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3/22 Inclusive Practices Connect & Share
3/22 Inclusive Practices Connect & Share
How can we support all students to succeed in every classroom? Join us on Zoom on March 22nd to hear from colleagues about inclusive practices they are using at their schools.
Wednesday March 22, 2023 4:30-6:00pm Inclusive Practices in Elementary Grades
Wednesday March 22, 2023 4:30-6:00pm Inclusive Practices in Secondary Grades
PRESENTERS:
Elementary
Activating Student Sense-Making Through Contextual Visuals Presenter: Carrine Gale (Grade 3 SEI Teacher, Kennedy Elementary School)
Inclusive Practices in 1st Grade Presenters: Karla Fernandes-Tagger (ESL K-2) Darcelle Breneus (1st Grade, Perkins Elementary School)
Hyperdocs: Increasing Access and Agency Presenter: Matt Ennis (Grade 3 SEI Teacher, Ellison-Parks Elementary School)
Elementary/ Middle Grades
Sticking Together: Creating a Team Based Inclusive Classroom Presenter: Victor Joyner (6th Grade ELA Teacher, Manning Elementary)
Engaging All Students Through Art Presenter: Chris Hall (Visual and Adaptive Arts, Lee K-8 School)
Shakespeare For All Presenter: Phung Ninh (Middle Grades Humanities, BTU Pilot K-8 School)
Secondary
Complex Content with Beginner ELs Presenter: Beth Wobbe (ESL Teacher, TechBoston Academy)
Utilizing MAP Data for Differentiation & Academic Intervention Presenter: Emily Espy + Amanda Lockley (Directors of Academic Intervention ,TechBoston Academy)
Using Student Agency to Fuel Engagement Presenter: Becca Romash (12th Grade Humanities, Margaret Muniz Academy)
High expectations and "See, Think, and Wonder" ActivitiesPresenter: Anthony Browne (Special Education History Teacher, Brighton High School)
K-12
Creating the Schools that You and Your Students Deserve Presenter: Kafunda Banks (ABA Specialist, Curley K-8)
UDL Lesson Planning Presenter: Gabriel Avruch (11th - 12th grade Special Education Teacher, EMK Academy)
It's Our Classroom!: Positive Teacher Paraprofessional Collaborations Marina Ostrov (Inclusive Practices Coach) and Oryanna Ferguson (Kenny Elementary)
THANK YOU to everyone who attended the Connect & Share webinar on the topic “How can we support all students to succeed in every classroom?” This event was co-sponsored by Central Office Inclusion Team. We had 72 people attend the session from 33 different schools or departments. After the session, 95% of participants (40 out of 42 exit ticket responses) said that they would recommend this session to a colleague. Additional comments from participants:
Thank you for letting us do this and talk about our work because sometimes it feels like no one is listening
There was such an incredible variety of deep, rich resources!! And everything was so easy to access due to the organization of the presentations and sharing of the materials prior to the zoom.
So many things went well. I got lots of ideas and input. Really helped me refocus and reenergize.
Based on this session, here’s some things that participants want to try in their own classrooms/schools:
We heard about a wide range of strategies to implement in our classrooms, from a Tier 1 pedagogical strategy to a co-teaching strategy to a Tier 3 digital tool.”
Implement more of the basic UDL framework to emphasize student choice more regularly.
I definitely want to try hyperdocs, especially to preview content for multilingual learners
For AP Educators “Delivering AP Curriculum: Motivating and Engaging All Learners”. Join us on Zoom on February 15 from 4:30-6:00 pm where we will feature educators sharing elements of their practice that address the essential question: “How do we motivate and engage all learners participating in AP or other rigorous curriculum?”
PRESENTERS:
Pacing & Curriculum: -How to push students so that we cover what we need for the exam, but also ensure understanding for ALL. Presenter: Justin Desai (AP calc / TechBoston Academy) Presentation
Student Engagement: Post Pandemic focus, skill and academic stamina building for AP students that lack pre-AP strategies Presenter: Clara Webb (AP World History and AP European History/ Boston Latin School) Presentation
Student Engagement: Effective practices for sustained student engagement on difficult tasks Presenter: Nicolette Pocius (AP Environmental Science/ O’Bryant Highschool) Presentation
THANK YOU to everyone who attended the Connect & Share webinar to discuss how we explored different methods for the delivery of AP curriculum to Motivate and Engaging all Learners enrolled in the class. We co-hosted this session with The Department of AP and IB instruction. We had 21 participants join from 8 different BPS schools/departments join this session. After the session, 100% of participants (21 out of 21 exit ticket responses) said that they would recommend this session to a colleague. Below is some feedback from the session:
“Information was practical, doable and can immediately be applied. “
“I really enjoyed the diversity of the topics shared.”
“Non-AP teachers could easily apply strategies offered by the presenters- Even the idea of having students face and deal with productive struggles, working in groups more, or having students do the heavy lifting.”
Based on this session, here’s some things that participants want to try in their own schools:
“Student input on the pacing guide.”
“More peer-to-peer teaching, more strategies for building AP culture in school, more use of whiteboards in class,”
“Although I am not currently teaching AP, just hearing the practice of planning and opening up the curriculum to the students is helpful and something that I may try.”
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