Professional Development

Join us to workshop strategies that will bring energy and excitement to your science classroom! Develop your students’ essential skills in research, critical thinking, and respectful discourse.

Earn Act 48 hours online. Register here: Science Smackdown: Sparking Curiosity Through Debate

How can we leverage our small groups to support Multilingual Learners and Students with IEPs? Participants will learn how to maximize their small group time by making them more efficient and targeted to meet IEP goals and the needs of Multilingual Learners' language development. You will learn how to use data that will inform how you create your small groups and tips for delivering impactful feedback while learning transferable structures and methods you can implement repeatedly across subjects. 

Earn Act 48 hours online. Register here: https://tinyurl.com/LeverageSmallGroups

Participants will understand the ins and outs of transition, where it is found in Easy I.E.P., and many resources to help with the process.

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During this 90 minutes zoom session we will review the PATTAN and District guidelines for creating an Evaluation and ReEvaluation. We will review the process in the Easy I.E.P. system. Resources will be provided. 

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Participants will learn how to identify and define behavior, where it is found in Easy I.E.P., and how to write and FBA, and PBSP.

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Join us for a 90 minute session on creating an I.E.P. We will go step by step through the Easy IEP system and answer questions along the way. You will leave with ease and plenty of resources!

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Participants will explore the Easy I.E.P. system for writing an I.E.P. and receive and review documents to support this process. 

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Participants will learn the process of the evaluation and re evaluation process from working with the school psychologist to support with the paperwork and planning the meetings.

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This five-week collaborative learning experience will focus on extending traditional forms of classroom management to thinking about how to create equitable learning spaces that incorporate proactive restorative practices and principles of social and emotional learning. Each week, participants will leave with an evidence-based strategy to try out in their classrooms and then come back together using the critical friends’ model to share our successes and struggles as we support each other to improve our practices.

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This Twilight Science session will focus on Grade 4 Quarter 1 Physical Science. 

Energy is vitally important to our lives, but it is often taken for granted. Using google slide deck lessons and activities, videos, and reading selections, the concept of energy will be in troduced and developed. Participants will create a working definition for what is energy and make observations to pro vide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents and how energy is converted from one type to another. Reading selections will lead participants to