This event offers participants the opportunity to experience career and technical education beyond a traditional classroom environment. Through five breakout sessions, the day will demonstrate how programs have evolved over time to meet the needs of today´s economy and advance students to the next phase of their educational journey. Attendees will participate in programs offered at the Capital Area Career Center and gain an understanding of the aptitudes and characteristics that help students succeed. Facilitated by Jeff Bohl, CACC Principal.

This ongoing professional learning community is for K-12 teachers who have building and district level responsibilities for mathematics. Returning and new members are welcome. Issues related to curriculum, instruction and assessment will be examined. Updates will be provided on state and national priorities. Facilitator: Theron Blakeslee, IISD mathematics consultant AUDIENCE: K-12 teachers who have building and district level responsibilities for mathematics

The Ingham Science Network is a learning community for K-12 teachers who have building and/or district level responsibilities for science. This network provides an opportunity for sharing up-to-date announcements from the Michigan Department of Education, learning about research developments in teaching and learning, and sharing resources. The focus for the 2009-10 year will be on improving students´ abilities to read expository text and to support writing across the curriculum. Facilitator: Marty Couretas, IISD science consultant. AUDIENCE: K-12 teachers who have building and/or district level responsibilities for science curriculum, instruction and assessment

This network and professional learning community is for K-12 teachers who have building and/or district level responsibilities for social studies. New and returning members are welcome. Curriculum, instruction, assessment, technology and professional development opportunities will be examined. Updates on state and national social studies issues will be provided. Facilitator: Carmela D´Alessandro, IISD social studies consultant. AUDIENCE: Building and/or district level social studies leaders.

This session is for districts who have purchased seats in E2020 through the IISD consortium(E2020 is online high school course content). The session is for staff who will be using the courses 2nd semester or summer (new to the courses). An overview of the course management system as well as fine points regarding how to use and customize the courses will be provided by E2020 staff. This content can be used as full high school courses or select portions may be used for acceleration or remediation. A User´s Group may be formed 2nd semester for teachers who have been using the course content.

Traditionally, by the time students reach Middle and High School, we assume that they know how to read, and formal reading instruction stops. In addition, most secondary language arts teachers do not have a background in the teaching of reading. But many of our adolescent students need to improve their literacy skills so they can have greater access to content area knowledge and become more literate adults. Teachers will learn how to access and use assessments and resources designed to help students improve their reading skills. Protocols and templates to support and improve student literacy and to track student progress as well as a toolkit for content area reading will be provided. Teachers will try some of the strategies themselves and then try them with their students. Motivational strategies as well as high interest books for adolescents will also be shared. Participants will have access to resources on the Mission Literacy website, a statewide initiative for the improvement of Adolescent Literacy.

This four part series is designed for Secondary English language arts teachers, special education teachers and administrators. Participants will learn about strategies and resources to help adolescents develop skills in all types of writing, from formal essays to creative writing. Participants will gain access to a variety of assessments and use protocols for looking at student work. MEAP and ACT writing prompts and samples will be shared and discussed, with a specific plan to help students improve their scores. Other topics include: managing the paper load, creating rubrics, digital literacies, poetry, real-world writing, writing workshop and conferencing with students. Participants will have access to resources on the Mission Literacy website, a statewide initiative for the improvement of Adolescent Literacy. The Companion text for this workshop is Teaching Adolescent Writers, by Kelly Gallagher.

This session introduces teachers to many reading comprehension strategies that students can use to make sense of science texts and articles. This workshop presents the Ingham ISD toolkit of reading and thinking strategies for high school and middle school science classes. This toolkit assists teachers as they help struggling readers get the most out of textbook narratives and science articles. These strategies build on what students have already learned in English classes. Facilitators: Amy Kilbridge, IISD secondary English language arts consultant and Theron Blakeslee, IISD mathematics and science consultant. Audience: secondary high school science teachers.

This workshop is designed to provide the content background needed by special education teachers and others who are responsible for teaching the mathematics grade level content expectations. This workshop will provide teaching strategies for general education teachers who are working with special education students. Students who struggle with decimals and percents need extra help understanding the concepts of decimal place value, and they need new strategies for visualizing and calculating with decimals and percents. This workshop provides new ways of conceptualizing and representing decimals and percents and their operations, embedded in everyday problem contexts. Along with content and teaching strategies, participants will look at assessments useful for monitoring students´ progress in mathematics. The overarching process standards from the Michigan Merit Curriculum of Reasoning and Proof, Problem Solving, Connections, Representations, and Communication will be highlighted throughout the sessions. Facilitated by Theron Blakeslee, IISD mathematics consultant, and Nancy Rudd, retired Lansing School District mathematics consultant. Audience: special education and classroom teachers.

This workshop is designed to provide the content background needed by special education teachers and others who are responsible for teaching the mathematics grade level content expectations. Each workshop will also provide teaching strategies for general education teachers who are working with special education students. Students who struggle with fractions need extra help understanding the concepts of equivalence, and they need new strategies for visualizing and calculating the operations with fractions. This workshop provides new ways of conceptualizing and representing fractions and their operations, embedded in everyday problem contexts. Along with content and teaching strategies, participants will look at assessments useful for monitoring students´ progress in mathematics. The overarching process standards from the Michigan Merit Curriculum of Reasoning and Proof, Problem Solving, Connections, Representations, and Communication will be highlighted throughout the sessions. Facilitators: Theron Blakeslee, IISD mathematics consultant and Nancy Rudd, retired Lansing School District mathematics consultant. Audience: special education and classroom teachers

This workshop is designed to provide the content background needed by special education teachers and others who are responsible for teaching the mathematics grade level content expectations. This workshop will also provide teaching strategies for general education teachers who are working with special education students. Students who struggle with multi-digit addition, subtraction, multiplication or division need extra help understanding the concepts behind the operations, including place value and estimation. This workshop provides new ways of conceptualizing these operations, along with carefully constructed word problems, to help students develop fluency. Along with content and teaching strategies, participants will look at assessments useful for monitoring students´ progress in mathematics. The overarching process standards from the Michigan Merit Curriculum of Reasoning and Proof, Problem Solving, Connections, Representations, and Communication will be highlighted throughout the sessions. Facilitators: Theron Blakeslee, IISD mathematics consultant and Nancy Rudd, retired Lansing School District mathematics consultant. Audience: special education and classroom teachers

This workshop is designed to provide the content background needed by special eduction teachers and others who are responsible for teaching the mathematics grade level content expectations. This workshop will also provide teaching strategies for general education teachers who are working with special education students. Students who struggle with negative numbers need new ways of visualizing what it means to add, subtract, multiply and divide by negative numbers. This workshop provides new ways of conceptualizing these operations, embedded in everyday problem contexts. Along with content and teaching strategies, participants will look at assessments useful for monitoring students´ progress in mathematics. The overarching process standards from the Michigan Merit Curriculum of Reasoning and Proof, Problem Solving, Connections, Representations, and Communication will be highlighted throughout the sessions. Facilitators: Theron Blakeslee, IISD mathematics consultant and Nancy Rudd, retired Lansing School District mathematics consultant. Audience: special education and classroom teachers

This workshop is designed to provide the content background needed by special education teachers and others who are responsible for teaching the mathematics grade level content expectations. Each workshop will also provide teaching strategies for general education teachers who are working with special education students. Students who struggle with problem solving probably didn´t do enough of it in early grades, so they need strategies for understanding what the problem is asking. This workshop provides these strategies, drawing on what students already know about reading comprehension. Along with content and teaching strategies, participants will look at assessments useful for monitoring students´ progress in mathematics. The overarching process standards from the Michigan Merit Curriculum of Reasoning and Proof, Problem Solving, Connections, Representations, and Communication will be highlighted throughout the sessions. Facilitators: Theron Blakeslee, IISD mathematics consultant, and Nancy Rudd, retired Lansing School District mathematics consultant. Audience: special education and classroom teachers

Join colleagues who are teaching in Ingham districts to keep current with best practices and the latest information from state and national sources. Members of this English Language Arts Network (ELAN) will share information about literacy and serve as liaisons between Ingham ISD and their own districts. The ELAN will provide an opportunity for teachers to collaborate and support each other. Participants are provided with updates on current issues and resources to teach English language arts. Topics for discussion are often chosen by participants.

Ingham ISD consultants will present a preview of professional development offerings available to constituent districts for the 2010/11 school year. These offerings serve to support the school improvement plans and consolidated grant applications districts are currently completing. Ingham ISD consultant staff provide brief commercials highlighting presenters, course content, benefits of and uses for these PD offerings Registrations for these sessions will be available online by July 15, 2010.

This videoconference series is intended for 4th grade teachers who will be using the Michigan Citizenship Curriculum; participants will be reviewing units and lessons of the curriculum, and engaging in discussion with teachers from five other ISDs. Some materials will be provided. The workshop will be facilitated by the curriculum writer, Carol Egbo of Oakland County. AUDIENCE: 4th grade social studies teachers. LOCATION: Ingham ISD, CACC, Room 606 - 11/17/09, Clinton County RESA.

Do you want to learn more about increasing adolescent literacy with the use of technology? The following key questions will be explored in this workshop: • How do we motivate struggling writers? • How do we help struggling writers find real purpose for their work? • How we help struggling writers to learn “the basics” ? • How do we get them to write? This workshop will offer teachers an opportunity to gain insight on strategies to use with struggling writers, as well as a chance to read, discuss, and reflect on their work with struggling students, and gather ideas with other participants. Participants will be provided with specific examples of strategies to engage writers, and resources to explore, including a book with helpful writing reminders. Additionally, this workshop will include a focus on the way in which digital literacies are impacting our teaching of writing, specific ways to utilize technology, and time to practice these specific technologies. This will be a “hands-on” workshop, with opportunities for participating teachers to try out strategies they can use with their students. The workshop will be facilitated by Dawn Reed, Red Cedar Writing Project Teacher Consultant and Elana Waugh, Project Write Teacher.

children´s counting abilities to learn the concepts of multiplication and division as well as multi-digit addition and subtraction. This program shows teachers how to use word problems to help students move from basic counting strategies, to the use of derived facts, to fluency. Young children become fluent in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division through repeated opportunities to solve carefully constructed problems that build on their intuitive knowledge of math. Videos of children solving problems will be used, and participants will talk about how to structure and manage a classroom to allow for this kind of problem solving. Facilitator: Theron Blakeslee, IISD mathematics consultant. AUDIENCE: teachers in grades 2-3

children´s counting abilities to become fluent in addition and subtraction. This program shows teachers how to use word problems to help students move from basic counting strategies, to the use of derived facts, to fluency. Young children become fluent in addition and subtraction through repeated opportunities to solve carefully constructed problems that build on their intuitive knowledge of math. Videos of children solving problems will be used, and participants will talk about how to structure and manage a classroom to allow for this kind of problem solving. Facilitator: Theron Blakeslee, IISD mathematics consultant. AUDIENCE: K-1 teachers

In this one-day workshop for paraprofessionals, participants will review mathematical problems that are useful for building on young children´s counting abilities to learn the concepts of addition and subtraction. This program shows paraprofessionals how to use word problems to help students move from basic counting strategies, to the use of derived facts, to fluency. Young children become fluent in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division through repeated opportunities to solve carefully constructed problems that build on their intuitive knowledge of math. Videos of children solving problems will be used. Activities that can be used as supportive interventions for students who are struggling and why may not have developed basic number sense will be utilized. Facilitators: Theron Blakeslee, IISD mathematics consultant and Don Green, Holt Public Schools mathematics coordinator. Audience: paraprofessionals

Participants will learn how to use formative assessment to help students achieve the new and challenging middle and high school mathematics content expectations. Participants will also learn how to use formative assessment to motivate students and help them take responsibility for their own learning. Formative assessment provide up-to-the-day information about what each student is learning and what is confusing to them; this provides a clear path for teachers and students to mastery of the topic. Participants will learn to set learning targets that students understand, identify learning progressions, create a variety of formative assessment items, keep records with students, and use the results of formative assessments to plan "next steps" in instruction. Facilitator: Theron Blakeslee, IISD mathematics consultant. AUDIENCE: Secondary mathematics teachers

This workshop is an introduction to using the CBR2s (calculator-based rangers) and graphing calculators to collect, graph and analyze data about moving objects. CBR2s are motion detectors that collect real-time data about moving objects and display the data on a computer or graphing calculator. Analysis of data from real world situations is a key component of algebra. Linear, quadratic, and periodic motions can be displayed and analyzed. Algebra and physics are more motivational to students when they do hands-on experiments and use the tools of algebra and physics to analyze data. Ingham ISD has two classroom sets of CBR2s and TI-84+ graphing calculators to loan to schools in Ingham County. Facilitator: Jennifer Nimtz, Lansing Community College mathematics consultant. AUDIENCE: mMiddle and high school mathematics and physics teachers