Teaching and Learning CoLab 2024

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.

This session details classroom structures designed to support robust learning experiences  and introduced in the bestselling books "Teaching for Thinking" and "Routines for Reasoning".  Multiple grade bands, from kindergarten through high school, will benefit from this exploration into ways to enhance math classroom practices and pedagogies.  

This session details classroom structures designed to support robust learning experiences and introduced in the bestselling books "Teaching for Thinking" and "Routines for Reasoning". Multiple grade bands, from kindergarten through high school, will benefit from this exploration into ways to enhance math classroom practices and pedagogies.

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.

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.

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.