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May and June Learning and Engagement Events!
We will be offering three types of virtual learning and engagement opportunities in May and June to continue our Fellowship work with instructional materials adoption, implementation, and professional learning. Our overarching goal for the next two months is to ensure all teams have access to and receive the virtual supports needed for successful Phase I completion and Phase II implementation planning. To achieve this goal, we have designed weekly events that you can choose to participate in based on where your team is with the adoption process (school teams) and what will be most helpful to you in your support of schools (ESUs):
- The Fellowship Topic of the Week events are specific to our work together with the materials adoption process in Nebraska, and are designed for our teams specifically. Pre-work will be sent out in advance of each meeting.
- The Learn with Teaching Lab Discussion Series events are webinars designed and facilitated by Teaching Lab team members to support all of our school, district, and ESU partners nationwide with virtual professional learning and returning to school planning.
- The Office Hours are opportunities to meet 1:1 with a member of Teaching Lab to discuss a specific question or need, such as making a final decision about materials or support thinking through a plan.
You may participate in as many events as you would like, and we recommend choosing at least 2-3 events over May and June that will best support your work. We ask that you register for events so that we can best prepare. Information for registration is towards the bottom of this page under each event type, and details/dates are included below so that you can see what is happening for the next few weeks. We will update this page frequently with additional topics and sessions for June.
Fellowship Sequence of Topics for May and June:
- Phase 2 Key Action II.2: Understanding the design and demands of your materials (Week of 5/18)
- Phase 2 Key Action II.3: Determine the plan for professional learning (Week of 5/25)
- Phase 2 Key Action II.4: Determine the plan for observation and feedback (Week of 6/8)
- Phase 2 Key Action II.3.D: Determine how you will support collaborative and individual planning AND Phase 2 Key Action II.5: Designing an assessment strategy using your materials. (Week of 6/15)
Learn with Teaching Lab Discussion Series:
- Learning Now: Supporting Students Virtually with High-Quality Instructional Materials (Monday, May 18)
- Learning Now: Virtual Adult Professional Learning (Tuesday, May 26)
- Returning to School: Equitably Reopening Schools (Tuesday, June 2)
- Returning to School: Supporting Diverse Learners with Summer Learning Loss (Thursday, June 11)
- Returning to School: Evaluating the Success of Professional Learning (Tuesday, June 16)
- Returning to School: Racial Equity and High-Quality Professional Learning (Tuesday, June 23)
Office Hours (sign up below):
- May 20 2:00pm-3:00pm (CT)
- May 22 10:00am-11:00am (CT)
- May 26 12:00pm-1:00pm (CT)
- June 3, 10 and 17th
Fellowship Topic of the Week:
Topic 1: Week of May 18th: Phase II - Key Action II.2: Understanding the Design and Demands of Your Materials (Pre-work linked here)
- Deck
- Agenda and artifacts
- Webinar recording
- password for recording: 1O*?S97%
Topic 2: Week of May 25th: Phase II - Key Action II.3: Determine the Plan for Professional Learning (Pre-work linked here)
- Deck
- Agenda
- Webinar recording
- password: 2G+$@sL^
Topic 3: June 9th from 2:00-3:00 (CT): Phase II - Key Action II.4: Determine the Plan for Observation and Feedback.
- Deck
- Agenda
- Webinar recording
- password: 9T@n18=C
Topics 4 and 5: June 16th from 2:00-4:00 (CT): Phase II - Key Action II.3.D: Determine how you will support collaborative and individual planning AND Phase 2 Key Action II.5: Designing an assessment strategy using your materials.
- Decks:
- Agenda
- Webinar recording
- password: 4r%2G53?
Learn with Teaching Lab Discussion Series:
1. Learning Now: Supporting Students Virtually with High-Quality Instructional Materials
Monday, May 18th at 3 pm EST
What does a meaningful student distance learning plan that’s based on a curriculum look like?
Teaching Lab will share thinking around the design process, guiding principles, and user experience for the use of high-quality instructional materials in a virtual environment, including specific examples from distance learning plans we’ve created.
Participants will also engage in curriculum-specific break-out discussions to surface best practices and make connections between school systems using similar instructional materials remotely.
2. Learning Now: Virtual Adult Professional Learning
Tuesday, May 26th at 3 pm EST
What makes for great virtual learning for educators?
With schools mostly out of session through the end of the school year and teacher convenings over the summer potentially canceled, Teaching Lab is preparing to lead virtual professional learning for educators across the country. We’ll share some of our current best practices and plans and lead a discussion around what practitioners across the country are discovering and exploring around virtual teacher professional learning.
3. Returning to School: Equitably Reopening Schools
Tuesday, June 2nd at 3 pm ET
As we reopen schools, how do we support the Whole Educator on behalf of the Whole Child?
We know that as students return to school, holding them back or putting them in remediation is not an equitable or evidence-based option. Remediation will only reinforce educational inequities that already exist in our school systems. There is a better way. At the same time, we need to consider the social and emotional needs of students as they are held to high academic expectations as well as the social and emotional needs of educators as they learn new practices.
Teaching Lab will lead a discussion on the following questions:
- What is our vision for supporting all students to continue to engage in grade-level work when millions of students return to school in the fall after being out of school for months?
- What are the concrete systems and structures school systems should put into place to ensure all students continue to learn with an aligned high-quality curriculum?
- What specific professional learning supports do teachers need to engage in effective, manageable, and equitable instruction?
This discussion is recommended for teachers, school leaders and school system leaders, but open to all.
4. Returning to School: Supporting Diverse Learners with Summer Learning Loss
Thursday, June 11th at 3 pm EST
How do we support our diverse learners who have been without regular instruction for up to six months?
What can we do to support English learners and students with disabilities as they return to school and how do we help teachers use aligned pedagogical strategies in the classroom?
Join Teaching Lab for a short overview of the research behind supporting diverse learners and a discussion on how to best use this research in practice this summer and fall.
This discussion is recommended for teachers and leaders who work regularly with diverse learners.
Please click here to schedule a 1:1 check-in appointment with a Teaching Lab team member. Appointments are available on:
- May 20, May 22, May 26
- June 3, 10, and 17
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