Author: Webster

Deep Dive into Digital Learning

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Grades: K-12

March 13, 2019

Fee: $45

Location: WCU Biltmore Park

 

Learn how to create and get the most out of your participation in learning communities, effective ways to share your learning with colleagues, and how to use elements of design thinking. Increase your understanding of digital citizenship by using technology to connect with other cultures and ensuring equitable access to technology tools for all learners.

Focus on selecting and using appropriate digital tools and resources to create enriched learning experiences, amplify student voice, improve and provide opportunities for communication, critical thinking, collaboration and creativity and ideas for rethinking classroom spaces to create areas conducive to a digital learning environment.

And lastly, use digital tools to leverage the power of technology to inform instruction. Learn how to use a variety of tech-tools to personalize learning, create flexible, dynamic groups and meet the needs of all learners. Your instructor will be Stacy Lovdahl, our Educator On Loan. This workshop could count towards your DLC and is .5 CEUs.  For more information, contact aspencer@wresa.org

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The Task at Hand: Navigating New NC Mathematics Standards with High Cognitive Demand Tasks

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Date: February 25, 2019

Grades: K-5.

Registration Fee- $45

Location: WCU Biltmore Park

 

In NCTM’s 2014 publication, Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All, eight teaching practices that strengthen the teaching and learning of mathematics for all students are defined. Join us as we take action with two of these practices: Implementing tasks that promote reasoning and problem solving and building procedural fluency from conceptual understanding. We will learn what a good task is and how to implement tasks to impact learning opportunities. Then we will explore how procedural fluency follows conceptual understanding built from these cognitively demanding tasks. Presenters: Meg McKee, Buncombe County Schools Math Coach and Kristine Schmitt, Buncombe County Schools Math Coach.  If you have questions, contact Candie Sellers, Elementary Coordinator at csellers@wresa.org or 828.774.5681, ext.26. Contact Hours: 5

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As the World Turns, We Need Some Guiding Light

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Date: April 3, 2019 Rescheduled from Feb. 20 due to inclement weather

Registration Fee: $45.00

Grades: K-12

Location: WRESA 10C Yorkshire Street Lower Level  Asheville, NC 28803

 

In this interactive session, participants will explore digital citizenship in our fast-changing, technologically-connected world.  Educators will gain knowledge about Fair Use guidelines, how to evaluate the privacy and security of websites, and how to protect students and their data in a digital environment.  Resources and strategies for finding images, music, and video clips that may be used by teachers and students for a variety of projects will also be shared. In this ever-changing digital world, we all need some guiding light to help us navigate our paths with integrity. This session could allow participants to earn 0.5 CEUs in the Digital Learning Competencies category. Participants should bring earbuds and a device with Internet capability. Presenters will be Donna Hensley, High School Instructional Technology Facilitator, Kim Baker, Middle Grades Instructional Coach, and Tara Mauney, Elementary Instructional Technology Facilitator. For more information, contact April at aspencer@wresa.org

Contact LaDonna Sluder

at

828-774-5681 Ext. 18 to Register

Special Growth: What It takes To Grow Our “Special Learners”

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DATE: February 19, 2019

Times: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm

Registration Fee: $45.00

Grades: K-5

Location: WRESA 

This course is designed to look at strategies for EC teachers and to give helpful tools to reach fragile learners. The goal is to keep the motivation going and to enhance the perseverance with the students.  How do we do this?  This session will discuss flex planning, assessments, data, lesson plans and student involvement. We will also share heart felt stories that will define your why? This session will be led by Candie Sellers, WRESA Elementary Coordinator, LaDonna Sluder, WRESA Educational Coach, and Jesse Quigley, EC teacher. Please contact Candie Sellers, if you have questions at cselllers@wresa.org or 828.774.5681 ext.26. Contact Hours: 5

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Cultivating Conversation with Fragile Learners in 6 – 8 Mathematics through Routines

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Date: February 18 ,2019

REGISTRATION FEE: $45

GRADES: 6-8

LOCATION: WCU Biltmore Park

Fee: $45

How might we nurture a community of fragile learners with a growth mindset towards learning mathematics, where making thinking visible is safe, even when students make a mistake? How might we ensure that all students in our care – including students with disabilities – know they have a voice to contribute to the mathematical conversation in a meaningful way and are brave enough to use their voice? In this session, we will consider how norms and routines can jump start discussions that encourage students to take risks and contribute to effective discussions. The presenter is: Jennifer Wilson. Jennifer enjoys learning alongside the Illustrative Mathematics community as a professional learning facilitator and writer. Jennifer thinks a lot about how we might slow down and savor learning math through questions, connections, and collaboration, and so she blogs at Easing the Hurry Syndrome (www.easingthehurrysyndrome.wordpress.com) and The Slow Math Movement (www.slowmathmovement.wordpress.com) For more information, contact April at aspencer@wresa.org

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Designing Your Own STEM Curriculum: PBL/CBLS in Action

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February 4, 2019 to February 7, 2019
Located at 276 NCCAT Drive, Cullowhee, NC 28723
Cost: Free if selected

Register at www.nccat.org
STEM implementation can begin with a teacher leading a 30-minute STEM activity and progress to a student PBL investigation that may take weeks to accomplish. Navigating this implementation can be a challenge. This program is for teachers ready to design their own STEM curriculum. Teachers will explore common misconceptions and examine four common frameworks of STEM lessons (Problem Based Learning, Project Based Learning, Place Based Learning and Case Based Learning). Not only will you participate in examples of student led PBLs, but also create your own PBL/CBL(s) for your specific content areas. Coaching and collaborative planning ensure that some of the potential roadblocks of implementation can be addressed before you leave.

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Mathematics, Opportunity, and Instruction: What All Educators Need to Know

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Dates: January 31 and  February 1, 2019

Time: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm

Fee: $85

Location:     Asheville Event Center

291 Sweeten Creek Road

Asheville, NC 28803

GRADES: K-12 Administrators, Regular Ed and Special Ed teachers.

 

This workshop will explore our cultural understandings of mathematics and its consequences. We will consider mathematics in a way that changes our presumptions about instruction, student goals, and grouping practices. From math talk to subitizing to the pythagorean theorem our time spent will help participants make sense of the current trends and mandates surrounding efforts to improve. Our work together will impact administrators’ understanding of ‘look fors’, general educators’ sense of priority with mathematics instruction, and special educators’ ability to impact student improvement and write appropriate goals. Valerie Faulkner is a Teaching Associate Professor at NC State. A dynamic speaker, her 2012 TEDxNCSU lecture “Teaching Math to the Analog Brain in the Digital World” was chosen as a lecture of the month by TED. She is co-author and State Level trainer of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Foundations of Mathematics and is the co-author of two textbooks designed to support high school students who have not yet been placed in Algebra. For more information, contact April at aspencer@wresa.org

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Exploring Life Science Using the Engineering Design Cycle

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January 7, 2019 to January 10, 2019
Located at 276 NCCAT Drive, Cullowhee, NC 28723
Cost: Free if selected
Register at www.nccat.org
It’s easy to see how engineering applies to robots, but how does it apply to the life sciences? Use the engineering design cycle to study ecology, molecular biology, genetics, and other life sciences. Build aquatic traps, design solutions to civil rights issues, model cell processes, and get messy all while integrating literacy strategies! Investigate how to adapt these concepts for your classroom use. Geared toward the middle grades, the concepts can easily be scaled up or down to fit your classroom needs. Registration is through the NCCAT site.

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ACT and SAT Prep for Educators

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Would your students benefit from higher ACT or SAT scores?

You may be interested in developing a customized approach to ACT and SAT preparation programs for your staff and students focused on preparing your students for successful test practices. The program will be designed to create the optimal learning situation for your staff based upon your school schedule. Training can be offered onsite during school hours or after school hours.

Resources for follow-up use will be available as well as opportunities for students to participate if they desire.

For more information please contact:

Marty and Donna Talbert at martytalbert@yahoo.com

or WRESA at 828-774-5681 extension 18.

 

 

Rick Wormeli – Getting Excited about Assessing and Grading in the Differentiated Classroom

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Getting Excited about Assessing and Grading in the Differentiated Classroom

Date: June 24, 2019

Time: 9:00 – 11:30

Location: Renaissance Hotel  31 Woodfin St. Asheville, NC 28801

Cost: $50

 

This will be an introduction to practices focused on assessing and grading in a differentiated classroom environment.  Based on Rick Wormeli’s new book Fair Isn’t Always Equal, he will introduce his thoughts on practices associated with grading and assessing.

Biography

One of the first Nationally Board Certified teachers in America, Rick brings innovation, energy, validity and high standards to both his presentations and his instructional practice, which include 39 years teaching math, science, English, physical education, health, and history, as well as coaching teachers and principals. Rick’s work has been reported in numerous media, including ABC’s Good Morning America, Hardball with Chris Matthews, National Geographic and Good Housekeeping magazines, What Matters Most: Teaching for the 21st Century, and the Washington Post. He is a columnist for AMLE Magazine and a frequent contributor to ASCD’s Education Leadership magazine. He is the author of the award-winning book Meet Me in the Middle as well as the best-selling books Day One and Beyond, Fair Isn’t Always Equal: Assessment and Grading in the Differentiated Classroom (Second Edition), Differentiation: From Planning to Practice and Metaphors & Analogies: Power Tools for Teaching any Subject, all five from Stenhouse Publishers, as well as Summarization in any Subject: 60 Innovative and Tech-Infused Strategies for Deeper Student Learning (releasing in fall 2018) published by ASCD.  His book, The Collected Writings (So Far) of Rick Wormeli: Crazy Good Stuff I Learned about Teaching Along the Way, is collection of his published articles, guest blogs and more through 2013. His classroom practice is a showcase for ASCD’s best-selling series, At Work in the Differentiated Classroom. With his substantive presentations, sense of humor and unconventional approaches, he has been asked to present to teachers and administrators in all 50 states, Canada, China, Europe, Thailand, Japan, Vietnam, Korea, Australia the Middle East, and at the White House.

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