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Please change the background in your 3-2-1 box  using the listed  coordinating color for quick reference. (hover your cursor on your 3-2-1 box, select the ..., then click your color)
ELA- pink
MATH- orange
SCIENCE/ SOCIAL STUDIES -green
EDUCATIONAL SPECIALS- blue
SPED/EL/SP-L- purple
BEHAVIOR/OTHER -leave white

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Feedback to share from attendance at a workshop or conference.

*Staff member: Lynn Kucharski
*Date/s attended: 11-9-17

*Workshop/conference title:       AWSA New Administrator    Conference

3 Take-Aways Overall:

1. Phases of Change entail responding differently: Initiation, Implementation, or Institutionalization phase

2. Crucial Conversations (making observations & feedback meaningful)

3. Follow-up on wkly PD focus.  For example, after Origo PD….go observe math lessons in classrooms

2 Important Details:

1. Focus on the quality of feedback.

2. ”Friday 5”- grade levels give 5/grade to call each week about positives

1 Question I Still Have:

1. How do we encourage parent voice?  (book: Beyond the Bake Sale)  For parents/guardians: "Am I/ are my children represented/included here? "

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Feedback to share from attendance at a workshop or conference.

*Staff member: Andy Pfeuffer
*Date/s attended: 10/26-10/27

*Workshop/conference title:
Wisconsin Health and Physical Education (WHPE)

3 Take-Aways Overall:

1. 100 Mile Club : Goal is to run 100 miles throughout the school year

2. Exercise Buddy: iPad app for autistic children

3. Fuel Up to Play 60 Games: Nutrition ideas for elementary students

2 Important Details:

1. EVERYONE can participate in 100 Mile Club- students, staff, community; Done during school hours, recess, YMCA, P.E., etc.

2. Exercise Buddy:Visual learning for autistic children; timed exercises/reps

1 Question I Still Have:

1. Could we get the cafeteria staff involved and work together to earn a Play 60 grant for P.E. and Lunch programs?

Extra Resources:

100 Mile Club- https://100mileclub.com/welcome/

Exercise Buddy App- http://www.exercisebuddy.com/

Fuel Up to Play 60 (Wisconsin)- http://www.wisconsindairycouncil.com/fuel-up-to-play60/resources

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Feedback to share from attendance at a workshop or conference.

*Staff member: Kristen Muskevitsch
*Date/s attended: 2/8

*Workshop/conference title: WSRA

3 Take-Aways Overall:

1. Importance of encouraging our students to love reading- focusing on encouraging students to love reading instead of focusing on quantity, rewards, testing, etc.

2. Resources for using technology in reading instruction to assess and enhance instruction

3. Strategies for increasing reading comprehension in guided reading

2 Important Details:
1.  Full group reading lessons only benefit about 40% of our students so guided reading that targets comprehension is important
2. There are a variety of websites that track assessments and data as well as allow us to create our own assessments (video assessments)

1 Question I Still Have:

1. The keynote speaker's "7 ways to kill a student's love for reading": How do we move away from some of these things when they are such a focus in education right now?

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Feedback to share from attendance at a workshop or conference.

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Feedback to share from attendance at a workshop or conference.

*Staff member: Kristin Johnson
*Date/s attended: 2/8/18

*Workshop/conference title:      Wisconsin State Reading Association (WSRA) Convention

3 Take-Aways Overall:

1. Access to books is a game changer for kids

2. "I would rather lose a book than a child" - regarding letting kids take books home from your personal classroom library (Donalyn Miller) - discussing relationship building around books and reading

3. The importance of classroom libraries that are - diverse, current, organized, and have sufficient quantity (5-7 books per child) and how does the collection meet the needs of the students in the classroom

2 Important Details:

1. To prevent summer reading loss K-2 students need to read 12 books, grades 4+ need to read 4 - 5 books.

2. Providing self-selected books for summer reading produces as much growth as summer school - which can even have a negative effect on attitude and motivation for struggling readers.

1 Question I Still Have:

1. How to incorporate time to "just read" into RtI without losing the fidelity of the intervention - can it be an intervention on its own? What about summer school?

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Feedback to share from attendance at a workshop or conference.

*Staff member: Kristen Muskevitsch

*Date/s attended: November 29

*Workshop/conference title: Dealing with Difficult Behaviors

3 Take-Aways Overall:

1. Building relationships with students- spending two minutes a day talking with your most challenging student about anything that they choose

2.  Restorative practices/restorative circles- encouraging empathy and accountability

3. Connections, competence, control and the three factors that drive behavior

2 Important Details:

1.  Using restorative questions for teachers to reflect and for students and those affected by the behavior.

2. Writing notes to students

1 Question I Still Have:

1. What are other schools doing to encourage the practice of restorative circles? How are they being implemented?

Resources:

1. http://www.pbisworld.com

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Feedback to share from attendance at a workshop or conference.

*Staff member: Alyssa Haas
*Date/s attended: 2/26-2/27

*Workshop/conference title:       CESA 5 SLP Institute

3 Take-Aways Overall:

1. Talking, moving, sharing = intellectually messy. Active learning classrooms can be inclusive and accessible for our students with disabilities. It also supports social skill development.

2. 5 Benefits of Active Learning:

1. Engagement

2. Retention

3. Behavior

4. Imagination

5. Health

3. Fun Ways to Get Kids Active:

1. Signature Song Shuffle w/ Talking Sticks

2. Full Body Rock-Paper-Scissors

3. One, Two, Three, THREE THINGS

4. Whip

5. Move It

6. Wave

7. Jumping jacks

8. Active voting

2 Important Details:

1. Kids can actively pay attention for 12 minutes.

2. Students in a traditional classroom are 1.5 times more likely to fail.  Actively learning classroom boosts scores by almost 1/2 standard deviation (e.g. B- to B)

1 Question I Still Have:

1. What are some other ways teachers are incorporating active learning into their classrooms?

Resources:
http://www.paulakluth.com/

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Feedback to share from attendance at a workshop or conference.

*Staff member: Tammy Mueller
*Date/s attended: 2/8/2018

*Workshop/conference title:  WRSA

3 Take-Aways Overall:

1.  The importance of letting children choose books of interest, but truly teach authentic book choosing skills. When students are reading to not expect them to write or do tasks about their reading, just let them enjoy it. If need to have accountability, 1 sentence response.

2. Classroom libraries should have 500 books accessible for students.  Students should live in a book flood.

3. These libraries should be diverse, current, & organized.  Books can be mirrors, windows, or sliding doors into their lives or others.

2 Important Details:

1.  To prevent summer slide students in Kindergarten-2nd should read 12 books & 3rd and older should read 4-5 books over the summer.

2. Reading for rewards does not build the intrinsic love of reading that we as educators want for all of our students.

1 Question I Still Have:

1. How can we as an elementary school provide students with more reading opportunities?  How can we reach those students who do not like to read?

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Feedback to share from attendance at a workshop or conference.

*Staff member: Kristin Johnson
*Date/s attended: 3/22/17

*Workshop/conference title:
High-expectation Curricula as an Antidote to Deficit-based Pedagogies by Curt Dudley-Marling (CESA 5)

3 Take-Aways Overall:

1. Instead of "Deficit Thinking" (the problem is THEM, fix the child, fix their family, fix their culture) the alternative is a "Philosophy of Abundance" (ALL children are smart and can learn - What do they already know and how can we build on it, "Anyone who can come to school having mastered human language and communication is incredibly smart")

2. Always be mindful of the centrality of respect -Successful teachers respect their students - membership in a particular group tells us almost nothing about the individual

3. Instead of preparing kids for schools, what can schools do to prepare for kids? If we don't see brilliance in our kids, maybe it's our curriculum "What's going on here, I know he's smart..."

2 Important Details:

1. Examples of high expectation curricula - Optimum Learning Environment (OLE) - a gifted curriculum was brought into bilingual special education classrooms in high poverty schools, Poetry Inside Out, Project Challenge (discussion based curricula in math), Inquiry-based curriculum, comprehension instruction through discussion

2. Textual interpretation based on evidence-based discussion "How does your evidence support your claim?" instructional method called Shared Inquiry or Interpretive Discussion - see Kristin for details, I have a lot :) essentially learning how to make sense of the text through asking questions **complete lack of evaluation within the discussion**

1 Question I Still Have:

1. The presenter only briefly touched on how to create a classroom environment and set up procedures that would support whole group respectful evidence based discussion of text, mentioning that that topic would be another entire day.  I would like to attend that one also (
not offered yet )  ;)