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June Professional Development
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ADM Training
Session #080602A
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Attend this
session and receive information on the 2008 state assessment
system. Learn procedures for analyzing student performance
results for instructional planning and decision-making using the
ADM system.
Audience: For
teachers and administrators.
Max Enrollment: 25
Presenter: Kathy Barnett
Credit: 6
hours
Date / Location:
June 2 8:30 – 3:30 PM Professional Development Center |
Don’t Gamble with Student Success in Guided
Reading…Beat the odds!
Session #080603A
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DRA
Analysis and Instruction – Session I
This session will help you identify your students’ strengths
and weakness in reading and plan for instruction using your DRA
benchmark records. Often we feel like…”I know what reading
level my students are reading on based on the DRA benchmark
assessment. What can I do to help my students make more
progress?” After attending this session you will have
researched based practices and strategies to help you improve
students reading ability.
Audience: For
elementary teachers
Max Enrollment: 40
Presenter: Lisa Watkins, Stephanie Farner,
and Robin Waller
Credit: 6
hours
Date / Location:
June 3 8:30 – 3:30 PM Professional Development Center |
Wager to Their Favor! Guided
Reading with Great Success!
(Prerequisite:
Session I)
Session #080604A
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DRA Analysis
and Instruction – Session II
Using your DRA benchmark records, plan guided reading
lessons that are guaranteed to build reading competence in your
students. Increase your ability to select leveled text that
target areas of growth.
Audience: For
elementary teachers
Max Enrollment: 40
Presenter: Lisa Watkins, Stephanie Farner,
and Robin Waller
Credit: 6
hours
Date / Location:
June 4 8:30 – 3:30 PM Professional Development Center |
Inspiration / Kidspiration
Session #080606A
Session Closed |
The premier visual thinking and
visual learning tool to design and develop ideas and organize
thinking in business, professional and learning milieus.
Inspiration®
integrates dynamic diagramming and outlining environments to
help you learn, understand and integrate new knowledge and
concepts and also to capture, develop, organize and share
thoughts, ideas and information. Easily create and modify
concept maps, webs, and other graphical organizers using
Inspiration's Diagram view.
Inspiration's powerful,
integrated Outline view makes it simple to transform, rearrange
and prioritize ideas to create clear, concise written plans,
essays, reports, proposals and presentations.
Powered by the proven
techniques of visual learning, Inspiration®
supports multiple learning styles with three unique environments
for creating diagrams, outlines and mind maps. Using
Inspiration, students develop critical thinking, planning and
organizational skills for lifelong learning and achievement.
Students age 10 to adult use Inspiration to:
develop thinking skills; plan and
organize; communicate clearly; and analyse and recall.
Attendees will be able to install their own copy of Inspiration®
software on their school computers.
Audience: For
teachers and administrators
Max Enrollment: 30
Presenter: Denise Smesny
Credit: 6
hours (approved for August technology in-service
credit)
Date / Location:
June 6 8:00 – 3:30 PM Professional
Development Center |
Technology in the Science Classroom
Session #080609A |
Technology offers a myriad of
opportunities for enhancing the science curriculum and creating
a student-centered learning environment. Integration resources
include United Streaming, web quests, and virtual labs. Your
integration strategies are limited only by your imagination.
Participants will be guided through various on-line resources
and also will be given time to work on a classroom ready project
they can use in their classrooms.
Audience: For
science
teachers and administrators
Max Enrollment: 30
Presenter: Tammy Banks
Credit: 6
hours (approved for August technology in-service
credit)
Date / Location:
June 9 8:00 – 3:30 PM HS B223 |
Primarily Writing
Session #080609B |
Teachers
will learn how to initiate and sustain a daily writing workshop,
identify and teach target objectives, and use children's
literature to enhance writing. This session will include
information on assessment, teacher and peer conferences, and
topic development. Teachers will be shown examples of journal
writing, a five-page book format with built -in revision, a
primary writer's notebook and writing in the content areas. A
sequential organization for author's chair and ways to motivate
students to write will also be discussed.
Audience: teachers
– grades K-2
Max Enrollment: 20
Presenter:
Shirl Hawes,
Consultant
Credit: 6
hours
Date / Location:
June 9 8:30 – 3:30 PM Professional
Development Center |
You can Excel
Session #080612A
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This 6-hour session will cover the
most common questions about using Excel. Geared for the
basic to intermediate user, participants will learn tips and
techniques that will make working with spreadsheets, lists,
formulas and charts more interesting and user-friendly.
Audience: For
teachers, secretaries, and clerical staff using Excel
Max Enrollment: 30
Presenter: Ramona Dearing
Credit: 6
hours (approved for August technology in-service
credit)
Date / Location:
June 12 8:00 – 3:30 PM Professional
Development Center |
Harcourt Math Textbook Training - Print and
technology
Session #080619A
Session Closed |
The elementary
campuses adopted the Harcourt Math series for the math
textbooks. A company representative will be here to
explain the many features that the text adoption has to offer,
including the print materials and the on-line, interactive
technology materials.
Audience: For
elementary math teachers using the new math textbooks
Max Enrollment: 30
Presenter: Brian Busby, Harcourt
Credit: 6
hours (approved for August technology in-service
credit)
Date / Location:
June 19 8:30 – 3:30 PM Professional Development Center |
Thinkfinity
Session #080620A
Session Closed |
Thinkfinity.org makes it easy for
educators to enhance their classroom instruction with lesson
plans, interactive activities and other online resources.
Thinkfinity.org also provides a wealth of educational and
literacy resources for students, parents and after-school
programs. All of Thinkfinity.org's 55,000 standards-based
K-12 lesson plans, student materials, interactive tools and
reference materials are reviewed by the nation's leading
education organizations to ensure that content is accurate,
up-to-date, unbiased and appropriate for students. At
Thinkfinity.org, you'll find primary source materials,
interactive student resources and grade-specific research lists
to help you tailor materials to meet your needs. Start exploring
now!
Audience: For
Teachers and administrators
Max Enrollment: 30
Presenter: Denise Smesny
Credit: 6
hours (approved for August technology in-service
credit)
Date / Location:
June 20 8:00 – 3:30 PM Professional
Development Center |
Report Form
Session #080625A
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Report Form is
a multi-sensory strategy used to directly teach students how to
comprehend non-fiction material. Teachers will be provided
non-fiction articles, materials, and a concrete way to teach
students how to interact with expository text.
Audience: For
Teachers, grades K-5
Max Enrollment: 30
Presenter: Sandra Duree, Assistant
Superintendent
Credit: 12
hours
Date / Location:
June 25 & 26 8:30 – 3:30 PM BH
Elementary |
Technology in the Social Studies
Classroom
Session #080625B
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Technology offers a myriad of
opportunities for enhancing the social studies curriculum and
creating a student-centered learning environment. Integration
resources include United Streaming, web quests, and many
others. Your integration strategies are limited only by your
imagination. Participants will be guided through various
on-line resources and also will be given time to work on a
classroom ready project they can use in their classrooms.
Audience: For
social studies
teachers and administrators
Max Enrollment: 30
Presenter: Tyler Thames
Credit: 6
hours (approved for August technology in-service
credit)
Date / Location:
June 25 8:00 – 3:30 PM HS B223 |
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July Professional Development Opportunities |
Hannel –
Highly Effective Questioning
Session #080707A
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How can
teachers engage students in the process of active learning? How
do teachers lead students from information-level understanding
to concept development? Highly Effective Questioning
provides teachers with an instructional framework that promotes
cognitive and social development while creating an atmosphere of
creative and active learning.
Audience: For
teachers and administrators.
Max Enrollment: 30
Presenter: Sandra Duree
Credit: 6
hours (GT
credit if requested)
Date / Location:
July 7 8:30 – 3:30 PM Professional Development
Center |
Hear Our Cry: Boys in Crisis
Session #080708A
Session Closed |
This workshop
focuses on the why behind male behavior in school and what
schools can do to begin making school more “boy friendly.”
Issues that impact boys who come from poverty as well as middle
class will be explored in this session.
Audience: For
teachers
grades K - 4
Max Enrollment: 50
Presenter:
Dr. Paul
Slocumb, aha! Process, Inc.
Credit: 6
hours (GT
credit if requested)
Date / Location:
July 8 8:30 – 3:30 PM Professional Development
Center |
Phonology
Session #080709A
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Phonology
teaches the organization of the sound symbol system using
multisensory techniques. The methods help beginning readers and
students who struggle with decoding and spelling. The
reciprocal process of reading and writing will be demonstrated
to assist students with long and short term memory.
Audience: For
teachers and administrators.
Max Enrollment: 40
Presenter:
Karen Coffey,
Goose Creek CISD
Credit: 6
hours
Date / Location:
July 9 8:30 – 3:30 PM Professional Development
Center |
A Framework for Understanding Poverty – Day 1
Session #080714A
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This workshop is based on the book A Framework for
Understanding Poverty by Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D. The day will
provide a study of information and issues that will increase the
participants’ knowledge and understanding of the poverty
culture. Topics include: how economic class affects behaviors
and mindsets, why students from generational poverty often fear
being educated, the “hidden rules” within economic classes,
discipline interventions that improve behavior, and the eight
resources that make a difference in success. Related
discussions also include support systems, the role of language
registers, developing emotional resources and learning
structures, and the importance of instruction that includes
building mental models. This workshop is designed for audiences
of both elementary-and secondary-level educators.
Audience: For
teachers and administrators.
Max Enrollment: 40
Presenter: Barbara Ponder
Credit: 6
hours
Date / Location:
July 14 8:30 – 3:30 PM Professional Development Center |
Differentiating
Instruction
Session #080715A
Session Closed |
This session
focuses on providing gifted/talented and advanced students with
depth and complexity in all four major content areas.
Participants will receive hands-on, practical strategies for
challenging students while providing an active, motivating
learning environment.
Audience: For
teachers and administrators.
Max Enrollment: 40
Presenter:
Dr. Nancy
Radcliffe, Radcliffe Resources
Credit: 6
hours (GT credit if requested)
Date / Location:
July 15 8:30 – 3:30 PM Professional Development Center |
A Framework for Understanding Poverty – Day 2
(Must have Day 1 first)
Session #080716A
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Participants in
Day 2 training will review the key points of poverty, and will
examine the role education plays in helping students overcome
the hardships they face due to their economic status. Much of
the day will be spent discussing instructional practices and
strategies that will yield greater student comprehension and
mastery.
Audience: For
teachers and administrators.
Max Enrollment: 40
Presenter: Barbara Ponder
Credit: 6
hours
Date / Location:
July 16 8:30 – 3:30 PM Professional Development Center |
1:1 in the Classroom, It doesn't get any
better than this.
Session #080730
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A laptop for every student.
BHISD is blessed with this privilege, but how does the
traditional educator become the facilitator of student-based
learning that 21st century students need? Participants
will become immersed in best practices, tips, tricks and
techniques that will allow them to become facilitators rather
than presenters. The second day will allow participants to
work on individual projects for inclusion in their fall
classrooms.
Audience: For
MS and HS teachers and administrators
Max Enrollment: 30
Presenter: BHISD Technology
Credit: 12
hours (approved for Aug technology in-service
credit)
Date / Location:
July 30 & 31 8:00 – 3:30 PM Professional
Development Center |
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August Professional Development Opportunities
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INOVA – Value Added Data Analysis
Session #080804A
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The INOVA
Process is designed to increase your school’s TAKS scores, improve your ability
to match appropriate interventions with students’ needs and enhance your
long-term instructional effectiveness. Ultimately, it’s designed to build your
staff’s confidence in their ability to positively respond to any test system
placed in their path.
Audience: For
Lead Teachers and Administrators
Max Enrollment: 20
Presenter: Dr. Holly Dale
Credit: 6
hours
Date / Location:
Aug 4 8:30 – 3:30 PM Professional
Development Center |
Story Form
Session #080805A
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This
session will provide a structured strategy to introduce students to the basic
elements of plot. In addition, participants will learn ways to introduce
several genres of fiction writing. The session introduces a technique for
interacting with the narrative text.
Audience: For
Teachers K-4
Max Enrollment: 30
Presenter: Sandra Duree, Assistant superintendent
Credit: 12
hours
Date / Location:
Aug 5 & 6 8:30 – 3:30 PM Professional
Development Center |
Project CRISS: Creating
Independence through Student-Owned Strategies, Grades 4-12
Session #080807A
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Participate in the Project CRISS national effort designed to help students in
grades 4-12 read, write, and learn more effectively within the content areas.
Receive the Project CRISS manual, Third Edition, revised 2004, which includes
classroom-tested examples to actively engage students in the learning of
contextual material.
Audience: For
Teachers 4 - 12
Max Enrollment: 20
Presenter:
Debbie Behling, Region IV
ESC
Credit: 18
hours
Date / Location:
Aug 7, 8, and Oct 4 8:30 – 3:30 PM Professional
Development Center |
New CLASS on-line
Session #080813A
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For special education staff, this 6-hour
introduction to the new on-line CLASS system will demonstrate the basic and
advanced features as well as give some practical experience entering data,
templates and forms. Audience: Special
education staff responsible for creating IEPs and general record-keeping
Max Enrollment: 20
Presenter: Mike Cardwell, CLASS
Credit: 6
hours
Date / Location:
Aug 13 8:00 – 3:30 PM HS B223 |
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New Employee
Orientation
do not
register for this session |
Employees new to
BHISD will spend half a day learning the basics of GroupWise, our Email and
personal management system, and be introduced to the BHISD computer network;
in addition, teaching professionals will spend an additional half-day learning
the basics of Skyward's Educator Access+, our gradebook management system.
Audience: Required
for
professionals, paraprofessionals, secretarial/clerical and administrators new to
the district for 2008 - 2009; recommended for
any of those hired since January. Registration is not necessary for
this session.
Max Enrollment: 40
Presenter: Bill Mansel / Suzie
Wilburn
Credit: 6
hours
Date / Location:
Aug 12 8:00 – 3:30 PM Professional
Development Center
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Technology In-service Days
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All professional staff
members are required to attend 12 hours professional development each year.
For 2008-2009, four 1/2 day sessions will be offered.
Complete
schedule and registration
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