Reclaim Your Sunday: Smart AI Workflows for Student Writing and Rubircs

Join John for a walk-through of Schalmont’s in-house assistant tools. Designed to help you organize and map out student writing data against complex rubrics, these tools are built to tackle the tedious administrative prep of grading. Save your Sunday nights for what matters most: your own expert, personalized feedback. You remain entirely in the driver’s seat, deciding if, when, and how to integrate these tools into your evaluative process.

The Disengaged Teen by Jenny Anderson and Rebecca Winthrop - Book Study

Purpose:
To understand why teens disengage from school and learning—and how adults can rebuild motivation, agency, and purpose.

Outcomes:

• Identify signs and types of disengagement 

• Understand motivational modes 

• Reflect on adult behaviors that contribute to disengagement 

• Develop practical strategies for re-engaging teens

• Create a personal or group action plan

Session 1 - Focus: What does disengagement look like - and why is it happening? 

Reading - Inroduction and early chapters 

Key Concepts:

• The teen engagement crisis  

• The difference between compliance and engagement 

• Four motivational modes (overview) 

• School vs. real-world learning gap

Session 2 - Focus: Understanding how teems related differetly to learning 

Reading - Chapters explaing the four motivational modes.

Key Concepts: The four modes.

Session 3 - Focus: The Role of Adults and Systems 

Reading - Chpaters addressing achievement culture, pressure and adult behavior.

Key Concepts:

• Overemphasis on performance 

• External vs. internal motivation 

• Autonomy, belonging, and purpose  

• Adult anxiety transferring to teens

Session 4 - Focus: Re-Engagement and Action Planning 

Reading - Final chapters with solutions and examples

Key Concepts:

• Cultivating intrinsic motivation 

• Supporting exploration 

• Reframing failure 

• Expanding definitions of success

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Notetaking

Join us for an opportunity to examine note taking strategies for students, discuss the importance of this study skill, share what you are currently doing and feedback after you have implemented a strategy with students. 

The Math Pact - Book Study  

Join Mix and Match for a 4 week book study of The Math Pact this summer.  Read about how to teach math in a way that is consistent and meaningful for stuent, while avoidng the many shortcuts that don't stick. This will be followed with an in-person 5th meeting with Armine Gonzalez where you will discuss next steps at Schalmont.  You will sign up through the STI (we will purchase the book) AND through  Mix and Match.  

Instructional Illusions - Book Study 

Please join me for a practical and collaborative book study that will change the way your students learn! Instructional Illusions is a compact, accessible and highly practical book written by a powerhouse team of experts on the science of learning; Paul A. Kirshner, Carl Hendrick and Dr, Jim Heal. 

So much of what happens in the process of learning and instruction is obscured from view. Much like the effects of a convincing illusion, what we think we see when we observe instruction is often far from the reality. 

We will explore the ten instructional illusions through the lens of educational psychology, cognitive science, and instructional design. Together, we will consider how such illusions operate, unmask their true nature in light of the evidence, and learn powerful alternatives for authentic teaching and learning. Join me this winter to see beyond the illusion, understand and apply the true nature of instruction.