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Back-To-Better! VIRTUAL SERIES featuring Kate Roberts, Matt Glover, Towanda Harris, Kathy Collins, Jessica Martin, Carl Anderson, and Kristi Mraz

Questions? Please contact Amy Ruppert, Program Assistant, at (920) 236-0562

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Last Date to Register: 7/6/2020 12:01 AM
Last Date to Cancel: 7/16/2020 12:01 AM
Agency: CESA 6
Agency Contact: Kathy Schmitt
Agency Assistant: Amy Ruppert 920-236-0562
Location: Online
Facility: Web
Date/Time:
7/6/2020 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM Kate Roberts
7/7/2020 09:00 AM - 10:30 AM Matt Glover
7/8/2020 09:00 AM - 10:30 AM Towanda Harris
7/15/2020 09:00 AM - 10:30 AM Kathy Collins
7/21/2020 09:00 AM - 10:30 AM Jessica Martin
7/23/2020 09:00 AM - 10:30 AM Carl Anderson
7/24/2020 09:00 AM - 10:30 AM Kristi Mraz
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EXPERT WEBINAR SERIES FOR GRADES PK—12

Whether returning to classrooms after an unprecedented time away or continuing to teach and lead virtually, it’s important that we re-energize while exploring strategies, plans, and tools to re-engage learners and close achievement gaps. Join the experts of our July webinar series to grow your expertise, tool up, and get ready to get “Back To normal Better” in the Fall!
 

REGISTRATION FEE: $75 per participant per webinar (choose the webinar(s) you wish to attend)
If you are unable to attend the webinar live, a link to the recording will be shared with all registered participants. The recording will be made available to registered participants for a limited time following each webinar.

  • Debit / Credit Card payments accepted at the time of registration.
  • Purchase orders also accepted at the time of registration.

A hotlink, unique to each participant, will be emailed the day prior to each of the virtual sessions.
 

 DIFFERENTIATION, CULTURE, ENVIRONMENT, and STUDENT RESOURCES 

TOWANDA HARRIS: ACCESS TO WEBINAR RECORDING

July 8, 2020

9:00 - 10:30 A.M.

Grades K - 5

Choosing the Best for Your Students: Journey to a Student-Centered Virtual or School-Based Classroom

Even in a virtual space, resources are only a piece of your teaching, alongside knowledge of best practices, and a deep understanding of your students. As educators, we understand that each of these pieces can have powerful effects. This session supports you as educators as you make informed choices based on the unique needs of all students before you each year. By finding and using resources that are well-matched to your students and their academic goals, you can keep working to help your students reach their full potential. Dr. Towanda Harris, author of The Right Tools, will discuss ways to use strategies and tools that help teachers ensure that the learner, not the resource, is driving the daily instruction.
 

Jessica Martin

July 21, 2020

9:00 - 10:30 A.M.

Grades 3 - 8

DIfferentiation by Reimagining Spaces and Grouping Structures That Cultivate A Love of Literacy and Inquiry

Whether your students will be learning from home or through social distancing opportunities from school, differentiated instruction is essential. Centering student needs is the key to providing high quality-differentiation. In this session, Jessica Martin, author of Strategic Classroom Design - Creating an Environment For Flexible Learning, invites you to participate in the reimagining of teaching and learning in virtual, physical, and intellectual spaces that nurture a child’s curiosity with texts and the natural world. We’ll take a look at a variety of strategic small group structures and study ways to co-author clear routines and rituals that promote choice, decision-making, collaboration, and deepen critical thinking skills. Additionally, we'll discuss ways to incorporate some basic elements of design that research says makes a significant impact on our social and emotional well-being, resiliency, and productivity.
 

Kristi Mraz

July 24, 2020

9:00 - 10:30 A.M.

Grades 4K - 2

Making Responsive Teaching a Reality: Playful Explorations and Small Group Work

As we return to schools after an unprecedented time away, the question emerges: how do we make our classrooms ready for the diverse and demanding needs that are sure to greet us? This session will explore how we can use playful explorations to invite learners into rigorous and engaging learning while allowing the teacher to meet with small groups. In this session, we will discuss how playful explorations support social emotional development, build relationships, and engage children in rigorous academic content. In addition, we will discuss structures to support children with independence, and designing invitations that meet state standards. In addition, we will problem solve how to maintain progressive pedagogical practices when engaging in distance learning or socially distanced classrooms. Participants will receive a copy of the recording and materials to help continue this work in their classrooms.

 

  WRITING BLOCK  

MATT GLOVER: ACCESS TO WEBINAR RECORDING

July 7, 2020

9:00 - 10:30 A.M.

Grades 4K - 2

Increasing Student Engagement Through Choice of Genre

Choice, in any area of learning, increases energy and engagement. Starting the year with highly engaged writers sets the tone for a year of writing. Teachers often grapple with choice of topic, but less frequently consider choice of genre. Yet, choice of genre significantly impacts engagement, especially for reluctant writers. In this webinar, we will make the case for including some opportunities for students to choose their genre each year, especially at the beginning. We will also troubleshoot common challenges of craft and process studies, including establishing a clear vision for learning, considering possible units, pulling stacks of texts, and conferring when children have choice.

 

Carl Anderson

July 23, 2020

9:00 - 10:30 A.M.

Grades 3 - 8

Develop Meaningful Relationships with Student Writers by Conferring with Them

The relationships we develop with students in writing conferences aren’t the happy byproduct of these conversations, but a central goal. That’s because children learn to write best when they have strong relationships with their teachers. With some children returning to classrooms after a long period away, and others continuing to learn online, it’s important that we make these relationships a priority next school year. This session will explore how conferences – in person or virtual – help us get to know students. To do this, we’ll discuss strategies for nudging students to talk to us about themselves as writers and individuals. We’ll talk about how to give feedback that helps students trust us. And we’ll also explore how teaching with mentor texts helps students feel part of a mentor-mentee relationship with us, and other writers.

 

  READING BLOCK  

KATE ROBERTS: ACCESS TO WEBINAR RECORDING

July 6, 2020

11:30 A.M. - 1:00 P.M. CST

Grades 5 - 12

Teaching the Close Reading of Nonfiction for Accuracy, Depth, and Citizenship

Students encounter a great deal of nonfiction text in their lives, both in school and as young people in the world. There is so much of it in fact, that it can be easy to let our minds glide over the text without paying as much attention as we are asked to - either by our teachers, our state, or our conscience. In this webinar, Kate will take you through a ritual for close reading developed by her and Christopher Lehman in their book Falling in Love with Close Reading, and will offer up ways that this repeated structure can help students become more powerful, critical readers of informational texts.
 

KATHY COLLINS: ACCESS TO WEBINAR RECORDING

July 15, 2020

9:00 - 10:30 A.M. CST

Grades K - 4

Help Young Readers Grow Big Ideas In the Littlest Books...and Anything They Choose to Read

As children learn to decode text and focus on reading with accuracy, we teachers often angle our reading conferences and small groups toward print strategy instruction. While this is certainly necessary, it's also important that we strike an instructional balance with our young readers so they read with accuracy, fluency, AND comprehension, as well as a disposition to think about and respond to texts in their own idiosyncratic and developmentally appropriate ways. In this webinar, Kathy Collins will share research and practical ideas for how to help our youngest readers develop big ideas, even in the littlest books. She will share classroom examples of children doing exactly that. Participants will learn how to confer in ways that support young children's deep comprehension, while encouraging them to talk with detail, clarity and elaboration and their books, from the texts at the earliest levels to any other book they choose to read. As a bonus, teachers will see how we, too, can value the comprehension possibilities and response opportunities in the earliest level books and anything else!



REGISTRATION FEE: $75 per participant per webinar (choose the webinar(s) you wish to attend)

  • Debit / Credit Card payments accepted at the time of registration.
  • Purchase orders also accepted at the time of registration.

A hotlink, unique to each participant, will be emailed the day prior to each of the virtual sessions.


QUESTIONS OR NEED ASSISTANCE?  Please contact Amy Ruppert, Program Assistant, at (920) 236-0562 or aruppert@cesa6.org

 

CESA 6 CANCELLATION POLICY

Any registration cancellation must be received at least 8 business days prior to the webinar date in order for a full refund to be issued. Registration cancellations received 1-7 business days prior to the webinar date, a refund will be issued minus $50 per participant.  No refunds will be given for persons who are registered, but not in attendance on the day of the webinar. CESA 6 reserves the right to cancel an event due to insufficient enrollment. Participants will be notified by email if a cancellation occurs.

 

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Disclaimer:

CESA 6 makes every effort to accommodate basic dietary needs such as vegetarian, gluten free and basic food allergies. Because of the number of meals served and the number of items used each day, along with food product changes from our food vendors, we cannot guarantee that every allergen in the food served will be identified and labeled. Guests concerned with food allergies must be aware of this risk. CESA 6 does not assume liability for adverse reactions to food consumed or items one may come into contact with while eating at a CESA 6 event. To better serve our guests with dietary restrictions or allergies, please go into your myQuickReg account and update the special accommodations section. Notice of a special dietary need must be made in advance of the event.

Cancellation Policy:

Any registration cancellation must be received at least 8 business days before event in order for a full conference fee refund to be issued (full refunds do not include service fees. Service fees are nonrefundable).Registration cancellations received 1-7 business days before an event, a refund, minus $50 for each participant, will be issued. Persons who are registered, but not in attendance on the day of the session ("no call, no show") will be charged the full registration fee. CESA 6 reserves the right to cancel any session due to insufficient enrollment. Participants will be notified by email if a cancellation occurs.

Note: Cancellation policies are subject to change based on event.