Receive an introduction to Lucy Calkin’s yearlong writing curriculum for Grades K-2. With this overview, you’ll have the necessary tools to launch a writer’s workshop in your classroom. Receive the entire kit of seven units ranging from writing personal narrative to an informational piece. Each unit covers four weeks of study with lessons and strategies taking students from drawing pictures to fluent writing. The course consists of a full-day session along with two after-school follow-up sessions scheduled for Nov 24, 2009 and Jan 12, 2010 at 4:30-6:30pm. A light breakfast and lunch will be served at the full-day session and a light dinner will be served at the evening follow-up sessions. The audience for this course is teachers of grades K-2.

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Learn to administer milestone and “digging deeper” assessments to measure students’ literacy progress. Once you learn how to gather this data, we will address the instructional strategies needed to provide effective literacy lessons. You will receive the Developmental Reading Assessment Kit (DRA 2 K-3), MLPP Teacher’s Guide, and the Looking At Print program. Materials are valued at $415. A light breakfast and lunch will be served. The audience for this course is teachers of grades K-2.

Learn to administer literacy assessments and use the data gathered to effectively plan instruction for grades 3-5. We will address the practical application of best practices in literacy instruction. You will receive the Developmental Reading Assessment Kit (DRA 2) for grades 4-8, MLPP Teacher’s Guide, and Strategies That Work. Materials are valued at $335. A light breakfast and lunch will be served. The audience for this course is teachers of grades 3-5.

Learn the development steps to close and critical reading. Students in high school are expected to read and comprehend text, as well as, to analyze and evaluate what they have read. Strategies, activities, and assessments that guide students to read critically will be shared. Each day of this series will concentrate on one of the four close and critical questions: What does it say? How does it say it? What does it mean? So what? Teachers will be able to access assessments through Class A. This course will help you prepare your students to read complex text.

Receive an introduction to Lucy Calkin’s yearlong writing curriculum for Grades 3-5. With this overview, you’ll have the necessary tools to launch a writer’s workshop in your classroom. Receive the entire kit of six units ranging from writing personal narrative to an informational piece. Each unit covers four weeks of study with lessons and strategies. The workshop consists of a full-day session along with one after-school follow-up session scheduled for March 18 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm. A light breakfast and lunch will be served at the full-day session; a light dinner will be served at the evening follow-up session. The intended audience for this course is 3-5 teachers.

Come learn about new methods and criteria for the identification of specific learning disabilities. This is a full day workshop that will walk the participant through the legal requirements, the Wayne County Model, basics in Response to Intervention, the comprehensive evaluation data matrix, a decision process for the analysis of patterns of strengths and weaknesses, and research-based models of learning disabilities. This session is appropriate for persons who will be participating in multidisciplinary evalution teams, including school psychologists, teacher consultants, speech and language pathologists, teachers of special education and general education, and school administrators.

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Come and experience the process of developing Common Assessments. This course (comprised of 4 half-day sessions) will provide you with the skills and knowledge necessary to develop the basis from which Common Assessments should be created. You will, working within your specific content and/or grade level area, engage in the determination of power standards which will then be “unwrapped” for further clarification and written into student friendly “I Can…” statements. You’ll then learn how to pace these targets across the school year to determine the proper scope and sequence. Finally, you’ll work on developing appropriate-learning progressions to ensure student mastery of the learning targets and overarching power standards. Individuals and/or teams of teachers will work together to identify power standards, unwrap those standards, determine the specific learning targets, and determine the necessary learning progression while articulating their implementation across the school year. The audience for this course is individual or teams of teachers and administrators