Teaching and Learning CoLab 2024

The Science of Reading provides a roadmap for effective foundational reading instruction that supports all students, but some important adjustments, considerations, and teacher knowledge are required to ensure that Multilingual Learners and Multilingual learners with disabilities have access to the content. This session will focus on how to create lesson plans that focus on content and language through the creation of Content Language Objectives.

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.

Art can plan an important role in the education of students who have experienced various forms of trauma. Effective and evidenced-based interventions can help provide a sense of agency within students and encourage a sense of safety and empowerment. This session introduces a variety of resources, strategies, and tips for teachers that can be incorporated into art-making.

This session will introduce the NEW Equity Toolkit, developed through a CDE/WestEd partnership and designed to support educators to understand self, understand others, and understand community context to notice things we may not have noticed before. This work will support increased intentionality in effectively serving all students, families, and staff, being responsive to individual and group identities defined by race, ethnicity, socioeconomics, language, religion, sexual orientation, gender, and ability. Resources for preparing teachers and leaders to examine and impact mindsets, policies, practices that will support culturally responsive instruction will be highlighted.

Setting ambitious but attainable goals for students is the starting point for a strong plan of intervention. Writing strong literacy goals based on specific skill deficits is a skill that can be developed. This training will guide participants in how to identify student’s specific skill deficits, outline the components of a well written goal, and design measurable objectives that will create a pathway for literacy success.

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.