3D Printing Opportunities

Led by Jessa Campbell and Brian Squires, Room G110
We will be using TinkerCad to show educators how to code and 3D Print. We will provide teachers some resources to use with vertical projects connected to curriculum.

Art Education: Culturally Responsive Teaching Across Content Areas and Roles

Led by Molly Foster and Christy Lopez, Room B104
These sessions highlight the ACPS Culturally Responsive Teaching credentialing process through the lens of specific roles ranging from Special Education, Physical Education, Counseling, Talent Development, and Instructional Coaching. Find a session that aligns with your role and learn more about the process in your context.

Breaking the Language Barrier Using Technology

Led by Devon Stevens, Bryan Pahl, and Eric Wunderston, Room B101
During the session, presenters will explain and model different technology tools that allow communication between multiple languages. These readily-available resources are able to provide translation of the oral and written word. Some of the highlighted tools will be PowerPoint Live Translate, Microsoft Translator, Google Translate for Docs and Slides, and Snap & Read translation feature.

Building Conceptual Understanding with Desmos Activities

Led by Sarah Gooch and Lauren Houck, Room P101
Learn how to engage students in building conceptual understanding in the mathematics classroom through the use of Desmos activities. Participants will be given an overview of the features of the activity builder and suggestions for implementing activities using the teacher dashboard. This session is designed for participants who are new to the Desmos platform.

Canva Creative Designs in the Classroom

Led by Bryan Pahl, Devon Stevens, and John Mitchem, Room R203
Are you interested in having your students explore comic creation, video editing, graphic design, or website design? Canva can be your one-stop shop for all of these creative projects and more. Join our session to learn about this diverse and powerful tool to help take your creative projects to the next level!

Career and Technical Education: Culturally Responsive Teaching Across Content Areas and Roles

Led by Matt Hepler, Room G104
This session will help prepare CTE and other exploratory teachers to complete the CRT certification process. The session will involve a brief review of CRT characteristics, a discussion of the equity audit process, and an activity that links the CRT Characteristics to CTE learning tasks, and to the unique instructional setting of a CTE and other exploratory classroom.

Classkick

Led by Tabatha Myers, Kate Syms and Denika Gum, Room B204
Classkick has the capability of offering students digital interactive experiences, immediate feedback, a variety of learning demonstration options and personalized digital interaction. We have discovered all of these capabilities in the last few years and wish to share with others how it has been a true game changer as we've tried to bridge in person and digital learning in the wake of COVID-19. This session will be a blend of sharing its capabilities coupled with helping teachers explore as well.

Coaching Towards Culturally Responsive Teaching Credentialing

Led by Steven Turner, Room P107
Are you pursuing a CRT Certificate or Micro-Credential? During this session, Equity Specialists and various school Diversity Resource teachers will be available to take questions and provide individual and small group coaching for individuals working toward credentialing.

Comprehensible Vocabulary Instruction: TPRS for All Classes

Led by Lauren MacLean, Room R107
Interested in teaching vocabulary in an engaging and culturally sustaining way for students in grades K-12? Come and learn about Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS). Once exclusively used in world language classrooms, TPRS has expanded to be used in all classes to support vocabulary learning, particularly for struggling readers and multilingual learners. Teachers will learn how to ask a story using TPRS and be ready to use it in their classroom with vocabulary words by the end of the session!

Designing Digital Escape Rooms with Breakout EDU

Led by Jessica James, Room B108
Participants will learn how to design digital escape rooms using Breakout EDU, Google Forms & Google Sites as well as designing breakout lessons with Breakout EDU lockboxes. Escape rooms are great for student engagement, critical thinking, and building teamwork skills!

Elementary Art and Science Integration Ready to Use Lessons

Led by Amanda Habbershon and Adam Reinhard, Room G204
We will share a variety of ready-to-use elementary science and art integration lessons that are fun, engaging for students, accessible to all, and easy for teachers to implement. Included in each lesson is a video where Adam Reinhard (an ACPS art teacher) leads a guided drawing that hits directly on science standards of learning and focuses closely on vocabulary for each unit. These lessons have been used by us for years, and are a HUGE hit with our students. You will leave the session with the resources you need to use these lessons immediately. We hope you will join us!

Explore the World! Strengthen Your Teaching Through Travel!

Led by Renata Germino, Room B109
“I wish I had never gone traveling,” said no one ever. Join us for an info session on Fulbright Teachers for Global Classroom fellowships! Walk away with a wealth of resources and international grant opportunities and learn about ways you can use ACPS PDRP funds to study languages abroad.

High School Seminar Tips & Best Practices

Led by Lynn Define and Lori Rocco, Room R101
Join experienced HS seminar teachers and leaders to participate in a sample interactive seminar with developmental design practices. Leaders will share tips and engagement strategies that work with students across our high schools.

Layering Literacy into Math Workshop

Led by Danielle Paxton, Lucy Spencer and Kristi O'Brien, Room G203
This session is designed for teachers conducting or supporting math instruction in a K-5 setting. Language objectives and practice within mathematics instruction benefit all learners, so come learn more! Participants will leave with practical strategies and resources.

Leveraging Reading Plus to Support Middle School Reading Intervention

Led by Monica Cabarcas and LaNell Rakness; Room B209
This session will look at how Reading Plus supports the Science of Reading and how to implement Reading Plus to fidelity in your classroom. We will discuss the reporting features of the program and how to set goals with students and conference individually with students to work towards increased fluency and competency.  Attendees should have students currently enrolled in Reading Plus and will need to be able to log into the program for this session. 

Meshing Co-Teaching Partnership Personalities

Led by Tegan Scroggs and Andy Ulrich, Room P106
Co-teaching is at the core of what we do in education for higher needs learners. For that to happen effectively the co-teachers need to be able to trust each other and work off each other for the benefit of students. In this workshop you will learn strategies that align with co-teaching models to better understand your co-teaching partner allowing for a better meshing of personalities and workflow for the betterment of students. Bring your laptop and an open mind.

Professional Vulnerability: Welcoming Others to Accept Challenges

Led by Julia Weed, Room B201
This session will include an overview of my ACPS Culturally Responsive Teaching journey and the role and impact of vulnerability in my professional life. We will discuss how vulnerability is needed to connect with students, families, and other staff to ensure that we are creating welcoming learning environments for all students.

Reports in Illuminate - Viewing Information After Administering the Assessment

Led by Beth Brown, Room R204
Now that the assessment has been administered, how can I see the student results? What other ways can I view the data? This session covers prebuilt reports in Illuminate that can be used to examine class data: how to filter results, create Question Groups and Performance Bands for enhanced data review, and view standards across multiple assessments. Attendees should have at least one Illuminate assessment administered to use during the session to view data.

Schoology: Underutilized Features & Time Savers

Led by Kelsey Whelan and Alfred Toole, Room B107
Explore Schoology features like PowerSchool Gradebook Sync, Assessment Item Banks, Bulk Edit, LTI/App Integrations, the *new* Annotations Assignment feature and more to simplify your teaching and save time. The session will include sandbox time at the end so please bring your devices and Schoology questions.

Scratch Coding in the Classroom

Led by Chris Shedd and Eric Wunderston, Room B207
Students can use Scratch to code their own interactive stories, animations, and games. In the process, they learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for everyone in today’s society. Come to our session to create using Scratch and to see examples of integrating Scratch across many different subject areas and age groups.

Student Review Plans for Test Retakes

Led by Andrea Rowanhill, Room B203
I will share some review plans that I have created for high school physics students who want to retake a quiz or test. The review plans help students learn the content, address misconceptions, and prepare for test retakes. Teachers will have workshop time to develop their own review plans for their classes.

Teenage Learning and the Brain

Led by Jeff Prillaman, Room G109
The session will focus on cognitive, motivational, and social emotional factors that impact students abilities to learn. After a brief presentation, we will look at research and discuss ways to utilize and improve instruction in our classrooms.

Thrive: Empowering Students to OWN Their Academic Growth in Your Upper Elementary Classroom

Led by Mary Morales, Room P201
Do you want your students to become independent learners? Do you want to empower them to examine their data, write academic goals for themselves, track their data and lead their own parent/student/teacher conferences? Then this session is for YOU!

Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Tools for All Learners

Led by Charli Nolan and Alfred Toole, Room R210
Learners will become familiar with Snap & Read, Co:Writer and ReadWrite, three of the valuable UDL resources available to all ACPS teachers (all three) and students (Snap & Read and Co:Writer). Going beyond just the basics, we will discuss situations where each tool would be a valuable addition to instruction and increase access for students.

2nd Grade Furniture Feedback Proposal

Led by Sheila Hoopman, Room G108
In the summer of 2022, Building Services coordinated new furnishings to be installed in all second grade classrooms. The purpose of this workshop is to collect feedback and lessons learned from the 2nd grade teachers and to use this feedback to make decisions about the 3rd grade furniture order that will be placed in the spring of 2023. Teachers will also collaborate and discuss how to gather feedback from students who are using this furniture.

Behavior Management in a Technology Rich Environment

Led by Anna Bayless, Room R203
This session includes an examination of best practices, logical consequences, and instructional procedures which keep students focused and innovative while using their technology to demonstrate their learning.

Building Our Learning Community Through Family Partnerships

Led by Brandy Garbaccio, Room B108
A workshop to prepare to facilitate familial and community partnerships through a recorded conversation between the learner and their family members of choice. Inspired through Culturally Responsive Teaching Characteristic #3 Partnerships, this is a valuable process to better connect with your learning community.

Build Your Own Desmos Activity

Led by Sarah Gooch and Lauren Houck, Room P101
In this workshop, participants will be given tips for creating and editing Desmos activities, as well as a brief look at the Computation Layer. Participants will be given time to work on building their own Desmos activity, with support from the facilitators.

Culturally Responsive Teaching Final Product- A Change of Heart, A Change of Mind, A Change of Practice

Led by Christa Livermon, Room B209
During this session, I will share my journey through the Culturally Responsive Teaching Certification process. I will share with participants how letting my students guide the journey in the K - 2 setting enabled me to grow as an educator. I will discuss how I took time to truly know my students and the impact it has had on my practice as an educator. I will share how my deepening understanding of being a culturally responsive educator has changed my perspective.

Designing Digital Escape Rooms with Breakout EDU

Led by Charli Nolan and Jessica James, Room R210
Participants will learn how to design digital escape rooms using Breakout EDU, Google Forms & Google Sites as well as designing breakout lessons with Breakout EDU lockboxes. Escape rooms are great for student engagement, critical thinking, and building teamwork skills!

Elementary Art and Science Integration Ready to Use Lessons

Led by Amanda Habbershon and Adam Reinhard, Room G204
We will share a variety of ready-to-use elementary science and art integration lessons that are fun, engaging for students, accessible to all, and easy for teachers to implement. Included in each lesson is a video where Adam Reinhard (an ACPS art teacher) leads a guided drawing that hits directly on science standards of learning and focuses closely on vocabulary for each unit. These lessons have been used by us for years, and are a HUGE hit with our students. You will leave the session with the resources you need to use these lessons immediately. We hope you will join us!

Increasing Student Empowerment Through Genius Hour in Upper Elementary Classrooms

Led by Katie Breaud, Room B107
Participants will learn how to increase student empowerment through the implementation of Genius Hour with upper elementary students (grades 3-5).

Integrating Grading Guidelines with Power School

Led by Kellie Oxley, Room R101
In this session, we will discuss the purpose of the revision policy, when to implement it, and will provide step by step instruction on how to override grades; and duplicate assignments on retakes. We will engage in discussion about essential assessments and the pros/cons of either weighting or differentiating from other types of assessments.

Integrating Mindfulness in the Classroom: How To Do It

Led by Dingani Mthethwa, Room P201
Although the seminar is intended for elementary school teachers, all are welcome and can benefit from mindful classroom practices. The seminar guides educators in our work to create mindful learning environments that allow students to achieve their fullest potential. The facilitators will share practices they find useful in their classrooms. If you are an educator who has been thinking about implementing mindfulness but unsure where to start, join us. We will share practical tools on how you can take small steps to build your own practices with students in the classroom.

Learn on the Move!

Led by Kim Gentry and Tommy Landseadel, Chorus Room
LEARN ON THE MOVE! Interested in new, innovative ways to incorporate health content into PE? Come and learn exciting and engaging ways to help your students learn on the move! Let us help you shift your mindset as we introduce you to activities your students will love while learning content they will never forget!

Los Retos de Enseñar Lengua a los Hablantes de Herencia Hispanos y Aproximaciones Para Responder a sus Necesidades Individuales

Led by Antonio Diaz Toledo, Room B201
*This presentation is in Spanish.
This purpose of this session is to address some of the issues related to teaching Spanish to heritage students, and suggestions on how to better understand their needs. 

Promoting Additive Multilingualism for English Learners

Led by Dr. April Salerno and Dr. Chris Bacon Chang, Room G104
In this hands-on session, we'll consider ways to build on multilingual students' assets. The session will include workshopping ideas about case-study students. We'll build in flexibility so you can have workshopping time to plan assets-based instruction either for a fictitious student, or if you'd prefer, for a real student you teach. If you and a colleague who work with the same student would like to attend together, you can work as a pair to plan instructional supports for that particular student.

Reading Specialist Cohort Informational Session

Led by Debbie Collins, Craig Dommer and Megan Wood, Room G203
This session is for ACPS teachers who are interested in participating in a cohort to either receive a Reading Specialist Master's degree or an add-on certificate. We will discuss potential options and opportunities to partner together to support licensed staff in obtaining their Reading Specialist endorsement. Please attend this session if you are interested in participating in a Reading Specialist cohort in the near future.

Special Education: Culturally Responsive Teaching Across Content Areas and Roles

Led by Tegan Scroggs and Martha Layman, Room P106
These sessions highlight the ACPS Culturally Responsive Teaching credentialing process through the lens of specific roles ranging from special education, physical education, counseling, talent development, and instructional coaching. Find a session that aligns with your role and learn more about the process in your context.

Student Review Plans for Test Retakes

Led by Andrea Rowanhill, Room B203
I will share some review plans that I have created for high school physics students who want to retake a quiz or test. The review plans help students learn the content, address misconceptions, and prepare for test retakes. Teachers will have workshop time to develop their own review plans for their classes.

Teenage Learning and the Brain

Led by Jeff Prillaman, Room G109
The session will focus on cognitive, motivational, and social emotional factors that impact students abilities to learn. After a brief presentation, we will look at research and discuss ways to utilize and improve instruction in our classrooms.

Thinking About Instructional Coaching?

Led by Kim Gibson and Dama Schneider, Room B109
This session will be a panel discussion with current and former Lead Coaches and instructional coaches for those interested in exploring the possibility of becoming an instructional coach. There will be a brief informational session about the ACPS coaching model and then an opportunity to for participants to ask the panel questions.

Uncovering Superpowers - Helping Neurodiverse Students Excel in Your Classroom

Led by Chris Bullard and Acadia Nunes, Room B207
We will present from a lens of educators with neurodiversity's on our own experience, as well as best practice for working with neurodiverse students in your classrooms. The session will include discussion, small group activities, and Q&A

Using Music As a Tool to De-Stress, Improve Behavior and Increase Learning

Led by David Simms, Room P107
This workshop is geared towards both students AND staff to help reduce stress and anxiety within the classroom through the use of music. For over 15 years, I've run this session in multiple forms in various settings that apply decades of research to common sense approaches with a trio of goals: reduce stress, improve behavior, and increase learning. I utilize several techniques for the non-musically inclined which include discovering what music works for a specific setting (or person), hands-on activities, and roundtable-style discussion. The simplicity of playing the "right" music in classes, offices, etc., makes this an enjoyable experience for most people who seek a change in themselves and their classes without having to add "one more thing" to their already overflowing plate. The sessions will be open-ended as I stay in touch with many faculty members to help manage their playlists, techniques, and feedback.

Using Translation and Interpretation Systems: Policies and Best Practices

Led by Lauren MacLean, Room R107
Curious how to communicate with your Pashto speaking families or want to know why Julio's sister can't tell you what his mom is saying over the phone? In this session participants will learn about the legal policies surrounding interpretation and translation in schools in the United States, the use of Interpretalk and other ACPS systems for compliant family communication, and engage in practice using Interpretalk and requesting in-person interpreters or translation.

What's New in Illuminate

Led by Beth Brown, Room R204
TEI and New Item Banks, find out what you may have missed in Illuminate in the past year.

6th Grade ELA: Birds of a Feather

Led by Kim Gibson, Room P204
6th grade ELA teachers will bring samples of student learning activities and discuss with colleagues how to score and record evidence of student learning in alignment with reporting standards.

A Beginner's Guide to Flocabulary

Led by Antrone Wells, Room G204
We will demonstrate how the site is organized, describe the function of each of the features, and highlight a range of subject and grade level content that students will be able to access. By the end of this session, you’ll know: What is Flocabulary?; The Lesson Sequence; Flocabulary in Action; Implementing Flocabulary; and Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Invitational Learning Environment with Flocabulary.

Amazing Inventions with Simple Machines

Led by Claire Neill and Alexis Blitz, Room B209
Are you a 3rd grade teacher? Would you like to do more hands-on science lessons? Are you looking for ideas about how to implement the Simple Machines Alternative Assessment task? If you answer "yes" to any of these questions, come find out more about hands-on exploration of simple machines.

Behavior Management in a Technology Rich Environment

Led by Anna Bayless, Room B203
This session includes an examination of best practices, logical consequences, and instructional procedures which keep students focused and innovative while using their technology to demonstrate their learning.

Breaking the Language Barrier Using Technology

Led by Devon Stevens, Bryan Pahl, and Eric Wunderston Room B203
During the session, presenters will explain and model different technology tools that allow communication between multiple languages. These readily-available resources are able to provide translation of the oral and written word. Some of the highlighted tools will be PowerPoint Live Translate, Microsoft Translator, Google Translate for Docs and Slides, and Snap & Read translation feature.

Building Conceptual Understanding with Desmos Activities

Led by Sarah Gooch and Lauren Houck, Room P101
Learn how to engage students in building conceptual understanding in the mathematics classroom through the use of Desmos activities. Participants will be given an overview of the features of the activity builder and suggestions for implementing activities using the teacher dashboard. This session is designed for participants who are new to the Desmos platform.

The Center for Learning and Growth

Led by Kevin Kirst, Lori Mack, Susan Mortell, and Beth Whitehouse; Room B108
Participants will discover the purpose, process and experience of students and families served by the staff at the Center for Learning and Growth

Classroom Strategies for Introducing Inquiry Design Model

Led by Dingani Mthewthwa, Room P201
It is one thing to understand what the Inquiry Design Model (IDM) is and how this technique is associated with increased rigor in the classroom. However, more importantly, it is critical to understand how an instructor can introduce IDM to students so that students see the relevance of and increase their engagement with the approach. The way in which an instructor can increase engagement with their students in IDM is through active, as opposed to passive, use of this powerful pedagogical approach. For example, how do you lead students to see the relevance of engaging with and learning through IDM, simply speaking, “how do you hook them in?” In this seminar, we will look at some techniques, strategies and examples designed to help teachers introduce and implement inquiry design models in their classroom, in incremental steps. The seminar will employ a series of activities with strong connections to curriculum and standards to illuminate aspects of inquiry, while aligning inquiry design to be contemporary, meaningful and culturally relevant to learners of today.

Creating Harmony in the Classroom: Responsive Classroom, Arts Integration and Culturally Responsive Teaching

Led by Molly Foster, Lisa King and Stephanie Provines, Room B102
We will be sharing evidence-based practices to create a safe, engaging and joyful classroom and school community through the arts. Emphasizing what you already may be doing-blending best practices of Responsive Classroom, Culturally Responsive Teaching and Arts Integration.

Expanding the Diversity of Literature in Your Classroom, Library and School

Led by Erica Thompson, Room G107
In this session we will discuss: ways to audit book rooms, classroom libraries and syllabi; the importance of including contemporary and diverse texts; where to find diverse texts; and how to pilot a book and potentially have it added to the list of titles that are approved by the School Board.

Explore the World! Strengthen Your Teaching Through Travel!

Led by Renata Germino, Room B109
“I wish I had never gone traveling,” said no one ever. Join us for an info session on Fulbright Teachers for Global Classroom fellowships! Walk away with a wealth of resources and international grant opportunities and learn about ways you can use ACPS PDRP funds to study languages abroad.

How to Design and Use a Single Point Rubric

Led by Kellie Oxley, Andy Ulrich and Lauren MacLean, Room R101
Discuss the use of Single Point Rubrics for assessing Standards. We will look at some samples, discuss how this can help us stay focused on the standard through assessment. Discuss working with students to teach them self assessment. Then break into groups to allow teachers to work with a standard and create a rubric to use with their classes.

How to Reduce the Number of Retakes Your Students Need

Led by Emily Anderson, Room G109
In this session, we will discuss how formative assessments can proactively reduce the need for students to engage in a revision/retake policy at the secondary level. We will look at best practices with regard to formative assessments, strategies to formatively assess students, and discuss the benefits of implementing a formative assessment structure in your classroom.

Illuminate 101

Led by Beth Brown, Room R204
Navigating Illuminate - what can it do? How can I find tests and student results? For the new teacher and anyone that wants to learn more about using Illuminate.

Incorporating IB Strategies in the Regular Ed Classroom

Led by Becca Hostetter, Room G108
This session will focus on how the IB program's instructional practices can be utilized in any classroom. In this session, we will give a brief overview of the IB program's philosophy regarding instructional designs and model and then share how these practices can be translated into any classroom setting. After attending this session, participants will have a better understanding of IB curriculum and instruction. Additionally, participants will be able to identify areas of transfer between and IB courses and traditional core classes so that they can incorporate IB strategies into their setting as well.

Layering Literacy into Math Workshop

Led by Danielle Paxton, Lucy Spencer and Kristi O'Brien, Room G203
This session is designed for teachers conducting or supporting math instruction in a K-5 setting. Language objectives and practice within mathematics instruction benefit all learners, so come learn more! Participants will leave with practical strategies and resources.

Learn on the Move!

Led by Kim Gentry and Tommy Landseadel, Chorus Room
LEARN ON THE MOVE! Interested in new, innovative ways to incorporate health content into PE? Come and learn exciting and engaging ways to help your students learn on the move! Let us help you shift your mindset as we introduce you to activities your students will love while learning content they will never forget!

Los Retos de Enseñar Lengua a los Hablantes de Herencia Hispanos y Aproximaciones Para Responder a Sus Necesidades Individuales

Led by Antonio Diaz Toledo, Room - B201
*This session will be led in Spanish.
Address some of the issues related to teaching Spanish to heritage students, and suggestions on how to better understand their needs.

Meshing Co-Teaching Partnership Personalities

Led by Tegan Scroggs and Andy Ulrich, Room P106
Co-teaching is at the core of what we do in education for higher needs learners. For that to happen effectively the coteachers need to be able to trust each other and work off each other for the benefit of students. In this workshop you will learn strategies that align with co-teaching models to better understand your co-teaching partner allowing for a better meshing of personalities and workflow for the betterment of students. Bring your laptop and an open mind.

Promoting Additive Multilingualism for English Learners

Led by Dr. April Salerno and Dr. Chris Chang-Bacon, Room G104
In this hands-on session, we'll consider ways to build on multilingual students' assets. The session will include workshopping ideas about case-study students. We'll build in flexibility so you can have workshopping time to plan assets-based instruction either for a fictitious student, or if you'd prefer, for a real student you teach. If you and a colleague who work with the same student would like to attend together, you can work as a pair to plan instructional supports for that particular student.

Schoology: Underutilized Features & Time Savers

Led by Kelsey Whelan and Alfred Toole, Room B107
Explore Schoology features like PowerSchool Gradebook Sync, Assessment Item Banks, Bulk Edit, LTI/App Integrations, the *new* Annotations Assignment feature and more to simplify your teaching and save time. The session will include sandbox time at the end so please bring your devices and Schoology questions.

Strategies ESOL Students Want and Need in the Secondary Classroom

Led by Paola Potts, Megan Panek and Julie Strong, Room P103
This session offers a student-centered approach that focuses on practical strategies educators can use to empower ESOL students to strive and thrive in the secondary classroom. The goal of the session is to provide teachers with a toolkit of concrete examples they can then adapt to the needs and interests of their own students across content areas. Session topics include connecting student culture and prior knowledge to content, frontloading vocabulary, using flexible grouping, differentiating support for assessments and projects, utilizing ESOL student feedback to make instructional decisions, and highlighting effective educational technology.

ST Math Puzzle Talks: Tips & Strategies

Led by Charli Nolan and Katie Breaud, Room R210
Teachers will learn tools and strategies to use for whole class and small group puzzle talks in ST Math. Additional support strategies for ST Math will also be includes such as making manipulative tool kits, and incorporating problem solving strategies.

Uncovering Superpowers - Helping Neurodiverse Students Excel in Your Classroom

Led by Chris Bullard and Acadia Nunes, Room B207
We will present from a lens of educators with neurodiversity's on our own experience, as well as best practice for working with neurodiverse students in your classrooms. The session will include discussion, small group activities, and Q&A.

Working Memory: Strategies to Making New Learning Stick

Led by Seth Kennard, Room R102
Cognitive Load Theory is emerging research about how the brain of a learner takes in new information. By applying this research, educators can plan instructional cycles that ensure new learning is delivered in a way that it will be remembered. This session will briefly review the research supporting this work, and then focus on readily applicable instructional strategies that support the transfer of knowledge from working memory (short-term) to long-term memory.

Arts in Application: Dance in Kindergarten Math

Led by Rachel Knudson from Wolftrap, Room P108
Get inspired by the natural connection between math and dance to ignite your imagination, as you create multisensory experiences for the kindergarten classroom. Participants will explore math and dance using movement, props, stories, and music that align with kindergarten math curriculum standards.

Atwell's Writing Workshop: A Mode of Organizing Writing Time in Your Space.

Led by John Worozbyt and Lori Linville, Room P204
This session will cover the greatest hits of Atwell's workshop model, with an emphasis on logistics of implementation and differentiation of feedback. It is tailored primarily towards newbies with workshopping. However, if you are a veteran, we would love to have your experience with successes and challenges. Attendees will have the opportunity to assess student writing and see conference modeling.

Birds of a Feather: High School Algebra I Follow Up

Led by Jay Thomas, Room B208
This session is session is a continued conversation with high school Algebra I teachers. This session will allow teachers to continue sharing strategies, ideas, and next steps previously discussed. 

Building Personal and Student Resiliency

Led by Sara Robinson, Room R103
School staff and students alike report high levels of stress, anxiety, and overwhelm due to the unique challenges they currently face. This session will better equip school staff to respond to their own needs, through self- and co-regulation strategies that actually work! We will also look at a few specific strategies to increase community and social bonding within classrooms and schools, in order to build resilience in students, families, and staff.

Collaborative Literacy + SIPPS through the Science of Reading Lens

Led by Marni Kay from Collaborative Classroom, Room R108
The Simple View of Reading and Scarborough’s Reading Rope are standard models associated with the Science of Reading. The models also provide relevant criteria for examining current and future literacy resources. This session will explore and connect the Science of Reading models to Collaborative Literacy and SIPPS.

Everyone Deserves to Be Challenged in the K - 2 Classroom!

Led by Dr. Dan Mulligan, Room G207
Dr. Mulligan shares his work with Project Zero's thinking routines to help teachers standards to life and strategically engage all students. Mulligan believes that “no one rises to low expectations--everyone can do it" and “the most effective use of rigor is to start with the rigor.” His fast-moving workshop provides teachers with practical tools and templates, correlated to thinking skills that encourage rigorous thinking skills. Teachers can immediately apply routines their classrooms to invite all students to learn.

How to Spark Engagement & Motivation in Urban and Culturally Diverse Classrooms

Led by Dr. Shaun Woodly, Forum
Each day in the classroom it is all about getting the students from where they are to where they need to be. This challenge can be more than meets the eye because culturally diverse students walk into our classrooms at all different levels. When it comes to teaching learners from diverse backgrounds, we understand there’s a disconnect somewhere - but how do we solve this issue? Dr. Woodly offers strategies educators can put in place to transform learning objectives that students perceive as mundane or boring, into genuinely interesting and engaging experiences by making learning culturally responsive and relevant. As a result of this program, educators will learn:

• how to spark engagement among different types of learners
• avoiding common mistakes made by teachers in urban/culturally diverse settings
• how to motivate students from different backgrounds and promote student success
• the secrets of educators that thrive in urban classrooms

Identifying and Responding to Racial Microaggressions in the Classroom

Led by Dr. Joseph Williams, Room P207
Microaggressions are daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental messages (whether intentional or unintentional) that communicate that a person's identity or social group (e.g., gender, age, race/ethnicity, class, religion, educational level, etc.) is less valued or perceived negatively. New research shows that students of Color and other marginalized student groups regularly experience microaggressions at school from friends, classmates, teachers, and staff. These everyday occurrences may appear relatively harmless or trivial on the surface, but research indicates they harm students' behavior and academic performance. This interactive workshop will help school personnel learn how to recognize and respond to microaggressions at school and in everyday situations.  After completing this interactive workshop, participants will be able to:

• Identify various forms of microaggressions.
• Understand the harmful impact of microaggressions on student outcomes.
• Respond to microaggression at school and in everyday situations.

Impact of Trauma on Youth – Understanding Trauma Responses and How to React in a Trauma Sensitive Way

Led by Betsy Bell, Room R208
This session will provide a look at the impact of traumatic experiences have on youth and resources for school personnel to provide trauma-sensitive care within Tiered Systems of Support. An overview of the history of ACEs will be discussed and real-world examples of common trauma responses and strategies for addressing them in schools will be explored. Participants will have a better understanding of trauma response behaviors as a means of communication and how to manage them in the classroom environment.

Implementing Investigations

Led by Kathy Graham from Savvas, Room R207
Focus will be on utilizing resources to fidelity, navigating the digital platform, and differentiating instruction to meet student needs toward success on the VA Math SOLs. Sessions will be "live" and interactive with the ability to ask questions and receive guidance from Savvas Curriculum Specialist, Kathy Graham.

Maximizing your ST Math Implementation with Puzzle Talks

Led by Melissa Galban from ST Math, Room R104
Educators will explore new features and resources, become familiar with textbook correlations in ST math, and discover how to extend learning with math discourse through teacher-guided problem solving and new engagement strategies.

Reimagining Lit Circles

Led by IdaMae Craddock, Library
This session will explore a way to have students engage in deep conversation around literature while overcoming the endemic inequities native to traditional lit circles. This is a time to think together about student choice, elements of literature, and genre in creative ways. This will be a great session for humanities teachers, elementary educators, and librarians.

Teaching Up: Instructional Strategies that Foster Critical and Creative Thinking for Elementary Students

Led by Dr. Catherine Brighton, Room G208
Instructional Strategies that Foster Critical and Creative Thinking - The philosophy of differentiated instruction includes “teaching up” and providing opportunities for all students to stretch. This session will introduce specific instructional strategies that can teach students to approach learning with critical and creative thinking goals in mind.

Using Equity Audits to Interrogate Your Data

Led by Leilani Keys, Room P202
Equity audits are used to examine data for paterns and allow us to uncover our problems of practice related to inequitable trend data and make an action plan to address it. In this session, we will audit a data set and create an action plan based on your findings. Please bring a data set you are interested in reviewing more closely, like test scores for a class. We encourage PLCs to come together to discuss common data.

Using Newsela in Your Classroom to Engage Learners

Led by Patrick Hurley from Newsela, Room P109
Newsela connects students to real-world problems and traditionally marginalized narratives to support the consideration and critique of ideas, issues, and injustices in their worlds and school community. In this session, participants will consider ways that instructional content is made more relevant and engaging by examining its context and reflection on these questions: How do I incorporate experiences of those who have and continue to be disenfranchised? How can I elevate my students' engagement and activism? Teachers will have time to work collaboratively to share ideas for implementation during this session.

Arts in Application: Dance in Kindergarten Math

Led by Rachel Knudson from Wolftrap, Room P108
Get inspired by the natural connection between math and dance to ignite your imagination, as you create multisensory experiences for the kindergarten classroom. Participants will explore math and dance using movement, props, stories, and music that align with kindergarten math curriculum standards.

Is This Lesson for ME or for You? – Building a Culturally Responsive Foundation to Help All Students Achieve Success

Led by Dr. Jahkari Taylor, Room B208
This thought-provoking presentation explores the latest research on culturally responsive education. It seeks to increase educators’ awareness of cultural competence, culturally responsive practices, and culturally responsive pedagogy. In this session, teachers will learn the what, the how, and the why of cultural responsiveness. Additionally, educators will receive tips and strategies to incorporate culturally responsive practices in science to meet diverse learners’ unique needs.

Birds of Feather: Making Meaning Grade Level Discussions

Led by Andrea Blount, Room B204
Come meet with other 3-5 grade teachers to discuss Making Meaning and its use in your classroom. Teachers will share their successes with the program as well as logistical information about how to fit it all in.

Designing and Implementing Reading Guides in the Middle School Classroom

Led by Jane Engel, Room G110
We will explore what reading guides are and what makes them effective for students' comprehension of non-fiction and fiction texts.  We will will have dedicated work time to create, revise, and share reading guides.

Everyone Deserves to Be Challenged in the 3-5 Classroom!

Led by Dr. Dan Mulligan, Room G207
Dr. Mulligan shares his work with Project Zero's thinking routines to help teachers standards to life and strategically engage all students. Mulligan believes that “no one rises to low expectations--everyone can do it" and “the most effective use of rigor is to start with the rigor.” His fast-moving workshop provides teachers with practical tools and templates, correlated to thinking skills that encourage rigorous thinking skills. Teachers can immediately apply routines their classrooms to invite all students to learn.

Facilitating Difficult Conversations in the Classroom (Recommend for High School Teachers)

Led by Dr. Joseph Williams, Room P207
Leading classroom discussions on difficult topics is a constant challenge for most teachers. Part of the challenge lies in the fact that you never fully know which issues will be "hot buttons" for students. Conversations can become heated very quickly when students bring up difficult topics or say things that offend others in the class, and before long, it can feel like the class is spiraling out of control. This interactive workshop seeks to help teachers feel more confident leading difficult dialogues by providing specific strategies and resources that teachers can use to create more productive conversations in their classrooms.  After completing this interactive workshop, participants will be able to:

• Define difficult conversations and safe spaces.
• Identify best practice strategies for managing hot moments in the classroom (before, during, and after).
• Describe possible applications in their classroom setting.

How to Spark Engagement & Motivation in Urban and Culturally Diverse Classrooms

Led by Dr. Shaun Woodly, Forum
Each day in the classroom it is all about getting the students from where they are to where they need to be. This challenge can be more than meets the eye because culturally diverse students walk into our classrooms at all different levels. When it comes to teaching learners from diverse backgrounds, we understand there’s a disconnect somewhere - but how do we solve this issue? Dr. Woodly offers strategies educators can put in place to transform learning objectives that students perceive as mundane or boring, into genuinely interesting and engaging experiences by making learning culturally responsive and relevant. As a result of this program, educators will learn:

• how to spark engagement among different types of learners
• avoiding common mistakes made by teachers in urban/culturally diverse settings
• how to motivate students from different backgrounds and promote student success
• the secrets of educators that thrive in urban classrooms

Implementing Investigations

Led by Kathy Graham from Savvas, Room R207
Focus will be on utilizing resources to fidelity, navigating the digital platform, and differentiating instruction to meet student needs toward success on the VA Math SOLs. Sessions will be "live" and interactive with the ability to ask questions and receive guidance from Savvas Curriculum Specialist, Kathy Graham.

Introduction to SIPPS

Led by Marni Kay from Collaborative Classroom, Room R108
Teachers of SIPPS will understand the design of the SIPPS program, learn about the unique aspects of the SIPPS levels, learn about, practice and prepare for giving the Placement Assessment and start to gain an understanding of the lesson structure and instructional routines.

Monitoring and Supporting Students in ST Math

Led by Melissa Galban from ST Math, Room R104
Educators will analyze and respond to their ST Math data and equip themselves with strategies to support students in ST Math. This workshop is divided into two parts: using program features to support students when they struggle and monitoring class and individual student data to create an action plan.

Propelling ELs Forward in CTE

Led by Lisa Killham, Room R110
Connect with an experienced ESOL teacher and coach to explore instructional strategies and scaffolds to increase access to and comprehension of vital CTE competencies and college and career readiness learning goals.

Responding to Student Behavior with Trauma Informed Practices

Led by Sarah Robinson, R103
Schools have become increasingly aware of and responsive to the trauma of ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences). In this session, we will add to our understanding in two ways: 1) looking beyond the original 10 ACES to other adverse events our specific youth experience, such as community violence, school threats, racism, discrimination, poverty, etc., to gain a wider perspective around the safety and connection needs of students; and 2) looking beneath behaviors to better understand how we might view difficult or challenging behaviors, respond with trauma-informed interventions or discipline, and increase opportunities for learning lagging skills. Specific strategies will be offered.

Suicide Prevention, Intervention, and Postvention for Educators

Led by Martha Montgomery and Betsy Bell, Room R208
In this workshop participants will learn how to recognize the risk factors and warning signs of suicide as well as how to help build protective factors and how to help those at risk recognize protective factors in their own lives. Participants will learn how to talk with youth at risk, and gain an understanding of suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention. There will be discussion of practical strategies to use with at-risk youth as well as ideas to use for strategic planning around suicide prevention in the community and school setting. The information and strategies presented align with the VDOE guidelines.

Supporting English Learners; Building Language Skills

Led by Patrick Hurley from Newsela, Room P109
During this sessions, participants will gain a deeper understanding of the language capacities of English Learners (ELs) through the explorations of the WIDA English Language Development Standards and resources. After considering the capacities of ELs, participants will map scaffolds and supports from Newsela to specific language capacities of students. In a collaborative space, participants will develop an instructional plan using a Newsela article and features to take them into the classroom.

Teaching Up: Instructional Strategies that Foster Critical and Creative Thinking for Secondary Students (Heavy Emphasis on ELA, History, and Social Sciences)

Led by Dr. Catherine Brighton; Room G208
Instructional Strategies that foster critical and creative thinking--the philosophy of differentiated instruction includes “teaching up” and providing opportunities for all students to stretch. This session will introduce specific instructional strategies that can teach students to approach learning with critical and creative thinking goals in mind.

Uncovering What Your Students Don't Know (Yet!): Formative Assessment in Algebra 1

Led by Dr. Kyle Schultz, Room B104
Session participants will discuss the challenges of assessing students' conceptual understandings of Algebra 1 topics. We will collaboratively examine and refine a set of open-ended assessment tasks aligned with the Algebra 1 Virginia Standards of Learning.

A Beginner's Guide to Flocabulary

Led by Antrone Wells, Room G204
We will demonstrate how the site is organized, describe the function of each of the features, and highlight a range of subject and grade level content that students will be able to access. By the end of this session, you’ll know: What is Flocabulary?; The Lesson Sequence; Flocabulary in Action; Implementing Flocabulary; Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Invitational Learning Environment with Flocabulary

An Introduction to Universal Design for Learning

Led by Sarah Gooch, Room P101
This session will provide an overview of the Universal Design for Learning Framework. Participants will reflect on the barriers within the design of learning experiences, as well as brainstorm strategies to overcome these barriers, in order to help all students succeed.

Building Our Learning Community Through Family Partnerships

Led by Brandy Garbaccio, Room RB108
A workshop to prepare to facilitate familial and community partnerships through a recorded conversation between the learner and their family members of choice. Inspired through Culturally Responsive Teaching Characteristic #3 Partnerships, this is a valuable process to better connect with your learning community.

Canva Creative Designs in the Classroom

Led by Bryan Paul, Devon Stevens, and John Mitchem, Room B203
Are you interested in having your students explore comic creation, video editing, graphic design, or website design? Canva can be your one-stop shop for all of these creative projects and more. Join our session to learn about this diverse and powerful tool to help take your creative projects to the next level!

Classkick

Led by Tabatha Myers, Room G203
Classkick has the capability of offering students digital interactive experiences, immediate feedback, a variety of learning demonstration options and personalized digital interaction. We have discovered all of these capabilities in the last few years and wish to share with others how it has been a true game changer as we've tried to bridge in person and digital learning in the wake of COVID-19. This session will be a blend of sharing its capabilities coupled with helping teachers explore as well.

Coaching Toward Culturally Responsive Teaching Credentialing

Led by Steven Turner, Room G110
Are you pursuing a Culturally Responsive Teaching Certificate or Micro-Credential? During this session, Equity Specialists and various school Diversity Resource teachers will be available to take questions and provide individual and small group coaching for individuals working toward credentialing.

Communication to Transform Classroom Culture

Led by Dr. Shaun Woodly, Room R209
The purpose of this professional learning opportunity is to develop a deeper understanding of participants’ communication style and how this impacts communication with and the behavior of those they serve. A critical element to effective educator communication is learning to read and adjust to the communication style of others. This will prepare participants to:

• Deeply understand the dynamics of their own style and how this relates to others
• Implement best practices on how to adapt one’s style to better communicate and influence others to create buy-in
• Appreciate the unique strengths of others and accept their limitations
• Develop skills to offer effective and influential student feedback
• Leverage knowledge of communication and behavior styles to build positive classroom culture

Comprehensible Vocabulary Instruction: TPRS for All Classes

Led by Lauren MacLean, Room R107
Interested in teaching vocabulary in an engaging and culturally sustaining way for students in grades K-12? Come and learn about Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS). Once exclusively used in world language classrooms, TPRS has expanded to be used in all classes to support vocabulary learning, particularly for struggling readers and multilingual learners. Teachers will learn how to ask a story using TPRS and be ready to use it in their classroom with vocabulary words by the end of the session!

Digging Into the Career Investigations At-Home Learning Kits

Led by Monica Cabarcas, Room R210
Come explore the hands-on learning kits aligned to the 6th grade exploratory course Career Investigations.The kits will provide early exposure to hands-on experiences aligned to pathways to engage students and supplement learning in the MS Career Investigations course and advisory lessons. Each middle school has received the kits which will be able to be checked out by students from the library as part of the Library of Things.

Expanding the Diversity of Literature in Your Classroom, Library and School

Led by Erica Thorsen, Room G107
In this session, we will discuss

• ways to audit book rooms, classroom libraries and syllabi
• the importance of including contemporary and diverse texts
• where to find diverse texts
• how to pilot a book and potentially have it added to the list of titles that are approved by the School Board

General Employee Benefits Information

Led by Claudine Cloutier, Room P204
This general benefits session will be offered in addition to the dedicated Open Enrollment Info session and will focus on benefits like retirement/retirement savings, disability coverage, life insurance and leave programs.

High School Seminar Tips & Best Practices

Led by Lynn Define, Lori Rocco, and Abby Sprague, Room R101
Join experienced HS seminar teachers and leaders to participate in a sample interactive seminar with developmental design practices. Leaders will share tips and engagement strategies that work with students across our high schools.

Open Enrollment Lab

Led by Christine Ponton, Room G103
Open lab for anyone that needs assistance using ADP to select their benefit for open enrollment. Participants may drop into this session at any time throughout morning. There is no formal presentation. We will just be providing support to access information. If you have questions about benefit options, you should attend the Open Enrollment/Benefits session. However, if you have smart phone, you may use it to participate in this session.

Power BI for Elementary School Administrators

Led by Sara Dusenberry, Room R102
The goals of the “Power BI for Elementary School Administrators” session are to ensure that every building administrator can access Power BI, navigate to workspaces, and can pull data and insights out of reports. We will go over the reports that are most relevant to elementary schools and I will show you how to get the most out of them.

This session is designed to be hands on, so please bring your laptop.

Professional Vulnerability: Welcoming Others to Accept Challenges

Led by Julia Weed, Room B201
This session will include an overview of my ACPS CRT journey and the role and impact of vulnerability in my professional life. We will discuss how vulnerability is needed to connect with students, families, and other staff to ensure that we are creating welcoming learning environments for all students.

Reading Specialist Cohort Informational Session

Led by Debbie Collins, Megan Wood and Craig Dommer, Room B209
This session is for ACPS teachers who are interested in participating in a cohort to either receive a Reading Specialist Master's degree or an add-on certificate. We will discuss potential options and opportunities to partner together to support licensed staff in obtaining their Reading Specialist endorsement. Please attend this session if you are interested in participating in a Reading Specialist cohort in the near future.

School Counseling: Culturally Responsive Teaching Across Content Areas and Roles

Led by Heather Lindsay, Room G109
This session highlights the ACPS Culturally Responsive Teaching credentialing process through the lens of the specific role of School Counseling. Join this panel of School Counselors from across all grade levels and learn more about the process in the context of the role of the School Counselor.

Scratch Coding in the Classroom

Led by Chris Shedd and Eric Wunderston, Room B207
Students can use Scratch to code their own interactive stories, animations, and games. In the process, they learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for everyone in today’s society. Come to our session to create using Scratch and to see examples of integrating Scratch across many different subject areas and age groups.

Strategies ESOL Students Want and Need in the Secondary Classroom

Led by Megan Panek, Paola Potts and Julie Strong, Room R109
This session offers a student-centered approach that focuses on practical strategies educators can use to empower ESOL students to strive and thrive in the secondary classroom. The goal of the session is to provide teachers with a toolkit of concrete examples they can then adapt to the needs and interests of their own students across content areas. Session topics include connecting student culture and prior knowledge to content, frontloading vocabulary, using flexible grouping, differentiating support for assessments and projects, utilizing ESOL student feedback to make instructional decisions, and highlighting effective educational technology.

Team Dynamics: Being Part of Multigenerational Team

Led by EAP, Room B102
Recognize generational differences of Seniors, baby boomers, gen Xers and Millennials, understand the strengths and challenges each generation brings to a team, create a personal development plan for working successfully with all.

Thinking about Instructional Coaching?

Led by Kim Gibson and Dama Schneider, Room B109
This session will be a panel discussion with current and former Lead Coaches and instructional coaches for those interested in exploring the possibility of becoming an instructional coach. There will be a brief informational session about the ACPS coaching model and then an opportunity to for participants to ask the panel questions.

Thrive: Empowering Students to OWN Their Academic Growth in your Upper Elementary Classroom

Led by Mary Morales, Room P201
Do you want your students to become independent learners? Do you want to empower them to examine their data, write academic goals for themselves, track their data and lead their own parent/student/teacher conferences? Then this session is for YOU!

What's New in Illuminate

Led by Beth Brown, Room B204
TEI and New Item Banks, find out what you may have missed in Illuminate in the past year.

Working Memory: Strategies to Making New Learning Stick

Led by Seth Kennard, Room B101
Cognitive Load Theory is emerging research about how the brain of a learner takes in new information. By applying this research, educators can plan instructional cycles that ensure new learning is delivered in a way that it will be remembered. This session will briefly review the research supporting this work, and then focus on readily applicable instructional strategies that support the transfer of knowledge from working memory (short-term) to long-term memory.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Tools for All Learners

Led by Charli Nolan and Alfred Toole, Room B107
Learners will become familiar with Snap & Read, Co:Writer and ReadWrite, three of the valuable UDL resources available to all ACPS teachers (all three) and students (Snap & Read and Co:Writer). Going beyond just the basics, we will discuss situations where each tool would be a valuable addition to instruction and increase access for students.

A Tour of PowerSchool for Administrators

Led by Corey Hunt, Room B101
This guided tour of PowerSchool, will be a combination of instructor led activities, along with opportunities for individual questions and answers. Participants should be prepared to ask a question that will assist them in their day to day routines in PowerSchool.

We will plan to cover the following topics in its basic form for the first half of the session.

• Quick Export/ Student List
• Contacts Searches
• Quick Tips/Tricks for Searches
• Attendance Reporting
• Transportation Reports/Information
• Incident Reports and Data Entry
• “Where is that?”
• PowerSchool Reports and Field Names

To make this session successful, participants should jot down some notes prior to attending, in regards to some of their daily operations. Within the session, we will work together to see if there are more efficient ways to complete your tasks.

Build Your Own Desmos Activity

Led by Sarah Good and Lauren Houck, Room P101
In this workshop, participants will be given tips for creating and editing Desmos activities, as well as a brief look at the Computation Layer. Participants will be given time to work on building their own Desmos activity, with support from the facilitators.

Communication to Transform Classroom Culture

Led by Dr. Shaun Woodly, Room R209
The purpose of this professional learning opportunity is to develop a deeper understanding of participants’ communication style and how this impacts communication with and the behavior of those they serve. A critical element to effective educator communication is learning to read and adjust to the communication style of others. This will prepare participants to:

• Deeply understand the dynamics of their own style and how this relates to others
• Implement best practices on how to adapt one’s style to better communicate and influence others to create buy-in
• Appreciate the unique strengths of others and accept their limitations
• Develop skills to offer effective and influential student feedback
• Leverage knowledge of communication and behavior styles to build positive classroom culture

Courageous Conversations about Race

Led by Ayanna Mitchell and Eric Irizarry, Room G204
Albemarle County Public Schools is working to establish and sustain an equitable community that achieves the School Division’s equity mission to end the predictive value of race and ensure each individual student’s and staff’s success. The Courageous Conversations Protocol is one tool we rolled out to help our faculty and staff understand how to engage in difficult conversations. Join members of our Anti-Racism Committee to participate in the introduction and purpose of Glenn Singleton's protocol, which will include understanding the four conditions, compass and six conditions of having a courageous conversation.

Culturally Responsive Teaching Final Product- A Change of Heart, A Change of Mind, A Change of Practice

Led by Christa Livermon, Room B209
During this session, I will share my journey through the Culturally Responsive Teaching Certification process. I will share with participants how letting my students guide the journey in the K - 2 setting enabled me to grow as an educator. I will discuss how I took time to truly know my students and the impact it has had on my practice as an educator. I will share how my deepening understanding of being a culturally responsive educator has changed my perspective.

Cybersecurity Boot Camp

Led by Michael Gonyar, Room R107
Learn how to keep yourself, your students, and your colleagues safe in this intro session to cybersecurity. We will teach you how to be a human firewall, how to spot phishing messages, and general tips for staying safe online. The skills learned in this session will pay dividends in your work and personal life moving forward!

Designing Presentations to Keep Students Engaged

Led by Lauren Hunt, Room B207
Learn about the basics that make a good presentation and how to design slideshows that will keep students engaged during class. We'll also discuss some available tools to help create visually interesting but not overwhelming presentations for class.

General Employee Benefits Information

Led by Claudine Cloutier, Room P204
This general benefits session will be offered in addition to the dedicated Open Enrollment Info session and will focus on benefits like retirement/retirement savings, disability coverage, life insurance and leave programs.

How to Design and Use a Single Point Rubric

Led by Kellie Oxley, Andy Ulrich and Lauren MacLean, Room R101
Discuss the use of Single Point Rubrics for assessing Standards. We will look at some samples, discuss how this can help us stay focused on the standard through assessment. Discuss working with students to teach them self assessment. Then break into groups to allow teachers to work with a standard and create a rubric to use with their classes.

Illuminate - Personalized Review Assignments

Led by Beth Brown, Room R204
With Illuminate’s Personalized Review Assignments (PRA), assessment authors can specify review and challenge activities for each learning standard in the final stage of assessment setup. As students complete the assessment, they are automatically given a personalized set of activities tailored to their pattern of assessment results across standards. This session will help teachers create PRA to use with Illuminate assessments.

Integrating Mindfulness in the Classroom: How To Do It

Led by  Dingani Mthethwa, Room P201
Although the seminar is intended for elementary school teachers, all are welcome and can benefit from mindful classroom practices. The seminar guides educators in our work to create mindful learning environments that allow students to achieve their fullest potential. The facilitators will share practices they find useful in their classrooms. If you are an educator who has been thinking about implementing mindfulness but unsure where to start, join us. We will share practical tools on how you can take small steps to build your own practices with students in the classroom.

Introduction to EdInsight

Led by John Mitchem, Room B107
In this session we will look at using EdInsight to support the SBIT process. We will also talk about how EdInsight can be leveraged to track students’ response to interventions based upon the multi-tiered systems of support used in our buildings.

Open Enrollment Lab

Led by Christine Ponton, Room G103
Open lab for anyone that needs assistance using ADP to select their benefit for open enrollment. Participants may drop into this session at any time throughout morning. There is no formal presentation. We will just be providing support to access information. If you have questions about benefit options, you should attend the Open Enrollment/Benefits session. However, if you have smart phone, you may use it to participate in this session.

Power BI for Middle School Administrators

Led by Sara Dusenberry, Room R102
The goals of the “Power BI for Middle School Administrators” session are to ensure that every building administrator can access Power BI, navigate to workspaces, and can pull data and insights out of reports. We will go over the reports that are most relevant to middle schools and I will show you how to get the most out of them.

This session is designed to be hands on, so please bring your laptop.

Puppets to Partnerships: Leveraging Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices to Support English Learners

Led by Hannah Handrich, Chorus Room
In this presentation, we will share and discuss the implementation of culturally responsive instructional practices that support language development across all four domains in emergent bilingual and multilingual students. We will explore ways to incorporate music, puppets and high engagement games for instruction, oral language and academic vocabulary development and assessment. How can we gamify assessment? What practices can we put in place in order to enhance the culturally responsive partnerships between educators and their students and families? Participants will learn culturally responsive practices that promote engagement and oracy as well as ways to partner with families in order to accelerate academic achievement. Participants will have a chance to try out the strategies and discuss how they could apply them in their own context.

School Counseling: Culturally Responsive Teaching Across Content Areas and Roles

Led by Heather Lindsay, Room G109
This session highlights the ACPS Culturally Responsive Teaching credentialing process through the lens of the specific role of School Counseling. Join this panel of School Counselors from across all grade levels and learn more about the process in the context of the role of the School Counselor.

Special Education: Culturally Responsive Teaching Across Content Areas and Roles

Led by  Tegan Scroggs and Martha Layman, Room P106
These sessions highlight the ACPS Culturally Responsive Teaching credentialing process through the lens of specific roles ranging from special education, physical education, counseling, talent development, and instructional coaching. Find a session that aligns with your role and learn more about the process in your context.

ST Math Puzzle Talks: Tips & Strategies

Led by Charli Nolan and Katie Breaud, Room R210
Teachers will learn tools and strategies to use for whole class and small group puzzle talks in ST Math. Additional support strategies for ST Math will also be includes such as making manipulative tool kits, and incorporating problem solving strategies.

The Impact of Attitude on Work and Life

Led by Alphonso Spence from EAP, Room B102
This session will describe the power of your own mind, describe the relationship between attitude and success, identify ways to use your attitude in dealing with others.

Understanding your VRS Retirement Benefits

Led by Jenny Stearns, Room B203
The purpose of this session is to provide a high level understanding of VRS and County Retirement Benefits and familiarize staff with the plan levels, websites, plan necessities and additional retirement benefits. I will answer the following questions in the session:

• Am I a VRS Member and if so, which plan do I belong?
• How can I learn more about my retirement plan?
• What should every VRS Member do?
• In ADP, what do my VRS deductions mean and how can I check them?
• If I’m not a VRS Member, why and what does that mean for me?
• Do I need to submit a VERIP Application in November?
• When should I think about additional benefits such as Medicare or additional retirement savings plans

A Tour of PowerSchool for Administrators

Led by Corey Hunt, Room P110
This guided tour of PowerSchool, will be a combination of instructor led activities, along with opportunities for individual questions and answers. Participants should be prepared to ask a question that will assist them in their day to day routines in PowerSchool. We will plan to cover the following topics in its basic form for the first half of the session:

• Quick Export/ Student List
• Contacts Searches
• Quick Tips/Tricks for Searches
• Attendance Reporting
• Transportation Reports/Information
• Incident Reports and Data Entry
• “Where is that?”
• PowerSchool Reports and Field Names

To make this session successful, participants should jot down some notes prior to attending, in regards to some of their daily operations. Within the session, we will work together to see if there are more efficient ways to complete your tasks.

Amazing Inventions with Simple Machines

Led by Claire Neill and Alexis Blitz, Room B209
Are you a 3rd grade teacher? Would you like to do more hands-on science lessons? Are you looking for ideas about how to implement the Simple Machines Alternative Assessment task? If you answer "yes" to any of these questions, come find out more about hands-on exploration of simple machines.

Birds of a Feather: Elementary Art Teachers

Led by Molly Foster, Room B104
This is session is designed for elementary art teachers to come together to collaborate, reflect, and engage in discussions to support best practices.

Classroom Strategies for Introducing Inquiry Design Model

Led by  Dingani Mthethwa, Room P201
It is one thing to understand what the Inquiry Design Model (IDM) is and how this technique is associated with increased rigor in the classroom. However, more importantly, it is critical to understand how an instructor can introduce IDM to students so that students see the relevance of and increase their engagement with the approach. The way in which an instructor can increase engagement with their students in IDM is through active, as opposed to passive, use of this powerful pedagogical approach. For example, how do you lead students to see the relevance of engaging with and learning through IDM, simply speaking, “how do you hook them in?” In this seminar, we will look at some techniques, strategies and examples designed to help teachers introduce and implement inquiry design models in their classroom, in incremental steps. The seminar will employ a series of activities with strong connections to curriculum and standards to illuminate aspects of inquiry, while aligning inquiry design to be contemporary, meaningful and culturally relevant to learners of today.

Courageous Conversations About Race

Led by Ayanna Mitchell and Eric Irizarry, Room G204
Albemarle County Public Schools is working to establish and sustain an equitable community that achieves the School Division’s equity mission to end the predictive value of race and ensure each individual student’s and staff’s success. The Courageous Conversations Protocol is one tool we rolled out to help our faculty and staff understand how to engage in difficult conversations. Join members of our Anti-Racism Committee to participate in the introduction and purpose of Glenn Singleton's protocol, which will include understanding the four conditions, compass and six conditions of having a courageous conversation.

Cybersecurity Boot Camp

Led by Michael Gonyar, Room P101
Learn how to keep yourself, your students, and your colleagues safe in this intro session to cybersecurity. We will teach you how to be a human firewall, how to spot phishing messages, and general tips for staying safe online. The skills learned in this session will pay dividends in your work and personal life moving forward!

Designing Presentations to Keep Students Engaged

Led by Lauren Hunt, Room B207
Learn about the basics that make a good presentation and how to design slideshows that will keep students engaged during class. We'll also discuss some available tools to help create visually interesting but not overwhelming presentations for class.

General Employee Benefits Information

Led by Claudine Cloutier, Room P204
This general benefits session will be offered in addition to the dedicated Open Enrollment Info session and will focus on benefits like retirement/retirement savings, disability coverage, life insurance and leave programs.

How to Reduce the Number of Retakes Your Students Need

Led by Emily Anderson, Room G109
In this session, we will discuss how formative assessments can proactively reduce the need for students to engage in a revision/retake policy at the secondary level. We will look at best practices with regard to formative assessments, strategies to formatively assess students, and discuss the benefits of implementing a formative assessment structure in your classroom.

The ISAEP Program (at CATEC)

Led by Jennifer Middlesworth and BJ Thomas; Room B110
Participants will know the purpose, process and admission requirements for students participation in the Individual Student Alternate Educational Plan (ISAEP) that includes preparation to graduate with a GED. Additionally, the services offered, context and focus will also be shared. There will be time for questions and answers.

Incorporating IB Strategies in the Regular Ed Classroom

Led by Becca Hostetter, Room B102
This session will focus on how the IB program's instructional practices can be utilized in any classroom. In this session, we will give a brief overview of the IB program's philosophy regarding instructional designs and model and then share how these practices can be translated into any classroom setting. After attending this session, participants will have a better understanding of IB curriculum and instruction. Additionally, participants will be able to identify areas of transfer between and IB courses and traditional core classes so that they can incorporate IB strategies into their setting as well.

Increasing Student Empowerment Through Genius Hour in Upper Elementary Classrooms

Led by Katie Breaud, Room G203
Participants will learn how to increase student empowerment through the implementation of Genius Hour with upper elementary students (grades 3-5).

Integrating Grading Guidelines with Power School

Led by Kellie Oxley, Room R101
In this session, we will discuss the purpose of the revision policy, when to implement it, and will provide step by step instruction on how to override grades; and duplicate assignments on retakes. We will engage in discussion about essential assessments and the pros/cons of either weighting or differentiating from other types of assessments.

Introduction to EdInsight

Led by John Mitchem, Room B107
In this session we will look at using EdInsight to support the SBIT process. We will also talk about how EdInsight can be leveraged to track students’ response to interventions based upon the multi-tiered systems of support used in our buildings.

Leveraging Reading Plus to Support Middle School Reading Intervention

Led by Monica Cabarcas and LaNell Rakness; Room P109
This session will look at how Reading Plus supports the Science of Reading and how to implement Reading Plus to fidelity in your classroom. We will discuss the reporting features of the program and how to set goals with students and conference individually with students to work towards increased fluency and competency.  Attendees should have students currently enrolled in Reading Plus and will need to be able to log into the program for this session. 

Open Enrollment Lab

Led by Christine Ponton, Room G103
Open lab for anyone that needs assistance using ADP to select their benefit for open enrollment. Participants may drop into this session at any time throughout morning. There is no formal presentation. We will just be providing support to access information. If you have questions about benefit options, you should attend the Open Enrollment/Benefits session. However, if you have smart phone, you may use it to participate in this session.

Power BI for High School Administrators

Led by Sara Dusenberry, Room R102
The goals of the “Power BI for High School Administrators” session are to ensure that every building administrator can access Power BI, navigate to workspaces, and can pull data and insights out of reports. We will go over the reports that are most relevant to high schools and I will show you how to get the most out of them.

This session is designed to be hands on, so please bring your laptop.

Puppets to Partnerships: Leveraging Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices to Support English Learners

Led by Hannah Handrich, Chorus Room
In this presentation, we will share and discuss the implementation of culturally responsive instructional practices that support language development across all four domains in emergent bilingual and multilingual students. We will explore ways to incorporate music, puppets and high engagement games for instruction, oral language and academic vocabulary development and assessment. How can we gamify assessment? What practices can we put in place in order to enhance the culturally responsive partnerships between educators and their students and families? Participants will learn culturally responsive practices that promote engagement and oracy as well as ways to partner with families in order to accelerate academic achievement. Participants will have a chance to try out the strategies and discuss how they could apply them in their own context.

Reports in Illuminate - Viewing Information After Administering the Assessment

Led by Beth Brown, Room R204
Now that the assessment has been administered, how can I see the student results? What other ways can I view the data? This session covers prebuilt reports in Illuminate that can be used to examine class data: how to filter results, create Question Groups and Performance Bands for enhanced data review, and view standards across multiple assessments. Attendees should have at least one Illuminate assessment administered to use during the session to view data.

Schoology: Underutilized Features & Time Savers

Led by Kelsey Whelan and Alfred Toole, Room B101
Explore Schoology features like PowerSchool Gradebook Sync, Assessment Item Banks, Bulk Edit, LTI/App Integrations, the *new* Annotations Assignment feature and more to simplify your teaching and save time. The session will include sandbox time at the end so please bring your devices and Schoology questions.

Student Review Plans for Test Retakes

Led by Andrea Rowanhill, Room R210
I will share some review plans that I have created for high school physics students who want to retake a quiz or test. The review plans help students learn the content, address misconceptions, and prepare for test retakes. Teachers will have workshop time to develop their own review plans for their classes.

Understanding your VRS Retirement Benefits

Led by Jenny Stearns, Room B203
The purpose of this session is to provide a high level understanding of VRS and County Retirement Benefits and familiarize staff with the plan levels, websites, plan necessities and additional retirement benefits. I will answer the following questions in the session:

• Am I a VRS Member and if so, which plan do I belong?
• How can I learn more about my retirement plan?
• What should every VRS Member do?
• In ADP, what do my VRS deductions mean and how can I check them?
• If I’m not a VRS Member, why and what does that mean for me?
• Do I need to submit a VERIP Application in November?
• When should I think about additional benefits such as Medicare or additional retirement savings plans?

Using Music As A Tool To De-Stress, Improve Behavior and Increase Learning

Led by David Simms, Room P107
This workshop is geared towards both students AND staff to help reduce stress and anxiety within the classroom through the use of music. For over 15 years, I've run this session in multiple forms in various settings that apply decades of research to common sense approaches with a trio of goals: reduce stress, improve behavior, and increase learning. I utilize several techniques for the non-musically inclined which include discovering what music works for a specific setting (or person), hands-on activities, and roundtable-style discussion. The simplicity of playing the "right" music in classes, offices, etc., makes this an enjoyable experience for most people who seek a change in themselves and their classes without having to add "one more thing" to their already overflowing plate.

The sessions will be open-ended as I stay in touch with many faculty members to help manage their playlists, techniques, and feedback.

Using Translation and Interpretation Systems: Policies and Best Practices

Led by Lauren MacLean, Room R107
Curious how to communicate with your Pashto speaking families or want to know why Julio's sister can't tell you what his mom is saying over the phone? In this session participants will learn about the legal policies surrounding interpretation and translation in schools in the United States, the use of Interpretalk and other ACPS systems for compliant family communication, and engage in practice using Interpretalk and requesting in-person interpreters or translation.

2nd Grade Furniture Feedback Proposal

Led by Sheila Hoopman, Room B108
In the summer of 2022, Building Services coordinated new furnishings to be installed in all second grade classrooms. The purpose of this workshop is to collect feedback and lessons learned from the 2nd grade teachers and to use this feedback to make decisions about the 3rd grade furniture order that will be placed in the spring of 2023. Teachers will also collaborate and discuss how to gather feedback from students who are using this furniture.

3D Printing Opportunities

Led by Jessa Campbell and Brian Squires, Room G108
We will be using TinkerCad to show educators how to code and 3D Print. We will provide teachers some resources to use with vertical projects connected to curriculum.

Artful Engineering: Exploring Simple Machines through Drama, Movement and Music

Led by Jeanne Wall from Wolftrap, Room P108
Through drama, puppetry, music and creative movement, explore how simple machines make our work easier by moving objects, lifting heavy loads, and building solutions to problems! We’ll combine arts strategies with engineering’s six steps; learning about wheel and axle, inclined plane and pulley, and to provide creative opportunities for learning in STEM and language and literacy.

Asking the Right Questions: Strategies for Supporting Math Students' Productive Struggle

Led by Dr. Kyle Schultz from Mary Washington University, Room B104
Mathematics teachers often struggle to support learners when they get "stuck" during work on a problem. In this session, participants will learn questioning strategies to use when working one-on-one with students and gain experience practicing these strategies with a teacher partner. **Upon signing up, participants for this session will be asked to work on a math problem in advance of the conference.**

Building Background Knowledge

Led by Taylor Stokes of Newsela, Room P109
The background knowledge a student brings to reading and learning has a significant impact on their engagement and comprehension. During this session, participants will explore scaffolding learning: with leveled texts that help students building understanding of a topic across multiple sources; using multiple texts to help students deepen their background knowledge; and, creating or customizing pre-existing texts sets for your students.

Building Personal and Student Resiliency

Led by Sara Robinson, Room R103
School staff and students alike report high levels of stress, anxiety, and overwhelm due to the unique challenges they currently face. This session will better equip school staff to respond to their own needs, through self- and co-regulation strategies that actually work! We will also look at a few specific strategies to increase community and social bonding within classrooms and schools, in order to build resilience in students, families, and staff.

Conflict is Normal. How Do We Do Conflict?

Led by Bob Garrity, Room B204
Conflict is a normal part of the human experience. Conflict occurs in our personal lives and in the workplace. Conflict can affect productivity, morale, and working relationships in negative and positive ways. Understanding and working with conflict is an important part of a successful organization.

This interactive workshop will engage participants in discussion, presentation, and practice of knowledge, skills, and methods for understanding, engaging, and responding to the daily experiences of communication, misunderstanding, emotion, disagreement, and conflict that may arise in the workplace. The content includes:

• Styles of conflict resolution
• Emotional intelligence
• Communication
• Listening and paraphrasing
• Naming common ground
• Identifying issues in a conflict
• Problem-solving

Everyone Deserves to Be Challenged in the 6-8 Classroom!

Led by Dr. Dan Mulligan, Room G207
Dr. Mulligan shares his work with Project Zero's thinking routines to help teachers standards to life and strategically engage all students. Mulligan believes that “no one rises to low expectations--everyone can do it" and “the most effective use of rigor is to start with the rigor.” His fast-moving workshop provides teachers with practical tools and templates, correlated to thinking skills that encourage rigorous thinking skills. Teachers can immediately apply routines their classrooms to invite all students to learn.

Identifying and Responding to Racial Microaggressions in the Classroom

Led by Dr. Joseph Williams from UVA, Room P207
Microaggressions are daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental messages (whether intentional or unintentional) that communicate that a person's identity or social group (e.g., gender, age, race/ethnicity, class, religion, educational level, etc.) is less valued or perceived negatively. New research shows that students of Color and other marginalized student groups regularly experience microaggressions at school from friends, classmates, teachers, and staff. These everyday occurrences may appear relatively harmless or trivial on the surface, but research indicates they harm students' behavior and academic performance. This interactive workshop will help school personnel learn how to recognize and respond to microaggressions at school and in everyday situations.

Learning Objectives: After completing this interactive workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Identify various forms of microaggressions.
2. Understand the harmful impact of microaggressions on student outcomes.
3. Respond to microaggression at school and in everyday situations.

Impact of Trauma on Youth – Understanding Trauma Responses and How to React in a Trauma Sensitive Way

Led by Betsy Bell, Room R208
This session will provide a look at the impact of traumatic experiences have on youth and resources for school personnel to provide trauma-sensitive care within Tiered Systems of Support. An overview of the history of ACEs will be discussed and real-world examples of common trauma responses and strategies for addressing them in schools will be explored. Participants will have a better understanding of trauma response behaviors as a means of communication and how to manage them in the classroom environment.

Implementing CMP3 in the Middle School

Led by Donna Bisgona from Savvas, Room G104
Focus will be on utilizing resources to fidelity, navigating the digital platform, and differentiating instruction to meet student needs toward success on the VA Math SOLs. Sessions will be "live" and interactive with the ability to ask questions and receive guidance from Savvas Curriculum Specialist, Donna Bisgona. Attendees will become familiar with CMP3 as a core Math resource for grades 6 & 7.

Monitoring and Supporting Students in ST Math

Led by Melissa Galban of ST Math, Room R104
Educators will analyze and respond to their ST Math data and equip themselves with strategies to support students in ST Math. This workshop is divided into two parts: using program features to support students when they struggle and monitoring class and individual student data to create an action plan.

Secondary ELA Birds of a Feather - Writing Focus

Led by Peter Arquette, Room P202
Work Session in with ELA (6 - 12) teachers gather to discuss instructional moves, vertical alignment, and share resources around Writing composition, grammar, and mechanics.

SIPPS Lesson Structure and Instructional Routines

Led by Marni Kay from Collaborative Classroom, Room R108
Teachers of SIPPS will understand the design of the SIPPS program, learn about the unique aspects of the SIPPS levels, learn about, practice and prepare for giving the Placement Assessment and start to gain an understanding of the lesson structure and instructional routines.

Teaching Up: Critical and Creative Thinking Micro Strategies for All Students

Led by Dr. Catherine Brighton from UVA, Room G208
Instructional Strategies that foster critical and creative thinking--the philosophy of differentiated instruction includes “teaching up” and providing opportunities for all students to stretch. This session will introduce specific low prep instructional strategies that can teach students to approach learning with critical and creative thinking goals in mind.

Is This Lesson For ME or For You? – Building a Culturally Responsive Foundation to Help All Students Achieve Success

Led by Dr. Jahkari Taylor, Room B210
This thought-provoking presentation explores the latest research on culturally responsive education. It seeks to increase educators’ awareness of cultural competence, culturally responsive practices, and culturally responsive pedagogy. In this session, teachers will learn the what, the how, and the why of cultural responsiveness. Additionally, educators will receive tips and strategies to incorporate culturally responsive practices in science to meet diverse learners’ unique needs.

Artful Engineering: Exploring Simple Machines through Drama, Movement and Music

Led by Jeanne Wall from Wolftrap, Room P108
Through drama, puppetry, music and creative movement, explore how simple machines make our work easier by moving objects, lifting heavy loads, and building solutions to problems! We’ll combine arts strategies with engineering’s six steps; learning about wheel and axle, inclined plane and pulley, and to provide creative opportunities for learning in STEM and language and literacy.

Conflict is Normal. How Do We Do Conflict?

Led by Bob Garrity, Room B204
Conflict is a normal part of the human experience. Conflict occurs in our personal lives and in the workplace. Conflict can affect productivity, morale, and working relationships in negative and positive ways. Understanding and working with conflict is an important part of a successful organization.

This interactive workshop will engage participants in discussion, presentation, and practice of knowledge, skills, and methods for understanding, engaging, and responding to the daily experiences of communication, misunderstanding, emotion, disagreement, and conflict that may arise in the workplace. The content includes:

• Styles of conflict resolution
• Emotional intelligence
• Communication
• Listening and paraphrasing
• Naming common ground
• Identifying issues in a conflict
• Problem-solving

Designing and Implementing Reading Guides in the Middle School Classroom

Led by Jane Engel, Room G110
We will explore what reading guides are and what makes them effective for students' comprehension of non-fiction and fiction texts. We will will have dedicated work time to create, revise, and share reading guides.

How to talk to K - 12 Students About Race and Racism

Dr. Joseph Williams from UVA, Room P207
Research shows that children are aware of race from a very young age. Adults play a critical role in shaping children's perceptions of race and culture. However, many adults are unsure how to talk with their kids about race and racism or provide age-appropriate answers to race questions. Other adults worry that they are not providing the "right" answers. As a result, adults sometimes avoid the topic, which may leave children feeling that race is taboo or too difficult to talk about. This workshop will provide adults with best practices for talking to children and adolescents (ages 2 -17) about race and racism. Learning Objectives: After completing this interactive workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Understand the benefits of talking to children and adolescents about race and racism.
2. Identify harmful racial discourse practices to avoid when talking to children and adolescents about race and racism.
3. Identify evidence-based strategies for talking to children and adolescents about race.

Implementing CMP3 in the Middle School

Led by Donna Bisgona from Savvas, Room G104
Focus will be on utilizing resources to fidelity, navigating the digital platform, and differentiating instruction to meet student needs toward success on the VA Math SOLs. Sessions will be "live" and interactive with the ability to ask questions and receive guidance from Savvas Curriculum Specialist, Donna Bisgona. Attendees will become familiar with CMP3 as a core Math resource for grades 6 & 7.

Maximizing Your ST Math Implementation with Puzzle Talks

Led by Melissa Galban from ST Math, Room R104
Educators will explore new features and resources, become familiar with textbook correlations in ST math, and discover how to extend learning with math discourse through teacher-guided problem solving and new engagement strategies.

Reimagining Lit Circles

Led by IdaMae Craddock, Library
This session will explore a way to have students engage in deep conversation around literature while overcoming the endemic inequities native to traditional lit circles. This is a time to think together about student choice, elements of literature, and genre in creative ways. This will be a great session for humanities teachers, elementary educators, and librarians.

Responding to Student Behavior with Trauma Informed Practices

Led by Sarah Robinson, R103
Schools have become increasingly aware of and responsive to the trauma of ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences). In this session, we will add to our understanding in two ways: 1) looking beyond the original 10 ACES to other adverse events our specific youth experience, such as community violence, school threats, racism, discrimination, poverty, etc., to gain a wider perspective around the safety and connection needs of students; and 2) looking beneath behaviors to better understand how we might view difficult or challenging behaviors, respond with trauma-informed interventions or discipline, and increase opportunities for learning lagging skills. Specific strategies will be offered.

SIPPS Instructional Decision Making Part 1: Mastery Tests/Progress Monitoring Assessments

Led by Marni Kay from Collaborative Classroom, Room R108
Teachers of SIPPS will reflect on administering and using the Mastery Test/Progress Monitoring Assessment data and understand how to use the Mastery Test/Progress Monitoring Assessment data to guide instructional decision-making.

Suicide Prevention, Intervention, and Postvention for Educators

Led by Martha Montgomery and Betsy Bell, Room R208
In this workshop participants will learn how to recognize the risk factors and warning signs of suicide as well as how to help build protective factors and how to help those at risk recognize protective factors in their own lives. Participants will learn how to talk with youth at risk, and gain an understanding of suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention. There will be discussion of practical strategies to use with at-risk youth as well as ideas to use for strategic planning around suicide prevention in the community and school setting. The information and strategies presented align with the VDOE guidelines.

Teaching Up: Critical and Creative Thinking Instructional Models

Led by Dr. Catherine Brighton, Room G208
Instructional Models that Foster Critical and Creative Thinking - The philosophy of differentiated instruction includes “teaching up” and providing opportunities for all students to stretch. This session will introduce specific instructional models that can support an approach learning with critical and creative thinking goals in mind.