Conferences

Lunch Provided * By Invitation * Credit Only

• Dates: 5/28/25 - 5/30/25

• Time: 8 - 4:30 PM

• Description: This workshop relies on a highly experiential training approach to provide participants with a better understanding of, and basic tools and techniques for addressing, conflict, and facilitating consensus-based processes.  Teams will learn and practice techniques to build relationships, tap the synergy potential of the team, communicate effectively, balance task and process and practice effective dialogue.  Instructors will discuss and demonstrate a process for moving diverse groups through difficult and contentious situations in a respective, inclusive, and civil manner that fosters the behaviors of high-performing teams.  Participants will "learn by doing,' and at the end will be capable of working within their own groups and teams to apply lessons learned.  Instructors will be available to assist with follow-up coaching/mentoring as needed to assist individuals as they work to manage conflict and facilitate consensus-building processes in their own environment.  

Participants will explore theories underlying conflict and consensus-building and how it works in the human brain.  They will also explore approaches for convening teams or groups of people around decisions, conflicts, and leading workshops.  Central to this is understanding how best to match different types of conflicts and conflict generators with various process tools and trusting oneself in helping others.

• Facilitators: Diane Groves and District 6 Consensus Team

• Location: Riverside Cultural Center and Library

• Registration: Invite Only

By Invitation * Credit Only

• Dates: 6/3/25 - 6-4/25

• Time: 8 - 4:30 PM

• Facilitators: AVID Facilitators

• Audience: AVID Schools

• Location: Greeley West High School

• Registration: Invite Only

Community of Practice Descriptions:

Elementary and Secondary

• Academic Language and Literacy: Asset-Based Instruction for All Classrooms: The Academic Language and Literacy Community of Practice empowers educators to enhance student engagement and provide access to rigorous content through targeted language development. This professional learning experience helps educators nurture students’ backgrounds and build academic language through reading, writing, speaking, and listening scaffolds. Participants will integrate AVID’s college and career readiness skills with language-building routines and strategies, promoting academic preparedness, opportunity knowledge, and student agency for multilingual learners and other learners who need language support. This course will equip educators to create equitable learning spaces that foster student voice and active participation in various academic contexts.

*This training includes differentiated experiences to support educators at any grade level or content area.

Elementary/K8

• AVID Elementary Implementation: PreK–2 (2025–26): The AVID Elementary Implementation: PreK–2 Community of Practice explores strategies and resources focused on successful AVID implementation in PreK–2 classrooms. Educators will gain an understanding of their role in an AVID Schoolwide system and how educator encouragement, modeling, and support of Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, and Reading (WICOR®) strategies build the foundation for what students need for college and career readiness.

• AVID Elementary Implementation: 3–6 (2025–26): The AVID Elementary Implementation: 3–6 Community of Practice explores strategies and resources focused on successful AVID implementation in 3–6 classrooms. Educators will gain an understanding of their role in an AVID Schoolwide system and how educator encouragement and monitoring of Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, and Reading (WICOR®) strategies build the foundation for what students need for college and career readiness.

Secondary

• Engaging Rigorous Classrooms (2025–26): The Creating Engaging and Rigorous Classrooms Community of Practice lays the foundation of instruction that allows students to access rigorous coursework and content. Educators will learn how to use Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, and Reading (WICOR®) student-centered instructional practices and explore the framework of AVID Digital Learning: The 4 A’s® to meaningfully integrate digital strategies to differentiate instruction and increase student agency. Participants will learn techniques to build connected communities through relational capacity activities to foster supportive and equitable learning spaces.

* This training is priority for Freshman Transition Teams and all 9th grade teachers.

By Invitation * Credit Only

AVID Converge offers localized professional learning of targeted Communities of Practice, dedicated Site Team planning time and an inspiring keynote speaker. This training targets foundational implementation of AVID elementary and the AVID elective for new elementary teachers, AVID elective teachers, new coordinator and new building admin.

By Invitation * Credit Only

• Dates: 6/16/25 - 6/19/25

• Time: 12:45 - 4:30 PM

• Description: The Office of Special Education is excited to offer the Special Education Summer Academy (SESA) 2024 - a professional development opportunity for all Special Education Teachers, SSPs, and school administrators.  Over the 4-day Academy, participants will rotate through engaging and interactive sessions specific to special education.

• Facilitators: Tom Gribble, Tammy Branan, Jenny Clark, Kate Green, Nicole Stewart, and more

• Audience: Special Education Teachers, Special Education Special Services Providers (SSPs), and School Administrators

• Location: TBD

• Registration: Invite Only from Special Education Department