Building Equity Through Personalized Learning
A Summer Conference, brought to you by Melrose educators on the Personalized Learning and Culturally Sustaining Practices cohorts.
If you are a Melrose Public Schools educator, please register in Aspen. If you are visiting from another district, please register here.
Come and join Melrose Public School educators in a full day of collaboration to learn how your colleagues are implementing personalized learning in their classrooms and building equitable learning environments.
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Audience: All Grades PreK-12 Educators
Facilitators: Melrose Public Schools Teachers
Date: Wednesday, June 22, 2022
8 AM - 3 PM
Location: MHS Learning Commons
6 PDPs
Schedule for the Day
Please Note: "Double Sessions" are two hours long.
8:15-9:15
Overview & Welcome Activity
Today's Slides (settings will be adjusted for viewing AFTER the opening session)
Digital PLP Copy
Workshop schedule and locations
Session 1
9:20 - 10:20
Choose one Session
Student-Led Conferences Should Take Over the World
See how student led conferences are organized and formatted for our middle school team. Learn about the ownership students take in the process and how we involve families.
Presented by Adam Azia
Location: LC-3
Gender Identity in Today’s Classroom
In this workshop, we will explore the various ways that we identify relating to gender. We will use this knowledge to brainstorm ways to create an inclusive, safe, welcoming environment for all students. Appropriate for all classroom teachers.
Presented by Jennifer Briffett
Location: LC-5
Double Session
Beyond the Covers: Powerful Messages in Print
Where do you go to find thoughtful, powerful, and authentic resources to support your learning and growth in an ever changing, socially diverse world? Look no further than this overview into the literature Melrose staff have been exploring over the past few years. Guests will participate, through a circle format, in an exploration of current books focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Presented by Cindy Amirault
Location: LC-4 (Moving to Open LC space at 10:20)
Double Session
Jumpstart Your Personalized Learning Journey
Target audience: teachers who are unfamiliar with personalized learning or who are unsure of where to begin to inject personalized learning concepts and techniques; people who would like to formulate a (first) personalized learning philosophy of pedagogy; all levels
Please bring a unit that you would like to personalize.
Presented by Anahi Pari-di-Monriva
Location: LC-8 (Moving to Open LC space at 10:20)
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Session 2
10:25 - 11:25
Choose one session or continue your a double session from session 1
Activating Family Partnership in Student Progress
How to activate "family connection" to strengthen personalized learning fundamental skills while ...
Presented by Chris Chandler and Wendy Arnold
Location: LC-4
Identity Work & Next Steps
Using identity work as a start, I will explore work to help educators using identity work and learner profiles to continue to the next steps in personalized learning. This will continue on to scaffolding goal setting and data tracking as well as personalized menus. Moto of the session "take the time now." (Target audience is Elementary but can fit for secondary education as well.)
Presented by Molly Waitt
Location: LC-8
We don't talk about... you know
Using What We Say and How We Say it Matters as a launching point, we will be thinking about language and how to adjust language in order to be more culturally sustaining and personalized in students' learning.
Presented by Arielle Gillette, Robin Loewald, and Steven Malley
Location: LC-5
Making Learning Personal Through PBL
This session is targeted more towards teaching the littles (K-2). In this presentation, you will learn how to effectively (and successfully!) implement PBL with students in younger grades. We will focus on time learning about what PBL is, why it is effective, and how to gear it towards our younger students. You will learn how to begin transforming your classroom into a more student-centered learning environment!
Presented by Kendel Amari
Location: LC-3
Session 3
11:30 - 12:30
Choose one session. Please note: double sessions here will break for lunch.
Executive Functioning and Personal Learning
How do teachers use executive functioning strategies to enhance habits of learning.
Presented by Colleen L. Barber
Location: LC-8
Creating Equitable Student Leadership
This professional development will help you gain insight on sustaining practices through increasing student voice. You will have the opportunity to hear from elementary student council members on some of the work they have done this year to impact their school.
Presented by Amanda Rosatone, Nicole Daniels, and Vena Cruz
Location: LC-5
Double Session (break for lunch)
Windows and Mirrors: Connecting with Literature through the Lens of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
In this session, we will be exploring diversity, equity and inclusion within our classroom libraries and the ELA curriculum. Participants will be introduced to an inventory tool to help them reflect on the content of their classroom libraries and curriculum materials. We will also be exploring how this tool can be used to add depth and diversity to your SEL resources.
Presented by Jen O'Brien, Michele Burke, Carla Lucas, and Ursula Boyle
Location: LC-4 (Moving to Open LC space at 1:15)
Double Session (break for lunch)
Student Monitored Growth Through Learning Progressions and Personalized Homework
Using leveled homework, reflections, and learning progression for students to evaluate their growth towards intended targets in math.
Presented by Cameron Lesperance, Sarah Bracken, and Juliette Lloyd
Location: LC-3 (Moving to Open LC space at 1:15)
12:30 - 1:15
Lunch Provided (Pizza & Salad)
Session 4
1:15 - 2:15
Choose one session or continue a double session from session 3.
Which Way Will You Choose?: Making choices in math
This session will be about how to utilize the curriculum to include UDL practices when creating a daily math work board. Then, how to facilitate student agency through choice and reflection.
Presented by Julie Norman and Anne Zaccardi
Location: LC-3
Culturally Responsive Book Clubs
implementing upper elementary literature circles with a focus on culturally responsive novels. Using novels to incorporate personalized learning.
Presented by Natalie Spencer, Liz Strasser, and Kelley Constantine
Location: LC-3
Student Led conferences and How to Begin a Student Owned Process
In this session we will look at the process of student led conferences and what the benefits are of including them in your teaching practices. See how to start the process with surveys/ forms and how the culminating project of the students portfolio connects students and parents together.
Presented by Elizabeth Collier, Melanie Acevedo
Location: LC-8
Flexible Learning Environments
My session will focus on the importance of flexible learning and dive deeply into the science behind different seating and its relation to optimal body and brain function
Presented by Alex DeRosa
Location: LC-4
2:20 - 2:50
Ed Camp Mini Sessions
2:50 - 3:00
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