Tues, August 22nd      12:30-3:30 pm

Course # 2339

Audience: All Certificated

Location: Vanguard House 1 Seminar 1

Presenter: Annie Kirking 

Description: Burnout, emotional exhaustion, and compassion fatigue have long been a part of the experience of many educators, but now (in many ways) they feel deeply imbued in the day to day lives of those teaching and working in our schools and systems - including among our experienced teachers, coaches, and leadership.

What do we mean when we say burnout, emotional exhaustion, and compassion fatigue?

-What are some ways that COVID and all of its impacts have increased the impacts of burnout among educators?

-What are some of unique experiences and consequences of burnout for educators of color?

-Why we can't "self-care" our way out of burnout and what are some things we can do to support the resilience of our novice colleagues, our experienced colleagues, and ourselves.

-What are some ways that all students and educators are impacted by educator burnout even if we do not personally feel burnt out or overextended?

Course # 2363

Audience:  All Certificated 

Location: MLHS Rm 312

Presenter: Earth Gen

Description: Schools across Washington state deal with stormwater issues such as responding to periods of drought and heavy rain, silt entering storm drains, and runoff. The Stormwater Challenge is a middle school unit supplement that was developed in partnership with Highline and Puyallup school districts to bring watershed and stormwater learning to classrooms through a locally relevant issue with unique adaptations for eastern and western Washington. This resource can be shared in sequential (~15 days) or the lessons can be practiced individually. The unit supplement includes activity outlines, resources, and slide decks.

The Stormwater Challenge poses the problem to students that their communities are and will experience heavier and more frequent rain events due to climate change. Students will explore how these events impact their schoolyard and local environment. They will connect stormwater issues around the state of Washington to their classroom learning then develop and design solutions including low impact design and green stormwater infrastructure to make a change on their school campus. Students will work in small groups and document their learning through a design notebook.

Teachers will participate in learning about the content in all three sections of the Stormwater Challenge, including Water Cycle & Watersheds, Pollution & Solutions, and Design Solutions. Teachers will develop an understanding for this content through lesson reviews and hands-on activities. 

Teachers will be eligible for STEM Clock Hours for participation in this session. Teachers will have the option to implement the content and participate in a follow up session via Zoom for an additional implementation stipend.

Course # 2345

Audience: Secondary

Location: MLHS Rm 404

Presenter: Chris Zuver

Description: As part of our last Social Studies adoption, we picked not only a textbook but a platform from Discovery Education to be available to all teachers and schools for 6-12th grade.  Are your students fans of Mythbusters?  Do you want to take your kids on a virtual fieldtrip showing your students the best careers in mathematics? Are you interested in quick Edpuzzle-syled videos about The Great Gatsby?  All of these and more are included in Discovery Education's platform!  

Come join me as we explore the platform and look for ways to implement it into our current lesson plans!

Course # 2359

Audience:  ALL

Location: CB Tech Lecture Hall

Presenter: Jeff Utecht

Description: There was a time not too long ago when we taught students how to sort and organize their files. How to create folders inside of folders and basically do what we do in the physical world to our digital life. Then came the Internet and its endless websites. We tried to organize them but at last there were too many. So we turned to something different … we stopped trying to organize the web and we started searching it. Search is the skill of our era, a life skill that once mastered opens up all sorts of opportunities. Do we teach search in your classrooms and schools? This session will focus on the skills and strategies of search. Participants will walk away with K-12 lesson plans, ideas and classroom routines they can start using tomorrow in their classroom to teach students the skill needed most in today’s connected world. The skill of (re)search.

Course # 2362

Audience: Secondary Teachers

Location: MLHS Room 202

Presenter: Kelly Ramirez

Description: This course will engage teachers in delivering instruction that increases student engagement.  Through the implementation of language-building routines and scaffolded instruction, teachers will explore how they can coach students to access academic rigor.

Course # 2398

Audience: SpEd Teachers

Location: LSC - Laguna

Presenter: Amy Martinez

Description: Session participants will understand the five core competencies of Social Emotional Learning: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making. They will use the core competencies to develop SEL goals that are objective, measurable and specific. Participants will also identify research-based SEL strategies that are aligned to the CASEL framework. Finally, participants will practice using Goalbook and learn how it can help support SEL instructional design and planning. 

Course #2349

Audience:  Elementary Music Teachers 

Location: Sage Point Music Room

Presenter: Kim Patten

Description: So many students, so many barriers, so little time.  In this day and age more students are coming to our classrooms with more barriers than ever before.  As music teachers we see the students for such a short time, so how do we identify, and break down those barriers to help our student be successful in music? Come and find out! 

Course # 2394

Audience: Elementary PE Teachers 

Location: Vanguard Academy Fitness Room 

Presenter: Open Ed Trainer,  Brian Devore

Description: This workshop puts the focus on using OPEN’s free standards-based curriculum resources, which give physical educators creative ways to engage students and teach lessons that ensure academic rigor in any instructional environment. This is an activity-based session — come prepared and ready to move! Every OPEN instructional module includes research-based teaching tools such as academic language resources, depth of knowledge tiered question techniques, Marzano academic rigor strategies, universal design strategies, and social and emotional learning integration. Additionally, this professional learning experience will address assessment and evaluation in learning management systems, and how to plan for changing educational environments. 

Course #2407

Audience: 2-5 Teachers 

Location: Park Orchard Rm 116

Presenter: Rene Ward

Description:  2-5 Teachers- Are you ready to do some math? Educators will experience math content with a hands-on approach using manipulatives and apply what they learn to how they can support all learners with this content throughout the year using centers and opportunities for small group differentiation. The content will be focused on building the meaning of addition/subtraction and adding/subtracting fractions. 

Course # 2385

Audience: Elementary

Location: MLHS Rm 315

Presenter: Dr. Tricia Summers

Description: This course will review fine motor skill development specific to students age pre k through fifth grade impacting hand writing and cutting skills. Participants will review sensory processing modulation disorders and strategies to be used in the classroom setting to increase student focus, attention, and work completion.

Course # 2358

Audience: ALL

Location:  MLHS Rm 310

Presenter:  Stacey Rippy Autism Therpay Services of Moses Lake

Description: Meltdowns! Overwhelming right? This training will focus on identifying the parts of an escalation/de-escalation cycle.  Then learn Antecedent Interventions to be proactive in preventing meltdowns. It is easier to prevent a meltdown than to stop one.  But sometimes we are in a meltdown- this training will also give interventions to use when you experiencing a meltdown, to not reinforce behavior, but also be compassionate through it. 

Course # 2360

Audience: ALL

Location: MLHS Rm 311

Presenter: Nicole Prentice

Description: Early childhood events dictate  behavior. Learn how and what you can do to change what’s happening IN YOU., so you can better help THEM. 

Course # 2381

Audience: K-2 Teachers

Location: LSC - McConihe

Presenter: Kelli Yager and Jana Crosby

Description: Prioritize, Pace and Plan your instruction- explore ways to identify must-haves for your lessons and where you might want to prioritize instructional time.  Maximize Learning with Digital Resources-identify and integrate HMH Into Reading digital resources.

Course # 2361

Audience: ALL

Location: MLHS Rm 313

Presenter: Nick Bontrager

Description: We are going to use Homeroom Evaluation for TPEP. Now, we will have local assistance to make TPEP an engaging, fruitful learning process for the benefit of students and professionals. Learn the ins and outs of the new system to make the transition super smooth. This class is repeated on Wednesday from 8:30-11:30.

Course # 2338

Audience: All Certificated and Classified

Location: Columbia Middle School Library

Presenter: Wayne Johnson

Description: This is a quick paced, "hands on" class.  We will cover all aspects of first aid and CPR using CPR adult and infant dummies, the AED, epipens, and much more.  New and renewed certification cards will be issued. 

Course # 2401

Audience: Sport Coaches, Club Advisors, AD's and ASB Support Staff 

Location: MLHS Rm 314

Presenter: Greg Barker, AWSP

Description: ASB is unique because the law requires students and staff to collaborate on using public funds for extra-curricular activities. Included are strategies and helpful hints on how school teams can handle ASB funds and stay in compliance with all the regulatory agencies that have an interest in these public funds designated for students' use. Training is designed for staff and/or students, building and/or district, specific and/or general, parent groups and/or staff…the possibilities are endless. We also discuss the best (legal) practices between booster/parent support groups and school/district/ASB money. Our whole goal is to create awareness and help you understand the tapestry of public funds. 

Course #2437

Audience: All Secondary Teachers 

Location:  MLHS Room 309

Presenter: Newsela Trainer, Patrick Hurley

Description: Bring your laptop and engage with National Newsela trainer via zoom.  You'll have 2 90 minute sessions in which you will learn how to harness the power of Newsela in your classroom. Newsela is a tool available to the entire district with tons of leveled content to develop great readers. Dive into Newsela resources to help you design inquiry learning experiences that facilitate questioning, connections across text and application of learning.  You'll learn strategies to leverage Newsela's auto-differentiation tools to support learners as they access divers content, engage with information and express knowledge.