The California Private School Advisory Committee, K-12 is pleased to announce several multi-day professional development workshops for private school educators. Each of these high-quality-at-low-cost programs is funded in part by Title II, Part A of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and is provided in cooperation with the California Department of Education.
Below, you will find basic information about each workshop. Please click on the relevant accompanying links for descriptions of each program's content, information about the presenters, and downloadable registration forms.
Student Engagement and Higher Order Comprehension
& Thinking Skills for the 21st Century
A three-day workshop for private school teachers
and instructional staff, grades 4-12
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Presenter: Julie Adams, M.A.T., NBCT
Dates: March 5 & 6, and April 11, 2013
Location: St. Michael's School
15542 Pomerado Rd.
Poway, CA 92064
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. each day.
Registration Fee: $50.00 per person if postmarked or faxed on or before February 22, 2013. Otherwise, $70.00 per person. Fee covers all three days of the program and includes materials, continental breakfast, and lunch.
Workshop Preview
This fast-paced and interactive three-day workshop for 4-12th grade math, science, English, and social science teachers, aides, literacy coaches, instructional leaders, and administrators, will provide training in research-based content area strategies that engage and motivate students to develop the 21st century critical thinking skills necessary for success across ALL content areas.
Participants will learn the latest research regarding effective content area instructional practices and their link to student retention, brain development and higher-order thought processes. In addition, you will expand your teaching repertoire with methods that improve student comprehension, accountability and focus.
Whether you teach 4th grade or 11th, science or English, this is one training you cannot afford to miss!
About the Presenter
Julie Adams, MAT, NBCT, is an energetic educator who has taught multiple content areas from kindergarten through graduate school. She is an internationally respected and highly sought after consultant providing 21st century critical thinking and content area literacy and writing trainings to public and private schools and universities worldwide.
Julie, founder of Adams Educational Consulting, is a Nationally Board Certified teacher and Educator of the Year, who equips teachers with engaging strategies that empower students with content area literacy comprehension, 21st Century skills and complex reasoning. In addition, she partners with the California League of Schools and the National High School Association to provide training in and implementation of Professional Learning Communities and Response to Intervention models for increased student achievement.
Her published books include the teaching series: Teaching Academic Vocabulary Effectively, Parts I-III and PDP Cornell Notes-A Systematic Strategy to Aid Comprehension.
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Examining Student Work and Providing Precise Feedback
A three-day workshop for private school teachers
and administrators of students in grades 5-12
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Presenter: Kay Psencik, Ed.D.
Dates: March 12 & 13, and April 9, 2013
Location: Aquinas High School
2772 Sterling Ave.
San Bernardino, CA 92404
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. each day.
Registration Fee: $45.00 per person if postmarked or faxed on or before March 1, 2013. Otherwise, $65.00 per person. Fee covers all three days of the program and includes materials, continental breakfast, and lunch.
Workshop Preview
Student work reflects the precise learning of students. Many questions are left unanswered when we only use tests? What does the student really understand about the concepts I wanted them to know? Why did the student select the answer she did? What was his real thinking about that question when he answered it? But student work reveals students' organizational skills, their elaboration of concepts and ideas, their voice and thinking.
As we examine student work, we learn not only more about our students, we also see their interpretations of what we wanted them to learn. Careful examination of their work through the use of rubrics, anchor work, and analytical scales, leads us to a deeper understanding of their learning and provides us the "language" for precise feedback.
Participants in this session will explore a variety of strategies for examining student work both individually and with their peers. They will establish systems or protocols for examining student work so that they maximize the use of time, provide effective vigilance and structure to their work, and determine the language of precise feedback, as well as how and when to give it.
About the Presenter
Kay Psencik, Ed.D. has been an educator for over 45 years. She is a senior consultant with Learning Forward, the national organization committed to engaging every educator in effective professional learning so that every student achieves. She has served teachers across the country in developing assessments of and for learning and designing instruction based on the data from these strategies. She has facilitated teams to analyze standards, to target essential learning, to determine underlying concepts, to incorporate higher-order 21st Century thinking skills, and to develop common assessments of and for learning and standards driven instructional planning.
She has published articles in Educational Leadership, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Texas Association of School Administrators and The School Administrator. She coauthored
Transforming Schools through Powerful Planning. She also published Accelerating Student and Staff Learning, Purposeful Curriculum Collaboration (Corwin Press, 2009). A new book, The Coach's Craft, was published by Learning Forward in December 2011.
Prior to her beginning her work as a consultant, she was a director of curriculum and assessment and deputy superintendent in school districts in Texas, and a classroom teacher for 17 years.
Dr. Psencik earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, a Master of Educational Administration from Southwest Texas State University, and a Doctorate from Baylor
University.
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Integrating Critical & Creative Thinking Skills
Into Your Primary Curriculum
A three-day workshop for private school teachers
and instructional staff, grades K-3
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Presenter: Dodie Merrit, M.A.
Dates: March 19 & 20, and April 23, 2013
Location: Stockdale Christian School
4901 California Ave.
Bakersfield, CA 93309
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. each day.
Registration Fee: $45.00 per person if postmarked or faxed on or before March 5, 2013. Otherwise, $65.00 per person. Fee covers all three days of the program and includes materials, continental breakfast, and lunch.
Workshop Preview
Looking for activities that inspire critical and creative thinking in your primary K-3 classroom? Primary Education Thinking Skills is a flexible, fun, and stimulating approach for teaching these higher level thinking skills. This interactive workshop will include hands-on activities and lots of discussion. Come brainstorm, solve mysteries, and make criterion-based choices today - and spark higher level thinking in your classroom tomorrow!
On Days 1 and 2, you will work with a cadre of six "thinking specialists" to explore divergent, convergent, evaluative, and visual problem solving strategies appropriate for primary students through a series of whole class and small group activities. Working in grade level groups, you will align these strategies with elements of your curriculum to make metacognition engagingly student-friendly. On Day 3, we will discuss your experiences field-testing these activities, sharing successes and ideas. Then you will focus on integrating a variety of higher level thinking and questioning strategies into class lessons of your choice that support a firm foundation for successful reading, writing, and learning in your students.
Each participant will receive a workshop packet along with the Primary Education Thinking Skills book which include/s complete lesson plans and reproducible student materials on CD's.
About the Presenter
Dodie Merritt has been working in the field of education for over 35 years, teaching at the primary, secondary, and university levels with a focus on gifted education. She is renowned for her development of the Primary Education Thinking Skills series, used in classrooms across the country. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Mount Holyoke College, her teacher certification from Northern Illinois University, and her Masters Degree in Teaching and Leadership from St. Xavier University.
As an educational consultant, Dodie has presented at the national, state, and local levels throughout the United States on a wide range of topics, including curriculum differentiation, assessment, higher level thinking and questioning strategies, and gifted education. She has led the development and implementation of elementary enrichment programs for students. She also authored of Independent Study: Where Creative Minds Expand for older primary students as well as co-authoring of other educational materials published by Pieces of Learning. Dodie is an energetic, popular presenter who connects with teachers and communicates effectively with her audience.