2018 RRISD PD Conference

"Picture This: Your students are engaged in a math problem. All students are using their habits of mind to solve a problem head-on. After time, some students start to discuss different ways to solve the problem while others discuss how reasonable their answers are. As a teacher, you are excited as you watch your students communicate their results and justify their answers. Sound impossible? Not true! In this workshop, participants will learn and experience tasks that allow for multiple entry points to encourage solving problems through a variety of strategies and where reasoning, communicating, and justifying are the norm in the math classroom. These tasks, because of their inclusive design, are great for ALL students you are trying to reach including students with special needs, English Language Learners, gifted students, and struggling students in all grade levels.

In addition to PD credit, teachers will earn 6 units of G/T update credit.

Upon completing all the modules of the course, you will have resources, specific for your grade level, for rich problem solving tasks and ideas of when to incorporate them into your daily math block.

Course must be finished by August 3rd, 2018.
Link to course: https://classroom.google.com/u/0/c/MTQ1MDU3MDM3OTZa
Course code: s2ei16g

Speakers

Leilani Losli

Instructional Coach, RRISD

Kari Maurer

Monday June 4, 2018 TBA
TBA

Online

ONLINE - EdTech - K-5 - Google Classroom Creation Station

Limited Capacity seats available

Harness the power of Google classroom for a more individualized learning approach. Novice and intermediate Google Classroom users will create Google Classrooms and explore resources for blended learning. Requirements: Laptop or Chromebook with Chrome browser. Course must be finished by August 3rd, 2018.
Link to course: ONLINE - EdTech - K-5 - Google Classroom Creation Station
Course code: emq6yv

Speakers

Debby Acevedo

Instructional Technology Specialist, RRISD

I am Debby Acevedo, Instructional Technology Specialist at Robertson Elementary. My Bachelor's degree from Southwestern University is in English, Speech, and Secondary Education, and my Master of Arts degree from Pepperdine University is in Educational Technology. Throughout my years... Read More →

Sara Pavone

Librarian, Round Rock ISD

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rqykj_zjeYXX2TMR0C69tJldgg9OjhkkczwzY6kVe14/pub

Christina Taylor

Librarian, RRHS, Round Rock ISD

I am twice an alumna of UT: holding a BA in both English and French with a secondary education teaching certification in English as well as an MS in Information Science with a school librarian certification. Having been an educator since 1999, I left the classroom in 2013 to begin... Read More →

Monday June 18, 2018 TBA
Round Rock High School

Online, K-12 General

TBA

ONLINE - Library Services - K-12 - Fun in a Phonebooth: Developing a Graphic Novel Collection

Limited Capacity seats available

Although graphic novels and comics can be effective means of supporting literacy, developing a graphic novel/comic/manga collection may lay beyond the comfort zone of some librarians. This online course will explore best practices and resources for selection. Focusing on a technical approach, librarians unfamiliar (or even uncomfortable with) the comic form will be able to make dispassionate, informed decisions. Beginning with a very basic discussion of the benefits of reading graphic novels, the course will largely focus on selection and selection aides—aiming to help librarians effectively incorporate graphic novels into a collection without having to become a superfan. This program will equip participants with criteria for assessment and valid resources to aid in making sound collection development decisions when navigating this terrain.

Attendees will learn about:
Advantages of a robust graphic novel collection.
Criteria for evaluating unfamiliar potential acquisitions.
Selection aides for identifying potential acquisitions.

Participants will gain access to an online resource bank of selection adies for comics and graphic novel collection development.

The class join code is: ecjwin

Speakers

Sara Pavone

Librarian, Round Rock ISD

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rqykj_zjeYXX2TMR0C69tJldgg9OjhkkczwzY6kVe14/pub

Christina Taylor

Librarian, RRHS, Round Rock ISD

Monday June 18, 2018 TBA
Round Rock High School

Online, Library Services

TBA

ONLINE - EdTech - K-12 - Virtual Field Tripping with Virtual Reality

Limited Capacity seats available

Create amazing experiences for your students using virtual and augmented reality tools. We will explore tools that can be combined for interactive learning. Participants will need a computer and a mobile device such as a cell phone or iPad.

Speakers

Robin Young

Sunday July 22, 2018 TBA
Round Rock High School

Online, Instructional Technology

TBA

ONLINE - EdTech - K-12 - Introduction to SeeSaw

Limited Capacity seats available

In this online session, you'll learn about the free tool called Seesaw. Seesaw is a student-driven digital portfolio that empowers students to independently document what they are learning at school. It allows you to easily capture student learning in any form, and students can use photos, videos, drawings, text notes, links to show what they know. Participants will complete this course in a Google Form with embedded links, videos, and questions. Participants will receive 3 hours of PD Credit for completion of this course. Here is the course link: ONLINE - EdTech - K-12 - Introduction to SeeSaw

Speakers

Natalie Hubert

Abby Williford

Sunday July 22, 2018 TBA
Round Rock High School

Online, Instructional Technology

TBA

ONLINE - EdTech - K-12 - Productivity Tools for Office Staff

Limited Capacity seats available

This course will be full of helpful google products and tools to assist office staff. Short videos and activities will be placed in a Google Classroom environment. Participants are encouraged to take the course at their own pace and to collaborate with other participants.

Speakers

Jennifer Bloch

Sunday July 22, 2018 TBA
Round Rock High School

Online, Instructional Technology

8:30am CDT

Desmos Trilogy - Episode 1

Limited Capacity seats available

Learn the basics to start unlocking the wonderful world of Desmos. Accessible to all, Desmos is a free web based interactive application intended for learning and teaching mathematics. Graph functions, plot data, evaluate equations, explore transformations, and much more.

Speakers

Jeremy Lee

Pamela Obarowski

Monday July 23, 2018 8:30am - 9:20am CDT
Room 722

8:30am CDT

SEL - K12 - Social & Emotional Learning 101

Limited Capacity seats available

This foundation level course is open to all RRISD staff members who wish to dive in to answering the big question, "What Is SEL?". We will look at the 5 core competencies, as well as dive in to the district wide framework.

Key takeaways include learning targets for student success, the RRISD district wide framework, CASEL core competencies of Social and Emotional Learning.

Speakers

Rachelle Finck

Monday July 23, 2018 8:30am - 9:20am CDT
Room 746

8:30am CDT

ELA- K-2- Shared and Interactive Reading

Limited Capacity seats available

Have you ever wondered…
~How can I reinforce skills in an accessible way for all students?
~How does shared reading support learning across a week?
~How can I encourage my students to engage with text at a deeper level?

Join us to explore structures and strategies to gain more from our read alouds and shared reading practices. Experience lessons that support all readers as they interact with texts in meaningful ways. Examine how intentional planning with these components of balanced literacy reinforces reading habits and skills for students to use in their independent practice. Discover more about your students’ understanding through informal assessment practices within these components. Come away with a plan to strengthen your community of readers.

Speakers

Jessi Murdter-Atkinson

Jake Page

Instructional Coach-Elementary, Berkman AIA

Monday July 23, 2018 8:30am - 10:20am CDT
Room 207B

8:30am CDT

RRISD - K-5 - Questioning Strategies to Gauge Student Understanding

Limited Capacity seats available

If you are already familiar with using different levels of questioning, this session will help you take that skill to the next level! Participants will learn how to use strategic questioning to elicit student thinking and drive their instruction. We will also focus on how to facilitate peer to peer conversation in order to allow students to become the question askers. If you’re looking to focus on letting the students become the primary “talkers” in your classroom, than this is the session for you!

Speakers

Helen Hansen

Monday July 23, 2018 8:30am - 10:20am CDT
Room 738

8:30am CDT

Science - K-1 - Designing and Implementing Science Investigations

Limited Capacity seats available

It is natural for young children to have questions about their world. Come to this session to explore how teachers can facilitate feeding this curiosity while addressing TEKS at your grade level. Leave with classroom ready investigations that you can use with your students.

Speakers

Jan Nutt

Candy Stahl

Faculty, Wells Branch Arts Integration Academy

Monday July 23, 2018 8:30am - 10:20am CDT
Room 616

Elementary science

8:30am CDT

Basic Behavior Management for All

Limited Capacity seats available

Behavior/Classroom Management, Special Education

This course is for any staff, general and special education, wanting to learn how to better manage your classroom and students through the use of simple modifications to improve behavior. You will learn various evidence-based practices aimed at increasing desired behavior and reducing challenging behavior. You will not only learn how to implement these strategies but also when to use them, with whom, and WHY these strategies work. With protocol handouts and opportunities for practice throughout the session you will leave confident in your ability to choice and implement the most effective strategies for your students.

Speakers

Felicia Hatchett

Annwen Stewart

Monday July 23, 2018 8:30am - 11:30am CDT
Room 721

8:30am CDT

Limited Capacity seats available

Equity & Culturally Responsive Teacher

Join your RRISD colleagues for an honest conversation about cultural competence and its effects on our students. Participants will engage in the game Your Privilege Is Showing: the social justice card game by Lillian Medville. This game based approach empowers players to show vulnerability and grace when confronting the social divides of sexism, racism and privilege that already exist in each of us. Participants will be challenged to navigate the inevitable discomfort that arises when we consider our own culpability in systems of oppression.

Speakers

Natosha Daniels

Darrell Emanuel

Krista Tyler

ITS, Round Rock ISD

Krista Tyler is an Instructional Technology Specialist at McNeil High School. Krista was a middle school English/Language Arts teacher for 9 years before going geek and joining the RRISD tech team.

Monday July 23, 2018 8:30am - 11:30am CDT
Room 634

8:30am CDT

Process and Product - Elementary Music Orff

Limited Capacity seats available

Most Orff arrangements that use barred instruments also involve singing, moving, body percussion, drama, and more. We will experience the process by which these musical elements are taught in the classroom. The process is essential to Orff schulwerk. We will then discover ways to present a final product for performance that maintains authentic, musical meaning for both the students, teacher, and audience.

Speakers

Carrianne Bernatis

Monday July 23, 2018 8:30am - 11:30am CDT
Room 109

8:30am CDT

Inst Tech - All Levels - Let’s Drive with Google

Limited Capacity seats available

Focus will be on using and organizing your Google drive for documents, spreadsheets, presentations and more.

**Participants need to have a Google account.

Speakers

Pam Scarborough

Asst Director, Round Rock ISD

Monday July 23, 2018 8:30am - 11:30am CDT
Room 601

8:30am CDT

Math Intervention - 3-5 - Whoever Knew There Were So Many Facets? Progression of Multiplication and Division in 3-5

Limited Capacity seats available

Who knew that multiplication and division was so complex? Come experience how students grow and learn by exploring the phases of multiplication and division with manipulative materials, visual representations, and appropriate vocabulary. This 3-hour intermediate session will impact your students as you gain insights into and interact with some really big ideas in mathematics.

Speakers

Regina Payne

Monday July 23, 2018 8:30am - 11:30am CDT
Room 612

Response to Intervention

8:30am CDT

(Math - 6th - 9th Grade Algebra) Models and Visual Representations, Oh my! (Making math visual for middle school)

Limited Capacity seats available

Teachers will be exposed to the places in the 6th - 9th grade Algebra I curriculum where models and visual representations are appropriate. Teachers will get the opportunity to experience using these visual and concrete models, discuss the vertical alignment and the power and purpose of these models.

Speakers

Shara Shunkweiler

Michelle Smith

Monday July 23, 2018 8:30am - 11:30am CDT
Room 720

8:30am CDT

SEL - PreK - 12 - Mindfulness In The Classroom

Limited Capacity seats available

Mindfulness is popping up everywhere we look - from the cover of TIME magazine to the classroom! The power of breath and taking a moment to pause is a great tool for all individuals to have in their toolbox.

This introductory level course is an experiential course open to all RRISD staff members who wish to dive in to mindfulness practices for their classroom use. This course will discuss the impacts of mindfulness on student achievement, teaching self - regulation skills to students, as well as how language can work together with breathing techniques. Participants will leave with a variety of instructional practices that can infuse mindfulness into the classroom setting to create a safe, inclusive space for everyone.

Speakers

Shameika Alexander

Helen Hanson

Lindsey Kaiser

Monday July 23, 2018 8:30am - 11:30am CDT
Room 743

8:30am CDT

GT Module 1 - Nature and Needs of Gifted Learners

Limited Capacity seats available

This module is part of the initial 30 hours of GT foundation training. This module focuses on the following objectives: 1.1 Knows basic terminology, current definitions, theories, and models of giftedness. 1.2 Identifies characteristics and their effects on academic and social settings. 1.3 Identifies characteristics of special groups of gifted and talented students, such as lower socio-economic income, physically challenged, black, Hispanic, limited-English proficient, and twice-exceptional. Understands the implications of environment in which gifted and talented students feel these groups' characteristics on programs for the gifted and talented.

Speakers

Jennifer Stork

Monday July 23, 2018 8:30am - 3:30pm CDT
Room 606

8:30am CDT

GT Update - Tech Apps for Successful Differentiation - Elementary

Limited Capacity seats available

Formative assessment and differentiation is now easy to do using technology. Differentiating allows all students to be successful and work at their own pace. Programs like Quizalize, Google Expeditions VR, AR, and the VR 360 beta program are just some of the wonderful apps that we will discuss during the course.

Speakers

LID - FCC Boot Camp for New FCC teachers

Limited Capacity seats available

Intensive 4-day training for new and new(er) Functional Communication Classroom teachers. This course will provide intensive training and guided practice using a behavioral approach to teaching communication skills. Teachers will learn to assess student's communication skills and develop an individualized program. The final day of the training will focus on "putting it all together!"

Speakers

Donna Worley

Monday July 23, 2018 8:30am - Thursday July 26, 2018 3:30pm CDT
Room 749

9:30am CDT

Desmos Trilogy - Episode 2

Limited Capacity seats available

Are you a secondary math teacher who already familiar with the basic features of Desmos, but would like to learn more? This session will extend your knowledge of the application, through exploration of activities and lesson bundles designed to promote mathematical reasoning through patterning, discourse, and investigation.

Speakers

Jeremy Lee

Pamela Obarowski

Monday July 23, 2018 9:30am - 10:20am CDT
Room 722

9:30am CDT

SEL - PreK - 5 - Integrating SEL in Academics

Limited Capacity seats available

Social and Emotional Learning has the biggest impact on student success when it is integrated throughout the school day.

This course is designed for individuals with a base knowledge in Social and Emotional Learning. In this course, we will discuss various ways in integrate social and emotional learning throughout the school day, not just during a designated SEL time.

Key takeaways include the RRISD district wide framework, student learning targets, CASEL core competencies, as well as lesson ideas and instructional strategies to embed social and emotional learning in the RRISD curriculum.

Speakers

Rachelle Finck

Monday July 23, 2018 9:30am - 11:20am CDT
Room 746

9:30am CDT

PLAAFP to IEP

Math - Kindergarten - Maximizing the Math Suggested Unit Plans: Developing number sense

Limited Capacity seats available

Have you ever felt like you aren’t getting the biggest bang for your planning buck? The suggested unit plans are great, but where do you start planning? Join us as we take a hands-on approach to exploring the suggested unit plans on developing number sense. You’ll walk away with ideas to maximize the effectiveness of the lessons and learn tips from teachers who helped plan these units.

Speakers

Candy Stahl

Faculty, Wells Branch Arts Integration Academy

Monday July 23, 2018 12:30pm - 2:20pm CDT
Room 204

12:30pm CDT

Math Grade 4 - Maximizing the Math Suggested Unit Plans: Multiplication and Division

Limited Capacity seats available

Have you ever felt like you aren’t getting the biggest bang for your planning buck? The suggested unit plans are great, but where do you start planning? Join us as we take a hands-on approach to exploring the suggested unit plans on multiplication and division. You’ll walk away with ideas to maximize the effectiveness of the lessons and learn tips from teachers who helped plan these units.

Speakers

Jan Nutt

Monday July 23, 2018 12:30pm - 2:20pm CDT
Room 727

12:30pm CDT

Science - K-5 - Teaching Science Through Inquiry

2018/07/23 - ELA - Kindergarten - Reading Workshop: Refining Mini-lessons

Limited Capacity seats available

Kindergarten is different and special for many reasons but especially because it’s many children's first experience with intentional reading instruction. We will take a fresh look at the reading workshop mini-lessons just for the kinder student and how they change in complexity across the year. Structure, environment, management, and stamina will be the pieces of study to help teachers keep our youngest readers engaged. You'll walk away prepared and confident to implement the smallest part reading workshop within the first week of kindergarten.

This course is designed for all Kinder teacher who want to deepen their understandings of building independent early readers. During our time together, teachers will learn how a lesson grows in complexity across the school year and strategies to bridge the mini-lesson to independent reading. In addition, we will work on how to support children when Meaning, Syntax, and Visual cues are unbalanced.

This course includes 2 mandatory after-school sessions:
October 4, 2018
December 6, 2018

TAKEAWAYS: Teachers will walk away with a few mini-lessons to begin the year, songs, poems, and rhymes to use for growing phonemic awareness, and the confidence to plan intentional daily mini-lessons

Speakers

Angie House

Jessi Murdter-Atkinson

Monday July 23, 2018 12:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Room 207B

12:30pm CDT

ELA - 1-2 - Reading Workshop: Refining Mini-Lessons (Part 1)

Limited Capacity seats available

Children must experience independent reading with intentional reading instruction. We will take a fresh look at the reading workshop mini-lessons and how they change in complexity across the year. Structure, environment, management, and stamina will be the pieces of study to help teachers keep our readers engaged. You'll walk away prepared and confident to implement independent reading during reading workshop within the first week of school.

This course is designed for all first and second grade teachers who want to deepen their understandings of building independent readers. During our time together, teachers will learn how a lesson grows in complexity across the school year and strategies to bridge the mini-lesson to independent reading. In addition, we will work on how to support children when Meaning, Syntax, and Visual cues are unbalanced.

TAKEAWAYS: Teachers will walk away with a few mini-lessons to begin the year, songs and poems to use for phonemic awareness, and the confidence to plan intentional daily mini-lessons.

Speakers

Becky Blair

RRISD

Michelle Vogl

Monday July 23, 2018 12:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Room 203

12:30pm CDT

Math 3-5 Successful Spiral Review

Limited Capacity seats available

Looking for ways to make your daily spiral review time relevant and engaging for students? Learn how to plan and facilitate TEKS-aligned activities that incorporate various learning styles and infuse the process standards. You will walk away with practical, ready-to-use activities that will enhance your spiral review routines. This engaging, hands on session is ideal for grades 3-5 classroom teachers, special education teachers, and interventionists.

Speakers

Ashlie Harr

Instructional Coach, RRISD

Caroline Montgomery

Monday July 23, 2018 12:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Room 205

12:30pm CDT

Computer Composing - Elementary Music

Limited Capacity seats available

The purpose of this session is to introduce a way to introduce and explore musical composition. Using Chrome Music Lab’s “Song Maker” program and Apple’s “Garage Band” for composing as well as Google Forms for assessment, teachers will have tools to create teaching strategies for the composition portion of the elementary music curriculum.

Speakers

Stephen Touchet

Music Educator, Caraway ES

Monday July 23, 2018 12:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Room 604

12:30pm CDT

Inst Tech - All Levels - Let’s Drive with Google

Limited Capacity seats available

Focus will be on using and organizing your Google drive for documents, spreadsheets, presentations and more.

**Participants need to have a Google account.

Speakers

Pam Scarborough

Asst Director, Round Rock ISD

Monday July 23, 2018 12:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Room 601

12:30pm CDT

Math Intervention - 6-7 - Math Intervening in MIddle School:

Limited Capacity seats available

Want to take an advanced long-term course that helps both teachers and students build powerful numeracy and deep mathematical understandings ? Are you willing to enter a partnership on your campus between an interventionist and a core math teacher? This is an advanced opportunity for middle school math interventionists and grades 6 and 7 classroom teachers to dive into practical, student-centered methods to support them in helping children think deeply about mathematics. One of the goals of intervention is to support deep number sense and the development of a repertoire of strategies based on landmark numbers and operations. This partnership that is launched with this first session will help build relationships between intervention and core math teachers at the campus level. Interventionists will meet together for district collaborative sessions hosted during the school year. Campus partnerships will meet together on campus, and also participate in webinars, Google classroom activities, and hangouts with the entire district cadre. Let’s take this opportunity to join forces to help support our students who struggle with mathematics. Each participant will receive two books that will be used throughout the year in our book study. The first book is Building Powerful Numeracy for Middle and High School Students, and the second is Lessons and Activities for Building Powerful Numeracy. Both books are by Pamela Harris who is a former secondary math teacher and highly renowned national instructor and speaker. The course is limited so register soon with your partner teacher(s).
Audience: MS Interventionists paired with at least one Core Math Teacher at the same school

Speakers

Regina Payne

Monday July 23, 2018 12:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Room 612

Response to Intervention Secondary Math

12:30pm CDT

Math - 9-12 - Making Mathematical Thinking Visible at the High School

Limited Capacity seats available

Overcome the challenge of understanding student thinking using a variety of techniques and manipulatives. Experience how the use of physical and digital models and can lead to greater mathematical understanding.

Speakers

Kathy Lowe

Stephen Teal

Monday July 23, 2018 12:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Room 744

12:30pm CDT

What Secondary Teachers Need to Know to Help Students Plan for College and Careers!

Limited Capacity seats available

Middle School and High School teachers of students taking Gen. Ed. and Applied Classes will learn how to use transition assessments, understand what the Student Services Offices at college can offer; what is offered at area community college and technical schools; what are HS Career Prep classes and RRISD 18+ programs and what they offer; how to address study skills, attendance and behavior in transition planning; what state agencies may offer support for these students.

Speakers

Carol Huntley

Monday July 23, 2018 12:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Room 725

1:30pm CDT

Case Management for SpEd

Limited Capacity seats available

This session will involve basic training to provide special educators with information regarding case management duties, ARD responsibilities, and teacher resources.

Speakers

Heather Farrar

Kelli Hutka

Monday July 23, 2018 1:30pm - 3:20pm CDT
Room 724

8:30am CDT

A Good Referral Packet

Limited Capacity seats available

For SST Team members, 504 Coordinators; Interventionists. This workshop provides a step by step, form by form, walk though of preparing a good Dyslexia and Dysgraphia evaluation packet. Newly edited forms will be provided.

Speakers

Karen Lentz

RRISD

Monica Santos

Donna Wise

Dyslexia Evaluator, RRISD

I am currently serving RRISD as a Dyslexia Evaluator. I am a trained Wilson Dyslexia Practioner, trained in Neuhaus Basic Language Skills (Level 1) and a certified Texas Master Reading Teacher. I have served as a campus based interventionist for elementary. I have trained in various... Read More →

Tuesday July 24, 2018 8:30am - 9:20am CDT
Room 724

8:30am CDT

All Content – Pre-K-12 – ARRC: Breakout or Breakthrough

Limited Capacity seats available

Breakout or Breakthrough. Choose to gamify or self-direct our learning experience as you discover new tools, strategies, and resources captured by our new Aligned Round Rock Curriculum (ARRC). This course if for teachers from all subject areas and levels. You will leave with a better understanding of the new format of the ARRC and all the resources available to you for planning instruction.

Instructional Coach-Elementary, Berkman AIA

Tuesday July 24, 2018 8:30am - 10:20am CDT
Room 622

8:30am CDT

EdTech - K-5 - iMovie & You

Limited Capacity seats available

An introductory course on using iMovie in your classroom to strengthen your content. Please bring a fully charged iPad if you are able.

Speakers

Sara Coons

Speakers

Corinna Green

Instructional Coach, RRISD

Tonia Miller

Tuesday July 24, 2018 8:30am - 11:30am CDT
700 Cafeteria

8:30am CDT

ELA-1-2-Writing Workshop: Refining Mini-lessons

Limited Capacity seats available

Our students hit strides of writing development during first and second grade as they grow their fluency and expression. In this introductory course, we'll take a fresh look at the writing workshop; creating a rich learning environment, writing strong mini-lessons, strategic classroom management, and writing stamina and fluency. You'll walk away prepared and confident to implement a writers workshop from day one.

Recommended companion courses- Writing Workshop: Small Group Instruction, Analyzing Student Writing and Goal Setting, Conferring with Writers.

Speakers

Corinna Green

Instructional Coach, RRISD

Tonia Miller

Tuesday July 24, 2018 8:30am - 11:30am CDT
700 Cafeteria

8:30am CDT

Kindergarten -Writing Workshop: Refining Mini-lessons

Limited Capacity seats available

Kindergarten is different and special for many reasons but especially because it’s many children's first experience with intentional writing instruction. Using Already Ready by Katie Wood Ray and Talking, Drawing, Writing by Martha Horn. We'll take a fresh look at the writing workshop just for the kinder students, environment, mini lessons, management, and stamina will be the pieces of study to help teachers keep our youngest writers engaged. You'll walk away prepared and confident to implement a writers workshop from day one.

This course is designed for all Kinder teacher who want to deepen their understandings of building independent emergent writers. During our time together, teachers will learn how a lesson grows in complexity across the school year and strategies to bridge the mini-lesson to independent writing. In addition, we will work on how to support children with storytelling and representational drawing.

This course includes 2 mandatory after-school sessions:
October 11
November 29

TAKEAWAYS: Teachers will walk away with a few mini-lessons to begin the year, songs, poems, and rhymes to use for growing phonemic awareness, and the confidence to plan intentional daily mini-lessons

Speakers

Angie House

Michelle Vogl

Tuesday July 24, 2018 8:30am - 11:30am CDT
Room 207B

8:30am CDT

Literacy Intervention - K - 5 - Knowing and Growing Readers: Assessment and Instruction for Accelerated Progress Through Targeted Intervention

Limited Capacity seats available

Data...Wondering what to do with all this data? How do I use data to target instruction? This foundation course for intervention teachers includes strategies to accelerate progress of students and use data to provide targeted intervention The sessions incorporates some strategies from Stephanie Harvey’s Striving to Thriving.

Speakers

Carly Barnes

Jeanie Chavez

Melissa McCarroll

Tuesday July 24, 2018 8:30am - 11:30am CDT
Room 616

8:30am CDT

RTI/Literacy - 3-9 -Every Reader Deserves a Listener! Using Reading Assistant to Empower Fluent Readers.

Limited Capacity seats available

Wonder... How to motivate students to read fluently? What is Reading Assistant? Which students should use Reading Assistant ? How often does the student need to use Reading Assistant to improve reading fluency? This session includes an introduction to Scientific Learning Reading Assistant and using the program with students struggling with reading fluency. Participants need to bring headsets or earbuds with a microphone.

Speakers

Melissa McCarroll

Scientific Learning Trainer

Tuesday July 24, 2018 8:30am - 11:30am CDT
Room 628

8:30am CDT

Fine Arts - K-12 - Google Sites for Visual Art Programs

Limited Capacity seats available

Do you use Google Sites as your teacher website, but want to make it more exciting? Don't have a class webpage? Want to teach your students how to create their own Google Site as a portfolio? In this workshop, participants will learn how to create a Google Site website, how to make new pages and archive your previous year's works. You will see examples of ways you can showcase your students at work and featured artwork. This will be geared to a beginner, but more advanced users will get ideas on ways to add even more to their pages. Time to work on your site will also be offered.

Speakers

Abigail Esparza

Tuesday July 24, 2018 8:30am - 11:30am CDT
Room 720

8:30am CDT

Edtech - K-12 - Breakout of the Boring with Breakout Edu

Limited Capacity seats available

Escape rooms are all the rage these days, and now you can bring them into your classroom. You will experience a BreakOutEdu and then spend the rest of the class creating your own BreakOut (digital or with physical locks) for your content area. Please bring a fully charged laptop.

Speakers

Amy Lott

Kelli Hutka

Stacy Sanchez

Tuesday July 24, 2018 8:30am - 11:30am CDT
Room 746

8:30am CDT

Math - 3-4 - Beyond Pizzas and Pies

Limited Capacity seats available

Do fractions frustrate your students? How do we ensure our students are building the robust understandings required by the TEKS? This course focuses on numerators, denominators, area models, and number lines - the fraction concepts in third and fourth grade introducing brand new ways of thinking about numbers. In this session, participants will engage in hands-on activities that explore powerful strategies to help students build deep fraction number sense.

Speakers

Becky Blair

RRISD

Helen Hanson

Tuesday July 24, 2018 8:30am - 3:20pm CDT
Room 725

8:30am CDT

GT Module 1 - Nature and Needs of Gifted Learners

Limited Capacity seats available

Formative assessment and differentiation is now easy to do using technology. Differentiating allows all students to be successful and work at their own pace. Programs like Quizalize, Google Forms, Google Drawings, Google Sites, Google Classroom, Edpuzzle, Quizlet, GIFs, Google Expeditions VR, AR, and the VR 360 beta program are just some of the wonderful apps that we will discuss during the course.

Speakers

Carolina Carner

Alice Garza

Tuesday July 24, 2018 8:30am - 3:30pm CDT
Room 603

8:30am CDT

GT Update K-8: Differentiation, Creativity, and How to Raise the Bar

Limited Capacity seats available

This session will focus on what differentiation is, learning strategies for differentiation and incorporating creativity into the classroom to boost higher level thinking and collaboration.

Speakers

Katharine Riedlinger

Tuesday July 24, 2018 8:30am - 3:30pm CDT
Room 607

8:30am CDT

Dual Language/ESL - PK-5 - Los 7 pasos

Limited Capacity seats available

Teachers in bilingual and dual language programs are looking for ways to enhance the development of academic Spanish in their classrooms. They are also looking for ways to increase their own practice of academic Spanish. This training directly addresses those needs. It is based on the research and experience of Dr. Mónica Lara and her work in countless bilingual classrooms. Teachers will explore theory, strategies, and activities in Spanish that develop oracy and biliteracy. This training will be conducted in Spanish."

Speakers

Myrna Escajeda

Suzie Grondin

Tuesday July 24, 2018 8:30am - 3:30pm CDT
Room 611

8:30am CDT

CRT - PK-12 - Wakanda Forever: The Educational Implications of Black Panther

Limited Capacity seats available

Equity & Culturally Responsive Teacher

Join us for a screening of the movie Black Panther followed by a collaborative discussion on using the film as a catalyst for critical conversations around race and equity in your classroom. Be prepared to share and plan ways you can implement the outcome of these discussions within your curriculum.

Speakers

Natosha Daniels

Darrell Emanuel

Krista Tyler

ITS, Round Rock ISD

Krista Tyler is an Instructional Technology Specialist at McNeil High School. Krista was a middle school English/Language Arts teacher for 9 years before going geek and joining the RRISD tech team.

Tuesday July 24, 2018 8:30am - 3:30pm CDT
100 Lecture Hall

8:30am CDT

Integrating Computational Thinking K-12 Core Academics

Pamela Obarowski

Tuesday July 24, 2018 9:30am - 10:20am CDT
Room 721

9:30am CDT

Math Intervention - K-1 - Powerful Core Math Intervention for Kindergarten and First Grade Teachers

Limited Capacity seats available

Do you ever feel that students are struggling in your core math class and don’t know what to do to help them? This course will provide strategies and ideas about helping students during your core lesson, computational fluency, and spiral review time.
Participants: Kindergarten and First Grade Classroom Teachers

Speakers

Jessica Cheyney

Jenny Weaver

Tuesday July 24, 2018 9:30am - 11:20am CDT
Room 733

9:30am CDT

Music in the ELA Classroom

Limited Capacity seats available

Empower the voice of students through music using engaging lessons that connect the history of popular music to English Language Arts TEKS. Walk away with exciting activities to expand students’ minds, relate to the stories of musicians, analyze the tone and mood, connect the historical references, and respond to the learning.

Speakers

Laurie Humphries

Secondary Instructional Coach, Round Rock ISD

Laurie Humphries is a high school English language arts instructional coach and educator who has decades of teaching experience in Round Rock ISD. She has accumulated numerous hours of technology training, English language arts professional development and instructional strategies... Read More →

Tuesday July 24, 2018 9:30am - 11:20am CDT
Room 743

9:30am CDT

Poetry Five Ways

Limited Capacity seats available

This session explores methods of quickly and efficiently using poetry as a means rather than as an end.

Speakers

Ryan Harvey

Tuesday July 24, 2018 9:30am - 11:20am CDT
Room 747

9:30am CDT

Math - 6th-9th Algebra - Making Number Talks Matter

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Erin Simmons

Tuesday July 24, 2018 10:30am - 11:20am CDT
Room 742

10:30am CDT

math - 6-10 - The Secrets of GeoGebra Revealed

Limited Capacity seats available

For those already familiar with GeoGebra, and have an account, this session will extend your knowledge of the application's capabilities. Participants should already have created their accounts for GeoGebra.

Speakers

Jeremy Lee

Pamela Obarowski

Tuesday July 24, 2018 10:30am - 11:20am CDT
Room 720

12:30pm CDT

ELA - K-5 - Writing Workshop: Small Group Instruction

Limited Capacity seats available

Small group instruction meets the needs of writers when a few have a common goal and would benefit from the same strategy. This introductory course is designed to help differentiate what you’re teaching, match strategies to individual students’ goals, and give students opportunities for guided practice with you by their side. You will leave with knowledge of tools and systems for managing small group instruction in your writing workshop classroom.

Recommended companion courses- Writing Workshop: Refining Mini-Lessons, Analyzing Student Writing and Goal Setting, Conferring with Writers.

Speakers

Loretta Finder

Corinna Green

Instructional Coach, RRISD

Lindsey Kaiser

Tuesday July 24, 2018 12:30pm - 1:20pm CDT
Room 207A

12:30pm CDT

Math K-12 Math Anxiety

Limited Capacity seats available

Join us for a discussion about the causes and effects of math anxiety and strategies to support a healthy math community.

Speakers

Jeremy Lee

Tonia Miller

Gina Picha

Tuesday July 24, 2018 12:30pm - 1:20pm CDT
Room 207B

12:30pm CDT

All Content – Pre-K through 12 – ARRC: Breakout or Breakthrough

Limited Capacity seats available

Tuesday July 24, 2018 12:30pm - 1:20pm CDT
Room 747

General

12:30pm CDT

EdTech - 3-5 - Coding Made Easy

Limited Capacity seats available

Learn how to incorporate coding into your 3-5 classroom! We will use Code.org, Wonder Workshop apps and robots.

Speakers

Annie Miller

Tuesday July 24, 2018 12:30pm - 1:20pm CDT
Room 605

12:30pm CDT

EdTech - K-12 - Creating visual diagrams with Google Drive and ThingLink

Novel Ideas for SSR Success

Limited Capacity seats available

Research shows student choice is essential to reading development, but sometimes students struggle to find the right book. Come learn new ways to help students discover and connect with engaging books for Sustained Silent Reading (SSR). The presenters will allow time for idea sharing and interactive dialogue.

Speakers

Teresa Blanton

Christine Carter

Jennifer Freeman

Tuesday July 24, 2018 12:30pm - 1:20pm CDT
Room 722

12:30pm CDT

Math Intervention - K-1 - Powerful Core Math Intervention for Kindergarten and First Grade Teachers

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Jessica Cheyney

Jenny Weaver

Tuesday July 24, 2018 12:30pm - 2:20pm CDT
Room 733

12:30pm CDT

EdTech - K-5 - iMovie & You

Limited Capacity seats available

ELA 3-5 Reading Workshop: Managing Small Group Instruction in the Classroom

Limited Capacity seats available

When it comes to small group instruction, do you ever find yourself asking, “What is the rest of the class doing? How do I balance individual and group work? How do I establish routines and manage all of this?”

Join us for a half-day workshop where we explore practical ways to organize and manage the workshop to allow for small group instruction.

This is a great companion course to Teaching Reading in Small Groups (book study) K-5.

Speakers

Christy Evans

Michelle Vogl

Tuesday July 24, 2018 12:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Room 727

12:30pm CDT

Reading Workshop: Managing Small Group Instruction in the Classroom K-2

Limited Capacity seats available

When it comes to small group instruction, do you ever find yourself asking, “What is the rest of the class doing?
How do I balance individual and group work? How do I establish routines and manage all of this?”

Join us for a half-day workshop where we explore practical ways to organize and manage the workshop to allow for small group instruction.

This is a great companion course to Teaching Reading in Small Groups (book study) K-5.

Speakers

Helen Hansen

Ashlie Harr

Instructional Coach, RRISD

Tuesday July 24, 2018 12:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Room 204

12:30pm CDT

Math - K-2 - Making a Difference with Number Talks K-2

Limited Capacity seats available

Have you wondered how to have a classroom conversation about mental math strategies? Have you searched for a structure that will enable your students to think critically about strategies? Number Talks might be the answer. This routine is perfect for you whether you teach general education, TAG, Dual Language, Special Education, or Intervention students.
Join us as we:
- Recognize number talks as a valuable classroom routine for making sense of mathematics, developing efficient computation strategies, communicating reasoning, and proving solutions;
- Characterize the key components of number talks and understand the importance of each;
- Explore ways to support students’ development of common strategies for computational fluency;
- Scribe student strategies that emphasize the important mathematical ideas inherent in the strategies;
- Use models & tools that support student understanding & proficiency with computational fluency;

Speakers

Emily Faggard

Rachelle Finck

Tuesday July 24, 2018 12:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Room 744

12:30pm CDT

SLD Instructional Strategies for Special Educators

Limited Capacity seats available

Participants will be rotating through mini sessions for math problem solving, math calculations, and written expression. Each mini session will include description of disability area, impacts on learning, and classroom strategies to support and engage students.

Speakers

Heather Farrar

Kelli Hutka

Stacy Sanchez

Tuesday July 24, 2018 12:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Room 746

12:30pm CDT

What FAC/FLC/FCC Teachers Need to Know to Facilitate Successful Transition Planning

Limited Capacity seats available

This course is for MS and HS teachers of FAC/FLC/FCC. Teachers will learn the following information: CBVI - its purpose and benefits to students; using transition assessments; Career Prep and 18+ programs - which students could benefit from them; updates on state agencies that offer support and waiting lists; the importance of including health planning, especially for FLC students; strength-based transition planning; use of the Monday through Friday chart when facilitating transition planning.

Speakers

Carol Huntley

Tuesday July 24, 2018 12:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Room 615

1:30pm CDT

EdTech - 3-5 - Coding Made Easy

Limited Capacity seats available

Learn how to incorporate coding into your 3-5 classroom! We will use Code.org, Wonder Workshop apps and robots.

Speakers

Annie Miller

Tuesday July 24, 2018 1:30pm - 2:20pm CDT
Room 605

1:30pm CDT

EdTech - K-12 - Creating video presentations and podcasts

Limited Capacity seats available

In this class teachers will be learning how to use Screencastify to record digital presentations or video podcasts. They will also learn about how to do a audio podcast with Audacity. Please bring a Windows laptop.

Speakers

Jesse Sosa

Erik Weiler

Tuesday July 24, 2018 1:30pm - 2:20pm CDT
Room 732

1:30pm CDT

Digital Portfolios

Limited Capacity seats available

Using student portfolios creates student accountability and alternatively assess a student’s academic success throughout the school year. Learn how to tailor this tool to meet your classroom needs.

Speakers

Sarah Bilski

Tuesday July 24, 2018 1:30pm - 2:20pm CDT
Room 604

1:30pm CDT

ELA - 6-12 - Mini-Units with Assessments and Extensions

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Christian Morrow

Tuesday July 24, 2018 1:30pm - 2:20pm CDT
Room 742

1:30pm CDT

Novel Ideas for SSR Success

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Teresa Blanton

Speakers

Jesse Sosa

Erik Weiler

Tuesday July 24, 2018 2:30pm - 3:20pm CDT
Room 732

2:30pm CDT

Digital Portfolios

Limited Capacity seats available

Using student portfolios creates student accountability and alternatively assess a student’s academic success throughout the school year. Learn how to tailor this tool to meet your classroom needs.

Speakers

Sarah Bilski

Tuesday July 24, 2018 2:30pm - 3:20pm CDT
Room 604

2:30pm CDT

ELA - 6-12 - Mini-Units with Assessments and Extensions

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Christian Morrow

Tuesday July 24, 2018 2:30pm - 3:20pm CDT
Room 742

2:30pm CDT

Novel Ideas for SSR Success

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Teresa Blanton

Christine Carter

Jennifer Freeman

Tuesday July 24, 2018 2:30pm - 3:20pm CDT
Room 722

8:30am CDT

All Content – Pre-K through 12 – ARRC: Breakout or Breakthrough

Limited Capacity seats available

Wednesday July 25, 2018 8:30am - 9:20am CDT
Room 720

General

8:30am CDT

EdTech - 3-12 - Lock Box Challenge

Limited Capacity seats available

As the seconds and minutes pass on the countdown, teams will tackle a range of mental challenges that require concentration, dedication, perserverence, creativity and most of all teamwork. Great fun with problem solving and critical thinking practice!

Speakers

Donna Baker

Carol Edwards

Anita Oliver

Wednesday July 25, 2018 8:30am - 9:20am CDT
Room 615

8:30am CDT

EdTech - K-12 - Creating visual diagrams with Google Drive and ThingLink

EdTech - K-12 - Globally Connected Classrooms

Limited Capacity seats available

Flatten the walls of your classroom by connecting with other classrooms, museums, experts, etc.! Bring a device of your choice. You will leave this session with numerous resources.

Speakers

Sara Coons

Instructional Technology Specialist, Round Rock ISD - Fern Bluff

Kelly Erickson

Wednesday July 25, 2018 8:30am - 10:20am CDT
Room 725

8:30am CDT

Math - 8-12 - Transforming Learning with Number Strings

Limited Capacity seats available

Problem Strings are purposeful sequences of related problems, designed to help students mentally construct mathematical relationships. It is a powerful lesson structure during which teachers and students interact to construct important mathematical strategies, models, and concepts. The power of a problem string lies in the carefully crafted conversation as students solve problems, drawing out important connections and relationships. (Based on the Work of Pam Harris)

Speakers

Margaret Clark

Kathy Lowe

Wednesday July 25, 2018 8:30am - 10:20am CDT
Room 739

8:30am CDT

Fractions Without Fear

Limited Capacity seats available

The thought of multiplying and dividing fractions often sends kids running for the door. Join us for a discussion about the causes of fraction anxiety and strategies to support our students with developing fraction sense and a love of mathematics.

Speakers

Wednesday July 25, 2018 8:30am - 11:30am CDT
Room 722

8:30am CDT

Math Intervention - 6 - Moving on Up - Making Powerful Connections by Bridging 5th and 6th Grade Math Fluency and Sense-Making

Limited Capacity seats available

Ever wonder what your students learned in 5th grade math before coming to 6th grade? In this session, 6th grade math teachers and middle school interventionists will experience the types of strategies highlighted in our RRISD Elementary ARRC. Come learn about the mental fact strategies that students learn as they develop multiplication and division fact fluency. Experience a 5th grade number talk to see how students' computation strategies are recorded symbolically and with visual models. Learn about powerful instructional activities including numberless word problems, notice and wonder, and 3 act tasks, that foster students' mathematical sense making. Let's join forces to help our soon-to-be 6th graders have a successful transition from elementary to middle school mathematics.

Participants include 6th Grade Math Classroom Teachers and Middle School Math Interventionists

Speakers

Julie Hooper

Speakers

Felicia Hatchett

Christina Soria

Wednesday July 25, 2018 8:30am - 11:30am CDT
Room 204

8:30am CDT

Limited Capacity seats available

This course will provide the tools teachers need to hone in on developing the linguistic, academic, social, and cultural needs of your dual language students. You’ll walk away with authentic methods for teaching literacy in English and Spanish, ways to empower students as multilingual, multicultural learners, and a new perspective on advocacy through curriculum. Follow-up meeting dates required. Commitment to attend the following after school sessions - 3:30-5:00 pm Sept. 13, 2018 Sept. 27, 2018 Oct. 11, 2018 Oct. 25, 2018 Nov. 8, 2018 Nov. 29, 2018 Dec. 13, 2018 Jan. 10, 2019 Jan. 24, 2019 Feb. 7, 2019 Feb. 21, 2019

Speakers

Esmeralda Espericueta

Michelle Silva and Jennifer Harrell

Christina Leyva

Wednesday July 25, 2018 8:30am - 3:30pm CDT
Room 723

8:30am CDT

2018/07/25 - ELA - K-5 - Teaching Reading in Small Groups (Book Study)

Limited Capacity seats available

What are the structures for small group and individual reading instruction? How do I use assessment to drive small group instruction? How do I know which small group structure to use? If these questions interest you, this book study about Teaching Reading in Small Groups by Jennifer Serravallo is the session you are looking for!

Participants will deepen understandings about guided reading, strategy lessons, text-level introduction groups, and partnerships and book clubs. Participants will learn to organize and manage how to teach reading in small groups.

TAKEAWAYS: Participants of this session will receive a copy of Jennifer Servallo’s book Teaching Reading in Small Groups: Differentiated Instruction for Building Strategic, Independent Readers and will receive access to a Google Classroom to continue the conversation and collaboration about instructional practices of teaching reading in small groups.

Speakers

Emily Faggard

Karon Henderson

Wednesday July 25, 2018 8:30am - 3:30pm CDT
Room 203

8:30am CDT

RTI/Literacy - K-12 - Getting Started with Fast ForWord and Reading Assistant

Limited Capacity seats available

Help! My students will be using Fast ForWord. Fast ForWord is a language and reading intervention program available to K -12 students. This session includes how to get started with Fast ForWord and Reading Assistant and strategies to help students using the program. Participants need to bring earbuds or headsets.
Audience: New Users of Fast ForWord, Elementary Interventionists and Reading Specialists

Speakers

Melissa McCarroll

Wednesday July 25, 2018 8:30am - 3:30pm CDT
Room 604

8:30am CDT

EdTech - K-12 - Getting Started with AR and VR in the Classroom

Limited Capacity seats available

Come explore different Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality apps to make your subject come alive. Time will be spent on apps that can be used as is and on apps that allow students to create in this new reality environment.

Speakers

Shannon Sieber

Robin Young

Wednesday July 25, 2018 8:30am - 3:30pm CDT
Room 605

8:30am CDT

Leadership & SEL - K - 12 - Team Focused Bedrock Training and Relationship Building

Limited Capacity seats available

The Bedrock Personal Growth Model is a framework for building highly functioning teams through the use of the RRISD 9 Fundamentals of Personal Growth.
In this session, designed for teams of 2 or more, we will discuss the 9 fundamentals of personal growth, understand the use of feedback as a powerful tool in building relationships between colleagues, and facilitate activities to build relationships between team members. While it is ideal that entire teams are able to participate together, it is acceptable for portions of a team to participate together as well.

Speakers

Rachelle Finck

Kristina Snow

Director Leadership Dev., Round Rock ISD

Wednesday July 25, 2018 8:30am - 3:30pm CDT
Room 607

8:30am CDT

CPI Recertification Course

Limited Capacity seats available

This is a follow-up yearly refresher class that is required after completing an initial 2-day training. Please wear comfortable clothing and closed toe shoes. The course will review verbal de-escalation skills, physical intervention holding skills, and restraints for an out of control student.

Wednesday July 25, 2018 8:30am - 3:30pm CDT
700 Cafeteria

8:30am CDT

ELA - 1-5 - Writing Rocks - 2-Days

Limited Capacity seats available

Writing Rocks is an in-depth course involving an on-going case study and a writing publication, focused on advanced writing development. As a participant, you will meet in a cohort group twice a month to hone your craft as a teacher of writing. You will develop instructional practices through a deeper understanding of workshop, while recognizing strengths and finding teaching points for every writer. You will explore your own writing life to strengthen your work with students, culminating in a published piece for the Writing Rocks cohort. This course is for 1st-5th grade teachers who have already taken Writing Workshop, interventionists, and special education teachers. This course includes 8 mandatory after school sessions: 9/4, 9/18, 10/2, 10/16, 10/30, 11/13, 12/4, 12/13

Speakers

Christy Evans

Loretta Finder

Jaclyn Fleury

Corinna Green

Instructional Coach, RRISD

Wednesday July 25, 2018 8:30am - Thursday July 26, 2018 3:30pm CDT
Room 112

8:30am CDT

ELA - Kindergarten - Kinder Literacy: From Start to Finish - 2-Days

Limited Capacity seats available

This course is designed for all RRISD Kindergarten classroom teachers who are committed to turning their classrooms into richly literate reading and writing workshops using developmentally appropriate practices. The following is a partial list of topics that will be studied:

In this course, we will study teaching that fosters student independence and a growth mindset in our youngest learners, classroom systems and structures that support inquiry and collaboration, the development of a young child’s reading and writing skills over the course of a Kinder school year, taking a closer look at all components of balanced literacy, using formative assessments to plan for instructional next steps, the central role of planning in the teaching of reading and writing, and a trajectory of mini-lessons for supporting foundational literacy skills

Previous participants of the Kindergarten Literacy Cohort can join this cohort to continue the work from the previous year. This course includes 8 mandatory after-school sessions:

July 25, 2018 (full day)
July 26, 2018 (full day)
September 4, 2018
September 18, 2018
October 2, 2018
October 16, 2018
October 30, 2018
November 13, 2018
December 4, 2018
December 13, 2018 {Celebration}

TAKEAWAYS: title of texts to use throughout the academic day, new mini-lessons for reading/writing/choice workshop, reading/writing/play assessment tools, new shared and interactive read alouds, songs and poems to grow phonemic awareness, and a lab-site/conferring clinic

Speakers

Angie House

Jessi Murdter-Atkinson

Wednesday July 25, 2018 8:30am - Thursday July 26, 2018 3:30pm CDT
Room 630

8:30am CDT

Math - Math Rocks - K-5 - 2-Days

Limited Capacity seats available

Looking for a transformative PD experience for next school year? Consider joining Math Rocks! In this course you'll have the opportunity to build relationships around mathematics with other educators in (and out of!) RRISD. You'll also foster your own and your students' curiosity about mathematics as you learn about rich and engaging instructional practices to try out in your classroom. This course is ideal for any elementary educator - classroom teacher, dual language, special education, TAG, or intervention. Not sure if this course is for you? Check out what previous Math Rocks participants had to say about this course at https://bit.ly/MathRocksReflections.

Attendance requirements include 2 full days during the summer, then 8 additional sessions after school. The required after- school sessions will be: 9/4, 9/18, 10/2, 10/23, 11/13, 12/4, 1/15, 1/29 final celebration Feb 12

In this course, we will learn strategies and try out tasks to use in our classrooms, complete a book study, and use technology to reflect and collaborate.

Speakers

Leilani Losli

Instructional Coach, RRISD

Mandy Masters

Kari Maurer

Jan Nutt

Wednesday July 25, 2018 8:30am - Thursday July 26, 2018 3:30pm CDT
Room 743

9:30am CDT

EdTech - K-12 - Creating video presentations and podcasts

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Jesse Sosa

Erik Weiler

Wednesday July 25, 2018 9:30am - 10:20am CDT
Room 732

9:30am CDT

Math- Kindergarten - Maximizing the Math Suggested Unit Plans: Sorting and Classifying (Data and Geometry)

Limited Capacity seats available

Have you ever felt like you aren’t getting the biggest bang for your planning buck? The suggested unit plans are great, but where do you start planning? Join us as we take a hands-on approach to exploring the suggested unit plans on Sorting and Classifying (Data and Geometry). You’ll walk away with ideas to maximize the effectiveness of the lessons and learn tips from teachers who helped plan these units.

Speakers

Candy Stahl

Faculty, Wells Branch Arts Integration Academy

Wednesday July 25, 2018 9:30am - 11:20am CDT
Room 742

9:30am CDT

Differentiating Instruction for Students with Disabilities in the Gen Ed Setting

EdTech - K-12 - You Can Do the Rubik's Cube: Critical Thinking, Math, STEM/STEAM

Limited Capacity seats available

Participants will learn how to solve a 3x3 Rubik's Cube and will leave with lesson plans for integrating the Rubik's Cube into your classes for critical thinking, problem solving and using algorithms.

Speakers

Mary Ellen Yonker

Wednesday July 25, 2018 10:30am - 11:20am CDT
Room 727

10:30am CDT

Math - 6- Algebra 2 - Open Number Lines - Solving Equations

Limited Capacity seats available

The cool thing about open number lines is that they require (and give kids practice in) using number sense to truly understand what is happening when solving algebraic equations at ALL levels of Secondary Instruction. Teachers will pratice solving different problems and learn how to solve them utilizing open number lines, followed by discussions about classroom implementations.

Speakers

Kathy Lowe

Michelle Smith

Wednesday July 25, 2018 10:30am - 11:20am CDT
Room 738

12:30pm CDT

All Content – Pre-K through 12 – ARRC: Breakout or Breakthrough

Limited Capacity seats available

Wednesday July 25, 2018 12:30pm - 1:20pm CDT
Room 720

General

12:30pm CDT

PreK - 5 - Creating a Brain Friendly Classroom

Limited Capacity seats available

Learn some quick and easy ways to maximize learning by taking the teaching strategies you know well and making them “brain friendly.” In this session, we will explore how our brain learns through memory pathways and discuss how you can use this knowledge to enhance your students’ ability to recall and apply what they have learned. Sometimes it’s as simple as a change in semantics or well placed physical movement to take your curriculum from a great lesson to one your students will never forget.

Speakers

Nora Pettebone

3rd Grade, Pond Springs

Wednesday July 25, 2018 12:30pm - 2:20pm CDT
Room 204

12:30pm CDT

EdTech - K-12 - Globally Connected Classrooms

Limited Capacity seats available

Flatten the walls of your classroom by connecting with other classrooms, museums, experts, etc.! Bring a device of your choice. You will leave this session with numerous resources.

Speakers

Sara Coons

Instructional Technology Specialist, Round Rock ISD - Fern Bluff

Kelly Erickson

Wednesday July 25, 2018 12:30pm - 2:20pm CDT
Room 725

12:30pm CDT

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Pam Scarborough

Asst Director, Round Rock ISD

Wednesday July 25, 2018 12:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Room 601

12:30pm CDT

The Intentional Imagination in the Secondary ELA Classroom

Limited Capacity seats available

Enhance self-expression, focus and a sense of purpose as you explore innovation and imagination. Based on brain science research, teachers will experience activities and methods incorporating creativity which promotes risk-taking and iteration while reducing stress and anxiety for their middle and high school ELA students.

Speakers

Ryan Harvey

Laurie Humphries

Secondary Instructional Coach, Round Rock ISD

Wednesday July 25, 2018 12:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Room 748

12:30pm CDT

Math - 6-7 - Building Numeracy in Middle School

Limited Capacity seats available

Do your students struggle with percents or proportions? Are you looking for ways to help all students build their numeracy? Come learn how to scaffold students' learning using visual representations and problem strings that build on prior understanding to construct numerical relationships. You will leave with easy to implement ideas and resources. Content focus will be proportions and percents based on the work of Pamela Harris.

Speakers

Siri Ralph

Dianne Shaver

Wednesday July 25, 2018 12:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Room 738

12:30pm CDT

Science - 6-12 - From Cookbook Labs to Inquiry-Based Learning Experiences

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Tehmeena Qamar

Wednesday July 25, 2018 12:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Room 745

Secondary Science

12:30pm CDT

SS - 6-12 - Inference in Social Studies

Limited Capacity seats available

This workshop will give teachers the tools to teach students how to gain a deeper understanding of text and explore cross curricular applications. What role do prior knowledge, assumptions and textual or visual evidence play in creating inferences? We will also look at how to develop questioning skills, including cultivating students’ ability to create their own high-level questions. The presenter will model strategies which teachers can use daily in the classroom to develop inference skills.

Speakers

Meghan Dougherty

Natalie Thomas

Wednesday July 25, 2018 12:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Room 747

Secondary Social Studies

12:30pm CDT

SEL - PreK - 12 - What's Your EQ?

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Enrique Garza

Wednesday July 25, 2018 12:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Room 746

1:30pm CDT

Differentiating Instruction for Students with Disabilities in the Gen Ed Setting

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Heather Farrar

Speakers

Jennifer Bordic

Marlena McConnell

Thursday July 26, 2018 8:30am - 10:20am CDT
Room 739

8:30am CDT

Math - 6-12 - Nuts and Bolts of Calculators

Limited Capacity seats available

Beginning graphing calculator skills and how to use them.

Speakers

Paul Norris

Thursday July 26, 2018 8:30am - 10:20am CDT
Room 727

8:30am CDT

Math - 6-12th - Understanding the best use of Calculators

Limited Capacity seats available

Between "absolutely No calculators" and "Calculators every minute in a math class" there is a sweet spot where calculators are tools and not crutches. This will be a discussion to define characteristics of when best to use calculators and when to hold back.

Speakers

Kathy Lowe

Shara Shunkweiler

Stephen Teal

Thursday July 26, 2018 8:30am - 10:20am CDT
Room 724

8:30am CDT

GT Update 3-8: Questioning Skills and Discussion Strategies

Limited Capacity seats available

Differentiate for your gifted and high ability learners through effective questioning and discussion strategies. Incoporate Depth and Complexity Icons into you classroom to reach high levels of thought and interaction.

Speakers

Sunny Bonnecarrere

Thursday July 26, 2018 8:30am - 11:30am CDT
Room 725

8:30am CDT

Dual Language/ESL - K-2 - El estudio del dictado

Limited Capacity seats available

Equity & Culturally Responsive Teacher

El estudio del dictado is an instructional strategy that later turns into an assessment. El dictado is holistic; it teaches and develops spelling, punctuation, and syntax & grammar (and other word study skills) in a way that is meaningful and comprehensive. The participants will gain knowledge in what a dictado is and how iit is used for different purposes. They will also get to experience el dictado and how to incorporate it into their language arts block.

Speakers

Gloria Cruz

Natosha Daniels

Darrell Emanuel

Krista Tyler

ITS, Round Rock ISD

Krista Tyler is an Instructional Technology Specialist at McNeil High School. Krista was a middle school English/Language Arts teacher for 9 years before going geek and joining the RRISD tech team.

Thursday July 26, 2018 8:30am - 11:30am CDT
Room 634

8:30am CDT

From Uke to Guitar: A sequential approach to integrating strings into your classroom and extracurricular clubs

Limited Capacity seats available

The clinician will provide approachable, relevant, sequential materials in order to get you and your students singing and playing stringed instruments in the classroom and in extracurricular clubs. The first part of the morning will focus on Ukulele, while the second part will focus on guitar. Instruments will not be provided, so please bring along a Uke or a Guitar (both, if you have them). Optional materials: tuner, guitar capo.

Speakers

GT Module 3 - Social and Emotional Needs

Limited Capacity seats available

The Bridge is a stragtegy used to bring the two languages together to encourage students to explore the similiariteis and differences in the phonology, morphology, syntax & grammar, and pragmatics. The Bridge is also the instructional moment when teachers help students connect the content-area knowledge and skills they have learned in one language to the other language.

Speakers

Yaneth Helm

Noelix Rivera

Thursday July 26, 2018 8:30am - 3:30pm CDT
Room 613

8:30am CDT

TExES Training for ESL Certification

Limited Capacity seats available

For teachers who will take the 154 English as a Second Language Supplement Exam presented by Dr. Patricia Morales

Speakers

Maria Green

Dr. Patricia Morales

Thursday July 26, 2018 8:30am - 3:30pm CDT
Room 203

8:30am CDT

ELA - 1-5 - Patterns of Power: Inviting Young Writers Into The Conventions Of Writing

Limited Capacity seats available

Do you want to create a classroom where students are curious about language? Where they notice and experiment with conventions? Are you frustrated that students aren’t transferring these skills to their independent writing?

Join us in this study of Jeff Anderson’s Patterns of Power: Inviting Young Writers into the Conventions of Language, Grades 1-5 (please bring a copy, if possible). Discover how implementing his process of planning, instruction, and application will allow your students to move beyond error correction and use their grammar knowledge to make meaning in their writing.

We will explore this process and take time to do some meaningful discussion and planning around the integration of oral and written conventions in our reading and writing workshops.

Speakers

Mandy Masters

Jake Page

Instructional Coach-Elementary, Berkman AIA

Candy Stahl

Faculty, Wells Branch Arts Integration Academy

Thursday July 26, 2018 8:30am - 3:30pm CDT
Room 742

8:30am CDT

Science - 3-5 - Argument Driven Inquiry (ADI) Level 1

Limited Capacity seats available

What is ADI and why should I use it in my classroom? Argument-Driven Inquiry (ADI) is an instructional model for science teachers. Teachers can use ADI to transform the way they teach labs so students have more opportunities to learn how to use disciplinary core ideas (DCIs), crosscutting concepts (CCs), and science and engineering practices (SEPs) to figure out how things work or why things happen. ADI also gives students opportunities to learn how to read, write, speak, and listen in science because it makes scientific argumentation the foundation of all laboratory activities. ADI, as a result, makes classroom science more like real science for students and can help them learn more than they typically do from hands-on lab activities. Come experience Argument Driven Inquiry for yourself. This session includes instruction and access to lab handouts and templates.

Speakers

Vicky Arms

Thursday July 26, 2018 8:30am - 3:30pm CDT
Room 745

Elementary science

8:30am CDT

Leadership & SEL - K12 - Bedrock Personal Growth (Open Session)

Limited Capacity seats available

The Round Rock ISD Bedrock Personal Growth model incorporates 9 fundamentals to increase personal performance, build relationships, and foster healthy environments. As a part of Summer learning, this session is open to anyone in Round Rock ISD who is interested in honing their personal development. Throughout the course of the day, participants will dive in to each of the 9 fundamentals and their impact on personal success. Participants will leave with an understanding of the 9 fundamentals, reference guides from the workshop, as well as a variety of resources to continue their learning throughout the year.

Speakers

Kristina Snow

Director Leadership Dev., Round Rock ISD

Thursday July 26, 2018 8:30am - 3:30pm CDT
Room 737

8:30am CDT

Instructional Design for HS ELA

Limited Capacity seats available

You asked for it---A high school learning session focused on grade-level content with authentic application, time to process, and plan for instruction during the day. Explore teaming experiences that are purposeful, meaningful, and effective. Come as a PLC and and work with your colleagues and with the district ELA team. Sign up now and mark your calendar.

Speakers

Ryan Harvey

Laurie Humphries

Secondary Instructional Coach, Round Rock ISD

Chris Lockamy

Lara Raesz

Randa Ruiz

Thursday July 26, 2018 8:30am - 3:30pm CDT
Room 721

8:30am CDT

Instructional Design for Middle School

Limited Capacity seats available

You asked for it---A middle school learning session focused on grade-level content with authentic application, time to process, and plan for instruction during the day. Come as a PLC and and work with your colleagues and with the district ELA team. Sign up now and mark your calendar.

Speakers

Christy Evans

Anndrea Harrold

LaToya Morrison

Karen Petersen

Pam Tarquinio

Randi Titzel

Thursday July 26, 2018 8:30am - 3:30pm CDT
Room 722

8:30am CDT

SEL - PreK - 5 - Kids 1st From Day 1

Limited Capacity seats available

From the first days of school to the last, students are at the forefront of every classroom in every school throughout the district. In this session, we will dive in to various instructional practices, classroom systems, and quick tips and tricks for strengthening and deepening the connections between your love of working with kids, your desire to impact their lives, and your teaching practice. Participants of this introductory level class will walk away with classroom design plans that make learning fun, positive language and classroom routines to reduce disruptive behavior, and instructional suggestions for matching students' needs to high - impact teaching structures.

Speakers

Jessica Cheyney

Rachelle Finck

Thursday July 26, 2018 8:30am - 3:30pm CDT
Room 748

8:30am CDT

CPI Recertification Course

Limited Capacity seats available

Thursday July 26, 2018 8:30am - 3:30pm CDT
Room 606

10:30am CDT

Math Intervention - K-5 - Beyond the Assessment - What Do We Do Now? Advanced Course

MathDL - K-2 - Creando un ámbito de matemáticas enriquecedor en el aula bilingüe

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Christina Leyva

Thursday July 26, 2018 12:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Room 720

12:30pm CDT

Math - 3-5 - Making a Difference with Number Talks

Limited Capacity seats available

Number talks are five- to fifteen-minute classroom conversations around purposefully crafted computation problems that are solved mentally, and they’re possibly the best part of a teacher’s day! In this course you will learn the key components of number talks and how to use them to deepen your students’ understanding of number and operations. You’ll also get to take part in one or two number talks yourself!

Speakers

Kari Maurer

Gina Picha

Thursday July 26, 2018 12:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Room 731

12:30pm CDT

Math Intervention - 2 - Advanced Tiered Partnerships for Student Success in Grade 2 Mathematics - The Progression of Addition and Subtraction

Inst Tech - All Levels - Google Forms

Limited Capacity seats available

Learn how to create and use Google Forms. In this session you'll discover some tips and tricks, including adding logic-branching to your forms and more.

**Participants need to have a Google account.

Speakers

Pam Scarborough

Asst Director, Round Rock ISD

Thursday July 26, 2018 12:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Room 605

Monday July 30, 2018 8:30am - 9:20am CDT
Room 611

8:30am CDT

Dyslexia: What to look for / Elementary

Limited Capacity seats available

For core teachers; reading specialists; reading teachers; interventionists. This class is for interventionists or classroom teachers who suspect that a student may have dyslexia. Learn how to recognize the signs, symptoms, and affects of dyslexia in elementary-aged children, as well as common strengths.

Speakers

Cheryl Baker

Dyslexia Evaluator, RRISD

I taught for 9 years as a classroom teacher, and then 6 years as an Interventionist. I am certified in Wilson Reading System and Reading Recovery. This past school year I served as dyslexia support at the elementary level. This next school year I will serve as a Dyslexia Evaluator... Read More →

Allizon Cosieur

Sharla Iseral

Monday July 30, 2018 8:30am - 10:20am CDT
Room 628

8:30am CDT

eSTAR Documentation for Wilson/BLS

Limited Capacity seats available

For Interventionists. Interventionists will walk through the documentation process in eSTAR for students who receive dyslexia services.

Speakers

Cheryl Baker

Dyslexia Evaluator, RRISD

Katie Bryan

Dyslexia Specialist

Sharla Iseral

Monday July 30, 2018 8:30am - 10:20am CDT
Room 630

8:30am CDT

Just Start Just Words and eStar documentation

Limited Capacity seats available

For current and previously trained (2-day training) Just Words teachers/Reading specialists. This course will discuss the Just Words program and planning for the school year. This is not the 2-day prerequisite to teach the class. Bring your laptop, and Just Words teacher kit as they will be used.

Speakers

Jessica Abbott

Dyslexia Specialist: Wilson Support, RtI - Dyslexia

I have taught 16 years, 14 in Round Rock focusing on secondary education. I am K-12, SpEd, ESL, 4-8 ELA certified, a Wilson Just Words Facilitator, and am Wilson Level 1 certified. I am the Learning Ally and Bookshare online resource district contact, along with Wanda McMillian... Read More →

Wanda McMillian

Monday July 30, 2018 8:30am - 10:20am CDT
Room 108

8:30am CDT

ELA - K-2 - Shared and Interactive Writing

Math Intervention - 3-5 - Whoever Knew There Were So Many Facets? The Progression of Multiplication and Division in Grades 3-5

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Regina Payne

Monday July 30, 2018 8:30am - 11:30am CDT
Room 110

8:30am CDT

Fine Arts - K-12 - How to Create Instructional Demo Videos

Limited Capacity seats available

Need to save time with lengthy and messy demos? Need tutorials to help students who need further practice? Need a resource for absent students? Learn how to create and edit instructional demo videos using your Ladibug document camera and Windows Moviemaker. Also, learn how to create videos using a screen recording app on the computer. for the times when you need to show a process on a computer.

Speakers

Carolyn Scalan

Visual Arts Educator, Gattis ES

Lillian Robison

Monday July 30, 2018 8:30am - 11:30am CDT
Room 118

8:30am CDT

GT Module 4 - Creativity and Questioning

Limited Capacity seats available

Helen Hansen

Karon Henderson

Monday July 30, 2018 8:30am - 3:30pm CDT
Room 113

Elementary science

8:30am CDT

More Meaning: Developmentally Appropriate Practice & Small Group Learning

CPI Initial Training

Limited Capacity seats available

Monday July 30, 2018 8:30am - Tuesday July 31, 2018 3:30pm CDT
Room 109

9:00am CDT

Foam Rolling Class

Limited Capacity seats available

“Dr. Miguel Millan & Christopher Jammer of Airrosti Rehab Centers will be joining us Monday, July 30th from 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM hosting a foam rolling class for our RRISD Dance Educators. They’ll learn how this valuable tool can increase flexibility, blood flow and circulation, while reducing injuries or pain. Not to mention, keep dancers doing what they love doing! Learn how the foam roller not only helps with injury resolution but is vital in injury prevention!
If you are not familiar; Airrosti, is a conservative, non-invasive approach for pain/injuries. Typical injury resolutions are experienced on average, within 3 visits!”

Speakers

Christopher Jammer

Dr. Miguel Millan

Monday July 30, 2018 9:00am - 10:00am CDT
Room 904

9:30am CDT

Bookshare Online Library: Information and Usage

Limited Capacity seats available

For core teachers; reading specialists; reading teachers, campus Bookshare contacts. Bookshare is a free text-to-speech online library for students who meet eligibility with a learning disability, low vision/blindness, or physical disability that significantly interferes with reading. This is for anyone interested in finding out more about the program and how to use it. Bring your laptop as it will be used.

Speakers

Monica Santos

Monday July 30, 2018 9:30am - 10:20am CDT
Room 626

9:30am CDT

WIST introduction

Limited Capacity seats available

Bookshare Online Library: Information and Usage

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Jessica Abbott

Dyslexia Specialist: Wilson Support, RtI - Dyslexia

Monica Santos

Monday July 30, 2018 10:30am - 11:20am CDT
Room 626

12:30pm CDT

Just Start Just Words and eStar documentation

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Jessica Abbott

Dyslexia Specialist: Wilson Support, RtI - Dyslexia

RRISD

Joy Hart

Kari Maurer

Monday July 30, 2018 12:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Room 207A

12:30pm CDT

Inst Tech - All Levels - Taking It Up a Notch with Gmail and Calendar

Limited Capacity seats available

Instructional Technology, Leadership

Speakers

Pam Scarborough

Asst Director, Round Rock ISD

Monday July 30, 2018 12:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Room 605

12:30pm CDT

LID - Mand Training

Limited Capacity seats available

Audience: FCC / FAC / FLC teachers
Teaching students to request wants and desires is an important aspect of language instruction. This session will teach staff how to capture and contrive motivation. Staff will learn how to complete a preference assessment, select target skills and collect mand data.

Speakers

Felicia Hatchett

Donna Worley

Monday July 30, 2018 12:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Room 111

1:30pm CDT

Empowering World Language Students Through Proficiency-Based Instruction

It’s not your “Mom and Pop’s” language classroom anymore. The days of learning languages with worksheets are long gone. As we start down the path of a new era for World Languages with new TEKS and new instructional materials, Proficiency is now the name of the game. The presenters will explore the paradigm shifts that many language supervisors all over the county have initiated with their teams in order to reform language learning. By unpacking the 15 indicators of a 21st century. This course is also being offered during SummeRR Camp. If you are NOT attending SummeRR Camp, please be sure to register for this course separately in Eduphoria using the Eduphoria Registration ink above.

Speakers

Marie Douglass

Monday July 30, 2018 1:30pm - 3:20pm CDT
Room 746

LOTE/World Languages

1:30pm CDT

Preparing Elementary Students & Parents for the Future Ahead

Limited Capacity seats available

This course is for elementary teachers of students receiving special education services. Although formal transition planning often does not start until the student is 14, there are many things that elementary teachers need to know to be able to prepare students and their parents for what lies ahead. Teachers will learn which students' parents should access state agencies now (including navigating waiting lists); teachers will learn how to best guide students in self-determination, self-advocacy and independence and how to talk to parents about what they may do at home to promote the same.

Speakers

Carol Huntley

Candy Squilla

Monday July 30, 2018 1:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Room 205

8:30am CDT

GT Update: K-12 Equity Focus: Assessments and Local Norms for Identification in Diverse Populations

Limited Capacity seats available

Get an overview of the district's use of local norms, assessements, and service options that are directred at improving equity in our district's identification for gifted services. An excellent course for those who serve on campus screening and selection committees.

Tuesday July 31, 2018 8:30am - 10:20am CDT
Room 615

8:30am CDT

SEL - PreK - 5 - Supporting Second Step Implementation as a Counselor

Limited Capacity seats available

Counselors play an integral role in the implementation of Second Step on campus. This intermediate - expert level course will provide counselors who have knowledge of Second Step (or perhaps have previously taught Second Step on camps) with tips, tools, and tricks to support a campus wide implementation on campus. Counselors will leave this session with a network of resources, the RRISD SEL framework, and materials to help teachers be successful in their classrooms.

Speakers

Carrie Hontz

Tuesday July 31, 2018 8:30am - 10:20am CDT
Room 207B

8:30am CDT

Behavior - K-5 - De-escalation Strategies and Techniques

Limited Capacity seats available

Students in the classroom today come from a diverse set of backgrounds, experiences, and cultures. This brings a new set of challenges to campus administration and staff when experiencing a student whose behavior is escalating. Since minimal time is spent learning about classroom management and behavior when getting teaching degrees and certifications, this training will help to bridge that gap and provide the participant with more options to address a variety of challenging behaviors in the classroom and school setting. Recommended for any first-year elementary teachers. Relevant for all K-5 staff and administrators.

Speakers

Jeffery Hastings

Damien Mills

Tuesday July 31, 2018 8:30am - 11:30am CDT
Room 612

Behavior/Classroom Management

8:30am CDT

ELA/SS-K-2-Stop, Integrate, and Listen!

Limited Capacity seats available

We are all looking for more instructional time in our day. Sometimes social studies can get lost in this crunch for time. Together we will explore authentic ways to integrate social studies content into our daily Balanced Literacy block. After spending this learning time together, you will walk away with ideas, in addition to engaging lesson plans that utilize Jennifer Serravallo, Jeff Anderson, and Fountas and Pinnell. This course will embed ESL strategies, as well as culturally responsive instruction.

Speakers

Joy Hart

Leilani Losli

Instructional Coach, RRISD

Tuesday July 31, 2018 8:30am - 11:30am CDT
Room 606

8:30am CDT

Fine Arts - K-12 - The Itty Bitty Details of 3D Printing- What You Might Not Know

Limited Capacity seats available

Calling all visual arts teachers – learn more about our rotating 3D printers - It looks fun! It looks exciting! You've created and are ready to print...but oops, it's HUGE! It's the wrong kind of file. You missed seeing that a student's piece was floating above its base. Learn about the itty bitty details that will make your 3D printing with your class go more smoothly.

Speakers

Carolyn Scalan

Visual Arts Educator, Gattis ES

Tuesday July 31, 2018 8:30am - 11:30am CDT
Room 616

8:30am CDT

Middle School Curriculum Planning

Limited Capacity seats available

Middle School Educators will gather to work on planning for the upcoming year for curriculum, ARRC, preparation for shows and projects. Any Middle Dance educator is welcome to attend.

Speakers

Kelley Morgan

Tuesday July 31, 2018 8:30am - 11:30am CDT
Room 613

8:30am CDT

SEL - PreK - 12 - Mindfulness In The Classroom

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Shameika Alexander

Helen Hanson

Lindsey Kaiser

Tuesday July 31, 2018 8:30am - 11:30am CDT
Room 204

8:30am CDT

Instructional Reading Strategies for students with low cognitive disabilities

Limited Capacity seats available

Course is designed for LID teachers (FAC and FLC)
Instructors will provide reading resources and strategies for students with low cognitive disabilities. A guest speaker from DSACT will also be providing training.

Speakers

Amy Hansen

Christina Soria

Tuesday July 31, 2018 8:30am - 11:30am CDT
Room 624

8:30am CDT

Special Education - K-12- Reevaluations - When, Why and How to Test

Limited Capacity seats available

A review of the reevaluation process and how to make decisions when completing the REED.

Speakers

Somer McClintock

Nicole Moody

Tuesday July 31, 2018 8:30am - 11:30am CDT
Room 626

8:30am CDT

GT Module 5 - Curriculum Differentiation

LOTE/GENERAL ED 6-12 Mindful and Accommodation Friendly Classroom

Limited Capacity seats available

This 6 hour course will address a mindful approach to classroom structure and management including the inclusion of 504/IEP accommodations. This course includes both direct instruction partnered with hands on activity building and interaction with technology to make a more inclusive but strong social emotional learning environment. Course will include an introduction to the use of Google Classroom and Flip Grid as well as mindfulness tools such as Virtual Hope Box.

Speakers

Rebecca Cooper

Tuesday July 31, 2018 8:30am - 3:30pm CDT
Room 203

Secondary General

9:30am CDT

WIST introduction

Limited Capacity seats available

For NEW Just Words teachers and reading specialists. Teachers new to the WIST will learn how to administer this assessment. Bring your WIST kit.

Speakers

Katie Bryan

Dyslexia Specialist

Tuesday July 31, 2018 9:30am - 10:20am CDT
Room 611

10:30am CDT

WIST Refresher

Limited Capacity seats available

For Just Words teachers and reading specialists. Teachers will review the process of giving the WIST assessment along with tips for smooth administration. Bring your WIST kit.

Speakers

Katie Bryan

Dyslexia Specialist

Wanda McMillian

Tuesday July 31, 2018 10:30am - 11:20am CDT
Room 611

10:30am CDT

Students as Performers

Limited Capacity seats available

Since Proficiency is the name of the game, performance is the key! This session will focus on the use of Integrated Performance Assessments (IPA) in the World Language Classroom. Participants will have the opportunity to develop performance-based activities as part of an IPA to build proficiency across all three modes communication: Interpretive, Interpersonal, and Presentational. This course is also being offered during SummeRR Camp. If you are NOT attending SummeRR Camp, please be sure to register for this course separately in Eduphoria using the link below.

Speakers

Marie Douglass

Tuesday July 31, 2018 10:30am - 11:20am CDT
Room 112

LOTE/World Languages

10:30am CDT

GT Update: K-12 Equity in Gifted Education: A State Initiative

Limited Capacity seats available

Take an in depth look at the report published by TEA that focuses on best practices in identification of gifted students in under-represented populations. In this session you will learn how to look for traits of giftedness in under represented populations.

Tuesday July 31, 2018 10:30am - 12:20pm CDT
Room 615

12:30pm CDT

Math K-12 Math Anxiety

Limited Capacity seats available

Join us for a discussion about the causes and effects of math anxiety and strategies to support a healthy math community.

Speakers

Jeremy Lee

Tonia Miller

Gina Picha

Tuesday July 31, 2018 12:30pm - 1:20pm CDT
Room 737

12:30pm CDT

Dyslexia: What to look for / Elementary

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Cheryl Baker

Dyslexia Evaluator, RRISD

Allizon Cosieur

Sharla Iseral

Tuesday July 31, 2018 12:30pm - 2:20pm CDT
Room 628

12:30pm CDT

eSTAR Documentation for Wilson/BLS

Limited Capacity seats available

For Interventionists. Interventionists will walk through the documentation process in eSTAR for students who receive dyslexia services.

Speakers

Cheryl Baker

Dyslexia Evaluator, RRISD

Katie Bryan

Dyslexia Specialist

Sharla Iseral

Tuesday July 31, 2018 12:30pm - 2:20pm CDT
Room 630

12:30pm CDT

2018/07/31-ELA-K-5- Conferring with Readers

Limited Capacity seats available

How can I move my readers forward? What are my students thinking about when they read? What strategies are they using to understand the text? If these are some questions you are asking during your reading workshop, please join us in this Conferring with Readers session.

Reading conferences create one-to-one teaching opportunities within your reading workshop. This course will benefit those who are seeking to:

~Explore purposes for conferring
~Examine structures for effective reading conferences
~Find tools for collecting data to move readers forward
~Share ideas to target students’ needs

Speakers

Karon Henderson

Jake Page

Instructional Coach-Elementary, Berkman AIA

Tuesday July 31, 2018 12:30pm - 2:20pm CDT
Room 204

12:30pm CDT

COMBO JAM session

Limited Capacity seats available

Dance Educators at every level will gather to bring their best 8- 8count combination of any dance genre for teaching use next school year. Come learn and share with your fellow educators in the district.

Speakers

Karen Searles

Tuesday July 31, 2018 12:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Room 904

12:30pm CDT

LOTE - Level 1 - Creating Listening Assessments

GT Update: K-5 Use Picture Books to Promote Equity in GT Identification

Limited Capacity seats available

Learn to use picture books with characters from diverse backgrousnds to stimulate high order thinking skills and to identifify potential students for gifted services.

Tuesday July 31, 2018 1:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Room 615