Participants will engage in the TEA provided training that guides new CTE leaders through all aspects of CTE. The training will provide an overview of running CTE programs, rules, policies, and procedures surrounding CTE, and more! If you are a new CTE or administrator, or hope to enter a CTE leadership role in the future, this is the training for you!

This is part 1 of a 4 part series; each part is independent of the others and does not require participation in previous, or subsequent, parts.

What are strategies and tools that really help learning stick? In this interactive session, we’ll explore the six core learning strategies and share resources about the research behind them. Next, we’ll take deeper dives into each of the strategies and share the (digital) tools that can be used to embed these strategies into everyday practices. You’ll leave understanding why embedding these strategies, especially retrieval practice, leads to powerful teaching.

This session is for all educators. You will need a laptop or Chromebook to be able to fully participate in this hands-on session.

Get more out of classroom conversations by having students engage meaningfully, listen actively, and think critically. Experience multiple forms of collaborative practice through a digital stations model and create interactive academic vocabulary experiences using Pear Deck’s Flashcard Factory. Apply learning with embedded time to design similar learning experiences for your own classroom. 

Be sure to bring a charged device and headphones to this session!

Do you strive to help students go beyond rote memorization and repetitive calculations? Many traditional classroom norms and habits actually enable “non-thinking” student behavior. In this session, we’ll set the stage for transforming your classroom into one focused on learning-centered, student-owned deep mathematical thinking and learning.

This session will focus on the medication administration guidelines including laws and policies, general medication administration procedures, documentation, definitions, and roles and responsibilities of school staff.

Note: This session is for campus and district administrators.

Participants will learn how to recognize appropriate Present Levels of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance (PLAAFP) statements and measurable annual goals aligned with grade-level academic content for students receiving special education services.

This session will provide an overview of the Transition Process required for every student that receives special education services.

In this session participants will engage in the TEA vetted MTSS Network session. This pathway presents three important student-centered approaches to learning: explicit instruction, universal design for learning (UDL), and the interconnected systems framework (ISF). You will learn the basics of each approach and the different ways they support students.

Session Highlights:

• How to explicit instruction can decrease cognitive load, thereby increasing engagement and achievement
• How barriers and variability influence our ability to learn
• How the brain's affective, recognition, and strategic networks work together for learning to occur
• How a focus on emotional health and well-being could affect our schools