This session will focus on using Google Classroom to support and organize materials for Sheltered Instruction.  Participants will walk away with their own Google Classroom to use in enhancing their scaffolding and organization for English learners.

FREE to participating cooperatives (Bilingual/ESL Cooperative Services) -

0 dollar amount will be reflected upon complete check-out.

This course will cover ideas and creative ways an effective CTE Career Preparation or Practicum course could be structured. This session is for current CTE Career Preparation or Practicum teachers/administrators or those looking at building one.

HyperDocs are interactive Google Docs that have the potential to shift the way you instruct with technology. HyperDocs capture your lesson plans and instructional delivery strategies, allowing students to personalize their exploration of content, collaborate with peers and creatively show what they know. HyperDocs are for educators who are already using Google Apps and are ready to take tech integration to a transformational level. A laptop or Chromebook is required for this session.

We will dig into 6 areas of Impactful technology use and explore how they can present themselves in your classroom. Whether you’re just made the decision to start integrating technology or you’re already a master, you’ll discover tools, strategies and ideas to help move your students towards innovation. The 6 areas of Impactful Technology Use include:

• Students as Designers
• Critical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Communication
• Creativity and Innovation

• Empowered Learners

A laptop or Chromebook is required for this session.

Process-based art gives children opportunities to experiment, create, build, make decisions, and plan. By connecting process-based art to authentic writing opportunities, engaged young writers increase the fine motor skills that are necessary for developing them as writers.

Where does reading success begin? It starts with the understanding and use of the alphabetic principle, or the idea that words are made up of sounds and the sounds are represented by letters.  It’s important to provide students in primary grades ample time to play with sounds even before exposing them to print! Phonological awareness, including phonemic awareness is usually learned in primary grades, through a continuum of skills needed to create proficient readers. Research supports the idea that phonemic awareness is a strong predictor of future reading success. This session will provide teachers with strategies for teaching these foundational reading skills. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the role these skills play in reading development. Please bring technology.

Are you an ELAR educator in a district that uses TEKS Resource System (TRS) as its curriculum? Are you excited about the new ELAR TEKS, yet you can’t wait to start customizing learning experiences? Exploring the New ELAR TEKS Through the TRS Lens is the session for you! In this session, you will analyze the new ELAR TEKS while exploring TRS’s curriculum components and ELAR specific resources that were designed to maximize teaching and learning.

In order for students to improve their reading comprehension skills and build reading stamina, ALL students need to be exposed to complex texts.  Accessing complex texts requires structured time for students to work through new strategies and practice skills. In this session, participants will understand the importance of daily shared reading in the intermediate grade levels and learn strategies for implementing shared reading to teach metacognitive skills by using the gradual release process so that students can eventually grapple with complex grade level texts independently.

This is a 6 hr GT Update per your districts approval.

Socratic questioning aims to engage both teacher and students in an open-ended dialogue, and utilizing Socratic questioning in any classroom can create opportunities to address students' individual perceptions, understandings, and needs. This session will provide an overview of six types of questions and various methods to increase depth of thought

This is a 6 hr GT Update per your districts approval.

“In the 21st century, scientific and technological innovations have become increasingly important as we face the benefits and challenges of both globalization and a knowledge-based economy. To succeed in this new information-based and highly technological society, students need to develop their capabilities in STEM to levels much beyond what was considered acceptable in the past.” - NSF

Keeping this statement in mind, our session is designed to show teachers how to use STEM as a way to allow students sense-making opportunities to develop those skills necessary for success in the classroom for GT students. Join us as we demonstrate activities to build and stretch young minds through STEM practices.

This is a 6 hr GT Update per your districts approval.

Socrates has been invited into the Math classroom. Join him to learn about how to ask better questions  to differentiate your instruction and increase rigor in your classroom. Participants will explore Socratic Seminars, Socratic Questioning, and practice asking and writing questions that require thinking for lessons and assessments

This is a 6 hr GT Update per your districts approval.

We all interpret the world through our emotions and within the context of social interactions. We are human. But how do we anticipate and allow for this basic human function within our classrooms? This is not fluff. In this workshop, we will peel back what it means to have heightened social and emotional needs and the added impact of students from an array of backgrounds. Most importantly, we'll explore what a teacher can do to support the social emotional needs of gifted learners.

Differentiating instruction means teaching differently! It means changing how we teach and how students practice using whole-class and small-group activities. During this session, we will examine teaching and practice strategies that are data-informed, student-focused, purposeful and productive. We will also consider practical and proven organizational techniques that help establish routines and procedures for managing simultaneously occurring activities within the classroom.

Everyone has heard of Response to Intervention, but it is just one component of a bigger picture that is called Multi-Tiered Systems of Support or MTSS. At the heart of MTSS is  meeting the needs of the Whole Child through Prevention, Intervention and Enrichment for All Children. This session will walk you through the principles of MTSS and how you can implement processes and strategies in your classroom to meet the Whole Child needs of All Children. You will leave with an outline and steps needed to implement the processes and strategies that you would like in your classroom routines in the 2019-2020 school year.

In this session, participants will work in groups to identify a problem of practice and design an innovative solution within their current role.

One of the most basic of human needs is to be understood. Lack of understanding and/or following “standard practices” with students who are struggling can have negative effects. All too often, education over-relies on programs to tell us what to do “to” our children. We must be better at learning how to understand our students brains so we can discover what to do “for” them.

This session is designed to help people think and problem solve differently to promote deeper understanding individual students. There will be discussions and activities to broaden knowledge on the neurological factors that can affect learning and behavior throughout all areas of life.

This session is for teachers who are in districts who use the TEKS Resource System as their curriculum. The training includes a thorough exploration of each of the components as well as guiding teachers through the Purposeful Planning Protocol and the Region 10 Pacing Tools.