Teaching Practice Resources & Opportunities by Teacher Development FCSS

Domain II

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Domain III

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Domain IV

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Domain V

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A Variety of Opportunities for Professional Development and Growth

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Explore Links for Conferences, Self-Paced Modules, Virtual Trainings, and Instructional Webinars

Engagement Strategies

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Social Environment Self Analysis

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Science of Reading: Self-paced Literacy Courses- FREE

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Project ARISE partners have developed a series of self-paced online courses that offer a whole-child approach to literacy instruction.

Team Building Activities for the Classroom

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Ways to Include Student Voice

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Empathy Mapping Template

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Introduction to Dyslexia- Self Paced Module

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These are a variety of Professional Development Opportunities Offered Through Various Departments at FCSS and/or Local Agencies.

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Please explore the PD opportunities and dates below. You can click on the attached flyers to register. Some PDs may have a cost to attend. Please communicate with your Admin if your would like to attend one of these sessions.

Safe Spaces: Foundations of Trauma-Informed Practice for Educational and Care Settings

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Safe spaces is a free, online training designed to help individuals working with children and youth recognize and respond to signs of trauma and stress.

San Diego County Office of Education: Professional Learning & Tech Modules

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Explore this catalog of self-paced modules, offering a wide range of topics designed to suit diverse interests and learning goals.

Introduction to the EL Roadmap - ELRISE!

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In this digital professional learning, TK-12 educators and administrators will access and be introduced to the California English Learner Roadmap. This course will provide resources, best practices, and guided support for educators and administrators as they move forward on their journey of implementing the California English Learner Roadmap Policy.

Resources to Support Your Students

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Find mental health and wellness resources to help students address the challenges they may be facing as it relates to trauma and mental health.

Edutopia: Access Articles, classroom examples, and behavior management strategies.

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Edutopia provides practical tips and strategies for managing classroom behaviors, including how to prevent issues before they arise and how to address challenges in a constructive manner.

The Responsive Classroom

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Responsive Classroom provides evidence-based approaches to creating a positive classroom environment. This includes social-emotional learning strategies, classroom management techniques, and ways to promote a safe, supportive, and respectful learning environment.

SEL Resource Hub

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This resource hub offers a wide variety of relaxing, fun, and engaging social-emotional tools and activities for all ages and classrooms.

San Joaquin Valley Writing Project

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SJVWP develops teachers as writers, researchers, and instructional leaders by providing professional development grounded in research and real-classroom experience, aligned with Common Core Standards, while offering writing programs for students and families and serving over 350 local K-16 teachers annually.

San Joaquin Valley Mathematics Project

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Since its founding in 1989, the San Joaquin Valley Mathematics Project (SJVMP) has provided a supportive professional community for TK-16 math educators in California's Central Valley, offering leadership institutes, workshops, speaker series, and partnership opportunities to help teachers enhance their math instruction.

CA Reading and Literature Project

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The California Reading and Literature Project (CRLP) aims to ensure every student achieves high academic standards by providing high-quality, standards-based professional development for teachers in reading, language arts, and English language development, while enhancing teachers' content knowledge, instructional strategies, and expertise in academic English language development.

Integrating SEL With Elementary PE Curriculum

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Demonstration teachers, Traci Kelley and Wes Swogger demonstrate how they incorporate Social, Emotional Learning (SEL) into their PE activities. Both elementary teachers show their unique way of seamlessly integrating SEL into their Warm-Up/Do-Now activities as well as into their Focus Activities while simultaneously teaching PE standards.

The First Days of School: Teaching Procedures Through Activities

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Middle School CTE teacher Chris Petriccione demonstrates how he starts the first days of school with his STEM students. Mr. Petriccione demonstrates how he makes connections with his students and explains the importance of having students critically think about the importance of classroom procedure.

Integrating SEL Through Environmental Education Content

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Elementary science teacher, Jackie Lacey, demonstrates how she integrates SEL (social emotional learning) in a science lesson as a follow-up to a science camp students took with her to Catalina Island. Students can be seen discussing and evaluating emotions that they encounter when viewing positive and negative environmental images dealing with the oceans.

Increasing Student Engagement with the TAPPLE Method

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Amber Avery, a demonstration teacher, showcases how she applies the TAPPLE method while teaching a lesson on adjectives to her second grade students. By integrating the TAPPLE method with explicit direct instruction, she effectively monitors and enhances student understanding throughout the ELA lesson.

A Walkthrough Of An Elementary Mod/Severe SDC Classroom

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Lauren Beckwith, an upper elementary grade teacher of moderate/severe special education students gives a walkthrough of her classroom at Barton Elementary. Ms. Beckwith shares the rationale behind the way that she has arranged her classroom as well as gives tips for the resources that she has readily available throughout her elementary classroom.

A Universal Design for Learning Approach to Lesson Planning for Special Education

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Sarah Holm, a high school teacher of moderate/severe special education students discusses how she approaches lesson plans with Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in mind. As Ms. Holm prepares for her weekly cooking lesson with her high school students, she discusses the 4 steps as well as gives a rationale and explanation of the UDL Framework.

Integrated and Designated ELD : 4th Grade

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Illustrates Integrated ELD and small group Designated ELD building upon thematic “Government” content in a 4th-grade Classroom

Teacher Clarity: Assessing Student Learning to Drive Instruction

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RSP Demonstration teacher, Rosa Hernandez demonstrates how she co-teaches her sixth grade students using the four elements of Teacher Clarity. Ms. Hernandez and Ms. Velasco can be viewed teaching a math lesson over the course of a week using the 5 E Model. With a focus on Clarity of Assessment of Student Learning, assessment during these lessons can be seen as a two-way communication between the teachers and the students as well as students assessing their own learning.

The First Days of High School: Teacher Tips For Starting the School Year

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Eduardo Valencia, a high school Spanish teacher, demonstrates how he begins his school year with his language learners. Over the course of the first week of school, Mr. Valencia demonstrates the key indicators for his success and shows how his students understand their roles, become part of a community, and understand the classroom procedures.

Small Group Rotations with Moderate/Severe Special Education Students

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Kindergarten teacher Deborah Nation gives tips on teaching strategies that help her run small group rotations so that she can differentiate instruction with her moderate/severe special education students. She and her aides use visual schedules, first-then incentive cards, as well as a sensory room as part of the daily small group rotation routine.

A Universal Design for Learning Approach to Lesson Planning for Special Education

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Teaching Procedures, Routines, and Rules During the First Week of School in Fourth Grade

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Fourth Grade Demonstration Teacher, Renita Marshall-Martin, opens her school year by establishing routines, teaching procedures, and cultivating a positive classroom culture. She demonstrates how she has her students organize desks, ask for permission to use the restroom, and how to transition from one activity to the next.

Teaching Reading Comprehension With a UDL Mindset to Kindergarten Students

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Amy Klein, a Demonstration Kindergarten Teacher, demonstrates how she uses UDL (Universal Design for Learning) strategies when teaching her young learners ELA comprehension strategies. Watch how students are given multiple options to show their comprehension at the culmination of a science unit as she offers choice and autonomy to her students.

Using Math Number Talks to Develop Mental Math

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Demonstration Teacher Kristi Leader showcases how she teaches her second grade students mental math strategies as part of her math time block. Watch the classroom dynamic as her students engage with a series of problems, exchanging insights under Ms. Leader's facilitation as they draw connections and develop their mental math strategies.

Teaching Math Using The Four Principles of How People Learn

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Demonstration Teacher Olusola Oyinsan shares how he purposefully designs his math lessons by leveraging research-backed insights into student learning. His instructional design revolves around implementing four high-impact principles. Watch as Mr. Oyinsan guides his students through a seamless progression of tasks that accelerate their learning journey.

High Leverage Practices for Students with Disabilities

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These unedited clips feature video exemplars of teachers implementing high-leverage practices (HLPs) in a variety of instructional settings. The settings include elementary-level, secondary-level, one-on-one, small-group, whole-group, and virtual instruction.

Differentiation Within the Inclusion Classroom Model

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RSP Teacher Angela Olton and Math Content Teacher Claire Moore team teach a lesson on writing ratios to their middle school students. Using the team teaching model within an inclusion model of special education, the two teachers provide direct instruction on the first day of the unit and then show how they differentiate instruction later in the week by offering student choice in their grouping strategy.

Local Teacher Professional Development Networks

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Teachers in the Central Valley have unique opportunities to collaborate with educators across the region through several professional development networks. These networks provide spaces for sharing best practices, addressing educational challenges, and fostering innovative teaching strategies tailored to our diverse communities.

Madera-Fresno ARC is a local chapter of the California Reading Association (CRA)

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Madera-Fresno ARC is a local chapter of the California Reading Association (CRA), a non-profit professional organization of educators who are actively involved in all aspects of reading and language arts education, from kindergarten through university levels.

Central California World Language Project (CCWLP)

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Central California World Language Project (CCWLP) is a year round program striving to provide high quality, content-rich professional learning opportunities for K-16 World Languages and Dual Immersion educators.

Check for understanding

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Five Demonstration Teachers from different grade levels demonstrate various ways that they check for understanding during their lessons. Using their preferred method, the teachers also discuss how they change their instruction based upon the feedback they receive from their students.

Emotion Wheels & Visual Resources

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This website offers free downloads of posters/visuals that focus on emotions. Our Emotions are our body's way of telling us what it needs. Improving our student's ability to recognize and name which emotions are present (particularly when they are difficult emotions) can help us to take better care of ourselves and each other.

Domain I

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Professional Development Sessions for Induction Participants

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FCSS Teacher Induction AI Use Policy

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Please take a moment to read through our AI Use Policy and how it ties into Professionalism.

FCSS Math PL Offerings for 2025-2026

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Cultivate powerful student-centered mathematical learning communities where all students develop strong math identities and agency through equitable, research-based education.

Resources and tools to enhance teaching and learning- JSTOR

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JSTOR offers practical teaching tools, curated resources, and research to support educators.

Edutopia

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Edutopia is a trusted source and vibrant social network shining a spotlight on what works in education. We connect a community of stakeholders committed to improving education, showing them how to adopt or adapt best practices, and enabling them to share stories of innovation and continuous learning in the real world.

The New Teacher Project

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TNTP is an education nonprofit that brings research, policy, and consulting together to reimagine America’s public education system.

The Teaching Channel K12 Hub

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Free resources and insights for educators.

ERIC Education Resources Information Center

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ERIC is an online library of education research and information, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education.

CREATE! Effective Integrated & Designated ELD (2-Day Series) at FCSS

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The CABE CREATE! Framework for Effective Planning presents six (6) teacher moves that will ensure a critical commitment to CREATE! Liberatory learning experiences for all students, through the lens of equitable and transformational teaching and learning practices. November 3rd and April 10th 8:30am-3:30pm.

New and Media Literacy for All

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Webinar Series for 5th-12th Grade Educators. Each webinar is 45 minutes, check out the upcoming sessions today!

FCSS Multilingual Network

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Welcome to the FCSS Multilingual Learner Network!

Connecting educators who champion the success of English learners and ALL students. The Multilingual Learner Network (MLN) connects educators across our region, serving as both an information hub and collaborative forum to strengthen programs, services, instruction, and supports for multilingual students & families. Please check out the resources section!

EL Roadmap Teacher Toolkit

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The EL Roadmap Teacher Toolkit helps translate policy into practice through the lens of the classroom teacher. This toolkit is intended to give teachers tools to reflect on classroom practices and plan for implementation of the California English Learner Roadmap.

Bilingual Authorization Program- Earn Units!

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Looking to earn a Spanish

bilingual authorization in one

Summer (2026)? Check out this Opportunity!

Power of Movement in the Classroom

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According to research (Savina et all., 2011), students in K-12 spend an average of 6-8 hours sitting and 43 minutes of every hour is spent engaging in sedentary activities like listening, working, and writing. Sitting for long periods of time can cause students to lose interest and become inattentive.

The Power of AI: Simplifying Tasks Amplifying Teaching

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Teachers, we know the incredible effort you put into your work from creating meaningful lessons to grading papers, and supporting each and every student in your classroom. It’s a balancing act that can feel overwhelming at times. That’s why we’re excited about the potential of AI to lighten the load.

The Power of Brain- Based Learning

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Now, teachers can use brain-based research to create an informed lesson design to optimize student learning in a speedy and efficient manner in their classrooms. Consider some of the following brain-based strategies and principles when designing your lesson.

The Power of Feedback

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With the potential to double the speed of learning in your classroom, effective feedback is one of the most powerful influences on student achievement (Hattie & Timperley).

The Power of Positive & Progressive Discipline

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Teachers can make two years of academic growth in one school year by having strong connections with their students.

The Power of Reflection

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Summer is around the corner and before you bid farewell to your classrooms, take some time to reflect on all the highs and lows of this year.

The Power of Self-Regulation in the Classroom

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As educators, our ability to self-regulate is essential to creating a calm and effective learning environment. Students often mirror the emotional states of the adults around them, so maintaining our emotional balance directly impacts their ability to regulate themselves.

The Power of the Right Approach

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We know that students thrive in classrooms where there are established Behavioral Expectations and Classroom Procedures. Not only does the classroom run smoother, but teachers and students can focus more on authentic learning, rather than behavior management.

Tips to Finish the School Year Strong

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As the school year draws to a close, it's crucial to maintain momentum and finish strong. The final weeks are not just about wrapping up lessons; they're an opportunity to solidify relationships, reinforce learning, and leave a lasting positive impression on your students.

Free Math Spotlight Training

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April 24th! Free Training offered at Fresno State!

Topic: Functions in Conversation:

Telling Stories, Exploring Families! Audience: TK-12 Educators!

Free Training: Building Thinking Classrooms

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May 12th or August 5th. Mathematics- Learn Four Teaching Practices to Create a Thinking Classroom Environment. Audience: 3rd-12th grade teachers, coaches, administrators.

Understanding & Supporting Newcomers at School

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This one-day professional learning experience is designed for educators

and school staff working directly with newly arrived immigrant students.

Autism Focused Intervention Resources & Modules

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