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February 2-6, 2009
Cobb Galleria Centre
Atlanta, Georgia
Session Descriptions:
Monday, February 2nd:
Full Day Workshop Sessions
Leadership Academy: Administrators New to Learning-Focused
Day: Monday, February 2nd and Tuesday, February 3rd
Audience: Administrators Grades: All
Presenter(s): Max Thompson, Cecilia Garcia, Jim Riedl, Allan Thrush
Description: Learning-Focused Leadership Academies provide educational leaders with a focus on exceeding leadership expectations by thinking and performing beyond limits. Learning-Focused provides leaders with coaching and experiences that guide administrators to exemplary leadership. All Learning-Focused Leadership Academies include:
- Personalized Collaboration
- Benchmarks to Achievement
- Prioritizing and Focusing on Difference Makers
- Balancing What Works
- Implementing Change Reflection and Support
During the two days of this Leadership Academy for Administrators New to Learning-Focused you will learn about:
- Exemplary Leadership Practices
- How to reach Balanced Achievement
- Benchmarks to focus on
- How to focus on the five exemplary practice categories
- How to institute accountability with high support
- High impact, rapid response strategies that make immediate advancements in learning
- Starting continuous improvement models, Implementation, Scheduling, Real-world examples, and more!
Leadership Academy: Administrators with 12 + months Experience with Learning-Focused
Day: Monday, February 2nd and Tuesday, February 3rd
Audience: Administrators Grades: All
Presenter(s): Max Thompson, Cecilia Garcia, Jim Riedl, Allan Thrush
Description: Learning-Focused Leadership Academies provide educational leaders with a focus on exceeding leadership expectations by thinking and performing beyond limits. Learning-Focused provides leaders with coaching and experiences that guide administrators to exemplary leadership. All Learning-Focused Leadership Academies include:
- Personalized Collaboration
- Benchmarks to Achievement
- Prioritizing and Focusing on Difference Makers
- Balancing What Works
- Implementing Change Reflection and Support
During the two days of this Leadership Academy for Administrators with 12+ Months Experience with Learning-Focused you will learn about:
- Sustaining Continuous Improvement
- Leadership Coaching and Conferencing
- Identifying Challenges and Creating Solutions
- Advancing Monitoring
- Data and Assessment Driven Decision Making
- Moving Teachers Up or Moving Them Out
- Increasing Professional Expectations and Ensuring a Culture of Learning
- Succeeding with At-Risk Students, and more!
Learning-Focused Connecting Strategies (Version 7)
(Previously Known as Days 1 and 2 of Learning-Focused)
Day: Monday, February 2nd and Tuesday, February 3rd
Audience: All Grades: K-12
Presenter: Denise Burson
Description: This is part 1 of 3 for the Learning-Focused Instructional Strategies Model workshop for teachers. Administrators that have not attended should participate in order to monitor and provide support. Learn the framework for planning and delivering essential practices, skills, knowledge, and resources. This workshop includes: the big picture of Learning-Focused and the importance of connecting strategies, the EATS Acquisition lesson framework, and essential practice strategies.
Learning-Focused Connecting Extending Thinking (Version 7)
prerequisite: Connecting Strategies
(Previously Known as Day 3 of Learning-Focused)
Day: Monday, February 2nd
Audience: All Grades: K-12
Presenter: Barbara McSwain
Description: This is part 2 of 3 for the Learning-Focused Instructional Strategies Model workshop for teachers. Administrators that have not attended should participate in order to monitor and provide support. Connecting Extending Thinking merges the EATS Acquisition lesson framework and Student Learning Maps with Extending Thinking lessons and activities. Extending thinking is a crucial exemplary practice for increasing student achievement. The Learning-Focused framework makes planning and implementing extending thinking lessons and activities consistently and pervasively practical and realistic!
Catching Kids Up with Acceleration
Day: Monday, February 2nd
Audience: All Grades: All
Presenter: Carol Gardner
Description: Our acceleration model simply “catches kids up” like nothing you have seen or implemented. Participants learn about the different acceleration implementation possibilities, how exemplary acceleration strategies and practices are developed, and the most effective solutions for implementing an acceleration schedule. Don’t just remediate – accelerate!
Vocabulary Development for Language Arts
Day: Monday, February 2nd
Audience: English/Language Arts teachers Grades: 2-12
Presenter: Cindy Riedl
Description: This solution provides vocabulary development connections to reading and language arts and language arts instructional strategies for grades 2-12. Vocabulary Development in Language Arts produces vocabulary and language development competencies as defined by state standards for reading and language arts. Provides extensive use of word analysis and context connections, tools to help learners internalize and recall information, strategies for using differentiating practices, and effective vocabulary instruction for a wide range of student abilities. All students will overcome language deficiencies with the emphasis on vocabulary and language development. Teachers select from a variety of research-based strategies that makes the content more accessible for at-risk learners.
School-Based Coaches Training
Day: Monday, February 2nd and Tuesday, February 3rd
Audience: Lead Teachers and Administrators Grades: All
Presenter: Debbie Cargill
Description: School-Based Coaches focus on helping teachers to become more effective in the classroom. Even if a school does not have a full time person allocated to this position, it is important for sustaining continuous improvement goals that someone (a lead teacher, reading specialist, ILT, etc…) who is not in a supervisory role to become a School-Based Coach in each school. This session includes: Research supporting School-Based Coaches, the 3 roles of a School-Based Coach, the Strategies and Skills to be an effective School-Based Coach, Planning for Success, and Development of a Learning-Focused Mentor.
Scaffolding Grade Level Learning
Day: Monday, February 2nd
Audience: Special Ed, Resource, All Grades: All
Presenter: Carolyn Boyles
Description: This solution presents scaffolding strategies that are effective with diverse learners whose grade level achievement is below grade placement. Scaffold for students in special education, students at risk due to economic or language barriers and other students who have gaps or deficits in their achievement. Enable diverse students to learn their grade level content. Success stories of schools and districts whose special subgroups have achieved AYP will be shared.
Learning-Focused Math K-6
Day: Monday, February 2nd
Audience: Teachers Grades: K-6
Presenter: Laurian Phillips
Description: Designed for K-6 math teachers that have participated in the Learning-Focused workshop, this workshop assists math teachers with implementing the model most effectively. Learn about the interlocking pieces of our math model: comprehension, problem solving, skill building, and authentic use. Teachers walk through many lesson and unit examples, and learn the key elements of a Learning-Focused math lesson.
Comprehensive Literacy Model K-6
Day: Monday, February 2nd
Audience: Teachers Grades: K-6
Presenter: Carol Brewer
Description: Comprehensive Literacy: A Learning-Focused Model for integrating exemplary literacy components is an important resource for all language arts teachers. Learn how exemplary schools implement comprehensive literacy models that connects the key components perfectly. Components include teacher-directed instruction, flexible grouping instruction, self-selected, word work, writing, lit teams, fluency, and instructional strategies for literacy.
Reading Assignments for All Teachers K-5
Day: Monday, February 2nd
Audience: Teachers Grades: K-5
Presenter: Brenda Hill
Description: Learn to design and provide reading assignments that deepen comprehension and increase learning and achievement. Using the reading comprehension framework all teachers will become experts at developing and giving students reading assignments that teach and use comprehension strategies. Resources are provided for teachers to use during planning, teaching, and assessment. This session makes it easy for you to get students reading your content and demonstrating complete comprehension!
Reading Assignments for All Content Area Teachers 6-12
Day: Monday, February 2nd
Audience: Teachers Grades: 6-12
Presenter:
Description: Learn to design and provide reading assignments that deepen comprehension and increase learning and achievement. Using the reading comprehension framework all teachers will become experts at developing and giving students reading assignments that teach and use comprehension strategies. Resources are provided for teachers to use during planning, teaching, and assessment. This session makes it easy for you to get students reading your content and demonstrating complete comprehension!
Learning to Read K-2
Day: Monday, February 2nd
Audience: Teachers Grades: K-2
Presenter: Jennifer Partrick
Description: National award winning model! Recognized by the US DOE for success in teaching reading. A framework to teach reading that enables all students to learn to read, and most importantly, understand what they read. Outlines how to structure a class into flexible groups, and how to break the class into groups for reading, writing, and word study. Identifies different stages in reading, problems in reading, and gives activities to overcome the problem, or move the student to another reading level.
Training of Trainers Sessions
Learning-Focused Instructional Strategies Model Training of Trainers (Version 7)
This session is 5 Days (Monday, February 2nd - Friday, February 6th)
Grades: All
Presenter: Jeanette Gann
Description: After you have attended a regular Learning-Focused workshop (prior to this institute) you are eligible to attend this Learning-Focused Training of Trainers Institute session. This session provides you with the materials (script, notes, presentation, and more) to be able to redeliver the 4-day Learning-Focused Model in your school or district for 24 months. This 5 day training is rigorous, incorporating practice in redelivering the content, evaluating lessons and units, and conferencing. Potential trainers should feel confident in their content knowledge prior to registering for this session.
This session has several prerequisites, qualifications, and additional purchases.
The Terms associated with this session can be found here.
Catching Kids Up with Acceleration Training of Trainers
This session is 2 Days (Monday, February 2nd and Tuesday, February 3rd)
Grades: All
Presenter: Carol Gardner
Description: The Catching Kids Up Acceleration Model includes specific practices that provide strategies, structures and planning to bring all students to grade level. This session includes both the regular workshop day and the Training of Trainer's day and therefore attending a regular Catching Kids Up workshop prior to this 2-day session is not required. This session provides you with the materials (script, notes, presentation, and more) to be able to redeliver the 1-day Catching Kids Up Model in your school or district for 24 months.
This session has several prerequisites, qualifications, and additional purchases.
The Terms associated with this session can be found here.
Scaffolding Learning Training of Trainers
This session is 3 Days (Monday, February 2nd - Wednesday, February 4th)
Grades: All
Presenter: Carolyn Boyles
Description: This Training of Trainers presents scaffolding strategies that are effective with diverse learners whose grade level achievement is below grade placement. This session includes the regular workshop days for Scaffolding Grade Level Learning, Scaffolding Learning with Technology, and the Training of Trainer's day. Therefore, attending a regular Scaffolding Learning workshop prior to this 2-day session is not required. This session provides you with the materials (script, notes, presentation, and more) to be able to redeliver the 1-day Scaffolding Learning workshop in your school or district for 24 months.
This session has several prerequisites, qualifications, and additional purchases.
The Terms associated with this session can be found here.
Vocabulary Instruction Training of Trainers
This session is 3 Days (Monday, February 2nd - Wednesday, February 4th)
Presenter: Cindy Riedl
Description: Vocabulary Instruction leads teachers through using the latest research-based vocabulary strategies in their classrooms. This session includes the regular workshop days of Vocabulary and Vocabulary Development for Language Arts 2-12, and the Training of Trainer's day. Therefore, attending a regular Vocabulary Instruction workshop prior to this 2-day session is not required. This session provides you with the materials (script, notes, presentation, and more) to be able to redeliver the 1-day Vocabulary Instruction workshop in your school or district for 24 months.
This session has several prerequisites, qualifications, and additional purchases.
The Terms associated with this session can be found here.
Reading Assignments and Reading Comprehension Training of Trainers
This Session is 3 Days (Monday, February 2nd – Wednesday, February 4th)
Audience: Teachers Grades: K-12
Presenter: Carol Brewer
Description: Reading Assignments and Reading Comprehension professional development solutions provide content area teachers and ELA teachers with the latest advancements in developing readers that understand and comprehend grade level text. This session includes the regular workshop days of Reading Assignments (K-5 or 6-12) AND Reading Comprehension for ELA Teachers (K-5 or 6-12) AND the Training of Trainer’s Day. Therefore, attending a regular Reading Assignments or Reading Comprehension workshop prior to this session is not required. This session provides you with the materials (script, notes, presentation, and more) to be able to redeliver the Reading Assignments workshop and the Reading Comprehension for ELA Teachers workshop in your school or district for 24 months.
This session has several prerequisites, qualifications, and additional purchases.
The Terms associated with this session can be found here.
Monday and Tuesday Afternoon SuperSessions
SuperSessions provide participants with quick, but detailed information, strategies, and tips. If you ever wanted to learn more about a topic but didn't have the time, these SuperSessions are perfect for you! SuperSessions are open to all conference attendee's and do not require you to choose a session in advance.
SuperSessions are offered at 3:45pm Monday and Tuesday!
The SuperSessions offered include:
- Making Units Work
- Learning-Focused Assessments
- What Moves You Professional Development
- Toolbox Tips
- Preferred Schools and Networking
- Reaching Balanced Achievement Overviews
- and more!
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Download Training of Trainers Sessions Registration Form (pdf)
Registration fee is $125.00 per day per participant until November 1, 2008. After November 1st, the registration fee will be $150. Fee includes all materials.
Payment method is required when registering. If using a Purchase Order, please send it with your registration.
More Information:
Please email Info@LearningFocused.com or
call 866-955-3276.