3:30 - 5:30 

​Make and Take

​​Come develop some of the materials you will hear about during the literacy sessions, including Ellen Arnold’s “Tic-Tac-Do” board and Amy Benjamin’s “Little Sentence Maker.”  We’ll bring the materials, you bring your genius.  (Add $25 to registration for this bonus session!)​

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1:00 - 3:00

Concurrent Sessions (Choose One)​

Olivia Wahl:  A Balanced Approach to Teaching Literacy in First and Second Grade
Gather reading and writing strategies specially tailored for 1st and 2nd grade learners.  Participants will learn how to weave the literacy shifts from CCSS into every part of the day and every content area.  Participants will experience the power of interactive read aloud and shared reading through video demonstrations that highlight students engaged in rich conversations about texts while building transferable, academic vocabulary.​

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Amy Benjamin:  But I'm Not a Reading Teacher! (Grades 6-12)
​Reading fluency and comprehension depend on frequent practice throughout the student's day. This session will present and demonstrate a variety of short "non-invasive procedures" that strengthen students' reading skills in the content areas. These short classroom routines work together with content learning and can be easily implemented.​

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Cindy Riedl:  6-12 Vocabulary:  Building Tier 2 Academic Language and Use
​Word learning needs to be robust, gradual, cumulative and recursive.  Explore learning experiences that allow students to process words through meaningful use and analysis.  Participants will learn techniques for identification of Tier 2 words that increase a students’ depth of knowledge; practice strategies that require deeper levels of processing – the key to durable vocabulary learning; and examine techniques teachers use to accelerate the process of expanding students’ vocabulary by using both the phrasal verb and its Latinate counterpart.​

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Ellen Arnold, Ed.D.:  Strength-Based Reading Comprehension and Writing Strategies for Students Who Struggle
​Reading comprehension and effective writing are the goals, but many struggling readers feel frustrated and defeated when using traditional approaches. In this strength-based approach, you will learn how to match 16+ intervention strategies to the strengths of your learners, increasing motivation and accelerating progress. This easy, innovative and effective approach will require you to think outside your comfort zone!​

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Brian Pete:  Teach Thinking in the Common Core State Standards
Unpack the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in a balanced way, using rich content and rigorous thinking processes. The CCSS thread the skills of literacy and reading, writing, speaking and listening through narrative and informative text.  The key to implementing the CCSS with relevancy, is to address them, with explicit teaching of the higher order thinking skills that are embedded in rich subject matter content. (ELA, Science, Math, Social Studies, History, Technology).

In this training, the focus is on the high frequency words, in other words, the thinking skills that students need to master.  These skills teach kids how to process, analyze, evaluate, produce and present with rich content and relevant think. With careful analysis we have broken down the CCSS to their essential sub-skills and created the Syllabus of Seven Thinking Skill Sets and 21 Explicit Thinking Skills.

WEDNESDAY 

1:00 - 3:00

Concurrent Sessions (Choose One)​

Olivia Wahl:  Small Group Reading Instruction: Differentiating for Primary Learners:
​This session will provide clarity around the purposes and differences in strategy, guided reading, and small group component lessons.  Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of text characteristics and qualities along with how to help their prekindergarten – 2nd grade readers build a repertoire of strategic actions for thinking within, about and beyond their texts.  Strategy and guided reading lessons will be highlighted through video demonstrations.​

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Amy Benjamin:  But I'm Not a Reading Teacher! (Grades 6-12)
​Reading fluency and comprehension depend on frequent practice throughout the student's day. This session will present and demonstrate a variety of short "non-invasive procedures" that strengthen students' reading skills in the content areas. These short classroom routines work together with content learning and can be easily implemented.​

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Cindy Riedl:  PK–5 Vocabulary:  Strategies That Work for CCSS Vocabulary Acquisition & Use
​Vocabulary instruction that inspires fascination with words need to be robust, vigorous, strong and powerful in effect. It also needs to be interactive and motivating. Join us to learn what robust vocabulary instruction should look and sound like, how to select Tier 2 words, vocabulary strategies that use word connections, analogies, analysis and connotation to produce deep understanding, and how vocabulary instruction differs from pre-K to fifth grade.​

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Ellen Arnold, Ed.D.:  Strength-Based Reading Comprehension and Writing Strategies for Students Who Struggle
​Reading comprehension and effective writing are the goals, but many struggling readers feel frustrated and defeated when using traditional approaches. In this strength-based approach, you will learn how to match 16+ intervention strategies to the strengths of your learners, increasing motivation and accelerating progress. This easy, innovative and effective approach will require you to think outside your comfort zone!​

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​11:45 - 12:45​

Lunch and Vendor Time