Join your Instructional Coaches for a toolbox building session filled with strategies you can use while working with the students you support. Come ready for learning, fun and collaboration!
Speakers: Mandi Olson, Jenny Prom, and Kelly Meyer
Location: LMC Upper Level
You have chosen one of the most difficult and challenging jobs on the planet - working with students who can be difficult and challenging! Learn about how to manage the stress that comes with this job, as well as ways in which you can create healthy boundaries for yourself, especially in those trying situations.
Speaker: Aaron Homp
Location: Group Room
Learn about building classroom community and practice a strategy to improve your communication skills to build relationships.
Speaker: Meghan Retallick
Location: LMC Lower Level
What happens to the brain after trauma? Learn the effects of trauma on brain development and responses and how to be better trauma sensitive/informed.
Speakers: Brianna Edington and Christine Peterson
Location: LMC Learning Lab
In this session, come explore some of the creation tools you have seen your students use in the classroom! By getting to know these tools yourself, you will be better equipped to support students when they use them to share their learning. This session will focus on Google Slides and Sites.
Speaker: Megan Hildebrand
Location: District Training Lab
Ask, Answer, Empathize: Use this session to embrace one another as your best resource. After a cheesy ice breaker (to hopefully add some laughter and meet someone new), we will ask and answer questions about the teaching assistant role. Come prepared to pose questions around your current challenges and ask how specific tasks/procedures are done in different buildings. Remember, you will be answering the questions others present, so bring your confidence to speak as the expert!
Speaker: Traci Fronk
Location: Principal's Conference Room