Professional Learning Opportunities
Summer 2022
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Core Subjects
ESL/Dual Language/LOTE
Extra-Curricular
Fine Arts
Special Services
Trending Technology
Campus Initiatives
ESL/Dual Language/LOTE
Extra-Curricular
Fine Arts
Special Services
Trending Technology
Campus Initiatives
Core Subjects
Elevate CISD
Target Audience: New Teachers K-12 Teachers invited by Principal to attend Dates, Time, and Location: July 27, 2022 8:30 am - 3:30 pm IMMS Cafeteria Paid Session: $25 per credit hour Description: Dive into research-based strategies from Bambrick's "Get Better Faster" to develop critical first day routines and procedures for a successful learning environment. Pre-K Academy
Target Audience: Pre-K Teachers Dates, Time, and Location: July 21, 2022 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Admin Board Room Paid Session: $25 per credit hour Description: Participants will learn about the Science of Reading and how it impacts early literacy practices. They will understand the role phonemic awareness plays in reading and how to support its development in their students. Teachers will also learn strategies for developing automaticity with letter names. Kagan Strategies to Improve Student Engagement
(also counts as GT Update) Target Audience: All Teachers Dates, Time, and Location: June 14, 2022 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Admin Board Room July 28, 2022 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm AVC Library Paid Session: $25 per credit hour Description: A multitude of Kagan structures will be taught which can be used in the classroom to increase student engagement and discourse. STEMscopes Math Training K-5
Target Audience: All K-5 Math Teachers Dates, Time, and Location: July 28, 2022 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Admin Board Room Paid Session: $25 per credit hour Description: 6-Hour STEMscopes Math Training provided by STEMscopes regional trainer. This will be our new math curriculum. All K-5 math teachers will need to attend. Gradual Release of Responsibility in the Instructional Cycle (student-centered classroom)
Target Audience: 3-5 RLA Teachers Dates, Time, and Location: July 21, 2022 8:30 am - 3:30 pm A.V. Cato Library Paid Session: $25 per credit hour Description: In this session, you will learn to deconstruct the TEKS, build a format for a lesson that consists of student learning targets, checks for understanding, structured formative assessments, differentiation, and building a minilesson. We will use the book, Instructional Cha-Chas to plan, chunk, chew, check, and change. Teachers will leave with tools so they can begin planning rigorous lessons that encompass a student-centered classroom. Come join us! RLA STAAR 2.0 & Instructional Implications
Target Audience: 6-12 ELA Teachers Dates, Time, and Location: July 28, 2022 8:30 am - 4:00 pm IMMS Library Paid Session: $25 per credit hour Description: Teachers will develop a shared knowledge of the RLA STAAR Redesign, examine the alignment between the ELAR TEKS, STAAR 2.0, and district curriculum, and determine the impact on our planning, instructional delivery, and assessments. Independent Reading in Secondary ELA Classrooms
Target Audience: 6-12 ELA Teachers Dates, Time, and Location: July 19, 2022 8:30 am - 11:30 am IMMS Library Paid Session: $25 per credit hour Description: Teachers will explore the similarities and differences between DEAR (Drop Everything and Read), SSR (Silent Sustained Reading) and Silent Engaged Reading. Teachers will learn the practical routines and procedures to successfully implement independent reading in class starting on Day One. How to Keep Minilessons from Becoming Maxilessons
Target Audience: 6-12 ELA Teachers Dates, Time, and Location: July 21, 2022 8:30 am - 11:30 am IMMS Library Paid Session: $25 per credit hour Description: Teachers will learn the four parts to the architecture of a basic minilesson and how the gradual release model fits within the structure. The minilesson architecture, grounded in research about how students learn, ensures that our direct, whole class instruction is brief, succinct, engaging, and tightly aligned to the TEKS in order to maximize time for students to practice and apply their learning and feedback. Teachers will practice writing and delivery minilessons and reflect with each other on their effectiveness . |
New Science TEKS Exploration
Target Audience: Kinder and 3rd Science Teachers Dates, Time, and Location: August 1, 2022 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Admin Board Room Paid Session: $25 per credit hour Description: Wondering what the new science TEKS are all about? This training provides opportunities to explore the new curriculum documents and the three main components of the TEKS now required for students to learn and use. Science Short Course: K-5 Vocabulary
Target Audience: K-5 Science Teachers Dates, Time, and Location: Course Opens: June 3, 2022 Course Assignments Due: July 1, 2022 Online Course in Canvas Description: In this course, participants will explore the difference between Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 words and how they impact vocabulary instruction during science. Participants will also review and evaluate current vocabulary instructional practices and modify their instruction based on information learned during this course. Science Short Course: K-5 Concepts vs Skills
Target Audience: K-5 Science Teachers Dates, Time, and Location: Course Opens: June 3, 2022 Course Assignments Due: July 1, 2022 Online Course in Canvas Description: In this course, participants will explore the difference between the concepts and the skills listed in the science TEKS, and begin looking at ways to adjust current instructional practices in order to include both within their lesson delivery. Early Literacy Academy
Target Audience: Kinder, 1st, and 2nd Grade Teachers Dates, Time, and Location: July 26, 2022 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Admin Board Room Paid Session: $25 per credit hour Description: Join us and prepare for the best year ever! This Academy is designed to be a reboot of each component of our literacy block. During the morning session, we will focus on foundational skills, vocabulary development, interactive read alouds, and responses to reading. You will develop criteria for what makes each component highly effective. The afternoon will be focused on writing. We will introduce the 2022-2023 district writing plan, including grade-level expectations, exemplars, and instructional practices. Developing Number Concepts K-2
Target Audience: All K-2 Math Teachers Dates, Time, and Location: July 20, 2022 through July 22, 2022 8:30 am - 3:30 pm CE Cafeteria Paid Session: $25 per credit hour Description: This 3-day course focuses K-2 teachers on ways to help children develop understanding and competence with counting, number relationships, addition, subtraction, and place value. Participants learn how to engage children in meaningful activities that provide appropriate practice and ensure that children have the foundation they need for future success. Participants learn how to create a positive learning environment in their classrooms along with practical methods for providing activities and materials that meet the range of needs in their classrooms. Student Centered Goal Setting
Target Audience: 3-5 RLA Teachers Dates, Time, and Location: July 20, 2022 8:30 am - 11:30 am Admin Board Room Paid Session: $25 per credit hour Description: Build intrinsic motivation through goal setting. We will use ISIP, Assessments, Benchmarks, and MAP testing for consistent goal setting that is student centered. Teachers will leave ready to implement goal setting on day one of the upcoming school year. I Read It, But I Don't Get It: Improving Students' Reading Comprehension
Target Audience: 6-12 ELA Teachers Dates, Time, and Location: July 19, 2022 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm IMMS Library Paid Session: $25 per credit hour Description: What do middle and high school teachers do when their students come to them without the ability to monitor their own comprehension and without a toolbox full of fix-up strategies to repair their confusion? Effective reading comprehension instruction helps students become independent, strategic, and metacognitive readers who flexibly use a variety of comprehension strategies to ensure that they understand what they read. In this session, teachers will learn how TEKS Strand 2, Comprehension, interconnects with other TEKS and how to explicitly teach students to recognize when their comprehension breaks down and a variety of fix-up strategies to repair their confusion. Teachers will leave with a bank of practical before, during, and after reading strategies and a copy of "I Read It, But I Don't Get It" by Cris Tovani. Getting Started with Reading/Writing Notebooks in Secondary ELA
Target Audience: 6-12 ELA Teachers Dates, Time, and Location: July 21, 2022 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm IMMS Library Paid Session: $25 per credit hour Description: A Reading/Writing Notebook is a place to collect, develop, and revisit ideas about what we are reading and facilitate the writing process. Students use their R/W notebook to capture their thinking and process and practice the reading and writing skills we teach in our mini lessons. In this session, teachers will explore what a R/W Notebook is and isn't (the difference between R/W notebooks and journals), how notebooks develop and deepen student learning, and notebook routines and procedures for effective implementation. |
ESL/Dual Language/LOTE
Bilingual Academy
Target Audience: K-5 Bilingual Teachers Dates, Time, and Location: July 25, 2022 for K-2 Bilingual Teachers July 26, 2022 for 3-5 Bilingual Teachers 8:30 am - 3:30 pm AV Cato Library Paid Session: $25 per credit hour Description: The Bilingual Academy is designed to empower new and returning teachers along with campus leaders in closing achievement and equity gaps, specifically looking through the lens of our bilingual classrooms. During this 6- hour training, teachers will explore and analyze a variety of topics including: Translanguaging in the classroom; the TELPAS-ELPS Connection and analyzing text and writing through a multilingual perspective. BOY LPAC Training (Overview of LPAC Process in Ellevation for Back to School)
Target Audience: LPAC Coordinators (Assistant Principals) Dates, Time, and Location: July 19, 2022 8:00 am - 11:00 am Virtual - Zoom Meeting Description: We will be trained by Ellevation Personal on how to create custom digital meeting forms that LPAC Coordinators in our district can use throughout the year to document student decisions. |
ESL Academy
Target Audience: All New and Returning ESL Teachers Dates, Time, and Location: July 25, 2022 Elementary: 8:30 am - 11:30 am Secondary: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm AV Cato Cafeteria Paid Session: $25 per credit hour Description: EB ESL Academy is designed to empower new and returning teachers along with campus leaders in closing achievement and equity gaps, specifically looking through the lens of our Content-based ESL classrooms. During this 3- hour training, teachers will explore and analyze a variety of topics including: the TELPAS-ELPS connection, incorporating all language domains into content instruction, including effective and efficient translanguaging when content is exclusively in English. Elementary teachers will receive an overview of the relevant sections of Reading Academy regarding language acquisition. Secondary teachers will learn strategies and resources for helping newcomers in secondary classrooms. TX Ellevation Online Training/Ellevation Platform: Getting started for EL Teams
Target Audience: LPAC Coordinators (Assistant Principals) Testing/Accountability Coordinators Dates, Time, and Location: July 19, 2022 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Virtual - Zoom Meeting Description: The Elevation staff will provide training to the LPAC Coordinators (Assistant Principals) and Testing/Accountability Coordinators to enable accurate reporting and to support instruction planning for multilingual students. |
Extra Curricular
Texas Girls Coaching Association (Coaching School)
Target Audience: Girls Athletic Coaches Dates, Time, and Location: July 12 - 15, 2021 Arlington, Texas Cost: $65+ Description: YOU MUST REGISTER FOR THIS COURSE THOUGH THE WEBSITE LISTED BELOW. Credit will be given Upon submission of your certificate of completion. http://www.austintgca.com/summer_clinic/ |
Texas High School Coaches Association (Coaching School)
Target Audience: Boys Athletics Coaches Dates, Time, and Location: July 18 - 20, 2021 San Antonio, Texas Cost: Varies Description: The THSCA Convention & Coaching School is THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE ATHLETICS CONFERENCE in the state of Texas. This three-day annual conference offers a wide range of education sessions on both boys and girls sports, athletic administration, as well as health and safety topics, multiple networking opportunities, rules meetings, an on-site job room, an awards banquet, and an astounding array of exhibits. On average the THSCA Convention draws an attendance of over 13,000 coaches, athletic administrators and exhibitors. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center - San Antonio, Texas YOU MUST REGISTER FOR THIS COURSE THOUGH THE WEBSITE LISTED BELOW. Credit will be given Upon submission of your certificate of completion. https://www.thsca.com/convention |
Fine Arts
MSU Kodaly Training Program: Level I - III
Target Audience: Elementary Music Dates, Time, and Location: June 20, 2022 - July 1, 2022 REGISTER HERE Cost: $675 Click here for the process to receive a PO needed to register. Description: **Must submit certificate of completion in Eduphoria to receive credit.** Come deepen your musicianship skills and design a Kodály-inspired curriculum that celebrates the uniqueness of your students and your specific teaching situation. |
Annual Art Teacher in Service
Target Audience: Any Art Teacher Dates, Time, and Location: TBD REGISTER HERE Cost: $80 - $95 per day Discounts multiple days Click here for the process to receive a PO needed to register. Description: **Must submit certificate of completion in Eduphoria to receive credit.** Tuesday - Friday, 10 am - 4 pm each day, choose 1, 2, 3, or all 4 days. Kilns & Firing, Glaze Techniques, Clay, Glass Fusing. Details emailed in June - make sure you are on our email list! |
Kimbell: Virtual Summer Institute for Teachers
Target Audience: Any Art Teacher Dates, Time, and Location: June 21-June 24 REGISTER HERE Cost: $225 Click here for the process to receive a PO needed to register. Description: **Must submit certificate of completion in Eduphoria to receive credit.** Daily sessions will feature staff-led presentations, gallery discussions, and studio-art activities showcasing the variety of cultures, ideas, and techniques represented in the museum’s special exhibition The Language of Beauty in African Art. Participants will create lesson plans to be shared on the last day. This program is open to all local educators but especially designed for studio art, language arts, and social studies. The fee is $225 ($180 for Kimbell members); educators must register for all four days. CPE credits are available. |
Texas Bandmasters Association Clinic/Convention
Target Audience: Any Band Director Dates, Time, and Location: July 21, 2022 - July 23, 2022 8:00 AM - 9:00 PM Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center San Antonio - REGISTER HERE Cost: $175 Click here for the process to receive a PO needed to register. Description: **Must submit certificate of completion in Eduphoria to receive credit.** |
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Special Services
Racial Bias and Cultural Inequity Training
Part II Presenter: Dr. Kimberly McLeod Target Audience: All Teachers Dates, Time, and Location: August 4, 2022 Elementary 8:30 am - 10:30 am Secondary 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm TBD Description: Creating culturally responsive working environments is about achieving true professional potential for all stakeholders in a learning community. Achieving academic excellence is not purely an intellectual process, it is a process that examines values, beliefs, behaviors and how they interact to influence the culture of learning and achievement. Additionally, it is a process that heightens awareness on how faulty stereotypes regarding race, learning differences, achievement, and other external factors such as socio-economic status and parental involvement directly and indirectly interfere with producing positive outcomes with teaching and learning. This workshop will provide powerful strategies and changing perspectives for faculties preparing to instructionally align the campus learning environment with a culture of practices and beliefs that enhance and accelerate positive academic outcomes serving to empower the teacher and the learner. #culturalwakeup |
Special Programs Academy
Target Audience: K-12 Self-Contained Teachers K-12 Inclusion/Resource Teachers Dates, Time, and Location: Self Contained SPED Teachers July 25, 2022, IMMS Library 8:30 am - 4:00 pm Inclusion/Resource SPED Teachers July 26, 2022, IMMS Library 8:30 am - 4:00 pm **General Education Teachers MAY be invited in the PM session pending master schedule completion and hiring status.** Paid Session: $25 per credit hour Description: This is a required training for all new and returning self-contained, inclusion, and resource special education teachers. Teachers will receive training in case management, IEP development, ARD facilitation, SHARS, ESPED, least restrictive environment, and data driven practices. |
Trending Technology
Camp Innovate
Target Audience: All Teachers Dates, Time, and Location: Course opens: June 9, 2022 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Participants may attend for only a half day if desired. Paid Session: $25 per credit hour Description: This edcamp-style event is focused on teacher feedback to provide freedom and flexibility for you to engage in professional development which aligns with your technology integration goals. Participants will also have the opportunity to dive deeper into programs such as Canvas, Seesaw, Pear Deck, Ed. Galaxy and more. For this course, you may attend all day or half day. The morning session will be from 9:00-12:00 and the afternoon session will be from 1:00-4:00. Keep Calm and Canvas Like a Champ
Target Audience: PK - 12th Teachers Dates, Time, and Location: Course opens: July 18, 2022 Course assignments due: July 29, 2022 Asynchronous course in Canvas Description: Back by popular demand with more features and updates to explore! From beginner basics to advanced techniques, this Canvas training has something to offer all teachers and instructional staff. Learn how to use the LMS to simplify teaching and elevate learning. If you have been hesitant to use Canvas in your instruction, here's your opportunity to come and learn the basics! If you've been using Canvas for a while, learn about the new features Canvas has to offer seasoned veterans. This split level session will give all ability levels the confidence to Canvas like a Champ in the upcoming school year. |
Seesaw - The Basics and beyond
Target Audience: PK - 2 Teachers Dates, Time, and Location: Course opens: July 18, 2022 Course assignments due: July 29, 2022 Online course in Canvas Description: From getting started with Seesaw to exploring beyond the basics, this course offers something for all PK-2nd grade teachers and instructional staff. Learn how to utilize Seesaw’s multimodal tools to differentiate instruction and meet the needs of all your students. If you have never used Seesaw before, this is your chance to get familiar with the basics of creating your first activity and connecting with your parents. Using Seesaw for a while? Learn how to take advantage of its many features to transform your student collaboration and classroom activities. |
Campus Initiatives
Leader in Me: Empowering Instruction
Joy James Elementary School Target Audience: PK - 5th Teachers Dates, Time, and Location: July 29, 2022 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Joy James Cafeteria Description: Core 3–Empowering Instruction. Building on the principles of Empowering Learners, we will take an in-depth look at aligning instruction with LIM values, beliefs and practices. |
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