Session Descriptions

Amplify Education, Inc.: Enhancing Planning & Instruction for Students with Special Needs for K–5 Teachers

Participants will develop a strong understanding of how to support Students with Special Needs with CKLA instruction as well as Identify program embedded instructional supports and strategies for students with special needs, including connections to IEP goals, and plan how to adjust instruction. Participants will leave with an accommodation plan aligned to CKLA instruction and IEP goals.

Frog Street: Developmentally Appropriate Practices

Developmentally appropriate practices require that teachers make daily, intentional decisions based on their knowledge of each child’s level of development, taking into consideration the child’s learning style as well as cultural and social differences. Participants will learn about how to maintain a classroom environment that helps to promote the cognitive, physical, emotional, and social needs of children.

Frog Street: Math For The Young Child

Participants will examine five content areas—Number and Operations, Geometry, Measurement, Algebra (Patterns), and Data Analysis (Graphing and Classification)—identified by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) as focal points for preschool mathematics. Participants will engage with this material and content in a way that closely mirrors the dialogic, hands-on learning through which young children should experience mathematics. A variety of teacher-directed and child-initiated contexts, including whole group, small group, and play-based practice center activities, will be presented.

Great Minds (Eureka Math): Equitable Access for Special Populations Eureka Math TEKS

Participants will experience how the philosophy, structure, and embedded supports of Eureka Math TEKS Edition facilitate access to grade-level content for special populations, and to learn how to best use these components to meet the needs of all learners.

Great Minds (Eureka Math): Read Draw Write Eureka Math TEKS

Participants will have a transferable planning process for preparing facilitation of Application Problems, explain how the Read–Draw–Write (RDW) process is transferable and help students make meaning of and solve any word problem, and learn to guide students in using the RDW process to make meaning of and solve problems through effective questioning and making thinking visible.

Great Minds (Eureka Math): Preparation and Customization For Various Learning Needs

The purpose of this full-day session is threefold: to empower teachers to discern the decisions inherent in each Eureka Math TEKS Edition lesson, to study the curriculum’s teaching sequences, and to prepare teachers to customize lessons to meet the needs of their students.

Carnegie: Special Designed Instruction for Students with Disabilities

Participants will be provided side-by-side coaching from the Carnegie Learning master practitioners targeting student achievement success, promote high-quality Carnegie Learning implementations to support student-centered learning, and collaborative classrooms and assist schools in monitoring and maximizing a constant stream of data specific to individual classrooms and individual students.

School Kit: Equitable Access Utilizing Odell

Participants will understand how to design and promote access for students with disabilities and apply evidence-based instructional strategies utilizing the Odell curriculum

Great Minds (Wit & Wisdom): Implementing Wit & Wisdom To Render Specially Designed Instruction

Participants will understand how to design and promote access for students with disabilities and apply evidence-based instructional strategies utilizing the Wit and Wisdom curriculum.

Catapult Learning: Exploring Modifications and Accommodations For Students With Learning Differences

For many students with learning differences, the key to success lies in having appropriate accommodations for instruction and other classroom activities. These changes help a student access the general education curriculum in a way that makes the most sense for his or her individual needs. During this session, educators will learn practical instructional and assessment strategies to create an inclusive classroom setting.

Catapult Learning: Universal Design For Learning

Digital tools are the mainstay of informal learning in the lives of 21st century students, who use technology to connect, communicate, and create. We will explore how to use technological tools to support the unique needs of students with special needs, while at the same time motivating and engaging all students within the classroom.

Catapult Learning: Specially Designed Instruction Math

Specially designed instruction means adapting as appropriate the content, methodology or delivery of instruction to the needs of an eligible child. Educators will explore the steps and strategies for designing and delivering explicit instruction in math for students with an individualized education program (IEP). We will also examine progress monitoring practices to determine ways to improve the process of monitoring and adjusting instruction so that all students can learn.

Catapult Learning: Specially Designed Instruction Reading

Specially designed instruction means adapting as appropriate the content, methodology or delivery of instruction to the needs of an eligible child. In this session, participants will explore the steps and strategies for designing and delivering explicit instruction in reading for students with an individualized education program (IEP). We will also examine progress monitoring practices to determine ways to improve the process of monitoring and adjusting instruction so that all students can learn.

Catapult Learning: Keys To Successful Inclusion: Co-planning and Co-Teaching

There is remarkable power in partnerships. In order to best support the needs of students most at-risk in general education settings, both regular education and special education teachers need to be armed with tools and strategies to improve the quality of instruction to meet the needs of diverse populations. Co-planning and co-teaching refers to the practice of two teachers planning lessons, delivering instruction, and sharing the responsibility for student learning.

Catapult Learning: Intensive Behavioral Intervention

The FBA-BIP processes are helpful tools when supporting students in need of tier 2 or 3 Behavior interventions. Participants explore this valuable two-phase process first by gaining an understanding of maladaptive behavior, defining it, and identifying the function behind it through careful analysis. Participants will learn about antecedents and consequences strategies to decrease problem behaviors.

Catapult Learning: Creating Positive Classroom Culture For Students With Significant Behavior Support Needs

Teachers serving students with the most significant behavior support needs will explore a set of strategies for building appropriate rapport, maintaining boundaries, and establishing positive classroom norms. Participants will examine the value of empathy and daily interaction with students with the most significant behavior support needs. Participants will review the importance of classroom structure, avoiding power struggles, maintaining consistency, setting limits, Grand Fortune appropriate choices, and motivating behavioral change.

Catapult Learning: Supporting Students With Intensive Social Emotional and Behavioral Challenges

Participants will gain strategies for creating and maintaining a classroom support for all students by learning the crisis cycle and understanding its impact on students. Tools for identifying student triggers and escalation patterns will be reviewed. The session will review strategies for intervening at promoting prosocial student behavior.

Designing for Student Choice with Google Workspace

In this session, participants will understand instructional advantages of designing lessons with student choice, think through the planning process, and learn foundational digital skills for choice with Google Workspace applications.

Accommodations for life outside of these walls...

Have you ever listened to an audiobook, used a GPS for directions, had a digital assistant read a recipe while preparing a meal, or given directions while assembling a new item? These are all text-to-speech tools in various products accessible to all users. Learners grow when challenged by teachers, coaches, and even themselves. With Snap&Read/CoWriter, students can challenge themselves by accessing more complex literature with build-in support tools for pronunciation and vocabulary scaffolding and building support tools for the topics they are reading. As the instructional professional, you will have access to data about how your learners are engaging with the program. Learn their reading levels with and without support.

mClass Intervention Kits To Close Educational Gaps

During this session, teachers will learn how to use the Amplify Reading mClass kit to provide targeted intervention for students with disabilities.

Utilizing Digital Tools To Engage All Students

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.

The Power of uPAR: Using Evidenced based Practices to Identify Students for Literacy Accommodations

This session will explore the current landscape around identifying students for high tech literacy accommodations, like text-to-speech or similar tools. Further, we'll discuss some of the challenges educators are currently facing throughout that process and finally introduce how an evidenced based and automated assessment, like uPAR, can help put the right accomodation in the hands of students who genuinely will benefit from them, in 45 minutes or less.

Renaissance: myON Basics: Personalized Reading Practice

This session will explore key features of myON and define best practices.

Renaissance: Leveraging Freckle Math and ELA for Intervention and Enrichment

This session will teach you how to utilize Freckle to diagnose student’s areas of need, provide targeted instruction, and create instructional groups.

Renaissance: Universal Screening

This session will focus on key steps and considerations for a successful universal screening window for BOY 2022

Renaissance: Star360 Looking at the Data

This session will explore how teachers can use Star data to plan instruction and support for BTS 2022.