Engage with Tech Tools while Planning Rigorous Instruction

Participants will learn to create and implement specific online tools to use with students. 

These may include: Google slides, Google Docs, Google Forms, Mentimeter, Padlet, FlipGrid, Seasaw, Peardeck, Others used by a district may possibly be incorporated if feasible.

Establishing Relationships, Routines, Roles, and Rigor at the Beginning of the School Year: Face to Face and Virtually

This session focuses on establishing those pivotal beginning of the year relationships with our class virtually and face to face. 

Explore the value of establishing academic roles and routines that contribute to a high level of student teaming. 

Analyze and create beginning of the year tasks that set the stage for both. 

Learn how relevant and rigorous tasks can be more engaging and motivating for students to meet and work together virtually.

Fascinating Teaching Strategies that Work Online and in the Classroom

How do teachers create an environment for learning in their classroom? Can online classrooms also be engaging? 

This virtual session, led by our live expert Marzano faculty, will give teachers new strategies to enhance their current teaching, regardless of whether that takes place at school or home.

Monitor and Verify Learning Face-to-Face and Virtually

How will you monitor student participation and engagement? How do you verify learning targets when students are face to face and virtually? 

This session will explore tools and techniques for monitoring and verifying student learning in a variety of delivery formats, because let's be honest, we need to be armed and ready for an array of blended learning formats in our future.

Introduction to SEL 

LSI will provide support for school- and district-level SEL leaders in laying the foundational understanding of social emotional learning and how it may inform professional development, instructional coaching, and continuous improvement models

SELF-CARE: Addressing Adult SEL During Challenging Times 

Using SELF-CARE as an acronym, participants will be guided through a series of 8 daily tips within S-E-L-F-C-A-R-E-to pinpoint areas to engage in self-care practices.
 
Participants will learn the ways in which caring for self ultimately influences teacher and student performances. Participants will also set Self-Care goals and commit to incorporating self-care practices in their daily routines.

Self-Management – Leading and Coaching Also Means Taking Care of You 

During challenging times, teachers may forget about Self-Management and managing emotions, participants will learn the art and balance of focusing on themselves and their students to not only regulate their emotions and manage stress, but also model and demonstrate the essential need of caring for oneself and others in the midst of crisis.

Guiding Students During A Crisis Requires a Resiliency Tap 

Teachers rely on their creative banks to provide ways to help navigate through crisis and guide students.
Through the support of an LSI Faculty Coach, learn ways in which you may model and teach the art of self-regulation and redirect students' mixed emotions into positive change in the classroom, school, and extended school community.

A Focus on ME (Educator SEL)

Total Hours: 6

Engage with Tech Tools while Planning Rigorous Instruction

Participants will learn to create and implement specific online tools to use with students. 

These may include: Google slides, Google Docs, Google Forms, Mentimeter, Padlet, FlipGrid, Seasaw, Peardeck, Others used by a district may possibly be incorporated if feasible.

Establishing Relationships, Routines, Roles, and Rigor at the Beginning of the School Year: Face to Face and Virtually

This session focuses on establishing those pivotal beginning of the year relationships with our class virtually and face to face. 

Explore the value of establishing academic roles and routines that contribute to a high level of student teaming. 

Analyze and create beginning of the year tasks that set the stage for both. 

Learn how relevant and rigorous tasks can be more engaging and motivating for students to meet and work together virtually.

Fascinating Teaching Strategies that Work Online and in the Classroom

How do teachers create an environment for learning in their classroom? Can online classrooms also be engaging? 

This virtual session, led by our live expert Marzano faculty, will give teachers new strategies to enhance their current teaching, regardless of whether that takes place at school or home.

Monitor and Verify Learning Face-to-Face and Virtually

How will you monitor student participation and engagement? How do you verify learning targets when students are face to face and virtually? 

This session will explore tools and techniques for monitoring and verifying student learning in a variety of delivery formats, because let's be honest, we need to be armed and ready for an array of blended learning formats in our future.

Engage with Tech Tools while Planning Rigorous Instruction

Participants will learn to create and implement specific online tools to use with students. 

These may include: Google slides, Google Docs, Google Forms, Mentimeter, Padlet, FlipGrid, Seasaw, Peardeck, Others used by a district may possibly be incorporated if feasible.

Establishing Relationships, Routines, Roles, and Rigor at the Beginning of the School Year: Face to Face and Virtually

This session focuses on establishing those pivotal beginning of the year relationships with our class virtually and face to face. 

Explore the value of establishing academic roles and routines that contribute to a high level of student teaming. 

Analyze and create beginning of the year tasks that set the stage for both. 

Learn how relevant and rigorous tasks can be more engaging and motivating for students to meet and work together virtually.

Fascinating Teaching Strategies that Work Online and in the Classroom

How do teachers create an environment for learning in their classroom? Can online classrooms also be engaging? 

This virtual session, led by our live expert Marzano faculty, will give teachers new strategies to enhance their current teaching, regardless of whether that takes place at school or home.

Monitor and Verify Learning Face-to-Face and Virtually

How will you monitor student participation and engagement? How do you verify learning targets when students are face to face and virtually? 

This session will explore tools and techniques for monitoring and verifying student learning in a variety of delivery formats, because let's be honest, we need to be armed and ready for an array of blended learning formats in our future.

Teaching Through Affirming Lenses to Build Student Confidence and Performance

Teachers are often led through lenses that focus solely on areas of needed growth. During this challenging time of increased uncertainty and professional and personal stresses, there is a need to shift our approach to one that is asset based.
 
From a foundational standpoint of decision-making, participants will be guided through a process of shifting to affirming lenses that serve to pinpoint glow areas to increase student confidence and performance levels.

Establishing Relationships, Routines, Roles, and Rigor at the Beginning of the School Year: Face to Face and Virtually

This session focuses on establishing those pivotal beginning of the year relationships with our class virtually and face to face. Explore the value of establishing academic roles and routines that contribute to a high level of student teaming. Analyze and create beginning of the year tasks that set the stage for both. 

Learn how relevant and rigorous tasks can be more engaging and motivating for students to meet and work together virtually.

A Focus on WE (Classroom SEL)

Total Hours: 4

A Foundation for Teaching During COVID-19: Flow with the Buffalo

Participants will learn ways to activate the power of team and community in the midst of crisis.
 
Teachers will create a personalized Buffalo Story to share with their students and learn effective methods that they may put into practice to lead their student teams through the difficulties of the COVID-19 storm.

Building Classrooms of Community Through a SEL Lens

Are you looking for new and innovative ways to bring SEL into your classrooms?
 
This session will guide participants through an experience of building and re-building community in their existing classrooms through a SEL lens and framework.

Leading and Coaching Through Affirming Lenses

Teams are often led through lenses that focus solely on areas of needed growth. During this challenging time of increased uncertainty and professional and personal stresses, there is a need to shift our approach to one that is asset-based.

From a foundational standpoint of the Core Competency, Responsible Decision-Making, participants will be guided through a process of shifting to affirming lenses that serve to pinpoint glow areas to increase confidence and performance levels.

Leading and Coaching with Grace

Leading and coaching in the midst of a challenge requires grace. Through a servant leadership lens, participants will learn the realities of student and teacher accessibility and how they may incorporate equitable practices alongside the essentials of grace for their teams and themselves.

A Focus on Agency

At Learning Sciences International, collective agency is developed through a progression that involves a focus on the individual and collective whys of a team and organization. This requires a shift in the way we see ourselves and one another as we journey through crisis. 

Participants will be guided through this progression toward collective agency to fully understand how an investment and commitment within vision and mission may fuel a synergy between students, teachers, teacher leaders, and the extended school community to afford sustainable, transformational change.

A Journey Through Empathy: 2 Part series

Empathy is a four-tiered journey that allows us to lead and support one another with compassion. In this two-part series, participants are guided through a personal journey through the four tiers of empathy and learn the steps they must take to guide their teams and their students toward a place of compassion. When we operate through a lens of compassion, we equip ourselves and our teams with the tools to thrive within crisis.

A Focus on US (School SEL)

Total Hours: 14