Inclusive Practices
Co-teaching in Special Education and ESL has benefits! It lowers the Student/ Teacher ratio, students who work in smaller groups are able to learn and retain more information. Teachers that use this practice have cohesiveness and they are able to share their teaching styles as two teachers collaborating to teach a lesson.
Lets Go Learn Edge
Participants will engage and interact with theLets Go Learn Edge platform designed to monitor progress from interventions in specific areas, while building detailed reporting and data to support the development and tracking of IEP content and goals.
Role Of A Case Manager
Roles and responsibilities of the special education teacher. How to support students and staff on the campus. Proper preparation for ARDs.
Specially Designed Instruction
Instruction has no bounds or limits. It must be specially designed for each and every student, especially Special Education students with exceptional needs. No matter the grade or form of instruction it must be equitable, reaching all students and their specific needs. Students matter, Words matter, Leadership matters and I will present to my audience as to why Equity Matters.
Alternatives To Suspension Classroom Management: Preventive Classroom Behavior Strategies
Provide a framework that supports a variety of rituals, routines, rules, consequences and motivational techniques to ensure that students are academically engaged and emotionally thriving.
Meeting Sensory Needs To Manage Student Behavior
We teach students every day in Aldine ISD who are labeled with emotional, behavioral, and learning disorders, and who exhibit problem behaviors that interfere with learning and relationships. Research shows that the use of outdated approaches to control behaviors does not necessarily address the needs of students. This workshop will explore the basics of sensory integration and focus on ways to identify and address sensory needs to manage behavior in the classroom.
Transforming Center Time Intervention Using iPad in the Kindergarten Classroom
In this training session, we'll be diving into how to use iPads to shake up center time intervention in your kindergarten classroom. We'll explore how iPads can help target specific learning objectives and address individual student needs, all while keeping your young learners engaged and independent.
Enhancing Language Learning with Canva
Canva is a popular graphic design tool that can be used to enhance language learning for ALL students. In this professional development session, we will explore different ways to use Canva to create engaging and interactive learning materials that support language acquisition and retention. During this training participants will learn how to create visually appealing learning materials such as flashcards, posters, and infographics using Canva. Participants will interact with examples of Canva templates that can be used for language learning activities and share best practices for designing learning materials that are visually appealing, easy to read, and accessible to all students.
Universal Design
Have you heard of Universal Design for Learning? Well, you are in luck. This presentation is made for you. This presentation will focus on how to incorporate UDL for young learners. The attendee will learn different suggestions on implementation and progress monitoring.
Renaissance: Back to the Basics of Star Assessments
This session will explore basic understanding and functionality of the Renaissance Growth Platform, how to administer Star assessment, and key reports for monitoring.
Renaissance Data – Now What?
Analyze student performance by interpreting data from
essential Renaissance reports to create groups and support instructional decision-making for personalized learning.
Basics of Freckle
This session will teach you how to navigate Freckle, create assignments, and use performance data to make instructional decisions in the Math and ELA.
Basics of myON
Using myON as part of the Classroom - This session will explore key features of myON, define best practices, and look at campus level data
Aldine Differentiation Template To Remove Barriers For Students
Participants will learn about how tier one instructions can be tailored to meets the needs of all students by incorporating accessibility tools and intentional design to yield the specially designed instruction agreed upon by the ARD committee.
Snap and Read Co:Writer
Are you having trouble with blending technology in your instruction? Are you having difficulty keeping the learners engaged? We have several digital ideas that will keep the learners engaged. We will share a number of Ed Tech tools that will help you enhance your teaching. So are as simple as adding an extension to your chrome browser and others are just a click away.
Overview Read 180
Participants will learn how Read 180 integrates research around personalized best practices, adaptive technology, instructional strategies based on the science of reading, and scaffolded support for reading independently.
Mindfulness for Teachers
Mindfulness practice can help decrease stress and anxiety, and strengthen resilience and emotional regulation, for both adults and children. We will focus on educators' mindfulness.
SEL: Restorative Circles
This session will provide participants with basic circle elements. Participants will participate in circles during this session as well. Restorative Circles enable a group to get to know one another. They build inclusion. Allows for the development of mutual respect, trust, sharing, and concern. They also provide students with opportunities to share their feelings, ideas, and experiences in order to establish relationships and develop social norms on a non crisis basis. In addition, when there is wrongdoing, circles play an active role in addressing the wrong and open dialogue on what needs to happen to make those “wrongs” right!
Understanding the BIP To De-escalate Behaviors
The focus will be to teach the learners how to review the students FIE to find the FBA which drives how the BIP is developed for students identified as needing specialized support. Once the why is established the learners will learn how to use the BIP to deescalate student behaviors based on the data provided from the FBA. The course will further unpack how to track to understand if the student is making gains towards achieving their goals. The research to support best practices will be provided from TEA and special education case law.