Monday, August 8   All Employees 

8:30 Welcome

• Diann Morris –Colonial Ins. 903 839-2111, Cell 903 539-7988
• Corey Ensey – Pre-paid Legal 888 848 9232

9:00 – 10:00 Keeping YOUR Computer Maintained

10:00-12:00 Professional Staff Only 

1. TOC for Notebook

2. Teacher-Leaders

3. Conceptual Teaching & Learning

Teaching as a Profession & Passion

• “How to Teach”--7 Methods with Sticky Notes
• Method 1--Reading for Meaning

CPS --Engaged Learning Activity

HANDOUTS:

1. Conceptual Teaching & Learning
2. How to Teach
3. The Art of Changing the Brain
4. The Engaged Classroom
5. Brain-based Learning

12:00-1:00 LUNCH----

BANK PROVIDING!!!

1:00-3:00 Department Meetings with assignments

Theme: Data-Driven Decision Making

Methods 3 & 4

• Learn AEIS-IT & CIA

Homework

• Think about Presentation

•  Continue Reading "How to Teach" Handout

Tuesday, August 9 Professional Staff Only

8:00-8:30

Groups Prepare to Present

8:30-9:30 Groups Report

9:30-12:00  7 Methods

• If Telling Worked then....we would never hear....

• "If I told you ONCE...."

Best Practices

Method 2:Representing-to-Learn  Concrete to Abstract

• Jerome Bruner
  1. Enactment
  2. Iconic/Pictorial
  3. Symbolic (words/numbers)
• David Kolb
• L. Vygotsky

IT MUST TOUCH THEIR SKIN FIRST!

• Measuring with the body
• Measuring using things in any room
• Gallon Man

Method 5 -Cultural Diversity

Reading Scores FELL because of lack of SS AND dependence on AR books in lower grades. This year ALL TEKS required. Not a new test, but probably new items---Art, Music, Science--BE PREPARED!

• Must Address Cultural Diversity at each Grade level
• Biographies from different cultures
• Must Address minority needs at each grade level
• You Have a Helper!

Handouts

1. Multiple Intelligences
2.  Demo
   • Immersion (Whole)
   • Rules (Part)
   • Personal Application/Expression (Whole)
   • Mathematics
3. The Alphabet
4. Recording

Balanced Literacy--Dorothy Strickland

• Reading for Meaning (RfM) --Debbie Miller Books
  • Primary RfM
• Don't Read w/o Questioning/Discussion
• Don't Read w/o Writing
• Don't Write w/o Reading or Questioning/Discussion
  • Brian Regan

•  USE Scaffolding

Major Theories

• Engaged Learning
• Constructivism
• Whole-Part-Whole-Dorothy Strickland

Walk Through Forms

New PDAS Manuals Required Reading

YOUR RESOURCES

• LA/SS/Art
• Math/Science

• Program Descriptions
• CIA

12:00 to 1:00 Lunch

 On Your Own

1:00 to 3:00 Department Meetings

Theme: High Expectations

Assignments & Homework

• Create 6 Weeks CIAs

• Find 2 Lesson Plans for each six weeks

• Finish Program Descriptions

• Materials Needs Assessments

• Finish Reading "How to Teach"  Handout for Wednesday's Discussions

Resources

• Math & Dyslexia

• Making Math Real

• Making Math Real 2

• Making Math Real 3 ***

• Math Conceptual Learning

• Making LA Real

Wednesday, August 10

8:30 – 3:00 All Faculty

1. Review / Discuss / Reflect--How To Teach

2. COHORT REPORTS
3. NCLB Requirements
4. WHAT DOES DATA-DRIVEN DECISION MAKING LOOK LIKE ON MY CAMPUS?

5. AEIS-Summary Reports

6. Walk Through Forms

   • Best Practices for Each Classroom

7. Credit Recovery Policy

• Improvement Workshop

Martian Monopoly -- Method 2 & 3

• Special Programs/504
• Program Descriptions
• NCLB 3 TIERS
• Scaffolding
• Modifications
• Organization -- Email
• Enrichment
• New Credit Recovery Policy & Issues
• Goals & Clarifications

• Tammy Harris Presenter

• Homework: Read Understanding Student Differences (Handout) for Friday

12:00  to 1:00 LUNCH

On Your Own

IN YOUR ROOMS

SECRETARIES: RSCCC Workshop All Secretaries/PEIMS/Councilors with Sissy in her office

All Day

 Thursday, August 11

8:30 -3:00

• All Math K-8

--Meet at Elementary with Judy Milton (903988-6794) for Bridges Inservice  in  Elementary in Library

9:30 - 11:30

• All LA, SS

-- Jane Shaffer Writing Method -- meet in H.S. Teacher's Lounge -- Bring TEKS

--Writing Benchmark Prompts

•  Math 9-12

& Science 6-12 grade meet with Wendy in Wiz Lab for

--Calculator Skills (Navigator)

--Check out Calculators

--Discuss Inventories

LUNCH 11:30 - 1:00

On YOUR Own

1:00 - 3:00

GOALS -- Alignment Activities, Data Analysis, Check Out Equipment (Calculators, Overheads, Remotes, Turn in  TV/VCR Contract)

• Junior High SS meet with Ms Rousseau in H.S. Studio

•  H.S. SS meet with Mr Dullard

•  H.S. Math Meet with Wendy

•  LA 6-12 Meet with Donna Lowery

•  Science/Health  5-12 Meet with Debbie Frazier

• Special Education -- Meet with Cathy Scroggins

• ESL -- Meet with Daniel Morgan

 Friday, August 12

8:30-12:00

Handouts

• What is Worth Learning  NOW?

Understanding Student Differences

1. Learning Styles

2. Approaches to Learning

   1. Surface

   2. Deep Meaning

   3. Strategic

3. Intellectual Development

Passwords  X 10

• FERPA, IDEA
• Network Folder

Reading Lists -- On Web--HomePage

Alternative Assessments-- On Web

PowerPoint Possibilities

• Examples
• PP Templates from MS

Email & Calendar for students

TPRI- Now WHAT!

• Lessons

Excel Crossword

District Resources

• Resource Page
• Questia
• Online Genesis
• United Streaming Video
  • New Features
  • New
• AR/STAR
• TEA Formative
• TRACK
• L&M
• HotChalk

Instructional Adaptation to Regain Fit (SARFIT)

DOS & DON'TS of TECHNOLOGY

Our Students "Read" & emulate  US. Therefore, we need to be "books" that show them how to get along,  display empathy and compassion, love learning, respect and appreciate one another while encouraging moral responsibility and enjoying a community of caring collaborators.

LUNCH 12:00-1:00-- On Your Own

1:00-3:00 Work On 4 Activities for Method 3

4 Ways to Teach the Same Concept --Center Your Teaching!

Resources:

• Centers PowerPoint

• Centers Resource Links

• Collaborative Roles

• New Teacher Roles

• ClassServer Videos