The North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching is currently taking applications for a faculty position: Early Grades Literacy Specialist. Please visit www.nccat.org for details and application information.

DATE:  Postponed

TIME:  9:00am-3:00pm

LOCATION: Foster Seventh Day Adventist Church gym. 375 Hendersonville Road Asheville NC

Fee:  $45

GRADES: K -12

All new activities and strategies for 2020!! 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.

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DATE: TBD

TIME:  9:00a.m. – 3:00p.m.

FEE: $45

LOCATION: Biltmore Park

 This session begins with a focus on good teaching as defined by the professional teaching standards that leads into best practices for using flipped and blended learning. Participants will learn practical strategies to avoid common pitfalls of flipped learning, how to effectively create a blended learning classroom and finally, how both models contain elements of North Carolina’s Pillars of Personalized Learning.  Participants should bring a charged laptop or Chromebook and a set of earbuds to this practical, hands on session. 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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DATE: April 2, 2020

TIME: 9:00am-3:00pm

GRADES: K-3

LOCATION: WRESA  Asheville, NC

FEE: $45 

PRESENTERS Candie Sellers and Ladonna Sluder

This session will include learning about and making a variety of interactive foldables/notebooks to enrich all content areas. This graphic organizer strategy gives students a kinesthetic activity to make meaningful connections to their learning. This will be a hands-on workshop and teachers will be taking these interactive organizers back to the classroom. What a great way to bring learning back alive and to provide opportunities to spiral instruction and facilitate thinking! Be prepared to roll up your sleeves to cut, paste, fold and have fun. This session will be led by Candie Sellers, WRESA Elementary Coordinator, and LaDonna Sluder, WRESA Educational Coach.  If you have questions contact Candie Sellers at csellers@wresa.org or 828.774.5681, ext. 26.  Contact Hours: 5

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Date: March 18, 2020  Postponed

Time: 9:-00am – 3:00pm

Fee: $45 

Location: Biltmore Park/WCU Room 346

Robert Berry, President of NCTM, states “If the goal in mathematics teaching and learning is to support student success with mathematical proficiency, then we must be explicit about using instructional routines.” In this workshop we will present 8 mathematical language routines and explore how these routines- when used as true routines- will increase math proficiency for all students. The workshop will use Open Up Math (a completely free online curriculum) materials.

This workshop will be taught by Stefanie Buckner, Buncombe County’s K-12 math specialist and Leigha Jordan, Buncombe County’s MS math coach. For more information, contact April at aspencer@wresa.org.

Higher-Order Thinking for ELL    Postponed

DATE:  March 24, 2020

TIME:  9:00am -3:00pm

FEE:  $45 

LOCATION:  Biltmore Park/WCU Room 338

Audience: K-12 Teachers

Come learn strategies that will help your K -12 English Language Learners to access challenging curriculum and analyze, evaluate, and create new ideas – while engaging all your students.  We will explore how to adapt instruction to ensure that students at all language proficiency levels are thinking critically and developing a multilingual mindset (and its cognitive benefits). We will also discuss involving families of ELLs in the learning process.   Your presenter will be Dr. Laurel Stolte, former ESL teacher and Dual Language Coordinator in Durham Public Schools who recently relocated to Buncombe Public Schools. For more information, contact April at aspencer@wresa.org, 828.774-5681, ext. 103.

DATE:  March 4, 2020

TIME:  9:00am-3:00pm

GRADES: K-5

LOCATION: WCU at Biltmore Park

PRESENTER: Meredith Stanley

FEE: $110.00 

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: February 21, 2020

Number Sense Routines: Powerhouse Tools for Building Number Sense

In this workshop, Meredith will share ideas about how to boost your students’ number sense through a set of number sense routines. Intended for just 5-20 minutes of your day, number sense routines are fun and engaging ways for students to make sense of mathematics, practice communicating mathematical ideas, develop efficiency in computation, and engage in reasoning, justifying, and making mathematical connections. They are your best tools for helping students build procedural fluency from conceptual understanding, and your students will love them. Come learn how to easily incorporate number sense routines into your daily routine and see the results as your students strengthen their accuracy, flexibility, and efficiency. 

Meredith Stanley is an independent math coach and specialist for K-8. A former elementary classroom teacher and instructional coach for Buncombe County, she is a two-time finalist for the Presidential Award for Math and Science, a Buncombe County Teacher of the Year, a Buncombe County Math Teacher of the Year, and a National Board-certified teacher. She received her Masters in Mathematics Teaching from Mount Holyoke College. If you have questions contact Candie Sellers at csellers@wresa.org or 828.774.5681, ext. 26.  Contact Hours: 5

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