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 29, 2024.
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!
Keynote and Presenter
Coaching Teams to Determine Their Next Steps (for Themselves!)
Presenters: Carrie Rosebrock, Arrows Author
Description: In this session, Carrie Rosebrock will walk us through a strategy building activity to replicate with our own PLC leaders in our buildings. By incorporating the NIET teaching and learning standards into the PLC conversation, we can create a simple reference tool for teams to spark their decision-making mid-meeting.
Presentation: LINK
Pacing Support Guides
Presenters: Matt Miller, AESD Specialist and Kristi Jones, District Academic Coach
Description: Participants will use the Planning Process Roadmap to learn about the pacing support guides that can support Collaborative Teams learn discussions and planning.
Teach Like a Champion
Presenters: Danielle Berry, District Academic Coach
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
Creating Optimal Learning Environments and Strong Learning Routines
Presenter: Alana Ragland, AESD Equitable Practices
Description: A dynamic session dedicated to crafting the ultimate learning environment so students can achieve high expectations. Explore innovative strategies to foster engagement, promote collaboration, and ignite curiosity in the classroom. Ensuring instruction is strengths-based, culturally responsive, and personalized to so students meet the demands of grade-appropriate standards. This session equips educators with practical tools to inspire lifelong learners and unlock their full potential.
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Teaching With the Instructional Cha-Chas
Presenter: LeAnn Nickelsen, Solution Tree
Description: Merging educational neuroscience with a formative assessment process and differentiated instruction, LeAnn Nickelsen and Melissa Dickson developed a four-step cycle of instruction—(1) chunk, (2) chew, (3) check, and (4) change—that has the power to double the speed of student learning. Compatible with any subject area, the book’s brain-friendly teaching strategies and plentiful tools are designed to help transform students into active learners and independent thinkers.
Presentation: Link Handouts: Elementary Bookmark Middle School Bookmark
Low Floor, High Ceiling
Presenter: Collin Seale, thinkLaw
Description: Brilliance is distributed equally. But too often, opportunity is not. The COVID-19 pandemic has given us the strongest possible case for prioritizing critical thinking instruction, but we still treat critical thinking as a luxury good. Equity requires educators to remove the systemic barriers far too many students face to unleashing their critical thinking potential.
This workshop outlines powerful but practical tools educators can apply immediately to close the critical thinking gap using easy-to-integrate, curriculum-agnostic “Thinking Like a Lawyer” strategies that help students transition from asking “what” and “how to” to asking “why” and “what if. book
Metacognition is a Blue-Ribbon Strategy for increasing student learning.
Presentation: Link
The New Art & Science of Teaching
Presenters: Whitney Owens, Marzano Resources
Description: This session offers a framework for substantive change based on Dr. Marzano’s 50 years of education research. While the previous model focused on teacher outcomes, the new version places focus on student outcomes. Throughout the book, Marzano details the elements of three overarching categories of teaching, which define what must happen to optimize student learning. book
Presentation: Link
The New Art & Science of Classroom Assessment
Presenter: Mike Ruyle, Marzano Resources
Description: Design assessment for learning and drive student engagement and academic achievement. Gain holistic assessment methods and tools for both summative and formative assessment in the classroom, and transition to a mode of assessment that truly reflects course curriculum and student progress. book
Presentation: Handouts: Link
Exceptional Student Services
Presenter: Cecilia Salcido and Jill Bahti, Instructional Coach
Description: Incoming ESS staff will learn Alhambra Elementary District compliance procedures for writing IEPs, METS, and Prior Written Notices. Participants will learn how to navigate the e-IEPPRO software system. Tips and Tricks will be shared and practiced in order to give participants time to have hands-on time and begin developing the MY LIST feature for their individual caseloads.
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Breakfast
Continental
Snacks
Provided throughout
GF = Gluten Free
Lunch
Tossed Salad
Cranberry Kale Salad (Vegetarian)
Tomato Basil Soup (Vegetarian)
Grilled Chicken with Saffron Cream Sauce (GF)
Baked Sole Stuffed with Scallops and Crab
Wide Rice (GF/Vegan)
Steamed Broccoli (GF/Vegan)