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League Trainings (by date)
League Trainings (by date)
Colorado Content Standards
Understanding and Implementing Colorado's New Standards
Date: Monday, September 20
Time: 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: Mile High United Way, 2505 18th St, Denver
Cost: $75 per person for League member schools, $150 per person for non-members
Audience: School leaders, lead teachers, data teams, instructional coaches
Description: This four-hour training hosted by the League and CDE focuses on understanding and effectively implementing the new Colorado State Standards. This session is intended for individuals responsible for curriculum planning, data teams, lead teachers, instructional/literacy coaches and school leaders.
Click here to register for this training.
Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA)
Climbing the Data Ladder
Date: Friday, September 24
Time: 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: North Star Academy, 16700 Keystone Blvd., Parker
Cost: $150 per person for League member schools, $225 per person for non-member schools (includes materials and lunch).
Audience: Teachers & instructional coaches
Description: Participants learn to use test results to support classroom instruction and differentiation (aligning nicely to Response to Intervention). Participants will learn how to use MAP data to assess students' readiness, learning styles and interests.
Click here to register for this training.
School Performance Frameworks/Unified Planning Templates
Understanding the School Performance Framework
Date: Friday, September 24
Time: 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Parker Core Knowledge Charter School, 11661 North Pine Drive, Parker
Cost: League members: $100 (this session only) or $175 for this session plus Introduction to Statewide Unified Planning Templates session, members; Non-Members: $125 (this session only) or $200 for this session plus Introduction to Statewide Unified Planning Templates session.
Audience: School leaders, teachers, data teams
Description: This August the Colorado Department of Education will release the new School Performance Frameworks (SPF) for every public school in the state. The SPF will be displayed on the schoolview.org website.
Click here to register for this training.
Introduction to the Statewide Unified Planning Templates
Date: Friday, September 24
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Parker Core Knowledge Charter School, 11661 North Pine Drive, Parker
Cost: League members: $100 (this session only) or $175 for this session plus Understanding the School Performance Framework session.
Non-Members: $125 (this session only) or $200 for this session plus Understanding the School Performance Framework session.
Audience: School leaders, teacher leaders, data teams
Description: The state has developed a statewide Unified Planning Template which will be required by all schools beginning in the 2011-12 academic year, but are required now for schools on Title 1 Improvement. These hands on trainings are meant for principals, teacher leaders and/or data teams.
Click here to register for this training.
Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA)
Stepping Stones to Using Data
Date: October 2010 (Exact Date TBD)
Time: 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: TBD, Western Slope
Cost: $150
Audience: School leaders, teachers & data teams
Description: This training dives into what the data in reports tells us, what questions we can and can NOT infer from them, and how to engage parents and larger accountability groups (i.e. boards and SAC's) into these conversations. The session will introduce and familiarize participants to Descartes and how to use this powerful tool, as well as other instructional materials.
To register, please contact Sarah Pearman at spearman@coloradoleague.org or 303-989-5356, ext. 114.
School Performance Frameworks/Unified Planning Templates
Understanding the School Performance Frameworks/Introduction to the Statewide Unified Planning Template
Date: Friday October 1,2010
Time: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: CIVA Charter High School, 4635 Northpark Dr., Colorado Springs, CO 80918
Cost: $100 half day, $175 full day, members; $125 half day, $200 full day, non-members
Description: This August the Colorado Department of Education released the new School Performance Frameworks (SPF) for every public school in the state. The SPF is displayed on the schoolview.org website. In addition, the state has developed a statewide Unified Planning Template which will be required by all schools beginning in the 2011-12 academic year, but are required now for schools on Title 1 Improvement.
Click here to register. Questions regarding content should be addressed to Jennifer Turnbull (jturnbull@coloradoleague.org or 303-989-5356 ext 111).
Teacher Effectiveness
Differentiated Instruction: Powerful Strategies for Effective Teaching
Dates: Monday, October 11 - Tuesday, October 12
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: Colorado School District Self Insurance Pool, 6857 S. Spruce St., Centennial, CO
Cost: $300 per person for League member schools; $400 per person, non-member schools. (Grant funds have been used to subsidize the cost of this training, which would normally cost $655/person.)
Audience: Instructional Coaches & teachers
Description: Participants will learn to use the most proven strategies for differentiating instruction and igniting student learning. Presentation and materials provided by The Leadership & Learning Center.
Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA)
Stepping Stones to Using Data
Date: Wednesday, October 13
Time: 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: Cherry Creek Academy, 6260 South Dayton St., Englewood
Cost: $150 per person for League member schools, $225 per person for non-member schools (includes materials and lunch).
Audience: School leaders, teachers & data teams
Description: This training dives into what the data in reports tells us, what questions we can and can NOT infer from them, and how to engage parents and larger accountability groups (i.e. boards and SAC's) into these conversations. The session will introduce and familiarize participants to Descartes and how to use this powerful tool, as well as other instructional materials.
Teacher Effectiveness
Decision Making for Results & Data Teams
Dates: Thursday, October 21 - Friday, October 22
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: Adams 12 Event Center, 1500 E. 128th Ave., Thornton, CO
Cost: $300 per person for League member schools; $400 per person, non-member schools. (Grant funds have been used to subsidize the cost of this training, which would normally cost $655/person.)
Audience: School Leaders & teachers
Description: The processes learned in this session will ensure that Colorado charter schools will have the most effective data analysis framework and strategies to impact student achievement, professional practice and school improvement. In addition, these processes greatly align and will support schools in making the new Colorado Unified Planning Template come alive. Participants will spend the first day of this two-day seminar examining data and will make leadership and instructional decisions within the framework of a proven and effective process. Presentation and materials provided by The Leadership & Learning Center.
School Performance Frameworks/Unified Planning Templates
School Performance Frameworks/Unified Planning Templates
Date: Thursday October 28,2010
Time: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: le High United Way, 2505 18th Street, Denver, CO 80211
Cost: $100 half day, $175 full day, members; $125 half day, $200 full day, non-members
Description: This August the Colorado Department of Education released the new School Performance Frameworks (SPF) for every public school in the state. The SPF is displayed on the schoolview.org website. In addition, the state has developed a statewide Unified Planning Template which will be required by all schools beginning in the 2011-12 academic year, but are required now for schools on Title 1 Improvement.
Response to Intervention (RtI)
Response to Intervention Training
Date: Friday, October 29
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: Mile High United Way, 2505 18th St, Denver, CO
Cost: $125 per person for League member schools/$175 per person for non-member schools
Audience: School leaders, special education professionals & teachers
Description: School leaders and staff will learn to implement a comprehensive system of tiered intervention essential for addressing the full range of needs.
Professional Development for New Schools
Technical Assistance/Performance Management Trainings
Date: Friday, October 29 or Spring 2011 (exact date TBD)
Time: 8:30 AM to 2:00 PM
Location: Colorado League of Charter Schools, 725 S. Broadway, Suite 7, Denver
Audience: School founders and leaders
Cost: $300 per session, $900 total. This training has been pre-approved by CDE and is automatically funded if included in Start Up and Implementation grants.
Description: Standards-based Environments, Data Driven Environments and Guaranteed Viable Curriculum. The three trainings that are offered by the Colorado League of Charter Schools under the title of Performance Management are required under the Colorado Charter School Grant Program and serve to prepare schools with best practices in areas of Standards-Based Environments, Data Driven Environments, and Guaranteed Viable Curriculum. In addition, these trainings include the latest and most pertinent information from the Colorado Department of Education in terms of the Colorado Growth Model, School Performance Framework, Unified Planning Template, and the Colorado Student Assessment Program in order to best inform new schools as to how to meet and understand state requirements. Rather than scheduling three separate 90 minute sessions, we will be hosting all three sessions in one day.
Register by September 17 by emailing spearman@coloradoleague.org
Teacher Effectiveness
Decision Making for Results & Data Teams
Dates: November 4-5, 2010 (2 days)
Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Cost: $300.00 for participants from member schools; $400.00 for participants from non-member schools. Grant funds have been used to subsidize the cost of this training, which would normally cost $655.00.
Description: Swimming in data but not sure how to make the best use of it school wide? Want to get teachers involved in a collaborative data process that improves student learning and teacher practice? Join us for a two-day Data Teams seminar, where you will learn:
- What the data team process is and how this system will enhance data-driven decision making at the school and classroom level
- How data teams generate assessments to gather immediate student achievement information related to areas of urgency
- How the data teams process addresses your most pressing issues and questions related to student achievement
- What data team leaders need to do in order to establish and facilitate a data meeting
- How schools and districts can most effectively establish and support data teams
*Aligns with the new Unified Planning Template and Process from CDE
*Participants are eligible to earn college credits for continuing education requirements
Click here to register for training.
School Performance Frameworks/Unified Planning Templates
School Performance Frameworks/Unified Planning Templates
Date: Thursday November 11,2010
Time: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: Garfield Re-2 School District, 839 Whiteriver Avenue Rifle, Co. 81650
Cost: $100 half day, $175 full day, members; $125 half day, $200 full day, non-members
Description: This August the Colorado Department of Education will release the new School Performance Frameworks (SPF) for every public school in the state. The SPF will be displayed on the schoolview.org website.
The state has developed a statewide Unified Planning Template which will be required by all schools beginning in the 2011-12 academic year, but are required now for schools on Title 1 Improvement. These hands on trainings are meant for principals, teacher leaders and/or data teams.
Click here to register for this training.
Teacher Effectiveness
Accelerating Academic Achievement for English Language Learners
Date: November 15-16, 2010
Training: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Location: Colorado School Districts Self Insurance Pool, 6857 South Spruce Street, Centennial, CO 80112
Cost: $300.00 for participants from member schools; $400.00 for participants from non-member schools. Grant funds have been used to subsidize the cost of this training, which would normally cost $655.00.
Description: In order to maximize learning opportunities for K-12 English learners, teachers and administrators must plan effective programs and lessons that not only consider the concepts and skills that students must know and be able to do, but that also address specific sheltered strategies that will help teachers work with students who are learning English while learning in English.
Participants will apply strategies that will lead to active participation and lessons based on the language acquisition levels for their students. In this highly interactive and hands-on training, teachers walk away with increased understanding, strategies, and motivation to accelerate academic achievement for English learners.
The Accelerating Academic Achievement for English Language Learners seminar focuses on differentiating between ESL/ELD curriculums (what we teach) and sheltered instruction (how we teach). It will model teaching strategies throughout the training to enable the teacher to experience active participation in a learning situation. Additionally, it analyzes exactly what constitutes active participation and collaborative learning and how that analysis should inform the selection of instructional strategies that result in immediate, increased achievement for English learners. The models used are all research-proven strategies, and participants will work to apply these to their own unique teaching situations.
During this interactive seminar, participants will:
- Clarify by comparing and contrasting ELD and sheltered instruction
- Understand how to apply sheltered instructional strategies when planning lessons to make content comprehensible for English learners, as well as how to engage all students in active listening, speaking, reading, writing, and comprehension.
- Learn and apply information on language-acquisition levels, including what students can do and what teachers should do at each stage of second-language acquisition.
- Examine effective ways to assess and differentiate instruction for English learners.
- Apply the understanding of sheltered strategies; specifically, tapping prior knowledge and building background knowledge, engaging in active participation, building in processing time, organizing instruction around differentiated instruction, using graphic organizers, cooperative learning and incorporating the five domains of language (listening, speaking, reading, writing and thinking) to language and content instruction.
Click here to register by November 11, 2010.
Teacher Effectiveness
Common Formative Assessment
Date: December 9 - 10, 2010
Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Location: TBD, Denver Metro Area
Cost: $300.00 for participants from member schools; $400.00 for participants from non-member schools, grant funds have been used to subsidize the cost of this training, which would normally cost $655.00.
Description: This two-day seminar is based on the book, Common Formative Assessments: How to Connect Standards-based Instruction and Assessment, by Larry Ainsworth and Donald Viegut (Corwin Press, 2006).
Common Formative Assessments are periodic or interim assessments, collaboratively designed by grade-level or course teams of teachers, and administered to all students in a grade level or course several times during the quarter, semester, trimester, or entire school year. Designed as matching pre- and post-assessments to ensure same-assessment to same-assessment comparisons, they are similar in design and format to district and state assessments.
Common formative assessment items are intentionally aligned to essential (Power) standards only and reflect a blend of item types, including selected-response (multiple choice, true/false, matching) and constructed-response (short- or extended). Participating teachers analyze student assessment results in Data Teams to plan and differentiate instruction. Such results provide predictive value as to how students are likely to do on each succeeding assessment (school, district, and state) in time for teachers to make instructional modifications.
Participants will learn about:
- Regular and timely feedback regarding student attainment of the most critical standards in order to better meet diverse learning needs of all students
- Multiple-measure assessments that allow students to demonstrate their understanding in a variety of formats
- Ongoing collaboration opportunities for grade-level, course, and department teachers
- Consistent expectations within a grade level, course, and department regarding standards, instruction, and assessment priorities
- Agreed-upon criteria for proficiency to be met within each individual classroom, grade level, school, and district
- Deliberate alignment of classroom, school, district, and state assessments to better prepare students for success on state assessments
- Results provide predictive value as to how students are likely to do on each succeeding assessment in time to make instructional modifications
To register, please contact Kara Vandas at kvandas@coloradoleague.org or at 303-989-5356, ext. 122.