Description: This 10-session 3-credit graduate course meets virtually each month. Topics focus on recent research that demonstrates how young children learn to read through explicit instruction of foundational skills that are embedded in text. Students can then apply these skills to increase comprehension of knowledge-building, windows-and-mirrors texts. Each module includes practical applications that support the myView implementation.
Module 1: The Brain and Reading
Module 2: Oral Language
Module 3: Features of Effective Instruction
Module 4: Phonological Awareness
Module 5: Word Blending
Module 6: Role of Automaticity
Module 7: Text Reading
Module 8: Growing Vocabulary
Module 9: Building Comprehension
Module 10: Pulling It All Together
This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in content required for relicensure., This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in pedagogy required for relicensure.
Product: Must attend all classes and complete all assignments with at least an 80% average. Those seeking graduate credit and the stipend will have additional assignments.
Presenter: HILL for Literacy
Participant Registration Fee: $225 (reimbursed upon successful completion of all requirements)
Number of PDPs: 67.5
Stipend: $500
Maximum # of Participants: 15
Audience: Elementary teachers
Dates: All sessions are the first Thursday of each month, with the exception of September and January. Dates are: Sept 15, Oct 6, Nov 3, Dec 1, Jan 12, Feb 2, Mar 2, Apr 6, May 4, Jun 1
Time: 3:30-6:00
Location: Virtual - link will be sent to participants.
Contact: Amy Richardson - arichardson@salemk12.org
Description: This 3-credit graduate course consists of 10 monthly sessions. The course teaches critical components of literacy instruction across content areas for Grades 6-12. Each module integrates current research and translates it into classroom application. Open to middle and high school teachers of any content area.
Participants will be able to:
*Explain what happens in the brain when we read and how this understanding informs our instruction.
*Describe basic, intermediate and disciplinary literacy and understand the impact these levels have on reading grade level content material.
*Plan differentiated instruction to allow all students to access complex text.
*Recognize the role strategy instruction plays in reading comprehension and articulate how high-leverage instructional routines support constructing meaning from text.
SOR Module 1: Overview of Reading Acquisition: Secondary Focus
SOR Module 2: Features of Effective Instruction
SOR Module 3: Using Background Knowledge and Inferencing Skills
SOR Module 4: Constructing Meaning While Reading
SOR Module 5: The Role of Vocabulary in Meaning Acquisition
SOR Module 6: Self-monitoring and Questioning to Support Meaning Acquisition
SOR Module 7: Secondary Focus on Foundational Skills
SOR Module 8: Text-based Discussion
SOR Module 9: Reading Writing Connection
SOR Module 10: Pulling it All Together
This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in content required for relicensure., This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in pedagogy required for relicensure.
Product: Participants must attend all sessions and successfully complete all assignments with an average of 80% or more. Those seeking graduate credits, 67.5 PDPs, and the $500 stipend will need to complete several additional assignments as well.
Presenter: HILL for Literacy
Participant Registration Fee: $225 (reimbursed upon successful completion of all requirements)
Number of PDPs: 67.5
Stipend: $500 UPON COMPLETION
Maximum # of Participants: 30
Audience: Administrators, Middle School teachers, High School teachers
Dates: All sessions are the first Thursday of each month, with the exception of September and January. Dates are: Sept 15, Oct 6, Nov 3, Dec 1, Jan 12, Feb 2, Mar 2, Apr 6, May 4, Jun 1
Time: 3:30-6:00
Location: Virtual - link will be sent to participants.
Contact: Amy Richardson - arichardson@salemk12.org
Description: Difficult conversations are a necessary component of a healthy work environment. In this session, participants will be equipped with the tools, language, and practice to build their adult SEL skills and be able to contribute to a work environment that allows for healthy conflict and problem solving.
Product: Exit ticket with reflection
Presenter: Eliza Cassella
Number of PDPs: 1.5
Stipend: $67.50
Maximum # of Participants: 100
Audience: All Educators
Date: 4/13/23
Time: 3:45-5:15
Location: Virtual - Google Meet - https://meet.google.com/kti-rumi-msp
Contact: Eliza Cassella - ecassella@salemk12.org
Description: This session is intended for all staff working with dually identified multilingual students with IEPs. Educators will strengthen their practice around supporting the unique needs of students with disabilities that are also multi-lingual learners. After this session, educators will have a better understanding of how language acquisition differs from a language disability and how both challenges can be addressed in the classroom.
This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in content required for relicensure. This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in pedagogy required for relicensure.This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in SEI/ESL required for relicensure.This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in teaching students with diverse learning styles required for relicensure. This experience can be applied toward the 90 PDPs of electives required for relicensure.
Presenter: Ellen Kelleher Director of Secondary Special Education
Number of PDPs: 1.5
Stipend: $67.50
Maximum # of Participants: 30
Audience: All educators
Dates: April 27, 2023
Time: 3:30-5:00
Location: Online
Contact: Ellen Kelleher - ekelleher@salemk12.org
Description: This 10-session 3-credit graduate course meets virtually each month. Topics focus on recent research that demonstrates how young children learn to read through explicit instruction of foundational skills that are embedded in text. Students can then apply these skills to increase comprehension of knowledge-building, windows-and-mirrors texts. Each module includes practical applications that support the myView implementation.
Module 1: The Brain and Reading
Module 2: Oral Language
Module 3: Features of Effective Instruction
Module 4: Phonological Awareness
Module 5: Word Blending
Module 6: Role of Automaticity
Module 7: Text Reading
Module 8: Growing Vocabulary
Module 9: Building Comprehension
Module 10: Pulling It All Together
This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in content required for relicensure., This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in pedagogy required for relicensure.
Product: Must attend all classes and complete all assignments with at least an 80% average. Those seeking graduate credit and the stipend will have additional assignments.
Presenter: HILL for Literacy
Participant Registration Fee: $225 (reimbursed upon successful completion of all requirements)
Number of PDPs: 67.5
Stipend: $500
Maximum # of Participants: 15
Audience: Elementary teachers
Dates: All sessions are the first Thursday of each month, with the exception of September and January. Dates are: Sept 15, Oct 6, Nov 3, Dec 1, Jan 12, Feb 2, Mar 2, Apr 6, May 4, Jun 1
Time: 3:30-6:00
Location: Virtual - link will be sent to participants.
Contact: Amy Richardson - arichardson@salemk12.org
Description: This 3-credit graduate course consists of 10 monthly sessions. The course teaches critical components of literacy instruction across content areas for Grades 6-12. Each module integrates current research and translates it into classroom application. Open to middle and high school teachers of any content area.
Participants will be able to:
*Explain what happens in the brain when we read and how this understanding informs our instruction.
*Describe basic, intermediate and disciplinary literacy and understand the impact these levels have on reading grade level content material.
*Plan differentiated instruction to allow all students to access complex text.
*Recognize the role strategy instruction plays in reading comprehension and articulate how high-leverage instructional routines support constructing meaning from text.
SOR Module 1: Overview of Reading Acquisition: Secondary Focus
SOR Module 2: Features of Effective Instruction
SOR Module 3: Using Background Knowledge and Inferencing Skills
SOR Module 4: Constructing Meaning While Reading
SOR Module 5: The Role of Vocabulary in Meaning Acquisition
SOR Module 6: Self-monitoring and Questioning to Support Meaning Acquisition
SOR Module 7: Secondary Focus on Foundational Skills
SOR Module 8: Text-based Discussion
SOR Module 9: Reading Writing Connection
SOR Module 10: Pulling it All Together
This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in content required for relicensure., This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in pedagogy required for relicensure.
Product: Participants must attend all sessions and successfully complete all assignments with an average of 80% or more. Those seeking graduate credits, 67.5 PDPs, and the $500 stipend will need to complete several additional assignments as well.
Presenter: HILL for Literacy
Participant Registration Fee: $225 (reimbursed upon successful completion of all requirements)
Number of PDPs: 67.5
Stipend: $500 UPON COMPLETION
Maximum # of Participants: 30
Audience: Administrators, Middle School teachers, High School teachers
Dates: All sessions are the first Thursday of each month, with the exception of September and January. Dates are: Sept 15, Oct 6, Nov 3, Dec 1, Jan 12, Feb 2, Mar 2, Apr 6, May 4, Jun 1
Time: 3:30-6:00
Location: Virtual - link will be sent to participants.
Contact: Amy Richardson - arichardson@salemk12.org
Description: This sessions will review the primary components of Restorative Justice and how this practice contributes to positive classroom culture and supportive discipline. Educators who engaged in tier 1 Restorative Justice PD last June are welcome to join, as well as educators who are interested in knowing more about RJ.
This experience can be applied toward the 90 PDPs of electives required for relicensure.
Product: Exit ticket
Presenter: Suffolk University
Number of PDPs: 1.5
Stipend: $67.50
Maximum # of Participants: 100
Audience: All Educators
Date: 5/11/23
Time: 3:45-5:15
Location: Virtual - Google Meet - https://meet.google.com/qto-ymxh-ntw
Contact: Eliza Cassella - ecassella@salemk12.org
Description: We will focus on two of the “warm demander” Instructional Priorities 2.0 for teachers when planning lessons that contain “Comprehensible Input”:
-Uses technology effectively to support different learning styles and language needs.
-Provides multiple ways for students to demonstrate their learning.
This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in pedagogy required for relicensure., This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in teaching students with diverse learning styles required for relicensure ., This experience can be applied toward the 90 PDPs of electives required for relicensure.
Product: N/A
Presenter: Danielle Marquis
Number of PDPs: 1
Stipend: $45
Maximum # of Participants: N/A
Audience: All educators, Student Support Staff
Date: 5/18/23
Time: 3:30-4:30
Location: Virtual - meet.google.com/yjb-jert-vrv
Contact: Marc LeBlanc - mleblanc@salemk12.org
Description: This session is intended for all staff working with dually identified multilingual students with IEPs. Educators will strengthen their practice around supporting the unique needs of students with disabilities that are also multi-lingual learners. After this session, educators will have a better understanding of how language acquisition differs from a language disability and how both challenges can be addressed in the classroom.
This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in content required for relicensure. This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in pedagogy required for relicensure.This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in SEI/ESL required for relicensure.This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in teaching students with diverse learning styles required for relicensure. This experience can be applied toward the 90 PDPs of electives required for relicensure.
Presenter: Ellen Kelleher Director of Secondary Special Education
Number of PDPs: 1.5
Stipend: $67.50
Maximum # of Participants: 30
Audience: All educators
Dates: April 27, 2023
Time: 3:30-5:00
Location: Online
Contact: Ellen Kelleher - ekelleher@salemk12.org
Description: Curious about what a multi-tiered system of support is and how social emotional learning fits into supporting all students? Participant in this session will develop a common language and understanding of MTSS & Social Emotional Learning in Salem and build skills to create conditions to cultivate spaces of belonging and communities of care.
This experience can be applied toward the 90 PDPs of electives required for relicensure.
Product: Reflection log
Presenter: Eliza Cassella and Mia Riccio
Number of PDPs: 1.5
Stipend: $67.50
Maximum # of Participants: 100
Audience: All Educators
Date: 9/8/22
Time: 3:30-5:00
Location: Virtual - To join the video meeting, click this link: https://meet.google.com/waf-sswx-wrs
Otherwise, to join by phone, dial +1 252-713-7142 and enter this PIN: 132 794 206#
To view more phone numbers, click this link: https://tel.meet/waf-sswx-wrs?hs=5
Contact: Ellen Wingard - ewingard@salemk12.org
Description: This 10-session 3-credit graduate course meets virtually each month. Topics focus on recent research that demonstrates how young children learn to read through explicit instruction of foundational skills that are embedded in text. Students can then apply these skills to increase comprehension of knowledge-building, windows-and-mirrors texts. Each module includes practical applications that support the myView implementation.
Module 1: The Brain and Reading
Module 2: Oral Language
Module 3: Features of Effective Instruction
Module 4: Phonological Awareness
Module 5: Word Blending
Module 6: Role of Automaticity
Module 7: Text Reading
Module 8: Growing Vocabulary
Module 9: Building Comprehension
Module 10: Pulling It All Together
This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in content required for relicensure., This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in pedagogy required for relicensure.
Product: Must attend all classes and complete all assignments with at least an 80% average. Those seeking graduate credit and the stipend will have additional assignments.
Presenter: HILL for Literacy
Participant Registration Fee: $225 (reimbursed upon successful completion of all requirements)
Number of PDPs: 67.5
Stipend: $500
Maximum # of Participants: 15
Audience: Elementary teachers
Dates: All sessions are the first Thursday of each month, with the exception of September and January. Dates are: Sept 15, Oct 6, Nov 3, Dec 1, Jan 12, Feb 2, Mar 2, Apr 6, May 4, Jun 1
Time: 3:30-6:00
Location: Virtual - link will be sent to participants.
Contact: Amy Richardson - arichardson@salemk12.org
Description: This 3-credit graduate course consists of 10 monthly sessions. The course teaches critical components of literacy instruction across content areas for Grades 6-12. Each module integrates current research and translates it into classroom application. Open to middle and high school teachers of any content area.
Participants will be able to:
*Explain what happens in the brain when we read and how this understanding informs our instruction.
*Describe basic, intermediate and disciplinary literacy and understand the impact these levels have on reading grade level content material.
*Plan differentiated instruction to allow all students to access complex text.
*Recognize the role strategy instruction plays in reading comprehension and articulate how high-leverage instructional routines support constructing meaning from text.
SOR Module 1: Overview of Reading Acquisition: Secondary Focus
SOR Module 2: Features of Effective Instruction
SOR Module 3: Using Background Knowledge and Inferencing Skills
SOR Module 4: Constructing Meaning While Reading
SOR Module 5: The Role of Vocabulary in Meaning Acquisition
SOR Module 6: Self-monitoring and Questioning to Support Meaning Acquisition
SOR Module 7: Secondary Focus on Foundational Skills
SOR Module 8: Text-based Discussion
SOR Module 9: Reading Writing Connection
SOR Module 10: Pulling it All Together
This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in content required for relicensure., This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in pedagogy required for relicensure.
Product: Participants must attend all sessions and successfully complete all assignments with an average of 80% or more. Those seeking graduate credits, 67.5 PDPs, and the $500 stipend will need to complete several additional assignments as well.
Presenter: HILL for Literacy
Participant Registration Fee: $225 (reimbursed upon successful completion of all requirements)
Number of PDPs: 67.5
Stipend: $500 UPON COMPLETION
Maximum # of Participants: 30
Audience: Administrators, Middle School teachers, High School teachers
Dates: All sessions are the first Thursday of each month, with the exception of September and January. Dates are: Sept 15, Oct 6, Nov 3, Dec 1, Jan 12, Feb 2, Mar 2, Apr 6, May 4, Jun 1
Time: 3:30-6:00
Location: Virtual - link will be sent to participants.
Contact: Amy Richardson - arichardson@salemk12.org
Description: This course will introduce general education teachers to a variety of assistive technology from writing augmentation, speech to text, note catchers, text to speech, spelling and grammar prediction software and other tools that are available in the district. This experience is open to all teachers in the district. This PD will be led by our district Assistive Technology Specialist- Alex Tierney.
This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in content required for relicensure., This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in teaching students with diverse learning styles required for relicensure .
Product: Assistive Technology in the Classroom for Special Education Providers 2 hours
Presenter: Alex Tierney
Number of PDPs: 2
Stipend: $45/hr
Maximum # of Participants: 15
Audience: All Educators
Date: 9/22/22
Time: 3:30-5:30
Location: Virtual
Contact: Jennifer Doucette-Ly - jdoucette-ly@salemk12.org
Description: TST Math is a digital resource that supplements Eureka Math. All K-5 classrooms in the district use this during math workshop. It’s a visual instructional program that leverages the brain's innate spatial-temporal reasoning ability to solve mathematical problems. ST Math’s approach provides students with equitable access to learning through challenging puzzles, non-routine problem solving, and formative feedback. With ST Math, students build deep conceptual understanding. This one-hour session is an in-depth virtual learning opportunity for educators who are new to the program (or for those needing a refresher). Participants will experience several hands-on experiences that illuminate how ST Math works and walk away with a plan to effectively implement the program with their students. Visit the website below to register. This session will be offered twice in September.
This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in content required for relicensure., This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in pedagogy required for relicensure.
Product: Session attendance
Presenter: ST Math / Mind Research Institute
Number of PDPs: 1
Stipend: $45
Maximum # of Participants: 50
Audience: Elementary teachers
Date: 9/22/22 or 9/29/22
Time: 3:30-4:30
Location: Virtual
Contact: Amy Richardson - arichardson@salemk12.org
Description: This 10-session 3-credit graduate course meets virtually each month. Topics focus on recent research that demonstrates how young children learn to read through explicit instruction of foundational skills that are embedded in text. Students can then apply these skills to increase comprehension of knowledge-building, windows-and-mirrors texts. Each module includes practical applications that support the myView implementation.
Module 1: The Brain and Reading
Module 2: Oral Language
Module 3: Features of Effective Instruction
Module 4: Phonological Awareness
Module 5: Word Blending
Module 6: Role of Automaticity
Module 7: Text Reading
Module 8: Growing Vocabulary
Module 9: Building Comprehension
Module 10: Pulling It All Together
This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in content required for relicensure., This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in pedagogy required for relicensure.
Product: Must attend all classes and complete all assignments with at least an 80% average. Those seeking graduate credit and the stipend will have additional assignments.
Presenter: HILL for Literacy
Participant Registration Fee: $225 (reimbursed upon successful completion of all requirements)
Number of PDPs: 67.5
Stipend: $500
Maximum # of Participants: 15
Audience: Elementary teachers
Dates: All sessions are the first Thursday of each month, with the exception of September and January. Dates are: Sept 15, Oct 6, Nov 3, Dec 1, Jan 12, Feb 2, Mar 2, Apr 6, May 4, Jun 1
Time: 3:30-6:00
Location: Virtual - link will be sent to participants.
Contact: Amy Richardson - arichardson@salemk12.org
Description: This 3-credit graduate course consists of 10 monthly sessions. The course teaches critical components of literacy instruction across content areas for Grades 6-12. Each module integrates current research and translates it into classroom application. Open to middle and high school teachers of any content area.
Participants will be able to:
*Explain what happens in the brain when we read and how this understanding informs our instruction.
*Describe basic, intermediate and disciplinary literacy and understand the impact these levels have on reading grade level content material.
*Plan differentiated instruction to allow all students to access complex text.
*Recognize the role strategy instruction plays in reading comprehension and articulate how high-leverage instructional routines support constructing meaning from text.
SOR Module 1: Overview of Reading Acquisition: Secondary Focus
SOR Module 2: Features of Effective Instruction
SOR Module 3: Using Background Knowledge and Inferencing Skills
SOR Module 4: Constructing Meaning While Reading
SOR Module 5: The Role of Vocabulary in Meaning Acquisition
SOR Module 6: Self-monitoring and Questioning to Support Meaning Acquisition
SOR Module 7: Secondary Focus on Foundational Skills
SOR Module 8: Text-based Discussion
SOR Module 9: Reading Writing Connection
SOR Module 10: Pulling it All Together
This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in content required for relicensure., This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in pedagogy required for relicensure.
Product: Participants must attend all sessions and successfully complete all assignments with an average of 80% or more. Those seeking graduate credits, 67.5 PDPs, and the $500 stipend will need to complete several additional assignments as well.
Presenter: HILL for Literacy
Participant Registration Fee: $225 (reimbursed upon successful completion of all requirements)
Number of PDPs: 67.5
Stipend: $500 UPON COMPLETION
Maximum # of Participants: 30
Audience: Administrators, Middle School teachers, High School teachers
Dates: All sessions are the first Thursday of each month, with the exception of September and January. Dates are: Sept 15, Oct 6, Nov 3, Dec 1, Jan 12, Feb 2, Mar 2, Apr 6, May 4, Jun 1
Time: 3:30-6:00
Location: Virtual - link will be sent to participants.
Contact: Amy Richardson - arichardson@salemk12.org
Strengthening Social Emotional Supports
Description: Teachers and trusted adults in our schools have the greatest potential to impact positive outcomes for kids. Educators are keenly aware of the impact social isolation, increased family stressors, and constant uncertainty has had on our students during the pandemic. We also know that resilience and healing from trauma and traumatic events is born out of genuine, reciprocal, and unconditional relationships. While seemingly overwhelming in scope, this moment in time offers us a very powerful opportunity to help students find their inner strength and heal. Educators will build their capacity to design trauma informed classrooms and learn tools to evaluate the impact of their design
This experience can be applied toward the 90 PDPs of electives required for relicensure.
Product: Reflection log
Presenter: Ellen Wingard
Number of PDPs: 1.5
Stipend: $67.50
Maximum # of Participants: 100
Audience: All Educators
Date: 10/13/22
Time: 3:30-5:00
Location: Virtual - Designing Trauma Informed Classrooms Thursday, October 13 · 3:30 – 5:00pm Google Meet joining info Video call link: https://meet.google.com/zik-kcuz-osy Or dial: (US) +1 413-752-1262 PIN: 926 220 594# More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/zik-kcuz-osy?pin=3262742871605
Description: Details coming soon!
Creating Engaging Learning Experiences
Description: What is executive functioning and why do students struggle so much? In this course you will learn what executive functioning is and how we can support all students. You will learn how to build memory, flexible thinking, planning and organizing skills into your classroom. This course is open to all teachers.
This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in content required for relicensure., This experience can be applied toward the 15 PDPs in teaching students with diverse learning styles required for relicensure .
Product: Executive Functioning Skills in the Classroom Setting (2 hours)
Presenter: Anna Martel
Number of PDPs: 2
Stipend: Yes
Maximum # of Participants: 15
Audience: All Educators
Date: 10/27/22
Time: 3:30-5:30
Location: Virtual
Contact: Jennifer Doucette-Ly - jdoucette-ly@salemk12.org
*For new staff hired September 2022-December 2022
Description: The institute is required for all Incoming and New Teachers who did not attend the NTI Summer session, and provides an introduction to Salem Public Schools' philosophy, district priorities, and vision for its students. For teachers who are new to the profession the Institute comprises a required element of the Induction Program.
This is the link to a FORCED COPY of the workbook you will use in the course. The workbook includes the links for the Google Meet embedded in each group's SlideDeck. (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-lJS3YWztPk-pH_TIs90ZPOKPqc2sJJkLkz05QyFRHg/copy)
This experience can be applied toward the 50 additional mentored hours required to advance an Initial license to a Professional license., This experience can be applied toward the 90 PDPs of electives required for relicensure.
Product: NTI Workbook (please create the event so that it requires an upload of the Workbook into TeachPoint to release PDPs.
Presenter: Matt Weaver, Brittany Kennedy
Number of PDPs: 12
Stipend: $50 per day
Maximum # of Participants: N/A
Audience: Early Career Professionals (years 1-5)
Dates: January 12, 19, 23*, 26
Time: 3:30-6:30
Location: Virtual (link forthcoming)
Contact: Kim Talbot - ktalbot@salemk12.org