EPS Professional Development - Feb 21, 2017 | Page 3
AM Sessions
8:00 to 11:15AM
Session 1 — PK-12
Yoga for the Classroom:
Creating a Calming Environment
Diana Latorre
Location: Fermi Gym
This session will add to educators'
classroom management skills and
help them create a safer and
more effective learning environment. This will be a hands-on
course where participants will
work in groups to review and
teach breathing and yoga exercises that they can share with their
students to reduce stress and anxiety and create a sense of focus. Participants will experience a
yoga class and will need to wear
loose clothing and bring a yoga
mat, towel/blanket, water, and
paper and pen.
Session 2 — 2-5
ELA SBAC Success: It’s All About the
Rigor
Joan Marsh, Dawn Marchese, and
Taryn Jennings
Location: Crandall Library
This session will provide teachers
with detailed information about the
ELA portion of the Smarter Balanced
Assessment, including navigating
the portal, viewing the practice test,
and reviewing links to detailed information about target areas. Teachers
will be introduced to a grid for developing Smarter Balanced-aligned
questions to use to create their own
questions for daily instruction.
Teachers need to bring laptops and
grade level texts for reference.
Session 3 — K– 12
Learn More About Lexia
Adrienne Snow and Aaron Samoza
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Session 4 — 6-8 English
Middle School Revision Strategies
Dr. Kristina Elias-Staron
Location: JFK Rm 18 Red Wing
An overview of the objectives and
correlations of Lexia will be
shared with teachers. Participants
will have the opportunity to explore the site and its many resources available to students.
Teachers should bring their electronic devices.
In this session, middle school English
teachers will be presented with a
variety of ways to incorporate the
teaching of revision skills into
writing workshop.
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