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 The
second Friday in October is reserved for public school educators'
professional development in the state of Oregon. This year, the Eugene
School District 4J funded five
local workshops for classified and certified staff, and two for
administrators which are supportive of Wallace Grant Goals. These
offerings were in addition to various educational workshops offered
throughout the state. Below are workshop pictures and links to resources.
Lexiles
| Excel | Conveners &
Facilitators | Tribes | SIOP
| Community Engagement
In
the Lexiles workshop, groups of teachers discuss reading material
options at different reading levels.
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Kerri
Sage, a teacher at Gilham, introduces the Lexiles resource
which matches student reading level and reading materials.
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Click
this link to get more information on Lexiles.
[All
teacher & staff workshops were held at the new Holt Elementary
School.]
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Debbie
Sorenson shows how to create, modify, print, and format worksheets;
work with basic formulas and functions, enhance worksheets;
use templates, and use AutoFormats in the 1st Excel class.
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Kim
Ketterer, back right, is ready to assist in the 2nd Excel
workshop which includes data filtering and sorting and simplifying
complex data display through the use of pivot tables and charts.
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Meanwhile,
many teachers, like this group at Holt Elementary, work in
teams to articulate curriculum across and between grades.
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At
the Conveners & Facilitators workshop, people reflect
on questions such as: Do you have meetings that take too long?
Do you have members that arrive late or leave early?
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Here
Eugene Cadre members Todd Hamilton and Bill Kentta provide
opportunities to practice skills and dialogue with to address
questions and concerns about convening and facilitating.
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Do
you need a few more tools to feel confident leading meetings?
Here participants learn information, strategies, and tools
for effective convening and facilitating.
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In
the Tribes workshop, Julie Sowerby teaches how to build a
democratic community in their classroom, which establishes
the safe learning environment necessary before any “real”
learning can happen.
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Handouts
of the PowerPoint presentation help people keep track of concepts.
For further information, see the
Tribes link.
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Participants
will walk away from this day energized and with hands-on strategies
to help build inclusion while integrating curriculum.
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Across
town at the new Madison Middle School, administrators learn
about SIOP: Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol.
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Abby
Lane reviews what we know about what facilitates language
learning for English as a second (or third!) language learners.
Click this link for
more information on SIOP.
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Administrators
are asked to examiine the contextual and cognitive range of
communication situations students experience.
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Carmen
Urbina, the new district Family and Community Coordinator,
reviews the goals of the project with administrators.
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Administrators
listen eagerly to strategies designed to engage all families
in the success of their student's education.
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For
more information on the program, click to see, "She's
Reaching Out to School Families," Register-Guard, Oct.
15, 2005.
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Lexiles
| Excel | Conveners &
Facilitators | Tribes | SIOP
| Community Engagement
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Eugene School District 4J