Once you have identified session(s), please contact Betty Young at byoung@tps501.org.
When the certified staff clicks the link of the title of the session on the website, it takes you directly to Frontline for enrollment. When the certified staff clicks the platform link on the website, it allows them to complete the Google Form for capturing their information (name, ID number, building, job assignment) for attendance and direct access to the presentation. When it is a Zoom Session you have to enter the information that is listed for access. When it a Pre-recorded Session, just click the link for access.
When the classified staff clicks the platform link on the website, it allows them to complete the Google Form for capturing their information (name, ID number, building, job assignment) for attendance and direct access to the presentation. When it is a Zoom Session, you have to enter the information that is listed for access. When it is a Pre-recorded Session, just click the link for access.
Audience: All PK-12 Teachers
Platform Type: Zoom Live - Event Website
Click here to access the recorded re-broadcast.
Date: June 9 - June 11
Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Presenter:
Description: Google for EDU Certified Trainers from the great state of Kansas are excited to provide three days of live innovative professional learning. Click the day below to browse the session offerings for the day. These sessions will be live streamed from this site, and recorded and archived on the same page for future viewing.
Audience: AVID Staff
Platform Type: Course can be found at classroom.google.com Class code = icjr5ey
Date: June 1 - July 24
Time: Various - on your own
Presenter: Angela Dick
Description: AVID Staff - Join us electronically for the equivalent of two days FULL of AVID training - from WICOR Workshop to Focused Note-Taking to Using Costa's Levels of Thinking to Increase Inquiry. Our TPS trainers will provide instruction on the use of many research based strategies that can be implemented in any classroom at your AVID site! The format of these two days will include eight different pre-recorded modules with follow up assignments/projects. If you attend the 8 modules of the pre-recorded AVID Academy and complete the assignments/projects, you will have completed 12 hours of training and will be considered "AVID Trained". As able, it would be ideal to "attend" virtually with a collaborative colleague from your AVID site. Contact Angela Dick, AVID District Director, with any questions.
Audience: All PK-12 Teachers
Platform Type: All activities will be presented via Google Classroom (classroom.google.com) - Class Code #63rnk6u
Date: June 8 - July 24 (Points only)
Time: Various - on your own
Presenter: Gail Ramirez, Travis True, Matt Miller
Description: This session is only for IDP points. It will consist of sessions that will help you in your quest to master blended learning. This session is not as much about the tools you can use (although we learn some), but more about creating interactive and engaging lessons that will work in your classroom or for distance learning.
Go to Google Classroom at classroom.google.com and join with the code of 63rnk6u . You must be signed into Chrome with your TPS email to access this.
Audience: All PK-12 Teachers
Platform Type: All activities will be presented via Google Classroom (classroom.google.com) - Class Code # sz2qyua
Date: June 8 - June 26 (College Credit)
Time: Various - on your own
Presenter: Gail Ramirez, Travis True, Matt Miller
Description: This session can be taken for one hour of college credit or just for points. It will consist of 10-12 sessions that will help learn some amazing blended learning tools. There will also be live Zoom sessions scheduled if you are taking it for credit to ask questions or get personalized instruction. Credit participants will have to complete a project with they can use next school year. Teachers may choose to work with partners but each must submit their own project.
Go to Google Classroom at classroom.google.com and join with the code of sz2qyua. You must be signed into Chrome with your TPS email to access this.
Audience: All Elementary Teachers
Platform Type: This session is part of a website - Click here to access the form
Date: June 22, 2020 - July 24, 2020
Time: Various - on your own
Presenter: Michelle Seidner
Description: This fast paced, informational and interactive presentation will benefit not only novice behavioral teachers but veterans as well! Participants will dive deep into the philosophy our district supports while focusing on how we can strengthen our classrooms to make a bigger impact on our students' learning. While behavior is one of the most challenging pieces of our jobs this workshop will provide teachers with new and innovative ways to help our students with emotional regulation that will improve student behavior.
Audience: Grades 6-8 ELA Teachers
Platform Type: Pre-recorded Session - Click here to access the presentation
Date: June 8 - July 24
Time: Various - on your own
Presenter: Julie Waterhouse
Description: This session is for any middle school teacher who wishes to increase engagement and deepen understanding of student language arts learning. Site-based professional learning communities would benefit from viewing this session as a grade level team or department.
Audience: PK-2 Teachers
Platform Type: Pre-recorded Session - Click here to access the presentation
Date: June 8 - July 24
Time: Various - on your own
Presenters: Dena Befort, Angel Wessel
Description: PK-2 teachers will discover strategies for foundational standards instruction using our core resource CR Success. Ideas for virtual lesson planning will be shared by TPS video lesson teachers in this prerecorded session. Teachers site based professional learning communities would benefit from viewing this session together.
Audience: All teachers
Platform Type: Recorded Webinar - Click here to access it.
Date: May 25, 2020 - July 24, 2020
Time: Various - on your own
Presenter: Maya Goodall, M.Ed.
Description: Emergent bilinguals, or English Learners (ELs), currently represent 10 percent of all students in US public schools. By 2025, one in four students will be an emergent bilingual. How can educators help to ensure the success of this growing student population? In this edWebinar, viewers will: *Gain an overview of today's emergent bilingual population-some of the statistics may surprise you *Learn about the asset model of education-why it's necessary and how it supports bilingualism *Understand the difference between multicultural and culturally responsive-an important distinction *Review six characteristics of culturally responsive teaching-from understanding accent varieties to incorporating education technology Educators will benefit from strategies they can apply to their own culturally responsive classrooms. This recorded edWebinar is designed for K-12 teachers, instructional coordinators, curriculum directors, and school and district leaders.
Audience: Grades 6-12 Teachers
Platform Type: Please click here to view the recorded session.
Date: Various - on your own
Presenter: Cherryl Delacruz
Description: In this session, participants will explore the features of Desmos to learn about how it can be used to engage and teach students of all abilities. By working through a classroom-ready task, teachers will experience firsthand the variety of pedagogical approaches that Desmos offers to make math approachable for learners of all levels. Ready-to-use activities will be shared but participants will also be given some time to Desmo-fy their their math lessons.Participants are encouraged to bring laptops to use in this interactive presentation.
Audience: PK-2 Teachers
Platform Type: Pre-recorded Session - Click here to access the presentation
Date: June 8 - July 24
Time: Various - on your own
Presenter: Darlene Bluvan, Kelly Legleiter
Description: Join literacy leaders in TPS for a look at evidenced based strategies systematically designed to develop phonemic awareness in our youngest readers. Watch this professional learning with a team of teachers to deepen your understanding! This is a prerecorded session.
Audience: Early Childhood Teachers, All Elementary Teachers, ELA Secondary ELA , All EL Teachers, All Special Education Teachers, Media Specialists, School Psychologists, Reading Interventionists, All ParaEducators
Platform Type: Pre-recorded Session - Click here to access the presentation
Date: June 8 - July 24
Time: Various - on your own
Presenter: Kay Hopkins, Robin Dixon
Description: This is the first session of the required ongoing dyslexia training for those staff members who were not able to attend it on April 27, 2020.
Audience: Early Childhood Teachers, All Elementary Teachers, All EL Teachers, All Special Education Teachers, Media Specialists, School Psychologists, Reading Interventionists, All ParaEducators
Platform Type: Pre-recorded Session - Click here to access the presentation
Date: June 8 - July 24
Presenter: Kay Hopkins, Robin Dixon
Description: This is the second session of the ongoing required dyslexia training for staff members.
Audience: Secondary ELA Teachers, All EL Teachers, All Special Education Teachers, Media Specialists, School Psychologists, Reading Interventionists, All ParaEducators
Platform Type: This is a PearDeck presentation. Click here for the link.
Date: June 8 - July 26
Presenter: Mary Casey, Roger Laubengayer
Description: This is the second session of the ongoing required dyslexia training for staff members. This session is specifically for secondary teachers. It is the second mandatory session explaining the KSDE Dyslexia Initiative and its implementation in Topeka Public Schools. This presentation introduces the screening tools chosen by TPS and gives a preliminary description of how those tools will be used in screening students for characteristics of dyslexia. The link to access the presentation is below. Go to the link and click on the earphone icons to access the audio narration for each slide. You can also link to the presentation on the TPS Summer PD web page. https://app.peardeck.com/student/tjxsmxshw
Audience: Early Childhood Teachers, All Elementary Teachers, Secondary ELA Teachers, All EL Teachers, All Special Education Teachers, Media Specialists, School Psychologists, Reading Interventionists, All ParaEducators
Platform Type: Pre-recorded Session - Click here to access the presentation
Date: June 8 - July 24
Presenter: Robin Dixon
Description: This is the third session of the ongoing required dyslexia training for staff members.
Audience: Early Childhood Teachers, All Elementary Teachers, Secondary ELA Teachers, All EL Teachers, All Special Education Teachers, Media Specialists, School Psychologists, Reading Interventionists, All ParaEducators
Platform Type: Pre-recorded Session - Click here to access the presentation
Date: July 1 - July 30
Presenter: Mary Casey
Description: This is the 4th session in a series of 6 which introduces the KSDE Dyslexia Initiative and outlines the rationale behind the initiative and the responsibilities of schools within the initiative. This session introduces Structured Literacy, which is a foundational practice for identifying students with characteristics of dyslexia and providing appropriate intervention for them.
Audience: All PK-12 Teachers
Platform Type: Zoom - Live - links will be provided by email once you've pre-registered at the link below.
Date: June 1 - June 3
Time: Monday, 1:00pm-4:40pm, Tuesday, 8:00am-4:40pm, Wednesday 8:00am-3:40pm
Presenter: Various
Description: EdCamps are described as an "unconference" type of professional learning. Attendees get together and decide what they want to learn in smaller breakout rooms. If you don't like one, go to another option. There will be three sessions during each breakout time. Every evening there will be additional activities - Monday (7:00-7:40) Family Game Night, Tuesday (7:00-7:40) STEAM Challenge Night, Wednesday, (4:00-5:00) Ice Cream Social with Town Hall with Kansas Education Commissioner Dr. Randy Watson. Please pre-register at edcampks.weebly.com
Note: College Credit offered by Ottawa University, Participants can sign up at the EdCamp broadcast.
Audience: All PK-5 Teachers
Platform Type: Pre-recorded Sessions - Click here to access the presentations.
Date: June 8 - July 24
Time: Various - on your own
Presenter: Teresa Cotton, Robin Dixon
Description: Have an English Learner in your classroom? Need some strategies to scaffold learning? Come join our session to learn how to support our various learner in the general ed classroom.
Audience: All Special Education PK-5 Teachers
Platform Type: Pre-recorded Sessions - Click here to access the presentation.
Date: June 8 - July 24
Time: Various - on your own
Presenter: Megan Geyser
Description: This session will provide our teachers with the tools they need to complete the PLAAFP's. They will learn how to completely and effectively provide the information needed to create standards based goal for our students in all content areas.
Audience: PK-5 Teachers
Platform Type: Please click here to access the recorded session
Date: Various - on your own
Presenter: Diane Kimsey
Description: Elementary Teachers Get a walk through of the Eureka Math curriculum, its structure and sequence, and the support resources for teachers, students, and families that are available.
Audience: Grades 6-12 Teachers
Platform Type: Please click here to view the recorded session.
Date: Various - on your own
Presenter: Cherryl Delacruz
Description: In this session, participants will get a walk through of the Eureka Math resource, its structure and sequence, and the support resources for teachers, students, and families that are available.
Audience: PK-5 Teachers
Platform Type: Please click here to view the recorded session
Date: Various - on your own
Presenter: Diane Kimsey
Description: Elementary teachers learn the 3-step process for customizing Eureka Math Math lessons to meet the needs of all students.
Audience: 6-12 Math Teachers
Platform Type: Click here to access the video
Handouts: https://bit.ly/EurekaMath2
Date: Various - on your own
Presenter: Cherryl Delacruz
Description: This session guides participants through interactive modeling and practice, using Eureka Math's replicable three-step process for preparing and customizing lessons. Participants investigate various module components to determine the lesson's role in the module's larger story.
Audience: PK - 2 Grade Teachers
Platform Type: Please click here to view the recorded session.
Date: Various - on your own
Presenter: Diane Kimsey
Description: Elementary teachers will explore how number bonds support K-5 learners. Then we will learn how the tape diagram model supports understanding of both the text and operations of word problems, explores part-whole relationships, and more.
Audience: Grades 6-12 Math Teachers
Platform Type: Please click here to access the recorded session.
Date: Various - on your own
Presenter: Cherryl Delacruz
Description: Learn how the tape diagram model supports understanding of both the text and operations of word problems, explores part-whole relationships, and more.
Platform Type: Please click here to view the recorded session.
Date: Various - on your own
Presenter: Diane Kimsey
Description: Elementary teachers will learn how using the Exit Ticket and Student Debrief at the end of lessons provide the opportunity to give students voice and deepen their understanding.
Audience: PK-5 Teachers
Platform Type: Please click here to view the recorded session.
Date: Various - on your own
Presenter: Diane Kimsey
Description: Elementary teachers will learn how the tools and strategies are essential in maximizing instructional time and improving student learning with Eureka Math.
Audience: All PK-12 Teachers
Platform Type: All activities will be presented via Google Classroom - Class Code #xe6ye4z
Time: June 8 - July 24 (Points only)
Time: Various - on your own
Presenter: Travis True
Description: This session will consist of 10-12 sessions that will help teachers become Google masters. We will visit our regular Google Apps and also include new features and newer Google apps you may not be familiar with. Classroom Websites will also be addressed with New Google Sites.
Go to Google Classroom at classroom.google.com and join with the code of xe6ye4z. You must be signed into Chrome with your TPS email to access this.
Audience: All PK-12 Teachers
Platform Type: All activities will be presented via Google Classroom - Class Code #7c2k2cf
Time: June 8 - July 26
Time: Various - on your own
Presenter: Gail Ramirez, Travis True
Description: This session is offered for one hour of college credit. It will consist of 10-12 sessions that will help teachers become Google masters. There will also be live Zoom sessions scheduled if you are taking it for credit to ask questions or get personalized instruction. Credit participants will have to complete a project with they can use next school year. Teachers may choose to work with partners but each must submit their own project.
Go to Google Classroom at classroom.google.com and join with the code of 7c2k2cf. You must be signed into Chrome with your TPS email to access this.
Note: One College Credit from Baker University June 8 - June 26
Audience: All PK- 5 Teachers
Platform Type: Pre-recorded Sessions - Click here to access the presentations
Date: June 8 - July 24
Time: Various - on your own
Presenter: Kimberly Simmons, Kimberly Hunter
Description: This session will provide examples and ideas on how to incorporate Science into Guided Reading Stations.
Audience: All PK- 2 Teachers
Platform Type: Pre-recorded Sessions - Click here to access the presentation
Date: June 8 - July 24
Time: Various - on your own
Presenter: Gail Ramirez
Description: PK-2 teachers will learn how to access, create classes and assignments, and engage students with differentiated language arts ReadyGEN and Seesaw resources. It is suggested teachers view this session with grade level/site teams to support and deepen understanding. This is a 1.5 hour, prerecorded session, so please watch a bit, then practice the skill, then watch another piece, practice, etc.
Audience: All PK-5 Teachers
Platform Type: Pre-recorded Sessions - Click here to access the presentations
Date: June 8 - July 24
Time: Various - on your own
Presenter: Rachel Brokaw
Description: This session will provide ways to use literature, picture books, in STEM Challenges.
Audience: All PK-12 Teachers
Platform Type: Pre-recorded Sessions - Click here to access the presentations
Date: June 8 - July 24
Time: Various - on your own
Presenter: Angela Dick
Description: Interested in learning even more ideas to Motivate, Connect, and Engage your students? Then this is the perfect session for you! Part 2 will provide more insight into motivating, connecting with, and engaging your students in daily lessons through discussions, relationship building, creativity, and the use of technology. Part 2 is the follow up to the April professional development with *almost* the same title. Check out Part 1 - Motivate, Connect, and Engage Learners in Virtual Learning - on the TPS district pd website prior to attending Part 2! Please consider "attending" this virtual learning experience with a colleague (or two) so that you can engage in deep conversations about application and practice. To earn the 3 hours of PD points, you will watch the pre-recorded session and complete the assignments/projects linked to this topic.
Audience: 6-12 Grade Teachers
Platform Type: Pre-recorded Sessions - Click here to access the presentations
Please click here to access the slideshow that accompanies this video.
Date: June 8 - July 24
Time: Various - on your own
Presenter: Elaine Henry
Description: TPS teachers will share strategies and resources for successful writing instruction. Department/site based teams would benefit from viewing this session in as a professional learning community.
Audience: All Secondary Teachers
Platform Type: Pre-recorded Sessions - Click here to access the presentation
Date: June 24, 2020 - July 26, 2020
Time: Various - on your own
Presenter: Michelle Shambow
Description: This fast paced, informational and interactive presentation will benefit not only novice behavioral teachers but veterans as well! Participants will dive deep into the philosophy our district supports while focusing on how we can strengthen our classrooms to make a bigger impact on our students' learning. While behavior is one of the most challenging pieces of our jobs this workshop will provide teachers with new and innovative ways to help our students with emotional regulation that will improve student behavior.
Audience: Grades 6 - 12 teachers
Platform Type: Pre-recorded Session - Click here to access the presentation.
Dates: June 16 - July 24
Time: Various - on your own
Presenter: Michelle Shambow, Tom Ross
Description: This session will provide our teachers with the tools they need to complete the PLAAFP's. They will learn how to completely and effectively provide the information needed to create standards based goal for our students in all content areas.
Audience: All PK-5 Teachers
Platform Type: All activities will be presented via Google Classroom (classroom.google.com) - Class Code #tcxcbfv
Date: June 8 - July 24 (Points only)
Time: Various - on your own
Presenter: Gail Ramirez
Description: This session is offered for staff just for points. It will consist of 10-12 sessions that will help you become a Seesaw ninja! Participants will learn activities for sorting, movie boards, choice boards, math, ELA and much more!
Go to Google Classroom at classroom.google.com and join with the code of tcxcbfv. You must be signed into Chrome with your TPS email to access this.
Audience: All PK-5 Teachers
Platform Type: All activities will be presented via Google Classroom (classroom.google.com) - Class Code #5sx7pih
Date: June 8 - June 26
Time: Various - on your own
Presenter: Gail Ramirez
Description: This session is offered for one hour of college credit. It will consist of 10-12 sessions that will help you become a Seesaw ninja! There will also be live Zoom sessions scheduled if you are taking it for credit to ask questions or get personalized instruction. Credit participants will have to complete a project with activities for sorting, movie boards, choice boards, math, and ELA. Teachers may choose to work with partners but each must submit their own project.
Go to Google Classroom at classroom.google.com and join with the code of 5sx7pih . You must be signed into Chrome with your TPS email to access this.
Audience: All Special Education Teachers
Platform Type: Pre-recorded Sessions - Click here to access the presentation
Date: June 8, 2020 - July 24, 2020
Time: Various - on your own
Presenter: Michelle Seidner
Description: Specially designed instruction is required for our special education students. This session will define, explain, connect and teach about Specially Designed Instruction and will allow the participants to relate the information to real life situations.
Audience: 6 - 12 Grade Teachers
Platform Type: Pre-recorded Sessions - Click here to access the presentations.
Date: June 22 - July 26
Time: Various - on your own
Presenter: Jasmine Puderbaugh
Description:All teachers have students who will benefit from rigorous lessons planned for enrichment, extension and engagement. Join TPS gifted education facilitators to discover strategies that work....for all students. This session would benefit grade level/department teams of ELA, Special Education and EL secondary teachers. This session will offer differentiation ideas for students who get through grade-level content very quickly. These ideas and strategies will give students an opportunity to engage in a higher challenge to extend their thinking and skills. It will also provide a rationale and framework for accelerated learning and give practical ideas you can implement to encourage and manage accelerated learning in your classes. This is a prerecorded session.
Audience: Grades 6 - 12 teachers
Platform Type: Pre-recorded Session - Click here to access the presentation.
Dates: June 16 - July 31
Time: Various - on your own
Presenter: Michelle Shambow, Tom Ross
Description: This session will provide our teachers with the tools they need to complete the PLAAFP's. They will learn how to completely and effectively provide the information needed to create standards based goal for our students in all content areas.
Audience: Grades 6 - 12 Teachers
Platform Type: Pre-recorded Sessions - Click here to access the presentations
Date: June 8 - July 24
Time: Various - on your own
Presenter: Kelly Appelhanz
Description: Teachers in middle and high school will learn how to use systematic syllable insstruction to teach students how to decode unknown words. This professional learning could by viewed by teams of teachers to deepen understanding. This is a prerecorded session.
Audience: All PK-12 Teachers
Platform Type: Pre-recorded Sessions - Click here to access the presentations
Date: June 8 - July 24
Time: Various - on your own
Presenter: Angela Dick
Description: This session will cover a wide variety of methods to engage students in discussions in your virtual and face to face classes. We will explore both research and discussion strategies throughout this pre-recorded session. To earn the 2 hours of PD credit, watch the pre-recorded module and complete the assignments/projects linked to this topic.
Audience: Grades 3-5 Teachers
Platform Type: Pre-recorded Sessions - Click here to access the presentation
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Date: June 8 - July 24
Time: Various - on your own
Presenter: Kay Hopkins, Robin Dixon
Description: Teachers in Grades 3-5 will learn how to use systematic syllable instruction to decode unknown words. This professional learning could by viewed by teams of teachers to deepen understanding. This is a prerecorded session.
Audience: Early Childhood Teachers, All Elementary Teachers, Secondary ELA Teachers, All EL Teachers, All Special Education Teachers, Media Specialists, School Psychologists, Reading Interventionists, All ParaEducators
Platform Type: Live Zoom Session
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 (Day 2, Wednesday, July 1; Day 3, Thursday, July 2)
Time: 9:00am - 11:00am
Presenter: Cindy F Hadicke, Education Consultant-Elementary (KSDE)
Description: This session will cover the six hour requirements for teachers in Kansas on the new dyslexia initiatives. This is NOT a trainer of trainer but rather the required training for all teachers and leaders in Kansas schools. In this session we will cover the definition of dyslexia, structured literacy, the science of reading, and KESA and compliance regulations. All three dates are required for this training. The registration link provided is for Day 1. Dates for Day 2 and 3 are listed above; the zoom link for Day 2 & 3 will be shared during the Day 1 Training. Completion of these three dates will meet the entire 6-hour requirement.
Note: Register HERE! Greenbush University
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