Common Day Workshop (CDW) 2019 is November 5, 2019 from 8am-3pm at John Stark Regional High School.
Academics in Morning Meeting (10:25-11:15) - Room 115
This workshop will focus on ways that teachers can incorporate academics into their morning meetings in a way that is fun and engaging for students.
Facilitators: Kristy Towne and Sherry Dyer
Accessing and Analyzing Your Student Data Using Link It (Two Sessions: 10:25-11:15 & 2:00-2:50) - Room 250
This practical workshop will focus on using your student’s data to plan instruction. Participants will pull data from LinkIt and engage in a data protocol to inform their instruction . Please bring your computer.
Facilitator: Meghan Fenton
Accessing and Analyzing Math, Science, & Social Studies College Board Data (1:00-1:50) - Room 250
Take a deep dive into the Math SAT. We will look at the spring 2019 test questions, student responses and compare them to the state. Teachers will have the opportunity to do item analysis and look for trends. The College Board also provides data on student's Analysis in Science and History/Social Studies for other content teachers to dig into. Please bring your computer.
Facilitator: Meghan Fenton
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Accommodations and Modifications (12:30-2) Room 252
Participants will learn the legal definitions of accommodations and modifications, as well as how to determine
the difference between the two. Types and examples of accommodations and modifications are discussed. Guidance is given as to how teams can make better decisions about when to accommodate and when to modify as well as how to review the effectiveness of accommodations and modifications, and how to document their implementation. A description of the continuum of support is provided as well as how to use and not use the NHSEIS dropdown menu of accommodations and modifications. Smarter Balanced accommodations and alternate assessment are briefly discussed in relation to how the law requires teams to tie them to the accommodations and modifications being used day to day in the classroom.
Facilitator: NH DOE
Adobe Spark (2 sessions: 10:25-11:40 & 1:35-2:55) - Room 221
This workshop is designed for individuals that have no experience with Adobe Spark. Come see examples of how Adobe Spark Pages, Posts and Videos can be used in the classroom by teachers and students. Spark is a technology tool that can increase student choice and foster creativity. The rest of the time will be spent on playing with the free version of the program to create materials and/or assignments to use in your own courses.
Facilitator: Heather Brady
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Basics of Executive Functioning: (8:30-10:20 & 10:25-11:40) - Room 253
This program will allow participants to learn to explain executive functioning to a student, identify how to guide a student to more independence, and adjust your interactions with students to better help students succeed.
Facilitator: Rachael Ramsey, Ed.D
Boosting Bibliophilia (1:35-2:55) - Room 111
This interactive workshop will explore our personal identities as readers and how we carry that into our work with kids. We will explore the why? Behind the choices we make in our literacy instruction, asking ourselves does this routine/practice help or hurt the culture of literacy in my classroom and beyond. Teachers will leave with tips, ideas and resources to increase access to books, and strategies to increase engagement and boost bibliophilia among our students.
Facilitator: Amanda Bridges
Clinical Issues for Speech/Language Therapy Roundtable (8:30-10:20) Room 198
This round table discussion will explore clinical issues including, incorporating curriculum materials into speech therapy sessions, working with aided hearing impaired students and working with students with limited expressive language.
Audience: Speech and Language professionals
Coaching Students with Executive Functioning Deficits (2 sessions: (1:00 - 1:50 and 2:00-2:50) - Room 253
An evidence-based coaching model for helping students whose academic performance is suffering due to deficits in executive skills, including time and task management, planning, organization, impulse control, and emotional regulation. In just a few minutes a day, coaches can provide crucial support and instruction tailored to individual students' needs. This workshop will present detailed guidelines for incorporating coaching into a response-to-intervention framework, identifying students who can benefit, conducting each session, and monitoring progress.
Facilitator: TBD
Cultural Competence & Diversity (all day) - Room 251
What cultures do you belong to? How do your cultures frame your world view and experience? Likely more than anyone could guess. How do your cultures frame your world view and experience, or those of others for that matter? This eye-opening, fun, and interactive workshop helps you examine your perceptions of both diversity and culture, giving you tools to better navigate our diverse world. Please note that this is a full-day training.
Facilitator: Andra Hall
Embracing Creativity and Risk-Taking in the Classroom (2 sessions: 10:25-11:40 & 1:35-2:55) Music Room & Cafeteria
This workshop will explore how elements of the creative process can be used to enhance classroom instruction and increase student engagement in the learning process. Elements of creativity include: risk-taking; flexibility and adaptability; connection; collaboration; awareness; nuance; fun and play.
Facilitators: Dan Williams, Jen Matzke, Sue Williams
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Exploring Open Education Resources (OER) (12:00-12:50) (Library)
According to UNESCO “Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium - digital or otherwise- that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.” OER are free, peer-reviewed, educational resources you can use today in your classroom to enhance your instruction. It’s like “Teachers Pay Teachers” but with no cost. Come to learn more and explore lessons and resources.
Facilitator: Katie Gadwah
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Finding your “big, gigantic drum kit” and bringing yourself to the classroom (12:00-12:50) - Room 214
Much of the work done over the last several years has been directed at common practices. While that work is important, this workshop gives teachers time and space to remember what is unique about themselves and what they bring to the classroom. Participants will explore ways to bring interests and passions into the classroom.
Facilitator: Dan Marcus
Getting Started With Action Research (1:00-1:50) - Room 105
This session will focus on helping you to locate resources and get started on the development of an action research project.
Facilitator: Jackie Coe
Google: The Unconference (2 Sessions: 8:30-10:20 & 10:25-11:15) - Room 199
This Google workshop is set up to provide the attendees with exactly what they want and need. You will be asked to come with specific questions. Most questions will be answered at the workshop but if time runs out or a question is beyond a quick answer you will be provided the resource at a later date. This will be your time to ask how to do something!
Facilitator: Leanne Chauvette & Chrissie Sargent
Introduction to CAD modeling and 3D Printing (2 sessions: 12:15-1:30) & (1:35-2:55) - Room 175
Have you ever wondered how to make a virtual, 3-Dimensional model of something? Have you ever tried to understand how a 3D printer works? This session will introduce participants to these two topics and provide an introduction into how they work. Participants will create a 3D model using Autodesk Inventor software and will learn how to 3D print these objects. In completion of the training, participants will be comfortable creating a basic 3D model and understanding how to print it. This will help teachers, and thus students, to create artifacts, and to brainstorm ways to integrate modeling and printing into various classes and projects.
Facilitator: Colin Stone
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Let’s Give ‘Em Somethin’ to Talk About: Teaching and Assessing Speaking, Listening, and Participation (2 sessions: 12:15-1:30) & (1:35-2:55) - Room 235
Do you want to promote respectful, productive discourse in your classroom, but you are not sure how to assess or explicitly teach that? In this interactive workshop participants will experience a variety of engaging speaking and listening instructional strategies to increase student participation and achievement in class.
Facilitators: Maureen Colby, Jill Pinard
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Life Skills Roundtable (8:30-10:20) Room 104
An opportunity to explore the topics unique to students and staff in a life skills program. Time to share resources and to discuss best practices for supporting learning.
Master Educator Online Access (2 sessions: 8:30-10:20 & 2:00-2:50)- Library
Bring a chromebook and get support in logging in and accessing the Master Educator offerings. These online modules allow you the ability to tailor your professional development to meet your specific needs.
Facilitator: Amber Gamache
Ongoing Assessment Project (OGAP) Introduction (10:25-11:40) Room 113
OGAP is not a curriculum, but is used on an ongoing basis to enhance the existing math program. Teachers learn how to choose appropriate items from a databank of carefully constructed items, administer them in their classrooms as quick assessments, and use learning trajectory frameworks to analyze the underlying student thinking that can deepen student understanding. In this session facilitators will share some of what they learned about in the OGAP training that took place in SAU 24 this summer. Participants will walk away with some practices they can put in place in their classrooms right away as well as a better understanding of OGAP so that they may then want to partake in future OGAP full-length training.
Facilitator: Sara Marzinzik, Nancy Bishop, Allie Hartnett, Rose Francoeur, Jess Potter
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Personal Preparation and Emergency Planning (2:00-2:50) Room 246
Remember, disasters can happen anywhere at any time … take the time now to learn what to do before, during and after a disaster. This session will focus on your individual and your family’s preparation in an emergency. Take Action. Be Safe!
Facilitator: Homeland Security
Portrait of a Graduate Discussion (2 sessions: 12:00-12:50 & 2:00-2:50) - Room 192
During October, there were a series of community discussions around what our students need to know and be able to do to be successful after they leave our schools. This session will be a continuation of those discussions.
Facilitator: Matt Colby
Safety Care - Annual Review Training- (All Day) Room 204
Facilitator: Marti Capuco
Strategies for dealing with challenging students (8:30-10:20) Room 252
This is a workshop geared toward looking at all behavior as communication and identifying the motivation of the kids who challenge us the most. It will provide different strategies for dealing with students through the lens of what we can control and how our choices as educators impacts the outcome.
Facilitator: Allison Peterson
Social Emotional Learning - Roundtable (10:25-11:15) - Room 192
There are a number of people exploring social-emotional learning in SAU 24. This roundtable is an opportunity to share resources and discuss ways to make connections across schools.
Facilitator: Jackie Coe
Soft Skills and Positive Communication (2 Sessions: 8:30-10:20 & 12:15-1:30) - Room 201
This workshop is focused on how we communicate with our colleagues in the workplace. The major topics include interpersonal skills, conflict, reflection, the drama triangle and our individual role in supporting positive climate and culture.
Facilitator: Shannan Tawney
Specially Designed Instruction (10:25-1l:40) - Room 252
Participants will learn what specially designed instruction is as defined by IDEA and how it applies to students with disabilities. They will gain a practical understanding of specially designed instruction, and the means in which it can be delivered as a service to special education students. Additionally, participants will learn how it is merged into the IEP using the special education process in a sequential and cyclical manner beginning with using evaluation data to describe unique student needs based upon present levels of academic and functional performance, then identifying specific areas of specially designed instruction incorporated into special education services combined with annual measurable goals and progress monitoring.
Facilitator: NH DOE
Test Prep: ParaPro & Praxis I (8:30-10:20) - Room 226
Learn about your test, familiarize yourself with test questions, practice with sample test questions, determine your personal strategy for success, develop your study plan, review smart tips for success and check on accessing testing accommodations.
Facilitator: Nicole Cargill
Understanding the Discipline Process for Students with IEPs (12:30-2:30) - Room 249
The discipline process is guided by school district policies and procedures as well as IDEA and the New Hampshire Standards for the Education of Children with Disabilities. Examples of different types of disciplinary removals and the process for adherence to the governing laws will be discussed. Participants will be given guidance on holding substantive file review/manifestation meetings, including when the team should discuss the provision of services and the utilization of the Functional Behavioral Analysis and the Behavior Intervention Plan. Participants will learn the time lines for different removals as well as who is responsible for monitoring, documenting and reporting removals to parents. Discussion will also include equity in discipline.
Facilitator: NHDOE
What Happens When Students OWN Their Learning? (2 sessions: 10:25-11:15 & 1:00-1:50) - Room 216
Using the book Empower, by John Spencer and A.J. Juliani, participants will discuss strategies to implement student choice and voice in the classroom. After reading the book, I was inspired to try this in my own classroom, and the results were fun, energetic, positive, authentic. I will share my evolution and provide a chance for participants to explore how to empower their students.
Facilitator: Lorraine Connell
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Why Play Math Games? (12:10-1:30) - Room 112
This workshop will give elementary teachers the opportunity to deepen their understanding of the role that math games can serve for practice both in the classroom and at home. We will evaluate EDM and non-EDM games; making connections to grade-level expectations. Finally, participants will view one model of using math games as weekly math homework and have time to collaboratively discuss how this may fit into their practice. Please bring your EDM Manuals.
Facilitator: Jacqui Cornwell
504 & Your School - Session 1 (12:30-1:45) - Room 236
This webinar will review the standards for determining eligibility under this law, including physical or mental impairment, and substantial limitation on major life activity. It will also address the role of diagnoses in eligibility decisions.
Facilitator: Webinar - Apyrlle Desrosiers
Empower Book Discussion: Will be offered by Lorraine Connell.