Author: Webster

Media Literacy in the Secondary Classroom – Grades 6-12

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Date:  November 2, 2017

Time:  9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Registration Fee:  $50

Location:  WRESA

We live in a media saturated world and it is a big part of our students’ daily lives. Whether they are posting on social media, watching a YouTube video, playing a video game or reading a magazine, they are being influenced by the images they see and the ideas presented. This 6-12 workshop will focus on Media Literacy in classroom. Participants will learn how to:

  • Teach students to ask the right questions and think critically to become wise consumers of media.
  • Guide students to deconstruct media using the Center for Media Literacy Framework.
  • Implement lessons in which students create media instead of consuming it.
  • Leave with ready-made lessons to use in your classroom tomorrow.

Join Kendra Cameron Jarvis, Buncombe County Schools Digital Learning Facilitator, for a workshop to learn how teachers can help students effectively filter media messages. We will be using technology, so bring your laptop. This class could count for content. For more information, contact April at aspencer@wresa.org or 828.774.5681, ext. 20.  Contact Hours:  5

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Focus on Elementary Differentiation

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November 14, 2017                    Focus on Elementary                Cost: $75

Presenter:  Kristina Doubet, Ph.D.
Professor/Department of Middle, Secondary and Mathematics Education
James Madison University

Differentiation Strategies to Engage and Equip All Learners
This active professional development session will feature road-tested strategies for helping teachers “upgrade” their differentiation practices in order to reach even more learners.  The session will feature new strategies for determining and responding to the wide range of learning needs present in today’s diverse classrooms.  Using strategies from the new book, Differentiation in the Elementary Grades: Strategies to Engage and Equip All Learners, participants will themselves engage in differentiation activities in order to better understand and be able to implement them.  Teachers will leave the session with ideas to use in their classrooms the next day and beyond. Included with the session is a copy of the book, which features a plethora of planning tools and content specific examples to help teachers plan for future differentiation.  Get ready for an active, engaging, and equipping day of learning!

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Creating a Differentiated Experience for Students in Science and STEM   

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November 7, 2017                     Creating a Differentiated Experience for Students in Science and STEM                           Cost:  $50

Presenter:  Brian Maccarelli
K-12 Science Specialist
Buncombe County Schools

Presenter: Carla Billups
Elementary STEM Coach
Buncombe County Schools

With a focus on STEM thinking, problem-based learning, and inquiry, this workshop will expose teachers to strategies and techniques to successfully differentiate in the Science classroom. Differentiation strategies appropriate for AIG students, diverse learners, and EC students will be addressed. The workshop will include curriculum and lesson design considerations and how to modify activities and assessments. Time for teachers to create differentiation strategies for self-selected upcoming unit will be included in the session.

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Focus on HS/MS  Differentiation

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October 24, 2017                       Focus on HS/MS                          Cost:  $75

Presenter:  Hilary Dack, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor/Middle Grades Education/Middle, Secondary, and K-12 Education
Cato College of Education

This hands-on session will address best practices for differentiated instruction in middle and high school classrooms.  Specifically, we’ll analyze effective examples of teachers using particular strategies that respond to student readiness, interest, or learning profile, and we’ll consider how high quality curriculum and assessment must underlie those strategies.  We’ll also examine some approaches that are effective in contexts with one-to-one initiatives.

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Focus on AIG Part of the Differentiation Institute

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Location:  Asheville Event Center, 291 Sweeten Creek Rd, Asheville, NC  28803

October 10, 2017                       Focus on AIG                                Cost:  $75

Presenter:  Sandra Page
Education Consultant and ASCD Faculty Member

Differentiating for gifted students doesn’t have to mean creating independent projects or complicated additions to lessons; it can also be simpler modifications to instructions and tasks that will challenge students appropriately. We will explore several possible strategies that align with the principles of differentiated instruction. Come prepared to modify an upcoming lesson for your classroom during this workshop.

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Nvizn: Using Children’s Literature to Integrate STEM with Reading and Writing

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Grade Levels: K-2

Date(s): December 1, 2017 9 am – 3 pm

Location: Mountain Horticultural Crops Research & Ext. Center, 455 Research Drive, Mills River, NC 28759

Cost: $10

Description: Nvizn: Explore tech-based teaching units that integrate the teaching of reading and writing with the teaching of important science and mathematics concepts. Units include children’s books, poems and writing activities along with simple, hands-on, science activities and connections to mathematics in order to promote student understanding of standards-based concepts within a holistic setting. Formative assessment and sense-making activities are included to ensure that students are focused on those components critical for learning.  Limited to 35 participants. Lunch included. If you have questions, contact Michelle Benigno (828-206-3014 / mtbenign@ncsu.edu) Contact hours: 5

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Using Children’s Literature to Integrate STEM with Reading and Writing – Grades K-2

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Date: March 19, 2018

Time:  9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Location: Mountain Horticultural Crops Research & Ext. Center, 455 Research Drive, Mills River, NC 28759

Registration Fee: $10

LIMITED TO 35 PARTICIPANTS

LUNCH INCLUDED

 

Explore tech-based teaching units that integrate the teaching of reading and writing with the teaching of important science and mathematics concepts. Units include children’s books, poems and writing activities along with simple, hands-on, science activities and connections to mathematics in order to promote student understanding of standards-based concepts within a holistic setting. Attention to student thinking is built into the teaching units because children rarely come to science class without their own ideas about the world. Formative assessment and sense-making activities are included to ensure that students are focused on those components critical for learning. This session introduces teachers to the structure of the units and includes opportunities to experience units that address learning standards related to sound, scientific inquiry and helping students use evidence to support their understanding of the world. If you have questions, contact Michelle Benigno (828-206-3014 / mtbenign@ncsu.edu). (This workshop is a repeat of a workshop conducted on 12/1/2017.) Contact hours: 5

 

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Co-Teaching and Adapting Instruction for Inclusion Classrooms Grades 2-5

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DATES:         Sept. 25, 2018

TIME:            9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

LOCATION:   Asheville Event Center

REGISTRATION FEE:  $65 per person, per day

REGISTRATION DEADLINE:  September 17, 2018 

Are you working with your inclusion teacher effectively? Do you both know the best way to incorporate this process in your 2nd – 8th grade classrooms.   Rick Welsh will be leading a training for co- teaching teams. There will be a high degree of input and participation from the co-teaching teams with minimal emphasis placed on lecture. The entire workshop is co-taught so teams are provided numerous opportunities to learn new strategies and compare and contrast their current practices with the models presented.  The training also relies heavily on multiple examples of actual instruction that have been successfully co-taught in inclusion classrooms across the country.  A field-tested method for grouping students which 1) naturally facilitates the inclusion process and 2) provides both co-teaching partners with more equitable roles, will be used to deliver instruction in math, language arts/English, social studies/history, and science. Participants will enjoy experiencing instruction from the point of view of their students.  They will also be encouraged to consider with their partners how the strategies presented throughout the workshop can be used in their classrooms.   Rick has presented at WRESA in the past and has been working with inclusion topics in North Carolina and across the country since 1992. This workshop is limited to 12 two-person teams. (Max of 24 participants each day) Both the regular-ed teacher and the inclusion teacher need to sign up to attend together. For more information, contact April Spencer at aspencer@wresa.org or 828.774.5681, ext. 20.

Contact Hours: 5

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Foundations of Math with Dr. Chris Cain

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Dates: August 1,2; Sept 17,24; and Oct 22, 2019

Time:  9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Location: Hazelwood Conference Center Meeting Room

112 Virginia Avenue, Waynesville 28786

Registration Fee $250

 

In recent years much attention has been placed on the relatively poor math performance of students in the United States.   The research points out that better student success is found in the implementation, (which is the teaching that happens in the classroom) than broader presentation issues that focus on textbooks and curriculum programming. Student success has been tied to the subtle factors of teacher implementation choices. The stronger implementation choices appear to result from teacher knowledge, assessment, and flexibility with the reading and math curriculum.

The Foundations of Math workshop helps teachers understand how to make strong mathematical connections to explain the procedures used in mathematics. This will ensure that students conceptualize mathematics instead of only developing procedural knowledge.   This training will provide a deep understanding through which teachers can make solid implementation/teaching choices regarding the Evidence-Based Instructional Practices that have proven to positively impact student success. Dr Chris Cain will be leading this five-day workshop. For more information, contact April Spencer at aspencer@wresa.org

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WRESA 2018-2019 Summer 2 Day Administrators’ Institute

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Tuesday, July 24, 2018 and Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Both Days: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm (Lunch 11:30 am – 12:30 pm)

Location: Asheville Event Center  291 Sweeten Creek Road Asheville, NC

Cost: $65.00 – includes both days

 

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

 

Education Value-Added Assessment System (EVAAS) – How to Use EVAAS Effectively

Presenter: Wendy Staskiewicz, Educator Support Specialist, SAS EVAAS

9:00 am – 11:30 am

This session will provide administrators with the skills needed to navigate EVAAS so they can use this tool to improve student learning and to assist teachers as they reflect on their own effectiveness. EVAAS examines the impact of teachers, schools, and districts on the learning of their students in specific courses, grades, and subjects. Administrators will learn how to access charts and graphs as well as how to produce customized reports that predict student success.

 

Working with the Media

Presenters: Larry Blunt, Former News Anchor; and Jan Blunt, Former Communications Director

12:30 pm – 3:00 pm

This session will be conducted by veteran communications professionals who will share their decades of media and public-sector experience to help administrators navigate the murky waters of media relations to benefit their schools.  Administrators will learn to both garner positive attention for the good work going on in their schools and to manage media relations in a crisis.  Administrators will work in small groups to develop strategic responses to examples of real and reputational crisis situations.

 

Wednesday, July 25, 2018 

School Law

Presenters: Campbell and Shatley, PLLC

9:00 am – 11:30 am

This session will provide administrators with important 2018-2019 school law updates.  It will also focus on understanding the administrator’s legal obligations and how to document issues that arise. There will be time to discuss issues and ask questions.

 

Getting to Know NCEES

Presenter: Dr. Robert Sox, Educator Support Services, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

12:30 pm – 3:00 pm

This session will explore the North Carolina Education Evaluation System (NCEES) and the expectations of using this system effectively. By unpacking the language of the elements and descriptors to identify the structural underpinnings of the rubric, administrators will develop a deeper understanding of the performance expectations and process requirements.

 

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