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

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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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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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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

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828-774-5681 Ext. 18 to Register

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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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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