Teachers will work with the Comprehensive Curriculum as it relates to literacy and numeracy. This information is a redelivery from the Louisiana State Department of Education.

6+1 Trait Writing is a process-based writing program that focuses on idea development, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. The goal of 6+1 Trait writing is to provide teachers with strategies and tools that equip students with a deep understanding of the traits, genre specific strategies, and keys to effective writing. The 6+1 Trait Writing Workshop is designed for teachers who want to begin using the six traits of writing in their classroom instruction. Through a variety of hands-on activities, participants will learn about the traits, become familiar with trait language, and understand how the traits support process-based instruction. In addition, participants will learn to assess student writing across all six traits, use literature to provide models of the traits for student writers, and support students as they assess and revise their own work.

Accelerated Math

Accelerated Math professional development allows you as the teacher to learn best classroom practices using the method that best meets your needs and goals. You’ll discover how to provide the essential math practices and personalized instruction that result in faster math growth and will accelerate math gains as never before.

Accelerated Math professional development allows you to learn best classroom practices using the method that best meets your needs and goals. You’ll discover how to provide the essential math practice and personalized instruction that leads to faster math growth. Using a combination of web and phone instruction, Webinars provide you with a deeper understanding of the Accelerated Math program. This instruction will help you maximize your success using research-proven best classroom practices.

Accelerated Reader training for all new teachers in Monroe City School System.

Accelerated Reader professional development allows you as the teacher to learn best classroom practices using the method that best meets your needs and goals. You’ll discover how to provide the essential reading practice and personalized instruction that result in faster reading growth and will accelerate reading gains as never before.

A Framework for Understanding Poverty teaches the hidden rules of economic class and spreads the message that despite the obstacles poverty can create in all types of interaction, there are specific strategies for overcoming them. The course will help teachers recognize the pitfalls of poverty and how it relates to our students at Barkdull Faulk. Teachers will participate in online discussions and face-to-face meeting to discuss issues from the book and those that relate strictly to their current situtation. After the course, teachers will have a better understanding of poverty and its effect on the education of our students.

Comprehensive Curriculum

Comprehensive Curriculum

Comprehensive Curriculum

Comprehensive Curriculum

504 Coordinators Training

APE Teachers Training

Art Teachers PreK-12 Training

Classroom Management

Comprehensive Curriculum & Accelerated Math Seventh/Eighth Math

Comprehensive Curriculum

Comprehensive Curriculum

Comprehensive Curriculum

Comprehensive Curriculum First Grade

Comprehensive Curriculum Fourth Grade ELA

Comprehensive Curriculum

Comprehensive Curriculum Fourth Grade Science

Comprehensive Curriculum Fourth Grade Social Studies

Comprehensive Curriculum Kindergarten

Comprehensive Curriculum Pre-K

Comprehensive Curriculum Second Grade

Comprehensive Curriculum

Comprehensive Curriculum

Comprehensive Curriculum

Comprehensive Curriculum

Comprehensive Curriculum

Comprehensive Curriculum

Comprehensive Curriculum

Comprehensive Curriculum

Comprehensive Curriculum Third Grade ELA

Comprehensive Curriculum

Comprehensive Curriculum Third Grade Science

Comprehensive Curriculum Third Grade Social Studies

Comprehensive Curriculum, Precision & Accuracy

Foreign Language Teachers 7-12

Harcourt

Library Matters

Making Libraries Releveant to the 21st Century

McDougal Littel Reading

Music Teachers Training

Nurses Training

PE Teachers Training

Principals/Asst. Principals Training

Problem Solving-3rd Grade Math

Problem Solving-4th Grade Math

Problem Solving-5th Grade Math

Problem Solving-6th Grade Math

Scope and Sequence

Speech Language Pathologists Training

BTS 2009 DIBELS Data and Intervention Strategies

BTS 2009 2nd and 3rd DIBELS and Intervention Strategies

BTS 2009 4th, 5th and 6th DIBELS and Intervention Strategies

Academic Literacy: Balancing Content and Reading Strategies to Promote Adolescent Learning

Algebra I - KEAS (Key Elements to Algebra Success) Training

BTS 2009 Brain Development Research - Secondary counselors, assistant principals, art/music staff, coaches, nurses, special ed

BTS 2009 Career and Technical Ed. Staff

BTS 2009 CPI (Crisis Prevention Interventions)

BTS 2009 Elementary 504 Coordinators

BTS 2009 Elementary and Secondary Counselors

BTS 2009 Librarians

BTS 2009 Elementary SBLC/Pupil Progression

BTS 2009 Foreign Language Teachers_ Topics include: Articulation from the Secondary to the College Classroom, Embedded Language: A New Way to Create Your Own Audio PowerPoint Content, The Teaching of Culture.

BTS 2009 General Music Meeting

BTS 2009 Harry Wong - Elementary Classroom Management Stategies

BTS 2009 Harry Wong - Secondary Classroom Management Stategies

BTS 2009 K Reading Materials, DIBELS Data and Intervention Strategies

More Than Words On a Page: Strategies for Improving Comprehension

BTS 2009 Prekindergarten Teachers (all regular Education PK Teachers)

BTS 2009 Secondary 504 Coordinators

BTS 2009 Secondary 504 Librarians

Participants in theProfessional Learning Community workshop for cluster schools will have the opportunity to discuss with co-horts the following topics: Achievemnent Series Data Analysis for the Six Weeks; improvement of student achievement in reading; new reading series; and DIBELS.

Coaches Training

"Seven Simple Secrets: What the Best Teachers Know and Do",by Annette Breaux and Todd Whitaker

This course is designed to keep track of professional conferences that are attended by CPU Teachers.

Complie and review data from DIBELS, STAR Reading, Weekly Probes, and GLE´s

This course will provide teachers with hands on training in how to use the date derived from the DIBELS assessment.

EAGLE (Enhanced Assessment of Grade-Level Expectations) is a classroom assessment tool which allows you to create online assessments which target specific GLEs. In this workshop, you will learn to create tests, assign the tests for students to take either at school or at home, as well as other versatile uses.

Participants will analyze Dibels Data to plan instruction and interventions for Reading

The purpose of this meeting is to analyze ELA student performance data from individual classes and schools, as well as district-wide, to identify achievement gaps in the mastery of standards/GLEs and to develop an instructional plan for addressing weak areas in classroom instruction prior to 1st semester and spring 2009 standardized testing.

This session will include and overview and implementation of the new text for grades 7-12

ExamView Test Preparation Software is being used by all mathematics teachers in the Monroe City School District. This workshop will focus on the basics of the program. You will learn how to create high quality standards-based assessments in minutes, generate worksheets, modify your weekly tests for special needs students, and much more.

Please join the ULM Literacy Lab and Scholastic(STRAUSS HALL 270) for an educational event featuring renowned literacy experts Drs. Cathy Collins Block and John Mangieri. Participants will: • examine research-based characteristics of high-performing literacy classrooms that “beat the odds.” • enhance their knowledge of instructional practices that accelerate literacy growth for all students. • strengthen their ability to guide teachers in creating effective literacy environments that support the wide range of literacy needs in classroom. OCTOBER 21, 2009 4 TO 6

Four-square Writing

Lexington Elementary School teachers will develop skills through a book study which will help them deal effectively with parents. The book, How to Handle Difficult Parents, a Teacher’s Survival Guide, will serve as the guide for this study. To facilitate the study, an online course has been developed which will allow teachers to reflect, respond and collaborate as a faculty.

This program is designed to enhance your library program.

This workshop will explicitly describe DIBELS benchmark and progress monitoring assessments with detailed descriptions of correlate intervention.

Literacy Strategies

Low Incidence Teachers Training

Teachers will be made aware of testing policies, procedures and accommodations.

Participants will be aware of student-centered instructional strategies and activities that have been scientifically-researched and proven to motivate every learner to achieve academically.

Using Microsoft Office Outlook, one can create distribution lists which will allow one to email more wisely and will help with time management.

This is an introduction to teaching in Monroe City Schools with emphasis on the Louisiana Teacher Assistance and Assessment Program (LATAAP)

Teachers will be introduced to DIBELS testing using the palm pilot. Teachers will be introduced to the MCLASS website which allows teachers to access DIBELS data and use the Now What? Tool to find intervention prescriptions for their students.

The panther interactive training enables the librarians to further implement the Destiny Library Check out system.

Read Now Power Up! is an intervention program that helps struggling readers enjoy reading and experience success. This program combines the technology of Renaissance Learning with the instructional materials and books of Steck-Vaughn to help you turn your sruggling readers into successful, enthusiastic readers.

In this session teachers will discuss and explore the social and emotional behavior of the Pre K child.

The purpose of this meeting is to analyze ELA student performance data from individual classes and schools, as well as district-wide, to identify achievement gaps in the mastery of standards/GLEs and to develop an instructional plan for addressing weak areas in classroom instruction prior to 1st semester and spring 2009 standardized testing.

Inclusion and FAPE

Turning Theory into Practice Excerpts from Reading Conference Get´em Reading, Keep´em Reading I have..., Who Has? Super Centers Kick-Off Summit Grade 3 ILEAP Assessment/GLE Correlation Vertical alignment of GLEs by grade levels Grade 4 LEAP Assessment Review of Findings

Learn new updates and procedures concerning the Louisiana mandated iLEAP and LEAP tests. LAA2 will also be a part of this training. This course is required for all professionals that will be administering tests.

This course offers training in the use of the Thinking Maps program.

Universal Rate Formula

Vocational Ed & Guidance Counselors Training

WFSGs strive to increase student learning by engaging in cycles of action research driven by data and put into practice what teachers have been trained to do. Teachers meet to discuss implementation strategies, student engagement, and other project issues.

Meeting with Wossman Faculty to relay pertinent information.