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           SA-DLMC: The New Learning Commons
Instructional Hours= 7.5 Hours
CDE Re-Licensure Credit = .5 Credit
Knowledge Level Advancement = .5 Credit
Study Group SME
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Classified & Certified District Library Media Center Employees

DESCRIPTION:

This is a book study using "The New Learning Commons: Where Learners Win!" to explore the future/new directions of school libraries in the 21st Century.

OBJECTIVES:

The 21st Century has provided us with students who prefer learning in different ways, technology that changes rapidly and library spaces that are old school. What can we do with the resources we have to make our library programs fit the times?

PLEASE NOTE:

  • If you have questions about this course content or pre-requisites, please contact the instructor(s) or "Contact" person listed.

 

  • If you have questions about registration or transcripts, please contact Staff Development office.
           SA-ESL Teachers K-12: 09-10 English As A Second Language
Instructional Seat Hours = 15 Hours
CDE Re-Licensure Credit = 1 Credit
Knowledge Level Advancement = N/A
ESL Teachers SG - Specific Audience
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Certified teachers and Classified employees who work directly with students in an instructional role.

Description:

These study groups will focus on strategies to enhance and enrich ESL teachers instruction for ELLs K-12 in DCSD schools. Using data to inform instruction each session will focus on one of the content areas of the CELA pro that evaluates English language acquisition: Speaking, Listening, Reading, Writing and Critical thinking will be our targets. Case studies and book studies will guide our sessions each month beginning in October. Sessions will focus on the needs of our ELLs in DCSD.

Learner Objectives:

Using the stages of language acquisition, the ESL matrixes for speaking, listening, reading, and writing, plus the CELA pro scores for ELLs, each ESL teacher will learn how to plan for targeted intensive English Language instruction for their students. ESL teachers will analyze data, share studies, and evaluate plans to improve ELL achievement.

 

PLEASE NOTE:

  • If you have questions about this course content or pre-requisites, please contact the instructor(s) or "Contact" person listed.

    Parke Covarrubias

  • If you have questions about registration or transcripts, please contact Staff Development office.
           SA-HS Mathematics: Teachers Leadership and Learning Group
Certified Instructional Hours= 14 Hours
CDE Re-Licensure Credit = .5 Credit
Knowledge Level Advancement = .5 Credit
Specific Audience High School Math
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Certified teachers in the High School Mathmatics Department.

DCSD is looking for teachers who:

  • Have a desire to network and share with other DCSD Math teachers
  • Have a desire to continually improve by reading current professional documents
  • Have a desire to provide leadership in their department

. . . . . while being a liaison for Math essential learnings and interim assessments.

Between gatherings, participants will be expected to extend their learning with STOR:

Share with someone
Try something new in their classroom
Observe a classroom

Read

 

Topics will include:

9/8 - Ideal Classrooms
10/13 - Expectations, Cultural Forces
11/10 - Thinking Routines
1/12 - Quality Learning Opportunities
2/9 - New State Standards
3/9 - Collaboration
4/13 - Technology

PLEASE NOTE:

You will receive:

  • .5 continuing education credit for attending sessions
  • $300 stipend for “STOR”, extended learning activities
  • Paid registration for CCTM conference (October 8th and 9th)
  • If you have questions about this course content or pre-requisites, please contact the instructor(s) or "Contact" person listed.

    Lori McMullen

  • If you have questions about registration or transcripts, please contact Staff Development office.
           SA-IB: Introduction to Primary Years Program (PYP)
Classified Instruction Hours 8 Hours
Certified Instructional Hours= 8 Hours
CDE Re-Licensure Credit = .5 Credit
Knowledge Level Advancement = .5 Credit
International Baccalaureate Specific Audience
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Certified & Classified Employees who are a part of the IB Program

This class will provide an overview of the International Baccalaureate´s Primary Years Program. Participants will learn how to implement the essential elements of the PYP including the Learner Profile, Internationalism and Inquiry.

LEARNER OBJECTIVES:

  • This course will provide the background teachers and support personnel need to successfully implement the PYP in their schools.

  • If you have questions about this course content or pre-requisites, please contact the instructor(s) or "Contact" person listed.

    Kelli Bainbridge

  • If you have questions about registration or transcripts, please contact Staff Development office.
           SA-IB: MYP Assessment [A]
Instructional Hours = 15 Hours
CDE Re-Licensure Credit = 1 Credit
Knowledge Level Advancement = 1 Credit
Specific Audience - Study Group IB Teachers
TARGET AUDIENCE:
DC MYP Certified Teachers

DESCRIPTION:

IB MYP teachers will look at MYP assessments with a focus on instructional pratices that will prepare students for their future in the 21st Century. Participants will be challenged to re-think their attitudes on how we use assessment and question how students react to current assessment practices and how they might react if we change said practices.

LEARNER OBJECTIVES:

Participants will . . . .

  • recognize how MYP objectives correlate to assessment criteria,
  • compare MYP objectives and Assessment Criteria with current educational research and best practice,
  • and identify and explain aspects of effective MYP assessment tasks.

STRATEGIES & ACTIVITIES:

Participants will . . . .

    • "unpack" objectives and assessment criteria to determine appropriate knowledge, skills and understanding for their subject area and level, and
    1. develop an appropriate assessment task for specified objectives using correlating assessment criteria.
 

PLEASE NOTE:

  • If you have questions about this course content or pre-requisites, please contact the instructor(s) or "Contact" person listed.

 

  • If you have questions about registration or transcripts, please contact Staff Development office.
           SA-MS Mathematics: Teachers Leadership and Learning Group
Certified Instructional Hours= 12 Hours
CDE Re-Licensure Credit = .5 Credit
Knowledge Level Advancement = .5 Credit
Specific Audience Middle School Math
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Certified teachers in the Middle School Mathmatics Department.

DCSD is looking for teachers who:

  • Have a desire to network and share with other DCSD Math teachers
  • Have a desire to continually improve by reading current professional documents
  • Have a desire to provide leadership in their department

. . . . . while being a liaison for Math essential learnings and interim assessments.

Between gatherings, participants will be expected to extend their learning with STOR:

Share with someone
Try something new in their classroom
Observe a classroom

Read

 

Topics Covered:

10/13 - Ideal Classrooms
11/10 - Using CSnAP and the eCIA guide
1/12 - Quality Learning Opportunities
2/9 - Reasoning and Sense-making in Mathematics
3/9 - Teaching for Understanding
4/13 - New State Standards

PLEASE NOTE:

You will receive:

  • .5 continuing education credit for attending sessions
  • $300 stipend for “STOR”, extended learning activities
  • Paid registration for CCTM conference (October 8th and 9th)
  • If you have questions about this course content or pre-requisites, please contact the instructor(s) or "Contact" person listed.

    Angie Burt

  • If you have questions about registration or transcripts, please contact Staff Development office.
           SA-Naviance: 09-10 District Naviance Committee
Certified Instructional Hours= 28 Hours
CDE Re-Licensure Credit = 2 Credits
Knowledge Level Advancement = 2 Credits
Naviance System Specific Audience
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Certified Teachers

This district group works on curriculum for each grade level to be executed using the Naviance system. Each year students are given various assignments to complete. As a group we compose thses assignments so they are similar district wide.

LEARNER OBJECTIVES:

  • The participants will be able to go back to their homeschool and implement the projects and strategies developed by the group.

  • If you have questions about this course content or pre-requisites, please contact the instructor(s) or "Contact" person listed.

    Terry Gerba

  • If you have questions about registration or transcripts, please contact Staff Development office.
           SA-Reading/Literacy: Readicide Book Study
Certified Instructional Hours= 8 Hours
CDE Re-Licensure Credit = .5 Credit
Knowledge Level Advancement = .5 Credit
Specific Audience Book Study Reading/Literacy
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Reading & Literacy Certified Teachers

We are going to read the book, "Readicide", by Kelly Gallagher. The book will be provided by the Curriculum office and we will create an action plan as to how to carry the work forward with authentic reading and critical thinking.

LEARNER OBJECTIVES:

  • valuing the development of lifelong readers over the development of test-takers
  • focusing on authentic instruction
  • designing lessons that transfer the kind of thinking students are doing while reading to the kind of thinking we want them to do in the real world.

  • If you have questions about this course content or pre-requisites, please contact the instructor(s) or "Contact" person listed.

    Holly Voorhees-Carmical

  • If you have questions about registration or transcripts, please contact Staff Development office.
           SB-HRHS: Designing an Effective Website for Students
Classified Instructional Hours= 7.5 Hours
Highlands Ranch High School Site Based

TARGET AUDIENCE:
  • HRHS Teachers

DESCRIPTION:

Participants will reasearch effective student websites, discuss planning strategies for developing an effective website, discuss media ethics related web design, learn basic (and advanced) technical skills using Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Adobe Acrobst Pro, and School Center. They will also have the opportunity to collaborate with students for both ideas, tech skills, and extended tech support.

Implementation:

Teachers have been requesting a class to learn to make a website and/or to support a website themselves (as students did it for them last year). Participants will have the skills to upload files, link to websites, and support a flexible menue.

PLEASE NOTE:

You must be an employee of Highlands Ranch High School to participate in this Study Group.

  • If you have questions about this course content or pre-requisites, please contact the instructor(s) or "Contact" person listed.
Course Contact:
Leslee Kitzman 303-887-5758,leslee.kitzman@dcsdk12.org
  • If you have questions about registration or transcripts, please contact the Staff Development office.

           SB-TRHS: How to Supervise the Extended Essay [A]
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Certified Instructional Hours = 15 Hours
CDE Re-Licensure Credit = 1 Credit
Knowledge Level Advancement = 1 Credit
Site Based TRHS
TARGET AUDIENCE:
  • TRHS extended essay supervisors

DESCRIPTION:

  • This class is designed to training our teachers to become adept supervisors for IB students working on their Extended Essay.
Course Info:
  • Supervisors will read selected books and articles, discuss assessment criteria, do Extended Essay exercises, and become proficient in specific behaviors that will support our IB students with the Extended Essay.

PLEASE NOTE:

    • If you have questions about this course content or pre-requisites, please contact the instructor(s) or "Contact" person listed.

    Paula Busey(303-387-2109)

    • If you have questions about registration or transcripts, please contact the Staff Development office.
           SG-CHS: Math Vertical Team 09-10
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Certified Instructional Hours = 15 Hours
CDE Re-Licensure Credit = 1 Credit
Knowledge Level Advancement = 1 Credit
Chaparral High School Study Group
TARGET AUDIENCE:
  • CHS Math Teachers

DESCRIPTION:

  • The purpose of this group is to review and align CHS Math Currcuilum from Calculus AB to Algebra 2. The Group will set guidelines for introduction to mastery of key9essential) learnings at each grade level.
Course Info:
  • We will ensure that curriculum meets diestric and state gidelines in addition to deciding the level of proficiency for key learning in Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra2, Pre Calculus, Calculus AB.

PLEASE NOTE:

    • If you have questions about this course content or pre-requisites, please contact the instructor(s) or "Contact" person listed.

    Jean Downing (303-387-3650)

    Jean Downing @dcsdk12.org

    • If you have questions about registration or transcripts, please contact the Staff Development office.
           SG-CHS: Targeting Lanino Sub Population
Certified Instructional Hours= 7.5Hours
CDE Re-Licensure Credit = 0.5 Credit
Knowledge Level Advancement = 0.5 Credit
Study Group CHS
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Certified teachers

We will be working with Hispanic students to close the educational gap. Issues facing these students are attendance, homework, communicaiton with family and lack of financial resources to be part of extra-curricular activities.

Objectives are to provide:

 

1. Leadership development

2.Connect students to Chaparral

3. Support students in their learning

4. Provide resources

5. Educate students and staff at CHS about cultural issues and cues.

 

PLEASE NOTE:

  • If you have questions about this course content or pre-requisites, please contact the instructor(s) or "Contact" person listed.

     

  • If you have questions about registration or transcripts, please contact Staff Development office.
           SG-CV Feeder: Lift Study Group
Certified Instructional Hours= 15 Hours
CDE Re-Licensure Credit = 1 Credit
Knowledge Level Advancement = 1 Credit
CV Feeder Study Group
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Certified Teachers in the Castle View Feeder Area

This group will learn and implement the elements of LIFT (Literacy Instructional Framework for Teachers). This framework is used in all Castle View Feeder area schools as the backbone of literacy instruction.

LEARNER OBJECTIVES:

  • New teachers in Castle View´s feeder need LIFT to be consistent with colleagues in their literacy instruction strategies. The common language used with staff and students benefits the teaching and learning of literacy within the school and feeder area.

  • If you have questions about this course content or pre-requisites, please contact the instructor(s) or "Contact" person listed.

    Tonja Peacock

  • If you have questions about registration or transcripts, please contact Staff Development office.
           SG-FVE: Infinite Campus Gradebook
Certified Instructional Hours= 7.5 Hours
Frontier Valley Elementary Elementary Study Group

TARGET AUDIENCE:
  • FVE Teachers

 

DESCRIPTION:
Members of this study group are teachers in the intermediate classrooms, and one specials teacher, that are piloting the new Infinite Campus Elementary Gradebook.

Learner Objectives:

Updating our teachers´ needs to organize and embed grading techniques similar to those being used at the middle and high school level. This system will align with district grading techniques.

PLEASE NOTE:

You must be an employee of Frontier Valley Emementary School to participate in this Course.

  • If you have questions about this course content or pre-requisites, please contact the instructor(s) or "Contact" person listed.
Course Contact:
Christine Harris 303-387-8475, christine.harris@dcsdk12.org
  • If you have questions about registration or transcripts, please contact the Staff Development office.

           SG-LTE: Let´s Teach our Children to Read [A]
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Certified Instructional Hours = 15-45 Hours
CDE Re-Licensure Credit = 1-3 Credits
Knowledge Level Advancement = 1-3 Credits
Study Group - Book Study LTE
TARGET AUDIENCE:

Certified LTE Staff

DESCRIPTION:

Dr. Swaby.com in an online literacy training system which present 10 classes with 26 hours of video instruction, discussion questions, multiple choice test, and class notes. This course provides information that is not tied to any one philosophical or curricular approach and enhances teacher knowledge of literacy and best practice in reading instruction.
 
Classes included:
  • What is reading,
  • What in important in a reading program
  • What is important in a reading lesson
  • How to instruct vocabulary
  • How to instruct word analysis
  • Developing Phonemic Awareness
  • Developiong Literal and Non-Litteral comprehension
  • Diagnosis and remediation

PLEASE NOTE:

    • If you have questions about this course content or pre-requisites, please contact the instructor(s) or "Contact" person listed.

    Susan Crary-Hoover (303-387-7450)

    suzan.CraryHoover@dcsdk12.org

    • If you have questions about registration or transcripts, please contact the Staff Development office.
           SG-MVHS: Classroom Instruction that works -BS
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Instructional Hours = 8 Hours
CDE Re-Licensure Credit = .5 Credit
Knowledge Level Advancement = .5 Credit
TARGET AUDIENCE:

Certified Teachers with less than 5 years of experience

 

DESCRIPTION:

The objective of this study group is for teachers with less that five years teaching experience to Learn, Model and ultimately put into practice Marzano´s Nine High-Yield Strategies. Teachers will purchase "Classroom Instruction That Works" by Bob Marzano.
 
 

PLEASE NOTE:

    • If you have questions about this course content or pre-requisites, please contact the instructor(s) or "Contact" person listed.

      Rich Thomas (303-387-1690)

    rich.thomas@dcsdk12.org

    • If you have questions about registration or transcripts, please contact the Staff Development office.
           SG-RCHS: Outliers Book Study
Certified Instructional Hours= 7.5 Hours
CDE Re-Licensure Credit = .5 Credit
Knowledge Level Advancement = .5 Credit
Book Study SG-RCHS
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Certified Teachers

Our Leadership Team will read Malcolm Gladwell´s Outliers: The Story of Success and use text protocols to anaylyze the text.

LEARNER OBJECTIVES:

  • Our goals are share in an academic study of leadership and to continue to grow as a collaborative team

  • If you have questions about this course content or pre-requisites, please contact the instructor(s) or "Contact" person listed.

    Sarah Pascoe

  • If you have questions about registration or transcripts, please contact Staff Development office.
           SG-RCHS: The Courage to Teach
Certified Instructional Hours= 15 Hours
Rock Canyon High School Study Group

TARGET AUDIENCE:
  • RCHS Teachers
DESCRIPTION:
We will read The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher´s Life by Parker J Palmer and discuss using The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal. Teachers will need a journal.

Participants will:

  • read assigned chapters in the book
  • discuss how the book could affect their work with students
  • journal
  • apply strategies to their teaching
  • and continue to build a learning community

PLEASE NOTE:

You must be an employee of Rock Canyon High School to participate in this Course.

  • If you have questions about this course content or pre-requisites, please contact the instructor(s) or "Contact" person listed.
Course Contact:
Sarah Pascoe 303-387-3030,sarah.pascoe@dcsdk12.org
  • If you have questions about registration or transcripts, please contact the Staff Development office.

           SG-SES: Meeting Student Needs Through Guided Reading Instruction
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Certified Instructional Hours = 7.5 Hours
CDE Re-Licensure Credit = .5 Credit
Knowledge Level Advancement = .5 Credit
Study Group Sedalia Elementary
TARGET AUDIENCE:
  • Sedalia Elementary Teachers

DESCRIPTION:

Group will study purpose, implementation and resources associated with guided reading. Texts may include, but are not limited to the following resources: Guided Reading-Primary and Intermediate, by Fountas and Pinnell, Beyond Leveled Books, Literature Circles and Response, Guided Reading, and LIFT materials and articles.

Course Info:
  • School-wide implementation of Guided Reading to meet student needs. Sedalia has 33% of our population on ILPs, and focus on Guided Reading is a current SIP goal-RTI, specifically Curriculum and Instruction.

 

PLEASE NOTE:

    • If you have questions about this course content or pre-requisites, please contact the instructor(s) or "Contact" person listed.
    • If you have questions about registration or transcripts, please contact the Staff Development office.
           SG-SGMS: Never Work Harder Than Your Students
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Certified Instructional Hours = 7.5 Hours
CDE Re-Licensure Credit = .5 Credit
Knowledge Level Advancement = .5 Credit
Book Study SGMS
TARGET AUDIENCE:
  • Sagewood Middle School Teachers

DESCRIPTION:

The book study participants will be reading and discussing the book, Never Work Harder Than Your Students by Robyn Jackson. The purpose in reading this book is for teachers to learn and implement strategies to reduce their stress and allow them to determine what they should focus on in their classes and what may be "taken off their plates."

Course Info:
  • The participants will read the principles of a master teacher mindset and incorporate them into their classrooms. The stress level of teachers is very high this year, and they need to take a step back and reflect on their practice, essential and important items. This book encourages teachers to implement the 7 principles in their classrooms with specific steps and suggestions for how to apply them in the teachers´ own practices.

 

PLEASE NOTE:

    • If you have questions about this course content or pre-requisites, please contact the instructor(s) or "Contact" person listed.
    • If you have questions about registration or transcripts, please contact the Staff Development office.
           SG-SME: Read to Succeed Intervention Book Study
Certified Instructional Hours= 22.5Hours
CDE Re-Licensure Credit = 1.5 Credit
Knowledge Level Advancement = 1.5 Credit
Study Group SME
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Certified teachers

The RTS teacher´s will each purchase a copy of the book, "What Really Matters in Response to Intervention-Research Baced Designs", by Richard Allington. We will use this book as the basis of our study.

We will learn new RTI strategies from the book and discuss hoe to best incorporate them into our Read to Succeed Program.

PLEASE NOTE:

  • If you have questions about this course content or pre-requisites, please contact the instructor(s) or "Contact" person listed.

    Lisa Pepper

  • If you have questions about registration or transcripts, please contact Staff Development office.
           SG-TTE: Choice Words
Certified Instructional Hours= 7.5 Hours
Timber Trail Elementary Study Group

TARGET AUDIENCE:
  • TTE Teachers

DESCRIPTION:
This study group will be using the book called Choice Words by Peter H. Johnston. This book is for any teacher who wishes to be more conscious of the many ways their language helps children acquire literacy skills and view the world, their peers, and themselves in new ways.

The Class will:

  • address the impact of teacher language on building a healthy learning community. It will give specific productive phrases and words clustered in useful categories.

PLEASE NOTE:

You must be an employee of Timber Trail Emementary School to participate in this Course.

  • If you have questions about this course content or pre-requisites, please contact the instructor(s) or "Contact" person listed.
Course Contact:
Kristie Krier 303-387-5733, kristie.krier@dcsdk12.org
  • If you have questions about registration or transcripts, please contact the Staff Development office.


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