#TransformProsper by Prosper Independent School District

Summer Professional Learning June 6th - 8th

Schedule

Tuesday - June 6th

8:30 am - 9:50 am 10:00 am - 11:20 am 11:20 am - 12:40 pm - Lunch 12:40 pm - 2:00 pm 2:10 pm - 3:30 pm

Wednesday - June 7th

8:30 am - 9:50 am 10:00 am - 11:20 am 11:20 am - 12:40 pm - Lunch 12:40 pm - 2:00 pm 2:10 pm - 3:30 pm

Thursday - June 8th

8:30 am - 9:50 am 10:00 am - 11:20 am 11:20 am - 12:40 pm - Lunch 12:40 pm - 2:00 pm 2:10 pm - 3:30 pm

TAFE Kids Camp

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On Campus Lunch Options

Food trucks will be on site The PHS Cafeteria will also be open for lunch purchases

Pathways

Pathways are a suggested series of courses that will provide an instructional focus. You are not required to complete any pathways, but you may complete as many as you would like. If you have questions about choosing a pathway or individual courses, please contact your administrator or designer.

Elementary Cross-Curricular Pathways To complete a pathway, participants must attend a minimum of 3 sessions per pathway.

Assessment

Teachers will complete a series of three courses that walk them through the evaluation, creation and execution of assessment. Essential standards, performance tasks and formative assessments are all important components of a guaranteed and viable curriculum. This pathway provides insight into how to create and incorporate these areas into the lesson cycle. All teachers would benefit from this pathway as the courses are designed with our most current documents in mind.

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Performance Task Fundamentals Designing Performance Tasks (content specific) Assessing Performance Tasks: Rubric Design Utilizing Formative Assessments Common Formative Assessment Essential Standards Oh My! Uncovering Student Ideas in Science Formative Assessment

Instructional Strategies

Engaging students in the content through best practices is a goal of every teacher. This pathway focuses in on a variety of ways to involve students in inquiry and engagement through thoughtful questioning, classroom management, and using our resources to meet the needs of our learners.

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Quality Questioning (content specific) Fun With Fractions The Engaged Social Studies Classroom Implementing PISD Resources SAMR in Elementary Social Studies Has Skills Too Inquiry-Based Investigation

Personalized Learning

Finding ways to reach all levels of students effectively can be a challenging task, even for experienced teachers. This pathway offers a variety of options that provide strategies for differentiation in the classroom and for reaching special education students and gifted learners. Teachers with large populations of special education or gifted students or teachers looking for new differentiation strategies would benefit from this pathway.

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What to do with a DNQ Accommodations For All Learners Comprehension Toolkit Take a GAMBLE With Guided Math Rigor Across the Curriculum Literature Circles and Book Clubs Reaching and Teaching the Struggling Student Teaching English Learners: Where do I start and what do I do next? 9. Best Practices in Classroom Management 10. Making the Workshop Work 11. GT Growth Mindset 12. Smarter SMART Goals 13. Innovative Approach to Understanding Students

Writing

Writing is a skill that transfers across subjects. This pathway provides teachers an opportunity to explore writing strategies, grammar usage, and conferencing into any content area. Teachers who want or need to incorporate more writing would benefit from this pathway

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Writing: Not Just For ELAR Anymore Writing Strategies Book and Implementation DBQ in the Elementary Classroom Enhance Your Writing Using Explorations in Nonfiction May the Fours Be With You Writing in Science Write Guy (Invitation Only) Reading and Writing in Social Studies Self-Paced Learning and Research in Science

Pathways

Elementary Generalist Pathways To complete a pathway, participants must attend one course from each content area they teach (at least 4 courses). Courses can be selected from the above pathways or a content pathway.

Student Transformation Pathway (STEAM) K-8 To complete this pathway, participants must attend a minimum of 3 sessions. Teachers looking to transform their teaching by finding new ways to reach students should consider the student transformation pathway. This coursework is showcases a wide array of sessions focused on transforming lessons from ordinary to extraordinary. The student transformation pathway is for teachers K-8 who have a firm grasp of the foundation and are ready to develop new ideas, raise rigor, make real world connections, and stimulate a studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s imagination. 1. Introduction to Building STEAM into Lessons 2. Breaking Out Digitally 3. The Map to Learning: Making a PBL 4. Music, Coding and Math Oh My! 5. The Lesson Fixer-Upper 6. STEAM Integrated Lessons 7. Thinking Outside of the Lego Brick 8. Ignite your Passion with Ignite Talks 9. What Do You Mean We Use Math and Science in Everyday Life? 10. Out of the Black Box Thinking: Theatre Arts in the Traditional Classroom 11. CAD You Design It? Integrating Computer Aided Design into the Classroom 12. Digital Maker Space 13. Gaming Out of Boredom 14. Curriculum Compacting for GT Learners 15. Twitter for Teacher

Pathways

Secondary Cross-Curricular Pathways To complete a pathway, participants must attend a minimum of 3 sessions per pathway.

Performance Task

Teachers will take a series of three courses that walk them through the evaluation, creation and execution of a performance task. When teachers complete the pathway, they should have at least one peerreviewed performance task and rubric designed and ready to use in the classroom. Any teacher who has not attended performance task training would benefit from this pathway. Teams are also encouraged to participate together. 1. Performance Task Basics 2. Designing Performance Tasks Workshop 3. Assessing Performance Tasks: Rubric Design

Personalized Instruction

Curriculum Foundations

Essential standards, quality questions and formative assessments are all important components of a guaranteed and viable curriculum. This pathway provides insight into how to create and incorporate these areas into the lesson cycle. All teachers would benefit from this pathway as the courses are designed with our most current documents in mind. 1. Essential Standards 2. Quality Questioning 3. Utilizing Formative Assessment

Writing

Writing Strategies Non-Fiction Writing Feedback is Fuel: Writing Conferences Applications of Grammar in Writing

Igniting the FIRE Easy Ways to Reach SpEd Students Implementing Accommodations Differentiation through Choice Boards GT in the Digital Classroom Innovative Approach to Understanding Students

Pathways

Secondary Content Specific Pathways To complete a pathway, participants must attend a minimum of 3 sessions per pathway.

Science

The science instruction pathway focuses on advanced science instructional strategies that would benefit any secondary science teacher. The courses focus on student research strategies, utilizing probeware in the lab and advanced uses for technology in the science classroom. 1. Self-Paced Learning and Research in Science 2. Probeware in Math & Science 3. SAMR for Secondary Math & Science

Math

The math pathway will focus on new instructional strategies that would benefit any secondary math teacher. All courses will incorporate a combination of student centered activity, higher level questioning, modeling, data collection, and technology. 1. Fun with Fractions 2. Quality Questioning in Math 3. Probeware in Math & Science 4. SAMR for Secondary Math & Science

Social Studies

The social studies pathway will focus on strategies for integrating reading, writing, critical thinking, and discussion into the classroom everyday. Teachers will leave this class with techniques to keep all students engaged with rigorous content and skills in the social studies classroom. 1. The Engaged Social Studies Classroom 2. Social Studies Has Skills Too 3. Reading and Writing Strategies for the Social Studies Classroom 6

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4. Why Do We Study History? A Discussion on Historical Thinking 5. SAMR for Secondary Social Studies & ELAR

ELAR: Writing

ELAR: Reading

The reading instruction pathway focuses on techniques and strategies for reinvigorating reading instruction, particularly in the ELAR classroom. Teachers will leave classes in this pathway with clear strategies they can immediately use in their classrooms come fall. 1. Literacy Circles & Book Clubs 2. Teaching the Whole Class Novel 3. SAMR for Secondary Social Studies & ELAR

Pathways

Other Content Specific Pathways Google CTE GT Art Band Orchestra PE Music Choir LOTE

June 6th

Keynote | 8:30-9:50 am Kenneth C. Williams

Kenneth C. Williams is a former teacher, assistant principal, and principal. He shares his experience and expertise as a recognized trainer, speaker, coach, and consultant in education and leadership. Kenneth is the chief visionary officer of Unfold the Soul, LLC, a company dedicated to inspiring individuals and teams to perform at the highest level. Skilled in developing productive, student-focused learning environments, Kenneth is former principal of The Learning Academy at E. J. Swint in Jonesboro, Georgia, and Damascus Elementary School in Damascus, Maryland. His firsthand experience with transforming challenged schools translates into actionoriented presentations that inspire hope, create a clear vision, and offer practical strategies to those overwhelmed by challenges. His leadership was crucial to creating a successful professional learning community (PLC) at Damascus, a challenged school that needed a new direction. The results of his efforts can be seen across all grade levels. Over a two-year period, the school’s state standardized test scores revealed a significant increase in the percentage of students performing at proficient and advanced levels. The process of building a PLC at E. J. Swint continues thanks to Kenneth’s work in laying a solid foundation in this underserved community. Kenneth earned a bachelor of arts from Morehouse College, a master of science from the University of Bridgeport, and an administration and supervision certificate from Bowie State University.

Special Events & Presentations PISD Field Trip Art for Art Teachers

Health Science Field Trip

Location: Dallas Museum of Art Grades: K-12 8:30 am-3:30 pm

Location: Collin College Health Science Center

John Benzer Presentation to all Band Instructors Presenters: John Benzer

The PISD Band Directors will spend the day exploring and developing curriculum for grades 6-12. Professor Benzer from the University of Houston will present information on best-practices, benchmarks, pacing, effective evaluations and student-centered methodologies and techniques. Together, we will strategize and develop the framework for Google folders to facilitate horizontal and vertical alignment and collaboration. Room: Band Hall Grades: 6-12 9:30 am-3:30 pm

PHS Health Science teachers will go to Collin College’s Health Science Center 8:20-11:20 am

McGraw Hill Choir Director Presentation Presenters: Kim Julius - McGraw Hill Kim Julius from McGraw Hill will join secondary Choral Directors to teach us extensions and resources to use along with our electronic sight reading and literature books. Room: PHS Choir Room Pathway: Choir Grades: Secondary Choir Directors 8:30-11:20 pm

June 6th

Special Events & Presentations

Sessions | 10:00-11:20 am

Teacher-Led PE Games

5 Steps of Revision (Poynter Institute)

Presenters: Chris Groff

Presenters: Lori Oglesbee

Each campus will have a 30 min presentation of a game Room: Rucker Gym Grades: ALL PE Teachers 8:30 am-3:30 pm

There’s two types of writers: good writers and quitters. If a student’s writing isn’t good, he/she quit before it was. Immediate feedback encourages students to continue to work on their writing, but that’s not always possible in the classroom setting. These steps and techniques give students that feedback and put them in control of the quality and effectiveness of their writing. GT Credit: ? Room: 1109 Pathway: All Audiences Grades: K-12

Suzuki & Secondary Orchestra Vertical Planning Presenters: Ron Planks Room: 1168G Grades: Suzuki-Orchestra Faculty 8:30 am-11:30 am

10:00-11:20 am

Enhancing Your Guided Reading Presenters: Lauren Spurr & Jennifer Larriviere K-2 teachers: if you need fresh strategies to manage and teach your guided reading groups, then this is the course for you! Strategies for problem solving unknown words, asking deeper level questions and managing groups will be explored through a live guided reading model. This course is part of the Content Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1212 Pathway: Content Grades: K-2 10:00-11:20 am

June 6th

Sessions | 10:00-11:20 am

GT in the Digital Classroom

Literacy Circles and Book Clubs ( 6-12 )

Presenters: Kassidy Wagner, Emily Kopeck

Presenters: Renee Jones & Allison Dibble

As teachers of Gifted students, we are always looking for research-based methods to implement to make our studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; experiences in our classrooms more meaningful. After years of trial and error, we were able to pinpoint six areas that we believe contribute to a successful digital GT classroom. We will share how we setup the digital learning environment, utilize blended learning, engage, and motivate your GT students. This session is for intermediate technology users and grade levels K-8. You will need a device. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1112 Pathway: Personalized Instruction Grades: K-8 10:00-11:20 am

We know that student choice when reading is key to engaging them in literacy. In this course, learn immediate takeaways for how to incorporate lit circles and book clubs into your classes in a meaningful way. This course is part of the reading pathway. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1201 Pathway: Reading Grades: 6-12 10:00-11:20 am

New approach to understanding students GT Credit: No Room: 1218 Pathway: All Audiences Grades: K-12 10:00-11:20 am

Presenters: Ashley Ponterelli & Kassi Kincaid Explore the fundamental components of performance tasks and use the tools provided to review and critique an existing performance task of your choosing. Be sure to bring a performance task you have used or designed to use during the session. This course is part of the Assessment Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1115 Pathway: Assessment Grades: K-2 10:00-11:20 am

Literacy Circles and Book Clubs ( 3-5 )

Performance Task Fundamentals ( 3-12 )

Innovative Approach to Understanding Students Presenters: Karen Kidd

Performance Task Fundamentals ( K-2 )

Presenters: Rachel Calhoun & Delaine Ulmer

Presenters: Kaysee DeFratus, Brian Cawley, Leilani Bonds

An in depth look at using book clubs and literacy circles in grades 3-5. This course will help you understand how to implement and vary student products using technology GT Credit: No Room: 1210 Pathway: Personalized Learning Grades: 3-5 10:00-11:20 am

Explore the fundamental components of performance tasks and use the tools provided to review and critique an existing performance task of your choosing. Be sure to bring a performance task to use during the session. This course is part of the secondary performance task pathway and the elementary assessment pathway. GT Credit: No Room: LGI Pathway: Assessment / Performance Task Grades: 3-12 10:00-11:20 am

June 6th

Sessions | 10:00-11:20 am

Reading and Writing Strategies for the Social Studies Classroom

The Engaged Social Studies Classroom

Presenters: Samantha Cates, Andrea Hutchison, Beth Bish, Jessica Cross

Social studies is an investigation. Social studies should not be a classroom where students are overloaded with information that does not seem relevant. The focus should be on what is done with the information. This workshop gives teachers new ideas on what an engaged classroom is but more importantly it teaches teachers how to lead an engaged classroom. Special emphasis is placed on using and teaching the process skills. The theories of Eric Jensen are placed in a social studies context so the teachers can practice engagement strategies to use in the classroom. GT Credit: No Room: 1117 Pathway: Instructional Strategies Grades: K-2 10:00-11:20 am

Struggling to implement writing in your social studies classes? Learn creative ways to implement writing strategies from English and Social Studies teachers. Teach your students how to become stronger writers while incorporating technology for your classroom. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1205 Pathway: Social Studies Grades: 6-12 10:00-11:20 am

Take a GAMBLE with Guided Math ( K-1 )

Presenters: Ben Reed

Presenters: Patricia Myrie & Tamra Bryan Walk away with flexible strategies to maximize your math block to reach students at every level. You will find your rhythm with organization and management of the classroom. Our session emphasizes new, practical strategies, activities, tips, and tools that really work to enhance your math workshop. This course is part of the Personalized Learning Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1215 Pathway: Personalized Learning Grades: K-1 10:00-11:20 am

Take a GAMBLE with Guided Math ( 2-4 )

Utilizing Formative Assessment Presenters: Lisa Williams Formative assessments are a necessity for identifying where students are in the learning process so that extension and remediation can be developed. Learn how to create and use formative assessments using technology tools like Google, Nearpod, Socrative and more. This course is part of the secondary personalized instruction pathway and the elementary assessment pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1203 Pathway: Assessment / Curriculum Foundations Grades: K-12 10:00-11:20 am

Presenters: Kristen Hebert & Lacey Kuehn Walk away with flexible strategies to maximize your math block to reach students at every level. You will find your rhythm with organization and management of the classroom. Our session emphasizes new, practical strategies, activities, tips, and tools that really work to enhance your math workshop. This course is part of the Personalized Learning Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1217 Pathway: Personalized Learning Grades: 2-4 10:00-11:20 am

June 6th

Sessions | 10:00-11:20 am

Sessions | 12:40-2:00 pm

Writing: Not Just For ELAR Anymore

Classroom Management and How to Implement Accommodations

Presenters: Traci Kirkland & Heather Garavaglia Learning to write, and write well, is crucial for student success. In todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s digital world, students communicate through written word on a daily basis. Writing requires them to think critically about a topic, organize their thoughts, and process it all in a coherent way that readers can comprehend. Students need to be able to write intelligently in any subject area as this is their future. No matter the field they choose they will be expected to connect to others through writing. We need to foster that now by bringing in opportunities for them to write across all curriculums. Come learn the why and how behind writing across the curriculums. This course is part of the Writing Pathway. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1213 Pathway: Writing Grades: K-5 10:00-11:20 am

Sessions | 10:00-2:00 am

Presenters: Brett Phipps The process of keeping track of and implementing accommodations can be a difficult task. This session helps you learn some organizational skills and understand the process and purpose behind these supports. GT Credit: No Room: 1203 Pathway: Personalized Instruction Grades: 6-12 12:40-2:00 pm

Drug Trends 2017 Presenters: Vic Routh Learn about what drugs the kids are taking, what they look like and what they do. GT Credit: No Room: 1233 Pathway: All Audiences Grades: K-12 12:40-2:00 pm

Read Live Basics

Google Classroom - Beginner for Electives

Presenters: Terri Robinson Read Live - the Basics to Get You Started! GT Credit: No Room: 1208 Pathway: Personalized Learning Grades: 1-5 10:00 am-2:00 pm

Presenters: Jennifer DeJong & Nina Chantanapumma Learn how to create and use Google Classroom for elective courses GT Credit: No Room: 1260 Pathway: CTE / Google / Electives Grades: 6-12 12:40-2:00 pm

June 6th

Sessions | 12:40-2:00 pm

Implementing PISD Resources

Quality Questioning in Science ( K-12 )

Presenters: Terri Harkey

Presenters: Meredith Bell, Erin McWIlliams, Trent Turner

Teachers will discover and work with some of the resources available through MackinVIA. We will take a closer look at Discovery Education, SIRS and other resources. Teachers will learn where they are housed, how to use them with students, and be given time to work with the resources, so they are ready to apply their new learning with students in the fall. GT Credit: No Room: 1113 Pathway: Instructional Strategies Grades: K-5 12:40-2:00 pm

Engage all learners in your lessons with research-based strategies on developing and using quality questions. Participants will develop their own set of scaffolded questions to guide students toward answering a unit’s essential question. This course is part of the secondary curriculum foundations pathway and the elementary instructional strategy pathway. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1148 Pathway: Instructional Strategy / Curriculum Foundations Grades: K-12 12:40-2:00 pm

Innovative Approach to Understanding Students

Rigor Across the Curriculum

Presenters: Karen Kidd New approach to understanding students GT Credit: No Room: 1218 Pathway: Personalized Instruction / Personalized Learning Grades: K-12 12:40-2:00 pm

Performance Task Fundamentals ( K-2 ) Presenters: Ashley Pontarelli & Kassi Kincaid Explore the fundamental components of performance tasks and use the tools provided to review and critique an existing performance task of your choosing. Be sure to bring a performance task you have used or designed to use during the session. This course is part of the Assessment Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1116 Pathway: Assessment Grades: K-2 12:40-2:00 pm

Presenters: Heather Fletes Rigor is not a four letter word. Learn practical strategies to aid in application of rigor across the curriculum through collaborative planning, instruction, and assessment. This course is part of the Personalized Learning Pathway. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1209 Pathway: Personalized Learning Grades: 3-5 12:40-2:00 pm

SAMR for Secondary Math and Science Presenters: Miranda Hansen, Michelle Phillips Good at technology, but want to move your skills to an even higher level? This session will help you to level up the technology integration in your math or science lessons. Make sure to bring a lesson with which you have used technology in the past, or one to which you’d like to add a technology component - we’ll help you to level up! This course is part of the secondary math and secondary science pathways. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1109 Pathway: Curriculum Foundations / Math / Science Grades: 6-12 12:40-2:00 pm

June 6th

Sessions | 12:40-2:00 pm

The Engaged Social Studies Classroom

Writing Strategies

Presenters: Ben Reed

Presenters: Kari Roan

Need some help figuring out how to integrate meaningful writing strategies into pieces of your daily or weekly lesson cycle? Based off of Saravelloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most recent book and taught in writing notebook format, this course will give you practical tools that can change your writing instruction practice right away so you can start the new year off powerfully. This course is part of the writing pathway. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1201 Pathway: Writing Grades: 6-12 12:40-2:00 pm

Using GMetrix and Certiport for Certification Presenters: Toby Foster Learn how to use the GMetrix and Certiport programs for certifying students in Microsoft, Adobe and AutoDesk. GT Credit: No Room: 1245 Pathway: CTE Grades: 7-12 12:40-2:00 pm

What to do with a DNQ Presenters: Tara Taliaferro This professional development will help further explain how to help support those students who do not qualify for special education as a student with a Learning Disability. It will show you how to use the Full Individual Evaluation as a tool for to help those students in your classroom. GT Credit: No Room: 1210 Pathway: Personalized Learning Grades: K-5 12:40-2:00 pm

June 6th

Sessions | 12:40-3:30 pm

Choir Next Level

Writing Strategies Book Introduction and Implementation

Presenters: Crystal Chamberlain What are we doing that is working in our choral programs? How can we take Choir in Prosper to the Next Level? We will make a District Action Plan for the Prosper Choir program as a whole and for individual school programs. GT Credit: Yes Room: PHS Choir Room Pathway: Choir Grades: Choir Directors 12:40-3:30 pm

Comprehension Toolkit ( 3-5 ) Presenters: Sharon Page Effective comprehension instruction is more than a handful of reading strategies. The Comprehension Toolkit provides everything needed to help students understand, respond to, and learn from nonfiction text, building background knowledge across the curriculum and throughout the year. Come learn how to better utilize the Comprehension Toolkit in your 3-5 classroom! This course is part of the Personalized Learning Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1205 Pathway: Personalized Learning Grades: 3-5 12:40-3:30 pm

“Most Likely to Succeed” Movie Screening Most Likely to Succeed aims to help all schools re-imagine their purpose and create learning experiences that prepare kids for life in the 21st Century. In the past year, more than 1,500 communities have booked a screening of Most Likely to Succeed. These screenings create space for meaningful and necessary discussion between educators, administrators, parents, and students about how steps towards change can be taken on a local level. GT Credit: Yes Room: Auditorium Pathway: All Audiences Grades: K-12 12:40-3:30 pm

Presenters: Julia Roberds & Michelle Maple Whether you use Writing Workshop or Daily 5’s “Work on Writing,” the writing exercises in your basal, or any other approach, you’ll discover a treasure chest of ways to work with whole classes, small groups, or individual writers through this introduction to the Writing Strategies Book by Jennifer Serrvallo. The 2nd part of this 3 hour workshop will be spent looking at student writing samples and how to implement some of the strategies into our current UFD’s for writing. This course is part of the Writing Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1211 Pathway: Writing Grades: K-5 12:40-3:30 pm

Roses & Thorns – What worked, What can be improved? Presenters: Dawn Oyedipe Room: 1168G Grades: Suzuki-Orchestra Faculty 12:30-3:30 pm

Sessions | 1:00-3:30 pm Elementary Music-Using the Resources from McGraw-Hill Presenters: McGraw-Hill GT Credit: No Room: 1130 Grades: Elementary Music Specialist 1:00-3:30 pm

Sessions | 1:00-4:00 pm Mindset Differences for Counselors GT Credit: No Room: 1133 Grades: Counselors 1:00-4:00 pm

June 6th

Sessions | 2:10-3:30 pm

Accommodations for All Learners

Quality Questioning in Math ( K-12 )

Presenters: Lecya Janak

Presenters: Zach DeVito, Kim Burch

Learn how to level the playing field for all learners by implementing effective accommodations in the general education classroom. Walk away with a deeper understanding of how to determine and implement appropriate instructional and behavioral accommodations. This course is part of the Personalized Learning Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1203 Pathway: Personalized Learning Grades: K-5 2:10-3:30 pm

Engage all learners in your lessons with research-based strategies on developing and using quality questions. Participants will develop their own set of scaffolded questions to guide students toward answering a unit’s essential question. This course is part of the curriculum foundations pathway and the instructional strategy pathway. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1148 Pathway: Instructional Strategy / Curriculum Foundations Grades: K-12 2:10-3:30 pm

Common Formative Assessment Presenters: Marisol Balderas, Catherine Soto, and Ashley Richardson

Presenters: Dianna Weber, Melissa Surratt

A powerful tool for both teachers and students. This course will help teachers and teams develop a shared understanding of key common formative assessment concepts and skills; and support teachers in implementing common formative assessments. This course is part of the Assessment Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1111 Pathway: Assessment Grades: 2-5 2:10-3:30 pm

Good at technology, but want to learn to move your skills to an even higher level? This session will help you to level up the technology integration in your social studies or ELAR lessons. Make sure to bring a lesson with which you have used technology in the past, or one to which you’d like to add a technology component - we’ll help you to level up! GT Credit: Yes Room: 1116 Pathway: Curriculum Foundations / Social Studies Grades: 6-12 2:10-3:30 pm

Google Classroom - Beginner for Electives

Self-Paced Learning & Research in Science

Presenters: Jennifer DeJong and Nina Chantanapumma Learn how to use and set-up Google classroom for your elective classes GT Credit: No Room: 1260 Pathway: CTE / Google / Electives Grades: 6-12 2:10-3:30 pm

SAMR for Secondary ELAR & SS

Presenters: Jennifer Marthiljohni Guide your students to find, filter and apply scientific concepts through independent student research. This session focuses on identifying research questions and topics, reading and writing based on scientific literature and creating a meaningful science research project. This course is part of the science pathway and the elementary writing pathway. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1217 Pathway: Science / Writing Grades: K-12 2:10-3:30 pm

June 6th

Sessions | 2:10-3:30 pm

Teaching the Whole Class Novel

Why Do We Study History? A Discussion on Historical Thinking

Presenters: Shawna Easton, Ashley Slaughter Many of us incorporate novels into our teaching like they were done to us when we were in school, but Ariel Sacks in her recent book, challenges this methodology. In this course, hear from several participants in a 2017 secondary ELAR book study over Sacks’ book and learn practical, immediate ways to incorporate the whole novels method into your teaching this fall. This course is part of the reading pathway. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1201 Pathway: Reading Grades: 4-12 2:10-3:30 pm

The Engaged Social Studies Classroom Presenters: Ben Reed Social studies is an investigation. Social studies should not be a classroom where students are overloaded with information that does not seem relevant. The focus should be on what is done with the information. This workshop gives teachers new ideas on what an engaged classroom is but more importantly it teaches teachers how to lead an engaged classroom. Special emphasis is placed on using and teaching the process skills. The theories of Eric Jensen are placed in a social studies context so the teachers can practice engagement strategies to use in the classroom. GT Credit: No Room: 1117 Pathway: Instructional Strategies Grades: 3-5 2:10-3:30 pm

Presenters: Josh Kirk By discussing the purpose behind studying history, this session will look to examine how we can improve as teachers to ensure our students are developing the historical thinking skills necessary to be successful. Sam Wineburg, Director of Stanford History Education Group, wrote “It is not that students don’t know enough history; they do not know what history is in the first place.” Drawing on much of his research, we will look at how a better understanding of the importance of history will influence the ways in which we teach our classes and in return, give our students more success in not only possessing historical facts, but the ability to use them as well. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1209 Pathway: Social Studies Grades: 6-12 2:10-3:30 pm

June 7th

Sessions | 8:30-9:50 am

Advanced Uses of Google in the Classroom Designing Performance Tasks Workshop: Math & Science Presenters: Patrick O’Neil, Miranda Hansen, Melissa Surratt, Dianna Weber

Presenters: Kaysee DeFratus, Amy Ousley

Are you a basic user of Google tools and ready to take it to the next level? This is an advanced Google session that will take you through different activities that will increase the collaboration and creativity in your classroom. This session is a part of the Google pathway. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1215 Pathway: Google Grades: K-12 8:30-9:50 am

Develop performance tasks for your math or science course and participate in a peer review process during this session. A brief overview will be provided and facilitators will provide guidance as needed. Bring any resources you may need to develop your performance task. This course is part of the secondary performance task pathway and the elementary assessment pathway and can be taken for credit up to two times. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1148 Pathway: Assessment / Performance Task Grades: K-12 8:30-9:50 am

Designing Performance Tasks Workshop: ELAR & SS Presenters: Felicia Combest, Seth Rutledge, Andrea Hutchison Develop performance tasks for your course and participate in a peer review process during this session. A brief overview will be provided and facilitators will provide guidance as needed. Bring any resources you may need to develop your performance task. This course is part of the secondary performance task pathway and the elementary assessment pathway, and can be taken for credit up to two times. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1137 Pathway: Assessment / Performance Task Grades: K-12 8:30-9:50 am

Easy Ways to Reach Special Ed Students Presenters: Caitlin Kirk We all have students in class who, for various reasons, are not operating on the same playing field as the other students. It can be difficult to accommodate for students with learning differences while still being attentive to the majority students. In this session, we will focus on four main areas of interaction with our SPED students so that we can start the next school year feeling better equipped to work with all students who struggle in our classrooms. We will learn how to work “smarter not harder” to better serve our SPED students as we seek to support them in meeting our expectations in class. GT Credit: No Room: 1118 Pathway: Personalized Instruction Grades: 6-12 8:30-9:50 am

June 7th

Sessions | 8:30-9:50 am

Essential Standards

Introduction to Building STEAM into Lessons

Presenters: Kari Roan, Beth Childs Essential standards drive our instruction and RTI process. Participants will review the fundamentals of essential standards, select essential standards within one of their own units and create assessments based on those standards. This course is part of the curriculum foundations pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1209 Pathway: Curriculum Foundations Grades: 6-12 8:30-9:50 am

Fun with Fractions Presenters: Zach DeVito, Penny Washington We will explore and make sense of fractions through hands-on explorations and technology. We will work to help our students discover the rules for themselves and build an understanding of why fraction rules work. This is part of the instructional strategy pathway. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1112 Pathway: Instructional Strategy / Math Grades: 3-7 8:30-9:50 am

Presenters: Michael Pflug STEAM designed lessons allow students to critically think and build skills they would not normally get from traditional lessons. Building STEAM components into your lessons will help students understand and retain information. This session will provide a hands on experience that will allow its participants to not only make STEAM lessons but to experience first hand the learning that occurs during a STEAM lesson. This course is part of the Student Transformation Pathway open to all K-8 teachers. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1212 Pathway: Student Transformation Grades: K-8 8:30-9:50 am

LMS Lesson Share Presenters: Terri Harkey Elementary Librarians will bring lessons, resources and items to share best practice and collaborate for the future. GT Credit: No Room: PHS Library Work Room Grades: K-5 8:30-9:50 am

June 7th

Sessions | 8:30-9:50 am

Relationships, Drama, and Energy Vampires...Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Teaching the Whole Class Novel

Presenters: Christie Dragoslavic, Megan Howell

Many of us incorporate novels into our teaching like they were done to us when we were in school, but Ariel Sacks in her recent book, challenges this methodology. In this course, hear from several participants in a 2017 secondary ELAR book study over Sacks’ book and learn practical, immediate ways to incorporate the whole novels method into your teaching this fall. This course is part of the reading pathway. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1201 Pathway: STEAM / Reading Grades: 4-12 8:30-9:50 am

The ability to work collaboratively with others is a life skill that involves regulating one’s thinking, emotions, and behaviors. These self-regulation skills are critical for success in school, work, and life. These life lessons are not taught in a single lesson, but rather build on themselves over time. Teachers are often the first point of contact when situations arise. These situations often can easily be diffused through the intentional practice of teaching students to self-regulate their emotions; decreasing the amount of instructional time lost and restoring harmony in the classroom. This course offers participants practical techniques and strategies for teaching students how to effectively regulate their emotions. Participants will leave with hands on experience and activities that can easily be embedded into the classroom setting. GT Credit: No Room: 1127 Grades: K-5 8:30-9:50 am

Social Studies Has Skills Too Presenters: Ben Reed What kind of work to do historians do? What about geographers? What skills does an economist most often use? When someone that works in social studies works with someone from another content area what happens? What skills are needed to make it a success? How much time do your students spend using skills in the classroom and what skills are they using? Social Studies Has Skills Too is designed align a social studies classroom with the skills that are used in the real world. Participants will gain a better understanding of how important social studies can be in a world that cares so much about STEM and the skills it requires. Rigor is thinking, and social studies requires thinking too. This course is part of the Instructional Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1117 Pathway: Instructional Strategies Grades: K-2 8:30-9:50 am

Presenters: Shawna Easton, Ashley Slaughter

The Lesson Fixer-Upper Presenters: Patrick O’Neil Have a great lesson that you’d like to add technology into? Or, have a lesson that already has a technology element, but that you’d like to explore changing up and adding something different? Well, bring your lesson, and join the library/ITS team! We’ll introduce you to tons of great technology tools, and help you to add them to your own lessons! Chromebooks and iPads will be in the room, but if you want you can bring other devices. This course is part of the Student Transformation Pathway open to all K-8 teachers. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1214 Pathway: Student Transformation Grades: K-8 8:30-9:50 am

June 7th

Sessions | 8:30-9:50 am

Sessions | 8:30-11:20 am

Using Suzuki to Engage the Secondary Orchestra Student

Comprehension Toolkit

Presenters: Rachel Holt Room: 1168G Grades: Suzuki-Orchestra Faculty 8:30-10:00 am

What Do You Mean We Use Math and Science in Everyday Life? Presenters: Kim Burch, Erin McWilliams Making connections between the curriculum the students are learning and their day to day life is the most powerful way to engage and grow studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s learning. Teachers will leave this class having experienced hands on connections between math and science that will connect to their students life like never before. This course is part of the Student Transformation Pathway open to all K-8 teachers. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1216 Pathway: Student Transformation Grades: K-8 8:30-9:50 am

Presenters: Sharon Page Effective comprehension instruction is more than a handful of reading strategies. The Comprehension Toolkit provides everything needed to help students understand, respond to, and learn from nonfiction text, building background knowledge across the curriculum and throughout the year. Come learn how to better utilize the Comprehension Toolkit in your 3-5 classroom! This course is part of the Personalized Learning Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1250 Pathway: Personalized Learning Grades: 3-5 8:30-11:20 am

Elementary Music Vertical Planning Presenters: Kristi Stephens, Alex Juarez Elementary Music Specialists will update the district inventory list, share our school inventory list, and create shared drives for all music resources including mp3 files of songs, choir selections, books, additional instruments and equipment. We will explore music apps that aid with assessment, rhythm, composition and improvisation so that music is relevant and engaging to the student and produces life-long learners and lovers of music. GT Credit: No Room: 1130 Pathway: Choir Grades: Elementary Music Specialists 8:30-11:20 am

June 7th

Sessions | 8:30-11:20 am

“Most Likely to Succeed” Movie Screening

Writing Strategies Book Introduction & Implementation

Most Likely to Succeed aims to help all schools re-imagine their purpose and create learning experiences that prepare kids for life in the 21st Century. In the past year, more than 1,500 communities have booked a screening of Most Likely to Succeed. These screenings create space for meaningful and necessary discussion between educators, administrators, parents, and students about how steps towards change can be taken on a local level. GT Credit: Yes Room: Auditorium Pathway: All Audiences Grades: K-12 8:30-11:20 am

See My Pain: Self-Harm & Self-Destructive Behaviors Presenters: Region 10 Room: 1130 Grades: All Audiences 8:30-11:20 am

Sessions | 8:30-3:30 am ASL Curriculum Planning

Technology for Choral Educators Presenters: Steve Nelms Mr. Steve Nelms will join Prosper ISD Choir Directors to share an overview of music technologies that can help our students (and make our lives easier). Mr. Nelms will include tips for working with Audacity, Logic and general tips for technology in our classrooms and concerts. GT Credit: No Room: PHS Choir Room Pathway: Choir Grades: Secondary Choir Directors 8:30-11:20 pm

Presenters: Erika Trammel Curriculum design and planning for 2017-2018 school ASL teachers. GT Credit: No Room: 1134 Pathway: LOTE Grades: 9-12 8:30 am-3:30 pm

Dyslexia Therapist Revamping for Next Year Presenters: Dena Goddard For PISD Dyslexia Therapist- Revamping For Next Year! GT Credit: No Room: 1227 Grades: Dyslexia Therapist 8:30 am-3:30 pm

June 7th

Sessions | 8:30-3:30 am

Sessions | 10:00-11:20 am

New French Adoption Presentation

Breaking Out Digitally

Presenters: HMH Presenter

Presenters: Frances Rivera

HMH will present on all the components of the new adoption and how to implement them in the classroom. Time will be provided for lesson planning for the 20172018 school year. GT Credit: No Room: 1132 Pathway: LOTE Grades: 7-12 8:30 am-3:30 pm

Digital Breakouts will provide the opportunity to learn and refine these skills in a relaxed, fun environment. In this session, we will provide examples of Digital Breakouts, and the advantages of them. Bring your laptop to create a Digital Breakout game to use in your classroom. The games run best on Chromebooks or the Chrome browser w/ Drive access. This course is part of the Student Transformation Pathway open to all K-8 teachers. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1214 Pathway: Student Transformation Grades: K-8 10:00-11:20 am

Spanish Textbook Adoption Presentation Presenters: Pearson Representative Pearson Textbook Company will demonstrate how to implement the various components of the new adoption. Time will be provided to begin the process of lesson planning for the 2017-2018 school year. GT Credit: No Room: 1138 Pathway: LOTE Grades: 7-12 8:30 am-3:30 pm

Designing Performance Tasks Workshop: ELAR & SS Presenters: Seth Rutledge, Andrea Hutchison, Felicia Combest Develop performance tasks for your course and participate in a peer review process during this session. A brief overview will be provided and facilitators will provide guidance as needed. Bring any resources you may need to develop your performance task. This course is part of the secondary performance task pathway and the elementary assessment pathway, and can be taken for credit up to two times. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1137 Pathway: Assessment / Performance Task Grades: K-12 10:00-11:20 am

June 7th

Sessions | 10:00-11:20 am

Designing Performance Tasks Workshop: Math & Science

Fun with Fractions

Presenters: Kassidy Wagner, Trent Turner

We will explore and make sense of fractions through hands-on explorations and technology. We will work to help our students discover the rules for themselves and build an understanding of why fraction rules work. This is part of the instructional strategy pathway. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1112 Pathway: Instructional Strategy / Math Grades: 3-7 10:00-11:20 am

Presenters: Zach DeVito & Penny Washington

Implementing PISD Resources Presenters: Terri Harkey

Differentiation Through Choice Boards Presenters: Elizabeth Labhart Choice boards give students the opportunity to customize their learning and choose assessments that fit their personal learning style. Participants in this session will review examples of choice boards and participate in creating their own. This course is part of the personalized instruction pathway. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1114 Pathway: Personalized Instruction Grades: 6-12 10:00-11:20 am

Establishing District & Classroom Norms for the Suzuki-Orchestra Classroom Presenters: Ron Planks Room: 1168G Grades: Suzuki-Orchestra Faculty 10:00-11:30 am

Teachers will discover and work with some of the resources available through MackinVIA. We will take a closer look at Discovery Education, SIRS and other resources. Teachers will learn where they are housed, how to use them with students, and be given time to work with the resources, so they are ready to apply their new learning with students in the fall. GT Credit: No Room: 1116 Pathway: Instructional Strategies Grades: K-5 10:00-11:20 am

Improving Intervention Time with Google Presenters: Ashley Gannon, Nicholas Jones This training will show how to organize intervention time using Google docs. Administrators will know where each student is and what class they are being intervened with. Students will be able to see what teacher has requested their intervention time on any smart device. This increases accountability and overall student success. GT Credit: No Room: 1115 Grades: Administrators 10:00-11:20 am

June 7th

Sessions | 10:00-11:20 am

Literacy Circles & Book Clubs

Social Studies Has Skills Too

Presenters: Renee Jones and Allison Dibble

Presenters: Ben Reed

What kind of work to do historians do? What about geographers? What skills does an economist most often use? When someone that works in social studies works with someone from another content area what happens? What skills are needed to make it a success? How much time do your students spend using skills in the classroom and what skills are they using? Social Studies Has Skills Too is designed align a social studies classroom with the skills that are used in the real world. Participants will gain a better understanding of how important social studies can be in a world that cares so much about STEM and the skills it requires. Rigor is thinking, and social studies requires thinking too. GT Credit: No Room: 1117 Pathway: Social Studies Grades: 6-12 10:00-11:20 am

Out of the Black Box Thinking: Theatre Arts in the Traditional Classroom Presenters: Sariea Haney This session is dedicated to making lessons engaging for students through the use of theatre as a teaching tool. This class will focus on using theatre to teach core subjects in a way that interests and captivates students. GT Credit: Yes Room: Black Box Pathway: Student Transformation Grades: K-8 10:00-11:20 am

STEAM Integrated Lessons Presenters: Devon Mize, Michael Pflug Explore how the different elements of Science Technology Engineering Arts and Mathematics can be brought together into different multidisciplinary lessons. WIth a focus on critical thinking participants will get a chance to experience a multidisciplinary lesson and build their own lesson based on what they learned. This course is part of the Student Transformation Pathway open to all K-8 teachers. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1212 Pathway: Student Transformation Grades: K-8 10:00-11:20 am

Through Your Students’ Eyes Presenters: Drew Webb Through Your Students’ Eyes will take a look at what it’s like through student’s eyes/minds that struggle with reading, writing, focusing, and processing. On the surface these students appear to be “lazy” or “unmotivated” and are often times the students that are failing, not turning in work, and not engaged. The training will use handson activities and videos to simulate what it’s like to have these types of struggles. Maybe with a little better understanding of what it’s like to do life/school with some of these challenges, we can improve our teaching craft in supporting all of our students. GT Credit: No Room: 2017 Grades: All Audiences 10:00-11:20 am

June 7th

Sessions | 10:00-11:20 am

Sessions | 12:40-2:00 pm

Teaching English Learners: Where Do I Start and What Do I Do Next?

A Week in the Google Classroom

Presenters: Lizdabeth Fierro & Arturo Gomez

Are you interested in starting with Google but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know where to start? This course will help you get going. This session will walk you through a week in a Google Classroom using the Google apps. You will get knowledge of the basis and be ready to starting using them in your classroom. This session is a part of the Google pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1209 Pathway: Google Grades: K-12 12:40-2:00 pm

Many teachers have or have had an English learner in our classroom. This course will provide background information to better understand these students, and strategies to help them learn content through academic English. This course is part of the Personalized Learning Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1203 Pathway: Personalized Learning Grades: K-5 10:00-11:20 am

Presenters: Joshua Watkins

Accommodations for All Learners Presenters: Lecya Janak Learn how to level the playing field for all learners by implementing effective accommodations in the general education classroom. Walk away with a deeper understanding of how to determine and implement appropriate instructional and behavioral accommodations. This course is part of the Personalized Learning Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1203 Pathway: Personalized Learning Grades: K-5 12:40-2:00 pm

June 7th

Sessions | 12:40-2:00 pm

Best Practices in Classroom Management

Curriculum Compacting for GT Learners

Presenters: Tammy Anderson & Michele Markee

Presenters: Janet Anders, Wendy Kruse

Best Practices in Classroom Management will demonstrate effective uses of Positive Behavioral Supports for the class. This training will provide teachers with an array of researched-based strategies and techniques for increasing expected classroom behaviors as well as for reducing the challenging behaviors. The class will also give teachers practical ways to manage behavior in the classroom setting for whole group, small group and individuals. This course is part of the Personalized Learning Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1213 Pathway: Personalized Learning Grades: K-5 12:40-2:00 pm

The needs of high ability students are often not met in the general education classroom. Bring a UFD from your grade level/subject. In this session, you will learn how to build in enrichment and accelerated study for the students who have already mastered the content, while building independence in your high level students. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1216 Pathway: Student Transformation Grades: K-8 12:40-2:00 pm

CAD You Design It? Integrating Computer Aided Design into the Classroom (SketchUp)

Learn how to engage students in the analysis of primary and secondary sources. Teachers will learn to implement the DBQ process in a way that will be meaningful for elementary learners. This course is part of the Writing Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1223 Pathway: Writing Grades: 2-5 12:40-2:00 pm

Presenters: Devon Mize Learning a CAD program and allow your imagination to run wild and allow for great creation. With this course come explore how to use different CAD software programs,build with CAD programing and integrate the use of the software. This course is Part of the Student Transformation pathway open to all K-8 teachers. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1050 Pathway: Student Transformation Grades: K-8 12:40-2:00 pm

CTE Cengage Learning Textbook Adoption Presenters: Cengage Learning Textbook adoption for Business, Career Prep, Forensic Science, Computer Literacy GT Credit: No Room: 1254 Pathway: CTE Grades: 6-12 12:40-2:00 pm

DBQ in the Elementary Classroom Presenters: Jennifer Morris, Nathan Smith

Designing Performance Tasks Workshop: ELAR & SS Presenters: Roshounda Ellerbe, Ashley Slaughter, M Beckham, Jamiann Clifford Develop performance tasks for your course and participate in a peer review process during this session. A brief overview will be provided and facilitators will provide guidance as needed. Bring any resources you may need to develop your performance task. This course is part of the secondary performance task pathway and the elementary assessment pathway, and can be taken for credit up to two times. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1137 Pathway: Assessment / Performance Task Grades: K-12 12:40-2:00 pm 27

June 7th

Sessions | 12:40-2:00 pm

Designing Performance Tasks Workshop: Math & Science

Reaching & Teaching the Struggling Student

Presenters: Alysha Jaballa, Jennifer Edrington

Presenters: Joy Kidd

Having trouble reaching hesitant or struggling learners? Learn over a dozen practical teacher moves and classroom structures that can help create opportunities for effective teaching and learning! This course is part of the Personalized Learning Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1211 Pathway: Personalized Learning Grades: K-5 12:40-2:00 pm

Igniting the FIRE: Motivational Techniques for Students Through Coaching

Presenters: Miranda Hansen, Michelle Phillips

How can we as teachers increase student interest, engagement, and performance in our content areas? Learn ways to flip your classroom using technology, and motivate the kids through competition and games. GT Credit: No Room: 1114 Pathway: Personalized Instruction Grades: 6-12 12:40-2:00 pm

Good at technology, but want to learn to move your skills to an even higher level? This session will help you to level up the technology integration in your math or science lessons. Make sure to bring a lesson with which you have used technology in the past, or one to which you’d like to add a technology component - we’ll help you to level up! This course is part of the secondary math and secondary science pathways. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1210 Pathway: Curriculum Foundations / Math / Science Grades: 6-12 12:40-2:00 pm

Non-Fiction Writing

SAMR for Secondary SS & ELAR

Presenters: Alex Crosbie, Kristin Beckham

Presenters: Dianna Weber, Melissa Surratt

Teaching non-fiction writing is one of the hardest skills to teach, yet it is perhaps the most important one for students to master. This course, based largely off of Smith and Wilhelm’s newest text, empowers teachers with immediate takeaway skills that will help them effectively teach non-fiction writing. This course is part of the writing pathway. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1201 Pathway: Writing Grades: 6-12 12:40-2:00 pm

Good at technology, but want to learn to move your skills to an even higher level? This session will help you to level up the technology integration in your social studies or ELAR lessons. Make sure to bring a lesson with which you have used technology in the past, or one to which you’d like to add a technology component - we’ll help you to level up! GT Credit: Yes Room: 1214 Pathway: Curriculum Foundations / Social Studies Grades: 6-12 12:40-2:00 pm

Presenters: Thomas Gomez

SAMR for Secondary Math & Science

June 7th

Sessions | 12:40-2:00 pm

SAMR in Elementary

Teaching Reading in Small Groups ( 3-5 )

Presenters: Michelle Phillips

Presenters: Lauren Spurr, Jennifer Larriviere

Good at technology, but want to learn to move your skills to an even higher level? This session will help you to level up the technology integration in your classroom! Make sure to bring a lesson with which you have used technology in the past, or one to which you’d like to add a technology component - we’ll help you to level up! This session is a part of the Google pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1115 Pathway: Instructional Strategies / Google Grades: K-5 12:40-2:00 pm

How do I take my 3-5 students on a journey to become strategic, independent readers? Join us as we examine strategy groups and conferring that will deepen the reader’s experience through live models, including ideas to incorporate technology. This course is a part of the Content Pathway - ELAR GT Credit: No Room: 1228 Pathway: Content Grades: 3-5 12:40-2:00 pm

June 7th

Sessions | 12:40-2:00 pm

Sessions | 12:40-3:30 pm

The Map to Learning: Making a PBL

Using Career Cruising for Student Pathways

Presenters: Miranda Hansen Beginning a PBL can be overwhelming and sometimes frustrating. This course will allow participants to design and create their own true PBL. The facilitator will help participants with tips and tricks along with information to take with them to help when they return to the classroom. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1218 Pathway: Student Transformation Grades: K-8 12:40-2:00 pm

Thinking Outside of the Lego Brick Presenters: Michael Pflug Legos are only limited to by the creators imagination so imagine what would happen if students could express learning through Legos. This session allows teachers to design lessons that allow students to show content specific knowledge, skills, and ideas through the medium of building with Legos. This course is part of the Student Transformation Pathway open to all K-8 teachers. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1212 Pathway: Student Transformation Grades: K-8 12:40-2:00 pm

Presenters: Brett Hankey Learn about how to use Career Cruising and it utilize for students to find career pathways GT Credit: No Room: 1260 Pathway: CTE Grades: 6-12 12:40-2:00 pm

Comprehension Toolkit Presenters: Sharon Page Effective comprehension instruction is more than a handful of reading strategies. The Comprehension Toolkit provides everything needed to help students understand, respond to, and learn from nonfiction text, building background knowledge across the curriculum and throughout the year. Come learn how to better utilize the Comprehension Toolkit in your K-2 classroom! This course is part of the Personalized Learning. GT Credit: No Room: 1205 Pathway: Personalized Learning Grades: K-2 12:40-3:30 pm

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most Likely to Succeedâ&#x20AC;? Movie Screening Transitioning Elementary Musicians to Secondary Music Programs GT Credit: No Room: Choir Room Elementary Music Specialists will share a general overview of what concepts incoming 6th graders will be aware of. We will also discuss how we can help one another and music education in Prosper ISD. Grades: Elementary Music Specialist 12:40-2:00 pm

June 7th

Sessions | 2:10-3:30 pm

Applications of Grammar in Writing

CTE Textbook Adoption Goodheart-Wilcox

Presenters: Torrey Eckert, Amy Widman Those pesky but essential grammar skills- how do we teach them in a meaningful way? In this course, learn how to integrate grammar instruction into writing instruction and feedback so that students better internalize necessary skills. This course is part of the writing pathway. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1201 Pathway: Writing Grades: 6-12 2:10-3:30 pm

Classroom Management and How to Implement Accommodations Presenters: Brett Phipps The process of keeping track of and implementing accommodations can be a difficult task. This session helps you learn some organizational skills and understand the process and purpose behind these supports. GT Credit: No Room: 1203 Pathway: Personalized Instruction Grades: 6-12 2:10-3:30 pm

CTE Textbook Adoption - Pearson

Presenters: Goodheart-Wilcox Publishing CTE Textbook adoption for Health Science, Banking, Automotive, Fashion, Architectural Design, FCS GT Credit: No Room: 1254 Pathway: CTE Grades: 9-12 2:10-3:30 pm

Presenters: Pearson Publishing Pearson textbook adoption for Culinary, Principles of Human Services, and Principles of Applied Engineering GT Credit: No Room: 1256 Pathway: CTE Grades: 9-12 2:10-3:30 pm

June 7th

Sessions | 2:10-3:30 pm

Designing Performance Tasks Workshop: Math & Science

Ignite Your Passion With Ignite Talks

Presenters: Meredith Bell, Caitlin Kirk

Ignite talks allow students to present information in under 5 minutes. With a limited number of slides, students can only convey a message through the art of storytelling. Participant will get to experience an ignite talk first hand and develop ways they can use the tool in their classroom. This course is part of the Student Transformation Pathway open to all K-8 teachers. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1214 Pathway: Student Transformation Grades: K-8 2:10-3:30 pm

Develop performance tasks for your math or science course and participate in a peer review process during this session. A brief overview will be provided and facilitators will provide guidance as needed. Bring any resources you may need to develop your performance task. This course is part of the secondary performance task pathway and the elementary assessment pathway and can be taken for credit up to two times. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1135 Pathway: Assessment / Performance Task Grades: K-12 2:10-3:30 pm

Extensions and Excellence in the Choral Classroom: Teaching Kids Who Are Already Invested Presenters: Crystal Chamberlain Choir Directors will discuss and share ways to engage and enhance experiences for those students who need an added musical challenge. We will go over ways to differentiate instruction for those students who are interested in potentially becoming musicians and/or are advanced enough to need more from the choir classroom. Room: PHS Choir Classroom Pathway: Choir Grades: Secondary Choir Directors 2:10-3:30 pm

Presenters: January Rowe

Music, Coding, and Math, Oh My! Presenters: Michael Pflug Explore the different ways that coding and music can connect. Through the use of Makey Makeys the ideas and principles behind octaves, note lengths, and song construction will be explored by the participants. Leaving with a lesson to incorporate the different elements of coding and music in the traditional classroom. This course is part of the Student Transformation Pathway open to all K-8 teachers. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1212 Pathway: Student Transformation Grades: K-8 2:10-3:30 pm

Quality Questioning in Math ( K-12 ) Presenters: Zach DeVito

Engage all learners in your lessons with research-based strategies on developing and using quality questions. Participants will develop their own set of scaffolded questions to guide students toward answering a unitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s essential question. This course is part of the curriculum foundations pathway and the instructional strategy pathway. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1148 Pathway: Instructional Strategy / Curriculum Foundations Grades: K-12 2:10-3:30 pm

June 7th

Sessions | 2:10-3:30 pm

Reading & Writing in Social Studies

Take CTRL of Your Lesson in Google

Presenters: Ben Reed

Presenters: Jennifer DeJong, Nina Chantanapumma

This workshop is designed to show you how easy it is to integrate social studies into your classroom instruction. Teachers will begin the workshop with a study of the strands of social studies. Participants will examine the similarities between and social studies process skills and Figure 19 in the ELAR TEKS. Also, common library books that are found in most classrooms will be studied from a social studies point of view. You will leave amazed and excited to begin integrating the content areas. This course is a part of the Content Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1117 Pathway: Content Grades: K-5 2:10-3:30 pm

Take â&#x20AC;&#x153;CTRLâ&#x20AC;? of your lesson plans in Google with an easy to use calendar and provide timely information to students in Google Classroom. GT Credit: No Room: 1260 Pathway: Google, CTE, Electives Grades: K-12 2:10-3:30 pm

Self-Paced Learning & Research in Science Presenters: Jennifer Marthiljohni Guide your students to find, filter and apply scientific concepts through independent student research. This session focuses on identifying research questions and topics, reading and writing based on scientific literature and creating a meaningful science research project. This course is part of the science pathway and the elementary writing pathway. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1217 Pathway: Writing / Science Grades: K-12 2:10-3:30 pm

Starting Paperless Day One Presenters: Joshua Watkins Going paperless in your classroom is a big step. This session will help you make that change in a way that works in your classroom. We will walk through steps and tools that will help you get plans to start in your classroom. This session is a part of the Google pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1215 Pathway: Google Grades: K-12 2:10-3:30 pm

Teaching English Learners: Where Do I Start and What Do I Do Next? Presenters: Arturo Gomez, Lizdebeth Fierro Many teachers have or have had an English learner in our classroom. This course will provide background information to better understand these students, and strategies to help them learn content through academic English. This course is part of the Personalized Learning Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1213 Pathway: Personalized Learning Grades: K-5 2:10-3:30 pm

Twitter for Teachers Presenters: Shawna Easton Hear experienced Twitter teacher Shawna Easton explain how you can incorporate Twitter in your classroom, no matter what you teach or what grade level you teach. She will also discuss how you can make Twitter part of your regular (Free!) professional development where you can gain a wealth of knowledge and new ideas. Will be able to leave this session with resources. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1216 Pathway: Student Transformation Grades: K-8 2:10-3:30 pm

June 8th

Sessions | 8:30-9:50 am

Assessing Performance Tasks: Rubric Design

Googling Through Math

Presenters: Meredith Bell, Beth Childs

Crack open those chrome books and ramp up engagement! Learn time saving techniques using the Google products in your classroom, including creating quizzes and exit tickets in Google Forms, presenting a lesson in Nearpod, setting up Google warm up slides, and creating a You Tube account to save your favorite you tube math videos. This course is a part of the Content pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1118 Pathway: Content Grades: 3-5 8:30-9:50 am

Review processes for creating and utilizing rubrics for performance task assessment. Rubrics will be created and peer reviewed for performance tasks previously designed by the participants. Bring an existing performance task that needs a rubric designed. This course is part of the secondary performance task pathway and the elementary assessment pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1148 Pathway: Assessment / Performance Task Grades: K-12 8:30-9:50 am

Common Formative Assessment Presenters: Marisol Balderas, Catherine Soto, Ashley Richardson A powerful tool for both teachers and students. This course will help teachers and teams develop a shared understanding of key common formative assessment concepts and skills; and support teachers in implementing common formative assessments. This course is part of the Assessment Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1112 Pathway: Assessment Grades: 2-5 8:30-9:50 am

Drug Trends 2017 Presenters: Vic Routh Learn about what drugs that kids are taking, what they look like and what they do. GT Credit: No Room: 1233 Pathway: All Audiences Grades: K-12 8:30-9:50 am

Presenters: Carol Loper, Kati Nagy

GT Growth Mindset Presenters: Dianna High and Leslie Harrison A growth mindset can be taught! The good news is that when students understand the difference between moving from a fixed to a growth mindset, they can be profoundly affected and influenced. Through the words we use in our classrooms, hands on activities and mentor texts, our classrooms can ultimately teach students to use a growth mindset. Strategies and teaching methods geared toward cultivating a growth mindset in students will be shared. This course is part of the Personalized Learning Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1210 Pathway: Personalized Learning Grades: K-8 8:30-9:50 am

June 8th

Sessions | 8:30-9:50 am

Introduction to Building STEAM into Lessons

Probeware in Math & Science

Presenters: Michael Pflug

Integrate data-collection technology into your math and science classes by engaging students in activities that analyze and visualize real time data using Vernier sensors and software. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1109 Pathway: Science / Math Grades: 6-12 8:30-9:50 am

STEAM designed lessons allow students to critically think and build skills they would not normally get from traditional lessons. Building STEAM components into your lessons will help students understand and retain information. This session will provide a hands on experience that will allow its participants to not only make STEAM lessons but to experience first hand the learning that occurs during a STEAM lesson. This course is part of the Student Transformation Pathway open to all K-8 teachers. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1212 Pathway: Student Transformation Grades: K-8 8:30-9:50 am

Non-Fiction Writing Presenters: Alex Crosbie and Kristin Beckham Teaching non-fiction writing is one of the hardest skills to teach, yet it is perhaps the most important one for students to master. This course, based largely off of Smith and Wilhelm’s newest text, empowers teachers with immediate takeaway skills that will help them effectively teach non-fiction writing. This course is part of the writing pathway. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1201 Pathway: Writing Grades: 6-12 8:30-9:50 am

Office 365 More Than Just Outlook Presenters: Lindsay Smith See all the tools you have available in Office 365 GT Credit: No Room: 1252 Pathway: CTE / All Audiences Grades: K-12 8:30-9:50 am

Presenters: Linda Antinone

SAMR for Secondary ELAR & SS Presenters: Dianna Weber, Melissa Surratt Good at technology, but want to learn to move your skills to an even higher level? This session will help you to level up the technology integration in your social studies or ELAR lessons. Make sure to bring a lesson with which you have used technology in the past, or one to which you’d like to add a technology component - we’ll help you to level up! GT Credit: Yes Room: 1116 Pathway: Curriculum Foundations / Social Studies Grades: 6-12 8:30-9:50 am

June 8th

Sessions | 8:30-9:50 am

Take CTRL of Your Lesson in Google

What Do You Mean We Use Math and Science in Everyday Life?

Presenters: Jennifer DeJong, Nina Chantanapumma Take “CTRL” of your lesson plans in Google with an easy to use calendar and provide timely information to students in Google Classroom. GT Credit: No Room: 1260 Pathway: CTE / Google Grades: K-12 8:30-9:50 am

Presenters: Kim Burch, Erin McWilliams Making connections between the curriculum the students are learning and their day to day life is the most powerful way to engage and grow student’s learning. Teachers will leave this class having experienced hands on connections between math and science that will connect to their students life like never before. This course is part of the Student Transformation Pathway open to all K-8 teachers. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1216 Pathway: Student Transformation Grades: K-8 8:30-9:50 am

What To Do With a DNQ Presenters: Tara Taliaferro This professional development will help further explain how to help support those students who do not qualify for special education as a student with a Learning Disability. It will show you how to use the Full Individual Evaluation as a tool for to help those students in your classroom. GT Credit: No Room: 1205 Pathway: Personalized Learning Grades: K-5 8:30-9:50 am

June 8th

Sessions | 8:30-11:20 am

Enhance Your K-2nd Grade Writing Instruction Using Explorations in Nonfiction Writing

More Technology in the Suzuki-Orchestra Classroom

Presenters: Debbie Jarzombek Nonfiction writing is essential to learning and inquiry. In this session, we will explore the new Texas ELAR standards and analyze how Explorations in Nonfiction Writing supports standards based teaching. We will also explore specific writing instructional strategies utilized in this resource. Important: Participants will need to bring the kindergarten, first or second grade spiral Explorations in Nonfiction Writing teacher guide to reference during the session. This course is part of the Writing Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1238 Pathway: Writing Grades: K-2 8:30-11:20 am

Making the Workshop Work Presenters: Lindsey Leeper and Aimee Stanton

Presenters: Brian Henson Room: 1168G Grades: Suzuki-Orchestra Faculty 8:30-11:30 am

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most Likely to Succeedâ&#x20AC;? Movie Screening Most Likely to Succeed aims to help all schools re-imagine their purpose and create learning experiences that prepare kids for life in the 21st Century. In the past year, more than 1,500 communities have booked a screening of Most Likely to Succeed. These screenings create space for meaningful and necessary discussion between educators, administrators, parents, and students about how steps towards change can be taken on a local level. GT Credit: Yes Room: Auditorium Pathway: All Audiences Grades: K-12 8:30-11:20 am

We hear about workshop in the classroom all the time. How can I we make it work for our students? We will take a comprehensive look at the lesson cycle and get a common vision for utilizing the workshop model. We will look at how Prosper teachers are using this model and create specific lessons for our own classes. This course is part of the Personalized Learning Pathway GT Credit: No Room: 1217 Pathway: Personalized Learning Grades: 3-5 8:30-11:20 am

June 8th

Sessions | 8:30 am-3:30 pm

Sessions | 10:00-11:20 am

Choir Curriculum Planning

Breakout EDU: Gaming Out of Boredom

Presenters: Crystal Chamberlain

Presenters: Frances Rivera

All choir directors will meet for vertical curriculum alignment. We will synchronize our calendars and unit schedules for 2017-18, plan horizontally / vertically and review learning goals achieved in the 2016-17 school year. GT Credit: No Room: PHS Choir Room Pathway: Choir Grades: Secondary Choir Directors 8:30 am-3:30 pm

Breakouts teach teamwork & critical thinking skills by posing challenges that ignite a student’s drive to problem-solve. They also provide the opportunity to learn and refine these skills in a relaxed, fun environment. In this session, we will compare Box Breakouts to Digital Breakouts and provide you with the resources to create your own Breakouts. This course is part of the Student Transformation Pathway open to all K-8 teachers. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1214 Pathway: Student Transformation Grades: K-8 10:00-11:20 am

May the Fours Be With You Presenters: Bill McDonald Writing. This course is part of the social studies pathway and the elementary writing pathway. By invitation only. GT Credit: No Room: 1247 Pathway: Writing / Social Studies Grades: K-12 8:30 am-3:30 pm

Student-Centered Approach to Explore & Discover Music Presenters: Dr. Julie Scott Elementary music teachers or any level music teacher will learn the basics of the Orff- Schulwerk method of teaching music from Dr. Julie Scott of Southern Methodist University. Orff- Schulwerk is a student-centered approach rich with opportunities to explore and discover music first before identifying music elements. We will learn proper instrument techniques while we explore, create, compose and improvise songs and poems. Room: 1157 8:30 am-3:30 pm

Differentiation Through Choice Boards Presenters: Elizabeth Labhart Choice boards give students the opportunity to customize their learning and choose assessments that fit their personal learning style. Participants in this session will review examples of choice boards and participate in creating their own. This course is part of the personalized instruction pathway GT Credit: Yes Room: 1112 Pathway: Personalized Instruction Grades: 6-12 10:00-11:20 am

Essential Standards, Oh My! Presenters: Erin McWilliams, Robin Hardy, Kim Burch Break It Down Now! Take a trip down standards lane and have an open discussion and reflection on what it truly means to “Break Down” the TEKS to Essential Standards within your team, and how to address those for RTI purposes. This course is part of the Assessment Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1118 Pathway: Assessment Grades: K-5 10:00-11:20 am

June 8th

Sessions | 10:00-11:20 am

Feedback is Fuel: Writing Conferences

Make Your Schoolwires Web page Pop Using Canva

Presenters: Amy Widman, Seth Rutledge Feedback is fuel for good writing! We know that without timely, focused, meaningful feedback, student writing does not grow as it should, but how do we put this into practice amidst all of the other pulls during the school day? This course will teach you how and will leave you with takeaways you can implement right now as you plan for the new year. NOTE: PLEASE BRING SEVERAL SAMPLES OF STUDENT WRITING WITH NAMES AND OTHER IDENTIFYING INFORMATION REDACTED. This course is part of the writing pathway. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1201 Pathway: Writing Grades: 6-12 10:00-11:20 am

Presenters: Christal Hankey

GT Growth Mindset

Presenters: Sariea Haney

Presenters: Dianna High, Kara Mehuron, Leslie Harrison

This session is dedicated to making lessons engaging for students through the use of theatre as a teaching tool. This class will focus on using theatre to teach core subjects in a way that interests and captivates students. GT Credit: Yes Room: Black Box Pathway: Student Transformation Grades: K-8 10:00-11:20 am

A growth mindset can be taught! The good news is that when students understand the difference between moving from a fixed to a growth mindset, they can be profoundly affected and influenced. Through the words we use in our classrooms, hands on activities and mentor texts, our classrooms can ultimately teach students to use a growth mindset. Strategies and teaching methods geared toward cultivating a growth mindset in students will be shared. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1210 Pathway: Personalized Learning Grades: K-8 10:00-11:20 am

Do you want your web page to look more creative? If so, come to this session to learn how to use Canva, a free online resource, to add a creative element. Canva is also a great way to create professional looking posts for social media, flyers, and other digital media. GT Credit: No Room: 1252 Pathway: All Audiences Grades: All 10:00-11:20 am

Out of the Black Box Thinking: Theatre Arts in the Traditional Classroom

Probeware in Math & Science Presenters: Linda Antinone Integrate data-collection technology into your math and science classes by engaging students in activities that analyze and visualize real time data using Vernier sensors and software. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1109 Pathway: Science / Math Grades: 6-12 10:00-11:20 am

June 8th

Sessions | 10:00-11:20 am

Reaching and Teaching the Struggling Student

Through Your Students’ Eyes

Presenters: Joy Kidd

Through Your Students’ Eyes will take a look at what it’s like through student’s eyes/minds that struggle with reading, writing, focusing, and processing. On the surface these students appear to be “lazy” or “unmotivated” and are often times the students that are failing, not turning in work, and not engaged. The training will use handson activities and videos to simulate what it’s like to have these types of struggles. Maybe with a little better understanding of what it’s like to do life/school with some of these challenges, we can improve our teaching craft in supporting all of our students. GT Credit: No Room: 2017 Grades: All Audiences 10:00-11:20 am

STEAM Integrated Lessons

Presenters: Drew Webb

Presenters: Michael Pflug Explore how the different elements of Science Technology Engineering Arts and Mathematics can be brought together into different multidisciplinary lessons. WIth a focus on critical thinking participants will get a chance to experience a multidisciplinary lesson and build their own lesson based on what they learned. This course is part of the Student Transformation Pathway open to all K-8 teachers. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1212 Pathway: Student Transformation Grades: K-8 10:00-11:20 am

Student Digital Portfolios Presenters: Nina Chantanapumma Learn tools for having students create a digital portfolio GT Credit: No Room: 1260 Pathway: CTE Grades: K-12 10:00-11:20 am

Utilizing Formative Assessments Presenters: Lisa Williams Formative assessments are a necessity for identifying where students are in the learning process so that extension and remediation can be developed. Learn how to create and use formative assessments using technology tools like Google, Nearpod, Socrative and more. This course is part of the secondary personalized instruction pathway and the elementary assessment pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1203 Pathway: Assessment / Curriculum Foundations Grades: K-12 10:00-11:20 am

June 8th

Sessions | 12:40-2:00 pm

A Week in the Google Classroom

CAD You Design It? Integrating Computer Aided Design Into the Classroom (Inventor)

Presenters: Joshua Watkins Are you interested in starting with Google but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know where to start? This course will help you get going. This session will walk you through a week in a Google Classroom using the Google apps. You will get knowledge of the basis and be ready to starting using them in your classroom. This session is a part of the Google pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1209 Pathway: Google Grades: K-12 12:40-2:00 pm

Best Practices in Classroom Management Presenters: Tammy Anderson & Michele Markee Best Practices in Classroom Management will demonstrate effective uses of Positive Behavioral Supports for the class. This training will provide teachers with an array of researched-based strategies and techniques for increasing expected classroom behaviors as well as for reducing the challenging behaviors. The class will also give teachers practical ways to manage behavior in the classroom setting for whole group, small group and individuals. This course is part of the Personalized Learning Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1213 Pathway: Personalized Learning Grades: K-5 12:40-2:00 pm

Presenters: Don Berliner Learning a CAD program and allow your imagination to run wild and allow for great creation. With this course come explore how to use different CAD software programs,build with CAD programing and integrate the use of the software. This course is Part of the Student Transformation pathway open to all K-8 teachers. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1050 Pathway: Student Transformation Grades: K-8 12:40-2:00 pm

Common Formative Assessment Presenters: Marisol Balderas, Jennifer Brown, Christina Smith A powerful tool for both teachers and students. This course will help teachers and teams develop a shared understanding of key common formative assessment concepts and skills; and support teachers in implementing common formative assessments. This course is part of the Assessment Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1112 Pathway: Assessment Grades: K-1 12:40-2:00 pm

June 8th

Sessions | 12:40-2:00 pm

CTE Practicums

Easy Ways to Reach Special Ed Students

Presenters: Mark DeLano

Presenters: Caitlin Kirk

This session provides teachers with professional development and training on the challenge of managing Practicums. It will address Training Plan Requirements, Eligibility Requirements, Guidelines and Compliance issues. Paid versus unpaid Practicums, PEIMS coding, Course Requirements, Teacher Site Visit Requirements, Documentation and ending with a Q&A session GT Credit: No Room: 1254 Pathway: CTE Grades: 11-12 12:40-2:00 pm

We all have students in class who, for various reasons, are not operating on the same playing field as the other students. It can be difficult to accommodate for students with learning differences while still being attentive to the majority students. In this session, we will focus on four main areas of interaction with our SPED students so that we can start the next school year feeling better equipped to work with all students who struggle in our classrooms. We will learn how to work â&#x20AC;&#x153;smarter not harderâ&#x20AC;? to better serve our SPED students as we seek to support them in meeting our expectations in class. GT Credit: No Room: 1118 Pathway: Personalized Instruction Grades: 6-12 12:40-2:00 pm

Curriculum Compacting for GT Learners Presenters: Janet Anders, Wendy Kruse The needs of high ability students are often not met in the general education classroom. Bring a UFD from your grade level/subject. In this session, you will learn how to build in enrichment and accelerated study for the students who have already mastered the content, while building independence in your high level students. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1216 Pathway: Student Transformation Grades: K-8 12:40-2:00 pm

Essential Standards Presenters: Meredith Bell, Zach DeVito Essential standards drive our instruction and RTI process. Participants will review the fundamentals of essential standards, select essential standards within one of their own units and create assessments based on those standards. This course is part of the curriculum foundations pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1109 Pathway: Curriculum Foundations Grades: 6-12 12:40-2:00 pm

June 8th

Sessions | 12:40-2:00 pm

Feedback is Fuel: Writing Conferences

Student Digital Portfolios

Presenters: Amy Widman, Seth Rutledge

Presenters: Nina Chantanapumma

Feedback is fuel for good writing! We know that without timely, focused, meaningful feedback, student writing does not grow as it should, but how do we put this into practice amidst all of the other pulls during the school day? This course will teach you how and will leave you with takeaways you can implement right now as you plan for the new year. NOTE: PLEASE BRING SEVERAL SAMPLES OF STUDENT WRITING WITH NAMES AND OTHER IDENTIFYING INFORMATION REDACTED. This course is part of the writing pathway. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1201 Pathway: Writing Grades: 6-12 12:40-2:00 pm

Learn tools for having students create a digital portfolio GT Credit: No Room: 1260 Pathway: CTE Grades: K-12 12:40-2:00 pm

Igniting the FIRE: Motivational Techniques for Students Through Coaching Presenters: Thomas Gomez How can we as teachers increase student interest, engagement, and performance in our content areas? Learn ways to flip your classroom using technology, and motivate the kids through competition and games. GT Credit: No Room: 1114 Pathway: Personalized Instruction Grades: 6-12 12:40-2:00 pm

Inquiry-Based Investigation Presenters: Trent Turner Science - Brush up on force and motion related content while exploring the use of open inquiry and experimental design in instruction. The course also offers an introduction to claim, evidence, and reasoning as a framework for drawing conclusion in science. This course is part of the Instructional Strategies Pathway. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1113 Pathway: Instructional Strategies Grades: K-5 12:40-2:00 pm

The Map to Learning: Making a PBL Presenters: Miranda Hansen Beginning a PBL can be overwhelming and sometimes frustrating. This course will allow participants to design and create their own true PBL. The facilitator will help participants with tips and tricks along with information to take with them to help when they return to the classroom. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1218 Pathway: Student Transformation Grades: K-8 12:40-2:00 pm

June 8th

Sessions | 12:40-3:30 pm

Choir: Next Level

Making the Workshop Work

Presenters: Crystal Chamberlain

Presenters: Lindsey Leeper and Aimee Stanton

What are we doing that is working in our choral programs? How can we take Choir in Prosper to the Next Level? We will make a District Action Plan for the Prosper Choir program as a whole and for individual school programs. GT Credit: No Room: Pathway: Choir Grades: Choir Directors 12:40 -3:30 pm

We hear about workshop in the classroom all the time. How can I we make it work for our students? We will take a comprehensive look at the lesson cycle and get a common vision for utilizing the workshop model. We will look at how Prosper teachers are using this model and create specific lessons for our own classes. This course is part of the Personalized Learning Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1217 Pathway: Personalized Learning Grades: K-2 12:40-3:30 pm

Enhance Your 3rd-5th Grade Writing Instruction Using Explorations in Nonfiction Writing

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most Likely to Succeedâ&#x20AC;? Movie Screening

Presenters: Debbie Jarzombek

Presenters: Holly Ferguson

Nonfiction writing is essential to learning and inquiry. In this session, we will explore the new Texas ELAR standards and analyze how Explorations in Nonfiction Writing supports standards based teaching. We will also explore specific writing instructional strategies utilized in this resource. Important: Participants will need to bring the third, fourth, or fifth grade spiral Explorations in Nonfiction Writing teacher guide to reference during the session. This course is part of the Writing Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1238 Pathway: Writing Grades: 3-5 12:40-3:30 pm

Sessions | 1:00-4:00 pm NOVA Training Presenters: Jennifer Atencio Refresher course on crisis counseling. Required for all counselors GT Credit: No Room: 1127 Grades: All Counselors 1:00-4:00 pm

June 8th

Sessions | 2:10-3:30 pm

Advanced Uses of Google in the Classroom Digital Maker Space Presenters: Patrick O’Neil, Miranda Hansen, Melissa Surratt, Dianna Weber Are you a basic user of Google tools and ready to take it to the next level? This is an advanced Google session that will take you through different activities that will increase the collaboration and creativity in your classroom. This session is a part of the Google pathway. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1217 Pathway: Google Grades: K-12 2:10-3:30 pm

Applications of Grammar in Writing Presenters: Torrey Eckert, Amy Widman Those pesky but essential grammar skills- how do we teach them in a meaningful way? In this course, learn how to integrate grammar instruction into writing instruction and feedback so that students better internalize necessary skills. This course is part of the writing pathway. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1201 Pathway: Writing Grades: 6-12 2:10-3:30 pm

Presenters: Jennifer DeJong Play is a necessary part of a child’s development. Allowing time for students to create and make different projects can strengthen their grasp of content taught to them. Come experience the power of play with this makerspace session. Participants will design, build and redesign a product to answer a questions. This course is part of the Student Transformation pathway open to all K-8 teachers. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1260 Pathway: Student Transformation Grades: K-8 2:10-3:30 pm

DBQ in the Elementary Classroom Presenters: Jennifer Morris, Nathan Smith Participants will learn how to engage students in the analysis of primary and secondary sources. Teachers will learn to implement the DBQ process in a way that will be meaningful for elementary learners. This course is part of the Writing Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1205 Pathway: Writing Grades: 2-5 2:10-3:30 pm

June 8th

Sessions | 2:10-3:30 pm

GT in the Digital Classroom

Music, Coding, and Math, Oh My!

Presenters: Kassidy Wagner, Emily Kopeck

Presenters: Michael Pflug

As teachers of Gifted students, we are always looking for research-based methods to implement to make our studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; experiences in our classrooms more meaningful. After years of trial and error, we were able to pinpoint six areas that we believe contribute to a successful digital GT classroom. We will share how we setup the digital learning environment, utilize blended learning, engage, and motivate your GT students. This session is for intermediate technology users and grade levels K-8. You will need a device. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1114 Pathway: Personalized Instruction Grades: K-8 2:10-3:30 pm

Explore the different ways that coding and music can connect. Through the use of Makey Makeys the ideas and principles behind octaves, note lengths, and song construction will be explored by the participants. Leaving with a lesson to incorporate the different elements of coding and music in the traditional classroom. This course is part of the Student Transformation Pathway open to all K-8 teachers. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1212 Pathway: Student Transformation Grades: K-8 2:10-3:30 pm

Office 365 More Than Just Outlook Ignite Your Passion With Ignite Talks Presenters: January Rowe Ignite talks allow students to present information in under 5 minutes. With a limited number of slides, students can only convey a message through the art of storytelling. Participant will get to experience an ignite talk first hand and develop ways they can use the tool in their classroom. This course is part of the Student Transformation Pathway open to all K-8 teachers. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1214 Pathway: Student Transformation Grades: K-8 2:10-3:30 pm

Presenters: Lindsay Smith See all the tools you have available in Office 365 GT Credit: No Room: 1252 Pathway: CTE / All Audiences Grades: K-12 2:10-3:30 pm

Quality Questioning in English & Social Studies ( K-12 ) Presenters: Kari Roan, Beth Childs Engage all learners in your lessons with research-based strategies on developing and using quality questions. Participants will develop their own set of scaffolded questions to guide students toward answering a unitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s essential question. This course is part of the curriculum foundations pathway and the instructional strategy pathway. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1209 Pathway: Instructional Strategy / Curriculum Foundations Grades: K-12 2:10-3:30 pm

June 8th

Sessions | 2:10-3:30 pm

SAMR for Secondary Math and Science Presenters: Miranda Hansen, Michelle Phillips Good at technology, but want to learn to move your skills to an even higher level? This session will help you to level up the technology integration in your math or science lessons. Make sure to bring a lesson with which you have used technology in the past, or one to which you’d like to add a technology component - we’ll help you to level up! This course is part of the secondary math and secondary science pathways. GT Credit: Yes Room: 1115 Pathway: Curriculum Foundations / Math / Science Grades: 6-12 2:10-3:30 pm

SAMR in Elementary Presenters: Elementary Librarian/ITS Good at technology, but want to learn to move your skills to an even higher level? This session will help you to level up the technology integration in your classroom! Make sure to bring a lesson with which you have used technology in the past, or one to which you’d like to add a technology component - we’ll help you to level up! This session is a part of the Google pathway. GT Credit: No Room: 1116 Pathway: Instructional Strategies / Google Grades: K-5 2:10-3:30 pm

June

Additional Sessions Smarter SMART Goals Presenters: Lecya Janak & Marisol Balderas - Online Learn best practices for writing SMART goals to support student achievement and monitor students’ progress in response to intervention. Walk away with an understanding of how to determine target areas for intervention, write meaningful SMART goals, and collect data to monitor students’ progress towards goals. GT Credit: No Room: Online Pathway: Personalized Learning Grades: K-5 Begins June 12 – ends July 12

Making the Workshop Work- Developing Purpose Presenters: Aimee Stanton, Lindsey Leeper - Online Participants of this course will receive a link in Google Classroom. There are four parts to this workshop that can be completed as stand alone 90 minute courses or combined to earn a total of 6 hours of credit. Course information will be sent June 12 and must be completed by August 6. Each section of this course will look at a component of the workshop model. This course will focus on developing and communicating purpose in the lesson. This course is part of the Personalized Learning Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: Online Pathway: Personalized Learning Grades: K-5 Begins June 12 - must be completed by August 6

Making the Workshop Work- Gather Information Presenters: Aimee Stanton, Lindsey Leeper - Online Participants of this course will receive a link in Google Classroom. There are four parts to this workshop that can be completed as stand alone 90 minute courses or combined to earn a total of 6 hours of credit. Course information will be sent June 12 and must be completed by August 6. Each section of this course will look at a component of the workshop model. This course will focus on gathering information in the lesson. This course is part of the Personalized Learning Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: Online Pathway: Personalized Learning Grades: K-5 Begins June 12 – must be completed by August 6

Making the Workshop Work- Launch and Closing Presenters: Aimee Stanton, Lindsey Leeper - Online Participants of this course will receive a link in Google Classroom. There are four parts to this workshop that can be completed as stand alone 90 minute courses or combined to earn a total of 6 hours of credit. Course information will be sent June 12 and must be completed by August 6. Each section of this course will look at a component of the workshop model. This course will focus on framing the lesson with the launch and closing. This course is part of the Personalized Learning Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: Online Pathway: Personalized Learning Grades: K-5 Begins June 12 – must be completed by August 6

June

Additional Sessions Making the Workshop Work- Production Presenters: Aimee Stanton, Lindsey Leeper - Online Participants of this course will receive a link in Google Classroom. There are four parts to this workshop that can be completed as stand alone 90 minute courses or combined to earn a total of 6 hours of credit. Course information will be sent June 12 and must be completed by August 6. Each section of this course will look at a component of the workshop model. This course will focus on the production component of the lesson. This course is part of the Personalized Learning Pathway. GT Credit: No Room: Online Pathway: Personalized Learning Grades: K-5 Begins June 12 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; must be completed by August 6

Initial 30 Hour GT Training - DAY 1 - Required for all teachers Presenters: Janet Anders This 6-hour course fulfills the requirements outlined by the state of Texas for administrators and counselors who make decisions regarding the education of gifted students. As directed by the Texas State Plan for the Education of Gifted/ Talented, this course addresses the nature and needs of gifted learners, as well as service design. Prerequisities: All teachers in Prosper ISD will now be required to complete their 30 hour Initial GT Training and complete 6 hour yearly updates. There are five (5) days required for the GT 30 Hour training. Day 1 and Day 2 are face to face and Days 3-5 will be online. It is most beneficial if you can take Day 1 and Day 2 close together. You will need to have a Region 10 account set up prior to attending to receive your certificates of completion. GT Credit: Yes Room: Admin 108 Pathway: GT Initial Training Grades: K-12 June 20 | 8:30 am-2:30 pm

Initial 30 Hour GT Training - DAY 2 - Required for all teachers Presenters: Janet Anders This 6-hour course fulfills the requirements outlined by the state of Texas for administrators and counselors who make decisions regarding the education of gifted students. As directed by the Texas State Plan for the Education of Gifted/Talented, this course addresses the identification and assessment. At the end of Day 2, you will receive the codes for the online courses for the remaining days. The online courses for days 3, 4, and 5 will need to be completed within 6 weeks of the completion of Day 2. If you do not complete Days 3-5 within the required time-frame, you may be required to repeat Days 1 and 2. Please plan accordingly to ensure you meet the district requirements. Prerequisities: All teachers in Prosper ISD will now be required to complete their 30 hour Initial GT Training and complete 6 hour yearly updates. There are five (5) days required for the GT 30 Hour training. Day 1 and Day 2 are face to face and Days 3-5 will be online. It is most beneficial if you can take Day 1 and Day 2 close together. You will need to have a Region 10 account set up prior to attending to receive your certificates of completion. GT Credit: Yes Room: Admin 108 Pathway: GT Initial Training Grades: K-12 June 21 | 8:30 am-2:30 pm

July

Additional Sessions Inquiry-Based Investigation

Schoolwires Open Computer Lab

Presenters: Trent Turner

Presenters: Christal Hankey

Brush up on force and motion related content while exploring the use of open inquiry and experimental design in instruction. The course also offers an introduction to claim, evidence, and reasoning as a framework for drawing conclusion in science. This course is part of the Instructional Strategies Pathway. GT Credit: Yes Room: Admin 114 Pathway: Instructional Strategies Grades: K-5

Take the opportunity to set up your teacher profile and web pages or update your current web pages. Help will be available as needed during this time. GT Credit: No Room: Admin Computer Lab 204 Pathway: All Audiences Grades: All July 18 | 9:00-12:00 pm

July 10 | 8:00-11:00 am

Curriculum Foundations and Performance Tasks 6-12

Writing in Science

Presenters: Beth Childs, Zach DeVito, Meredith Bell, Kari Roan, Michael Pflug

Presenters: Trent Turner

Curriculum designers will provide professional learning on 3 of the key facets of PISD’s focus for the upcoming year: quality questioning, essential standards, and performance tasks. Essential standards drive our instruction and RTI process. 1) Participants will review the fundamentals of essential standards, select essential standards within one of their own units and create assessments based on those standards. 2) Engage all learners in your lessons with research-based strategies on developing and using quality questions. Participants will develop their own set of scaffolded questions to guide students toward answering a unit’s essential question. 3) Explore the fundamental components of performance tasks and use the tools provided to review and critique an existing performance task of your choosing. Be sure to bring a performance task you have used or designed to use during the session. GT Credit: No Room: Admin 108 Pathway: Curriculum Foundations & Performance Task Grades: 6-12 July 19 | 8:30 am-3:30 pm

Learn some tools to integrate written responses as a method of formative assessment in science. The session will include about claim, evidence, and reasoning as a structure for writing conclusions in lab investigation, among other popular methods of integrating writing in science. GT Credit: No Room: Admin 114 Pathway: Writing Grades: K-5 July 10 | 12:00-3:00 pm

RtI @ Work Presenters: Luis Cruz Luis F. Cruz, PhD, is former principal of Baldwin Park High School, located east of Los Angeles, California. He has been a teacher and administrator at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Dr. Cruz presents on methods from the best-selling book Transforming School Culture by Anthony Muhammad. In 2007, Dr. Cruz led a collective effort to secure a $250,000 grant for Baldwin Park from the California Academic Partnership Program for the purpose of effectively utilizing “courageous leadership” to promote a more equitable and effective organization. GT Credit: No Room: PHS Cafeteria July 17th and July 18th from 8:30 am-3:30 pm

July

Additional Sessions Uncovering Student Ideas in Science Formative Assessment Grades 3-5 Presenters: Page Keeley Page Keeley, nationally known author and speaker in the field of science education, will be conducting a workshop focused on formative assessment in the science classroom using her books of field-tested probes. Her book series, “Uncovering Student Ideas in Science” will help teachers find out what their students know in order to monitor learning and adjust instruction. This course is geared toward a 3-5 audience. –Keeley, 2017 GT Credit: No Room: Admin 108 Pathway: Assessment Grades: 3-5 July 24 | 1:00-4:00 pm

Uncovering Student Ideas in Science Formative Assessment Grades K-2 Presenters: Page Keeley Page Keeley, nationally known author and speaker in the field of science education, will be conducting a workshop focused on formative assessment in the science classroom using her book of field-tested probes. Her book, “Uncovering Student Ideas in Primary Science” will help teachers find out what knowledge students already have about science and how their thinking changes after they engage in “science talks”. This course is geared toward a K-2 audience. –Keeley, 2017 GT Credit: No Room: Admin 108 Pathway: Assessment Grades: K-2 July 24 | 8:30-11:30 am

Prerequisities: All teachers in Prosper ISD will now be required to complete their 30 hour Initial GT Training and complete 6 hour yearly updates. There are five (5) days required for the GT 30 Hour training. Day 1 and Day 2 are face to face and Days 3-5 will be online. It is most beneficial if you can take Day 1 and Day 2 close together. You will need to have a Region 10 account set up prior to attending to receive your certificates of completion. GT Credit: Yes Room: Admin 108 Pathway: GT Initial Training Grades: K-12 July 25 | 8:30 am-2:30 pm

Sept/Oct Additional Sessions

Initial 30 Hour GT Training - DAY 1 - Required for all teachers

Initial 30 Hour GT Training - DAY 2 - Required for all teachers

Presenters: Janet Anders

This 6-hour course fulfills the requirements outlined by the state of Texas for administrators and counselors who make decisions regarding the education of gifted students. As directed by the Texas State Plan for the Education of Gifted/ Talented, this course addresses the nature and needs of gifted learners, as well as service design.

This 6-hour course fulfills the requirements outlined by the state of Texas for administrators and counselors who make decisions regarding the education of gifted students. As directed by the Texas State Plan for the Education of Gifted/Talented, this course addresses the identification and assessment.

At the end of Day 2, you will receive the codes for the online courses for the remaining days. The online courses for days 3, 4, and 5 will need to be completed within 6 weeks of the completion of Day 2. If you do not complete Days 3-5 within the required time-frame, you may be required to repeat Days 1 and 2. Please plan accordingly to ensure you meet the district requirements. Prerequisities: All teachers in Prosper ISD will now be required to complete their 30 hour Initial GT Training and complete 6 hour yearly updates. There are five (5) days required for the GT 30 Hour training. Day 1 and Day 2 are face to face and Days 3-5 will be online. It is most beneficial if you can take Day 1 and Day 2 close together. You will need to have a Region 10 account set up prior to attending to receive your certificates of completion. GT Credit: Yes Room: Admin 108 Pathway: GT Initial Training Grades: K-12 October 28 | 8:30 am-2:30 pm