2019 WRESA/NCASA Summer Leadership Luncheon Sponsor Information
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NCSTAR Regional training will take place April 4, 2019 from 8:30 -12:30 at the Asheville Event Center. This session is free.
Date: April 4, 2019
Time: 8:30 – 12:30
Location: 291 Sweeten Creek Road Asheville, NC 28803
Fee: No Charge
You have your school level data. You have teacher data. You have subject area data. So now what? This session, designed for school leaders, will offer strategies and solutions for analyzing, acting on, and applying EVAAS data across situations and strategic objectives. Focus will be given to report manipulation through Excel, specific trend analysis, and “game planning” on how to put the data “to work”.
Presenters:
Dr. John Bryant, Associate Superintendent, Henderson County Schools
Mr. Scott Rhodes, Chief Human Resources Officer, Henderson County Public Schools
Date: March 21, 2019 Rescheduled from Feb. 20 due to inclement weather
Time: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Location: WRESA 10C Yorkshire Street Asheville, NC 28803
Please contact Candie Sellers if you have any questions.
Date: May 8, 2019
Fee:$45
LOCATION: UNCA Mountain View Room Sherrill Center
One University Heights
Asheville, NC 28804
Come join us for a fun day of K-12 activities that will help you teach cross-curricular concepts for true integration of movement, literacy, and team building. This will be an interactive and dynamic experience that provides participants with actual games, activities and teaching strategies they can implement immediately into their physical education curriculum. Participants in this workshop will learn dozens and dozens of hands-on games and activities for teaching fitness, integrating literacy, all through team building challenges. This workshop will encompass new and exciting ways to incorporate new expectations where students are encouraged to think, move, read, write, and speak in every class every day. This session could allow participants to earn 0.5 CEUs in either content for PE or literacy category. The instructor will be Natalie Boone from Mars Hill College. For more information, contact April at aspencer@wresa.org
March 4- April 12
Fee: $ 35.00
Grades: 3-12
Online: In preparation for Rick Wormeli coming to Asheville on June 24, 2019, this online course will spark your thinking about grading and assessing. Follow us with a six-week online course starting March 4- April 12. This course is an overview of some of Rick Wormeli’s research and ideas about assessment and grading in the classroom. Some of the topics will include: How to count homework, using zero in grading, averaging grades, what to do with redoes and retakes and how to give better feedback. You will be reading articles and viewing videos and responding in writing to others in the course. You will also be asked to think about how this could look in your classroom and share your experiences and accomplishments. This course will be based on concepts from Mr. Wormeli’s book: Fair Isn’t Always Equal. There is no need to purchase the book. This is worth 1 CEU. If you have any questions, please contact April Spencer at aspencer@wresa.org or LaDonna Sluder at lsluder@wresa.org.
Grades: K-6
Date: February 5- April 5, 2019
Registration Fee: $45 (Participants will need to purchase the book)
Online book study for Amplify: Digital Teaching and Learning in the K-6 Classroom. Written by: Katie Muhtaris and Krisnten Ziemke.
This book will introduce you to technological tools and the power of using the tools in your classroom. You will discover how to help students become effective digital readers and thinkers. This book will serve as a great resource for showing students what they can do in the ever-changing digital world.
Participants will complete the book and respond to questions after each chapter. The final step will be to develop a digital lesson integrating the NC Digital Competences for Educator and sharing the plan with the other participants. This online study could count towards your DLC and provides 20 contact hours.
If you have questions, contact Candie Sellers at csellers@wresa.org
GRADES: K-12
April 3, 2019
Fee: $50
LOCATION: WRESA
How do you make learning more fun? Come spend the day with the 4Cs: Critical thinking, Creativity Collaboration and Communication and break out of the ordinary. Teams work on curriculum specific problems to solve a series of challenging puzzles while collecting the combinations of physical locks to reach their reward. We will experience BreakoutEDU hands on and virtually as well as giving you time to explore what works best in your classroom. We will share tips on how to facilitate and some of you will go home with a Breakout EDU kit. This workshop could fulfill the DLC credits Limited to 22 participants. Your breakout hosts will be Candie Sellers, Carol Douglas and April Spencer. For more information, contact April at aspencer@wresa.org
Grade: 6th
March 25, 2019
9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Fee: $45
Location: WCU Biltmore Park
Sixth grades is one of many transitions – join us for this deep dive into two of the mathematical transitions we ask students to make. The 6th grade NCSCOS calls for the capstone of 3-5 fraction work coupled with the formal introduction to the left side of the number line. In this workshop we will present engaging and connected task and lesson structures concentrated on these two big ideas of 6th grade and include grade level focus time in a small group setting with one of the presenters. All materials used will be from open sources making for immediate implementation of task, strategies and learning! Stefanie Buckner and Leigha Jordan will be your session presenters. For more information, contact April at aspencer@wresa.org
Grades: K-2
Date: March 18, 2019.
Location: WCU Biltmore Park
Registration Fee: $95.
In Lisa Cleaveland’s classroom, writing workshop is a time every day when her students make books. This session will help you guide bookmaking in our classroom. Since there are no developmental prerequisites for book making, writing workshop can begin on the first day of school. Using both video and photographs showing the first days of writing workshop in a kindergarten classroom, this session will highlight the key instructional decisions made in launching into the work of writing workshop on the first day of school. Participants will learn how: time, paper, tools, space, authors and illustrators, an image of bookmaking and trusting children’s writing process matters. We will look deep into an illustration study and see how children’s books, picture books, anchor charts and mentors will support your teaching. Lisa will bring anchor charts, books made by children, books used for teaching writing workshop and other classroom tools to help teachers see how their writing workshop can run smoothly. If you have questions, contact Candie Sellers, Elementary Coordinator at csellers@wresa.org
