Learn more and join us for these pre-conference workshops on November 2, 2016*! Bundle it with your Teaching | Learning | Coaching Conference registration, or attend just these sessions as a standalone learning experience!
*Each pre- conference workshop is ticketed separately.
Student Voice
The Student Voice pre-conference will respond to the call for today’s educators to help students become college, career, and life ready by helping each participant learn how to thrive in a culture of high expectations, trust, and responsibility.
Instructional Leadership
The Instructional Leadership pre-conference will provide keys to develop "professional learning communities" dedicated to effective teaching practices.
CFA 2.0
Join Larry Ainsworth at this institute and discover how you and your team can collaboratively design quality assessments directly matched to the rigor of the standards. Together, you will learn how to identify learning intentions (standards in focus for a unit of study) and develop criteria for success to gain credible evidence of student learning!
Quality Questioning: Partnering with Leaders to Increase Their Engagement
Quality questioning is key to both student and adult learning. Not only is questioning central to real-time formative assessment, it also facilitates reflection that enables connection-making and activates dialogue that leads to collaborative meaning-making and deepening of learning. Partnering with learners enhances questioning for all three of these purposes.
Restorative Justice
This pre-con will provide attendees with the opportunity to ask questions of the speakers and each other with a focus on transforming their own personal beliefs and learning how to manage classroom behavior more effectively by determining why students are behaving in a certain way. Participants will hear from other educators that have used restorative justice to make a difference in their classrooms and learn how to make a difference in their own classrooms.
The Impact Cycle
For more than a decade, Jim Knight and his research colleagues in Kansas have been working to identify best practices for instructional coaching. The result is the impact cycle, a simple and powerful way coaches can help teachers improve teaching to improve student learning.