Summer Institute 2025
Summer Institute 2025
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How impactful will the collaboration from Summer Institute be for your practices next school year?
Schedule of Classes
Schedule of Classes
More details about classes will be provided in the PD Online Catalog during registration.
Click the upper right corner of the schedule to open in a new window or scroll down to view the entire schedule.
Please reach out to Kate Canine if a more accessible version of the schedule is necessary.Click the upper right corner of the schedule to open in a new window or scroll down to view the entire schedule.
Tuesday, June 3rd - PSD Staff Biometric Screening Appointments
Registration Link (appointments will go live May 1st)
Budget Context for SI2025
Why is the institute being held for fewer days and classes are shorter than in the past? Summer Institute compensation* is provided from a general fund that over the years has been supplemented by carry over amounts and at times state and federal grants. The available budget for SI2025 has been impacted by several factors: the increase in hourly licensed compensation (from $19/hr to $35/hr), spending down of carry over funds, decrease in federal Title IIA supplemental funds, and recent budget reductions. By limiting to five half days of classes, we believe we will be able maintain the participation rate of recent years. Complete the survey linked above to share your ideas for additional cost-saving measures for future summer institutes. *Snacks and additional supplies are budgeted from the general Professional Development operating budget.
Will classes have to be limited to a much smaller number of participants? Due to the input from staff, hard work of central departments to prioritize classes, and decreased days and hours, we believe we will not need to restrict participation in classes because of budget. However, some classes may have a strict maximum either due to the nature of the content or physical space available. See the Registration and Credit page for more information about the Waitlist process.
To positively impact student achievement and growth, the purpose of Summer Institute is to provide time for teams of staff to learn, share, collaborate, and design products that we typically do not have time for during the school year.
To positively impact student achievement and growth, the purpose of Summer Institute is to provide time for teams of staff to learn, share, collaborate, and design products that we typically do not have time for during the school year.
The topics of classes are initiated by PSD staff and classes are then designed and facilitated by PSD staff.
The topics of classes are initiated by PSD staff and classes are then designed and facilitated by PSD staff.
All Summer Institute classes focus on meeting the PSD District Ends and Strategic Plan Priorities while connecting to dimensions of the PSD Standards-Based Teaching and Learning Framework (5D+).
All Summer Institute classes focus on meeting the PSD District Ends and Strategic Plan Priorities while connecting to dimensions of the PSD Standards-Based Teaching and Learning Framework (5D+).
Summer Institute differs from typical PSD professional development classes in that classes are designed to allow specific audiences to co-create products that will help that audience during the following school year and beyond. These are not traditional trainings but follow more of a collaborative workshop model. This is not a "conference" or opportunity to take any class that might look interesting or simply to accumulate credit.
We are fortunate in PSD to continue to offer Summer Institute. The interest and attendance continues to grow. It has actually grown so much that we are starting to reach a tipping point with our resources. Thus we continue to refine the classes that are offered and the available slots per class based upon our budget and physical space of the hosting school. In determining the schedule for Summer Institute, we continue to be guided by our three Summer Institute expectations :
We are fortunate in PSD to continue to offer Summer Institute. The interest and attendance continues to grow. It has actually grown so much that we are starting to reach a tipping point with our resources. Thus we continue to refine the classes that are offered and the available slots per class based upon our budget and physical space of the hosting school. In determining the schedule for Summer Institute, we continue to be guided by our three Summer Institute expectations :
All content must align with PSD Ends, Priorities, 5Ds, and standards.
All content must align with PSD Ends, Priorities, 5Ds, and standards.
Priorities for Summer 2025
Classes need to focus on system priorities of disrupting disproportionality, literacy, graduate with options, and mental health and belonging
Directly align to Academic Cabinet’s Academic Vision
Directly align to and advance Strategic Plan projects
Strengthen implementation of high quality instructional materials
Promote evidence-based pedagogy to address student strengths and needs
Contribute to staff’s capacity to ensure all students have access to universal experiences within the preventative framework of Colorado’s Multi-Tiered System of Supports
Where possible, connect content to CDE licensure training requirements (eg. CLDE/ELL or special education behavioral health).
The time should be used for staff to collaboratively design a product that would be used in the following school year.
The time should be used for staff to collaboratively design a product that would be used in the following school year.
Focus for Summer Institute Collaboration
Products should be created by teams (not time for individual staff to create individual projects alone).
Preference will be given to classes where products will directly impact students (as compared to resources that primarily benefit adults).
Products should be helpful to staff not in attendance.
Summer Institute time cannot be used solely to make supplies (i.e. cutting, laminating, printing).
The class should be open to staff from multiple schools.
The class should be open to staff from multiple schools.
Individual schools or teams might explore collaborative efforts in June but if the content is not applicable to multiple schools, that class would not be part of the PSD Summer Institute.
Shields Street Natural Gas Project may impact access to RMHS from Shields Street. More information will be provided when available.
RMHS_SI Descriptors Floorplan.pdf
Help guide Summer Institute 2025
Help guide Summer Institute 2025
All classes offered at Summer Institute are coordinated through the central office department that leads and supports various staff groups. Share your ideas for what you would like to see offered at SI2025, preferences for facilitation, and possibilities for the model of Summer Institute beyond 2025.
The survey previously linked here is now closed. Ideas can be sent to staff group leads or Kate Canine.
Narrowed results of the SI2025 Input Survey
Mini-Sessions (classes were only 1-2 hours long each day)
Shorter Sessions (e.g. 8:30-Noon)
Historical Session Times (8:30-11:30 and 12:30-3:30)
If compensation were not provided.
If licensed compensation was at a lower rate (eg. $20/hr instead of $35/hr)
If snacks were not offered.
If an application process determined eligibility for participation.
If certain days were targeted to specific staff groups or levels.
If classes were held in late June.
If classes were held in late July.
If classes were spread throughout the year on Saturdays.
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