This presentation will share the story of a principal's leadership journey with her school and the learning path she decided to take to ensure equity and excellence for students, teachers, staff, and families. She will share how she built trusting relationships and systems that changed the school's mindset and culture, and then allowed inclusive settings to thrive and ensured agency for all stakeholders, especially students.
Audience: Elementary Teacher, Middle Teacher, Elementary Counselor, Middle School Counselor, Elementary Administrators, Middle School Administrators, Superintendent, District Office Leaders
This session will describe an innovative process to ensure student and community voice in the development of the district LCAP. Sweetwater Union High School District will provide background on the first ever State of the District event, which included showcases, performances, alumni guest speakers, and school discussions facilitated by students. This event was a chance for our community to gather to see what schools are doing and to actively participate in the district’s vision for each student. Participants will understand the techniques used to train school leaders and their students using a protocol that engaged each school community in a discussion around our four LCAP goals.
Audience: Middle Teacher, High School Teacher, Middle School Counselor, High School Counselor, Middle School Administrators, High School Administrators, Superintendent, District Office Leaders
Explore the College Board’s resources and services to prepare students for a successful transition to college using the SAT Suite of Assessments (SAT, PSAT/NMSQT, PSAT 10 and PSAT 8/9), K-12 Integrated Data Portal, and AP Potential and Instructional Planning Reports to close achievement gaps. Dive into the College Board/Khan Academy Official SAT® Practice partnership by experiencing personalized instruction and practice to help students fill their knowledge gaps and take a journey on connecting low-income and minority students to scholarships, college credit, college admissions applications, and assessment fee waivers.
Audience: Middle Teacher, High School Teacher, Middle School Counselor, High School Counselor, Middle School Administrators, High School Administrators, Superintendent, District Office Leaders
Learn about equitable practices that support all students in achieving a deeper understanding of mathematics. Design a plan for your classroom, school, or district that avoids deficit labeling, supports effective grouping structures, and ensures each and every student has access to high-level mathematics tasks.
Audience: Elementary Teacher, Elementary Counselor, Elementary Administrators, District Office Leaders
This discussion will center on an historical look at the educational experiences of Black and Latino males, review constructs and theories of social and cultural capital and show how implementing targeted interventions, such as conferences and symposiums, can improve the engagement and educational outcomes of these historically underserved groups.
Audience: Middle Teacher, High School Teacher, Middle School Counselor, High School Counselor, Middle School Administrators, High School Administrators
A teacher’s dream is to have a collaborative, organized system providing all students access to relevant, rigorous curriculum. We have bridged the dream with the practical. In this presentation, we offer our approach to keep the pioneering spirit alive for educators and students, sharing how we use tech tools to ensure all students ― regardless of teacher or level ― participate in the best possible education. We will also showcase the byproduct of this planning system: a school-wide initiative called “The Genius Project.” Digital planbooks, lockstep lesson planning, and virtual collaboration are at the heart of our professional learning model, which is changing the classroom experience.
Audience: High School Teacher, High School Administrators
With ever-increasing options, integrating technology into instruction can seem overwhelming. Join us for an interactive session to learn easy and innovative ways to engage students (and staff) and facilitate learning through technology. We will share a Systems Leadership Framework and explain how technology connects throughout the framework, supporting your ability to lead various initiatives within your system. We will discuss how technology can be used to facilitate learning, engagement, and differentiation to increase equity and access for all students. Lastly, we will address finding the balance between using screen time and face-to-face interaction to continue to develop communities of learners.
Please note that this session is interactive and a device is suggested for full participation.
Audience: Elementary Teacher, Middle Teacher, Elementary Administrators
Human relationships are the driver for student learning, the intrinsic motivator that students need in an increasingly self-motivated-learning world. Dr. James Comer of Yale University said, “No significant learning occurs without a significant relationship.” In this workshop, participants will explore the issues and factors that foster the most important feature of high-quality afterschool programs: positive relationships. We will address the importance of developing staff members who build supportive relationships in afterschool programs. Specifically, participants will gain a greater understanding of what it is about afterschool staff members that leads to significant relationships, which is important in supporting our students’ success in school and life.
Audience: Elementary Administrators, Middle School Administrators, High School Administrators, Superintendent, District Office Leaders