This innovative professional development offering seeks to establish an effective and efficient system to address behavioral issues by utilizing proactive educational positive practices that support success and define student and staff appropriate behaviors. This training uses data-based decisions to target interventions and evaluate progress.

Audience: K-12 educators
Length: 3 hours
CLUs: 3.0
Date/Time: February 7-8, 2008, Baton Rouge; February 13-14, 2008, Alexandria

This workshop will provide best practices for improving school performance and practical information on how to transform schools using PLCs.

Audience: Teachers and Administrators
Length: 1 day
CLUs: 1.0
Date/Time: May 8, 2008 (visit Coursewhere for additional information)

This workshop will demonstrate the power of technology to support the implementation of DI strategies. Participants will explore three technology applications which support DI to meet the learning needs of all students.

Audience: Regular and Special Education Teachers, Curriculum Specialists, Technology Specialists, Administrators
Length: 4 hours
CLUs: 4.0
Date/Time: April 22, 2008 - 9:00 am to 12:30 pm and as requested by High Priority Schools

The Write Traits Workshop is designed for teachers who want to begin using the six traits of writing in their classroom instruction. Through a variety of hands-on activities, participants will learn about the traits, become familiar with trait language, and understand how the traits support process-based instruction. In addition, participants will learn to assess student writing across all six traits, use literature to provide models of the traits for student writers, and support students as they assess and revise their own work.

Audience: K-12 Teachers, Administrators, Curriculum Directors, and Reading Specialists
Length: 2 days
CLUs: 16.0
Date/Time: April 24-25, 2008 - 8:00 am to 3:00 pm

Take part in this three hour workshop to experience how visual thinking can transform your classroom. We will spotlight and discuss different tools that can be used to increase higher order thinking levels of your students. Educators will demonstrate these tools while presenting activities from the Comprehensive Curriculum. Resources and professional development opportunities will be provided.

Audience: K-12 educators
Length: 3 hours
CLUs: 3.0
Date/Time: February 20, 2008 - 9:00 am to 12:00 pm

During this 2-week course participants will learn how to identify principles of DI, apply DI strategies to classroom practices, use technologies that support DI in the classroom, apply DI to curriculum planning, and develop concrete action plans for the continuous integration of DI principles.

Audience: Regular and Special Education Teachers, Curriculum Specialists, Technology Specialists, Administrators
Length: 2 weeks (approximately 1-2 hours of coursework per
CLUs: 16.0
Date/Time: February 11-24, 2008 and as requested by High Priority Schools

Rick and Becky DuFour will be conducting this webinar. It will be a follow-up to the Face-to-Face workshop previously hosted by Solution Tree on best practices and PLCs.

Audience: Teachers and Administrators
Length: 1 hour
CLUs: 1.0
Date/Time: June 5, 2008 (visit Coursewhere for additional information)

Join us as we discuss how to deliver professional development in schools that is truly job embedded, teacher led and driven by student work. This webinar will require that participants have viewed Parts I-V of the PLC videocasts (elementary, middle or high school level). If you have any trouble viewing the videocasts, email Kim.Nesmith@la.gov. A dvd can be mailed to you.

Audience: Summit schools’ administrators and teachers
Length: 1 hour
CLUs: 1.0
Date/Time: May 13, 2008 - 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

This webinar explores how teachers can use EAGLE to create class rosters, develop and schedule tests, and view score reports. It also examines how students can use EAGLE to take tests, view score reports, and assess the GLEs in student-friendly language.

Audience: Grade 4 ELA and Math Teachers, Grade 9 Algebra Teachers, Curriculum Specialists, Technology Specialists, Administrators
Length: 1 hour
CLUs: 1.0
Date/Time: March 3, 2008

Join us to experience how visual thinking can transform your classroom. We will spotlight and discuss different tools that can be used to increase higher order thinking levels of your students. Educators will demonstrate these tools while presenting activities from the Comprehensive Curriculum. Resources and professional development opportunities will be provided.

Audience: K-12 educators
Length: 1 hour
CLUs: 1
Date/Time: April 28, 2008 - 3:00-4:00 p.m

Viewers will be provided an overview of how professional growth in a school can be structured and organized to support a professional learning community atmosphere where staff development meetings are job embedded, teacher led and driven by student work. This short video connects standards created by the National Staff Development Council to what is happening in many schools around the state as they implement Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).

Audience: Teachers and Administrators

Learn how professional learning communities actually work in schools. This series videocasts provides a glimpse at an inner city elementary school’s PLC. The videos focus on a teacher-led professional development meeting (cluster meeting) and includes a coaching session with the teacher leader to encourage self reflection on areas to reinforce and refine.

Audience: Teachers and Administrators

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Download this series of five videocasts to learn how professional learning communities actually work in schools. These short videos provide a look at an inner city high school’s PLC and focuses on a teacher led cluster meeting. The videocasts also include a coaching session with the teacher leader to encourage self reflection on areas to reinforce and refine.

Audience: Teachers and Administrators

This videocast discusses the commitment of teachers to professional learning communities within a middle school in south Texas. It also provides an overview of how the PLC was conducted and accepted by teachers in a school district.

Audience: Teachers and Administrators

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This videocast provides an overview of PLCs by Paige Elliott, Teacher of the Year in Wake County Public Schools and useful information on how to start a PLC.

Audience: Teachers and Administrators

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This Positive Behavior Support demonstration provides an inside look into creating an effective PBS Model. Information will be provided concerning possible challenges to implementation and best practices that will assist districts and/or individual schools with successful PBS implementation.

Audience: K-12 educators

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This Positive Behavior Support demonstration provides an inside look into creating an effective PBS Model. Information will be provided concerning possible challenges to implementation and best practices that will assist districts and/or individual schools with successful PBS implementation.

Audience: K-12 educators

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This videocast provides an overview of differentiated instruction (DI) through examples. Characteristics of a DI classroom are identified and discussed.

Audience: Regular and Special Education Teachers, Curriculum Specialists, Technology Specialists, Administrators

View this videocast to gain insight on how EAGLE can be used to promote the learning of GLEs through a technology-based online system. This videocast explains how teachers use EAGLE to adjust their instructional strategies to effectively meet their students’ needs and looks at how students can improve performance by assessing their own learning skills.

Audience: Grade 4 ELA and Math Teachers, Grade 9 Algebra Teachers, Curriculum Specialists, Technology Specialists, Administrators

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This audiocast serves as an introduction to the Six-Trait model by defining the model and its role in increasing student achievement. The Audiocast provides potential participants with an overview of the face-to-face training content and application for instruction.

Audience: K-12 Teachers, Administrators, Curriculum Directors, and Reading Specialists