Kentucky Association of School Councils | Training & On-Site Support

> OUR POPULAR PD with DO-IT-YOURSELF KITS

FORMATIVE (CONTINUOUS) ASSESSMENT
A key to success for individual students is using classroom assessment to guide instruction. This six-hour session looks at many types of classroom assessment so teachers can monitor student progress toward academic goals and learn ways to better meet student needs. Tools and resources are provided to help make this process easier and more efficient, while still valuing individual learners. (Can be abridged to three hours.)
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SUCCESS WITH RTI
This all-new PD session starts with the basics, clarifying the main components of Response to Intervention and dispelling myths, then delves into RTI"s pivotal relationship with student achievement. Participants will benefit from practical advice on the implementation of RTI, including such topics as support structures, forms of assessment and monitoring, and instructional strategies. This session is taught in three hours or can be purchased as a Do-It-Yourself toolkit for broad use within your school. Book now!
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PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES
This all-new PD session is organized around the three main components of creating an effective learning community: Purpose — ensuring that all students learn, Process — creating a team approach, and Focus — aiming toward student results. Participants will learn to establish a continuous cycle of developing common assessments, planning instruction, teaching, and analyzing results. This session will provide step-by-step directions and practical tools for creating a collaborative community in your school to ensure that students learn.
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SUCCESS WITH OPEN-RESPONSE
Open-response questions are a powerful learning tool and count for 50 percent of Kentucky Core Content Tests’ scores. This six-hour professional development session covers understanding and designing open-response, designing scoring guides, and teaching kids how to answer open-response questions. Follow-up includes time in small groups to think through what additional help teachers need and to look at resources your school can use for assessment and instruction, and teacher modification of instruction. The six-hour session can be abridged to three hours.
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CLOSING THE DISABILITY GAP
Many schools statewide have closed the achievement gap for students with disabilities! Explore strategies from successful schools and respected research. This workshop, a six-hour professional development session, includes hands-on learning and step-by-step instruction, and provides teaching strategies that will help all students achieve.
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DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION
All students learn in different ways. This workshop addresses components central to teaching students in the ways they learn best: respect of every individual, growth for every student, intertwining of assessment and instruction, and teacher modification of instruction. The six-hour session can be abridged to three hours.
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MULTIPLE-CHOICE & DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE
Multiple-choice is an efficient format for assessing core content knowledge. Learn how to write quality multiple-choice questions to assess students' knowledge and inform instruction. This session includes the use of Depth of Knowledge at all levels as an important classroom instruction and assessment tool. Strategies for helping students understand how to effectively answer multiple-choice questions will also be included. Three hours of instruction includes question writing. Additional time can be scheduled for on-site support, unit planning and further question writing, or other identified needs. Contact us about this session.
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ALL-STAR STRATEGIES
All-Star Strategies pulls key ideas from a wide variety of education literature and leaders and delivers them to you in this six-hour session (can be adapted to three hours). Strategies are organized around Robert Marzano’s research-based masterpiece, “What Works in Schools: Translating Research Into Action.” Learn what experts and research says and how to apply it in your school.
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> QUICK PD: ONE-HOUR POWER SESSIONS
Here are PD sessions tailored to the time you really have available. We give you the materials and guidance you need to transform an hour-long faculty meeting into a powerful learning experience.
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TEACHING VOCABULARY
A spin-off of our popular vocabulary toolkits, we’ve packaged quick lessons ideal for staff development. Get your staff focused on research-based vocabulary strategies and lead them in a step-by-step process for covering academic vocabulary. Designed for use in a faculty meeting or on an early-dismissal day.
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MARZANO BASICS
Based on Robert Marzano’s “Classroom Instruction that Works,” this Power Session presents research-backed strategies for improving student achievement, along with their connections to current brain research.
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SIMILARITIES & DIFFERENCES
Marzano found that identifying similarities and differences is one of the most effective instructional practices — and when used correctly, this strategy results in substantially higher test scores. Learn how.
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NON-LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATIONS
Marzano’s research pinpoints non-linguistic representations as a strategy allowing students to learn, extend, and demonstrate their knowledge through models, pictures, graphics, and movement. Great for addressing a variety of learning styles. Pairs nicely with Similarities & Differences.
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> OUR TRADITIONAL PD

ANALYZING STUDENT WORK
Working together to analyze actual student work is one of the most powerful ways to improve student learning. This three-hour session guides educators in how to use the Standards in Practice model developed by the Education Trust as a tool for improving teaching and learning. The strong connections between analyzing student work and meeting the expectations of the Standards and Indicators for School Improvement are also addressed.
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THE CHALLENGING LEARNER: TEACHING THE HARD-TO- REACH
Based on “Different Brains, Different Learners” by Eric Jensen, this three-hour workshop is about reaching students who have brains that operate differently than most. It offers best practice strategies for meeting the challenges of the hard-to-reach learner and explores Attention-Deficit Disorder, Learned Helplessness, and Stress Disorders.
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ON-DEMAND WRITING
On-Demand Writing allows you to accurately assess your students' learning in a real-world context. This six-hour professional development session offers thought-provoking information, strategies, tools, and reflection about your school and classroom writing programs. Become better prepared to instruct the craft of writing in all content area classrooms.
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BRAIN-COMPATIBLE TEACHING AND LEARNING
This three-hour session packs in hands-on learning, and strategies teachers can use immediately! See what research tells us about how people learn. Discuss how to create the best learning environment, choose new strategies for your classroom, discover your own learning style with our popular learning style inventories, and learn how to provide ongoing feedback to students beyond the usual grading of work. Give your classroom a mini-makeover!
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BRAIN RESEARCH AND CLASSROOM DISCIPLINE
What makes a good discipline and classroom management policy? This three-hour professional development session uses research on how the brain learns to help establish the best classroom environment and set the stage for fewer behavioral interruptions. From helping students understand the expectations, to motivating students through choice, ownership, and energy, this session addresses the vital components of good classroom management.
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