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Participants will learn about teacher clarity - a term coined by John Hattie's visible learning research. With its effect size of 0.75, teacher clarity is crucial to student achievement. Participants will first be reminded about the work of John Hattie and what effect sizes mean. Then, they will learn what teacher clarity means - teachers being clear about what students are learning, why they are learning it, and how they will show they have learned it. Participants will engage in an activity that clearly demonstrates why it is important for students to have this clarity in their learning. Participants will analyze learning targets to determine if they are good examples or need to be revised.
Learn easily implemented strategies to help you close the achievement gap one lesson at a time. Generate student buy-in to rules and procedures that get and keep students working cooperatively. Connect with great ideas that make formative assessment work for you. Learn a feedback process that’s simple to remember and sets students on a path to improvement. Find out how building effective relationships with students lays the foundation for exciting and rigorous student-centered classrooms. Not only will you connect with WHY these elements are crucial to improving student achievement, you will take-away ideas to start making it happen tomorrow!
This session will help instructional leadership teams guarantee they identified the right instructional priority for the upcoming school year. Completing a root cause analysis that is specific to your school and data is critical to success. Participants will learn why instructional priorities are important, why a root cause analysis will allow them to determine their instructional priority, and experience a "5 Why" protocol for determining root cause.
Instructional leadership teams are crucial to the work in a school. So often, the leadership team is limited to principal and assistant principal. Participants in this session will learn the importance of including teachers and other leaders in the instructional leadership team. Additionally, what is the role of the instructional leadership team? Participants will learn about the inquiry cycle which instructional leadership teams should complete four times during a school year.
Whether you are virtual, hybrid, or face to face, this seminar focuses on identifying, monitoring, and managing gaps to move learning forward. By utilizing one-to-one devices, collaboration, and monitoring, teachers will scaffold learning to support students as they segue from what they already know to what they can do next; bridging the gap between their current learning status and the learning goal.
Planning ahead while capturing lessons learned is essential for success. Leaders and teachers will reflect and identify positive strategies that are needed to increase student engagement and motivation. Let’s celebrate and lift up what we have learned this year (SEL, tech, etc.) and how to include these accomplishments in teachers’ toolboxes.
Project-Based Learning can be an effective way to spark motivation and content can be more deeply understood when students are designing solutions to problems. PBL is not an add-on, but a way to engage students in Standards-based instruction. Participants will have an opportunity to experience PBL, and then outline a PBL task to continue designing after this session.
Ensuring learning is occurring in a hybrid setting can be particularly challenging. How will you monitor hybrid student participation and engagement? How do you verify learning when students are in a hybrid setting? This session will explore the what, when who, and how of monitoring and verifying student learning effectively in hybrid learning environments.
This session focuses on helping teachers build a plan to maximize learning in a hybrid setting. Participants will delve into purposefully allocating how time is used in a variety of learning environments. Participants will explore and evaluate personal learning models and take an inventory of available resources. We will then examine ways to leverage those resources and work as a team to develop techniques that will increase online and face-to-face interaction and engagement. Participants will create student-driven tasks that are designed to fill an identified gap.
In this follow-up session to The Four Rs, participants will expand their thinking and increase their knowledge on how to deepen relationships, roles, routines, and rigor for both synchronous and asynchronous teaching and learning. Evolving student roles, student interpersonal relationships, and student conflict resolution will be explored. A variety of self-reflection routines to strengthen student agency will be practiced and shared. Student tasks will be unpacked and analyzed for rigor and alignment. An eResource of tools and techniques will be provided, allowing immediate implementation in a virtual, blended, or face-to-face classroom. Prerequisite workshop: Establishing Relationships, Roles, Routines, and Rigor
Empathy is a four-tiered journey that allows us to lead and support one another with compassion. In this two-part series, participants are guided through a personal journey through the four tiers of empathy and learn the steps they must take to guide their teams and their students toward a place of compassion. When we operate through a lens of compassion, we equip ourselves and our teams with the tools to thrive within crisis.
Empathy is a four-tiered journey that allows us to lead and support one another with compassion. In this two-part series, participants are guided through a personal journey through the four tiers of empathy and learn the steps they must take to guide their teams and their students toward a place of compassion. When we operate through a lens of compassion, we equip ourselves and our teams with the tools to thrive within a crisis.
At Learning Sciences International, collective agency is developed through a progression that involves a focus on the individual and collective whys of a team and organization. This requires a shift in the way we see ourselves and one another as we journey through crisis. Participants will be guided through this progression toward collective agency to fully understand how an investment and commitment within vision and mission may fuel a synergy between students, teachers, teacher leaders, and the extended school community to afford sustainable, transformational change.
This session focuses on helping teachers optimize instructional time whether it is virtual, hybrid, or all face-to-face. During the session, we will explore opportunities and tools to support synchronous and asynchronous instruction (flipped lessons). Teachers will see ways to organize their instructional day and develop creative ways of utilizing their time. We will explore ways to utilize interactive instructional moments and to take advantage of free online resources.
LSI will provide support for school- and district-level SEL leaders in laying the foundational understanding of social emotional learning and how it may inform professional development, instructional coaching, and continuous improvement models.
Providing teachers feedback that supports their social emotional efforts is crucial, especially during a time we know students and adults will need to employ solid SEL skills. Using the newly released Focused Teacher Evaluation Model (FTEM) protocols with explicit SEL evidence, learn how you can construct savvy SEL feedback that respects teachers where they are.
Participants will learn ways to activate the power of team and community in the midst of crisis. Teachers will create a personalized Buffalo Story to share with their students and learn effective methods that they may put into practice to lead their student teams through the difficulties of the COVID-19 storm.
Text-specific questions are a more effective type of text-based questions. Learn how to create these using text you already have.
Participants will be presented with a standards-based lesson-planning structure that encompasses direct instruction, partner and team work and tasks that provide all students opportunities to meet grade-level standards.
Participants will learn how to employ instructional practices that allow students to learn mathematical content.
Growth is the currency of leadership success. Discover how to promote a climate of leadership growth using the Focused School Leader Model.
This session will familiarize participants with the CASEL Schoolwide SEL Walkthrough Protocol and the LSI Trend Tracker. The protocol is designed to support the continuous improvement of schoolwide SEL implementation by helping team members look for specific indicators of social and emotional learning.
Unit tests and exit slips are not enough. Monitoring student learning is crucial for teachers to collect evidence of standards-based learning. Join our live expert Marzano faculty to learn how to effectively use formative evidence to inform instructional decisions in the moment.
Explore the instructional shifts that raise math achievement, with sample lessons and task planning opportunities.
Using SELF-CARE as an acronym, participants will be guided through a series of 8 daily tips within S-E-L-F-C-A-R-E-to pinpoint areas to engage in self-care practices. Participants will learn the ways in which caring for self ultimately influences teacher and student performances. Participants will also set Self-Care goals and commit to incorporating self-care practices in their daily routines.
During challenging times, teachers may forget about Self-Management and managing emotions, participants will learn the art and balance of focusing on themselves and their students to not only regulate their emotions and manage stress, but also model and demonstrate the essential need of caring for oneself and others in the midst of crisis.
Learn how student-centered routines can be used to promote mathematical reasoning and support students as they engage with academic content. and high demand tasks. Explore how to tweak a traditional instructional routine and transform it into student-centered mathematical routine. We'll identify the elements of effective mathematical routines and how they can be used to promote the Standards for Mathematical Practices. Participants will leave the session with a step-by-step routine that can be used to promote and support quantitative reasoning in students.
There is never enough time for teachers to plan; with the help of our expert Marzano faculty, discover a process that intentionally scaffolds lessons for rigor, aligns resources and tasks, and uses appropriate student data to plan for all students' success.
Participants will learn how to incorporate academic teaming using a virtual platform in order to keep students engaged in the learning while collaborating with their peers. In this session, we talk about tools that allow a teacher to set up teaming in a virtual environment; discussing options for allowing independent think time and student collaboration.
Teachers are often led through lenses that focus solely on areas of needed growth. During this challenging time of increased uncertainty and professional and personal stresses, there is a need to shift our approach to one that is asset-based. From a foundational standpoint of decision-making, participants will be guided through a process of shifting to affirming lenses that serve to pinpoint glow areas to increase student confidence and performance levels.
Learn how to plan lessons in a mini-lesson format, structuring classroom instruction in chunks that include teaching points, opportunities for students to process information, and opportunities for students to provide evidence of their learning.
We will examine the three ELA actions that have the greatest impact on student achievement and then review classroom setting videos to discuss the indicators observed for each of the key actions. Practices you can adopt tomorrow that will provide equity, rigor, and access for all students.
Teachers of primary students will experience "how-to" support from an early childhood expert on the process and procedures necessary to virtually conduct effective shared and guided writing experiences with their students. Find out how students can practice phonics through shared and guided writing, virtually.
An expert faculty member shares knowledge on teaching in a virtual world to prepare educators of all levels for success with any scenario that comes their way. Participants will explore ways to develop a captivating classroom culture, build enduring relationships, amp-up engagement, and entice students to engage in rigorous tasks that will keep them coming back for more.
Participants will engage in strategies to shift their approach to give feedback that allows the receiver to take action and chart their growth.
An experienced staff developer/coach in Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model will answer your questions around specific elements, scoring, and implementation of the model.
How do teachers create an environment for learning in their classroom? Can online classrooms also be engaging? This virtual session, led by our live expert Marzano faculty, will give teachers new strategies to enhance their current teaching, regardless of whether that takes place at school or home.
The basics of Google Classroom, Slides, Docs, and Forms will be demonstrated and used by participants. Lessons and units for virtual teaching can be effectively organized and implemented by even the least confident teachers when these tools are the basis for instruction.
Teachers rely on their creative banks to provide ways to help navigate through crisis and guide students. Through the support of an LSI Faculty Coach, learn ways in which you may model and teach the art of self-regulation and redirect students' mixed emotions into positive change in the classroom, school, and extended school community
Help your teachers improve instruction and student outcomes by giving feedback in a way that teachers find supportive rather than evaluative.
You've made the transition to online instruction. Now how do you know that students are learning? Explore three online tools to check for student understanding.
We'll walk through the process of breaking a standard into learning targets and then identify how students will be able to determine when they have met those targets. Strengthen your ability to verify that learning has occurred and teach students how to use learning targets and success criteria to guide their work, increasing student autonomy and efficacy.
Want to engage in exploring and designing high-quality virtual performance tasks? In this session we will explore performance task design, learn how to build a task library for students to access synchronously and asynchronously aligned to academic standards. Create tasks where students view, interpret, and analyze multiple resources to construct a product or performance. See a variety of ways to post student resources for one-stop access.
Learn how to engage all learners in grade level content through the use of rich, complex text. Build students’ vocabulary and content knowledge while improving reading skills and teaching standards. We will share strategies that every teacher can adopt to raise ELA achievement while increasing student efficacy and confidence.
Empower students to use Learning Targets and Success Criteria to own their learning, verify that learning is occurring, and plan for effective student teaming structures.
Teams are often led through lenses that focus solely on areas of needed growth. During this challenging time of increased uncertainty and professional and personal stresses, there is a need to shift our approach to one that is asset based. From a foundational standpoint of the Core Competency, Responsible Decision-Making, participants will be guided through a process of shifting to affirming lenses that serve to pinpoint glow areas to increase confidence and performance levels.
How do you leverage the power of student teams in an online classroom? Learn four sure-fire strategies to promote the sharing of thinking and collaboration!
We will explore the processes and procedures that need to be considered when observers are conducting observations and providing evaluative feedback based on virtual instruction. What policies do districts need to adjust in order to make that process effective and reflective of the new instructional delivery system? How will growth plans and feedback serve all involved? We will delve into how teachers and observers can maintain a focus on the use of excellent instructional strategies in an e-Learning environment.
Want to keep your collaborative culture going and not lose momentum with Academics Teaming? Learn how to use Summary Mat formatted slides for students to practice virtual teaming, strategies for students to give feedback within Google slides to their team and other teams, and protocols for managing students as they TEAM using Google Slides.
Using two SEL Core Competencies, Responsible Decision-Making and Relationship Skills, leaders and teams will create a personalized Buffalo Story to share with their teams and learn effective methods that they may put into practice to lead their teams through the difficulties of the COVID-19 storm.
Learn about the vision of rigor and discuss instructional shifts in the classroom to implement that vision.
Would you like to increase the effectiveness and impact of your feedback to teachers using the Focused Teacher Evaluation Model? The addition of available ELA and Math evidences will support richer feedback around rigorous core instruction and College and Career Readiness standards. This session will allow you to explore the expanded protocols and practice using them for feedback in simulated teaching sessions.
Are your PLCs at a standstill? Do they look more like a meeting vs a community of learners? Perhaps it is time to step back and approach your PLCs with purpose, planning, and protocols! Let us help you re-energize your teams. Participants will work together to define their PLCs by creating their compelling purpose, learning how to plan and have efficient sessions, and learn a protocol to begin to look critically at student work and teacher practice.
You had a great learning experience during your virtual workshop, now what? Follow that up with live virtual support on implementing what you learned, including tips and Q and A sessions with an expert in the field.
Are you looking for new and innovative ways to bring SEL into your classrooms? This session will guide participants through an experience of building and re-building community in their existing classrooms through a SEL lens and framework.
In an online classroom, the need for clarity is vital. Create visible expectations for students through online performance scales that guide students to success!
Participants will learn the why and examples of how to start a coding program in elementary schools. The "why" will be connected to; digital literacy standards, the 4 C's of 21st century learning, the essential skills that are hardest to hire, the "maker" mindset, and computational thinking.
Collaboratively explore best practices, solve problems and design motivational strategies leading to successful implementation of virtual school.
Alleviate the cognitive load from instructional routines so students can devote more brain power to what matters most - content. Learn instructional routines you can put in place tomorrow that will help students orient themselves in text and improve reading comprehension.
Leaders & Coaches will learn how to stay involved and engaged with their teachers, students, and parents during this virtual time. How to still implement fidelity of programs, equity & access for students, and all while keeping a balance of pressure & support.
Dive into practical, hands-on ways for teachers to create classroom conditions where students self-regulate their learning, reflect and act on feedback.
Scaffold tasks toward a learning target and plan how to monitor, verify, and support students who are not moving toward the learning target. Prepare for students to interact responsibly by sharing their thinking, using evidence.
This session focuses on establishing those pivotal beginning of the year relationships with our class virtually and face to face. Explore the value of establishing academic roles and routines that contribute to a high level of student teaming. Analyze and create the beginning of the year tasks that set the stage for both. Learn how relevant and rigorous tasks can be more engaging and motivating for students to meet and work together virtually.
The most successful technology tools take learning to the next level. Teachers use these tools to engage students in creative and rigorous ways. Participants in this session will interact with some of these tools and learn to implement specific online tech tools with students.
Are you struggling with the transition to online instruction? During this session, we will discuss four ways to navigate the transition without tears - for you or your students!
Participants will delve into a key ELA action identified by researchers as pivotal to improved reading comprehension; how teachers ask and scaffold questions and tasks. Learn how asking better questions will lead to improved reading comprehension for all students.
Participants will examine the skills, nuances and effective uses of this element from the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model.
This two-hour follow-up to the session "Establishing Relationships, Routines, Roles, and Rigor at the Beginning of the School Year: Face to Face and Virtually" provides two staff developers who coach participants on their implementation plan and facilitate peer feedback as participants listen and reflect on each other's virtual or blended task design. (Note: Pricing for this session is different than other virtual sessions due to dual facilitators)
Participants will examine the skills, nuances and effective uses of this element from the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model.
Participants will examine the skills, nuances and effective uses of this element from the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model.
Participants will be able to support their teachers in the virtual world by showing them what to set-up, how to support, when to celebrate, and when to communicate.
Participants will examine the skills, nuances and effective uses of this element from the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model.
Participants will examine the skills, nuances and effective uses of this element from the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model.
Leading and coaching in the midst of a challenge requires grace. Through a servant leadership lens, participants will learn how they may incorporate the essentials of grace for their teams and themselves. Suggested practices are grounded in the SEL Core Competency: Social Awareness.
Participants will examine the skills, nuances and effective uses of this element from the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model.
How will you monitor student participation and engagement? How do you verify learning targets when students are face to face and virtually? This session will explore tools and techniques for monitoring and verifying student learning in a variety of delivery formats, because let's be honest, we need to be armed and ready for an array of blended learning formats in our future.
Don't relinquish rigor when moving learning to digital platforms! During this engaging session, revisit what it means for a task to be rigorous and learn what pitfalls to avoid when on the road to creating rigorous online tasks. Spend time delving into sample online tasks and reflecting on the levels of rigor present or missing. With time to master standards ever fleeting, become efficient at selecting the appropriate tech tools for the levels of rigor we are aiming for in our digital tasks. As educators, we know how crucial it is for our students to learn deeply through rigorous tasks.
Why is Social Emotional Learning an integral piece of the classroom environment? How can it become part of the culture of the classroom? How does a teacher know through student evidence that social emotional learning is occurring? Learn the rules of engagement within Conditions for Learning and how to effectively connect to SEL for students with the Marzano Focused Evaluation Model. Marzano's protocol for "Using Engagement Strategies" will build a foundation bringing additional SEL opportunities within the conditions of a classroom, providing teacher strategies and sample student evidences that can be used in any learning environment.
Learn how to start the planning process by breaking standards down into digestible chunks, or learning targets and then creating a task that will allow you to determine whether or not students are meeting each target. We'll explore how to examine student work during the task to make decisions, in the moment, on how best to support students who are not progressing or meeting the learning target.
Learn how to design rigorous science instruction including teaming for science instruction.
Are you looking for ways to motivate students to complete assignments? We know that a parent's interest and encouragement in a child's education can affect the child's attitude toward school and motivation. Learn how to design or adapt existing family engagement strategies for student success in distance learning.
During challenging times, leaders may forget about self-management and simple acts of self-care. Through the support of an LSI Leadership Coach and Faculty Coach, participants will learn the art and balance of focusing on themselves and their teams to not only regulate their emotions and manage stress, but also model and demonstrate the essential need of caring for oneself and others in the midst of crisis.
Some teachers easily craft and ask questions that require students to engage in complex thinking, but far too many of the questions posed to students required them to remember or recall information. In this session, teachers will learn to create systematic questions that require students to use ideas, examine their reasoning, and using evidence to analyze their thinking.
Are you struggling to navigate the myriad of resources to support your online instruction? In this session, we will discuss how to access the tools to support your standards-based online classroom.
Teaching in the midst of a challenge requires grace. Through a servant leadership lens, participants will learn how they may incorporate the essentials of grace for their students and themselves. Suggested practices will help teachers connect with their students to tap into the existing resiliency that teachers and students share.
Explore how Academic Teaming together with S.T.E.M. can strengthen the art and science of teaching. Participate in a S.T.E.M task through the lens of student teams. See how S.T.E.M. team roles can strengthen SEL competencies. Use technology tools to communicate and collaborate. Get ideas for monitoring in the moment. Leave with numerous resources to strengthen your S.T.E.M. program.
Plan now for virtual work and learning so you're ready when the need arises this coming school year. This course will cover the basics of using Zoom as a platform for instruction. Settings, features, breakout room management, and engagement strategies will be demonstrated and practiced by participants.
Do your teachers need support to create Rigorous Tasks for their students? Learn how to determine the intent of state standards and create aligned tasks for students. Rigorous Tasks are critical in the development of high-level thinking in students. Creating these with fidelity will ensure teachers are challenging students with complex tasks.
Are you looking for more innovative ways to lead your team during a crisis? Are you wondering how you will navigate through a new normal after the storm? Through the support of an LSI Leadership Coach and Faculty Coach, learn ways to tap into the untapped potential of your team to pinpoint strengths and activate those strengths into supportive teaming structures that radically transform school communities and boost teacher and student performances.
Calibrate your team with live, virtual support from our expert Marzano faculty. Participants will focus on critical conditions for building teacher expertise and how to use the protocols to observe classroom instruction. Through the use of video, participants will identify elements used during observation of classrooms utilizing the protocols.
As educators navigate today's ever-changing instructional landscape, the need for expert feedback and in-the-moment coaching is even more critical. Our live Marzano Center faculty can customize virtual coaching teachers and leaders to ensure good pedagogy and leadership continues whether instruction is at school or home.
As educators navigate today’s ever-changing instructional landscape, the need for expert feedback and in-the-moment coaching is even more critical. Our live Marzano Center faculty can customize virtual coaching teachers and leaders to ensure good pedagogy and leadership continues whether instruction is at school or home.
As educators navigate today's ever-changing instructional landscape, the need for expert feedback and in-the-moment coaching is even more critical. Our live Marzano Center faculty can customize virtual coaching teachers and leaders to ensure good pedagogy and leadership continues whether instruction is at school or home.