Dr. Sarah Powell will lead an interactive webinar with the middle school mathematics teachers and instructional coaches from San Angelo ISD. This webinar serves as a follow up from their on-site professional development in the fall providing an opportunity to discuss progress & challenges, analyze data, and plan for the spring semester.
Category: Past Event
January 28, 2017 Saturday Speed Learning Sessions
At the Making Middle School Matter Workshop
Description: Highly interactive and informal sessions designed to spark new ideas and connect you with the resources you need! This is your chance to consult with the experts, view live demonstrations, and gather free tools and resources from a variety of projects at the Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk at UT Austin. Focus on the topics of most interest to you, learn at your own pace, and be prepared to fill our toolkit with high quality resources that you’ll want to share with your colleagues back home.
Participating Projects:
Building Capacity for Response to Intervention
RTI is an instructional approach or framework that identifies students who have gaps in learning or behavior, and immediately provides them with increasingly intense levels of interventions until the gaps are closed.
Contact is Pam Bell and Kathleen Walker
Project AIM: Algebra-Readiness Mathematics Intervention for Middle School Students
The purpose of AIM is to develop a Tier II mathematics intervention for students in middle school. The team will write, revise, and test 8 to 10 modules, each containing 15 to 20 lessons, over 3 years in Texas and Missouri. The intervention lessons will be vetted in “authentic” classrooms, allowing results to be generalized across different groups of students.
Contact is Diane Bryant
Project GOAL: Preventing Dropout Among At-Risk Youth
This project will determine the effects of an individualized reading intervention and a dropout prevention intervention separately and in combination with adolescent English learners (ELs) who are struggling readers and are at risk for school dropout.
Contact is Kelly Williams
Write for Texas
The Write for Texas collection of resources is available to all secondary English language arts and reading and content area teachers to support effective writing instruction. The resources include critical background knowledge, activities, and videos that relate to the guiding principles of effective writing instruction. Participants learn and apply teaching techniques to support all students in writing.
Contact is Ellie Hanlon
August 4: San Angelo ISD Summer Professional Development (Private event)
Target Audience: San Angelo ISD 4th-9th grade content area teachers
Time: 8:30 AM-4:00 PM
Location: Lakeview High School
Researchers from Middle School Matters will conduct professional development on research-based instruction in the areas of Reading, Writing, and Mathematics as part of San Angelo ISD’s “Summer Learning-Palooza.” Teachers will choose to attend sessions in the morning and afternoon focusing on practical, hands-on strategies that can be immediately implemented in the classroom.
For information on how to have a private event for your school or district, contact us!
August 18: Pearland ISD Social Studies Professional Development (Private event)
Target Audience: Pearland ISD 5th-8th grade Social Studies teachers
Time: 8:00 AM-3:30 PM
Location: Pearland ISD Central Administration Building
Staff from Middle School Matters Institute will provide professional development to Pearland ISD social studies teachers as part of their Gifted/Talented yearly six-hour update. Teachers will receive training in three literacy-based strategies they can implement in their classrooms to promote higher-order thinking and content learning. The strategies also feature elements of differentiated instruction and cooperative learning.
For information on how to have a private event for your school or district, contact us!
October 4 – 6: Advancing Improvement in Education (AIE) Conference
This year’s AIE Conference programming addresses campus, district, and statewide needs, with a focus on connecting leaders to inspire accountability, innovation, and possibility for school improvement through partnerships and research-based best practices. Through a variety of opportunities, participants will leave the conference with lasting experiences, research-based insight, and tangible strategies and tools.
Middle School Matters’ conference session
“Succeeding with School Improvement in the Middle Grades”
Tuesday, Oct 4 at 10:30am in Room 302BC
More Information: http://www.aieconference.net