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Developing Mathematical Ideas

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Making Meaning of Operations

Dates:

Monday, June 24 – June 25, July 15-16, 2019  8:30 a.m.- 3:30 p.m.

Location: Buncombe County Schools, NC, USA

175 Bingham Road

Asheville, NC 28806

 

Spend some time this summer diving into the meaning of each of the four operations. We’ll concentrate whole numbers, how the operations are related to each other, what kinds of situations they model, and how each can be represented. An then, we’ll devote time to extend and deepen these meanings to accommodate fractions.

The primary goal of Making Meaning for Operations is to help elementary and middle school teachers (regular ed and special ed) learn the mathematics content they are responsible for teaching in a profound way. Having a deeper and more connected understanding of these operations allows ALL teachers to better serve ALL our students who struggle to make the correct meanings of these operations. During our four days together, we will make sense of the content, recognize where and how the content of individual grade levels is situated in the trajectory of learning from kindergarten through middle school, build connections among different concepts, and analyze student thinking from a mathematical perspective. Through this work, teachers learn how to orient their instruction to specific mathematical goals and to develop a mathematics pedagogy in which student understanding takes center stage regardless the learner and or challenges the learner brings to the table.

The curriculum also offers teachers opportunities to explore mathematics in collaborative lessons led by facilitators, to share and discuss the work of their own students, to view and discuss video clips of mathematics classrooms, and to read an overview of related research.

MMO Workshop

Monday, June 24 – June 25, July 15-16, 2019  8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Buncombe County Schools, NC, USA

175 Bingham Road

Asheville, NC 28806

We will meet in the Maple room.

Fee: $150

Day 2: 6/25/2019 from 8:30 to 3:30

Day 3: 7/15/2019 from 8:30 to 3:30

Day 4: 7/16/2019 from 8:30 to 3:30

 

*Participants are required to fully participate in all four days*

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Daily Agenda

Daily Agenda

8:30 to 11:30 – Session

11:30 to 12:30 – Lunch (On Your Own)

12:30 to 3:30 – Session

 

We will meet in Maple.

Individual schools are responsible for stipend payments, if eligible. Verification of time will be provided when requested.

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WNC Trauma Skilled Schools Institute

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The National Dropout Prevention Center in partnership with Western RESA invites you to attend the Trauma-Skilled Schools Institute.

Dates: July 8-9, 2019.

Registration fee for this two-day event is $250 per person

Location: Valley Springs Middle School  224 Long Shoals Road   Arden, NC 28704

The Trauma-Skilled Schools Institute is a two-day professional development event that provides in-depth training in the National Dropout Prevention Center’s Trauma-Skilled Schools Model. The Trauma- Skilled Schools Model focuses on the implications for adverse childhood experiences on school behavior and learning, the development of essential resiliency skills in the classroom and in other school experiences, and on acquisition of educator skills that enable trauma-impacted students to succeed in school.

The Trauma-Skilled Schools Institute goes beyond “trauma informed” and “trauma sensitive” to action.  The Institute may be utilized as a first step for schools to begin local implementation of the Trauma-Skilled Schools Model, may be a beginning step for schools desiring to implement the model with additional training and support of the National Dropout Prevention Center, or may be utilized by participants as one of several additional professional development activities leading to individual Certification as a Trauma-Skilled Specialist.

Audience: Administrators, principals, teachers, counselors, dropout prevention coordinators, alternative education teams

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WNC Diploma Planning Institute

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Diploma Planning Institute Training

Audience: Administrators, principals, teachers, counselors, dropout prevention coordinators, alternative education teams

Dates:  July 10-11, 2019

Time:  9:00 AM-3:00 PM

Location:  Valley Springs Middle School 224 Long Shoals Rd Arden, NC 28704

Cost: $250 per person

 

The Diploma Planning Institute is a two-day working event during which school and district teams consider local data, research, existing initiatives, and local contexts to develop research-based and working plans to improve student success and graduation rates. The Diploma Planning Institute has been provided in over 30 settings to teams from over 200 participating schools and districts and has resulted in significant graduation rate gains over three to four years in many schools. The Diploma Planning Institute will guide school and district teams to move from “random acts of dropout prevention” to carefully selected and research-based action plans that will significantly improve graduation rates. Participating teams will receive ongoing support from NDPC and resources that will support their local initiatives.

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The 3 A’s of EVAAS: Analysis, Action and Application

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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.

Contact LaDonna Sluder

at

828-774-5681 Ext. 18 to register

Moving Bodies & Developing Minds Integrating Movement, Literacy, and Team Building Skills !!

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Grades: K-12

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

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Online Book Study: Thinking About Grading and Assessing in a New Way

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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.

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Online Book Study: Amplify: Digital Teaching and Learning on the K-6 Classroom

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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

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