you will join with the presenter for a virtually facilitated activity-focused session where you will engage in activities that can be applied to the classroom. After the virtual presentation ends you will collaborate to identify additional ways that the design principles from the session can be implemented to remove barriers for students engagement in physical education and other learning activities.

Occupational Therapist session

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School Plan for Student Achievement (Site Leaders only)

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School site leaders will reflect on 2023-24 progress and begin developing 2024-25 School Plans for Student Achievement. Combining frameworks from UDL, Community School, and action research, principals will develop strategies, actions and metrics to address key problems of practice.

Secondary Counselors

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Where Standards Meet Real Life: Using Argumentation to Prepare English Learners

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We will explore how argumentation and persuasion literacy standards can help students beyond the classroom in real world situations. We will address common barriers that disrupt the full participation of English Learners and introduce inclusive techniques that support student choice and engagement. Throughout this session, you will experience methods for facilitating engaging discussions, debates, presentations, and role plays where students use persuasive speaking and writing skills to accomplish goals and articulate opinions.