2015 NSD Summer Institute

Structure creates behavior. I'll provide teachers with structures that they can use to facilitate productive group work in their class. I'll also provide classroom systems to maintain a learning environment after releasing control of your room to the students.

This session is part of the NSD Teacher Showcase, a full-day event where teachers share their expertise. Register for session #6043 in PD Place to attend this day-long event.  

The focus of this session is for teachers to gain a better understanding of language as a resource, understand the need to address ELL needs, and walk away with strategies to start implementing to more effectively meet the needs of ELL students.

Northshore School District has doubled their ELL student population and will only continue to have a growing need to meet the needs of diverse learners. This workshop will provide opportunities for teachers to learn about language aquisition and resources for differentiation. In addition to this teachers will be provided an opportunity to collaborate with their peers to share instructional strategies as well as take time to apply strategies to lessons that they would like to enhance to meet the needs of ELL students.

The session will start with a brief self-assessment where teachers will learn about language acquisition theory and research. This quiz will help set a common research basis to move forward in conversation. From there the first hour will be devoted to an interactive poster session where teachers share their top concerns for working with and addressing the needs of ELL students. Together teachers will brainstorm and share effective strategies to use.  As the facilitator, Kirsten will also provide resources and strategies.

The second hour will be a time for teachers to specifically work on one or more lessons that they would like to differentiate. Possible areas of focus would be using English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPs) to differentiate assessment practices, creating culturally responsive lessons, scaffolding assignments and assessments, and finding and utilizing resources.

Teachers can attend one or both hours of this session. For example, teachers aren't required to attend the first hour to benefit from the 2nd hour (though it would be helpful to attend both). 

This session is part of the NSD Teacher Showcase, a full-day event where teachers share their expertise. Register for session #6043 in PD Place to attend this day-long event. 

Motivating adolescents and supporting them as they become proficient readers is a task requiring multiple teaching strategies. In this interactive session, participants will engage in physical movement activities and work in collaborative groups to explore close reading strategies they can use when teaching reading to students. Participants will receive several strategies they can immediately take back to their classrooms to use and share with their colleagues. This workshop has been presented at the Kappa Delta Pi Convocation, the AMLE Conference, and ASCD.

This session is part of the NSD Teacher Showcase, a full-day event where teachers share their expertise. Register for session #6043 in PD Place to attend this day-long event.

Establishing the classroom as a place of learning for all students often requires dedicated time and effort by the teacher and students. Organization systems, ways to develop culture with students, and clear directions about routines and systems help create a positive learning environment. Devoted time and repetition at the beginning of the year pays off as students carry out these things throughout the rest of the year.

This session is part of the NSD Teacher Showcase, a full-day event where teachers share their expertise. Register for session #6043 in PD Place to attend this day-long event. 

Foldables are 3-dimensional, interactive graphic organizers that can help your students to organize, remember, review, and learn many kinds of information. Come learn how I use them to encourage my students to use their creativity in a kinesthetic learning environment while reinforcing important thinking and communication skills.

This session is part of the NSD Teacher Showcase, a full-day event where teachers share their expertise. Register for session #6043 in PD Place to attend this day-long event. 

An informational and anecdotal presentation about structuring curriculum and instruction within the context of a co-taught classroom. Topics include:

• Co-Teaching Styles
• Instructional Strategies
• Effective Planning
• Supporting High Needs Students and Reluctant Learners
• Classroom Dynamics
• Challenges and Struggles

This session is part of the NSD Teacher Showcase, a full-day event where teachers share their expertise. Register for session #6043 in PD Place to attend this day-long event. 

Makerspaces are a fast-growing phenomenon in education as teachers embrace student-driven learning through problem-solving and designing solutions with creativity. In a hands-on learning environment, students are encouraged to experiment with materials and put their ideas in to practice. Makerspaces encourage community engagement: Kids experiment. Kids collaborate. Kids teach. Kids learn.

Learn about the Kenmore Junior High Library's journey developing a community makerspace - the ideas, the materials, the difficulties, and the future.

This session is part of the NSD Teacher Showcase, a full-day event where teachers share their expertise. Register for session #6043 in PD Place to attend this day-long event. 

Learn how my students use the Educreations app to create instructional videos to share with their classmates to learn new content. iPads will be provided for this will be a hands-on session. 

This session is part of the NSD Teacher Showcase, a full-day event where teachers share their expertise. Register for session #6043 in PD Place to attend this day-long event. 

Shhh... Be very, very qwiet! Those twicky wabbits are weproducing wapidly... Look at limiting factors impacting a population of rabbits and an application of a POGIL activity. 

This session is part of the NSD Teacher Showcase, a full-day event where teachers share their expertise. Register for session #6043 in PD Place to attend this day-long event.

Providing a student hope can raise more than just grades. Students that have failed more than one core class often feel like they'll never be able to graduate. Their future is bleak in their eyes. By providing these students a second chance, with a clear path toward earning a passing grade, their motivation returns, learning increases and the future looks better. Come learn how to create a contract that students can buy into and learn from.

This session is part of the NSD Teacher Showcase, a full-day event where teachers share their expertise. Register for session #6043 in PD Place to attend this day-long event.  

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This session is part of the NSD Teacher Showcase, a full-day event where teachers share their expertise. Register for session #6043 in PD Place to attend this day-long event. 

This Formative Assessment provides information for the teacher and the students on what they know and can demonstrate before the final assessment is given. R.Y.G. allows teachers to gather information on which topics they need to reteach, and also gives students an idea of what they need to study heading into an assessment.

This session is part of the NSD Teacher Showcase, a full-day event where teachers share their expertise. Register for session #6043 in PD Place to attend this day-long event.  

Give Me Five in a way to intro a new topic, or it can be used to make connections near the end of a unit. Give Me Five asks students to go beyond just finding an answer, and asks them to prove their thinking using 5 mathematical representations.

This session is part of the NSD Teacher Showcase, a full-day event where teachers share their expertise. Register for session #6043 in PD Place to attend this day-long event.  

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Learn to advance students' literacy and learning by using digital texts, tools and technologies together with innovative instructional strategies that motivate and engage students' critical thinking, creativity, collaboration and communication skills.

Participants will earn clock hours for this session. This session can also count toward 2015-2016 Technology Integration Professional Development Hours.

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