8:30-11:30

Audience: 6-8 RLA teachers (on level & honors) 

Description: This September, join us for an interactive session designed to bring clarity, focus, and fresh energy to your 6-8 RLA classroom. Together, we'll dive into recent STAAR data to uncover patterns and possibilities, examine ECR rubrics to understand exactly what strong writing looks like, and explore an engagement strategy that will make your students feel seen and connected. In Texas, autumn leaves may not yet be falling down like pieces into place, but you'll be able to create a picture and plan of solid learning and next steps for instruction. It will be rare, you'll be there, and we will remember it all too well. 

T-TESS Domains: Instruction 2.4 Differentiation, Instruction 2.5 Monitor and Adjust

8:30 AM -11:30 AM

Audience: 9-10 RLA Teachers

Description: Teachers will analyze student responses to Short Constructed Responses and Extended Constructed Responses to pinpoint strengths, address common challenges, and plan effective scaffolds. 

8:30 AM -11:30 AM

Audience: 11-12 RLA Teachers

Description: In this collaborative sessions, teachers will work with their CBPL teams to design and refine lessons that spark curiosity and deepen understanding. Teachers will explore strategies for building student engagement, incorporating academic vocabulary, and creating meaningful opportunities for discussion and writing in the RLA classroom.  

This course is designed to support educators in understanding and implementing the RLA Research-Based Instructional Strategies, or RBIS. The RBIS are evidence-backed teaching practices designed to enhance reading and language arts instruction in classrooms. RBIS aim to improve student outcomes by addressing key areas like foundational skills, text complexity, knowledge coherence, and text-based responses.  

Due August 8th if hired in June or July. Due 30 days after hire date if after August 8th.

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