August 2025 Institute Day by Nichole Gross

Trauma Informed Practices

NMGross — 2024-12-13 14:53:06 UTC

CPR/AED - PE, Intramurals, Athletic Coaches

2024-12-13 16:45:24 UTC

Specialized PD for Specials around Initiatives

2024-12-13 16:45:30 UTC

Co-Teaching - with push in support from ESL teachers

2024-12-13 16:46:01 UTC

EC- Meet and Greet

2024-12-13 16:46:33 UTC

Meet and greet with families in EC classroom. Hold this event on Day 2 if possible instead of Day one

2024-12-13 16:46:37 UTC

"Make and Take". Model how to differentiate a lesson then have teachers differentiate one.

Time to work with departments for beginning of the year planning.

2024-12-13 16:46:44 UTC

Diverse Learning strategies for Specials

2024-12-13 16:47:12 UTC

EC Pyramid

2024-12-13 16:47:23 UTC

Continued work around challenging language, text structure, and writing. It has huge effects for struggle readers (regardless of if they have an IEP) and is straight from WIDA (start on p. 49 of the attached document to see an example).

2024-12-13 16:47:29 UTC

ML strategies for Specials

2024-12-13 16:47:36 UTC

Effective Classroom Management

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Dealing with various student needs in the classroom across the grade levels.

for example:

Kinders who have never been in school before

Older students who have sensory or attention deficits

refusal behaviors, etc.

All staff district wide needs recertify to administrator ACCESS due

2024-12-13 16:47:45 UTC

Integrating Language into all content

2024-12-13 16:48:03 UTC

Multilingual PD for EC

2024-12-13 16:48:09 UTC

Where is my place in the math?

epawlak1 — 2024-12-13 16:48:43 UTC

Helping teachers understand why their grade level content is what it is, what it rests on, and what rests on it, so that they can better questions to facilitate student discussion. This also has to include how and why we push students to make sense of problems before they jump to solve them: what that looks like and what it doesn't look like

Data Collection - Progress Monitoring

2024-12-13 16:48:58 UTC

Tips for collecting data and progress monitoring student progress within the platforms. Differentiated

Introduction to cognitive science/ how we learn

2024-12-13 16:49:06 UTC

Setting yourself up for success

2024-12-13 16:49:55 UTC

Structures

Routines

Classroom management

Behaviors/ strategies to support learning

Restorative Circles

Differentiate for New Staff/Agency

2024-12-13 16:50:16 UTC

2024 iReady updates/iReady Pro for 6-8

epawlak1 — 2024-12-13 16:58:11 UTC