Teaching and Learning CoLab 2024: Full Schedule

10:00am MDT

Digital Treasures: Exploring the Library of Congress

This workshop delves into the extensive collection of digital primary sources accessible via the Library of Congress website. Housing over 70 million digital resources available for free and out-of-copyright, our nation's library offers an unfettered look into the history of the United States. No matter the age or subject area, primary sources inspire critical thinking through the use of inquiry and analysis. Join us to discover teacher-created, ready-to-use materials suitable for enhancing lessons in literacy, social studies, STEM and beyond.

Speakers

Keith Patterson

Director, TPS Western Region

Kile Clabaugh

Program Manager, TPS Western Region @ MSU Denver

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about Library of Congress primary sources or granting opportunities.

Wednesday May 29, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am MDT
Hays Student Center Room 219

Disciplinary Literacy Standards Implementation Best First Instruction

Company K - 2, 3 - 5, 6 - 8, 9 -12

10:00am MDT

CAS in CTE: Colorado Academic Standards and their alignment within Career and Technical Education courses

This session will highlight the need for academic standards and explore how they can be incorporated into existing CTE courses. Specifically the facilitators will demonstrate how high school Math and ELA standards could be reinforced and more explicitly aligned to a selection of CTE courses.

Speakers

Olivia Gillespie

Literacy Content Specialist, CDE

Joe Brenkert

Math Content Specialist, CDE

Wednesday May 29, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am MDT
Hays Student Center Room 207

Standards Implementation

Company 9 -12

11:15am MDT

Entry Points For All Students

Participants will be able to take one of their lessons and create four levels for students to choose which one they will complete. The four levels include: Emerging, Progressing, Meets, and Exemplary. No matter where is student is on the learning progression, they will be able to feel successful for choosing one assignment to do... no opt outs.

Speakers

Jessica May

Teacher of the Year, Turner Middle School, Thompson School District

Jessica May was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota and moved to Colorado in 1977. She began teaching in 1997 in the Thompson School District at the middle school level, from English Language Arts and social studies, to math, science, life skills, and her current position at Turner Middle... Read More →

Wednesday May 29, 2024 11:15am - 12:15pm MDT
ESF Room 218

Disciplinary Literacy Standards Implementation Best First Instruction

Company 6 - 8

11:15am MDT

Building Health Skills to Support SEL

This session will explore Colorado Comprehensive Health Education Standards related to social emotional learning. Based on the standards participants will identify key health skills of communication, self-management, decision making, and advocacy. Participants explore and create strategies for introduction, reinforcement, and mastery of the skills.

Speakers

James Hurley

Health and Physical Education Content Specialist, Colorado Department of Education

Wednesday May 29, 2024 11:15am - 12:15pm MDT
Hays Student Center Room 230

Standards Implementation Best First Instruction

Company K - 2, 3 - 5, 6 - 8, 9 -12

11:15am MDT

Teaching HB 21-1200 – “How Do You Teach Your Students about Their Next Financial Steps After High School?”

House Bill 21-1200 (and the corresponding revisions to state standards) require districts and schools to teach students a variety of new topics to prepare for life after high school. But even more importantly, these are the skills parents and former students say they wished they had learned before they graduated. College costs and student loans, aid applications like FAFSA and CASFA, the home buying process, retirement plans and pensions, and many other PFL topics need to find places in your classes by Fall of 2024. This session will look at strategies to integrate these topics (and others) into your existing classes, as well as free lesson resources that already exist to boost your efforts.

Speakers

Jay LeBlanc

Education Program Director, Economic Literacy Colorado

ELC covers a variety of PD training for teachers in financial literacy and economics topics, as well as student programs like the Stock Market Experience and Invest In Girls. Visit our table for more details about summer and fall classes and programs!

Wednesday May 29, 2024 11:15am - 12:15pm MDT
ESF Room 124

Standards Implementation Best First Instruction

Company 6 - 8, 9 -12

11:15am MDT

You Got ANTs - Stop Ranting and Start Living

Your mind is naturally prone to Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs). Uncover the most persistent types of ANTs and acquire techniques to halt these troublesome patterns. ANTs wreak havoc in your life. This program empowers participants to enhance their self-awareness and communication skills, enabling them to overcome obstacles in work, school, and home. Are you prepared to break free from what's hindering your progress? Have negative beliefs and behaviors taken root? Everything begins with a thought. Align your thoughts, transform your life.

The most effective way to address the Mental Health crisis is through a proactive mental fitness program. Stay ahead by nurturing your mental well-being. And nurture enhanced communication within yourself and with others to positively impact the lives of one another and our students.

Speakers

Cindy Saylor

NLP-P & Mental Wellness Speaker, Saylor's Journey, LLC

Visit Saylor's Journey to learn more about Mental Fitness Bootcamps. Personal & professional development programs focusing on emotional, social, and mental fitness. You got ANTs... and not what you think. ANTs (Automatic Negative Thoughts).

Wednesday May 29, 2024 11:15am - 12:15pm MDT
Hays Student Center TAG

Standards Implementation Best First Instruction

Company K - 2, 3 - 5, 6 - 8, 9 -12

1:00pm MDT

SEP 2- Developing & Using Models to Unravel Phenomena

Come join us for a collaborative hands-on session, where we will learn and practice some practical evidence-based strategies that will allow you to better weave the Science and Engineering Practices of Modeling into your current lessons and labs, in ways that replicate the way that real scientists and engineers use models. Expect something that you can use in your classroom tomorrow to get your students using and developing Models.

Speakers

Tim Blesse

Teacher Programs Consultant, Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Tim Blesse, has 31 years of experience as a classroom science educator in both private and public schools, teaching students from grades 3-12. He also has had 25 summers of experience working as an interpretive naturalist and hiking guide in Rocky Mountain National Park, working for... Read More →

Wednesday May 29, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm MDT
Hays Student Center Room 219

Disciplinary Literacy Standards Implementation

Company 6 - 8, 9 -12

2:15pm MDT

The Power of Student Choice in K-12 Physical Education

When students have choice within the physical education curriculum, instruction, and assessment process, they develop a sense of autonomy that can be highly motivating. The purpose of this session is to introduce strategies for integrating student choice and voice into your K-12 physical education program.

Speakers

Brian Dauenhauer

UNC

TBE

Wednesday May 29, 2024 2:15pm - 3:15pm MDT
Gymnasium

Standards Implementation

Company K - 2, 3 - 5, 6 - 8, 9 -12

2:15pm MDT

Understanding Career and Technical Education- it is for all students."

"Understanding Career and Technical Education - its for all students."

Speakers

Dana Anderson

Assistant State Director for CTE Program Quality, Colorado Community College System

Dana is the Assistant State Director of CTE Program Quality in Colorado, where she previously served as the Program Director for Business, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship. She has worked with CTE programs at the state level for over six years after she left her very successful Business... Read More →

Wednesday May 29, 2024 2:15pm - 3:15pm MDT
ESF Room 125

Standards Implementation

Company 6 - 8, 9 -12

2:15pm MDT

Utilizing the Highly Effective Evaluation Process

This session will offer the opportunity to explore utilization of the Highly Effective Evaluation Process. The part-information session, part-collaborative discussion will explain the Highly Effective evaluation process as well as the process for determining whether it is a good fit for your district. Key considerations and ideas for leveraging stakeholders (e.g., 1338 councils) in planning for implementation for the 2024-25 school year will also be discussed. Districts will have the opportunity to ask questions of the presenters and collaboratively discuss the merits of utilizing the Highly Effective evaluation process in their schools.

Speakers

Rachel Paul

Paige Moser

Educator Effectiveness Consultant, CDE

Paige Moser serves as the Educator Effectiveness Consultant for the Colorado Department of Education’s Educator Effectiveness Team, which supports districts/BOCES in their efforts to implement meaningful and supportive evaluation systems. She is a passionate educator and teacher... Read More →

Wednesday May 29, 2024 2:15pm - 3:15pm MDT
Hays Student Center Room 207

Standards Implementation

Company K - 2, 3 - 5, 6 - 8, 9 -12

2:15pm MDT

Facilitating Standards-aligned Inquiry Lessons at Elementary

Have you ever led an inquiry lesson and had it fall flat because students struggled to form questions or structure their inquiry in a way that would lead to learning? Have you ever looked at an evidence outcome that has inquiry or process skills embedded in it and wondered how to help students master it? I will share strategies to help structure and facilitate inquiry lessons with K-5 learners. The examples I use will mostly be from science, but the strategies can be applied across contents. Participants will takeaway strategies they can apply right away.

Speakers

Sam Messier

Director - Standards and Instructional Support, CDE

Facilitating Inquiry at Elementary pptx

Sterling presentation notes docx

Wednesday May 29, 2024 2:15pm - 3:15pm MDT
Hays Student Center Room 219

Standards Implementation Best First Instruction

Company K - 2, 3 - 5

9:00am MDT

Supporting Struggling Readers in the Secondary Classroom

As our students advance from grade level to grade level, the depth and complexity housed within the content, concepts, and skills of the standards increases. Therefore, the expectation to learn how to read, write, and communicate while simultaneously reading, writing, and communicating to learn requires students to deconstruct the parts of text to understand the whole, as well as the different techniques employed by writers. How can our students deconstruct a text without knowing and understanding the words of a text? In this session, we will honor and polish our current practices to make a difference through a disciplinary literacy approach that asks, "What things can we do universally in our classrooms that would make a difference with our Tier 1 students in terms of continuing to build, maintain, and expand their literacy proficiency?"

Speakers

Olivia Gillespie

Literacy Content Specialist, CDE

Thursday May 30, 2024 9:00am - 10:30am MDT
Hays Student Center TAG

Disciplinary Literacy Standards Implementation Best First Instruction

Company 3 - 5, 6 - 8, 9 -12

9:00am MDT

An Introduction to WIDA's 2020 Edition of the ELD Standards Framework

Participants will be introduced to educator resources available in WIDA’s 2020 edition of the ELD Standards Framework and on the WIDA website. Comparisons will be made between the 2020 edition and previous editions of WIDA's ELD Standards Framework. Participants will also learn which WIDA resources have not changed and are still available for use.

Speakers

Rebekah Ottenbreit

CDE

Rebekah joined the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) in 2013. She is an English Language Development (ELD) Specialist and the Title IX State Coordinator. Her work focuses on supporting districts in developing and implementing Language Instruction Education Programs and in fulfilling... Read More →

Thursday May 30, 2024 9:00am - 10:30am MDT
Hays Student Center Room 207

Standards Implementation Best First Instruction

Company K - 2, 3 - 5, 6 - 8, 9 -12

9:00am MDT

Developing a Music Curriculum: Standards Meets Repertiore

Music educators use repertoire to build the curriculum that they teach to students across grade levels and ensembles. In this session, participants learn about organizing a scope and sequence based on the Colorado Academic Standards in Music. An example scope and sequence is applied to a few repertoire selections that can demonstrate how to apply the standards to repertoire across grade levels and ensembles. Tools that will be shared include updates to the Colorado Academic Standards in Music, music at-a-glance documents, example scope and sequence for music documents, and an example music theory-pedagogy inventory document that can be used to review and analyze music selections for teaching music. Participates experience opportunities to connect the standards to music repertoire selections.

Speakers

Carla Aguilar

Colorado Department of Education + Metropolitan State University of Denver

Thursday May 30, 2024 9:00am - 10:30am MDT
Hays Student Center Room 219

Standards Implementation Best First Instruction

Company K - 2, 3 - 5, 6 - 8, 9 -12

10:45am MDT

Connecting the Creative Process & the Concept of PLAY to Colorado Arts Standards

In this session participants will be encouraged to spark their creative juices while learning about a simple and fun analogy for structuring and explaining the creative process. Also included will be a discussion around research and three different perspectives of the concept of PLAY. Participants will then make connections to the creative process, the concept of playing, and the Colorado Academic Standards for Dance and Drama/Theatre Arts.

Speakers

Judi Hofmeister

Arts Consultant, CDE

Judi Hofmeister was hired at Douglas County High School in Castle Rock, Colorado in 1993 after leaving a ten-year professional performing-arts career. For twenty years Miss Hofmeister taught theatre, dance, vocal music, and sat as chair of the performing-arts department. In 2000... Read More →

Thursday May 30, 2024 10:45am - 11:45am MDT
ESF Room 125

Disciplinary Literacy Standards Implementation Best First Instruction

Company K - 2, 3 - 5, 6 - 8, 9 -12

10:45am MDT

Instructional Leadership in Literacy: READ Act and Beyond

Join current state, district and school literacy leaders for an interactive session focused on learning about READ Act leadership requirements, tools and resources designed to support districts and schools in implementing strong literacy programs.

Speakers

Karol Gates

CDE

Thursday May 30, 2024 10:45am - 11:45am MDT
ESF Room 126

Disciplinary Literacy Standards Implementation Best First Instruction

Company K - 2, 3 - 5, 6 - 8

10:45am MDT

Promising pool of educators, military veterans

The CTE instructor pathway validates a veteran's occupational experience and training to provide a CTE teaching authorization in one of the 6 career-related fields. Hear how veterans with career-specific training can provide quality education for Colorado students.

Speakers

Jordan Whittington

Program Director for Health Sciences, Colorado Community College System

Thursday May 30, 2024 10:45am - 11:45am MDT
Hays Student Center Room 207

Standards Implementation

Company 6 - 8, 9 -12

10:45am MDT

Discovering the Nature and Practices of Science Outside

Join us to gain insight into the nature, practices and instruction of science outdoors. Outdoor experiences can engage students in a continuum of science practices such as making observations, asking questions and/or explaining the natural world, to planning and conducting their own investigations, developing mental models and arguing from evidence. Explore how activities that focus on scientific practices can help make outdoor experiences more engaging for students and deepen their understanding of scientific ideas. Take away several teaching routines that can support multiple grade level expectations and ideas for taking your students outdoors.

Speakers

Katie Naven

Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education

The Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education supports the many types of educators who teach concepts we all need to understand: how natural systems work, what we must do to interact responsibly with the environment, and how we can protect natural resources for future generations... Read More →

Thursday May 30, 2024 10:45am - 11:45am MDT
ESF Room 218

Standards Implementation Best First Instruction

Company 3 - 5, 6 - 8, 9 -12

10:45am MDT

Harnessing the Power of Generative AI: Boosting Efficiency in Your Work

Heard of Generative AI, but feel intimidated? Learn what Generative AI is and how it can revolutionize your work processes. We will delve into the fundamentals of Generative AI, exploring its applications in your everyday life and work.

Participants will learn how to identify opportunities for integrating Generative AI into their daily tasks, streamlining workflows, and enhancing productivity. Through real-world examples and hands-on exercises, you'll discover how to leverage this cutting-edge technology.

Speakers

Ashley Ferraro

Jeffco Public Schools

Thursday May 30, 2024 10:45am - 11:45am MDT
Hays Student Center Room 230

Standards Implementation Best First Instruction

Company K - 2, 3 - 5, 6 - 8, 9 -12