Why Do My Students Do What They Do?

Brian Seymour, Assistant Superintendent

Ever wonder why your students do the things they do? Many times it leads back to brain development and executive functioning skills. This session will walk you through numerous ideas of “Why” and things you can do to help students.

Audience: Open to all

WCS Commitment Plan Focus Area: Academics and Behavior

Location: Library

Slide Deck

ASCD Article - What's Behind the Rise in Problem Behavior? It Could be Cognitive 

Beyond Reading & Writing Lessons (CommonLit)

Alyssa Harsha, CommonLit

Looking for ways to make CommonLit more engaging?? This session will show you how to maximize the media explorations & discussion lessons to build variety.

Audience: Middle School and High School ELA Teachers

WCS Commitment Plan Focus Area: Academics 

Location: Room 229

Mosa Mack

Mosa Mack Staff

Mosa Mack will be available to assist our middle school science teachers in implementing Mosa Mack into their curriculum and classrooms.

Audience: Middle School Science Teachers

WCS Commitment Plan Focus Area: Academics 

Location: Room 303

Required for Rosemore Middle School Science Teachers

Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85487108595?pwd=eXo2cWJZa29Ed0NpVlR5UHQ0YVlSdz09 

Social Emotion Learning in Problem-Based Learning

PAST FOUNDATION

In this session, participants will examine an SEL-focused PBL that assists students in understanding themselves while exploring solutions to real-world problems.  

Audience: Open to all

WCS Commitment Plan Focus Area: Academics 

Location: Room 307

Slide Deck

Creating a Positive Classroom Workshop

Amy Walker, BCBA, ESC Behavior Coach

During this interactive workshop, teachers will learn evidence-based strategies for increasing desired and decreasing undesired behaviors in the classroom, all while keeping things POSITIVE! Participants will have an opportunity to practice strategy implementation during the session.  

Audience: Open to all

WCS Commitment Plan Focus Area: Behavior

Location: Auditorium

New Medicaid Billing Software for Therapists and Psychs

Lacey Vander Sluis

Learn how to use the new Medicaid billing software

Audience: Therapist and Psychs

WCS Commitment Plan Focus Area: Behavior

Location: Room 216

Required for therapists and school psychologists

Vaping: What teachers need to know about nicotine, targeted marketing, and e-waste 

Elizabeth De Luca-Kontchou

Could the reason that your student is acting out be because they are suffering from nicotine withdrawal? In today’s world, vaping is in schools, on TV and streaming platforms, in the hands of celebrities, and on the counters at convenience stores. Youth often think that vaping isn’t harmful to their health because it isn’t a cigarette, but we know that one vape can contain 40 cigarettes worth of nicotine or more! This exposure to nicotine can change youth brains, make it difficult to focus in school and cause behavioral problems when they are in withdrawal. Come learn about some ways to recognize withdrawal in your students, motivate them to live a nicotine-free life, and help students who are addicted to quit vaping. 

Audience: Open to all

WCS Commitment Plan Focus Area: Behavior

Location: Room 227

Slide Deck

Ready Writing for 2nd Grade

Curriculum Associates

Session will include: Plan responsive writing instruction, Implement the Ready Writing High-Impact Practices, Guide students through the 8-step writing process, Nurture students’ confidence as writers.

Audience: 2nd Grade Teachers

WCS Commitment Plan Focus Area: Academics

Location: Room 110

This session is a continuation from session #3.

Handwriting and Fine Motor Skills

Carol H Armann and Kathleen S Wright

In this innovative session, presenters will review current brain research and discuss the connection between handwritten letter formation and overall literacy development. Emphasis will be placed on how taking a structured literacy approach to teaching handwriting aligns with the science of reading and is essential for students with dyslexia. Participants will be provided with a variety of hands-on classroom strategies to support fine motor and handwriting skill development which facilitates orthographic mapping. 

Audience: Required for Dyslexia Cohort, but open to all.

WCS Commitment Plan Focus Area: Academics

Location: Room 322

This session will be repeated during session #5

Using Games to Build Fluency in Mathematics: Multiplication and Division

Kelli Shrewsberry

Explore how classroom games can promote fluency development in mathematics and learn strategies for assessing student thinking. The session was created with 3-5 in mind, but all who are impacted by fact fluency are welcome. This session will focus mostly on multiplication and division but will touch on addition and subtraction as well. 

Audience: 3rd - 5th grade Math Teachers, but open to all

WCS Commitment Plan Focus Area: Academics

Location: Room 226

LETRS (Cohort - will cover all sessions)

Lindsey Rossbach

Lexia LETRS provides a professional learning course of study based on the science of reading for elementary educators. The course teaches the how, what, and why of literacy acquisition to improve instructional practice and achieve long-term systemic change in literacy instruction. 

Audience: pre-determined cohort

WCS Commitment Plan Focus Area: Academics

Location: Room 312

Twice Exceptional Students an overview of identifying, understanding and supporting gifted students who also have an IEP or 504 plan.

Marge Mulcahy - ESC Gifted Consultant

This presentation will introduce participants to knowing who their twice exceptional students are as learners, focusing on supports that include student strengths.  Participants will gain knowledge and skills for identifying and planning instructional materials to foster growth in their twice exceptional students. Resources for continued support for twice exceptional students and their families will be included in this presentation.

Audience: Open to all

WCS Commitment Plan Focus Area: Academics

Location: Room 115

Session will be repeated during session #1

Attendance Team Meeting

Tracey Colson, WCS Director of School Improvement and Family Engagement

Attendance team meeting

Audience: Required for all WCS District Attendance Team Members (not building attendance team members)

WCS Commitment Plan Focus Area: Attendance

Location: Room 121

The Future of Technology in WCS Feedback Session

Elementary Staff Only!

Justin Kuck, WCS Director of Technology

What does the future of technology look like WCS? Come and talk with WCS Director of Technology and give feedback and input on what that future might look like. 

WCS Commitment Plan Focus Area: Academics

Location: Room 302

Note: This session is only for elementary staff, a similar session for MS/HS will be held during session #5

Dyslexia Cohort

Stephanie White, WCS Literacy Specialist

This session will discuss the Science of Reading and Phonemic Awareness Instruction

Audience: Required for those in the Dyslexia Cohort and only open to those in the Dyslexia Cohort

WCS Commitment Plan Focus Area: Academics

Location: Room 112 (moved from breakout session #5)