Workshops
* indicates that the workshop lasts multiple days
Jul 11
Blended and Personalized Learning
personStacy Lovdahl, NCDPI Educator on Loan
location_onWilkes County Schools - 613 Cherry Street, North Wilkesboro, NC 28659
Description:
Please bring a laptop, tablet, or similar device charged and ready for use.
Meeting the needs of all learners is a perennial struggle of every classroom teacher. This session is a hands-on introduction to the key shifts in teaching and learning that take place in a personalized and blended learning classroom and how this approach helps teachers meet students where they are and increase student agency. Participants will experience a blended learning model to learn how to transform their classrooms into a personalized learning environment.
Time:
9:00-4:00
Cost:
$115 without membership
$0 with membership
Renewal Credit:
0.6 Digital Learning Credit
Target Audience:
Teachers
All Fields Required
Jul 16
I Have Literacy Data, Now What
personAmy Jo Spencer, NCCAT Presenter
location_onHoliday Inn Express - 1700 Winkler Street, Wilkesboro, NC 28697
Description:
Please bring a laptop, tablet, or similar device charged and ready for use.
Elementary teachers use a variety of literacy assessments (mClass, STAR, benchmarks, unit tests, spelling inventories, etc.) in order to get a complete picture of their students' literacy ability. These assessments generate a lot of data that can be overwhelming. Teachers will analyze various assessments and investigate how to use these data to plan intentional instruction for individual, small, and whole groups that align with the NCSCOS and meets ALL students needs.
Time:
9:00-4:00
Cost:
$115 without membership
$0 with membership
Renewal Credit:
0.6 Literacy/Content Credit
Target Audience:
K-5 Teachers
All Fields Required
Jul 17
Strengthening Instruction in Early Grades Literacy
personAmy Jo Spencer, NCCAT Presenter
location_onHoliday Inn Express - 1700 Winkler Street, Wilkesboro, NC 28697
Description:
Please bring a laptop, tablet, or similar device charged and ready for use.
In order for students to become globally competitive, it is imperative students receive a good foundation in literacy instruction. With new challenges facing teachers each day, this task can be daunting. Teachers will examine research/evidence-based strategies and best practices to strengthen their literacy instruction while developing a reading and writing environment that is welcoming and inviting to students of all developmental levels.
Time:
9:00-4:00
Cost:
$115 without membership
$0 with membership
Renewal Credit:
0.6 Literacy/Content Credit
Target Audience:
K-5 Teachers
All Fields Required
Jul 18
Go Open NC! NC’s OER Platform
personStacy Lovdahl, NCDPI Educator on Loan
location_onWilkes County Schools - 613 Cherry Street, North Wilkesboro, NC 28659
Description:
Please bring a laptop, tablet, or similar device charged and ready for use.
Open educational resources (OER) are freely-accessible, openly-licensed instructional materials of all types. Some benefits of OER include potential cost savings, knowledge sharing and access, quality improvements to materials, personalization, collaboration and partnerships, and equity of resources.
In this session, participants will engage in discussion and activities related to defining, locating, and vetting OER; open licenses; the current landscape of OER in North Carolina.
Time:
9:00-12:00
Cost:
$115 without membership
$0 with membership
Renewal Credit:
0.3 Digital Learning Credit
Target Audience:
Teachers and Admistrators
All Fields Required
Jul 19
Playlists, Pathways, Choice Boards and Hyperdocs
personStacy Lovdahl, NCDPI Educator on Loan
location_onWilkes County Schools - 613 Cherry Street, North Wilkesboro, NC 28659
Description:
Please bring a laptop, tablet, or similar device charged and ready for use.
These digital platforms are just some of the digital tools available to help teachers personalize instruction to meet the needs of their learners. Learn about each type of document, see examples from a variety of grade levels and content areas and come away with resources to use in your classroom.
Time:
9:00-4:00
Cost:
$115 without membership
$0 with membership
Renewal Credit:
0.6 Digital Learning Credit
Target Audience:
Teachers and Administrators
All Fields Required
Jul 25
Design Thinking with STEM
personDarcy Grimes, NCCAT Presenter
location_onWilkes County Board of Education - 613 Cherry Street, North Wilkesboro, NC 28659
Description:
Please bring a laptop, tablet, or similar device charged and ready for use.
Teachers will learn and explore the design thinking process starting with empathy and ending with test. They will discover the countless ways that STEM can be integrated into a Design Thinking Process and the rigorous shift that design thinking can bring to the classroom. This will be a hands-on session and teachers should come with an open mind ready to dive into a design thinking project that can be used in their own classroom.
Time:
9:00-4:00
Cost:
$115 without membership
$0 with membership
Renewal Credit:
0.3 Content and 0.3 Digital Learning Credit
Target Audience:
K-12 Teachers
All Fields Required
Jul 30
Vertical Progressions: Understanding the How and Why of the...
personDr. Bonnie Bolado, NCCAT Presenter
location_onHoliday Inn Express - 1700 Winkler Street, Wilkesboro, NC 28697
Description:
Please bring a laptop, tablet, or similar device charged and ready for use.
Vertical alignment not only creates understandings of depth of the standards taught, but also connections to the grade levels that are before and after their grade. These connections enable teachers to have critical understandings of their own content taught, and recognize where they should start and stop in their standards. In turn, this process allows teachers to achieve the appropriate depth of knowledge necessary for their curriculums, and ensures consistency occurs across grade levels.
Time:
9:00-4:00
Cost:
$115 without membership
$0 with membership
Renewal Credit:
0.6 Content
Target Audience:
K-12 Math Teachers
All Fields Required
Jul 31
Poverty and Learning: Building Cultures of Effort and Equity
personDr. Bonnie Bolado, NCCAT Presenter
location_onHoliday Inn Express - 1700 Winkler Street, Wilkesboro, NC 28697
Description:
Please bring a laptop, tablet, or similar device charged and ready for use.
Understanding that poverty does not define a student is critical when establishing classroom cultures. Having awareness impoverished students' mindsets and needs creates opportunities to consider policies and procedures used in classrooms, and build cultures that emphasize effort and equity. This professional learning series will develop teachers' awareness of students' needs in poverty and help teachers establish classrooms that encourage growth mindsets for all learners.
Time:
9:00-4:00
Cost:
$115 without membership
$0 with membership
Renewal Credit:
0.6 General
Target Audience:
Counselors, teachers, administrators
All Fields Required
Aug 01
NCDPI Mentor Training
personDr. Monica Shepherd
location_onHoliday Inn Express - 1700 Winkler Street, Wilkesboro, NC 28697
Description:
Please bring a laptop, tablet, or similar device charged and ready for use.
Face to face mentor training for any experienced teacher that will be serving in the role of mentor for a beginning teacher. This is a required training of all mentors in North Carolina. This training will focus on the beginning teacher and how to support then for a successful experience in the classroom.
Time:
9:00-4:00
Cost:
$115 without membership
$0 with membership
Renewal Credit:
0.6 General Credit
Target Audience:
Beginning Teachers
All Fields Required
Aug 06
Motivating Disengaged Learners
personDr. Ernest Johnson, NCCAT Presenter
location_onHoliday Inn Express - 1700 Winkler Street, Wilkesboro, NC 28697
Description:
Please bring a laptop, tablet, or similar device charged and ready for use.
Solving student engagement issues is complex. What works in one class may be a failure in the next, with every year presenting new challenges. This program will review some of the underlying challenges associated with the lack of student engagement, provide strategies for motivating disengaged students, and offer insights about how a deeper understanding of students learning styles are important for establishing relationships and for creating an engaging classroom.
Time:
9:00-4:00
Cost:
$115 without membership
$0 with membership
Renewal Credit:
0.6 General Credit
Target Audience:
Teachers and Admistrators
All Fields Required