Day 1

Carrie Cole

Strategies to Improve Content Comprehension

 Attendees can attend this 1 day for OPI Renewal credits (6)

Grades 4-12

Reading and understanding what you are reading are arguably the most critical skills learned in school, creating pathways for not only   academic success but success in life.  However, educators face the challenge of profound differences in their students' abilities

to understand and interpret written text, especially across content areas.  This training will focus on increasing educator understanding  of the key contributors to comprehension and various high-impact strategies to increase student comprehension of text.  Educators

will walk away armed with strategies to strengthen student comprehension in any content area or academic discipline.

Topics to be addressed in this effective comprehension instruction session include:

Understanding the Basics and Why Some Students Struggle

Increasing Understanding of Text Through Explicit Vocabulary Instruction  

Implementing Active Strategies to Build Comprehension Before, During, and After Writing

Quick Writes to Enhance Comprehension

Dr. Eliza Sorte Thomas

Developing Agency and Playfulness in Young Learners and Those That Teach Them -  Part 1 (of 2) for  UMW credit* (1).  Attendees can attend this 1 day if they choose for OPI Renewal credits.(6)

 Early Childhood

Participants will learn about and apply educator agency and child agency so they can apply the principles in a playful and engaging way to develop themselves as professionals and their children as learners.

Agency:

●   Reflect and define what agency means for themselves (as educators) and the young children they teach.

●   Compare and contrast agency and positive guidance and its role in agency 

●   Define and create classroom guidelines for success for educators and young children.

●   Apply agency principles to classroom settings.

Playfulness

●   Sort, categorize, define and apply various types of play.

●   Create invitations to play based on criteria (inclusive of agency and learning environment in particular).

●   Develop look for educator facilitation techniques.

●   Analyze play research and promising practices.

Reflection:  Reflect on teacher efficacy related to developing agency and playfulness in young learners and within themselves (as the educator). 

Dr Michele Douglas

Building Numbers Sense K-2

Day 1 (of 2) for UMW credit* (1)- 2nd day is Problem Solving on June 13th.  Attendees can attend this 1 day if they choose for OPI renewal credits (6)

• Focused on K-2 standards in 3 domains

• Objectives of this day includes:

  • Understand the components of counting and cardinality and the importance of multiple representations needed to build number meaning.

  • Be able to use strategies, tools, and instructional practices for building number relationships.

  • Understand how to build concepts of number combinations and build meaning of addition and subtraction. 

• Participants learn to help students develop and apply conceptual knowledge, incorporate high-level tasks, and become a better consumer of classroom instructional materials. 

Kristen Souers

Fostering A Trauma Invested Learning Environment   

Day 1 (of 2)  for UMW course credit* (1).  Attendees can participate in this 1 day if they choose for OPI Renewal credits.(6)

Grades k-12

This course will consist of two full days of training focused on the provision of a trauma invested learning environment. We know that trauma is real, and this is a topic that we can no longer ignore in education. Being a trauma-informed school is the current trend. This course will explore multiple approaches to ensure that both staff and students are given the opportunity to persevere in the midst of stress. 

Learning Outcomes:

·       Attendees will learn about the impact of stress on teaching and learning.

·       Attendees will be grounded in a common language.

·       Attendees will be invited to explore their own level of practice as it relates to trauma invested practices.

·       Attendees will be given the opportunity to engage in activities associated with trauma invested practices.

·       Attendees will be introduced to several strategies associated with trauma invested practices.

·       Attendees will be introduced to the latest research on how stress can impact both teaching and learning.

·       Attendees will learn the importance of providing a Culture of Safety

·       Attendees will examine their mindsets and how they can impact interactions.

·       Attendees will be introduced to opportunities to improve health and wellness. ·       

     Attendees will explore the main needs that drive behavior.

·       Attendees will have opportunities to engage and connect with one another about those reflections. 

·       Attendees will examine the role that intervention plays and identify proactive ways to support regulation.

Joe Moriarity & Keith Hoyer

Effective Classroom Practices  with the "Great Eight" 

Attendees can attend this 1 day for OPI Renewal credits(6).

grade k-12

This workshop will be a presentation that draws from PBIS (Positive Based Interventions and Support) Carol Dwek’s mindset research, Doug Lamov’s “Teach Like a Champion,” Eric Jensen’s “Teaching with the Brain in Mind,” and the classroom experiences of today’s facilitators. Our presenters are Joe Moriarty and Keith Hoyer who have passionately co-presented this course on numerous occasions. Keith and Joe will lead an engaging six hours of exploration, reflection, and sharing of best practices entitled: “The Great Eight” The G8 categories include:

-        Expectations

-        Rules and Procedures

-        Encouraging Positive Behavior

-        Discouraging Negative Behavior

-        Active Supervision

-        Multiple Opportunities to Respond

-        Activity Sequence and Choice

         Success / Task Difficulty