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Schedule for September 23, 2015

"The most promising strategy for sustained substantive school improvement is
developing the ability of school personnel to function as professional learning
communities." - DuFour, R., & Eaker, R.

Audience

All Kindergarten
Teachers, Perry,
Sanders, Edwards

Facilitator

Gregory

L. Harvey

Crenshaw

Topic

Orton Gillingham

Orton Gillingham

Project Based
Learning

Location

Gregory's Room

L. Harvey's Room

Media Center

Wortham's Room

In the Orton Gilligham

review we will touch
on: Multi Sensory
phonics practice,
blending board, finger
tapping, red words,
vowel tents, and
punctuation tents.

I will discuss the 3

main concepts that
you can apply in your
classroom to
strengthen phonics,
spelling, and reading:
Teaching the
importance of phonics
skills, Decoding
Words, and Red
Words

Teachers will learn

how project-based
learning promotes
both critical
thinking and a focus
on rigorous
content in order to
challenge
students to go
deeper in their
learning.

Arts integration is
instruction that integrates
content and skills from the
arts (dance, music, P.E.,
STEM, and visual arts) with
other core subjects. The
special area team will
discuss how to
collaboratively create
lessons that will provide rich
arts integration experience
for all students.

Overview

Teachers who have

completed the training
are asked to bring
Alphabet cards, blending
boards, recipe for
reading book and white
OG folder.

All 1st and 2nd

3rd-5th ELA and SS
Grade Teachers,
Teachers
Bourdeau, Robinson

All Special Area

Teachers

3-5 Science Teachers,

Fitzsimmons

Wortham
Sechelski
Integrating
Music/Art/Dance/ Number Talks /
PE into the
Math Talks
Curriculum

Weiss/Aho
STEM Bursts

Sechelski's Room

We will examine
how and when to
incorporate math
talks into your
lessons and how to
find math talks that
are appropriate for
your students.

We will review
"STEM Burst"
expectations, go
over how to
access the pacing
charts/resources,
and determine
dates for the
bursts that will
occur after each
science unit.

**After Sechelski is finished,

Aho/Weiss will work with
teachers to get STEM Burst
scheduled on the calendar.