Welcome to the Alhambra Team Summit information page! We are excited to work alongside you to ensure that our students are learning at the highest levels and that your collaborative team members feel supported along the way.
We are committed to providing training and support for Collaborative Team Leads! Therefore, we are excited to host the Team Lead Summit on July 24-25, 2023.
During the summit, participants will engage in breakout sessions related to Professional Learning Communities that will help prepare for our work ahead. View details in the brochure to the right.
Parking is open on the Southeast lot. Breakfast & check-in is at 7:30 am. Please plan on participating until 4:00 pm. All participants will receive a tote bag with a schedule of registered sessions and materials to support the PLC work. You will have a personalized name tent in your tote and we ask that all participants place it in front of them for each session. Feedback is important to us. Please keep an eye out for an email with each session’s survey link. Thank you for taking a few minutes after each session to share your thoughts!
Making Learning Visible & Measurable
Presenters: Stacy O'Rourke, Madrid Principal; Raul Ruiz, Executive Director, Educational Services; Shaunna Smithson, Outreach Coordinator, Choice Learning Academy
Description: Continue to leverage the Teacher Clarity Playbook and dive deeper into success criteria with this session.
Measuring Our PLC Movement
Presenters: Tina Bunch, Principal, Catalina; Andrew Feight, Principal, Alhambra Traditional; Mackenzie Harris, Principal, Carol G Peck
Description: Use the continuums to see where we are and forge a path ahead. Leaders will be supported with understanding the discrete differences and 1% changes that make big differences in our outcomes.
Making Data Meaningful
Presenters: Laura Defibaugh, Data Specialist, AESD; Kristi Langley, Solution Tree
Description: Dig into data and learn what to do with it. Set SMART Goals and engage in conversations about how to make sure your data is giving the right information. Answer the questions, How can we use our data to drive decisions? and How can we use a data protocol with our team to increase our achievement?
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Healthy Teachers, Happy Classrooms
Presenter: Marcia Tate, Solution Tree
Description: Learn with Marcia Tate, author of Healthy Teachers, Happy Classrooms and the popular Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites.
In this highly-engaging workshop, based on the book by the same title, educators will not only learn how to restore their passion for teaching, but they will also explore additional brain-based principles for looking five to ten years younger, becoming and remaining healthier, and living a longer life!
Site Learning Team Time
Description: There has and will be a lot of learning happening over the next two days. Use this time to debrief with your team. Begin to plan and prepare how this information will be shared with the teachers at your school on August 3rd. The document link below will guide you and provide the resources you need.
Document Link
Metacognition: The Neglected Skill of Reflective Thinking
Presenter: Brian Pete, Solution Tree
Description: How do we prepare youngsters for the test of life? We teach them how to learn when they are not being taught. In other words, we give them the gift of self-reflection, self-awareness, self- initiative, self-direction, self-assessment and self-regulation . . . and the gift of knowing when they know and when they don’t know.
Metacognition is a Blue-Ribbon Strategy for increasing student learning.
Teach Like a Champion
Presenters: Kristina Schneider, District Academic Coach, Ed Services; Esperanza Lopez, Assistant Director, Ed Services
Description: Teach Like a Champion provides educators with a shared vocabulary, a framework for practice, and concrete tangible actions that equip teachers to achieve dramatic results with their students. In this session, participants will be introduced to multiple techniques that can be implemented immediately in collaborative team meetings and the classroom. Are you ready to teach like a CHAMPION?
Presentation Link Note Catcher Link Double Planning Link Ready Math Link
Effective Instructional Strategies
Presenter: Dan Mulligan, Flexible Creativity
Description: Come learn with Dan Mulligan who has conducted workshops and served as a speaker at conferences all across the nation. He has earned many national and state awards including Virginia Mathematics Teacher of the Year, General Electric Star Teacher for Mathematics, and Presidential Honoree for Teaching Mathematics. Dan has dedicated his professional career to helping improve student achievement, especially for the most challenged learners.
Presentation Link Handouts Thinking Routines Thinking Routines 5Cs-Lesson-Action
What do we do when they know it?
Presenter: Jason McIntosh, Gifted Education Consultant
Description: Come learn with Dan Mulligan who has conducted workshops and served as a speaker at conferences all across the nation. He has earned many national and state awards including Virginia Mathematics Teacher of the Year, General Electric Star Teacher for Mathematics, and Presidential Honoree for Teaching Mathematics. Dan has dedicated his professional career to helping improve student achievement, especially for the most challenged learners.
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Handouts Areas of GT Enrichment IEG Workbook
Leading Highly Effective Teams
Presenter: Araceli Montoya, Project Momentum
Description: Learn with Araceli Montoya in this session just for school principals & OC's. (A session for teacher leaders is offered during breakout 2B.)
Presentation: Leads, Principals Handouts linked in presentation
Effective Instruction
Presenter: Dr. Mike Schmoker, Author, Speaker, Consultant
Description: Mike Schmoker describes a plan for radically improving student learning that is built on three core elements: a focused and coherent curriculum (what we teach); clear, prioritized lessons (how we teach); and purposeful reading and writing, or authentic literacy.
Presentation Link Handouts Nuke Article Basic Elements of Effective Teaching
Site Learning Team Time
Description: These two days have been jam packed with new learning for all. Use this time to debrief with your team. Continue to plan and prepare how this information will be shared with the teachers at your school on August 3rd. The document link below will guide you and provide the resources you need.
Document Link
Breakfast
Continental
Lunch
Tossed Salad (GF/Vegan)
Strawberry Spinach Salad (GF/Vegan)
Southwest Chicken Soup
Grilled Chicken with Chipotle Cream Sauce (GF)
Sliced Pork Loin with Fire Roasted Tomatillo Sauce
Spanish Rice (GF/Vegan)
Honey Glazed Carrots
Snacks provided throughout
GF = Gluten Free
Breakfast
Continental
Lunch
Tossed Salad (GF/Vegan)
Cranberry Kale Salad (Vegetarian)
Minestrone Soup (Vegetarian)
Grilled Chicken with Bourbon Glaze
Baked Sole with Scallops and Crab
Wild Rice Pilaf (GF/Vegan)
Steamed Broccoli (GF/Vegan)
Snacks provided throughout
Don't forget to stop by the photo booth! Share and tag @alhambraesd and #AESDatPLC